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Darío Gil @ScienceUnderSec - .@ENERGY's National Labs are a national treasure.
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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Close, but not exactly. Who is the "right" consensus? Why does Rachel Kleinfeld's voice matter more than mine or yours? That's where credentialism and gate-keeping come in.
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Andrew Moser @Andrew_Moser
So in their minds “pluralism” just = consensus?
ps://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2072893613680570589

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Here's how this unironically works. 
The classical definition of pluralism is a democratic state that allows multiple parties to run for office. 
But that's not how Western political scientists see it. 
They see pluralism as a holistic set of public-private relationships that keep each other in check. For instance, a media outlet might be fact-checked by a public NGO. 
Institutionally, this creates an ideologically narrow, conformist class as credentialism increasingly originates from whoever is educated by the "right" universities and professors. 
That is why they can say with a straight face that truly independent media like @timcast or Joe Rogan are authoritarian - because they've found a way to gain credibility outside of this system of mutual-ideological-policing. 
And because this so-called "pluralism" is dependent on government and nonprofit dollars alike, and also unfalsifiable (every pushback is a justification to double down on defeating misinformation), you get nonsensical end results such as this one.
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Liberal Meme
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2072892814233358550

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - South Sudan: 0/100 on the Freedom House index.
Sudan: 1/100 on the Freedom House index.
You somehow created a new country that's even less free than the 1/100 country it split from. Great job, @USAID.
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Leigh Marcotte @labtechleigh
The linked IOM (UN Migration) page shows the agency organized out-of-country registration and voting (OCRV) for the January 2011 Southern Sudan referendum. 
The IOM handled registration, polling, counting, and results in eight countries with large Southern Sudanese populations: Australia, Canada, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, the UK, and the United States.
IOM estimated the operation would cost $25 million. The UN migration agency has long received hundreds of millions from US taxpayers via USAID and the State Department for global migration and resettlement programs. 
Facilitating citizens voting in foreign elections is another area of their work. As of the October 7, 2010 IOM article, the agency had organized out-of-country voting in 74 countries since 1996, with over 1.8 million votes cast.
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