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Paraguay protesters see dictatorship's legacy in entrenched right-wing party

by Associated Press

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay --

It was one of the first actions taken by Paraguayans in public defiance
of their overthrown dictator, a military strongman who unleashed a
35-year reign of terror, killing hundreds of people and imprisoning
thousands more.

In a howl of dissent, crowds massed around the newly elected socialist
mayor of Asunción, Paraguay's capital, to tear down a bronze statue
honoring Latin America's longest-ruling dictator, Gen. Alfredo
Stroessner, two years after his 1989 ouster.

When the hulking metal finally came crashing down to a salvo of cheers,
Stroessner's large brass feet stayed planted on the plinth. Residents
joke it remains an unwitting symbol of his entrenched presence in
Asunción -- 70 years ago to the day on Thursday that he seized power
in 1954 coup and secured the virtually uninterrupted dominance of his
conservative Colorado party.

"Stroessner planted a seed, and that seed has germinated," said Emilio
Barreto, an 84-year-old unionist's son who was among nearly 20,000
Paraguayans estimated to have been tortured and imprisoned without
charge during Stroessner's rule. "Today we've been through 35 years of
dictatorship and 35 years of so-called democracy."

Those who pushed the process of democratization after Stroessner's
downfall said they had wanted to believe their country was on the
upswing, that its civic institutions were getting stronger.

But now activists say they've increasingly seen a trend in the opposite
direction.

In a rare eruption of public outrage on Thursday, hundreds of
protesters streamed through downtown Asunción, raising their fists and
chanting, "Never again, dictatorship."

"We're witnessing a curtailing of civil liberties," said Hugo Valiente
from Amnesty International in Paraguay, citing a series of recent
government moves that he said "have the clear purpose of discouraging
people from exercising freedom of association."

A government spokesperson and Colorado party members did not respond to
questions from The Associated Press.

Anxieties about democratic backsliding added urgency to the 70th
anniversary -- which also marks one year since President Santiago
Peña's inauguration.

Leading Thursday's protest was Paraguay's small but passionate
opposition -- including Kattya González, a center-left senator and
vocal government critic who was summarily booted from the Senate last
February.

She had garnered the third-most votes in last year's legislative
elections. But in a vote that rights groups said violated due process,
she was ejected by allies of former President Horacio Cartes, a
powerful cigarette tycoon sanctioned by the Biden administration for
corruption who remains president of the Colorado party.

"We don't see the popular will being reflected in our representative
bodies," González said. "That's why we're demonstrating today."

The government has chalked her expulsion up to the will of Congress,
where the Colorado party has a majority. In June, the party removed a
lawmaker from its ranks who had similarly spoken out against Cartes'
alleged corruption.

Last week, Paraguay even demanded that the United States accelerate the
departure of its ambassador after the White House imposed sanctions on
a tobacco company that it alleged had paid millions of dollars to
Cartes.

Cartes denies the allegations.

When Paraguay's senate last month rushed through a contentious bill
that expands government powers to audit nonprofits, the former mayor of
Asunción raised alarm, recalling the symbolic triumph of 1991.

"Let's remember the moment we knocked down the statue," Carlos
Filizzola said, "for its symbolism against what the dictatorship was."

The government said the bill aims to boost scrutiny of NGO finances to
counter money laundering. Critics said it mimics so-called nonprofit
transparency measures in place from Russia to Venezuela that send a
chill through civil society. The United Nations appealed to Paraguay's
lower house to reject it.

Experts argue that the past is still present in Paraguay because the
government hasn't reckoned with the legacy of Stroessner, who
entrenched the small South American country's highly unequal
distribution of land ownership and turned Paraguay into a smuggling
hub.

His enduring influence was never more obvious than in 2018, when
Paraguay elected then-President Mario Abdo BenÃtez, the son of
Stroessner's personal secretary who had served as a pallbearer at the
dictator's 2006 funeral.

"The totalitarian control of Stroessner created a real identification
between political party and the state," said historian Milda Rivarola.
"That's what made the Paraguayan political regime so special, the only
country on the continent that never really had a progressive
government."

