#dictatorships — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dictatorships, aggregated by home.social.
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Opinion | Study confirms what many suspected: the 2024 election was rigged
Written by Thom Hartmann, July 10, 2026
"It sure looks like #TechBillionaires and foreign #dictatorships gave us Trump in 2024. This is as bad as the massive #RussianBot presence on #Facebook and #Twitter back in 2016, which Robert Mueller documented gave Trump the presidency that time.
"A peer-reviewed study released Thursday in Nature, the world’s most prestigious scientific journal, has finally put hard numbers to what a lot of us suspected the moment the 2024 election was called for Trump (and Republicans in Congress) by the big networks: the algorithms that control our largest #SocialMedia platforms intentionally and explicitly tilted the playing field, and they tilted it for Donald #Trump and the #GOP.
"Researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi created hundreds of 'sock puppet' #TikTok accounts in New York, Texas, and Georgia (via VPN), uploaded to them either pro-Democratic or pro-Republican videos to show their political leanings, and then watched what TikTok’s algorithm fed back to them every day over the 27 weeks leading up to #ElectionDay.
"Across more than 280,000 recommendations, Republican-seeded accounts received about 11.5 percent more 'party-aligned content' than their Democratic counterparts, while the pro-Democratic accounts were force-fed 7.5 percent more attacks from the other side. As Professor Talal Rahwan put it:
'The algorithm wasn’t just giving people what they want; it was giving one side more of what the other side says about them.'"The pro-#rightwing bias was even more dramatic when researchers looked at how the candidates’ own accounts did. Candidate Trump’s official TikTok videos were pushed to Democratic-leaning users 27 percent of the time, while #KamalaHarris’s videos only reached Republican-leaning users just 15.3 percent of the time.
"Translation: Leading up to the 2024 election, TikTok was working overtime to expose Democrats and lefties to MAGA’s most persuasive messaging, all while shielding rightwingers, independents, and Republican voters from Harris’s voice."
Source:
xhttps://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/election-rigged-2024Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2q8gO#USPol #USElections #TechBros #TechBroFascism #RiggedElections #Technofascism #Oligarchy #Technogarchy
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Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/trump-hitler-mao-stalin
#Resist #protest #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Dictatorships #Nazism #news #Trump #Hitler #maozedong #mao #Stalin -
Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/trump-hitler-mao-stalin
#Resist #protest #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Dictatorships #Nazism #news #Trump #Hitler #maozedong #mao #Stalin -
Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/trump-hitler-mao-stalin
#Resist #protest #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Dictatorships #Nazism #news #Trump #Hitler #maozedong #mao #Stalin -
Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/trump-hitler-mao-stalin
#Resist #protest #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Dictatorships #Nazism #news #Trump #Hitler #maozedong #mao #Stalin -
Comparison to Hitler, Mao, Stalin? Trump says: ‘Sounds good to me!’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/19/trump-hitler-mao-stalin
#Resist #protest #Authoritarianism #Fascism #Dictatorships #Nazism #news #Trump #Hitler #maozedong #mao #Stalin -
True individual #Freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which #dictatorships are made. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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#Communist #dictatorships reporters lamenting the #moral #decadence of the #West. What else is new?
That now we can only hope they didn't have a point.
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Urban design as social control: why cities in dictatorships look all the same
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El diseño urbano como control social: por qué las ciudades en las dictaduras son tan similares -
📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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📕 O livro "Memórias Dissidentes. Repressão e resistências quotidianas de homossexuais e lésbicas nas ditaduras ibéricas" é o resultado da investigação de doutoramento de Raquel Afonso, cuja investigação foi desenvolvida no IHC.
