authoritarianism
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Politics
Egypt shows the way
Responding to an American assessment of Pakistan’s protests, the poster argues the army is preferred over mob rule, as in Egypt and Thailand, and that Nawaz Sharif is finished partly…
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Dragon slayer
The post argues that China frightens more than Islamist violence: Mao’s tens of millions of deaths, forced abortions under birth controls, South China Sea claims, and a state that can…
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Politics
Europe faces a political crisis
Citing Peter Mair’s Ruling the Void, the poster argues Europe faces a crisis of democracy as voters turn on distrustful elites and Brussels, warning that only authoritarian-capitalist or Islamist models…
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Politics
(neo)Maoism for memory loss (in 3 steps)
Quoting an account of Mao’s belief that suffering and even mass death clear the head, the poster argues the passage captures the sentiment of totalitarian ideologies and possibly of neo-Maoists,…
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Politics
Arundhati Roy explains the Modi-plan
Posts key points from an Arundhati Roy interview describing a democratically elected totalitarian government under Modi, with the poster’s sarcastic aside that tribals, not Muslims, will be sacrificed to corporates.
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Politics
529
A comment on an Egyptian court’s sentencing of 529 Morsi supporters to death, calling modern Egypt a true police state and contrasting it with the frustrations of flawed democracies such…
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Politics
How does a Sharia state work?
A report on Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy conviction, with the poster saying it shows how Sharia can serve as a sword against political opponents.
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Politics
Chicoms blame internet for terrorism
A report on Chinese officials blaming the internet for terrorism in Xinjiang, with the poster arguing that China cannot afford democracy and that mockery, by quoting official statements verbatim, is…
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Politics
“I have been too comfortable”
A report on Hong Kong’s democracy activists, with the poster arguing that imposing democracy from above is hard but an imperfect democracy beats autocracy, and that many Indian elites prefer…