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usauthoritarianism · 18 days

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OK So Context

I kind of progressively lost my mind in college. What with the learning about the specifics of what is going on and how it relates to what has happened in the past. -and subsequently took the time to develop a series of presentations about why the US sucks.

Specifically, the interventions in Latin American, just the astoundingly predatory nature of American Capitalism domestically and The Police, like, as a concept.

Fast forward to the Summer of 2022 and I realized that working with an editor and publishing a book is hard and expensive but its measured in thousands not tens of thousands so I committed to doing that at some point in my life with this project, and began working on adapting the presentations with more research and more connections between these different expressions of White Supremacy.

I let the research balloon. There's just so much.

Anyway, the whole social media campaign thing was to distract me from pinning all that down. -and last month one of the members of my subreddit, u/acebush1, self immolated in the time it took to get around to responding to his most recent comment. That made this all very real. The US' support for Israel and it's foundation as a settler colonial state are critically relevant.

Right, so,. Last month someone asked me how to buy the book and that was the thing I had said to myself would mark the transition back to a writing and research focus rather than just research and learning social media.

Site is up. Its an email submission form with a set your own price stripe link.

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hussyknee · 6 months

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troythecatfish · 1 month

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sleepnoises · 1 month

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In re earlier reblog: no more contraception distribution from abortion funds at Olivia Rodrigo shows due to "concerns that children could access those items"

#respectfully. fuck those kids* *(the authoritarian spectre of the hypothetical innocent child)#adults are at fault as they are for all things #us politics

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destielmemenews · 8 months

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Heyyy so I made this a few days ago, but didn't know this blog existed. If you already made one about Project 2025, thanks and ignore me lol

If not, please and thanks in advance for sharing this one

Project 2025 site

LBTQNation article on P2025

I didn't know about any of this! Thank you for sharing!

According to the 1,000 page "Mandate for Leadership" of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation also seeks to fire tens of thousands of federal workers, abolish any recent changes to the Pentagon that have increased diversity, and outlaw pornography.

source 1 from PBS

source 2 from Mother Jones

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communistkenobi · 5 months

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reading this article about how climate change denialism is a way to express a hypermasculine anxiety to protect the continued western usage of fossil fuels, a “petro-masculinity” tied to the violent act of burning oil and gas as an expression of USAmerican sovereignty

#authoritarian personality name drop also hell yeah #actually this psychology section is probably gonna be cringe. this author does not define authoritarian which is very annoying #limited postcolonial analysis also. still pretty interesting #i think you can extend this to like death drive desires if you wanted to be very psychological about it #like the car is contingent upon a fuel that will cook us all to death. and westerners dont want to give that up. much to consider!#still reading so hopefully im not just repeating whats in the article #book club

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corporationsarepeople · 1 month

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#us politics #republicans #trump #maga #democracy #authoritarianism

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geekgirles · 1 year

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Forget everything else. This is the true revelation of the episode.

#i cannot believe Gabriel used to be a punk #then again it is a good representation of how much he's fallen given his authoritarian ways defy everything he once stood for #miraculous ladybug #ml #mlb #ml spoilers #ml season 5 spoilers #ml season 5 #ml s5. 20 #revelation #revelation spoilers #ml revelation #gabriel agreste #gabi grassette

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spartanlocke · 3 months

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Quick disclaimer: Fuck Biden, I hope he rots in hell.

That said, I know trying to convince tumblrinas to vote is like trying to herd stoned cats, but this is too important not to share here.

I know how you feel, I don't fucking want to vote for Biden either, but I need you all to understand: Every vote abstained is a vote for Trump. AND ZIONISTS ARE COUNTING ON THAT. THEY WANT YOU TO STAY HOME SO TRUMP WINS.

They know he plans to fire and jail his opposition, they know he plans to give himself full military power and "total immunity", that he wants to extend his presidency beyond four years. They know all this because he's literally bragged about it with his shitty "Project 25." (Please please PLEASE for the love of GOD do some research on this before giving your takes.)

They know this and they WANT IT. BECAUSE THEY KNOW HE WILL SUPPORT THEIR ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE EVEN MORE AND IF HE GIVES HIMSELF COMPLETE POWER, THERE WILL BE NOTHING WE CAN DO TO STOP THEM.

Zionists don't want you to vote, so get Get the fuck out there and vote.

#jem blogs #politics #us politics #trump #biden #zionism #free palestine #i mean #if we're LUCKY trump won't be allowed to run again #and we might get a different democrat running besides biden #but the way things look now #yeah ''voting biden so trump doesn't turn america into an authoritarian state'' seems like it'll be our only option #god willing both these bitches die

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usauthoritarianism · 14 days

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This is a Chicago Jump Out Squad

In DC this sort of thing is normal too.

People need to understand. I have spent my adult life in driving distance between the urban centers where this slave catcher ass policing style is the reality, and the prison(s) where massive prisoner populations are rented out to governments and corporations for literal pennies to the inmates.

-and this article is from 2014

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booasaur · 2 months

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For the third time, the US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution related to the violence in Palestine.

Imagine the people who would have still been alive after the first one. Even the second one. And instead, it won't even stop now, at confirmed 29K, but most likely beyond 33K.

