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Cory Doctorow

Politics always means coalitions. In parliamentary democracies, coalitions are visible, coming together to form the government. In a dictatorship, the coalitions are hidden to everyone except infighting princelings and courtiers (until a general or minister is executed, exiled or thrown in prison.)

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/11/14/whe

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A broken up Antarctic ice-floe. On each fragmented piece of floating ice stands a different elephant ganked from bizarre medieval manuscript illustrations of elephants. Each elephant is decorated in the red, white and blue starred motif of the Republican Party mascot. Image: Jason Auch, modified https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctic_mountains,_pack_ice_and_ice_floes.jpg CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
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