#timothy-snyder — Public Fediverse posts
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Pomáhat teroristům vyhrávat: Čtvrt století po 11. září.
Timothy Snyder. #TimothySnyder .
https://snyder.substack.com/p/helping-the-terrorists-to-win (anglicky, odemčeno).---
#tg946587514 Snyder. Je v snyder.txt . -
@arstechnica Wow! There is no excuse for this.
If you aren't a fascist (or similar) supporter, the first rule of avoiding tyranny is #DoNotObeyInAdvance at least as laid out in #TimothySnyder's book #OnTyranny. By now the need for this kind of caution should be obvious to everyone who has ever had any kind of engagement with the current US administration.
In my personal time working in the US govt under Trump (I've since escaped that), this was evident from day one. Even regardless of your politics, the basic concept of the US is as a nation of constitutional government. The US constitution has some built-in resistance to #tyranny, limiting the powers of the President. Specifically, it does not say that the law is whatever the President says.
If you act like it is, then you act to make it so, and you become part of the tyranny yourself.
Clearly we are way past the days of "Don't be evil." Google is part of the tyranny. It becomes our responsibility not to empower them.
I am going to recognize this moment as time to take steps to further sever my relationships with google, to #degoogle.
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From #TimothySnyder: "As #Trump proves again and again, it is entirely possible to be both morally wrong and geopolitically weak. And his weakness becomes our weakness, his nihilism our national embarrassment, or really tragedy." https://snyder.substack.com/p/our-trade-war-against-ourselves
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”When you make the government smaller, the power doesn’t go away. Instead it ends up in the wrong hands.”
-Timothy Snyder
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Hitler and Stalin Today (full lecture and readings)
Source:
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/phl/hitler-and-stalin-todayAll Lectures and Readings:
https://slrpnk.net/post/41032826---
## Institution:
University of Toronto, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy
## Lecturer
Timothy Snyder
## University Course Code
MUN180H1-S
## Syllabus
https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/phl/hitler-and-stalin-today
## Subject:
#authoritarianism #colonization #colonialism #communism #democracy #fascism #genocide #history #holocaust #politics #soviet #worldhistory
#20thcentury #democracyindanger #historymatters #hitler #hitlerandstalintoday #massatrocities #nazi #nazigermany #neveragain #riseofauthoritarianism #sovietunion #stalin #timothysnyder #totalitarianism #ukraine
## Year:
2024
## Description:
In **Hitler and Stalin Today (MUN180H1-S)**, Timothy Snyder examines the Nazi and Soviet responses to the new globalized world they shared. The course begins with the colonial background that made totalitarianism possible, and which remains an essential element of our politics now. Their ideologies are described as worldviews and as practical politics, with an emphasis on the reasons for their appeal. Attention to their policies of mass killing, essential events of twentieth-century history, instructs us about how "it" can happen here. The study of dissident thought helps us to see connections between historical predicaments and our own, and instructs us about possible reactions as individuals and as citizens. The course asks what we have learned from the twentieth century and what lessons we should carry forward. -
”Widespread conspiracy theories are a sign of a very unequal society”
-Timothy Snyder
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Historiker Timothy Snyder: “Putin führt den Krieg nur mehr wegen Trump”
Der US-Präsident habe den Kreml-Chef mit seinen Zugeständnissen paradoxerweise in Bedrängnis gebracht. Putins Obsession mit der Ukraine sei jedoch zu groß, als dass er den Krieg freiwillig beenden würde.
Optimismus im Hinblick auf Russlands Krieg gegen die Ukraine sucht man bei Timothy Snyder vergeblich. Der US-Historiker sieht Kreml-Chef Wladimir Putin in einer politischen und ideologischen Sackgasse: Seine Fixierung auf die Ukraine sei mittlerweile so groß, dass er den Krieg nicht aus eigenem Antrieb beenden könne.
#DerStandardAt #Historiker #Krieg #Politik #Politiker #Putin #TimothySnyder #Trump -
@timothysnyder.bsky.social
This is Russia’s crime — but it is partly our responsibility, in the United States. We are doing much less than we should, on the rationale that letting Russians kill Ukrainians will end the war. It won’t. That is wrong as strategy, and as ethics.
https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3mrftqo4vps24
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Gerade in "Über Freiheit" von Timothy Snyder ein tolles neues Wort gelernt: Sadopopulismus.