#Histodons #Anthropodons #SocialHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #Dictatorships #IberianPeninsula #Portugal #Spain #España #HistóriaSocial #Ditaduras #Antropologia #MastoLivros
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@samreciter #australia could be a 2nd #saudiarabia but their #government is even MORE corrupt than most #dictatorships :(
also yes #australia is almost a #colony of #china -
@samreciter #australia could be a 2nd #saudiarabia but their #government is even MORE corrupt than most #dictatorships :(
also yes #australia is almost a #colony of #china -
@samreciter #australia could be a 2nd #saudiarabia but their #government is even MORE corrupt than most #dictatorships :(
also yes #australia is almost a #colony of #china -
@samreciter #australia could be a 2nd #saudiarabia but their #government is even MORE corrupt than most #dictatorships :(
also yes #australia is almost a #colony of #china -
@samreciter #australia could be a 2nd #saudiarabia but their #government is even MORE corrupt than most #dictatorships :(
also yes #australia is almost a #colony of #china -
Why Dictatorships Build The Same (hint: it's about control and suppressing dissent)
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Why Dictatorships Build The Same (hint: it's about control and suppressing dissent)
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Why Dictatorships Build The Same (hint: it's about control and suppressing dissent)
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Why Dictatorships Build The Same (hint: it's about control and suppressing dissent)
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Why Dictatorships Build The Same (hint: it's about control and suppressing dissent)
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Prominent #pro-Kremlin #blogger known for his aggressive attacks on #Russia’s opposition abruptly turned against #Putin with series of scathing critiques
A day later, he was admitted to #psychiatric #hospital
Ilya #Remeslo, built #blog targeting late opposition leader #Navalny
His sudden reversal, & speed he disappeared, has drawn intense attention in Russia’s tightly controlled media
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Prominent #pro-Kremlin #blogger known for his aggressive attacks on #Russia’s opposition abruptly turned against #Putin with series of scathing critiques
A day later, he was admitted to #psychiatric #hospital
Ilya #Remeslo, built #blog targeting late opposition leader #Navalny
His sudden reversal, & speed he disappeared, has drawn intense attention in Russia’s tightly controlled media
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Prominent #pro-Kremlin #blogger known for his aggressive attacks on #Russia’s opposition abruptly turned against #Putin with series of scathing critiques
A day later, he was admitted to #psychiatric #hospital
Ilya #Remeslo, built #blog targeting late opposition leader #Navalny
His sudden reversal, & speed he disappeared, has drawn intense attention in Russia’s tightly controlled media
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Prominent #pro-Kremlin #blogger known for his aggressive attacks on #Russia’s opposition abruptly turned against #Putin with series of scathing critiques
A day later, he was admitted to #psychiatric #hospital
Ilya #Remeslo, built #blog targeting late opposition leader #Navalny
His sudden reversal, & speed he disappeared, has drawn intense attention in Russia’s tightly controlled media
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Prominent #pro-Kremlin #blogger known for his aggressive attacks on #Russia’s opposition abruptly turned against #Putin with series of scathing critiques
A day later, he was admitted to #psychiatric #hospital
Ilya #Remeslo, built #blog targeting late opposition leader #Navalny
His sudden reversal, & speed he disappeared, has drawn intense attention in Russia’s tightly controlled media
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@noelreports Oeos, they forget to mention #usa is using many airbases in those #dictatorships They choosed a side. #iran
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@noelreports Oeos, they forget to mention #usa is using many airbases in those #dictatorships They choosed a side. #iran
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@noelreports Oeos, they forget to mention #usa is using many airbases in those #dictatorships They choosed a side. #iran
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@noelreports Oeos, they forget to mention #usa is using many airbases in those #dictatorships They choosed a side. #iran
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Actual #democracy is about voting on issues, not voting on people.
Western "democracy" is about voting on people, not voting on issues.
From that perspective, westerners deem #socialist states as #authoritarian #dictatorships.
All while citizens of those states have 10 times more power than any western citizen.
Are you waking up yet?
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Actual #democracy is about voting on issues, not voting on people.
Western "democracy" is about voting on people, not voting on issues.
From that perspective, westerners deem #socialist states as #authoritarian #dictatorships.
All while citizens of those states have 10 times more power than any western citizen.
Are you waking up yet?
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Actual #democracy is about voting on issues, not voting on people.
Western "democracy" is about voting on people, not voting on issues.
From that perspective, westerners deem #socialist states as #authoritarian #dictatorships.
All while citizens of those states have 10 times more power than any western citizen.
Are you waking up yet?
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Actual #democracy is about voting on issues, not voting on people.
Western "democracy" is about voting on people, not voting on issues.
From that perspective, westerners deem #socialist states as #authoritarian #dictatorships.
All while citizens of those states have 10 times more power than any western citizen.
