#authoritarians — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #authoritarians, aggregated by home.social.
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[DE👇] Great #essay on the #freedomofart, #authoritarians, and their attack on #art & #artists by Claudia Emmert. She speaks of #freedom of art & #resistance
And a State Minister for #Culture that is fighting a #battleofcultures
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Großartiger Essay von #ClaudiaEmmert @Claudia zur #kunstfreiheit auf #DLF
Von einem #kulturstaatsminister im #Kulturkampf
Von der Notwendigkeit von #Widerstand & #Widerspruch in der #Kunst & dem #Kulturkampf von #Rechts
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/freiraeume-zwischen-wandel-und-widerstand-100.html
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To all #technologists / #techies: This won't be limited to #Android. They WILL insist on the same standard of #security on all #devices. Are you ready to settle for just #Windows, #MacOS and #Chromebook?
These #corporations have splendidly demonstrated that they're primarily #authoritarians and #fascists who wield #technology as their main weapon. Who does that leave as their opponents? You have to inform the rest of the #population. Your #voice matters! Make it count!
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To all #technologists / #techies: This won't be limited to #Android. They WILL insist on the same standard of #security on all #devices. Are you ready to settle for just #Windows, #MacOS and #Chromebook?
These #corporations have splendidly demonstrated that they're primarily #authoritarians and #fascists who wield #technology as their main weapon. Who does that leave as their opponents? You have to inform the rest of the #population. Your #voice matters! Make it count!
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To all #technologists / #techies: This won't be limited to #Android. They WILL insist on the same standard of #security on all #devices. Are you ready to settle for just #Windows, #MacOS and #Chromebook?
These #corporations have splendidly demonstrated that they're primarily #authoritarians and #fascists who wield #technology as their main weapon. Who does that leave as their opponents? You have to inform the rest of the #population. Your #voice matters! Make it count!
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To all #technologists / #techies: This won't be limited to #Android. They WILL insist on the same standard of #security on all #devices. Are you ready to settle for just #Windows, #MacOS and #Chromebook?
These #corporations have splendidly demonstrated that they're primarily #authoritarians and #fascists who wield #technology as their main weapon. Who does that leave as their opponents? You have to inform the rest of the #population. Your #voice matters! Make it count!
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To all #technologists / #techies: This won't be limited to #Android. They WILL insist on the same standard of #security on all #devices. Are you ready to settle for just #Windows, #MacOS and #Chromebook?
These #corporations have splendidly demonstrated that they're primarily #authoritarians and #fascists who wield #technology as their main weapon. Who does that leave as their opponents? You have to inform the rest of the #population. Your #voice matters! Make it count!
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"Like most #authoritarians Ford is only focused on increasing his power and control. Like Trump, Ford is only “getting it done” for his wealthy friends. " https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/ford-is-a-dangerous-authoritarian/
#Ontario #onpoli #cdnpoli #secrecy #authoritarianism #cdnpoli
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Saturday, April 11, 2026
Russia's rhetoric on the Iran war reveals it's losing; Kremlin watching a key chess piece slip from the board -- Special tribunal for Russia to move forward; enough countries now committed -- Russian drilling platforms in Caspian Sea hit overnight -- Russia has lost 1,308,670 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022 ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/saturday-april-11-2026/
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Saturday, April 11, 2026
Russia's rhetoric on the Iran war reveals it's losing; Kremlin watching a key chess piece slip from the board -- Special tribunal for Russia to move forward; enough countries now committed -- Russian drilling platforms in Caspian Sea hit overnight -- Russia has lost 1,308,670 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022 ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/saturday-april-11-2026/
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Saturday, April 11, 2026
Russia's rhetoric on the Iran war reveals it's losing; Kremlin watching a key chess piece slip from the board -- Special tribunal for Russia to move forward; enough countries now committed -- Russian drilling platforms in Caspian Sea hit overnight -- Russia has lost 1,308,670 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022 ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/saturday-april-11-2026/
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Saturday, April 11, 2026
Russia's rhetoric on the Iran war reveals it's losing; Kremlin watching a key chess piece slip from the board -- Special tribunal for Russia to move forward; enough countries now committed -- Russian drilling platforms in Caspian Sea hit overnight -- Russia has lost 1,308,670 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022 ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/saturday-april-11-2026/
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#RWNJ #psychology #authoritarians #paranormal
"The politics of the paranormal: the relationship between paranormal beliefs and right-wing ideology
This study examined the relationship between paranormal beliefs and right-wing ideology in a German quota sample (N = 1,139). We also explored whether individual differences in intuitive versus analytical cognitive styles explain these relationships. Results indicated that higher scores on right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO), but not right-wing identity, were positively associated with paranormal beliefs. However, both right-wing ideology and intuitive versus analytical thinking independently contributed to paranormal belief endorsement. The results suggest that right-wing ideology plays an important role in understanding paranormal beliefs. While cognitive styles are also relevant, they do not explain the affinity of right-wing individuals for paranormal phenomena."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224545.2026.2632337
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Unbelievably, #VirginiaState University - an #HBCU - ‘bent the knee’ to #DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump and his gang of #BananaRepublicans who want to #EliminateTenure in #HigherEducation. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/tenure/2026/02/25/vsu-terminates-6-professors-without-due-process
#Project2025 is looking more and more like the #CulturalRevolution started by #MaoZedong in #China. 🤔
#Resist. #DoNotComply and #DoNotCollaborate with #authoritarians in #USpol.
