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Portside : Can nonviolent struggle defeat a dictator? https://portside.org/2025-10-23/can-nonviolent-struggle-defeat-dictator-database-emphatically-says-yes

Can Nonviolent Struggle Defeat a Dictator? This Database Emphatically Says Yes
Can nonviolent struggle defeat a tyrant? There are many great resources that answer this question, but the one that’s been on my mind lately is the Global Nonviolent Action Database, or GNAD, built by the Peace Studies department at Swarthmore College. Freely accessible to the public, this database — which launched under my direction in 2011 — contains over 1,400 cases of nonviolent struggle from over a hundred countries, with more cases continually being added by student researchers.

ICE purposefully rammed their vehicle into a protestor’s truck in California.
In Chicago, federal agents tear gassed local police during a protest.
This is what happens when a wannabe dictator is running the country.
This is why millions of Americans peacefully stood up to defend our rights in the No Kings protests.
Peaceful protest is not a crime. It’s the foundation of our democracy.
I’m Fred Wellman
—Army combat veteran, entrepreneur, dad, MeidasTouch …

The Convicted Criminal hands Ukraine to the Russian dictator. Fixed it for you Telegraph :-)
https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/115628188586255514

There tends to be this implicit assumption that only the state can provide services to the people. It's endemic to liberals. If authoritarians seize power, the thinking goes, there's nothing we can do.
But we have ample examples of the opposite. Trumpism is a specific type of authoritarianism where the state withdraws to allow corporations to control most things. They get a degree of autonomy and, in exchange, bow to the sovereign.
This is common in South American dictatorships (often those backed and supported by the US). So it can be helpful to look to these as examples of how to deal with that type of regime.
#USPol

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator (Will Freeman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/opinion/peru-dictator-democracy-boluarte.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v08.gQZf.dfBOA57dClXS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p43#a251024p43

Tomahawks scare the dictator: Putin calls Trump begging for mercy for Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/18/tomahawks-scare-the-dictator-putin.html

Dollar Tree Dictator
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No laws were broken in the making of this bot: let's leave the extrajudicial killing out of it.
#satire #potus45

'Dictator-for-life vibes': our architecture critic on Trump's bulletproof ballroom bling (Catherine Slessor/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/oct/23/trump-white-house-ballroom-architecture-critic-dictator-bling
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p115#a251023p115

Dollar Tree Dictator
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This is a joke, not a threat: rescind the warrant.
#satire #potus45