Joe Public 🍁Apr 21
Elon Musk and SpaceX putting on a three-day #smoochfest this week as they try to woo Wall Street analysts and raise $75 billion, in an #IPO that would be the world's biggest ever #scumbag #autocrat www.reuters.com/business/spa...

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SeppoApr 14
"If #Hungary can get rid of its #autocrat, #America can too" @[email protected]

Viktor Orban loses election
Viktor Orban loses election

If Hungary can get rid of its autocrat, America can too

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Show threadWendyMar 17
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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Richard Michael BlaberMar 9
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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Dr. Baba Kofi WeusijanaFeb 20
SECRET DEAL? Trump Deportees in Cameroon — Where’s the #Money? | Journalists Detained in #YaoundĂ©
#Cameroon #Trump #USA #Deportation #Immigration #Yaounde #ThirdCountryDeportations #Biya #PressFreedom #Journalists #HumanRights #AfricaPolitics #Governance #Transparency #WorldviewTalkshow #CameroonNews #JosephAwahFru #RandyJoeSa’ah #RandyJoeSaah #InternationalPolitics #Democracy #Authoritarianism #Autocrat #IOM #OIM
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WIST QuotationsFeb 9

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’extrĂȘme obĂ©issance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obĂ©it; elle en suppose mĂȘme dans celui qui commande: il n’a point Ă  dĂ©libĂ©rer, Ă  douter, ni Ă  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’extrĂȘme obĂ©issance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obĂ©it; elle en suppose mĂȘme dans celui qui


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Rene Raggl đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș đŸ‡ș🇩 đŸ‡ŹđŸ‡±Feb 1

This slaps so hard right now, 86 years later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0CzXi9e66M

#fascism #ai #bigtech #us #Trump #unplugtrump #dictators #autocrat #racism #hate #ice vs #humanity

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

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Rod2ik đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș đŸ‡šđŸ‡” đŸ‡Ș🇾 đŸ‡šđŸ‡± đŸ‡ș🇩 🇹🇩 đŸ‡ŹđŸ‡± â˜źđŸ•ŠïžJan 25
En #Allemagne, des #Ă©conomistes appellent Ă  #rapatrier l’ #or placĂ© dans les #coffres #amĂ©ricains #DO #NOT #OFFER OUR #GOLD TO AN #AUTOCRAT, #RACIST #SEXIST #RAPIST #HOMOPHOBIC #DICTATOR www.courrierinternational.com/article/fina...

En Allemagne, des Ă©conomistes ...
En Allemagne, des Ă©conomistes appellent Ă  rapatrier l’or placĂ© dans les coffres amĂ©ricains

Ces experts estiment que face Ă  “l’imprĂ©visibilitĂ© de Donald Trump” et Ă  la dĂ©gradation des relations transatlantiques, conserver l’or allemand aux États-Unis est risquĂ©. L’Allemagne dĂ©tient les deuxiĂšmes plus importantes rĂ©serves d’or au monde aprĂšs les États-Unis, dont environ 164 milliards d’euros sont stockĂ©s Ă  New York.

Courrier International
Rod2ik đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș đŸ‡šđŸ‡” đŸ‡Ș🇾 đŸ‡šđŸ‡± đŸ‡ș🇩 🇹🇩 đŸ‡ŹđŸ‡±â˜źđŸ•ŠïžJan 25

En #Allemagne, des #Ă©conomistes appellent Ă  #rapatrier l’ #or placĂ© dans les #coffres #amĂ©ricains

#DO #NOT #OFFER OUR #GOLD TO AN #AUTOCRAT, #RACIST #SEXIST #RAPIST #HOMOPHOBIC #DICTATOR

https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/finance-en-allemagne-des-economistes-appellent-a-rapatrier-l-or-place-dans-les-coffres-americains_239753

En Allemagne, des Ă©conomistes appellent Ă  rapatrier l’or placĂ© dans les coffres amĂ©ricains

Ces experts estiment que face Ă  “l’imprĂ©visibilitĂ© de Donald Trump” et Ă  la dĂ©gradation des relations transatlantiques, conserver l’or allemand aux États-Unis est risquĂ©. L’Allemagne dĂ©tient les deuxiĂšmes plus importantes rĂ©serves d’or au monde aprĂšs les États-Unis, dont environ 164 milliards d’euros sont stockĂ©s Ă  New York.

Courrier International
sheislaurenceJan 22

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.

Deutsche Welle