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Better plan for #India - instead of substituting #Russia #oil w/ #US (or another horrible #petrostate) - go nuts with #walk #bike #bus #train #solar #wind #EV #batteries No more getting bullied by #authoritarians - also improves #airquality and mitigates #climatechange
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Better plan for #India - instead of substituting #Russia #oil w/ #US (or another horrible #petrostate) - go nuts with #walk #bike #bus #train #solar #wind #EV #batteries No more getting bullied by #authoritarians - also improves #airquality and mitigates #climatechange
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The real #division is not between #conservatives and #revolutionaries but between #authoritarians and #libertarians.
George Orwell, The Lost Orwell: Being a Supplement to The Complete Works of George Orwell
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MAGA’s Always Bogus “Antitrust Movement” Comes To A Screeching Halt With Firing Of Gail Slater
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Brendan Carr Launches Fake Investigation Of ABC’s ‘The View’ Because They Haven’t Adequately Coddled Trumpism
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#AlexPretti was a #patriot. An #ICU nurse at the #DepartmentofVeteransAffairs, and a union man. It’s time for ALL of us to stand up against the #authoritarians who TOOK him from US. youtu.be/143eeE2bPZU?...
Alex Pretti was a Patriot. Tha... -
#AlexPretti was a #patriot. An #ICU nurse at the #DepartmentofVeteransAffairs, and a union man. It’s time for ALL of us to stand up against the #authoritarians who TOOK him from US. youtu.be/143eeE2bPZU?...
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#AlexPretti was a #patriot. An #ICU nurse at the #DepartmentofVeteransAffairs, and a union man. It’s time for ALL of us to stand up against the #authoritarians who TOOK him from US. youtu.be/143eeE2bPZU?...
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#AlexPretti was a #patriot. An #ICU nurse at the #DepartmentofVeteransAffairs, and a union man. It’s time for ALL of us to stand up against the #authoritarians who TOOK him from US. youtu.be/143eeE2bPZU?...
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Trump Continues To Make It Clear He Has CBS On A Leash
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This youtuber is correct.
The great divide is not between left and the right, but in tolerance for #ambiguity & #plurality. #Authoritarians are genuinely afraid of this #freedom itself, and cry for the tyrant to save them from it.
You can treat some of these people, but you can’t heal all of them. You need to manage them.
Without acknowledging this basic human property like post-nazi Germany did and building the stops, these people will take over the state again.
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Trump Successfully Murders U.S. Public Media
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The science of how (and when) we decide to speak out—or self-censor
Freedom of speech is a foundational principle of healthy #democracies and hence a primary target for aspiring #authoritarians , who typically try to squash #dissent. There is a point where the threat from authorities is sufficiently severe that a population will self-censor rather than risk punishment.
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One pattern that never fails to repeat is the undending fold of former anti-government #libertarians to pro-government repressive #authoritarians after they acquire power.
There is nothing that should surprise you about this. They have not changed how they think at all.
If you start from the question: ”Who should hold power?”, and answer:”People like me.” When you’re not in #power, you call for libertarianism because it gives you power. When you are in power, you work to remove everyone else’s
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‘If someone did a study on humans but did it inside a prison using the prison population as subjects, we would instantly reject it.’ But if it’s on wolves – we just swallow it whole.’ https://www.politicsplus.org/blog/2025/10/02/open-thread-october-2-2025/ And yet those in power financed by the ultra wealthy seek to normalise hierarchial divisions that favour Apartheid: men against women, ethnic supremacy against ethnicity, sex against gender, neurotypical against neurodiversity, and corporations rights against interests rights. #Authoritarians against #democracy. Is not the elephant in the room and the enemy within: mechanised experimentation against reason and sensation as it is the basis of the fascist tech that is driving ecocide? #TruthToPower #LiarsDivisions #ProofAndDemonstration #JaneGoodall
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#Authoritarians understand the disruptive importance of social platforms, which is why the #Trump administration pushes back on EU regulation. We have to stand up for our values and our way of life as the big tech bros just want to push autoritarianism - it makes them and their cronies rich and the rest poor. If you wonder what such a #feudal #kleptocracy looks like, modern day Russia, Hungary or the ancient Versailles regime under the sun king are great examples.
