#autocrat — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #autocrat, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/117155838117077276
Decent people must stand united against the sociopaths of the world, or they'll destroy us and decency. Stalin knew Europe was finished pre-WWII because the countries would not stick together. Hitler and Stalin picked them off one at a time, and they endured decades of murderous oppression as a result. Countless millions died and countless more basically lived wasted lives.
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And yet, neither #moderates nor #DSA are pushing #Trump #impeachment under Rule IX, so there's not much difference when it comes to actually removing a #fascist #autocrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuxVauzKvNE My take here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRdJP9fngQ0 #congress #politics #socialism #mamdani #aoc #NYC -
Elder voters can easily keep any #autocrat in power in a country, for a very long time. They're universally forming the majority.
What they can't do is keep their sons and daughters from seeing how free life can be elsewhere, and lock them in, decade after decade.
It's their choice: either see your kids and grandchildren often, being part of their lives; or at best once per year, when they'll visit you from abroad, in your self-inflicted shithole life they will never choose to share, and will never choose to confine their own kids to.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/09/britons-dont-want-trump-war-fixation-labour. "A state committing #genocide - #Israel - has joined forces with an ailing #superpower led by an aspiring #autocrat. Together they have launched a plainly #illegal #war, as defined by the UN charter, which prohibits the use of force unless a state faces an actual or imminent attack."
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Extreme obedience assumes ignorance in the one who obeys; it assumes ignorance even in the one who commands; he does not have to deliberate, to doubt, or to reason; he has only to want.
[L’extrême obéissance suppose de l’ignorance dans celui qui obéit; elle en suppose même dans celui qui commande: il n’a point à délibérer, à douter, ni à raisonner; il n’a qu’à vouloir.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 4, ch. 3 (4.3) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/81939/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montesquieu #autocracy #autocrat #command #consideration #deliberation #despot #dictator #ignorance #obedience #reason #servility #tyranny #tyrant #want #will
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En #Allemagne, des #économistes appellent à #rapatrier l’ #or placé dans les #coffres #américains
#DO #NOT #OFFER OUR #GOLD TO AN #AUTOCRAT, #RACIST #SEXIST #RAPIST #HOMOPHOBIC #DICTATOR
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Merry Christmas from the guy who thinks he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/26/us-warns-of-more-nigeria-strikes-as-abuja-talks-of-joint-ongoing-operations
#news #DonaldTheMad #FIFAPeacePrize #war #autocrat #dictator #UnitedStates #Nigeria -
KING RICHARD: For within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king
Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits,
Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp,
Allowing him a breath, a little scene,
To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks,
Infusing him with self and vain conceit,
As if this flesh which walls about our life
Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,
Comes at the last and with a little pin
Bores through his castle wall, and farewell, king!William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 165ff (3.2.165-175) (1595)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardii #autocrat #death #dust #ego #hubris #invulnerability #king #mortality #power #pride #royalty
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KING RICHARD: For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings —
How some have been deposed, some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,
Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed,
All murdered.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 3, sc. 2, l. 160ff (3.2.160-165) (1595)More info about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #richardii #autocrat #death #fate #kings #mortality #power #regicide #storytelling
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Sooo. The first #elections in the #USA after #Trump took office went absolutely terrible for him.
And if you dig deeper it gets even worse, because #migration & #crime are becoming total non-issues with the electorate, while #CostOfLiving & #AffordableHousing are driving the people to the ballots.
Orange sucker can only go full #autocrat now and even that may prove to be too difficult with a population that won't let him & the infighting within the #GOP.
Still, fight is ongoing, not won.
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Very good #ParkSlope but I don't see one #impeachment sign how do you figure we are going to get rid of a #fascist #autocrat? #nokings #trump #fascism #brooklyn
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A quotation from Samuel Johnson
Power is always gradually stealing away from the many to the few because the few are more vigilant and consistent; it still contracts to a smaller number, till in time it centres in a single person.
Thus all the forms of governments instituted among mankind, perpetually tend towards monarchy; and power, however diffused through the whole community is, by negligence or corruption, commotion or distress, reposed at last in the chief magistrate.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-04-10), The Adventurer, No. 45More info about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/18000…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #autocrat #government #king #minority #monarch #oligarchy #politicalpower #politics #power #thirstforpower #tyranny #autocracy #corruption #powerhungry
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Having this son of an #autocrat on stage to revere and 'memorialize' anyone killed by #politicalviolence is so deeply cognitively dissonant that it becomes a self-parody.
Fricking insane.
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Wrote some stuff about what's happening. It's a little dark, I'm a little exhausted. I hope you enjoy it and subscribe.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/kimmel-and-killing/
#USpol #Kimmel #JimmyKimmel #law #authoritarian #autocrat #censorship #disney #abc #ice #killing
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Wrote some stuff about what's happening. It's a little dark, I'm a little exhausted. I hope you enjoy it and subscribe. stuff.davidaugust.com/kimmel-and-k... #USpol #Kimmel #JimmyKimmel #law #authoritarian #autocrat #censorship #disney #abc #ice #killing
Kimmel and Killing -
#Trump #DonaldTrump #Autocrat #USA #Oppression #FreedomOfSpeech #ABC #Kimmel #JimmyKimmel #CharlieKirk #CancelCulture #USPol #America #Utah #UnitedStates #PoliticalOppression #TV #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Television
Trump says TV networks opposed to him should 'maybe' lose licence https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4qe0rz2zvo
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Definition: DESPOT
noun ['despət,ˈdesˌpät]:a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way
"acting illegally would give the despot an excuse to justify his criminality"
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#autocrat #dictator #tyrant #oppressor #authoritarian #trump -
Little #autocrat has to #dictate #everything to #everybody, otherwise he ain’t happy, bouhh 🤡
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I am still dealing with the #ironies here: this is what we used to address in the anti-#globalization movement...whose agenda has now been perverted and embraced for totally different reasons by a #fascist #autocrat
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/08/01/can-tariffs-lead-to-a-more-circular-economy/ #fascism #trump #climate #climatechange #environment #sustainability