Disturbing footage of @BBCNewsnight’s Nick Watt, being pursued by anti-lockdown protesters
@umairh wrote recently “Britain — the gentle, wise, intelligent, expansive one — was put to the torch. It became a nation afflicted by a fever dream of nationalism”
@umairh wrote recently “Britain — the gentle, wise, intelligent, expansive one — was put to the torch. It became a nation afflicted by a fever dream of nationalism”
https://twitter.com/rebecca_morgan/status/1404532214612869121/video/1
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1369905796449001474
Such scenes became commonplace in America where #Trump denounced the media as “fake news” or “enemies of the people” (see @AP’s @johnminchillo at the #CapitolRiots👇)
The problem is, once the genie has been let out the bottle, it’s hard to put it back in.
The problem is, once the genie has been let out the bottle, it’s hard to put it back in.
The Reichstag fire in 1933 shows how quickly a modern country can be hijacked & transformed into an authoritarian regime
How they laughed at Hitler in 1923 when he marched on a Munich beer hall with his comedic moustache
Rule by Decree introduced after the fire wasn’t so funny!
How they laughed at Hitler in 1923 when he marched on a Munich beer hall with his comedic moustache
Rule by Decree introduced after the fire wasn’t so funny!
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1125022414860095490
In 2015, Bannon asked #CambridgeAnalytica’s @chrisinsilico to build a psychological warfare tool to hollow out democracy & rive open divisions
200 years ago, the #StoneOfFreeSpeech was a place people gathered when their rights were under threat
Is it time to gather there again?
200 years ago, the #StoneOfFreeSpeech was a place people gathered when their rights were under threat
Is it time to gather there again?
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1389081005546479617
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