Paraguay's left-wing opposition party held power just once -- from
2008-12 -- before its president's impeachment.

"In our country, this history of the dictatorship is hidden, there's no
policy of memory," said Rogelio Goiburú, who oversees efforts to
recover victims' remains for the Justice Ministry and whose father was
disappeared by the dictatorship.

Efforts to bring justice to those responsible for crimes against
humanity have been far more extensive in neighboring Argentina, where
courts have convicted hundreds of military officers of dictatorship-era
crimes and forensic teams have identified 800 victims.

But in Paraguay, there have been no blockbuster trials of junta
leaders. Public schools -- many still decorated with plaques paying
tribute to Stroessner -- avoid mention of the 20th-century dictatorship
in national history lessons.

The remains of just four victims have been identified with the help of
Argentine researchers. Goiburú said the Justice Ministry commission
has no budget or state support.

"I'm still putting up with everything because of that motto, 'Never
Again.' We do this so we don't lose our memory, so this doesn't happen
again," he said from a riverside park in dilapidated downtown
Asunción. In 1991, Filizzola, the former mayor, named it Plaza of the
Disappeared.

"That's why we have to continue," he said.

#paraguay #freedom #liberty #dictatorship #human-rights #colorado-party #justice #totalitarian #totalitarianism #never-again

#David-Hughes : #Ruling #EVIL #Elites Working to Install #Global #Biodigital #Totalitarian #State

About #DavidHughes -- David A. Hughes is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Lincoln. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from Oxford University and holds doctorates in German Studies (Duke University) and International Relations (Oxford Brookes University).

https://www.bitchute.com/video/DGLSGUtTVYJq/

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-cultural-inversion-of-1984-2/?
"The real-life Big Brothers think they’re fighting Big Brother."
#totalitarian #fake-regime #egomania

While (Almost) Everyone Looks The Other Way, Something #Unprecedented In #Totalitarian Is #Being #Prepared:
Everyone is understandably looking in a different direction, but in the meantime something totalitarian is being prepared that is unprecedented in the #history of #power and #humanity, warns theater maker George van Houts.

“Quietly and behind closed doors, the #WHO is being transformed into an uncritical #world #government with #absolute power,” Van Houts writes on X.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PQ86dgzduVU

Totalitarian power structure

Swiss lawyer Philipp Kruse previously explained why the WHO is part of a totalitarian power structure.
Why is the WHO a totalitarian power structure? The director general can declare a health crisis at the push of a button. Everything the WHO recommends will eventually become mandatory. There is no effective protection of fundamental rights at country level.
The WHO will be the only one to decide what is ' #truth' regarding #health, including the well-known #censorship of discomfort. There is no mechanism of correction or control anymore.
Horrified mass disapproval

This will lead to human rights violations, no evaluations or corrections and no more separation of powers. This is not discussed anywhere in the public arena, parliaments or media.
If people knew this, they would be shocked and condemn it en masse, Kruse said.

Humans know best?
|

https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/amAOgDV_460svav1.mp4
2:27 min video w/sound
#totalitarian #government #human #influence #environment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4N_P-Xd15E
#theignorancethatdiesisnotyou :)
#chrishedges #stellaassange
#julianassange #danieleverettehale #garywebb #edwardsnowden #tomvalone

#wakeup #rights #now
#thisisnotwhatdemocracylookslike #espionageact
#statewithinastate #unaccountable #antiscrutiny #surveilancestate #after911 #paramilitary #copcity #cia
#military #rome #masssurveillance #panopticon #scaredsilent #orwellian #totalitarian #totalitariantiptoe #morallybankrupt #censorship #agnogeny #attercoparchy #theydidntwanttohearit #sochildish #racism #agnogensis #reductivism #theonetruetruth #thetimes #propaganda #agenda #parrots #silo #dividedandconquered #realitytunnels #echochambers #nopriceforlies #othering #polarisation #groupthink #notevenrootedinverifiablefact #liesofomission #mythicidentities #somanymassshootingsitsnotnews #contextless #dependencegeneration #agnogeny #agnotology

"... and so now it's over, the, the, ~
and that's really frightening.

