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  1. 👇Is this not the #despot's "up your's"🖕 to ASEAN's quiet & (too) patient #diplomacy? What next for their people?🤔👇

    #Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing #criticises #ASEAN, sets out government agenda
    "Min Aung Hlaing on July 31 criticised the regional ASEAN grouping’s peace plan and outlined his government’s plans.. Dismissing ASEAN’s #peace #plan – known as the “Five Point Consensus”.. “I will take two years to build momentum for constructing a new nation,” Min Aung Hlaing said"🤦‍♂️
    straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/

  2. A quotation from Thomas Jefferson

    Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

    Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
    Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”

    More about this quote: wist.info/jefferson-thomas/220…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny #declarationofindependence

  3. Hull Rupture - Management Strategy Roguelite Tower Defense - Konfa Games - Despot - Livestream 2026-05-11_21-03-58

    tubefree.org/w/sWsRfeASuKNh37Z

  4. "...Der Sohn des früheren iranischen Schahs, Reza Pahlavi, hat die Bundesregierung dafür kritisiert, dass sie nicht mit ihm sprechen möchte. ..."

    Tja, der Papa hätte halt seine Schläger nicht auf deutsche Bürger loslassen sollen!
    Und wie es heisst: Der Apfel fällt nicht weit vom Stamm!
    Für das iranische Volk sollte es was Besseres geben als wieder ein Schah!

    msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/poli

    #deutschland #iran #demokratie #irankrieg #schah #pahlevi #savak #despot #politik #naherosten #persien #mullahs

  5. A quotation from Accius

    Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
     
    [Óderint, dum métuant.]

    Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
    Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #accius #cicero #seneca #suetonius #caligula #compliance #danger #despot #fear #hatred #leadership #lifeanddeath #threat #tyrant #terrorism #coersion #obedience #compulsion #power

  6. “[T]here’s a special meaning when leaders put themselves on money. It’s been the case, going back to the ancients, that monarchs and despots use this method to ensure their subjects understand they hold complete power and control the money supply. For this very reason, America has had a long-held norm of not featuring living presidents on the currency — until now.

    salon.com/2026/03/29/trump-is-

    #USpol #Dictator #Despot

  7. A quotation from Olivia Butler

    Choose your leaders
       with wisdom and forethought.
    To be led by a coward
       is to be controlled
       by all that the coward fears.
    To be led by a fool
       is to be led
       by the opportunists
       who control the fool.
    To be led by a thief
       is to offer up
       your most precious treasures
       to be stolen.
    To be led by a liar
       is to ask
       to be lied to.
    To be led by a tyrant
       is to sell yourself
       and those you love
       into slavery.

    Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
    Parable of the Talents, ch. 11, epigraph (1998)

    More about this quote: wist.info/butler-octavia/48539…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oliviabutler #candidate #choice #coward #democracy #despot #election #fool #leader #liar #thief #tyrant

  8. 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

  9. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    Men are still men. The despot’s wickedness
    Comes of ill teaching, and of power’s excess, —
    Comes of the purple he from childhood wears,
    Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.
     
    [L’homme est homme toujours; les crimes du despote
    Sont faits par sa puissance, ombre où son âme flotte,
    Par la pourpre qu’il traîne et dont on le revêt,
    Et l’esclave serait tyran s’il le pouvait.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Poem (1876), “The Vanished City [La Ville Disparue],” Legend of the Ages: New Series [La Légende des siècles: La Nouvelle Série], No. 4 (1877) [tr. Carrington (1885)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/81773/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #despot #error #humannature #power #revolution #slave #tyrant

  10. Who are board of peace members; who has been invited?

    About 50 countries received invitations from #Trump to join his #BoardOfPeace

    So far, 25 have accepted the invites

    This means that leaders like #Argentina’s Milei, #Israeli PM & wanted man Benjamin #Netanyahu #Belarusian #despot Alexander Lukashenko will become members

    So far, 7 countries rejected invitations including:

    - UK
    - Norway
    - Sweden
    - Slovenia
    - France
    - Germany
    - Italy

    thenational.scot/news/25789107

    #authoritarian #DementiaDon

  11. @lillyfinch

    The last sentence is 💯 why we normal humans continue to be dominated by #narcissists. We did not learn from history, but they did.