#israel #palestine #free palestine #us politics #I disagree actually #I think it'll have many terrible concrete consequences #it's shown there's no such thing as international rules of engagement #good luck to journalists and humanitarians and healthcare workers in conflict zones #no humanitarian laws need to be followed #good luck trying to pressure any other despot or authoritarian to treat their people better #associated liberal ideals with the worst of humanity #good luck to women and LGBT groups and everyone trying for progress

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not-those-kids · 6 months

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some of yall never taught kids or interacted with them for longer than ten seconds and especially in very large groups

#yes lets let the impulsive children in a room full of ppl their age make their own decisions all the time!#authoritarianism is bad #guidance is good #i let my kids use the bathroom #and i know theyre doing fuck all and going to the terlet to look at their phones #but like #sometimes #managing a classroom of thirty or so kids #means i have to say no sometimes #im sorry if that makes me authoritarian or whatever #ria talks #teaching #i tried the whole let them do whatever route and mostly it just makes shit unbearable to teach in so yeah sorrrrryyy gotta have classroom #management :P #that means saying no sometimes even to simple requests bc i got thirty other kids to watch

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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 2 months

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President Biden’s brain trust appears confident that he will ultimately prevail over Donald Trump due to the threat Trump poses to our constitutional system. By November, the election’s “focus will become overwhelmingly on democracy,” one top Biden adviser told The New Yorker, adding that “the biggest images in people’s minds are going to be of January 6th.”

If so, the Biden campaign had better get cracking.

Some new polling from a top Democratic pollster finds mixed news for Team Biden on this front: Large swaths of voters appear to have little awareness of some of Trump’s clearest statements of hostility to democracy and intent to impose authoritarian rule in a second term, from his vow to be “dictator for one day” to his vague threat to enact “termination” of provisions in the Constitution.

That’s maddening for obvious reasons. But it also presents the Biden campaign with an opportunity. If voters are unaware of all these statements, there’s plenty of time to make voters aware of them—and the polling also finds that these statements, when aired to respondents, shift them against Trump.

The survey—which was conducted by veteran Democratic pollster Geoff Garin for the group Save My Country and shared with The New Republic—did something novel. It polled 400 voters in each of three swing states—Arizona, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—and weighted them in proportion with each state’s Electoral College votes. It omitted respondents who voted for Trump in 2020 and also said Biden didn’t legitimately win.

In short, the poll was designed to survey voters who are genuinely gettable for Biden. The poll asked them about 10 of Trump’s most authoritarian statements, including: the two mentioned above, Trump’s claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” his vow to pardon rioters who attacked the Capitol, his promise to prosecute the Biden family without cause, his threat to inflict mass persecution on the “vermin” opposition, and a few more.

Result? “Only 31 % of respondents said they previously had heard a lot about these statements by Trump,” the memo accompanying the poll concluded.

The good news for Biden is that when respondents were presented with these quotes, it prompted a rise in Trump’s negatives. For instance, after hearing them, the percentage who see him as “out for revenge” jumped by five points, the percentage who see him as “dangerous” rose by nine points, and the percentage who see him as a “dictator” climbed by seven points.

“This is an opportunity to move voters and change the race,” Garin told me, noting that this shows that current public polling, which has Biden down to Trump, is “not set in concrete.”

If this Democratic polling is right, it might help explain a dynamic that has perplexed observers. The latest New York Times poll finds Biden trailing Trump by five points among registered voters even as 53% think he committed serious crimes.

Yet voters may still see Trump’s (alleged) criminality as a theoretical proposition, without connecting it to the type of unbound, lawless presidency he has told us he’d preside over—in his own words.

Indeed, the poll from Save My Country finds that after voters are presented with these statements, the percentage of those who view Trump unfavorably jumps five points, from 53% to 58%, and 69% say Trump will bring “chaos to the presidency and our country.”

In other words, when voters are presented with evidence straight from Trump’s own mouth, they see an authoritarian second term as very plausible.

In one sense, the lack of voter awareness of Trump’s “dictator” threats shows that the Biden campaign and Democrats don’t appear to have succeeded in making voters aware of the menace Trump poses. Perhaps their messaging has yet to work, or maybe the party has not seriously used the levers of power at its disposal to highlight Trump’s staggering corruption and malice.

But if this polling is right, one explanation that doesn’t seem as plausible is that voters don’t care about these matters. In fact, all this might in some ways validate one of the Biden camp’s frequent claims—that voters are so checked out that they aren’t seriously aware of the threat a second Trump term poses.

The new polling also counters a well-worn refrain from skittish, nonconfrontational Democrats. They sometimes say Trump’s negatives are so well known—or “baked in,” as campaign jargon puts it—that there’s no sense in spending much time on his authoritarian outbursts, affection for political violence, and wide array of (alleged) crimes. Yet all this may in an important sense constitute new information for untold numbers of voters.

“Trump’s negatives are not baked into the cake at all,” Garin told me. Fortunately for the Biden camp, between now and Election Day there are some eight months to fire up the campaign crucible and ensure that they do get baked in—good and hard.

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dontmean2bepoliticalbut · 8 months

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#us politics #memes #shitpost #tv shows #x-men #free market #libertarians #lolbertarians #fuck libertarians #taxes are theft and other lies by lolbertarians #hierarchy #authoritarianism #libertarianism

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infamousbrad · 6 months

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I was a huge book hoarder as a kid and reading Fahrenheit 451 as a kid gave me the same nightmare three nights running, that the Fire-Men were breaking into my bedroom to burn my books.

And my dad was a WWII veteran steeped in anti-fascist rhetoric from when he was a kid. (The timeline does line up; dad was quite old when I was adopted.) I grew up being taught that "wants to censor books" or "attacks libraries" is all you need to know to understand that someone is some kind of monster, or at least a moral imbecile.

But in the years since then, I've lived to see it happen multiple times: each new generation of wannabe right-wing authoritarians learns that the fastest way to get the proverbial Nice White Parents™ to flip from centrist to right-wing authoritarian is to promise to burn books. Dad failed to warn me, probably because he couldn't understand it himself, that book burning is fucking POPULAR.

#us politics #book burning #book bans #libraries #right wing authoritarianism

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