It means there's no~

Power is in no way accountable.
There's no transparency.
And we know, history has taught us when that kind of secrecy imposed on autocratic power, it just, it, it~
abuse grows upon abuse grows upon abuse.
And that is why they're just determined to crucify Julian.
That's the crisis that we're in.
We've lost the ability
to know
what power is doing."

#speakout
#restorehumanrights #humanrights #law #democracy #journalism
#whistleblowers #journalists #people #speakup #peopleofconscience #integrity
#wecanstillmendthis
#now

unpaused this around 47 minutes... what's to stop them turn you off?
https://rumble.com/v2rus9k-how-elites-will-create-a-new-class-of-slaves-whitney-webb-the-glenn-beck-po.html
#transhumanism #technarchy #eugenics #neofeudalism #eternaltyranny #totalitarian #neverendinglivingnightmare #powercorrupts #dumbingdown #enslaving #destroying #psyop #gaslighting #othering #oligarchs #fascists #oligarchy #fascism #ppp #neoliberal #neoconservative #sameoldfascists #fear #wef #banks #darktriad #darktriadarchy #orwellianisms #domesticcontrol #populationcontrol #genocide #thenewmodel #noescape #norecourseofremedy #norighttoremedy #hegemony #totalitarianism #homogenisation #totalitarianisation #smartgrid #china #thechinamodel #thechinaconnection #conflictsofinterest #kissinger #pnac #globalgovernance #technocracy #technarchy #antifreedom #manufacturingconsent #manufacturedcrisis #warondessent #censorship #transhumanism #childabuse #childmutilation #totalcontrol #deidentification #governmentislikefire #paternalistgovernment #thecorporation #dependence #deskilling #agnogenesis #pridefullyignorant #dogma #usurption #mainstream #controlledopposition #juststopoil #climatechange #hypocrisy #control #manufacturedscarcity #disempowerment #thisisnotwhatfacilitarianismlookslike #thisisnotwhatdemocracylookslike #feadrivenpolicyacceptance #bytheiractions #divideandconquer #problemreactionsolution #climageforsale #weatherwarfare #terminator #terminatorgenes #deskkillers

#wecanstillmendthis #DISOBEY #learningthelies #orwellianismaware #exitandbuild #amish #decentralisation #creativity #vivaciousness #scrutiny #planttrees #planthemp #plantcannabis #cannabiscansavetheworld #overgrowthecorporation

https://www.bitchute.com/video/KlcOsb84j8Fh/

FUCK THE #EVIL ONES SAY NO TO THEIR #PLANS TO #ENSLAVE #ALL OF US

#Digital #ID the next step to a #totalitarian future

The Negation of the Real | James Lindsay: The Secret Religions of the West, Session 1 of 3.
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk_w2-8snWk

Description here:
If you want to impose a #totalitarian #system, you have a #problem on your hands: reality. The real is in your way and will eventually veto your project. Far sooner, people who can perceive reality will step in and prevent you from taking society over a cliff. Therefore, the only way to install a totalitarian system is to #negate the #real in the minds of those over whom you would rule. This is accomplished by creating an interpretive frame that deliberately causes people to #misunderstand #reality, sometimes called a "second reality" or "pseudoreality," or even a "hyperreality," which loses all contact with reality through its images and constructions. The totalitarian system "works" and would only work in that false image of reality. In his first talk at the Mere Simulacrity conference in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2022, James Lindsay presents the idea and mechanism of negating the real to replace it with a hyperreal simulation in which totalitarianism can be accomplished. This, he argues, enables the installation of the Esoteric cult religion needed to advance the tyranny. Join him to understand how the Secret Religions of the West have slowly brought us to the brink of this disaster.

"A very interesting and illuminating half hour discussion mostly featuring Jeffrey Sachs, an academic and unaligned diplomat of great experience, who has just returned from #China."

