#strongmen — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #strongmen, aggregated by home.social.
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New Banksy in London is brilliant 😄
A statue of a confident man in a business suit marching over a ledge he doesn’t see, because his attention is bound in carrying the huge flag that’s simultaneously blinding him.
#nationalism #confidence #ignorance #consequence #conmen #strongmen #banksy
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Quelle surprise: hucksters promise the sky and then deliver rubbish; typical fraud.
"I’m the lowest-paid president in the Americas.” That message is unlikely to win over struggling Argentines. Indeed, Mr Milei’s net approval rating has plunged recently. It is now almost minus 30, the worst since he took office in December 2023"
#Argentina #economics #populism #authoritarianism #corruption #LatinAmerica #strongmen #collapse #markets #JavierMilei
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2026/05/05/javier-milei-is-in-serious-trouble -
"The irony is that when people create a strong man, they create a weak God. And there's this sense that we have to defend God. God must be pretty weak if God needs our defense so strongly."
~ Angela Denker
#Trump #Hegseth #strongmen #authoritarianism #WhiteChristianNationalism
/10https://angeladenker.substack.com/p/reality-in-ruins-truth-and-conspiracy
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"Then Magyar appeared on the state television network that spent sixteen years lying for Orbán. He told the anchors to their faces it was a North Korean-style propaganda machine, and announced he’s shutting it down the moment he takes power.
Much of what Orbán built is being dismantled. Trump’s accomplices should be paying attention, because MAGA is next."
#Orbán #Magyar #Trump #JDVance #CPAC #Hungary #strongmen #corruption
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"The corruption is already surfacing. Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar revealed this week that Orbán’s government was wasting Hungarian tax dollars to fund Trump’s CPAC for years. Magyar called it a 'criminal offense' that 'will have to be investigated.' The new government is cutting off all funding immediately."
~ Scott Dworkin
#Orbán #Magyar #Trump #JDVance #CPAC #Hungary #strongmen #corruption
/3https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/arrest-warrant-out-for-ice-agent
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A lesson Jennifer Rubin thinks progressive Americans would be well-advised to learn from Orbán's defeat:
"Broad coalitions are essential. Though certain issues are dealbreakers (e.g., reform, democracy), constituencies need not agree on everything. Purity tests are for losers."
Purity politics are the bane of left-wing groups in the US. They do the dirty work of fascism — dividing us — for the right.
#Orbán #Trump #Hungary #strongmen #corruption #PurityPolitics
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"[Orbán's downfall] served as a reminder of how quickly the end can come for hubristic sociopaths hiding behind the title of 'leader.' Not that I was thinking of anyone specifically here."
~ Cliff Schecter
#Orbán #Trump #Hungary #strongmen #corruption
/1https://www.blueamp.co/p/orban-crushed-trumps-favorite-strongman
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"Orbán’s removal would send a timely signal to the rest of the world about to deal with the monsters, large and small, who are now threatening global peace, prosperity, and stability while also destroying whatever moral authority the West still possesses."
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"Both have held their offices by clinging to bigoted, authoritarian, homophobic, anti-Muslim views and actions that are poisoning much of the Middle East and Europe. …
Both Netanyahu and Orbán also have the support of the Trump regime and its white, Christian, nationalist cultural warriors."
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"The biggest authoritarian monsters of our time — Trump, Putin, and Xi Jinping — have bred smaller monsters who seem less dangerous than the big ones but are causing almost as much chaos and cruelty.
I’m talking especially about Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungary’s Victor Orbán."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
/11https://robertreich.substack.com/p/tomorrows-election-that-merits-your
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"Basically, he is making the sleazy argument that as a lapdog opportunistic ally of the United States, Russian and Iran he is uniquely qualified to keep his country out of the war so Hungarians won’t die."
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"Benjamin Netanyahu talked Trump into it because he is facing an immediate corruption trial at home, and this has provided both a distraction, and a postponement, and, conceivably, exoneration should he be perceived as a national hero.
Viktor Orban, Hungarian despot, faces an election tomorrow. Polls have shown that he is losing big. The war he has helped create has provided him with a last-minute campaign weapon he is using:"
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"The current global crisis created by Donald Trump encompasses three simultaneous, intertwining, wag-the-dog phenomena involving three different people. Has this ever happened before?
Donald Trump seems to have started the war primarily to distract attention from his patent complicity in the Epstein abattoir."
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #Netanyahu #Orbán #chaos #authoritarianism #strongmen
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"It’s then that they start firing their officials, blaming them for their failures. It is then, too, that such a leader might just feel the compulstion to announce in public that his beloved ballroom —which is an extension of his ego, his need to recreate the world in his own image— will have a 'massive' military complex underneath it."
#Trump #Hegseth #PamBondi #strongmen #Iran #Epstein #ballroom #bunker
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"When ... 'strongmen' realize their weakness is becoming more apparent, their misguided and ignorant policies are backfiring, and their malfeasance is unpopular, it triggers the intense fear they all have of people hating them, turning against them, conspiring to take them down."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #Hegseth #PamBondi #strongmen #Iran #Epstein #ballroom #bunker
/1https://lucid.substack.com/p/why-autocrats-need-bunkers-david
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Die Küche als letzte Bastion der Männlichkeit? Wie #Strongmen und #Tradwives sich gegenseitig brauchen und warum das kein privates Problem ist.
Di, 10. März, 19.00 Uhr
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https://theconversation.com/trump-tariff-ruling-shows-top-courts-serve-as-last-line-of-defence-against-strongman-rule-276571. Excellent stuff, @ChrisMayLA6. "Trump is a would-be 'strongman' leader. Like all #strongmen, his aim is to concentrate #political #power in himself & those closest to him. Since returning to the #WhiteHouse in January 2025, #Trump has preferred to rule by way of #executive order rather than through the #legislative process. He has done so despite his #Republican party controlling both houses of #Congress."
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The fascist fan boy continues to emulate his heroes
#DOJ headquarters has become the latest federal building to display a giant #Trump banner.
Large banners of Trump now hang from multiple federal buildings in Washington, including the nation’s top law enforcement branch, in an unabashed statement of #power & #influence over the #government.
#fascism #strongmen #tyranny
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/trump-banner-doj.html?smid=url-share -
'to someone with a symbolic mindset, debunkers merely demonstrate that they’re the ones reacting, and are therefore weak.
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The more outlandish or easily disproved something is, the more powerful one might seem when standing by it.'Nutshell explanation of populists' popularity: their followers don't care about facts, they care about force.
#Strongmen #Krachtpatsers
#Populism #Populisme
#Misinformation #Desinformatie
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"Police files, diaries, and testimonies from Mussolini’s inner circle and his last major lover, Clara Petacci, suggest that he had extramarital sex with up to four different women daily during his twenty-three years in power. The hours he spent on this pursuit did not decrease even in the run-up to World War Two, when the increasingly grandiose Mussolini headed the Ministries of War, Army, Navy, Colonies, and the Air Force."
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"Authoritarian leaders are known to be brutal and lawless, but their Epstein-like systems of sexual predation have remained largely in the dark. ...
Mussolini was the first autocrat to develop a state-assisted machine of libidinal gratification."
~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat
#Trump #Epstein #pedophiles #MAGA #strongmen #Mussolini
/27https://lucid.substack.com/p/predatory-strongmen-epsteins-kindred
