#autocrats — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #autocrats, aggregated by home.social.
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This is why #Fascists, #ChristoFascists, #Xenophobes, #autocrats, and #authoritarian #dictators of all stripes want to defund libraries, ban books, and limit access.
As more people read, and people read more..., they expect more from civil society and they see how the #oligarchy is a cancerous pustule on humanity.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@arjenlubach/116334314864015902
Dictators in Need
They wake up every day in fear hearing the sounds of devastating opinion polls.
Dictators in Need is an independent organisation helping #dictators and #autocrats worldwide who are in danger of losing power. Men like Viktor from #Hungary.Viktor did everything right:
- Massive #corruption
- Controlling the media and the justice system
- #Misuse of public money (to build a swimming pool for his sheep) -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arjenlubach/116334314864015902
Dictators in Need
They wake up every day in fear hearing the sounds of devastating opinion polls.
Dictators in Need is an independent organisation helping #dictators and #autocrats worldwide who are in danger of losing power. Men like Viktor from #Hungary.Viktor did everything right:
- Massive #corruption
- Controlling the media and the justice system
- #Misuse of public money (to build a swimming pool for his sheep) -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arjenlubach/116334314864015902
Dictators in Need
They wake up every day in fear hearing the sounds of devastating opinion polls.
Dictators in Need is an independent organisation helping #dictators and #autocrats worldwide who are in danger of losing power. Men like Viktor from #Hungary.Viktor did everything right:
- Massive #corruption
- Controlling the media and the justice system
- #Misuse of public money (to build a swimming pool for his sheep) -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arjenlubach/116334314864015902
Dictators in Need
They wake up every day in fear hearing the sounds of devastating opinion polls.
Dictators in Need is an independent organisation helping #dictators and #autocrats worldwide who are in danger of losing power. Men like Viktor from #Hungary.Viktor did everything right:
- Massive #corruption
- Controlling the media and the justice system
- #Misuse of public money (to build a swimming pool for his sheep) -
RE: https://bewegung.social/@neuSoM/116285017968321829
#Universidades alemãs no #Fediverso:
"We’ve already seen some initial success: around 150 #academic institutions in Germany are active on Mastodon and have +157k followers there
👉 https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/institute-DE
We believe this is an approach we can also recommend to the #research and #academic communities in the #US to fend off attacks from #autocrats ." -
As early as 2 years ago, many people in #Germany and #Europe felt that #BigTech ’s internet platforms did not live up to the claim of being #socialmedia. Many were appalled by the #hatespeech, #incitement, #cyberbullying, and #disinformation being spread there.
Our action alliance first reached out to #universities to propose withdrawing from #X and adopting #Mastodon. We believe the #Fediverse platforms are much better suited for #SciComm or, more broadly, for substantive discourse aimed at protecting and preserving our #democracy. Other initiatives have since emerged, such as #ByeByeElon, #HelloQuitX, #LeaveX, and #SaveSocial.We’ve already seen some initial success: around 150 #academic institutions in Germany are active on Mastodon and have +157k followers there
👉 https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/institute-DE
We believe this is an approach we can also recommend to the #research and #academic communities in the #US to fend off attacks from #autocrats . -
Trump Gets $10 Billion Kickback To The Treasury For Offloading TikTok To His Billionaire Buddies
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Trump Gets $10 Billion Kickback To The Treasury For Offloading TikTok To His Billionaire Buddies
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Trump Gets $10 Billion Kickback To The Treasury For Offloading TikTok To His Billionaire Buddies
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Trump Gets $10 Billion Kickback To The Treasury For Offloading TikTok To His Billionaire Buddies
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Trump Gets $10 Billion Kickback To The Treasury For Offloading TikTok To His Billionaire Buddies
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#Businesses have a #moral #responsability to stand up to #autocrats
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« #Conseil de la #paix» de #Trump : est-il vrai que la moitié des adhérents sont privés de #visas pour les #Etats-Unis #US ? « #Board of #peace» = #Board of #autocrats = #enemies of #Democracy www.liberation.fr/checknews/co...
