Big Blu Gnu3d ago
If we can get away with vile hostility toward a people, who inevitably share *at least* 99% of our genetic material, then why should we *not* condone murdering black and indigenous peoples, or for that matter any other arbitrarily defined ethnic group? "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil..." https://reason.com/2026/06/01/surging-antisemitism-threatens-jews-and-america/
#antisemitism #authoritarianism #bigotry #collectivePunishment #evil #extremism #genocide #Hell #illiberalism #Jews #neoNazis #racism #totalitarianism #USPol #USPolitics
Surging antisemitism threatens Jews and America

Repackaged as “antizionism,” an ancient hatred poses a fundamental danger to us all.

Reason.com
Dianora (Diane Bruce)May 28

"Totalitarian states exact the attention of people by force. In a free society, the right of a person to choose what messages to see and hear will place limits on the right of others to communicate with him or her."

Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion
'Randal Marlin'

#Totalitarianism
#Philosophy #Propaganda

Alec MuffettMay 28
California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web
https://alecmuffett.com/article/159560
#AgeVerification #california #surveillance #totalitarianism
California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web

“California Assembly Bill 1856 is getting friendly press coverage because it now exempts Linux from the state’s age-tracking mandate. The part nobody’s talking about is that it simultaneously…

Dropsafe
Alec MuffettMay 28
California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web https://alecmuffett.com/article/159560 #AgeVerification #california #surveillance #totalitarianism

California Wants an Age Tracke...
California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web

“California Assembly Bill 1856 is getting friendly press coverage because it now exempts Linux from the state’s age-tracking mandate. The part nobody’s talking about is that it simultaneously…

Dropsafe
alecmMay 27

California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web

“California Assembly Bill 1856 is getting friendly press coverage because it now exempts Linux from the state’s age-tracking mandate. The part nobody’s talking about is that it simultaneously expands the surveillance to your web browser.”

https://reclaimthenet.org/california-wants-an-age-tracker-for-the-whole-web

#ageVerification #california #surveillance #totalitarianism
Wisdom in SpaceMay 24

Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HannahArendt #Talent #Totalitarianism

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Petroglyphs #NewMexico

Show threadoldguycrustyMay 20

@karlhigley

#Thinking is 'bad' for:

#fascism
#Theocracy
#Racism
#Misogyny
#patriarchy
#Jingoism
#WhiteChristianNationalism
#Zenophobia
#Autocracy
#totalitarianism
#MagicalThinking
#Cultism
#Theism
#Corruption

.....so yeah, fuck all that 'thinking'..

/s

Show threadKarel 'Clock' K.May 18

@jtb @elduvelle Then websites will be obscured by a stack of several cookie popups which we will have to program into Ublock Origin and then EU regime bans Ublock Origin and then we pronounce the EU regime banned and punish the EU regime by mass consumer boycott (DIY, repairing, recycling, upcycling and secondhand buying instead of new buying to reduce taxes and punish the regime financially)?

#punishment #eu #euregime #regime #dystopia #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #ageverification #censorship #control #1984 #orwell #orwellian #fascism #surveillance #humanrightsviolations #humanrights #freedomofexpression

Plsik (born in 320 ppm)May 18

Democracy must be renewed time and again. If we fail to do so, we won’t even notice that we are losing it.
paraphrase
Timothy Snyder.

Every public and social debate about democracy, every decision we make, and every one action we take in the pursuit of democracy is a renewal of democracy. When this disappears, those who do not want democracy will very quickly try to fill the vacuum with authoritarianism.
#democracy #activism #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #freedom

Karel 'Clock' K.May 17

@jbz I feel

e x t r e m e l y s t r o n g c o n t e m p t

towards idnewebs.social when I am reading that they removed a post of this kind.

#contempt #indieweb #removal #censorship #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #manipulation #disrespect #paternalistic #ageverification #ageless