It may be said that #fascism comes on little cat feet. But in the 21st Century, #autocratic forms of governance are unfolding with a twist. Democratic norms of tolerance, debate, proportionate responses to any infractions by citizens, and more, are disappearing in Canada. We are not, strictly speaking, becoming a totalitarian state. At least not yet. We don’t have a #dictator.
After reading Trump's Thursday Truth Social post where he said that he deserved complete immunity even if he "crossed the line" into illegal behavior, host Phil Mattingly suggested that Trump was telegraphing that he was "going to do some criming" if reelected.
He then turned to panelist Errol Louis, who outlined the dark implications of Trump's argument:
"It's a pretty straightforward statement of what dictatorship is, right? he said. "A president -- in his case he is talking about himself -- should be able to, must be able to legally do with legal impunity do whatever it is he or she wants."
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dictator-2667004022/?utm_source=diaspora
#dictator #dictatorship #dystopian #Trump #dystopia #America #DemocracyInDanger #AmericaLost #criminal #illegal #crimes #FreedomLost #executions #lawless
A quotation from Hand, Learned
And so when I hear so much impatient and irritable complaint, so much readiness to replace what we have by guardians for us all, those supermen, evoked somewhere from the clouds, whom none have seen and none are ready to name, I lapse into a dream, as it were. I see children playing on the grass; their voices are shrill and discordant as children’s are; they are restive and quarrelsome; they cannot agree to any common plan; their play annoys them; it goes poorly. And one says, let us make Jack the master; Jack knows all about it; Jack will tell us what each is to do and we shall all agree. But Jack is like all the rest; Helen is discontented with her part and Henry with his, and soon they fall again into their old state. No, the children must learn to play by themselves; there is no Jack the master. And in the end slowly and with infinite disappointment they do learn a little; they learn to forbear, to reckon with anther, accept a little where they wanted much, to live and let live, to yield when they must yield; perhaps, we may hope, not to take all they can. But the condition is that they shall be willing at least to listen to one another, to get the habit of pooling their wishes. Somehow or other they must do this, if the play is to go on; maybe it will not, but there is no Jack, in or out of the box, who can come to straighten the game.
Learned Hand (1872-1961) American jurist
“Democracy: Its Presumptions and Realities,” speech, Federal Bar Association, Washington, DC (1932-03-08)
#quote #quotes #quotation #collaboration #consensus #cooperation #democracy #dictator #master #ruler #rules #society
Sourcing, notes.https://wist.info/hand-learned/65663/
SHUT DOWN NOAH HARRARI!!!!! THEY’RE TRYING TO REPLACE THE HUMAN POPULATION !!!
https://endtimeheadlines.org/2023/12/elon-musk-warns-a-i-could-create-an-immortal-dictator-from-which-we-can-never-escape-2/
Elon Musk warns #AI could create an ‘immortal #dictator from which we can never escape’
Elon Musk warns A.I. could create an ‘immortal dictator from which we can never escape’
After meeting China’s president Xi Jinping in California, US president Joe Biden was asked if he would still call Xi a dictator – a term that angered Beijing...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #biden #ccp #dictator #latestnews #newsheadlines #xi
Biden says he still considers China’s Xi a dictator | AJ #shorts
"Strongly supports" or "deeply concerned" statements mean nothing for sadistic #dictator, who is literally subjecting to starvation the entire population of #Artsakh.
#EU renews its call to #Azerbaijan to ensure unrestricted movement of people & goods via #Lachin corridor, in return Azerbaijan provokes & shells #Armenian positions wounding 2 soldiers.
#Armenia #Politics #Fascism
#diplomacy-death #theft #coal #northstream #ns1 #ns2 #dictator #sippenhaft
Death of European Diplomacy
Former Austrian FM Karin Kreissl, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
https://rumble.com/v2coz0e-death-of-european-diplomacy-former-austrian-fm-karin-kreissl-alexander-merc.html
Meanwhile, from "McFaul's World"
Here is the former U.S. ambassador to the Russian Federation, who had studied Putin and Russian thinking prior to his many meetings and discussions, up his departure in 2014 following the annexation of Crimea. He is correct in noting the rise of the Putinologists now gathered around worst-case or most-likely scenarios... and while mileage may vary, Michael McFaul not only knows better than most anybody, past thinking and behavior, he is also wise enough to know,
I don’t know exactly what Putin will do. But neither do you!