«Conseil de la paix» de Trump ... -
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
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TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
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TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
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TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
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The World’s #Autocrats No Longer Take #Trump Seriously
The leaders of #Russia, #China, & #NorthKorea are not good men. They preside over brutal autocracies replete with #SecretPolice & #PrisonCamps. But they are, nevertheless, serious men, & they know an unserious man when they see one. For nearly a decade, they have taken Trump’s measure, & they have clearly reached a conclusion: The president of the #US is not worthy of their respect.
#geopolitics
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/trump-parade-china-putin-xi-kim/684113/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxa7wArLePNGbIUpX3IWgUtI -
"I have the right to do whatever I want, I am the #president of the #USA " ( #POTUS ) #TRUMP: #MEGALOMANIAC #POTUS #NOBODY IS #ABOVE THE #LAW #NO #KINGS #NO #EMPERORS #NO #AUTOCRATS #NO #FORGIVE #NO #FORGET #NO #NOBEL #PRIZE YOUR #CITIZENS AND #HISTORY WILL #JUDGE YOU youtube.com/shorts/9wnbP...
Trump: "I have the right to do... -
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Something unknown hits key Russian drone facility in Taganrog — Putin insists the Russian economy is fine, but Kremlin officials say otherwise — Donetsk Oblast city ‘on brink of humanitarian catastrophe,’ governor says as drones cripple infrastructure — America signals support for sending more Patriot missiles to Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/thursday-june-26-2025/
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
Something unknown hits key Russian drone facility in Taganrog — Putin insists the Russian economy is fine, but Kremlin officials say otherwise — Donetsk Oblast city ‘on brink of humanitarian catastrophe,’ governor says as drones cripple infrastructure — America signals support for sending more Patriot missiles to Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/thursday-june-26-2025/
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
Something unknown hits key Russian drone facility in Taganrog — Putin insists the Russian economy is fine, but Kremlin officials say otherwise — Donetsk Oblast city ‘on brink of humanitarian catastrophe,’ governor says as drones cripple infrastructure — America signals support for sending more Patriot missiles to Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/thursday-june-26-2025/
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
Something unknown hits key Russian drone facility in Taganrog — Putin insists the Russian economy is fine, but Kremlin officials say otherwise — Donetsk Oblast city ‘on brink of humanitarian catastrophe,’ governor says as drones cripple infrastructure — America signals support for sending more Patriot missiles to Ukraine … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/thursday-june-26-2025/
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"My journey—from underground activism in Kurgan Oblast*, where I bypassed state propaganda in search of the truth, to building a new life in the EU—revealed a terrifying reality: #digitalsurveillance and #datamanipulation are not confined to a single regime. A handful of U.S.-based tech giants dominate the platforms we use every day—social networks, messaging apps, operating systems, and cloud services. If #autocrats or #rogueleaders learn to exploit these global networks, none of us, anywhere, can consider ourselves safe."
From: https://social.vivaldi.net/@heartshadows/114632936983058582 -
'This Is What #Autocrats Do': Concern Grows Over Single Paragraph Buried Deep in #GOPBill
The provision would force those challenging Trump "to pay up in the form of a posted bond—something many people can't afford to do. That means only the wealthy will be able to even attempt to challenge the most powerful man in the country."
Jon Queally
May 31, 2025"A single paragraph buried deep in a spending bill that passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives earlier this month is causing growing concern among democracy watchdogs who warn the provision will make it so only the well-to-do would be in a good position to launch legal challenges against a #Trump administration that has shown over and over again its disdain and disregard for oversight or judicial restraint of any kind.
"Coming just about half-way through what President Donald Trump has dubbed the Republican Party's so-called "One #BigBeautifulBill Act"—which progressive critics point out is a giant giveaway to the nation's wealthiest at the expense of the working class and the common good—the language in question is slight, but could have far-reaching impacts.
