RE: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/116087470098321002
Add to this that the Dutch police has been working in secret with Palantir since 2012, but with knowledge of the OM and AIVD, seems all our Western democratic governments are setting up the Stasi 10.0.
#BiometricSurveillance #SurveillanceState #WesternDemocracy #Palantir
Always interesting to read that the governments who send out this statement that NZ doesn't want to join, are themselves complicit, via their warm diplomatic contacts, trade and arms deals with Israel, in the situation they call "appaling."
#WarCrimes #WesternDemocracy #GazaWinter #ComplicitInWarCrimes #NZpol
This thread by @autonomysolidarity shows again how a Western democracy can have fascism in its policies: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/115258503553963533
It's not a matter of "being a fascist or an anti-fascist." Fascism is what you do and think, not who you are.
And very important: fascism is much more normalised than too many people think, because after 1945 Western democracies put a lot of effort in obscuring their own fascism in the colonies and against workers.
Dieser Fall zeigt nicht nur die ethisch zutiefst kritikwürdige Praxis der Nutzung intimster Daten wie der eigenen DNA ohne Wissen und Zustimmung der Betroffenen auf. Er zeigt auch, wie Konzerne mit staatlicher Hilfe auf Daten und Ressourcen der Bevölkerung zugreifen, um diese dann kommerziell zu verwerten und Profit damit zu machen. Auch ist unklar, was mit diesen Daten noch geschehen kann. Dänemark hat eine düstere und nicht weit zurückliegende Geschichte im Umgang mit Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen, körperlichen und geistigen Behinderungen sowie eine staatlichen Biopolitik, die bis in die 1990er-Jahre Frauen und Mädchen der grönländischen Minderheiten mit Zwangsverhütungen misshandelte. #Dänemark #DNA
Major Historical Threats to American Democracy & in 2025 – History Analysis by Perplexity Pro – September 10, 2025
Major Historical Threats to American Democracy 2025
The Civil War Crisis (1850s-1860s)
The most severe threat in American history came from the convergence of polarization over slavery, racial conflict, and economic inequality between North and South. This led to actual secession, civil war, and the temporary breakdown of democratic governance.
Sources: The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; American Civil War (Wikipedia)
Reconstruction Collapse and Jim Crow (1870s-1890s)
Following the Civil War, violent suppression of African American voting rights through terrorism, lynchings, and systematic disenfranchisement effectively ended democracy for millions of Americans for over half a century. The Wilmington coup of 1898 exemplified this threat—elected officials were forced to resign at gunpoint and replaced with white supremacist Democrats.
Sources: The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; Reconstruction Era (Wikipedia)
The Founding Era Crisis (1790s)
Political polarization nearly brought down the young republic as the Founding Fathers split into hostile partisan camps, creating what one scholar called “partisan warfare” that threatened the nation’s survival.
Sources: We’ve been here before – JHU Hub – Johns Hopkins University; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; Foundation Era Crisis, 1790s (Wikiepedia)
Current Threats Under Trump’s Second Term (2025)
Significant Attacks on Electoral Integrity
Sources: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election; Dangerous cracks in US democracy pillars – Brookings Institution
Undermining Rule of Law
Source: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
Executive Aggrandizement and Corruption Risks
Source: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
Authoritarian Tactics
Source: Dangerous cracks in US democracy pillars – Brookings Institution
Ranking of All Threats to American Democracy
Tier 1: Existential Threats
Tier 2: Severe Institutional Threats
Tier 3: Significant But Contained Threats
The systematic nature of current threats—targeting elections, rule of law, civil liberties, and institutional checks simultaneously—creates what experts call “an especially grave moment for democracy.”
Unlike past crises that involved one or two threats, this convergence makes the current period extraordinarily perilous.
Sources: The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy | PS: Political Science & Politics; and, Perplexity Pro research.
#2025 #AI #AmericanDemocracy #artificialIntelligence #AuthoritarianTactics #CivilWar #Convergence #Corruption #DOGE #DrWeb #Elections #ExistentialThreats #HistoricalThreats #HistoryAnalysis #JimCrow #Musk #Reconstruction #RuleOfLaw #September #WesternDemocracy
A good repeat for today: Vivafalastinleen from 2024. This is about genocide, but the same goes for fascism, which is much closer than you think, or only statements against war crimes, or working together with anti-democrats, or millions to the surveillance state while letting old people and disabled people prematurely die because they cost too much.
CW eye contact
#genocide #WesternDemocracy #EuropeanUnion #EUpol #USpol #CovidIsNotOver #FreePalestine @palestine @israel
A good repeat for today: Vivafalastinleen on TikTok. This is about genocide, but the same goes for fascism. See also my pinned toot with a quote from Paxton.
CW eye contact
'For those who think genocidaires are a viable option just because they're "democrats" or "liberals"'
"Here's something people don't seem to understand. If they're comfortable killing other people, eventually they'll be comfortable killing you. If they're comfortable acting genocide against one group of people, they'll eventually are comfortable acting genocide against you. You are not exempt from the rules of violence that they set."
Same for governments who are comfortable working with governments who genocide, or politicians who are comfortable working with politicians who are fascists.
#genocide #WesternDemocracy #EuropeanUnion #EUpol #USpol #StopCopCity #CovidIsNotOver #PalestineGenocide #RuleOfLaw @palestine @israel
Until an EU country ends all their trade agreements with Israel, I'm not going to share any of their empty words of "state" or "condemn" blabla. I'm done with these waste of time, playing us for fools tactics.
Democracy is as democracy does. Show me your friends, etc.
#Palestine #democracy #WesternDemocracy #HumanRights #WarCrimes
https://r.flora.ca/p/metaviews-debut
Jesse Hirsh and I speak from the future.
Well, Jesse spoke from the future when it comes to thinking about the current state of individualism and “western civilization”, and I was left wondering how long it will take loyalists to those worldviews (from the left and right of the Western political spectrum) to catch up to him.
@metaviews #ActuallyAutistic #CorporateCulture #WesternDemocracy #Eugenics
One of the links between Western democracies and Israel: the development and testing of weapons and surveillance technology.
"I spent some time looking at obscure defence and military websites, cataloguing tweets and posts that get next to zero engagement, and came to the conclusion that governments are as much planning to fight internal enemies as they are external ones.
That they are planning to fight us.
The development of AI is massive in this effort."
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/let-them-eat-drones
#WarCrimes #AI #drones #billionaires #WeaponIndustry #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #WesternDemocracy #fascism #ClimateChange #migration @palestine @israel
"He and I and a couple of other writers were out to dinner that night and I was talking about this idea that the load bearing beams of Western society were sort of falling apart. This notion of equal justice and respect for the law, of international human rights, and so on and so forth."
https://lithub.com/omar-el-akkad-on-genocide-complicit-liberals-and-the-terrible-wrath-of-the-west/
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