Timothy Snyder wrote a book on resisting authoritarian regimes: On Tyranny.
He also did a reading of each chapter on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhZxrogyToZsllfRqQlly...
The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
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#52Every single of these is happening in Hungary today. Literally.
I didn't read them all, but I read enough to think they were lying about it being tweets from 2017. It reads like someone asked ChatGPT to summarize current political news in the US.
It's true. Here is the tweet from January 25, 2017
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It’s an understatement to say Canada is extremely displeased at this, it will cost the US billions in lost trade and tourism. And for what? The trade deficit if you take out oil exports from Canada to the US is actually in favor of the US. Many American jobs will be lost because of this. That trust and relationship will not be rebuilt easily, you vastly underestimate the damage and cost that will come from all the il…
Trump administration most likely has calculated and knows that shrinking $200 billion in trade deficit with Canada outweighs the downside of lost trade and tourism from Canada.
You speak of favor to US and trust and relationship, but that's really inconsequential in the face of $200 billion in trade deficit.
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Uhm yeah everyone is authoritarian so let's embrace dictators right? :facepalm:
The shift from “the President should surrender control of his peanut farm to avoid conflicts of interest” to “eh, this (gestures broadly) is fine, what are you complaining about?” has been really damn fast.
The shift from "The president can't partly forgive some student loans without congressional approval" to "The president's unelected tech support guy can fire entire government agencies without it" took a month or two. Roughly the same time, but clearly not held to the same standard. That seems a lot like the "permission to cross legal boundaries" that the original article mentions.
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If you think it's ok for a leader of the biggest power in the world to joke and say random things that are lies while blackmailing ex-allies into 'negotiations' and helping russia win an invasion on sovereign territory that US and others promised to protect for not having nukes anymore in 1994, you must be special indeed.
You are pretty special indeed if you can't see that Russia and Ukraine are currently in a stalemate that could drag on for years.
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Those things may be true, but he also has signed executive orders directly overstepping the judiciary and legislative branches (e.g. 14160 / birthright citizenship reinterprets the text of the constitution; 14159 / suspending illegal alien rights directly overrides a law passed by congress). He also uses his authority to stop criminal investigations into himself and his loyal supporters (sources 1-4), and he uses his…
And yet in many cases, his orders have been struck down by the courts. Where's the dictatorship?
Biden pardoned his entire family. Is he a dictator?
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If you think it's ok for a leader of the biggest power in the world to joke and say random things that are lies while blackmailing ex-allies into 'negotiations' and helping russia win an invasion on sovereign territory that US and others promised to protect for not having nukes anymore in 1994, you must be special indeed.
You are pretty special indeed if you can't see that Russia and Ukraine are currently in a stalemate that could drag on for years.
Sure, but that's not a reason to help the agressor instead of the victim.
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#58Why not just leave? I mean for those who can afford. Especially when this is happening in a country with so many firearms. It could quickly be easier to resist from a safe place.
I went to a Town Hall and many of the people had family members being kept alive by Medicaid. Imagine a mother of toddlers in her 30's is dying of some cancer imagining paying for her cancer meds while her children likely won't get state assistance, while grandma is about to be removed from her state assisted old folks home.
Imagine having a special needs child about to lose assistance...
Right now America is going through the stages of grief. We are between Shock and Denial, many of us are in deep Depression. This is literally traumatizing if you are paying attention and understand what is going on.
People who want to resist this are going to end up dead or in jail and that's a truth that's very hard to accept.
Also there's the greater problem. Leave to where? America isn't exceptional. What can happen here can happen in other places. Canada, France, the UK, and Germany are all struggling with far right movements, none of them have a clear answer for fighting oligarchy, they are only reluctantly taking America's warning for how bad it can be. America is generally a fairly well educated country, and if we can't pull off a return to democracy here, I don't see democracy rising anywhere else, just the opposite, I would expect rampant nationalism and resource protection.
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#59Most 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
Those three things are just part of point 4 in the article.
An authoritarian leader will tell you those things are under threat and that only they can protect them, to create a feeling of threat that will persuade the gullible to give up their freedom.
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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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There's been about 4 different CPAC/prominent conservative figures who have sieg heiled on stages in front of Trump supporters. The most prominent after Elon was likely Steve Bannon, who didn't even put his hand on his heart. He just straight sieg heiled and smirked at the amount of consequences he knows he isn't going to experience.