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  1. RE: mstdn.social/@stux/11715583811

    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.

    #narcissism #pathocracy #autocrat

  2. RE: mstdn.social/@stux/11715583811

    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.

    #narcissism #pathocracy #autocrat

  3. RE: mstdn.social/@stux/11715583811

    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.

    #narcissism #pathocracy #autocrat

  4. RE: mstdn.social/@stux/11715583811

    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.

    #narcissism #pathocracy #autocrat

  5. RE: mstdn.social/@stux/11715583811

    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.

    #narcissism #pathocracy #autocrat

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Those Who Sided With Viktor Orban Will Be Damned, Authoritarianism Is A Loser

    I spent some time this afternoon upstairs looking for a column in a back issue of Foreign Affairs. I knew it contained the essence of what I wanted to stress in this column. That followed the most welcome news that Peter Magyar's center-right Tisza party was projected to win Hungary's parliamentary election, bringing an end to 16 years of illiberal actions and authoritarian rule under Viktor Orban, a far-right ally of both Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. We witnessed […]

    caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/0

  12. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "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."

  13. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "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."

  14. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "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."

  15. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "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."

  16. theguardian.com/commentisfree/. "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."

  17. A quotation from Montesquieu

    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

  18. A quotation from Montesquieu

    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

  19. A quotation from Montesquieu

    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

  20. A quotation from Montesquieu

    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

  21. A quotation from Shakespeare

    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

  22. A quotation from Shakespeare

    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

  23. A quotation from Shakespeare

    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

  24. A quotation from Shakespeare

    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

  25. A quotation from Shakespeare

    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

  26. A quotation from Shakespeare

    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

  27. A quotation from Shakespeare

    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