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BR4IErrOQhU
I wouldn't say Jeffrey Sachs is unaligned, he's rather a prime example of a globalist deep-state bureaucrat. He's not aligned to the US or to any particular country, but to the globalist dream of a #worldwide #technocracy. As I've said before, I'm afraid that's what the mulitpolar #world is all about. While the drive towards a #global technocracy has so far been dominated by the US, leadership is now becoming more diversified, but that doesn't change anything about the general objective which is #totalitarian #control.
#druran
BRICS rising as neocons destroy the west w/Jeffrey Sachs (Live)

which of these commands work for you?
+ youtube-dl "https://rumble.com/v2oiiau-consolidating-control-cbdc-smart-cities-whitney-webb-interviewed-by-catheri.html"
+ yt-dlp "https://rumble.com/v2oiiau-consolidating-control-cbdc-smart-cities-whitney-webb-interviewed-by-catheri.html"

#youtubedl #youtube-dl #ytdlp #yt-dlp #catherineaustinfitts #databeast #amazon #cyberpolygon #bank #partnershipagainstcybercrime #totalitarian #trap #problemreactionsolution #manufacturingconsent #sackthepnac #oligarchy #inclusivecapitalism #orwellian #cult #economy #finance #interconectedness #skullduggery #wef #deskkillers #totalcontrol #cbdc #centralbankingdigitalcurrency #freesoftware #blackrock #larryfink #thecorporation #guiseofclimatechange #centralcapitalcontrol # #covidexhaustion #newruse #greennewdeal #climatescam #cryingwolf #whiletherealwolfeatsyourbabies #climateemergency #weareallinthistogether #moreequal #hypocrisy #rulesfortheebutnotforme #rulesforthemrulesforus #assettransfer #organisedcrime #smartgrid #heartoftheissue #landgrab #independentmedia #asleepatthewheel #tenpercentbetter #tptbatm #ownnothing #smartcity #payattention #wecanstillmendthis #whitneywebb

#DIGITAL IDENTITY or DIGITAL #PRISON (society) ?
The TROJAN HORSES of the #TOTALITARIAN PANOPTICON
(Aman Jabbi) https://www.bitchute.com/video/MwYer9Rbjbhh/

#AI = #BEAST

#CBT #CognitiveBehaviouralTherapy

gotta share this somewhere. n_n

https://www.reddit.com/r/mensa/comments/pt23cn/comment/jabsazt/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 / https://www.reddit.com/r/mensa/comments/pt23cn/deleted_by_user/inepshd/?context=3 (i dont reddit often, so i hope i'm linking that correctly to catch the relevant parts for others to see the conversational thread (at least what remains of it past the deleted comments). pasting the post just made, here at the end of this post.

(and, och, just remembered, just noticed, i neglected/forgot to include a portion on the self-contradiction-of-absolute-in-exception... oh well, that's a special treat just done, here for you only. lol).

#psychology #psychiatry #philosophy #healthcare #mentalhealthcare #monopoly #forprofithealthcare #racketeering #orwellian #socraticmethod #socraticmethodabused #menticide #totalitarianism #psyop #apatientcuredisacustomerlost #menticidal #arrogant #magnaminity #magnanimous #supreme #totalitarian #psychiatric

#DigitsRants

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CBT is the only scientifically valid therapy,

"scientifically" "valid" "therapy". By what criteria has it been "validated"?

(I ask in this manner to include pointedly reveal how "invalid" it is to do this in a reductivist 1-bit binary pass/fail.)

so yes,

???

there are studies that prove it's effectiveness.

Please provide, so we can pick through them.

No, duress does not exist in CBT,

Sounds like contradiction without counterargument to the example situation I depicted. Keen to hear how it'd be refuted.

Also, not true of my first-hand experience, nor of how I've seen it lays itself out to be deployed. Seems fundamental to its form, despite professing otherwise (which then hides the flaws under this delusion, preventing them from being remedied, which, if they were remedied, it would no longer be this thought-control and behaviour manipulation paradigm called CBT).

it's the anthesis

Mere contradiction. And at least as poorly spelled as my spelling typically is. ;) would like to hear how this is conceived, without succumbing to the flaw I already spoke to.

(unless you have a seriously neurotic therapist that is going offline). A legitimate therapist will never tell you what you are, they ask question to assist the patient in discovering who they are.

