#illiberal — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #illiberal, aggregated by home.social.
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Tech Oligarchs Are Helping DHS Set Up Authoritarian Surveillance State
The Trump administration is supercharging surveillance in an unprecedented way, from the expansion of facial recognition technology to buying Americans’ data from third-party data brokers and building tools of mass surveillance for ICE, we’re witnessing an intense assault on our foundational Fourth Amendment rights. #Trump #privacy #surveillance #MassSurveilance #FourthAmendment #DHS #ICE #illiberal #authoritarian #surveilanceState #repression #warOnTerror #Prairieland #techOligarchy #ElonMusk #PeterThiel #MarcAndreessen
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#Orban organized a protest against the tyranny of the new democratic government that dethroned him months ago after his 16 years of #corruption & #oppression, yet he didn’t even bother to show up to lead his voters. Instead, he remotely beat the drums from behind the screen of his smartphone, proving how unserious the dear leader is. His #illiberal #nationalist quest to save traditional christian values from decency is like a sinking ship without a captain doomed to fail.
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This is not only " #very #agressive " to #immigrants, but "most of all", it is very agressive to #americans themselves..., because this means they do no have to right to fall in livr and marry whoever they want, and live with them..
A #disgusting and #smelly measure .
I would NOT like my own country to tell me who I can marry or not...
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The #TrumpRegime is not going to let go of building this perverse American Führerbunker.
Whether Trump, the man, is alive or dead, I don't see the Oligarchs, their political and corporate proxies, or MAGA cult he inspired peacefully surrendering power, suggesting to me, a darker motive for building the Führerbunker.
Like Charlie Kirk, a martyred Trump would be an even more useful idiot for the powers arrayed around him now against the American people and our estranged former allies.
#US #Culture #Politics #Authoritarian #Capitalism #antiDemocratic #Illiberal #Ethnostate #WhiteNationalism #Patriarchy #AmericanAparthied #JimCrow #JimCrow2 -
Some seriously kerazy — & for once literal — #irony
250 years ago the #UnitedStates declared its #independence from a monarchy.
Today, that very #monarchy, is warning the #US of making a #king of its #illiberal #ExecutiveBranch.
#NoKings #US #Constitution #democracy #independence #ForThePeopleByThePeople #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny
https://apnews.com/article/king-charles-us-state-visit-trump-congress-4cd294e6333b4a9ba7ada2af4dd71aa9 -
“Security Has a Beef With Photography”
The Latina in the safety vest had a beef with me. The company had surveilled me on camera. “What are you doing here,” she asked, right in front of the Visitor Center. I replied that I was taking a pictures. She said, “No photos allowed. Delete them.”
I did not delete any photographs, instead I published one.
#authenticphoto #factoryfarms #illiberal #noncompliance #censorship #surveillance #truthsandwich
Source: https://take-note.com/note-takers/marshall--mayer/notes/security-has-a-beef-with-photography/view
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"Dishonest attacks can boomerang, eroding trust in the attacker rather than the target. And this clearly happened in #Hungary in this #election #campaign. All of which points to a broader lesson about #information control in #illiberal regimes: it can easily be overstated. Hungary’s 2026 election has revealed that an information #autocracy can have its limits. And in the face of a faltering #economy & a united & credible opposition, Orbán’s campaign reached those limits - & failed as a result."
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Hungary is not just an illiberal state. It is a state with a moral mission
https://www.noemamag.com/the-return-of-the-moral-state/
#HackerNews #Hungary #Moral #Mission #Illiberal #State #Politics #Ethics
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#MAGA vs. The Declaration of Independence
#JamelleBouie #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #Illiberal #antiDemocracy #Monopolisitic #Neoliberal #Christofascist #WhiteNationalist #Patriarchy
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“Empire of AI”: Author Karen Hao on Sam Altman, OpenAI & Hidden Costs of Artificial Intelligence
#DemocracyNow!
#Illiberal #antiDemocratic #Monopolistic #Authoritarian #BrOligarcy
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„#Illiberal #populism has spread across the world, either challenging for power or entrenching itself in office, from #Argentina to #Italy, #France to #Indonesia, #Hungary to #Britain. But probably the most significant example of a relatively free, pluralist society and political system turning into something very different remains the #US, now nine months into Donald Trump’s second term.“ #Trump #Trumpism #Democracy #Freedom #Politics #USPolitics #UK
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We literally have the best government money can buy, and our nation, our very survival depends on unflinchingly addressing this pugnacious problem of money as free speech foisted on us by the unaccountable SCOTUS, “Repugnicans” and Corporate Democrats.
