thistleandmoss.com/p... #trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture Trump told Republican lawmakers this bill (#SaveACT) would guarantee the GOP would "never lose a race. For 50 years." That is an #autocrat announcing a #rigged game.
The Daily Exhale: Kent Quits, Trump Is Dying, & Gabbard Is a Bitch

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/09/britons-dont-want-trump-war-fixation-labour. "A state committing #genocide - #Israel - has joined forces with an ailing #superpower led by an aspiring #autocrat. Together they have launched a plainly #illegal #war, as defined by the UN charter, which prohibits the use of force unless a state faces an actual or imminent attack."
Britons don’t want any part of Trump’s war fixation – the sooner Labour realises that the better

Kowtowing to US foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan had disastrous consequences. Why are leaders making the same mistake again, asks Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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A quotation from Montesquieu

Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want.
 
[L’extrême obéissance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obéit; elle en suppose même dans celui qui commande: il n’a point à délibérer, à douter, ni à raisonner; il n’a qu’à vouloir.]

Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 4, ch. 3 (4.3) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/81939/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #autocracy #autocrat #command #consideration #deliberation #despot #dictator #ignorance #obedience #reason #servility #tyranny #tyrant #want #will

Montesquieu - Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 4, ch. 3 (4.3) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)] | WIST Quotations

Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want. [L’extrême obéissance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obéit; elle en suppose même dans celui qui…

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The Dictator’s Speech (Clip) | The Great Dictator (1940) | TCM

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En Allemagne, des économistes appellent à rapatrier l’or placé dans les coffres américains

Ces experts estiment que face à “l’imprévisibilité de Donald Trump” et à la dégradation des relations transatlantiques, conserver l’or allemand aux États-Unis est risqué. L’Allemagne détient les deuxièmes plus importantes réserves d’or au monde après les États-Unis, dont environ 164 milliards d’euros sont stockés à New York.

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En Allemagne, des économistes appellent à rapatrier l’or placé dans les coffres américains

Ces experts estiment que face à “l’imprévisibilité de Donald Trump” et à la dégradation des relations transatlantiques, conserver l’or allemand aux États-Unis est risqué. L’Allemagne détient les deuxièmes plus importantes réserves d’or au monde après les États-Unis, dont environ 164 milliards d’euros sont stockés à New York.

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Are we really going to cheer every #plutocrat & #autocrat that has a spat with #ElonMusk, think Trump & #MichaelOLeary?

If you are after an ethical positioning on the #Ryanair buy-out, here is one: stop #flying

https://www.dw.com/en/ryanair-elon-musk-purchase-poll/a-75586269?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb

#climatebreakdown #Flygskam

Elon Musk mulls buying Ryanair amid spat with airline boss

Elon Musk has asked his followers on X if he should buy Ryanair after a spat with the European budget airline's outspoken CEO Michael O'Leary.

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Authoritarians can generally keep a lid on things if people's lives are not awful. That's where Putin is, it's not great, but it's not awful. Things were awful in Syria and they have been for a while in Iran. As the saying goes, when you got nothin, you got nothin to lose. #autocrat #governance #politics
US warns of more Nigeria strikes as Abuja talks of ‘joint ongoing operations’

Pete Hegseth says ‘more to come’ as Nigerian foreign minister confirms his country provided intelligence for first wave

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