Every single of these is happening in Hungary today. Literally.
Thank you for sharing. I'm in particular interested in what happens to women and minorities in Hungary. Can you tell us what the situation is like?
The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
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#62[flagged]
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…
> Trump Derangement Syndrome
This is much much more dangerous than you realize. When Russia invaded Ukraine, killing people's families and torturing those who resist in Bucha, "russophobia" was the word Putin used. When China does something evil and people rightfuly don't like it, china calls that "sinophobia."
These are words that mean there will be no compromise. It's a word that directly represents a state of war. "It's a sickness, so there is no way to reason, the only thing we can do is use force."
These "sicknesses" are a clever linguistic tool. They flip cause and effect. It frames criticism as irrational hatred so that the accusers can see themselves as victims. It dismisses problems with trump as blind hatred and directly ignores any harms caused by Trump.
TDS is straight out of the Russian propaganda playbook.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Biden pardoning his own family may be unethical, but it wasn't illegal. Similarly, Trump directing his DoJ not to prosecute his political allies is (probably) legal, but I hope we can both agree that it is unethical.
Pardoning is a legal power given to the presidents. The executive orders are being stuck down by the courts because they are found to be illegal.
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#64This 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.
> The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide
Article describes what is happening in my home country. I'm not American. What seems more American is that all these articles are being flagged here in true spirit of American free speech: where everything is technically allowed, but in practice, there is lot of censure and self-censure.
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#65Why 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.
As someone who did leave his country over politics, and doesn't regret it, I assure you it's not something you "just" do. Emigration is hard.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I think there is a decent distinction between a pardon in the last days of power and actions taken in the beginning of a term.
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#67Is 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.
> when they voted for him, that it was just a bit of a risk
I'm genuinely speechless.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
History may not repeat, but it absolutely rhymes. If had a nickel for every time I heard about a government proposing to round up and deport thousands of people to a special island just so that their normal Constitution rules wouldn't apply, I'd have two nickels--which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.
Unfortunately, remote detention camps to "keep the homeland clean" are nothing new, they are tried and tested.
Here in Europe, we have had the UK and Italy actively pursuing rounding up migrants and deporting them to Ruanda/Albania until their claims are processed, and Australia has been doing this for decades now on Nauru and other places.
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#69Most 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
3) it tries to destroy family
This point is nonsense, most authoritarian regimes do exactly the opposite, they promote traditional family values. Take for example the regimes of Putin, Hitler, Orban.
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#70Serious question: Why on earth is this flagged?
I thought sharing strategies against authoritarianism would be as free speech, open discourse as it gets. Open discourse as promoted here on this site is among the first targets in any authoritarian society.
We tech people should be merit based — vuess which form of society prevents exactly this? Suddenly instead of appointing the manager of a nuclear plant based on merit, they are appointed based on their loyalty to the regime. This may have huge impact for us tech people.
I am aware that some in the US may see anti-authoritarianism as "partisan", but if you immediately think the people whose line you tow are meant when someone mentions how to deal with $BADTHING, the thing boiling your blood shouldn't be them mentioning $BADTHING, the thing boiling your blood should be that those whose line you tow got you to defend $BADTHING. And you know it is bad, because otherwise you wouldn't try to shoot the messenger.
Edit: If you disagree or think the flag is deserved, I'd be curious to hear your perspective