@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-29 14:35:22
Anger at the regime continues to spread,
even beyond the borders of the United States.
Millions of workers worldwide are following the fortunes of their brothers and sisters in the US
with intense sympathy for their struggle.
In Germany in particular, Trump’s actions vividly bring to mind Hitler, the Second World War and the Holocaust.
More and more people are becoming aware that a third world war can only be stopped if we succeed not only in overthrowing the…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-12-29 17:12:03
309 days until we have the best weapon in our arsenal to strike back at Trump: OUR VOTE.
Vote for congressional & local leaders with the backbone to stand up to his fascist dictatorship.
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@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-08 21:37:38
ABYSS FOR DICTATORSHIP! 📉 Venezuela free: why Maduro's fall became Putin's personal catastrophe?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/08/abyss-for-dictatorship-venezuela-free.html
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-11-21 10:25:31
It's also interesting that we're only tangentially making the connection between shit social media and fascism. What we are not saying is that control of social space *is* a form of governance. Humans have the right to free social spaces, both physical and digital.
When we think about social media as a system of control, as a government, we see that capitalist social media results in incredibly abusive dictatorships. These dictatorships exist solely to exploit their citizens, extracting both labor and attention, for the gain of a few. They manipulate their citizens to keep them locked in. It's not a coincidence that these systems algorithmically promote fascist ideology. They are themselves a type of fascist government that pushes fascism into the physical space.
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-12-23 15:40:50
I realize I have no words to describe those who are not outraged by this #abuse of #PolicePower. This is among the horrors of dictatorship that were cited to me as one example of how evil the #totalitarians
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-12-23 15:40:50
I realize I have no words to describe those who are not outraged by this #abuse of #PolicePower. This is among the horrors of dictatorship that were cited to me as one example of how evil the #totalitarians
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-01-25 22:10:38
The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators - to advance their agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
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@hex@kolektiva.social2026-01-25 19:39:35
I explained something for a friend in a simple way, and I think it's worth paraphrasing again here.
You cannot create a system that constrains itself. Any constraint on a system must be external to the system, or that constraint can be ignored or removed. That's just how systems work. Every constitution for every country claims to do this impossible thing, a thing proven is impossible almost 100 years ago now. Gödel's loophole has been known to exist since 1947.
Every constitution in the world, every "separation of powers" and set of "checks and balances," attempts to do something which is categorically impossible. Every government is always, at best, a few steps away from authoritarianism. From this, we would then expect that governments trand towards authoritarianism. Which, of course, is what we see historically.
Constraints on power are a formality, because no real controls can possibly exist. So then democratic processes become sort of collective classifiers that try to select only people who won't plunge the country into a dictatorship. Again, because this claim of restrictions on powers is a lie (willful or ignorant, a lie reguardless) that classifier has to be correct 100% of the time (even assuming a best case scenario). That's statistically unlikely.
So as long as you have a system of concentrated power, you will have the worst people attracted to it, and you will inevitably have that power fall into the hands of one of the worst possible person.
Fortunately, there is an alternative. The alternative is to not centralize power. In the security world we try to design systems that assume compromise and minimize impact, rather than just assuming that we will be right 100% of the time. If you build systems that maximially distribute power, then you minimize the impact of one horrible person.
Now, I didn't mention this because we're both already under enough stress, but...
Almost 90% of the nuclear weapons deployed around the world are in the hands of ghoulish dictators. Only two of the countries with nuclear weapons not straight up authoritarian, but they're not far off. We're one crashout away from steralizing the surface of the Earth with nuclear hellfire. Maybe countries shouldn't exist, and *definitely* multiple thousands of nuclear weapons shouldn't exist and shouldn't all be wired together to launch as soon as one of these assholes goes a bit too far sideways.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-01-25 22:11:04
The Heritage Foundation is willing to justify anything & anyone Trump's administration supports - including murderers & child predators...
...to advance their immoral agenda for a Christian military & dictatorship... in case you didn't get the memo.
Original post: https://
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-22 03:49:35
Tech journalist Gil Duran outlines a disturbing theory
that a growing number of Silicon Valley elites are pursuing a vision of power
not rooted in the common good,
but in profit, feudal hierarchy, and total control of the platforms that define daily life for hundreds of millions of people.
Duran dubs this emerging ideology the “Nerd Reich”
— a slurry of right-wing ideas championed by ruthless tech overlords like
Palantir founder Peter Thiel,
Tesla an…
