The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
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The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
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#3Is this really an authoritarian regime survival guide or a not-too-hidden jab at the Trump presidency?
Like I don't see too many of the items applying to classically authoritarian regimes like China.
Let's apply the guide's own advice:
> Always think critically, fact-check and point out the truth, expose ignorance with facts.
The guide after all is written by Eastern / Europeans, the people is getting expropriated the most by Trump, in January 2017, right as Trump got elected and the democratic "resistance" movement was all the range. (Surprisingly, Trump 2 is even more extreme, and no more talk of resistance).
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#4Every single of these is happening in Hungary today. Literally.
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People portray everything in terms of the ideological war between "democracy" vs "authoritarianism", fitting everything into that narrative even when it doesn't make sense.
It's a nice, simple, easy way to understand what's happening around us, who's good and bad, yet deeply flawed.
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#6On the flipside of this: To understand how to establish, retain, and fail in running your authoritarian regime, I found The Dictator's Handbook by Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita a very fun read. Although repetitive at times (as history often does so itself), it gives a systems-oriented framework of how power concentrates as it does, and various outcomes we get out of it. Definitely in line with the way of thinking most HNers appreciate.
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I think that a right-wing American that reads this can even think it is about the left. They are already that divided. I agree that this is not (or no longer) a place to discuss these things, or play “devils” advocate, or steelmanning the other side, it will be seen as gaslighting. Your post will be buried.
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#8Is this really an authoritarian regime survival guide or a not-too-hidden jab at the Trump presidency? Like I don't see too many of the items applying to classically authoritarian regimes like China. Let's apply the guide's own advice: > Always think critically, fact-check and point out the truth, expose ignorance with facts. The guide after all is written by Eastern / Europeans, the people is getting expropriated th…
Yeah, I mean the supreme court already knocked down Trump's whole USAID thing. The US is very far from authoritarianism, the institutions seem quite strong and thats something I believe Americans recognized when they voted for him, that it was just a bit of a risk but it was unlikely he would actually be successful in toppling the government.
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#9> They will distort the truth, deny facts and blatantly lie. They will try to make you forget what facts are, sedate your need to find the truth. They will feed “post-truths” and “alternative facts”, replace knowledge and logic with emotions and fiction.
Having followed the news/social media for a while while also having read a lot about electric cars, this statement is true already. Most articles or posts about EVs “distort the truth, deny facts and blatantly lie”. Sometimes with some basic knowledge and math you can easily spot the flaws in the article, but the articles are often so drenched in emotion that it’s hard to keep rational.
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Youth is typically left leaning, and hn is a young crowd.