#StopPutin #Putin #Ukraine #TzarVladimirTheTerrible #genocide #history #dictator #Russian
Michel Krielaars (NRC)
Op 22 februari 1942 maakten de 60-jarige Oostenrijks-Joodse schrijver Stefan Zweig en zijn veel jongere, tweede vrouw Charlotte Altmann een einde aan hun leven. (...)
[I]n de nieuwe wereld kon Zweig niet wennen. Hij hoorde thuis in het oude Europa, dat, zoals hij beschrijft in zijn postuum verschenen autobiografie Die Welt von Gestern (1942), in de Eerste Wereldoorlog ten onder was gegaan en nu opnieuw in bestialiteit werd gedrenkt.
Opmerkelijk is dat Zweig in Zuid-Amerika zijn beste boeken heeft geschreven. (...) En nu is er ineens een ander werk uit die tijd in vertaling verschenen: Montaigne. (...)
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Michel Krielaars
In Montaigne (1533-1592) had Zweig een zielsverwant gevonden. Zo zocht de Franse filosoof in zijn essays net als hij individuele vrijheid. (...)
Waar Zweig op de vlucht was voor Hitler en zijn oorlog, wendde Montaigne zich op zijn 38ste af van de bloedige godsdienststrijd tussen katholieken en hugenoten, die Zweig ‘het pandemonium van woede en haat dat de mensheid onteert en vernietigt’ noemt. De ‘terugval van het humanisme in beestachtigheid’ was hun beider tragedie. Dat gold ook voor hun afkeer van, zoals Zweig schrijft, ‘het fanatisme van de dictators van de geest, die met onbeschaamde arrogantie de wereld hun nouveautés als enige en onomstotelijke waarheid willen opdringen en die niet geven om het bloed van honderdduizenden, zolang ze maar gelijk krijgen.’ (...)
Op zoek naar persoonlijke vrijheid maakten beiden zich tot op zekere hoogte los van de ellende om hen heen. In feite kozen ze voor de Innere Emigration. (...)
Tags: #nederlands #boeken #literatuur #montaigne #zweig #stefan_zweig #oorlog #godsdienststrijd #hitler #dictator #waarheid #propaganda #vrijheid #individuele_vrijheid
Caroline de Gruyter (NRC)
(...) „Autoritaire regimes zijn onverslaanbaar, totdat ze dat ineens niet meer zijn. De geschiedenis is bezaaid met afgezette keizers en tsaren”, schreef oud-Financial Times-commentator Philip Stephens deze week in een blog onder de hoopvolle titel ‘Een slecht jaar voor autocraten. Xi en Poetin zijn de grote verliezers van 2022’.
Stephens heeft gelijk: we moeten de kop niet laten hangen. Toch moeten we ons evenmin illusies maken over volksprotesten en wat die anno 2022 kunnen uitrichten. Moderne autocraten laten zich minder makkelijk uit het pluche jagen dan de generaties voor hen. (...)
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Caroline de Gruyter
De dictators van nu zijn gelikter. Ze proberen populair te blijven onder de bevolking. Ze doen amper nog aan massamoorden en maaien demonstranten niet meer voor CNN-camera’s neer, maar lichten hen achteraf stilletjes van het bed of produceren ‘bewijs’ van een zedendelict. En ze houden referenda en opiniepeilingen, en chatten met burgers. Door die democratische façade rennen buitenlandse investeerders niet weg, waardoor de economie blijft draaien en burgers brood op de plank houden. (...)
Omdat dictators de meeste media dankzij moderne technologie compleet in hun zak hebben, bepalen ze goeddeels wat mensen lezen of zien. (...)