As an enthusiast of Socrates, I've found it offensive to see how the questions are weilded, as well as how presumptive and compassionless. The confirmation biases abound and compound harms, even creating fresh harms and maladies of trauma in its victims of this unduely magnanimous arrogant self-proclaiming "valid" aproach that cannot see outside of its biases to question itself. That it's been claimed here as "the only", enloudens this folly, and strengthens the corrupting walls of its mental prison. Menticidal, one could even say. And these are to be who get to be sole providers of mental health care?!

Further speaking to the presumptiveness, and "the only"'ness, it appears to be the proverbial hammer alone in the toolbox, making all problems look like a nail. Like there's psychelogical prevention/discouragement of having it occur to the practitioner (and administration), that there may be conditions CBT is ill-suited to. (I say, as if there are any it is suited for... which I doubt, given the flaws I've been depicting.)

I have never met a person that has done CBT and proclaimed themselves cured.

Sounds open to interpretation as on the side of agreeing with my assertions, and in contradiction to your claims of validity. ;D

But also, sounds like is in the paradigm of palliative profiteering. "A patient cured is a customer lost".

But also sounds like not the case, as experienced in my case, and as it appears to be intrinsic to the paradigm as is supposed to be deployed, despite the professing otherwise (again, the delusional psychology of CBT's menticidal arrogant magnaminity and supreme totalitarian monopoly on psychiatric treatment... hints to what it may really be about... but woe upon any who point out this folly, for they are the witch, the commie, the antivaxxer, ... the other who disobeys the norm, and due for more treatment until they obey the doubleplus goodthink, and cease that wrong-think, ... with that gently gently abuse of the socratic method, psychelogically wearing them down.)

And feel free to fall into whatever portion of folly in it there I've pointed out, castigate me gently, for my wrongthink, thus proving me wrong in the delusional cognitively-dissonant perspective, or proving me right by that being just what I've pointed out. Or declare that incorrect deployment of CBT, and I'll happily explore that and show the fundamental flaws as I find them.

Some people are meta-thinkers and hyper ambitious/motivated, so they continue CBT for years. Most people drop out at some point because it requires too much reflection, effort and acceptance of imperfection.

LOL. Those who stick with CBT are of superior mind, hah! Reminds of the kinds of psyop I may have got into when I worked in Advertising or Marketing (before I got out (thanks Bill Hicks)), to manipulate people by their egos into wanting the product. What a monstrous harm that causes in psyches and proliferates through society. Really ugly. Frightening, that people get misdirected from seeing it, and not only that, but lured into willful avoidance of even looking.

Your statements sound like a personal preference

Then you've not been paying attention closely enough to hear the message in what I've been saying.

Your statements sound like world view defensiveness, passive aggressive judgements oblivious to the three fingers pointing back. ;D

rather that information based on actual science,

:3

experience

Incorrect

or rationale.

So I'm irrational in my observations and assertions?

Well, I better get help with that... oh, and since CBT is "the only" "scientifically" "valid" "therapy", I guess I'll have to subject myself to that!

What a farce.

Commedic obtuse obnoxious dangerous-stupidity farce.

Scientism and worse, as I see it.

Rather "cant get there from here".

#freespeechsaveslives #censorshipcostslives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgth5ljlEhA

"it's hard to believe other people didn't see it."

"it's so blatantly out there."

