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This means that universities, labor, churches and cultural institutions all had to be subordinated to the state."
#ZebLarson, 2025
Sounds disturbingly like what the NatACT First government is doing with their attacks on the right to protest, attacks on the news media (particularly by Peters), and attacks on academics who speak publicly about findings that don't flatter government policies.
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This means that universities, labor, churches and cultural institutions all had to be subordinated to the state."
#ZebLarson, 2025
Sounds disturbingly like what the NatACT First government is doing with their attacks on the right to protest, attacks on the news media (particularly by Peters), and attacks on academics who speak publicly about findings that don't flatter government policies.
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"One of the first things authoritarians try to do is undermine civil society. Mussolini was quite explicit about this: 'Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State'. Any place that can become a focal site of resistance, or even a narrative that goes against what the regime promulgates, has to be torn down."
#ZebLarson, 2025
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"One of the first things authoritarians try to do is undermine civil society. Mussolini was quite explicit about this: 'Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State'. Any place that can become a focal site of resistance, or even a narrative that goes against what the regime promulgates, has to be torn down."
#ZebLarson, 2025
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Hey Hipkins;
"[Opposition parties] have to remain apart from the government to position themselves as a credible alternative, and adopting the government’s positions usually ends with them being outflanked."
#ZebLarson, 2025
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Hey Hipkins;
"[Opposition parties] have to remain apart from the government to position themselves as a credible alternative, and adopting the government’s positions usually ends with them being outflanked."
#ZebLarson, 2025
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"[Fake elections] can be a safety valve, especially if there’s a controlled or weakened opposition: Disgruntled citizens can blow off some steam and air grievances in a structured way. They also allow the party to engage supporters. Even a toothless legislature like the Cortes in Francoist Spain was still a place where money or favors could be traded, and an election is a chance for the autocrat to demonstrate their strength to the rest of the party."
#ZebLarson, 2025
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"[Fake elections] can be a safety valve, especially if there’s a controlled or weakened opposition: Disgruntled citizens can blow off some steam and air grievances in a structured way. They also allow the party to engage supporters. Even a toothless legislature like the Cortes in Francoist Spain was still a place where money or favors could be traded, and an election is a chance for the autocrat to demonstrate their strength to the rest of the party."
#ZebLarson, 2025
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"Americans usually consume stories such as these through TV shows and action movies, and this has warped our sense of what 'resistance' really looks like. It’s not [usually] blowing up rail lines or narrowly escaping capture or daring gun battles. Nor is it impassioned speeches about freedom to convince the other side how wrong they are. It can be boring; it also tends to be a game of relationship-building."
#ZebLarson, 2025
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"Americans usually consume stories such as these through TV shows and action movies, and this has warped our sense of what 'resistance' really looks like. It’s not [usually] blowing up rail lines or narrowly escaping capture or daring gun battles. Nor is it impassioned speeches about freedom to convince the other side how wrong they are. It can be boring; it also tends to be a game of relationship-building."
#ZebLarson, 2025