" 'This is what autocrats do. Consolidate power, increase the penalty for objecting, ultimately making it more difficult—eventually impossible—to challenge them.'
"On Saturday, #HumanRightsWatch (#HRW) noted in a detailed social media thread how the provision 'hasn't gotten nearly enough scrutiny' from lawmakers or the public.
"A recent piece by USA Today columnist Chris Brennan put it this way: 'One paragraph, on pages 562 and 563 of the 1,116-page bill, raised alarms for reasons that have nothing to do with America's budget or safety-net programs or debt. That paragraph invokes a federal rule for civil court procedures, requiring anyone seeking an injunction or temporary restraining order to block an action by the Trump administration to post a financial bond.
" 'Want to challenge Trump? Pay up, the provision said in a way that could make it financially prohibitive for Americans to contest Trump's actions in court.
"HRW details how the provision, if included in the final legislation, 'would make it more expensive to fight Trump's policies in court by invoking a federal rule that effectively punishes anyone willing to stand up against the administration.'
"Anyone seeking a legal action that would involve an injunction request against a presidential order or policy, the group said, would to face a much larger barrier because Republicans would make it so that anyone challenging Trump in court in this way would 'have to pay up in the form of a posted bond—something many people can't afford to do. That means only the wealthy will be able to even attempt to challenge the most powerful man in the country."
Read more / listen to audio:
www.commondreams.org/news/trump-buried-provision#CharacteristicsOfFascism #USPol #AuthoritarianRule #SilencingDissent #Fascism #BigUglyBill #BigUglyFascists
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📣 The number of followers of German scientific institutions in the #Fediverse surpassed the 160k mark 💥 last weekend, see
👉 https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/?liste=institute-deYes, it's true: we shouldn't get caught up in this nonsensical discussion about #reach of #socialmedia.
On the other hand, it’s a great success 🏆 for initiatives such as #Unis4Mastodon, #Byebyeelon, #WissXit, #SaveSocial, @helloQuitX, @leavex and others that more than 150 research institutions in Germany are contributing to the expansion of the Fediverse.To our friends in the #USA, we say that we are alarmed at how the new #USpolicy is attacking #science. We are trying to build decentralized and independent #socialnetworks to make our research institutions and democracy resilient to attacks from #autocrats and #hostilitytoscience.
And we think this transformation should happen in other countries, too, to strengthen #democracy. -
Meanwhile in #turkey
#Dualistic men-led regime restricts womens access to cesarean sections.
What is wrong with those #autocrats?
Article in german:
https://www.aerzteblatt.de/news/turkei-fuhrt-teilweises-verbot-von-geplanten-kaiserschnitten-ein-12f41493-0ba6-4e1f-972a-6d626b55c300 -
Research into how #disinformation affects democracy has never been more important. But #autocrats and #populists discredit any findings that challenge their worldview. In my latest article on ECPR's The Loop I describe how #Trump is changing the rules of communication, and manipulating public discourse
https://theloop.ecpr.eu/gulf-of-america-how-the-spread-of-lies-is-reshaping-democracy/
#politicalscience #polsci #democracy #autocracy #politicalcommunication #disinformation @academicchatter @politicalscience
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Das System Putin nachhaltig schwächen.
Ein Bericht der von Putin in Russland verbotenen Organisation
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP)https://dgap.org/de/forschung/publikationen/das-system-putin-nachhaltig-schwaechen
#NoPutin #putin #russland #dgap #nachrichten #news #autokratie #autocratischeRegimes #autocrats
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I found this to be a short but interesting read, again history, we need to look at our own personal, famililal, geographical and nation histories and then also to the history of the planet constantly adjusting our focus from relative, absolute and in between.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/23/trump-autocrat-elections-00191281
#Hungary #Autocrats #MonkeySeeMonkeyDo -
The new interconnected breed of #autocrats gains and retains power
-- by deception --globally #undermining #democracies through their own institutions
An autocratic wave has crept up on us in the U.S. -- and over the world in the last decade.
