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odinsblog · 4 months

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“It was December 1993, and I was sitting in my flat in Moscow, watching what must have been one of the first ever election night results shows on Russian television for a Parliamentary election.

It was an unusual spectacle, to say the least. Politicians, pundits and Russian officials were sitting around drinking champagne. And then this happened: On came an astrologer to deliver his celestial political forecast.

Looking back, it was quite appropriate really, because 30 years ago, Russians had stars in their eyes about freedom, democracy, and their country's future. That night, as well as electing a new parliament, the Duma, Russians also approved a new constitution. The constitution which, many years later, Vladimir Putin would change through a referendum to give himself the chance of twelve more years in power.

For a Russian election these days, you don't need astrologers or fortune tellers or crystal balls. I can tell you now pretty much what the result of next March's Russian presidential election will be. Vladimir Putin will win, and with a landslide.

There are several reasons for my confident prediction.

Russia's current political system is Putin's political system, his rules, his election. And although his will not be the only name on the ballot, his opponents are unlikely to include Mr. Putin's most vocal critics, arch rivals, and serious contenders. The president's most high profile opponents have either been poised, fled into exile or been put in prison. What's more, the Kremlin controls television. Vladimir Putin receives lots of airtime, and on tv, he's much praised, never criticized. Handy that, when you're seeking reelection.

And there's another reason he'll do well.

Meet Alexander. Alexander is a young tv reporter from northeastern Russia. At Vladimir Putin's end-of-year press conference recently, he stood up and declared, ‘We all support your decision to run in next year's election, because you've been in power for as long as I can remember.’ There are many Russians like Alexander who simply cannot imagine anyone else in the Kremlin, not because they idolize Vladimir Putin, they just see no alternative to him. I've often heard people here say, ‘Well, if not Putin, who then?’ The Kremlin has engineered that. It has cleared the political landscape of any potential challenges to the man who has ruled Russia as president or prime minister for nearly a quarter of a century, to make sure that those two words, that little question, ‘who then?’ is left unanswered.

Even the war in Ukraine and what are believed to be huge Russian military losses, don't appear to have sparked disillusionment in Russia's President and Commander-in-Chief.

It was Putin's decision to launch the full scale invasion, but some Russians believe that at a time of war, it is their duty to back their leader without questioning his motives or the consequences.

Crucially, the other thing you find a lot of here is indifference. Many Russians don't seem to care who's in power in the Kremlin. They just hunker down in their town or village and try to get through life as best they can. Indifference, too, benefits Vladimir Putin.

For all these reasons, his fifth election victory isn't in doubt.

But what I find much harder to predict is Russia's future. These are very dark times. Darkest, of course, for Ukraine, but for Russia, too. You can feel aggression in Russian society building. You can see repression growing, and you can see a leader who is determined, whatever the cost, to emerge from this war the winner.”

—Steve Rosenberg, BBC's Moscow correspondent, on Russia’s short lived democracy turned autocratic dictatorship

#politics #ukraine #russia #russian invasion of ukraine #vladimir putin #russia is a terrorist state #vladimir putin is a war criminal #authoritarian state #dictatorships #russian elections #russian election #dictators

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troythecatfish · 6 months

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Here’s my personal recommendation of a YouTube video to check out:

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sissa-arrows · 3 months

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During Macron’s last press conference the journalists had to give a list of their questions a long time before the press conference so the government could not only prepare their answers but also refuse to allow certain questions by simply not giving the mic to the journalist with “forbidden questions”

Long live to democracy and freedom of speech I guess?

By the way it’s the same conference in which he said (white) women need to have more children and used the expression “rearm the birth rate”. I say white women because Macron complained in the past about African (North African and Black) women birth rate and right now in Mayotte where the native population in Black the French government is offering tubal ligation. So we know they want white babies not black or brown babies.

It’s also the same conference in which he completely ignored the murder of Nahel at the hand of the police and said that the “riot” were just because the “young men got bored in their idleness”.

#france #French politic #authoritarian state #freedom of speech

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ms-boogie-man · 6 months

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I like that… "You open that window, boy!" … perfect yo

And keep in mind I back the badge; when it is worn by an individual who stands by their oath to public service in our republic

Angie/Maddie🦇❥🇺🇸

#corrupt cops #authoritarian state #these cops get their marching orders from corrupt politicians #DC Swamp

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hybridmindthoughtsreloaded · 8 months

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Agenda 47

Agenda 47 would turn America into an unconstitutional authoritarian police state with the President as dictator. It would effectively shred the United States Constitution into pieces.