Are you waking up yet?
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Actual #democracy is about voting on issues, not voting on people.
Western "democracy" is about voting on people, not voting on issues.
From that perspective, westerners deem #socialist states as #authoritarian #dictatorships.
All while citizens of those states have 10 times more power than any western citizen.
Are you waking up yet?
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How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as #authoritarianism?
This question is the staring point for the workshop promoted by #STEXEU on 10 March, with Charalambos Minasidis and Fernando Jiménez Herrera.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/wars-violence-authoritarianism/
#Histodons #PoliticalHistory #War #PolticalViolence #Dictatorships #HistóriaPolítica #Guerra #ViolênciaPolítica #Ditaduras #Autoritarismo
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How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as #authoritarianism?
This question is the staring point for the workshop promoted by #STEXEU on 10 March, with Charalambos Minasidis and Fernando Jiménez Herrera.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/wars-violence-authoritarianism/
#Histodons #PoliticalHistory #War #PolticalViolence #Dictatorships #HistóriaPolítica #Guerra #ViolênciaPolítica #Ditaduras #Autoritarismo
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How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as #authoritarianism?
This question is the staring point for the workshop promoted by #STEXEU on 10 March, with Charalambos Minasidis and Fernando Jiménez Herrera.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/wars-violence-authoritarianism/
#Histodons #PoliticalHistory #War #PolticalViolence #Dictatorships #HistóriaPolítica #Guerra #ViolênciaPolítica #Ditaduras #Autoritarismo
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How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as #authoritarianism?
This question is the staring point for the workshop promoted by #STEXEU on 10 March, with Charalambos Minasidis and Fernando Jiménez Herrera.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/wars-violence-authoritarianism/
#Histodons #PoliticalHistory #War #PolticalViolence #Dictatorships #HistóriaPolítica #Guerra #ViolênciaPolítica #Ditaduras #Autoritarismo
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How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as #authoritarianism?
This question is the staring point for the workshop promoted by #STEXEU on 10 March, with Charalambos Minasidis and Fernando Jiménez Herrera.
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/wars-violence-authoritarianism/
#Histodons #PoliticalHistory #War #PolticalViolence #Dictatorships #HistóriaPolítica #Guerra #ViolênciaPolítica #Ditaduras #Autoritarismo
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An extension of his administration: how #Trump’s resorts became a proxy for access and power
Traditionally, #presidents have #divested from their business interests before assuming office. Jimmy Carter famously put his peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid #conflict of interest #violations while serving as president.
But Trump has embraced his suite of luxury resorts and golf clubs as an executive asset.
#authoritarian #tyrants #ComradeKrasnov #greed #USThreats
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An extension of his administration: how #Trump’s resorts became a proxy for access and power
Traditionally, #presidents have #divested from their business interests before assuming office. Jimmy Carter famously put his peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid #conflict of interest #violations while serving as president.
But Trump has embraced his suite of luxury resorts and golf clubs as an executive asset.
#authoritarian #tyrants #ComradeKrasnov #greed #USThreats
[1/2]
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An extension of his administration: how #Trump’s resorts became a proxy for access and power
Traditionally, #presidents have #divested from their business interests before assuming office. Jimmy Carter famously put his peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid #conflict of interest #violations while serving as president.
But Trump has embraced his suite of luxury resorts and golf clubs as an executive asset.
#authoritarian #tyrants #ComradeKrasnov #greed #USThreats
[1/2]
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An extension of his administration: how #Trump’s resorts became a proxy for access and power
Traditionally, #presidents have #divested from their business interests before assuming office. Jimmy Carter famously put his peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid #conflict of interest #violations while serving as president.
But Trump has embraced his suite of luxury resorts and golf clubs as an executive asset.
#authoritarian #tyrants #ComradeKrasnov #greed #USThreats
[1/2]
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An extension of his administration: how #Trump’s resorts became a proxy for access and power
Traditionally, #presidents have #divested from their business interests before assuming office. Jimmy Carter famously put his peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid #conflict of interest #violations while serving as president.
But Trump has embraced his suite of luxury resorts and golf clubs as an executive asset.
