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There are material and cultural preconditions for #democracy. Otherwise it degenerates into what we are now witnessing (which is emphatically not democracy). Contemporary liberal constitutionalism: Screw preconditions. Screw democracy. We'll make our political system as aristocratic as it gets

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28/2 marks two years since the horrible railway disaster in #Tempe that killed 57 people. It also marks seven hundert and thirty days of the crime's meticulous cover-up by the criminal organization running #Greece, and by its allies in media, judiciary et al. No #RuleOfLaw No #Democracy

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Headline from another, perhaps not so distant, dimension: In an unexpected bid, EU proposes a new golden visa scheme, for 4M euro, a whole million less than Trump's. Third country corrupt oligarchs and organized crime bosses should stay in the EU, where they are needed more, top EU official says 🤑

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Not unprecedented. Greek Const. requires 3/5 of a parliamentary body to elect members of independent agencies. A year and a half ago, said body had 27-member. 3/5 of 27 = 16.2. Thus 17 votes required. Yet, the speaker (now elected president of republic) ruled 16 votes suffice. So much for #RuleOfLaw

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Calling AfD #populist is practically the same as calling Musk an anarchist because he's against big government (for others) --whereas he's all for big government when it comes to his businesses. You totally miss the point

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Forget #RuleOfLaw. The real problem is #democracy. #Plutocracy is a democratic problem. Don't look answers at the wrong places

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The blatantly imperialist and (not even neo-) colonialist discourse by the US presidency makes us reach to the top shelves for books we were (erroneously) thinking refer to an era we left behind

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Two And A Half Men's Alan character has portrayed the concept of the working poor long before it was spread in academic scholarship

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The Greek political and judicial system -or should I say the politico-judicial complex?- are laughing their ass off

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Important new paper on how juristocracy tanks public confidence in courts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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It's such a relief, after having suppressed your #racism for decades, to now being able to proudly display and practice it. #GermAny

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You can't have #democracy under #capitalism. #Constitutionalism has been the ingenious idea to make peoples believe they could

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“Vučić is not the state, the protesters argue; the institutions, as well as society at large, must be decaptured. The students have not fallen into the trap of imitating the president’s authoritarianism: they operate as a plurality, without a leader...” #Serbia www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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In a grotesque way, current situation in the US makes it crystal clear: Checks & balances don't work. Never have. Only the people themselves can save democracy. Not courts, not institutions, certainly not law. The liberal-constitutional myth has always been exactly this: a myth. Even more: a fallacy

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Greeks should pay close attention. This is how it's done, folks.

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Sovereign is he (it's always a he) who can fool those fooled to believe they are sovereign. (The English have always been more sincere: sovereign is the parliament. Alas, no people can be really sovereign under capitalism)

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Saddest side effect of the US turning into full-scale #plutocacy is the whitewashing of smaller-scale plutocracies elsewhere (certainly #Greece). Just as having big time autocrats (like Orban) whitewashes our own smaller(ish) #autocrats. #DemocraticBacksliding differs only in degree, not in kind

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Maria Tzanakopoulou reviews Dimitrios Kivotidis's THE DIALECTICS OF DEMOCRACY (Routledge 2024) as an emancipatory read reclaiming territory often colonised by conventional constitutional thought and bringing communist ideas into a field traditionally dominated by mainstream perspectives.

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Nothing new here for Greeks. According to the GR government, art. 16.5 of the GR Constitution is... (check notes)... contrary to EU law and hence invalid

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In vino veritas. Would probably be more appropriate

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I watched Gladiator in summer 2000. It was OK, entertaining and all. But nowhere close to the three masterpieces I've watched that very summer: Sweet and Lowdown (Allen) High Fidelity (Frears) O Brother where are Though (Cohens) Probably the best movie triplet on a single year. (To me, at least)

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It appears that, for some people in systemic media, Auschwitz was liberated by Captain America rather than the Red Army. (And, no, that's not a baseball team)

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Dear US colleagues, You might need to consult with those arguing that this clause in the GR Constitution: "Education at university level shall be provided exclusively by institutions which are fully self-governed public law legal persons" actually means: "Private for-profit unis are perfectly OK"

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It appears as if Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite has grown up to become president. Only this time he has to deal with Napoleon Clown

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OTD ten years ago, #Greeks chose a government that was not corrupt & the puppet of plutocrats. That's no longer the case. Greek plutocrats never forgot, & did everything they could for this never to be repeated. Surely, it also matters that the then ofiicials were well-meaning but highly incompetent

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Wanna bet that, were the US to go to war with Denmark over Greenland, the von-der-leichen clique known as the European (so-called) Union would just stare, deliberate and do practically nothing? 🤔

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Loughlin reviews Rana link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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If big corporations are expected to break up when they get too big, what should multi-billionaires be expected to do when they get too rich? 🤔

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"Eat the rich" seems like the only viable way

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Make no mistake. It is, and has been, a #plutocracy ever since a miniscule minority of #oligarchs rule. They don't necessarily need to be paranoid celebritoid clowns of oligarchs

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"Plutocracy" is now trending on constitutional fora (as if Musk is the first plutocrat that has been). Yet, I don't see the only reasonable proposal against it: No "equal rights" for plutocrats. Strip them off of certain key rights. John McCormick has put it well: www.academia.edu/22225287/Dem...

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Trump is a god-sent gift for small-scale corrupt autocrats & oligarchs: Whitewashing by association. Pretty much like Nazi Germany allowed for whitewhashing genocides committed by the British, French, Belgians and other colonial forces

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"Equal rights for all" -meaning grotesquely disproportionate rights for the rich- has been capitalism's most successful strategy. Unless the rich have substantially less rights than common people (and even be stripped of certain rights), capitalism cannot be democratic

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Reading list for this semester's iteration of Constitutional Democracy, updated to focus on questions of democratic backsliding and constitutional crisis. Thanks to all the friends/mutuals whose work is included!

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A reminder that, in and of itself, constitutionalism is inherently conservative and, given the circumstances, reactionary or even authoritarian. A reminder that constitutional democracy is built upon democratic constitutionalism; otherwise it's not a democracy at all

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One of the minor reasons for its constitutional misery (the major being the role of big money in politics aka #plutocracy & corruption) is that #Greece never had a #president to, even remotely, stand against the elective dictatorship of PMs. No Michael D. Higgins or Giorgio Napolitano for Greece

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Last time I checked, such party was persecuted by McCarthyism

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#Greece is probably the one place on earth where #judicial opinions are not officially reported neither publicly accessible, save for opinions litigants themselves have reported. So much for legal studies. And so much for judicial accountability

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