Mastodawn

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-authoritarianism-rightwing-conspiracies?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawMbC2VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqNHqX4hOE6_6T3uRkL_zcBwXh6fPFc9nDgRaEuNX7s_1hOtZsBSyCSKc8If_aem_LAWFY4GN4yAwTLZB6QNahw#Echobox=1756244065

Trump Manifests Right-Wing Anti-Government Conspiracies

Where is the outrage now that Trump has manifested the right's deepest darkest fears about an oppressive state?

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WIST Quotations Aug 7

A quotation from Cicero

No person is so foolish that they don’t understand that if we remain asleep at this moment we will have to live through a rule that is not only cruel and arrogant but ignoble and disgraceful too. You know this man’s arrogance, his friends, and his whole household. To serve shameful lusts, bullies, disgusting and irreverent thieves, those drunkards — well, that is the worst suffering married to the greatest dishonor.

[Nemo est tam stultus qui non intellegat, si indormierimus huic tempori, non modo crudelem superbamque dominationem nobis sed ignominiosam etiam et flagitiosam ferendam. Nostis insolentiam Antoni, nostis amicos, nostis totam domum. Libidinosis, petulantibus, impuris, impudicis, aleatoribus, ebriis servire, ea summa miseria est summo dedecore coniuncta.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 34-35 (3.14/3.34-35) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2021)]

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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #alertness #arrogance #attention #crisis #danger #despotism #dictatorship #disgrace #dishonor #misery #payattention #politics #regime #tyranny #warning #regime

M. Ní Sídach Aug 5

Apartheid Is The Existential Threat
#MatthewCooke
#US #Politics #Economics #Academia #Fahrenheit451 #Project2025 #Despotism #WhiteSupremacy #ChristianNationalism #Trump #TrumpRegime #AmericanApartheid #IsraeliApartheid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6T35wyKQyM

Apartheid Is An Existential Threat

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M. Ní Sídach Aug 4

Rashid Khalidid on Why He Won't Teach at Columbia This Fall
#DemocracyNow!
#US #Politics #Economics #Academia #Fahrenheit451 #Project2025 #Despotism #Trump #TrumpRegime #AmericanApartheid #IsraeliApartheid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUrG6mce_-4

Prof. Rashid Khalidi Cancels Fall Course over Trump Settlement

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Thierry 🅰️🕒Jul 31

Ça me rappelle quelqu'un...

« dans [gouvernement] le despotique, un seul, sans loi et sans règle, entraîne tout par sa volonté et ses caprices. »
MONTESQUIEU, L’Esprit des Lois (1748)

#despotism

Bohemian Peasant Jul 30

#tyranny #authoritarianism #democracy #ruleoflaw #despotism
“From offshore detention camps and pardons for seditionists to open attacks on judges, watchdogs, and journalists, this administration has followed, with unnerving precision, the authoritarian playbook. And make no mistake, this isn’t speculative. These are real-world policies and executive actions, documented in public records and reported by independent outlets. The pattern is not subtle. The mask is off.”

https://therationalleague.substack.com/p/made-in-america-a-guide-to-authoritarianism?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true

Mix Mistress Alice💄Jul 27

"As you read this, you might hear a lot of boxes being checked in your mind, and you might wonder if Grok is calling the shots. But, dear reader, this is all purely theoretical. As they say in the movies, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental."—Open Culture

The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Grok >

https://www.openculture.com/2025/04/the-steps-a-president-would-take-to-destroy-his-nation-according-to-grok.html

#destruction #how_to #Grok #answers #according_to_grok #national_destruction #despotism #chatbot #theory #answers #according_to_grok #USA

The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Grok

Just out of curiosity, and apropos of nothing, we asked Grok (the AI chatbot created by Elon Musk) the following question: If a president of a superpower wanted to destroy his own country, what steps would he take? Here's what Grok had to say:

Open Culture

Andi Waffeln!Jul 18

#Trump #Bolsonaro #MAGA #USA #Brasilien #Fascism #Despotism #Dictatorship

Just a question of time, Don...

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/bolsonaro-brasilien-gericht-100.html

Brasiliens Ex-Präsident Bolsonaro muss elektronische Fußfessel tragen

Elektronische Fußfessel, nächtlicher Hausarrest: Das Oberste Gericht Brasiliens hat gegen Ex-Präsident Bolsonaro, der vor Gericht steht, strenge Auflagen verhängt. Zuvor hatte es Berichte gegeben, er plane eine Flucht in die USA.

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Karsten Johansson Jul 16

Alligator Auschwitz.

Only named otherwise because AI sides with the US denialism on this subject. Doomed to repeat history...

#trump #alligatoralcatraz #alligatorauschwitz #nazis #patriots #despotism

WIST Quotations Jul 10

A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
Letter (1792-08-18) to George Washington, Enclosure: “Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration,” Objection 14

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/7…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexanderhamilton #civildisorder #control #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #despotism #disorder #incitement #lawlessness #republic #security #subversion #tyranny #unrest