#authoritarian #tyrants #ComradeKrasnov #greed #USThreats
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On this day in 2025 (at FB)
#USpol #Trumpizm #HimNotUs #SmokeAndMirror #ResidentEvil #Dictatorships #SelfDelusion #AsymptomaticCarrier
News:
"State department signs off on bombs and missiles sales that the US claims would help Israel ‘defend its borders’"
Comment:
"Course not. He has no interest in ordinary people, as all his other policies demonstrate."
If the latter could be your comment, I need to say something to you.
Here, in Europe (especially at the "wrong side of The Iron Curtain"), we are pretty well-versed in dictatorships. Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, now Łukaszenka and Putin... They come and they go like in a political Hurricane Alley of sorts, so we know them well (those who chose to know, at least).
And there is a particular takeaway lesson I want to convey here:It is not him. It never was. It is us.
Whoever's name and face appears as the figurehead of the "current edition", is just a token. The dictatorship is us all. It is the crew that makes the ship.
If you work for him, you are him.
If you respect people who are him, you are him.
If you talk to your neighbour, who is him, you are him.
If you let your children play with his children, you are him.
Even if you fight him, you are still him.
Dictatorship is a highly contagious disease, and no one within its realm stays untouched.
BUT one glorious day, it is gone.
Halleluyah! We Are Saved And Redeemed!
We can go back to be our great good selves!
Because it was just him. Or maybe few scoundrels and misled simpletons, who are already dangling from the lamposts or hiding in Argentina.
We were never part of it. True?
TRUE?Not. It was not just him. It never was. It was us.
If you worked for him, you were him.
If you respected people who were him, you were him.
If you talked to your neighbour, who was him, you were him.
If you let your children play with his children, you were him.
Even if you fought him, still. You. Were. Him.
Unless you accept the fact, confront it, and find the way to control this resident evil in you, you will be just another asymptomatic carrier, waiting for just another "unexpected" outbreak. Which is going to happen. -
On this day in 2025 (at FB)
#USpol #Trumpizm #HimNotUs #SmokeAndMirror #ResidentEvil #Dictatorships #SelfDelusion #AsymptomaticCarrier
News:
"State department signs off on bombs and missiles sales that the US claims would help Israel ‘defend its borders’"
Comment:
"Course not. He has no interest in ordinary people, as all his other policies demonstrate."
If the latter could be your comment, I need to say something to you.
Here, in Europe (especially at the "wrong side of The Iron Curtain"), we are pretty well-versed in dictatorships. Franco, Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, now Łukaszenka and Putin... They come and they go like in a political Hurricane Alley of sorts, so we know them well (those who chose to know, at least).
And there is a particular takeaway lesson I want to convey here:It is not him. It never was. It is us.
Whoever's name and face appears as the figurehead of the "current edition", is just a token. The dictatorship is us all. It is the crew that makes the ship.
If you work for him, you are him.
If you respect people who are him, you are him.
If you talk to your neighbour, who is him, you are him.
If you let your children play with his children, you are him.
Even if you fight him, you are still him.
Dictatorship is a highly contagious disease, and no one within its realm stays untouched.
BUT one glorious day, it is gone.
Halleluyah! We Are Saved And Redeemed!
We can go back to be our great good selves!
Because it was just him. Or maybe few scoundrels and misled simpletons, who are already dangling from the lamposts or hiding in Argentina.
We were never part of it. True?
TRUE?Not. It was not just him. It never was. It was us.
If you worked for him, you were him.
If you respected people who were him, you were him.
If you talked to your neighbour, who was him, you were him.
If you let your children play with his children, you were him.
Even if you fought him, still. You. Were. Him.
Unless you accept the fact, confront it, and find the way to control this resident evil in you, you will be just another asymptomatic carrier, waiting for just another "unexpected" outbreak. Which is going to happen. -
I'm sorry, but anyone who thought #Bezos bought #WaPo to control the news and not to destroy it from the inside (it's chump change for him) so there is no news being reported, really REALLY hasn't been paying attention.
It's how #dictatorships work.
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I'm sorry, but anyone who thought #Bezos bought #WaPo to control the news and not to destroy it from the inside (it's chump change for him) so there is no news being reported, really REALLY hasn't been paying attention.
It's how #dictatorships work.