    #Trump #Power #Ego #Despot

    "You would think,President of the United States would be enough....but no...he needs to be "served", adored, praised, worshiped like a pharaoh, king, Sultan, Emperor..really? Thought humankind,for the most part, had moved past this...."

    #sociopath #pathocracy #uspol

  12. #Trump #Power #Ego #Despot

    You would think,President of the United States would be enough....but no...he needs to be "served", adored, praised, worshiped like a pharaoh, king, Sultan, Emperor..really? Thought humankind,for the most part, had moved past this....

    Sigh....he will turn our Whitehouse into a tacky mini Versailles so he can pretend.

    Unknown
    6/12/2017

  13. Natürlich betrachtet #Despot #Trump die wertvollen Geschenke von Wirtschaftsvertretern aus der #Schweiz als sein persönliches Eigentum. Klar ist auch, dass ohne die Geschenke kein #Zolldeal zustande gekommen wäre. Deshalb ist das klar #Bestechung.

    Die Schweiz muss den #Rechtsstaat nun hochhalten und den Verantwortlichen den Prozess machen.

    srf.ch/news/wirtschaft/team-sw

  14. Nein. Donald #Trump ist kein neuer Mensch, nur weil er sich wohlwollend über Zohran #Mamdani ausgesprochen hat. Er ist weiter der Riesen-#Despot, welcher die Welt Tag für Tag zu seinem Spielball macht, Menschen unterdrückt und grundlos verhaften lässt, sich über amerikanisches Recht erhebt und sich als selbst ernannter Baumeister mehrere Denkmale setzen wird. #Mamdani hat mehr Haltung bewiesen und echte Ideen vorgebracht als dieser furchtbare Diktator #Trump.

  15. Irritierender Moment im Büro:

    Kolleginnen kennen den Begriff #Despot nicht.

  16. A quotation from Lincoln

    Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage, and you are preparing your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of those around you, you have lost the genius of your own independence, and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises.

    Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
    Speech (1858-09-11), Edwardsville, Illinois

    More info about this quote: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7867…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #lincoln #abelincoln #abrahamlincoln #bondage #civilrights #control #humanrights #independence #liberty #power #servility #slavery #subjects #tyrant #despot

  17. For 2 days of meandering questioning in Tallahassee, Fla., #Trump’s former #criminal defense #attorney turned DAG #ToddBlanche gave #convicted #sextrafficker #GhislaineMaxwell ample opportunity to #rehabilitate herself at the expense of victims like #VirginiaGiuffre
    Giuffre’s lawyer Sigrid McCawley, who represents hundreds of #JeffreyEpstein #survivors, said that #Maxwell “repeatedly and brazenly #lied on the record and the government” in these #transcripts.
    #immunity #pardon #trump #despot

  18. Shortly before 7:00 am Friday morning, #FBI and #MontgomeryCounty #police were seen at Bethesda home of #John Bolton, who served as #nationalsecurity advisor for part of #DonaldTrump first term. Montgomery County police sealed off the street on which Bolton lives while an unmarked black #SUV parked in front of Bolton’s house. Montgomery County police confirmed that they were on site in support of the FBI. #autocracy #arresting #enemies Using FBI #police as private #army #despot #civilliberties

  19. A quotation from Robert Herrick

    ’Twixt kings and tyrants there’s this difference known:
    Kings seek their subjects’ good; tyrants their own.

    Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
    “Kings and Tyrants,” Hesperides, # 861 (1648)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/herrick-robert/78445…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertherrick #despot #dictator #king #leader #leadership #ruler #selfaggrandizement #selfinterest #socialcontract #tyranny #tyrant

  20. #putin and #trump are sitting in a limo on a tarmac in Alaska for 15 minutes without any translators or diplomats - what are they talking about - what is Trump giving him - what is putin giving trump...what is the currency of #despot #international #criminals #submission of #ukraine #canada #greenland #democratic #rights #WWII #nato #eu #rights #civilliberties