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  1. "...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

  2. "...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

  3. "...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

  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. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. “[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

  10. “[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

  11. “[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

  12. “[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

  13. “[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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  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 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

  22. 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

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. 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

  27. One day Trump and his works will be as Ozymandias:

    ‘I met a traveller from an antique land,
    Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
    And on the pedestal, these words appear:
    My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
    Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
    — Percy Byshe Shelley, 1818
    #Ozymandias #Trump #USA #ICE #despot #king #fascist #HopeNotHate #Thoughts #future #Life

  28. One day Trump and his works will be as Ozymandias:

    ‘I met a traveller from an antique land,
    Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
    And on the pedestal, these words appear:
    My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
    Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
    — Percy Byshe Shelley, 1818
    #Ozymandias #Trump #USA #ICE #despot #king #fascist #HopeNotHate #Thoughts #future #Life

  29. One day Trump and his works will be as Ozymandias:

    ‘I met a traveller from an antique land,
    Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
    Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
    And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
    Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
    The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
    And on the pedestal, these words appear:
    My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
    Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
    Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
    The lone and level sands stretch far away.’
    — Percy Byshe Shelley, 1818
    #Ozymandias #Trump #USA #ICE #despot #king #fascist #HopeNotHate #Thoughts #future #Life

  30. 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

  31. 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

  32. 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

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. The unitary executive theory (UET) used by SCOTUS and the fascist felon after the Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024) decision is destroying the U.S. government. Deciding law and governance by this decision and theory has created a despot that the country’s founders attempted to avoid in the creation of the federal government.
    #tyranny #despot #fascism #DeathOfDemocracy #resist #releasetheepsteinfiles