#whywegaveupourfreedoms #gooddoctors #DrKatLindley #nursing #nursingcare #criticalcare #urgentcare #administrativemeddling #medical #freedommedicalmovement #nursespeaksout #anotherdoctorspeaksout #anothernursespeaksout #nurses #nursesarethebest #totalitarian #totalitarianism #didntmakesense #storyunfolding #littlelies #logic #hardtobelieveotherpeopledidntseeit #myopia #SoBlatantlyOutThere #ifyoucantreatthereisnoneedforthevaccines #establishedbestpractice #somuchfear #turnOFFtheTV #crisismanagementtraining #fearuncertaintydoubt #followingorders #justfollowingorders #justdoingyourjob #criticalthinking #linearthinking #latteralthinking #challengingstatusquo #hierarchy #autonomy #NHS #USA #privatisationofNHS #backdoorprivatisation #worstoutcomes #changingdefinitions #orwellian #conspiracies #wakeup #bodilyautonomy #doctorautonomy #anxiety #tyrantssayifyouspeakoutagainsttheirtyrannyyouareaterrorist #democracysaysitisyourdemocraticdutytospeakouttopreventtyrants #flashbacks #freedomtradedforelusivesafety #westerncountriesarenaive #fear #allnazishadtodowasmakeyoufearandyougavefreedomaway #pandorasbox #obsoletion #medicineisnotexpensive #forprofithealthcare #apatientcuredisacustomerlost #middlemen #independentdoctors #isolation #bargaining #threats #fakecines #tactics #totalitariantactics #educateyourselvessoyoumayeducateothers #decentralise

her words early in this, remind me of conversations i heard nurses having with each other, when i was in hospital in 2002, where they seemed quite astute to the mask issue, aware of studies, and their own experiences, and the logic, prominently revealing how masks not only dont work to prevent (or even reduce) the spread of disease, but worsen outcomes, and how they were up against it with stupid harmful orders coming from administration, contrary to evidence. this was a long time coming in the crooks' pipeline.
#WeCanStillMendThis

https://rumble.com/v25ooc8-digital-id-or-digital-prison-presentation-by-aman-jabbi.html

"you can ignore reality but you cant ignore the consequences when it strikes" -- Aman Jabbi

#YOUAREFREETODOWHATWETELLYOU

#criticalmass #sayNO #FuckOffFascist #connect #collaborate #forFREEDOM #wakeup #shine #youaremorethantheytryrepressyouto #thegreatawakening #solutionspaceupstream #unplugfromthematrix #climboutofplatoscave #facereality #facethehorror #riseup #lookup #restoreyourabilitytolookup #everybodysresponsibilitytopokebigbrotherintheeye #theanswerhasalwaysbeenthepeople #calltoaction #local

looking down the barrel of not a mere 1000 year reich like the nazis promoted, but an everlasting one. we are the people, now, who can avert this dystopian totalitarian nightmare. there are worse things than death. go forth, fearless, loving, aware there are scams to use your love to kill.

"you can ignore reality but you cant ignore the consequences when it strikes" -- Aman Jabbi

the ignorance that dies, is not you.

if ignorance is bliss, give me agony.

"once we accept the digital identity it's game over for humanity" -- Aman Jabbi

#speakout #criticalmass
#theyknowweknowtheylie #thisisnotwhathealthlookslike #thisisnotwhatdemocracylookslike #thisisnotwhatfreedomlookslike #thisisnotwhatenvironmentalconservationlookslike #smartweapons #archons #deskkillers #thehourislaterthanyouthink #wecanstillmendthis #ifyouareawake #nocullnecessary #nopanopticonnecessary #nokillgridnecessary #safetyandsecurity #ofthepeople #or #ofthearchons #falseflad #controllednarrative #controllednarratives #cbdc #totalitarian #panopticon #problemreactionsolution #contract #imposition #coercion #digitalprison #defaulprisoner #WEF #identity #facialrecognition #scam #compliance #forcedcompliance #coercedcompliance #topdown #noneed #fakecines #depopulation #humancull #nocullnecessary #nocullnecessary #nocullnecessary #theypublishtheseplans #snapoutofdenial #doyourdemocraticdutyandscrutinise #disobeytheirterror #speakout #zerotrust #digitalidentity #freetravel #freespeech #mandate #lockdown #invisablelocks #oppression #massformationpsychosis #stateterror #globalstateterror #globalstatetyranny #noescape #conditionalaccess #genocide #democide #wealthextraction #reverseequity #iniquitous #inequality #digitalcurrency #district9 #conditioning #draconian #brutal #corporatocracy #corporatism #fascism #metaverse #protectionracket #orwellian #ar #vr #mixedreality #thisisnotwhatrealitylookslike #matrixbuilding #matrix #terminator #thegreatawakening #themasses #sheeple #sheepling #sheeplisation #massformation #sublimate #forkedtongue #duplicity #fakefood #destitution #newspeak #sustainabledevelopment #sustainabledevilment #smarcities #smartgrid #controlgrid #manufacturedscarcity #manufactureddependence #energysources #security #privacy #trojanhorse #fakesecurity #fakeprivacy #doublethink #completecontrolofchildren #getthemwhiletheyareyoung #childabuse #childdata #bigbusiness #bigbrother #bigbaron #bigbully #bigpsychopath #dataharvesting #mindcontrol #mindmanipulation #predictive #reductive #stockmarket #gambling #sicknessprofiteering #dataisthenewcurrency #dataisthenewoil #cameras #observation #facialreccognition #smartschools #badidea #bis #un #internationalbankers #digitalid #theytellyou #dracontine #beyondstate #statecapture #regulatorycapture #beyondblack #clearviewai #deepfake #deepfakedb #precrime #predictiveanalytics #prescriptionanalyitics #prescribedbehavior #trolling #ppi #ppe #noidentityleftbehind #inclusivity #totalitarian #orwellianlanguage #repetition #hijackedservices #convenience #convenincecoercion #behaviouralengineering #headinthesand #slavery #debtslavery #identityslavery #slaverysystem #debtslaverysystem #identityslaverysystem #sensoriseeverything #data #thebeast #dehumanising #stopthebeast #getridofthesensors #getridofthecensors #starvethebeast #pokebigbrotherintheeye #pokebigbaronintheeye #pokebigbullyintheeye #blockchainisyourdigitalleash #thefinallockdown