1: Make homelessness and Urban Camping illegal. Violators would be rounded up by Government agents, charged with a crime, and put into FEMA camps away from society. Effectively killing the 8th amendment of the United States Constitution.

2: Death penalty for Human traffickers and drug dealers. This would operate the same way China operates for these crimes. Anyone accused and arrested for these crimes would have a swift trial and if convicted be swiftly executed. Effectively adopting the justice system of a Communist Dictatorship.

3: Using Executive Orders on day one to end natural born citizenship in America. Effectively killing the 14th amendment of the United States Constitution.

4: Implement an unconstitutional Nationwide "Stop and Frisk" policy and deployment of federal assets, including the National Guard, if local law enforcement refuses to comply with this order. Effectively violating the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 and killing the 4th amendment of the United States Constitution.

5: Strictly enforcing existing gun laws and implement nation wide "Red Flag" gun laws that violate the 2nd amendment of the United States Constitution.

This is Trumps Agenda 47. This is the future the Right-Wing wants for America. This agenda is not hidden, its displayed proudly on Donald Trumps own website for everyone to see. This is the future your children will live in if you don't take a stand against this and fight for our rights, fight for the Constitution, fight for the freedom of future generations.

#donald trump #trump #unconstitutional #freedom violation #police state #dictatorship #authoritarianism #authoritarian state #agenda 47 #trump 2024 #fuck trump

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nando161mando · 5 months

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Social democrats, democratic socialists, maoists, leninists, marxists, and other brands of "left" authoritarians can fuck all the way off.

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protoslacker · 1 month

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The anti-gender ideology movement, a global movement, insists that sex is biological and real, or that sex is divinely ordained, and that gender is a destructive fiction, taking down both “man” and “civilization” and “God”. Anti-gender politics have been bolstered by the Vatican and the more conservative evangelical and apostolic churches on several continents, but also by neoliberals in France and elsewhere who need the normative family to absorb the decimation of social welfare. This movement is at once anti-feminist, homophobic and transphobic, opposing both reproductive freedom and trans rights. It seeks to censor gender studies programs, to take gender out of public education – a topic so important for young people to discuss. And to reverse major legal and legislative successes for sexual freedom, gender equality and laws against gender discrimination and sexual violence.

Judith Butler in interview with Jules Gleeson (7/21) in The Guardian. Judith Butler: ‘We need to rethink the category of woman’

#gender #christianity #authoritarian state #politics

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realasslesbian · 1 year

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Just mind-blowing to know that there are women rotting in jail now over unlawfully raised robodebts, something which overwhelmingly impacted women, since women are more likely to be on welfare, and make up the bulk of 'welfare fraud' convictions, of which such convictions during the robodebt golden years single-handedly account for the post-2015 explosion in the Australian female prisoner population, and so one can be almost certain that a good proportion, if not most, of female 'welfare fraud' inmates are actually in jail over unlawfully raised robodebts, and yet every politician and government employee responsible for this glorified ponzi scheme is still sipping martinis on a luxury yacht and thinking about buying their fiftieth investment property funded by tax-payers, without a care in the world, certainly not a care about maybe going to prison, like they fucking deserve far more than any woman serving time over a robodebt.

#robodebt #auspol #authoritarianism #authoritarian state #Australia #feminism

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markfaustus · 9 months

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#unvaccinated #communism #authoritarian state #never forget #fascisim #new world order #one world government #covid #socialism #deep state #freedom

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odinsblog · 16 days

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Tankies: The authoritarian state is good and the police are based, but only when communism ☭

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#politics #tankies #acab #police apologists #cognitive dissonance #tankie cringe #authoritarianism #authoritarians #authoritarian state #police #police state #abolish the police

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blackandredblog · 6 months

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The fascists have written a nearly 1,000 page manifesto for how they’re going to implement their authoritarian regime if a Pro-Trump Republican is elected in 2024. It encompasses climate policies and they’ve gone so far as to design a Trump-centric civil service style test.

But crazier than that, they’re planning to wipe out checks and balances entirely, putting huge swaths of government agencies under direct control of the executive branch.

Here’s a small excerpt highlighting how they’re going to endanger trans rights: