@benb@osintua.eu2024-03-14 13:24:01
The election of dictator: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/14/the-election-of.html
@benb@osintua.eu2024-03-14 13:24:01
@benb@osintua.eu2024-03-13 15:34:37
Putin dismisses peace talks 'just because (Ukraine) is running out of ammunition': https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/13/putin-dismisses-peace.html
@spamless@mastodon.social2024-03-12 13:28:53
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2024-03-11 15:22:18
Didn't need the wannabe dictator to tell me that... this was pretty clear. #RussiaUkraineWar
If you are American and are concerned about Ukraine and the freedom of Europe, you sure as heck better vote for Biden in November!!
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-03-12 05:11:05
If Biden was Netanyahu there would only be a choice between two fascists. He's not and so there is a choice between a dictator and a democrat.
If the Democratic party was like the fascist coalition of Netanyahu's, there would only be a choice between two authoritarian regimes, neither of which could care less about genocide. It's not so there is a choice between democracy and authoritarianism.
Vote for Democracy
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@JorgeStolfi@mas.to2024-03-12 04:48:09
George Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to watch the sequel, /Past 2: The Return of the Dictator/".
@kennysmith@mstdn.social2024-03-12 04:21:45
Sulzberger won’t find it in his own paper.
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112079346209475399
@servelan@newsie.social2024-02-25 18:13:24
'Heartless dictator-sympathizer': Fox News guest turns on #Trump over 'murderous' #Putin - Raw Story
https://www.
@al3x@hachyderm.io2024-04-10 20:37:13
“Epicurus hated the city—the kind of place where Demetrius Poliorcetes, dictator of Athens, could tax the citizens hundreds of thousands of dollars..” — Jenny Odell in “How to do nothing”
This is the most amazing thing I learned from her book: that the ancient Athens kingdom was using dollars as currency
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2024-03-30 18:30:36
Bolton claims Trump 'doesn't have the brains' to be a dictator (Lauren Irwin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/4565077-bolton-claims-trump-doesnt-have-brains-be-dictator/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240330/p27#a240330p27
@MAD_democracy@journa.host2024-03-01 13:22:21
We've just started reading "How to Stand Up to a Dictator" by Maria Ressa.
"What you do matters in this present moment of the past, when memory can be so easily altered. Please ask yourself the same question my team and I ask every day."
"What are you willing to sacrifice for the truth?"
#Journalism
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-03-12 05:11:05
If Biden was Netanyahu there would only be a choice between two fascists. He's not and so there is a choice between a dictator and a democrat.
If the Democratic party was like the fascist coalition of Netanyahu's, there would only be a choice between two authoritarian regimes, neither of which could care less about genocide. It's not so there is a choice between democracy and authoritarianism.
Vote for Democracy
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@BootsChantilly@mstdn.social2024-03-21 18:40:12
It’s long, but it’s SUCH an important thread. #VoteBlue #SaveDemocracy #PunchANazi
@benb@osintua.eu2024-04-11 22:19:45
NGO: Belarusian man accused of insulting Lukashenko dies in jail awaiting trial: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/ngo-belarusian-man.html
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social2024-05-07 13:27:34
Meanwhile, in nazi #Russia, the dictator guaranteed that he WILL die in office.
Probably killed.
@servelan@newsie.social2024-03-10 02:20:40
'He has been able to play the victim very successfully, and it makes his followers feel protective of him. Anything that happens to him is just confirmation of this belief that he is a victim being persecuted. #Jan6 was an attempt to save a distressed leader, & people rallied, & so this is a continuation of that. That ideology of saving the leader from an unjust fate.'
Trump'…
@spamless@mastodon.social2024-03-19 18:01:41
Donald Trump Called A 'Psycho' For Praising North Korea Dictator
https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-called-psycho-praising-north-korea-dictator-hot-mic-moment/
@gwaldby@mastodon.social2024-03-30 21:42:28
Trump Follows Dictator’s Playbook: Incite Violence. Kill Democracy.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/03/30/dictators-playbook-incite-violence-kill-democracy/
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-17 19:05:21
Kamala Harris on Trump: ‘No previous US president has bowed down to a Russian dictator before’
"The idea that the former president of the US would say that he – quote – encourages a brutal dictator to invade our allies, and that the United States of America would simply stand by and watch,” Harris said.
“No previous US president, regardless of their party, has bowed down to a Russian dictator before.
“We are seeing an example of something I just believe that the Ameri…
@crell@phpc.social2024-02-27 20:40:26
This is directly the result of Republican intransigence. The GOP is actively aiding dictator Vladimir Putin commit genocide. Treat them accordingly.
https://journa.host/@timkmak/112003827079171258
@spamless@mastodon.social2024-03-19 18:01:41
Donald Trump Called A 'Psycho' For Praising North Korea Dictator
https://okmagazine.com/p/donald-trump-called-psycho-praising-north-korea-dictator-hot-mic-moment/
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2024-04-22 16:07:50
I'll never forget watching a show -- can't remember the name -- where a guy went around the USA looking for KKK and other types like that to chat. The most surprising thing for me was how the guys were exactly what you would expect, but their partners/wives were often MUCH worse. Sometimes they seemed even more rabid racists/fascist/crazy.
"one of the women gave the stiff-armed Hitler salute.”
Reminded me of that.
@scott@carfree.city2024-03-25 23:16:15
"Mark Farrell last week established a candidate-controlled committee to push the mayoral-strengthening ballot measures from Michael Moritz’s TogetherSF"
So Farrell's running for dictator, not mayor. We have to stop the Moritz #MayorDictator measure (lets mayor appoint 2/3 of all commissions and boards, with no confirmation, and remove appointees at will turning them into p…
@fluxed@ieji.de2024-02-28 00:09:26
"Transgressive desire barely held in check with fake piety. Hot! This is the level of batshittery that undergirds modern American rightwing dictator worship."