#Democracy and #autocracy were once seen as two separate and distant worlds
with little in common,
and that the triumph of one weakened the other.Now, however, autocrats across the globe,
in poor and wealthy nations,
in established and nascent democracies,
and from the right and left,
are using the same tactics to ⚠️dismantle democracies from within.As of 2021, of the 104 countries classified as democracies worldwide,
37 had experienced moderate to severe deterioration in key elements of democracy,
such as open and free #elections,
fundamental #rights and liberties,
civic #engagement,
the rule of #law,
and checks-and-#balances between government branches.This democratic backsliding wave has accelerated since 2016 and infiltrated all corners of the world.
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#ConvictedFelon #DonaldTrump's Constant Use of #Superlatives Is #Typical of #Autocrats and #Dictators.
His #reliance on #superlatives not only helps to #groom the #dictators’ #followers by creating a narrative of each little #cult member being unique in world #history – but also contributes to the eventual #disintegration of the #dictators’ own #mind. Seems fitting.
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During the debate #DonaldTrump denied that he didn’t go to a cemetery in #France for American soldiers that died fighting to #SaveDemocracy from #autocrats. To which the #woke response is “Mandy Rice-Davies Applies”, or #MRDA.
If you’re scratching your head #WTF , the Featured article on @Wikipedia will clear things up! 👉 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_he_would,_wouldn%27t_he%3F
Shorter toot: #TrumpLied
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Dear friends of #misfeasance, 🦞
I think I may be #One, it is a hard job
but #everyone can do it. As you may #know,
most #autocrats, #Queen Charley and consorts, El Papa, HH the nearly undead #Dhalia #Llama etc… All ‘legally’ without a leg #ally to stand over... :ablobcatpopcorn:
Maybe we are all #miscreants, #heretics, anti-aunty and pro #prose? #Pah! Choose your #Poisson, as they say in #French #phishing. :firefish_angry:
Nothing is as it seams for needle workers in a hey-stack. However there is much we can undo in the dodo:
1. Believe in better batter 😋
2. Gnat this, not this net (neti-neti)
3. Woe, war, woah
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_neti
In smother #mother other words:
- All #women are created unequal (men 2)
- #Laff and the #whirled spins 🌐
- Time is the great heeling. Dig in. 🪔 -
Why are #autocrats so #fixated on #trans #people
#LGBTQ #scapegoating and the #authoritarian #playbook.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/why-are-autocrats-so-fixated-on-trans
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#PopeFrancis says #gendertheory is 'ugly #ideology' that #threatens #humanity.
Professor says the #comments are #misguided, putting Francis in the company of #autocrats
— #OrganizedReligion is the most ugly #ideology of all.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Vatican #Spirituality #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pope-francis-gender-theory-ideology-1.7130679
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CW: From Substack
We can all be like Navalny.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark/p/be-like-alexei-navalny-courage
#Navalny #AlexiNavalny #Putin #tRump #USA #America #GOP #Republicans #Democracy #Autocrats #Dictators #KGB #Assassination #Murder #Politics #Oligarchs #Activism #Organize #Volunteer #Protest #PhoneBank #Resistbot #NationalStrike #Palestine #Genocide #Russia
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#DonaldTrump is putting every #racial, #ethnic and #religious #minority #atrisk at a time of #angry #political #polarization.
#Trump’s #extreme #rhetoric reminiscent of #Nazi #propaganda and his #penchant for #siding with #America’s #adversaries and #autocrats pose a unique #challenge to his #Republican #opponents and, ultimately, #US #voters
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/19/politics/donald-trump-extreme-rhetoric-2024-election -
#Autocrats try to control #bodilyautonomy because it goes hand in hand with #controlling #minds.
People with a sense of #bodily and #intellectual #autonomy are less #susceptible to #internalizing #propaganda and #blatant #lies.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Propaganda #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
