Not sure he said "woke", but I am not sure he did not say it... I think after this, he insisted on Free Speech rights, and swept away without a second thoughts, all the fact-checking that were destroying his propaganda pre-prepared script narrative #fascism #neofascism #totalitarianism #tolerance

@Nonilex Does the US also have Hitler Class, Pol Pot class and Mao class of navy battleships?

Image: America Rouge flag, © CC0 by Karel 'Clock' K., unedited AI output

#trump #dictatorship #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #usa #humanrights #freedomofspeech

“What makes this #exhibition and celebration of #ArthurSzyk important for 2026 — 250 years on from the #AmericanRevolution and subsequent #DeclarationofIndependence — is how he framed freedom as something to fight for. He loved #America and was granted citizenship in 1948,” said Sara Softness, the #museum’s director of curatorial affairs. “The title ‘#Art of Freedom’ has a double meaning: not only that the #artist made pictures about or featuring themes of democratic ideals, #antiFascism, and pro-pluralism, but that freedom itself is a practice, a metier, a life’s work.”

Born in #Łódź, #Poland in 1894, #Szyk experienced major upheavals of the 20th century: two world wars, the rise of #totalitarianism, and #Nazism, the founding of the State of #Israel, #McCarthyism, as well as deeply entrenched #American #racism and #antisemitism."

https://forward.com/culture/792856/arthur-szyk-museum-of-jewish-heritage/

An activist Jewish artist who used his work to fight fascism

The heroic image of George Washington standing in a boat as it cuts through the icy Delaware River on Christmas Eve in 1776 is etched into the collective American consciousness. But when Polish-born political artist Arthur Szyk painted the scene in 1942, he recast it for a nation at war. In his Washington Crossing the...

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That Knightly Falcon Ghost Ship Stalking a Streetlamp – Richard J Tilley

I think The United States of America should just get it over with and rename itself "The Best Ever States of Trump" 🤷

#Trump #Fascist #Totalitarianism

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/18/politics/trump-kennedy-center-name

Kennedy Center board votes to rename it ‘Trump Kennedy Center’

The board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts voted Thursday to rename the facility after both the former president and President Donald Trump.

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One could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)

#Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Cynicism #Lies #Politics #Totalitarianism

#Photography #Panorama #MotorMill #Iowa

Konnte wieder mal nicht anders. Die neue Publikation von @aksioma musste ich einfach vorbestellen.

🌀 http://aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update

#book #bookstodon #reading #totalitarianism #bigtech #technology

Are You a Software Update? - Aksioma

Price: 20€ €17 for pre-ordersEnd of pre-orders and start of shipping: 29 January 2026 Not all forms of power announce themselves. Some move quietly, shaping how we feel, act and inhabit the world. Increasingly, the logic of software transforms the conditions of participation, embedding control into interfaces, automating governance through terms and conditions, and configuring […]

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A quotation from Orwell

Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as “the truth” exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as “science.” There is only “German science,” “Jewish science” etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, “It never happened” — well, it never happened. If he says that two and two are five — well, two and two are five. This prospect frightens me much more than bombs — and after our experiences of the last few years that is not a frivolous statement.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)

More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80764/

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Essay (1942-08), "Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 4, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953) - Orwell, George | WIST Quotations

Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as "the truth" exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as "science." There is only "German science," "Jewish science" etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique,…

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Just vote, it doesn't matter for whom you vote, they control all of them

@prolrage #democracy #theocracy #dictatorship #totalitarianism