“they’re acting like this is part of some legal framework, when it’s not. It’s an extra legal attack. And so when you do not call it out as an extra legal attack, you are actively contributing to destruction of the rule of law.” - Prof. Jason Stanley
This entire interview is a #MustRead .
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/the-fascism-expert-at-yale-whos-fleeing-america
HT @dmacphee
#Technocracy. Any Questions?
"For thousands of years, people have known how to grow food, sew clothing, treat sickness with food and herbs, build shelters, and survive.
It only took 2 generations to all but erase those skills from humanity and make people completely dependent on the system."
The answer is: It makes you a dependent slave to "experts" and their owners. It's #Authoritarianism with pretty packaging and force-fed marketing of lifestyles making #richpigs richer, and you? Stupider.
#OpenSource #Genetic Database Shuts Down To Protect Users From 'Authoritarian Governments' - Slashdot
#authoritarian #authoritarianism #privacy #dna
“Although these institutional tactics are important, they are not always enough to preserve democracy. Nonviolent struggle is another powerful tool. Well-organized social movements and civil society groups can shelter democratic institutions, mobilize voters, and increase the costs of antidemocratic behavior.”
“Pro-democracy forces must also bear in mind that resisting the erosion of #democracy is more of a marathon than a sprint. Although it is important to take the threat seriously and respond accordingly, opposition groups must also protect their resources and, if possible, expand them to prepare for fights down the road.”
Authoritarians benefit from an under-informed population The administration is carrying out the most sweeping assault on the American mind in modern history.
Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education.
Gutting funding for public libraries and museums
Cutting scientific research
Threatening universities, researchers, and students and their free speech
Detaining immigrants—including lawful permanent residents with green cards.
Uncharted territory -nothing like this has happened in the US -no democracy even remotely as rich or as old as the US has ever BROKEN DOWN. So we have really little to draw from here.
Likely scenario: careening b/w pretty
dysfunctional democracy & an unconsolidated#authoritarianism -back & forth: relative good guys win once in a while -don’t perform well -don’t last long & the bad guys win power occasionally -don’t perform well & don’t last long.
#Coup #Resist #USPol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/31/united-states-authoritarianism-trump/
"A president who talks openly about going for a third term, who signs executive orders which contradict his country’s constitution, who got a rigged supreme court to grant him immunity, who ignores court orders, who has his underlings hand out massive million dollar cheques to people to induce them to vote, even though it is explicitly against state law. To watch the United States is to watch the law dissolve into authoritarian government."
"We should all take a good hard look at what’s happening in the US. Not the noise or the clamour, but the bleak constitutional reality of it. This is what happens when you give up on the rule of law."
~ Ian Dunt
#Trump #authoritarianism #Constitution #LawandOrder #ThirdTerm
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https://iandunt.substack.com/p/want-to-know-how-trump-gets-in-just
"All of them want autocratic rule so that they can keep power indefinitely. But sooner or later, corruption and stagnation will follow. If Hungary is the future, it’s grim."
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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"Why does Hungary’s trajectory matter? Because the United States is now on it. From Donald Trump to Steve Bannon to Tucker Carlson, multiple MAGA figures have praised Orbán, praised Hungary, or visited Budapest themselves. Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation, notwithstanding his own institution’s negative analysis of Hungarian governance, has called modern Hungary 'not just as a model for modern statecraft, but the model.'”
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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"Although Orbán talks a lot about “the people,” he has used his near-absolute power to enrich a small group of wealthy businessmen, some of whom are members of his family. Corruption has cost Hungary EU funding and foreign investment. It also means that some twenty percent of Hungarian companies operate 'not on market principles, not on merit-based principles, but basically on loyalty.'"
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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"In the 1990s, Hungary’s educated population, rapid privatization, great architecture and decent food meant that Hungary attracted a disproportionate amount of foreign investment, given its small size.
But now it's the 2020s, and Hungary is bumping along at the bottom of many indexes instead. ...
Without checks and balances, without transparency and journalism and the rule of law, Hungary first became corrupt, and then poor."
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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"If anyone had been placing bets back in 1989, trying to guess which Warsaw Pact state would emerge most rapidly and successfully from communism, most of the money would have been on Hungary. Thanks to a regime that began experimenting with economic liberalism in the 1980s, Hungary was known back then as 'the happiest barrack in the socialist camp.'”
~ Anne Applebaum
#Trump #economy #authoritarianism #corruption #Orbán #Hungary
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Saturday 5 April.
Nonviolent action.
Host an event or find an event to participate in.
most important: BE THERE FOR ALL OF US.
#protest #RESIST #HandsOff #politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism https://handsoff2025.com
Saturday 5 April. Nonviolent action.
Host an event or find an event to participate in.
most important: BE THERE FOR ALL OF US.
#protest #RESIST #HandsOff #politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism handsoff2025.com
Saturday 5 April.
Nonviolent action.
Host an event or find an event to participate in.
most important: BE THERE FOR ALL OF US.
#protest #RESIST #HandsOff #politics #FascistAmeriKKKa #fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism handsoff2025.com