(Aus dem gleichnamigen Abschnitt des Kapitels 'Mobilität') "Der Populismus offeriert eine gewisse Umverteilung, er bietet dem Volk etwas von Seiten des Staates; der Sadopopulismus bietet nur das Spektakel, dass andere noch mehr benachteiligt werden."
Es geht in dem Kapitel darum, wie durch Immobilisierung der Bevölkerung, also durch teuren und unzuverlässigen ÖP(N)V, marode Infrastruktur und den Zwang zum Individualverkehr, den sich viele nicht leisten können, Freiheit vernichtet oder zumindest stark (und immer stärker) eingeschränkt wird.
#Buchtipp
#Buchtipps
#BuchStattSmartphone
#TimothySnyder
#ÜberFreiheit
#Populismus
#Sadopopulismus
#ÖPNV
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New Lecture Series for the Public: "Hitler and Stalin Today" [Timothy Snyder]
Source:
https://snyder.substack.com/p/new-lecture-series-for-the-public- **Institution:** University of Toronto
- **Lecturer:** [Timothy Snyder](https://substack.com/@snyder)
- **University Course Code:** [MUN180H1](https://artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/course/mun180h1)
- **Subject:** #authoritarianism #colonization #communism #democracy #fascism #genocide #history #holocaust #politics #soviet #worldhistory
- **Year:** 2026
- **Description:**
> The first lecture in a ten-lecture series on Hitler and Stalin today.
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> The first lecture (video above) is titled “What is history?” We speak often about history, but we are careless with the past. When we choose not to know what has happened before, we are also choosing not to influence what will happen after. If we don’t care about history, we find ourselves in an eternal present, denied any sort of imagination about the future, and nurtured on lies about a past in which we were innocent. History does not mean these misleading tales; it means a search for knowledge, using a certain set of tools; it means a process that enriches and humanizes, one that allows us to name things by their proper names.
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> There are two readings to go along with this lecture:
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> - [Tadeusz Borowski, Here in Our Auschwitz](https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/nde/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UTORONTO_INST%3AUTORONTO_NDE&search_scope=UTL_AND_CI&docid=alma991107113412006196)
> - [The War on History is a War on Democracy](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html)---
#20thcentury #democracyindanger #freecourse #historymatters #hitler #hitlerandstalintoday #massatrocities #nazi #nazigermany #neveragain #riseofauthoritarianism #sovietunion #stalin #timothysnyder #totalitarianism #universityoftoronto #uoft #freecourse #opencourselectures
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If it is inaccessible, here are other ways to read:
- [Tadeusz Borowski, Here in Our Auschwitz](https://annas-archive.gl/md5/34bf7861a9ee62b6a6bb2b82a6699ef7)
- [The War on History is a War on Democracy](http://web.archive.org/web/20260205233604if_/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/magazine/memory-laws.html)
- [Listen](https://static.nytimes.com/podcasts/2021/06/29/magazine/29audm-forced-forgetting-snyder/210629-forced-forgetting-snyder-nytmag-audm.mp3) -
#OnTyranny — Special 250th Edition
With friends, on video, to recall and to rebel #timothySnyder with friends #Thinkingabout... #tyranny #freedom #liberty #democracy #readbooks #usa #independanceday #citizenshiphttps://snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny-special-250th-edition
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Dozens of actors and writers, including Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Jessica Parker and Eric Holder, joined historian Timothy Snyder for a July 4 video reading his bestselling book "On Tyranny." Snyder's own release essay makes clear the video was aimed squarely at the White House's official 250th anniversary events, not offered as a neutral civic message.
Full breakdown on The Democracy Advocate:
https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/u-s-politics/on-tyranny-250th-edition/
🇺🇸 #OnTyranny #America250 #TimothySnyder #Democracy -
On Tyranny 250th Edition Turns July Fourth Into a Fight Over What Patriotism Means
The On Tyranny 250th Edition video brings Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Jessica Parker and dozens more into a July Fourth debate over democracy and dissent.https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/news-to-know/u-s-politics/on-tyranny-250th-edition/
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#TimothySnyder, historien : « La guerre menée par Trump contre l’Iran montre que le mal et la folie peuvent aller de pair » #lemonde #iran #donaldtrump #usa
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/07/03/timothy-snyder-historien-la-guerre-menee-par-trump-contre-l-iran-montre-que-le-mal-et-la-folie-peuvent-aller-de-pair_6718410_3232.html