Founder of #TheLever, #DavidSirota joins #TheMajorityReport's #EmmaVigeland to discuss his new book, “MASTER PLAN: The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption in America”
#US #Economics #Politics #SCOTUS #CitizensUnited #Corporatocracy #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Illiberal #AntiDemocratic #Monopolistic
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"President Donald Trump is trying to create a new religious right, one that is not just #illiberal but fundamentally different and opposed to traditional #religion as we’ve known it. The faith of the MAGA movement is not one in which the state conforms to the church, but one in which the church is bent to the will of the strange beast that is American #nationalism — the belief that the American project is an exercise in freedom and prosperity like the world has never known, but also the sole possession of those who are white, heterosexual, and unquestioningly loyal to the nation."
https://www.vox.com/politics/416042/religion-politics-trump-christian-nationalism-liberty-maga
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“#InformationWarfare is always a symptom of conflict, stoked often by those in #power to fuel their own #illiberal goals,” she said. “It confuses audiences, scares people who might otherwise have empathy for the cause & divides us when we need #solidarity most.”
#MediaLiteracy #SocialMedia #moderation #Trump #TrumpLies #ConspiracyTheories #propaganda #disinformation #LosAngeles #LAprotests #immigration #protests
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Only one thing is going to stand in Trump's way — and he knows it | Opinion
by Thom Hartmann, April 28, 2025
"It didn’t happen in some shadowy back alley or under the cover of night.
"It happened in broad daylight — in the heart of an American courthouse.
"Federal agents, acting without even the decency of a signed warrant, stormed into Judge #HannahDugan’s courtroom on Friday morning and dragged her away like a common criminal. No warning. No legal process. No respect for the law she had spent a lifetime upholding.
"But they made sure the cameras were there, so America could see what they were doing. Because this was not about justice. This was about terror.
"This was a warning shot aimed directly at the beating heart of America’s judiciary: 'Fall in line — or you’re next.'
"In that moment, the world’s oldest democracy lurched closer to the edge of #AuthoritarianRule. In that moment, America became a little less free — and a lot more like the nightmare #VladimirPutin always hoped we’d become.
"The FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan last Friday without even having a legal arrest #warrant; this is as outrageous and #PoliceState illegal as an administration can get.
"And #PamBondi’s performance Friday — after her federal agents swarm-raided this county judge — wasn’t staged for the general public.
"The real audience was a very small, select group: America’s judges.
"Their message is very simple: 'P--- us off, judges, and you could end up in prison, too.'
"Trump has already pacified the Article I branch of government — Congress — and now he’s in the process of pacifying the Article III branch, the Judiciary.
"There are only 3 branches to our government: cowing both Congress and the nation’s Judiciary will leave only the president in charge of the entire country under all circumstances in all ways.
"Nothing and nobody else will be able to stop him, short of a military coup (and he’s already decapitated the senior leadership of the military) or unending demonstrations in the streets (demonstrators who may soon face live ammunition).
"That is called dictatorship. Real dictatorship. Vladimir Putin-style dictatorship where you are punished for the smallest deviation from orthodoxy and can find yourself in #prison or sued into #bankruptcy if you dare speak out in public.
"It appears more and more every day that #Putin is Trump’s mentor, if not his handler. Trump is doing everything he can, with help from a South African billionaire, to destroy the historic American infrastructure (which has been an example for the world for 250 years) and turn us into the newest member of the #dictators club, joining Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Belarus, Hungary, North Korea, and the rest of the #fascist and #authoritarian world.
"To get there, now that they’ve pacified every single Republican member of Congress (most recently, Don Bacon criticized Trump’s schizophrenic tariffs; a day later he started talking about retiring), they only have to seize control of the Judiciary, and then nothing except We The People will stand in their way.
"Nothing. Will. Stand. In. Trump’s. Way. Except We The People. And he knows it.
"Look at the striking parallels between Putin’s strategies and Trump’s actions:
"From installing Trump’s loyalists in the military and the federal police agencies of the Department of Justice and FBI, to his open threats against freedom of the press, to the GOP’s efforts to rig elections and purge voters, Trump’s subversion of US democracy looks eerily familiar.
"He’s taking pages directly from the autocrat’s handbook.
"Trump has openly quoted and praised autocrats like Putin and Hungarian strongman #ViktorOrbán, who has presented his leadership in speeches to the GOP and CPAC as a model of an '#illiberal' state.
"Trump’s not hiding his admiration for dictators; he’s flaunting it. And now he’s putting the final stages of their script into action.
"Trump’s movement toward authoritarianism follows 'a known playbook. It’s unfolded in many other countries,' as journalist Anne Applebaum notes. 'These are democratically elected leaders who characterize themselves or describe themselves as deserving of no opposition. So I am the true Hungarian, or I am the only real American.'
"In a mere matter of weeks into his presidency, Applebaum says, Trump and his allies “have managed to push America into that space somewhere between (no longer) democracy and full-scale autocracy.”
"The speed is shocking, but it shouldn’t be surprising. It only took #Hitler #53Days to completely end democracy in Germany. Others, like Lukashenko, Orbán, Putin, Mussolini, Duterte, El-Sisi, and Erdoğan took longer (none longer than two years), but you could argue that Trump has been working at this project for 9 years now."