Nina Burleigh writes about #CPAC.
#autocracy #maga
@servelan@newsie.social2024-02-25 05:34:58
Opinion | A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social2024-02-28 08:04:16
The fact that when it comes to #Mao, the West often romanticizes him and ignores that he was a dictator and was the culprit for the deaths of millions of #Chinese people, is deafening. I don’t see any auction houses putting up Mein Kampf up for sale. //Rare copy of Mao’s Little Red Book expected to fetch more…
@gwaldby@mastodon.social2024-02-29 16:08:24
Please sign this petition to help convince Republican Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick of #PA01, a Co-Chair of the House #Ukraine Caucus, to support HR 815, for aid to Ukraine and other allies!
#DefendDemocracyAidUkraine
@servelan@newsie.social2024-05-08 21:32:56
Why America needs to know about Trump getting spanked in silk pajamas - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/why-america-needs-to-know-about-trump-getting-spanked-in-silk-pajamas/?rsplus<…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2024-02-17 12:56:34
Waiting for the once and future dictator of the US to say something crass about Alexei Navalny...
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-04-02 23:32:11
If some dictator ever figures out how susceptible Americans are to conspiracy theories and belief in lies over facts we're in trouble.
Oh, nevermind. Too late.
@servelan@newsie.social2024-05-08 21:31:08
Why America needs to know about Trump getting spanked in silk pajamas - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/why-america-needs-to-know-about-trump-getting-spanked-in-silk-pajamas/?rsplus<…
@benb@osintua.eu2024-05-03 13:02:09
Belarus Weekly: Belarusian hackers claim to have infiltrated KGB computer network: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/belarus-weekly-belarusian.html
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-20 15:43:05
General Milley passionately and forcefully repeated the sacred ethos that the U.S. military do not “take an oath to a king, or a queen, or a tyrant or a dictator.”
In an unmistakable reference to Trump, he vehemently added,
“And we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that is America – and we’re willing to die to protect it.”
Referring to the Constitution, Milley added,
“It is that document tha…
@arXiv_nlinAO_bot@mastoxiv.page2024-03-22 08:46:01
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01666 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nli…
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-04-02 23:32:11
If some dictator ever figures out how susceptible Americans are to conspiracy theories and belief in lies over facts we're in trouble.
Oh, nevermind. Too late.
@scott@carfree.city2024-03-19 02:15:33
Over the next few months, Michael Moritz will try to sell us on his mayor-as-dictator ballot measure by manufacturing a fake crisis over SF having too many commissions.
Moritz, a donor to Republicans, published a piece on his news site about a boring commission meeting, which concludes we have "Too much democracy."
In reality, we're a strong-mayor city, which our mayor abuses to block evidence-based drug policy, Slow Streets, and more. The mayor needs less power not…
@benb@osintua.eu2024-04-02 21:24:07
Lukashenko tightens grip on power as regime prepares for new elections: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/lukashenko-tightens-grip.html
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-01 19:09:13
#Project2025 an
‘Openly authoritarian campaign’:
Donald B. Ayer, the deputy attorney general under George H. W. Bush, said:
"Project 2025 seems to be full of a whole array of ideas that are designed to let Donald Trump function as a dictator, by completely eviscerating many of the restraints built into our system.
He really wants to destroy any notion of a rule of law in thi…
@gwaldby@mastodon.social2024-02-19 16:01:29
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-03-01 13:17:01
No one should be surprised at the murder of Navalny right before Putin's sham election. It's what Dictators do. Dictators murder at key times to send a message of fear. A 'seeing moment,' seen by all, that the dictator relies upon to sow fear and silence his potential opposition.
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@benb@osintua.eu2024-03-01 12:56:45
Belarus Weekly: Lukashenko declares intention to run for seventh term in 2025: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/01/belarus-weekly-lukashenko.html
@servelan@newsie.social2024-03-03 16:35:22
"Respectfully, I’d suggest this may be a great time to dust off his identification of Trump’s six main co-conspirators and roll out indictments against each of them. None were president so, even if Trump did have “total immunity for life,” they are all vulnerable to immediate prosecution."
It's time to hold co-conspirator Ginni Thomas accountable - Alternet.org
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-03-31 19:10:14
Just from sheer probability alone, eventually we should be able to celebrate the death of a dictator, no?
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@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-03-31 19:10:14
Just from sheer probability alone, eventually we should be able to celebrate the death of a dictator, no?
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@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-04-26 13:17:31
Alberta Canada Premier is competing to be a top MAGAT dictator.
New bill would give Alberta power to fire city councillors, reverse bylaws 
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7159253
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-18 19:12:32
Strongman rule is a fantasy.
Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman.
He won't.
In a democracy, elected representatives listen to constituents.
We take this for granted, and imagine that a dictator would owe us something.
But the vote you cast for him affirms your #irrelevance.
The whole point is that the strongman owes us
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-04-25 01:05:18
The only thing I can think of to toot today is hope. Hope that the next generation sees what it's like to not have to swear allegiance to any dictator or to have to succumb to a system of endless greed.
Vote for Democracy!
@servelan@newsie.social2024-04-16 00:43:45
Thom Hartmann: It's time to hold co-conspirator Ginni Thomas accountable - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/ginni-thomas-news/
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.ca2024-03-16 22:33:32
Trump saying, I just want to be a dictator for one day, is just like him saying I only want one wish and then using that wish to get endless wishes.
Vote for Democracy!
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