Shouldn't it be illegal for someone whose stated goal is to overturn American democracy to even run for office?

'Two historic confessions about the Trumpian madness that consumes millions' were made today: O'Donnell

FTA: O'Donnell played a clip of GOP nominee for governor Tim Michels vowing, "Republicans will never lose another election in Wisconsin after I'm elected governor."

The host noted Michels did not know he was being recorded when he made the comments at a campaign event.

#GOP #Totalitarian #Wisconsin #GovernorNominee

https://www.rawstory.com/we-have-the-confession-lawrence-odonnell-says-theres-proof-republicans-are-trying-to-democracy/

"The #ideal #subject of #totalitarian rule is not the convinced #Nazi or the dedicated #communist, but people for whom the distinction between #fact and #fiction, #true and #false, no longer exists." -- #Hannah #Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

How much do you know about #Eritrea?

A few days ago, I could only tell you where to find it on the map. But I've started reading and learning that it is a brutal #totalitarian regime with no elections, no press freedom, indefinite compulsory #conscription, and tens of thousands imprisoned in hideously inhumane conditions.

The next few days I will be sharing links about Eritrea's terrifying and bloody past 30 years since independence. This is for #solidarity and also to inspire concern and support for #Eritrean refugees who may have escaped to your own home lands.

Read: Human Rights Watch: World Report 2022

#HumanRights #Africa #African

#Brainwashing Ourselves: How Digital #Technology is Destroying #Democracy

Source: https://modernheretic.com/brainwashing-ourselves-how-digital-technology-is-destroying-democracy

Accordingly, #digital technology is upheaving our culture and displacing the traditions and norms we were accustomed to, leaving many of us feeling unmoored and undermining our political values.

#Online conversations quickly developed controls in the form of moderators—authoritarian figures who established the rules of engagement and who got to decide what speech was worthy and what was not.

There was a resultant demand for more controls. #Ignore buttons popped up and were quickly used for individuals who espoused ideas that the user disagreed with, limiting their exposure to different ideas and establishing the pattern for the silo-ization of the internet that is dominant today.

Unlike the offline world in which people were judged through personal knowledge, direct observation, and reputation, individuals online could only be judged by the content of their digital output, which reduced them to flat, dehumanized vectors of information to be categorized as #good or #bad

Thus, the new controls spawned by the digital realm to deal with #information overload involved the establishment of a binary, ideological filter to judge whether information—as well as the poster of that information—should be included or excluded in a particular #community.