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-132/
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What #Authoritarians May Learn About #Censorship From #Nepal’s #Protests
by Charlie Campbell
Updated: Sep 10, 2025 10:07 AM ETExcerpt: "An eerie calm returned to Nepal on Wednesday after an army-enforced curfew paused two days of anti-government protests that had convulsed the capital Kathmandu and other cities, with predominantly young demonstrators burning tires, ransacking ministries, and invading politicians’ homes so that the occupants had to be airlifted to safety.
"At least 22 people lost their lives and hundreds more were injured by security forces in the carnage, which was ostensibly sparked by state attempts to block access to social media but in truth reflect an explosion of long bottled-up rage against political corruption and widespread inequality in the Himalayan nation of 30 million.
"The banning of 26 social-media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and X was officially due to the companies’ failure to register and submit to government oversight, though protesters attributed the move as an attempt to block the crescendo of online complaints from young people furious at the #LuxuriousLifestyles enjoyed by children of the #PoliticalElite, so-called '#NepoKids.'
"The disparity between what ordinary Nepalis experience and what they saw flaunted online prompted calls last week for #MassProtests — calls which only mushroomed following the hamfisted social-media ban. Even after that prohibition was lifted on Tuesday, and the resignations of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak, the unrest escalated.
" 'The government in Nepal was trying to use those new social-media regulations to prevent the very thing that happened,;' says Michael Kugelman, a D.C.-based South Asia analyst. 'So it completely backfired.'
"The power of social media to foment popular protest is no stranger to Asia, where the internet has been a key driver of popular uprisings that toppled governments in Sri Lanka in 2022 and Bangladesh in 2024, and continue to roil Indonesia today. But it’s a phenomenon that first came to light in the 2010 Arab Spring, when a series of anti-government protests swept the Middle East and North Africa that were predominately organized online.
"Most notably, and in a clear augury of Nepal today, efforts during the #ArabSpring to block social-media access simply cut a head of the hydra: highlighting the state’s blatant disregard for freedom of speech and assembly, vindicating the protesters’ complaints, and widening sympathy for their demands.
"Little wonder authoritarian states were spurred by the Arab Spring into enacting draconian internet controls. Across Nepal’s northern frontier, #China’s Great Firewall became the poster child for tightly regulated online space. Not only does the #GreatFirewall block undesirable external information but also weeds out and proscribes politically sensitive domestic content."
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@meidastouch #Trump Cannot Outrun #Epstein #Survivors. #Epstein #victims are done with #silence. They’re naming names, demanding Trump release #epsteinfiles daring Washington to confront rot it’s spent decades protecting. #victims #survivors #putin #maga #russia #bejing #China #dictators #authoritarians #global #power #America no longer a #democracy #nationalsecurity #globalsecurity #greenland #Taiwan #venezuela selling out the American people #rights and #freedom of everyone in #NorthAmerica
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#Historians See #Autocratic #Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on #Science
#Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President #Trump as borrowing some of their #tactics.
#maga #doge #socialinfluencehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/science/trump-science-autocrats.html
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#Historians See #Autocratic #Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on #Science
#Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President #Trump as borrowing some of their #tactics.
#maga #doge #socialinfluencehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/science/trump-science-autocrats.html
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#Historians See #Autocratic #Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on #Science
#Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President #Trump as borrowing some of their #tactics.
#maga #doge #socialinfluencehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/science/trump-science-autocrats.html
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#Historians See #Autocratic #Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on #Science
#Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President #Trump as borrowing some of their #tactics.
#maga #doge #socialinfluencehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/science/trump-science-autocrats.html
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#Historians See #Autocratic #Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on #Science
#Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President #Trump as borrowing some of their #tactics.
#maga #doge #socialinfluencehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/science/trump-science-autocrats.html
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#LawrenceKrauss' "War on #Science" #book is still a joke that ignores the threats from #Republicans
#RichardDawkins, #JerryCoyne, #JordanPeterson, Lawrence Krauss, and others wrote a book about the "#waronscience"... that completely ignores actual threats like Trump and the #GOP.
Now that the book is out, let's recap why the #authors are helping #authoritarians rather than using their prominent platforms for good
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TOMORROW! At Riverbank Park in #WestbrookME!
"On Saturday, July 26, Americans in every corner of the country will come together in peaceful marches, rallies, and actions to say: Our families come first—not #billionaires, not #authoritarians, and not #CorruptPoliticians.
"#Mainers are coming together as families and community members to amplify our collective experiences and demand that our leaders step up to meet the needs of families across the state. Join us on Saturday, July 26 at 10 a.m. in Riverbank Park in Westbrook!
