🧵30 ways the authoritarian RNC carnival shamed 🇺🇸 before the world

1. Hulk Hogan called on “Trumpites” to “run wild” after the election
2. Trump called 🇺🇸’s allies “so-called allies”
3. RNC divided us into "Real Americans" vs Dems
4. Eric said the shooter was sent by Dems 5. Dems portrayed not as opponents but as mortal foes
6. Pervasive paranoia: Dems want to hurt America
7. Trump called America “a nation in decline”
8. The overall vulgarity of the crowd & speakers
9. Crude, juvenile displays of Trump worship

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1814086114900131903

Colorful & publicly unrestrained for such a high-level #CCP leader, #JiangZemin played a key role not just in the demise of #ZhaoZiyang's reformers, immediately after the #Tiananmen disaster, but in their resurgence. 1/n

https://twitter.com/tomgrundy/status/1597874286173491201

In May 1989, as Shanghai's mayor, Jiang shut down the liberal (pro-Zhao Ziyang, Hu Yaobang)"World Economic Herald," which Party conservatives accused of having colluded with foreign forces against the CCP and socialism. 2/n

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While I strongly support #R2PforMyanmar ASAP, I believe there's much vital work that the #CivilDisobedienceMovement could be doing now that it isn't doing, namely, waging a fierce & effective propaganda campaign to accelerate defections from #MyanmarPolice & #Tatmadaw 1/n The ideas I'll be presenting don't originate w/ me, an American w/o #Burma-related expertise, but are derived from the work & imagination of Burmese like @Rangoon_Film & @JusticeMyanmar along w/ a seminal interview done by @mrattkthu w/ a #Tatmadaw defector, Nyi Thura. 2/n