Unfortunately, once the ideological binary is established as the moral paradigm, group discourse becomes a never-ending #witch hunt.

Group leaders and members are on constant lookout for potential immorality as represented by supposed outsiders to the #group. Anyone who disturbs the group harmony with deviant thoughts can find themselves the sudden target of paranoiac suspicion.

Every #conversation becomes a purity test of sorts, and the only way to prove that you are one of the “good” guys is to make your expressions a reflection of the group’s worldview

#Groupthink became the norm, and anyone who deviated from the group too much would be seen as a danger to the group who needed to be punished or eliminated.

Thus, thanks to the #internet, #intolerance for dissent and demands for #censorship arose as aspirational values of a new moral order.

Consequently, the controls that developed in response to digital technology were exactly those controls that are used in the formation of cults and #totalitarian #regimes, tools to ensure that every person falls in line with the orthodoxy as determined by the leadership of the group.

1. control of information within an environment (moderation, fact checks, content #warnings, removal of information, prioritizing certain viewpoints, etc.);

   1. demands for purity in thought to assure that everyone conforms to the group
   2. sacred truths that cannot be questioned without some form of reprisal, usually removal from the group or platform
   3. the reduction of complex ideas to trite slogans and memes
   4. control over who belongs to the group and who does not
   5. the subordination of the individual to the group

These totalitarian #controls are quotidian at this point, and anyone who participates in discourse on the internet is exposed on a daily basis to enormous pressure to conform their thoughts to the narratives that are perpetuated by those in control of the internet fora.

Without realizing it, we slowly brainwashed ourselves over time with our uncritical and pervasive use of digital technology.

It was therefore inevitable that once we accepted these digital values as normal, they would then infiltrate our offline interactions.

While we think of ourselves as using digital tools to change our world, in reality digital technology is changing us.

Most people in the Western world are never disconnected from the totalitarian culture of the internet. That is why digital cultural norms are now dominating our #society

In effect, the digital controls that developed in order to control the overabundance of information on the internet led to polarized, cultish thinking and conditioning people to believe that totalitarianism is a necessary form of regulation in today’s world.

#Dissent is now treated as a danger that needs to be eradicated. Worse still, this cultish conditioning is bleeding into the #offline world so that anti-democratic, authoritarian measures are increasingly seen as normal in the “free” world.

Many people are chilled from speaking, not just online where they may end up banned by a tech platform, but offline where they face the possible consequences of losing jobs, networking opportunities, and friendships.

The universe of ideas that is acceptable to be expressed is rapidly shrinking and people are exposed to fewer ideas that challenge their views, which further reinforces their #intolerance for differences of opinion in a cyclical manner.

Much like George #Orwell ’s #doublespeak, people in contemporary society are pressured to conceal their true thoughts and dilute their public messages to the point that they become anodyne and meaningless enough that the mob will tolerate them.

Thus, facts, #transparency, and rationality are inimical to digital culture. Conformity, not #truth, is the driving force of digital culture.

By programming individuals to become accustomed to totalitarian regulations on a personal level, it was inevitable that these digital norms would also pervade the political realm.

Anything that could allow a person or group to express an unorthodox idea is suspicious, and therefore in digital culture, the concept of free speech is inherently dangerous.

The paternalistic notion that individuals must be protected from corruption by bad ideas has taken hold of our culture. And this type of milieu control of information enables independent thought to be supplanted by majoritarian #propaganda just as it does in other totalitarian environments.

The assumption that the individual is neither competent to judge the quality of information nor strong enough to be exposed to information of allegedly dubious quality now reigns supreme, bolstering the new flourishing culture of censorship.

They are dismissive because they actually want a world with limited speech, where the window of permissible thought is narrow enough to exclude all the speech they disagree with.

Thus, while digital culture proponents often nominally claim to want to protect minority groups, their insistence on conformity to majoritarian standards ensures that genuine diversity cannot exist in the new moral order

#Speech is an outward expression of inner beliefs, and the loss of freedom of speech is dangerous because it is a threat to the ability to hold and practice a belief system that differs from the orthodoxy.

Consequently, digital morality is a direct attack on #minority rights.

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