RSVP here: https://www.mobilize.us/familiesfirst/event/812386/
"Do you have a story about how cuts to essential programs like #Medicaid, #FoodStamps, #SchoolLunches will impact your family and loved ones? Join us to share your story and to say NOT ONE MORE child without lunch, NOT ONE MORE #elder without #medicine, NOT ONE MORE #immigrant abducted, and NOT ONE MORE family left to suffer so #billionaires can get richer."
Sponsored by the #MainePeoplesAlliance and the #MaineWomensLobby
#MaineResists #TrumpSucks #ICEKidnapping #IllegalDetension #Fascism #BigUglyBill #MedicaidCuts
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Ukrainian sea drone downs Russian fighter jet in world-first strike — Russia used thermobaric weapons in drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors say — Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 11 people, including 2 children, damages shopping mall — France to ramp up AASM Hammer smart bomb production for Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-4-2025/
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Ukrainian sea drone downs Russian fighter jet in world-first strike — Russia used thermobaric weapons in drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors say — Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 11 people, including 2 children, damages shopping mall — France to ramp up AASM Hammer smart bomb production for Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-4-2025/
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Ukrainian sea drone downs Russian fighter jet in world-first strike — Russia used thermobaric weapons in drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors say — Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 11 people, including 2 children, damages shopping mall — France to ramp up AASM Hammer smart bomb production for Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-4-2025/
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Ukrainian sea drone downs Russian fighter jet in world-first strike — Russia used thermobaric weapons in drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors say — Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 11 people, including 2 children, damages shopping mall — France to ramp up AASM Hammer smart bomb production for Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-4-2025/
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Ukrainian sea drone downs Russian fighter jet in world-first strike — Russia used thermobaric weapons in drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukrainian prosecutors say — Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 11 people, including 2 children, damages shopping mall — France to ramp up AASM Hammer smart bomb production for Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/sunday-may-4-2025/
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It was only last century when things had settled in #Europe, when post colonial, #NeoColonial, #Neoliberal Europe looked up with glee at the peaceful and prosperous future. The promise was simple: #WW2, never again.
Now however we need Germany to #militarize and do so quickly, because the #US is falling apart in terms of being a #democracy, and all the #authoritarians are are getting ready at their marks.
#Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for war
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Inspirierender Beitrag von @RainerMuehlhoff zum US-Umsturz, den er digitalen Staatsstreich nennt https://rainermuehlhoff.de/DLF-Radiofeuilleton-Staatsstreich-Trump-Musk/
#ZeynepTufekci nennt es in der #newyorktimes den Autoritären den #root Zugang geben.
Es wäre bezaubernd, wenn wir in Europa nicht die gleichen Fehler machten!
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There is an intriguing piece by Mühlhoff on the #digitalcoup in the #US under #Trump & #MuskTufekci called it giving the #authoritarians root access in the #NYT
Please do not copy-paste, Europe!
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#News #Superbowl #NewOrleans #MAL #Politics #Authoritarians #Racism #DC #NYC #LosAngeles #Chicago #Dearborn #Detroit #Pittsburgh #Philadelphia #Anti-Nazi #Jews #Latino #Hispanics #Muslims #Christian #Morals #Criminal #Secret #Code #FBI #DOJ #Blacks#Asians#Mob #Project2025 @scrippsnews.bsky.social
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Just to show that the #authoritarians and #leninists aren't just in the #labour party. The left is riddled with these parasites, and defeating them should be the objective of all working people regardless of political affiliation.
In this case, without doing that, we cannot be rid of #JeremyHunt
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#fascist #authoritarians take for themselves and their cronies who run corporations, who will choose a precious few of the rest of us to #sharethewealth they have raped and pillaged out of the planet #billionaire #warlord class Of slaveowners, nazis, Putin, Trump, LePen - The rest of us they pit against each other by having us believe another human being has less value than YOU DO, based on your human skin color, community group, or arbitrary social label by controlling the cultural narrative.
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I've heard people say #Trump or #Biden makes no difference... for #white #men perhaps. On the other hand, Trump 2.0 will rain down hell on #immigrants, particularly #Muslims and #Latinos. Trump brags about #MassDeportations. Remember the #ICE raids? Many more #POC will be swept up in the next one. It's already hell for #women of #childbearing years in half the states. Trump 2.0 will make it nationwide. You already see what is happening to #lgbtq people in red states. Trump 2.0 will take #lgbtq persecution nationwide.
In addition to #StateViolence, #authoritarians establish a #PermissionStructure of #violence against disfavored groups. During the last Trump administration, #MassShootings of minorities and synagogues was rampant. I'm voting for #Biden2024 not because I'm a fan, but because I am thinking of all the people Trump will hurt in the US. #Voting one's #conscience in the #2024Election is a choice between a soiled conscience or a dead one.