#Fascism #TrumpIsABully #USPol #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #CharacteristicsOfFascism
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The goal is always the same, though: To use #prisoners’ bodies as weapons of political war & to do so against their will.
This is what evil, #illiberal regimes do.
Liberal regimes have standards for the treatment of prisoners. These standards are codified under the #GenevaConventions, which the #UnitedStates has signed & ratified.
Among the standards dictated by the Geneva Conventions is this: Prisoners may not be publicly exploited for purposes of #propaganda.
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#Trump doubling (tripling? quadrupling?…) down on #illiberal #authoritarian #StochasticTerrorism toward the #judiciary even going after conservative #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts (see pic).
#Boasberg #law #Constitution #ConstitutionalCrisis #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower
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Doubling down on the #illiberal #StochasticTerrorism, #ElonMusk continues to broadcast #judicial impeachments all because they have ruled against him & #Trump.
BTWs it takes 67 senators to remove a judge w/ #impeachment, not 60, idiot.
#law #Constitution #ConstitutionalCrisis #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower
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https://mastodon.social/@rballard/114074182560598504
When "#Democracy Dies in bright Daylight“ (Thomas Schwendener, https://www.linkedin.com/posts/thomas-schwendener-245459131_diese-nachricht-hat-jeff-bezos-an-die-mitarbeitenden-activity-7300588161385029632-vrVF?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAHJrT4BvAu3tpYMMw4_2AcYH0v9qiK3X54)
Under the #illiberal motto of realising great #freedom for a few wealthy private individuals with their private ventures at the expense of the freedoms of the many members of our entire (global) #society.
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Reactionary, Racist, anti-Democratic, faux-Centrists and Far-Right Social Regressives are intellectually, emotionally, and socially dishonest.
No, the ‘Woke Agenda’ Isn’t Ruining Society ― Here’s Why
Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
#Culture #Politics #LGBTQ #Trans #Illiberal #Monopolistic #brOligarchy
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Quite surprising that there aren't more posts about #illiberal #democracy. New term for you? Read this for starters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiberal_democracy and read about #hungary
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Since Donald Trump’s election victory, we have witnessed striking accommodations to his narrow win and mandate
— what has been called anticipatory obedience.Are we sleepwalking into an autocracy?
We hope not, and we would be glad if the threat does not materialize.
But as close observers of people and places where democracy has come under pressure and occasionally buckled,
we see creeping autocracy as a distinct and underdiscussed possibility.We know well other nations, including Hungary and Poland, where leaders have steered policies that lead to a backsliding of democracy.
We see eerie similarities between what transpired in those countries and what Mr. Trump and his transition team have already done and promise to do.
Fortunately, we also have examples of countries that have pushed back on threats to democracy, -- and we can learn from them.
The Trump transition has featured the rapid-fire appointments of several cabinet officials who are both unqualified and potentially dangerous to the security and health of the American people.
The transition has also included a flurry of actual and threatened libel actions against critics,
followed by several media executives and owners caving in.Business leaders with economic interests dependent on the federal government have also made nice with the president-elect,
who has threatened to use his regulatory power to pick favorites.In a second term, Mr. Trump’s actions may be even more dangerous
because he is now following the playbook created by #Viktor #Orban, the prime minister of Hungary,
who after losing and then regaining office moved his country from a democracy into an “#illiberal #state,” as he put it.It was one of the faster collapses of a robust democracy on record.
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Obviously, not soon or fast enough…
The Oligarchy's Power is Waking America Up
Robert Reich
@rbreich
#Illiberal #antiDemocratic #Monopolistic #Oligarchy
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The role this Oligarch and his cronies played in literally capitalizing, enriching, and then taking sole credit for the state funded, collaborative labor of unsung scientists and engineers over generations is an obscenity!
‘Free Speech’ Grifter Shares Billionaire’s Demonic Vision For America’s Future
#SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #MajorityReport #Politics #News #Oligarch #antiDemocratic #Illiberal #Monopolistic
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The best government money literally can buy…
“Open Celebration of the Oligarchy”
Both Dems & GOP Sucked Up to Billionaires in 2024 Election
#DemocracyNow!, #Plutocraccy, #Kleptocracy, #Monopolist, #Illiberal, #antiDemocratic, #antiUnionist, #antiFamily, #antiLGBTQ
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It's very interesting
especially for a non-American
to follow these #elections
in which
NOT only the 'Presidency' is at stake but rather the future of a #Nation
(for the next decades)
poised between #Democratic #Liberal 'Enlightenment'
and
#illiberal #anti-democratic #dictatorial #pseudo-religious obscurantismand see which #US #States according to their political preferences are the most
backward and which are the most advanced.
(it helps to know what kind of people you're dealing with).