Volgens onderzoekers aan Harvard is de kans van slagen van straatopstanden onder dit nieuwe type machthebber zesmaal kleiner dan in 2000. Ook werd volksprotest vroeger langzaam, vanaf de grond, opgebouwd. Dat bevorderde cohesie en solidariteit. Nu worden demonstranten via sociale media gemobiliseerd. De clubgeest is zwakker. Straatprotest verpietert sneller. Bovendien gebruiken de autoriteiten tegenwoordig óók geavanceerde technologie voor propaganda, infiltratie en intimidatie. Niet alleen Polen en Hongarije bespioneren opponenten met Pegasus-software, maar zelfs Griekenland en Spanje – al zeggen ze stug dat ze van niets weten. We leven in een tijd van „digitaal autoritarisme”, aldus het Harvard-onderzoek. (...)
Tags: #nederlands #protest #straatprotest #opstand #revolutie #dictator #staat #staatsmacht #sociale_media #social_media #media #propaganda #censuur #volksopstand #hongarije #orban #iran #china #polen #referendum #opiniepeiling #democratie #investeringen #buitenlandse_investeringen #electorale_autocratie #digitaal_autoritarisme #brazilie #bolsonaro #vs #verenigds_staten #trump #griekenland #spanje #pegasus #pegasus_software #spionagesoftware #repressie
The new zealand government is violating a human right. They are putting in place a system to prevent citizens from returning. We are forced to fill out a form which if we don't we can be prevented from boarding a plane home, this is a clear violation. The form is a track system where
I hate government and I particularly hate this one. The propaganda gives the impression of some empathetic government when they are a bunch of racist, authoritarian bastards.
I want them gone but i want all politicians gone.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/viktor-orban-cpac-trump-gop-hungary-leader-rcna40199
He has extolled the value of racial purity, is vehemently anti-immigration, has cultivated close ties with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and was a speaker at this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, in Dallas.\
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, 59, is widely criticized around the world for systematically dismantling his country’s nascent democracy during his 12 years in power — but that hasn’t stopped him from emerging as a darling of many on the right in America.\
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Orbán told a cheering crowd of conference delegates that he and other conservatives were in a battle to protect Western civilization against the forces of liberalism and mass migration.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/06/viktor-orban-cpac-far-right-us-trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Orb%C3%A1n
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220727-holocaust-survivors-condemn-race-remarks-by-hungary-s-orban
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/08/04/hungarys-authoritarian-leader-no-gift-us-conservatives
#right-wing #far-right #conservative #usa #hungary #dictator #cpac #republicans #orban #orbán #viktor-orbán #racial-purity #anti-immigration #liberalism #mass-migration #mixed-race #racism #bigotry
Fulgencio Batista, US backed Dictator of Cuba in Miami Beach, Florida.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgencio_Batista
What Dictator Killed The Most People?
There have been some horrible dictators over the years, some more famous than others. This infographic shows some of the most well-known dictators and how many people they have killed over the years.
Everyone often thinks of Hitler as the guy who murdered millions of people but I was surprised to see that Mao Zedong actually killed a lot more people during his reign. Luckily Hitler was taken care of before he could gain even more power.
Each one of those blood drops represents one million people so to see just how how many people each dictator killed is unthinkable. Do you find this infographic to be shocking?
#dictator #dictatorship #war #genocide #murder
What Dictator Killed The Most People? [Infographic]
Anyone counting on the current Chinese regime?
"#Facebookisme: het nieuwe totalitaire bewind_
- https://vn.nl/facebookisme -
"Is het #fascisme? Is het #totalitarisme? Het zit erin, én het is meer: bij Facebook gaat het om de totale controle. De #geschiedenis herhaalt zich… net ietsje anders."
- Sander Pleij - Vrij Nederland, mei 2017
https://facebook.com/f.kritiek/photos/a.1351312024923036.1073741828.756922294362015/1351312011589704
#Fb #feestboek #feesboek #faceboek #VrijNederland #Vrij #Nederland #MarkZuckerberg #zuckerberg #socialemedia #macht #democratie #vrijheid #dictator #dictatuur #fascistisch #totalitair #globalisering #Amerika #amerikaans #Holland #NL #privacy #privacyschending #privacyschenden #facebooken #faceboeken #democratie #nederlands #nederlandstalig
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