Mastodawn

The historian #GarryWills, in an essay on Phillip Knightley’s 1975 book about wartime journalism, “The First Casualty,” wrote, “A #liberaldemocracy submits to #propaganda more readily than a #totalitarian state. #Self‐censorship is always more effective than #bureaucratic #censorship.”

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Doug Bostrom Mar 16

You will be charged with treason unless you cover with black tape or otherwise obscure your flashing oil pressure light.

Ideally, drive a sharp object through the instrumentation so that it does not ever again trouble your beautiful mind.

Revoke its licence, so to speak.

#totalitarian

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Karel 'Clock' K.Mar 10

@irina @EUCommission Also it's IMO gross violation of freedom of speech, freedom of association.

It is my opinion that the hypocritical mask of the West slipped and the true, contemptible, authoritarian, totalitarian nature of the so called Western alleged democracies is revealed.

#authoriatrianism #totalitarianism #mask #maskslipped #hypocrisy #narcissism #contempt #contemptible #west #western #democracy #democraticbacksliding
#democracybacksliding #authoritarian #totalitarian #freedomofspeech #freedomofassociation #euregime

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 7

@BlueDot

#Privacy, #BigTech, and #Orwellian and #Braburyan #Totalitarian #Surveillance state.

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...political, ethical, etc. leanings of the site you are suggesting!?!

OFC, I'd like to avoid falling into the same trap again, as you can easily understand.

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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 7

@BlueDot

#Privacy, #BigTech, and #Orwellian and #Braburyan #Totalitarian #Surveillance state.

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Good idea.

I had been using Archive.IS. (I think, a white frequented URL.
.mIn the meantime, I read in an article, that it was a Russian (spy?) site, presumably profiling people., so I was using a VPN. With alternating countries. Needless to say, they soon found out and are now blockinat least 2 VPNs, alas.

Any idea about the ownership and the...

[mdrights@slackware:~]Mar 2

many, if not most Hongkongers are fury on the capturing wild animals by tourists. This is a consensus now.

I would agree, and respond that, yes, people grown up in a #totalitarian state would mostly, if not all, NEVER respect any of creatures. 🫢🫣

DoomsdaysCW Feb 28

#Ministry - #FaithCollapsing (1989)

"you are the dead. remain exactly where you are. make no move until you are ordered."

"Ministry samples the film 1984, which tells the story of a dystopian society with a totalitarian regime that oppresses its citizens. This is an extract from the scene in which protagonist Winston Smith and his lover Julia, who have been hiding their illegal affair from the secret police, are raided by the regime. 'You are the dead' echoes Winston’s previous statement that 'we are the dead', as in their #totalitarian society, their choice to rebel is a self-imposed death sentence."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68DJCaqEpDc

#FridayNightMusic #IndustrialMusic #NineteenEightyFour
#80sMusic #BigBrother #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou #Fascism
#Disappeared #Authoritarianism #SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Palantir #USPol #WorldPol #Dystopian

Faith Collapsing

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z_4narchist Feb 19

...its additionally laughable to me that these same selfish brutes who slaughter us at whim for their own profits and delight, then build grand walls, structures, and invisible boundaries with claims of "protecting us from our enemies!"

..."our enemies" ARE THEM, and they only seek to trap enough of us around them so that we can be used as cannon fodder when those whove had enough of their #totalitarian bullsh¡t justly and rightly come for their heads!

...once again ensuring our deaths to keep their own robes stain free...

i say, #fckthat #stepaside and let them pay their own dues for the vile crimes they have commited!

#sheathyourswords #gladiator

...(OR...turn and face the true enemy with raised daggers and swords)

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Karel 'Clock' K.Feb 6

@adamsaidsomething @eff Oh! Here we go: I feel