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They’re doing the salute (more than just Musk) and the rest aren’t running away from the ones who do. I call them Nazis because they claimed the label, about as unambiguously as possible.
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The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
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Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
#22Is 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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Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
#23Is 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…
Perhaps because those things already happened at the beginning of the Chinese Revolution and we're just seeing a phase that's several generations on the future of the transition
The guide starts with the presumption they gained power through democratic elections. Neither China nor most other historic authoritarian regimes started this way.
(Nazi Germany and Putin's Russia being the classical examples of democracies going authoritarian).
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#24Most importantly:
1) authoritarian regime takes your guns and ability to defend yourself
2) it will criminalise normal behavior, so it can prosecute anyone at will (everyone has to break laws)
3) it tries to destroy family
Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
#25Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
#26Is 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.
I read that SCOTUS told the administration to pay for completed work. Considering USAID has been essentially dissolved, I wouldn't say they knocked down "the whole USAID thing". Unless I missed some news.
Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
#27On 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…
CGP Grey did a video on this that is very much worth watching for anyone interested in politics: https://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/rules-for-rulers
On youtube there is also another video where he talks about making this video that I found more interesting than the video itself.
One of the more interesting points he made is that in order to get into power you generally have to be given that power, but to be given that power, you must show loyalty to the power structure. Loyality is corruption and corruption is loyalty, at least when that loyalty is to a person. So corruptibility/loyalty is intrinsically related to being in a position of power.
The summary of all of that is the only time good things happen is when you yourself get into a position of power and choose to use it for good, rather than for purely selfish reasons.
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Imagine still talking about "Trump Derangement Syndrome" while "The King" goes on rants about invading Greenland and posts AI videos of Saddam-esque gold statues of himself in "Trump Gaza", all while he wrecks every international relationship we have, turns the economy into chaos, and puts Kash Patel and Dan Bongino on charge of the FBI, after which they openly started dropping investigations against politicians (Eri…
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#29This worldview where one side is evil/authoritarian and the other is good/free/liberal is the root of a lot of suffering in the world. It's a flawed worldview that made Americans end up with dysfunctional politicians, because you reward ideological rhetoric more than real, pragmatic long-term planing.
Uhm yeah everyone is authoritarian so let's embrace dictators right? :facepalm:
Re: The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
#30Is 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.
There’s a dude that doesn’t hold any office telling everyone what to do, who to fire and what will be paid, including his own companies, and you feel like writing “American institutions are quite strong”, I must be living in a different planet.