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#antidemocracy

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Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/

#Trump has taken over the #FBI and the #ICE, the #DOJ, the #army, in short, of all legitimate forces at the service of the state. So, who's going to enforce judiciary decisions if the #government ignores them?

That's also why I'm saying that the #USA have turned into a #dictatorship or #totalitarian and #authoritarian regime. And it is scary. We must at all costs avoid such #antidemocracy drift.

And as if to underscore the administration’s militant, almost martial sense of defiance, a Trump adviser recently raised the previously unthinkable possibility that Trump could just defy the courts and then dare them to see who has more power. Trump’s leverage, the unnamed adviser told Rolling Stone, rests in his command of the armed forces: “Are they”—meaning federal judges—“going to come and arrest him?”
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Megaphone :verified:
At a recent #HuntingtonBeach City Council meeting, longtime resident #ChrisKluwe delivered a powerful speech condemning the council’s decision to include a #MAGA acrostic on a library plaque. He highlighted the overwhelming community opposition and called out the movement’s ties to #censorship, #discrimination, and anti-democratic actions.

He didn’t hold back, equating #MAGA to a modern-day #authoritarian movement, rooted in the same dangerous ideologies that history warns us against.

#ErasingTransPeople
#Resegregation
#Censorship
#BookBans
#UnionBusting
#DefundingVeterans
#CuttingEducation
#Corruption
#AntiDemocracy
#ModernNazism
#Trans #LGBT #LGBTQ
#lgbtq
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OUR COMMON GROUND

"Donald Trump is an ignorant, overconfident, narcissistic, grievance-ridden man — a dumb man, who over time has attracted around him an asteroid field of dumb allies who are but lesser versions of himself. His invariable instinct to act without knowledge is dumb; his unwavering instinct to make consequential decisions based upon minor personal whim . . . "

inthesetimes.com/article/donal

In These TimesThe Power of DumbIn the Second Trump Era, don't expect reality to be realistic.
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OUR COMMON GROUND

Speaking from the World Economic Forum’s confab last January in Davos, Switzerland, Jamie Dimon — chair and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest and most profitable bank in the United States, and one of the most influential CEOs in the world — heaped praise on Trump’s policies . . . ”
. . . Under Trump the economy lost 2.9 million jobs. . . "

Written in 5-24, worth review again. &
need to destroy
truthdig.com/articles/elon-mus

Truthdig · Elon Musk and Peter Thiel’s War on Democracy - TruthdigThe two oligarchs share an agenda that goes well beyond securing tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks.
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sounds interesting

emptywheel.net/2024/07/24/now-

Not even anymore, flat-out

“In their latest installment of an editorial making demands of Joe Biden, other Democrats, and voters, but never Donald Trump, the NYT on Monday joined the horde of outlets begging for an .”
Via

emptywheel · Now that Joe Biden Stepped Down for the Good of the Country, Joe Kahn Must Join Him - emptywheelIn its serial demands on Joe Biden and other Democrats "for the good of the country," the NYT keeps demanding that politicians do its job in holding Trump accountable, even while failing to do its part. If Joe Kahn's NYT won't meet NYT's own standards for reporting on Trump, he must step down.
#AntiDemocracy#NYT
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Caro S.

AI as Algorithmic Thatcherism

"Real AI isn't sci-fi but the precaritisation of jobs, the continued privatisation of everything and the erasure of actual social relations. AI is Thatcherism in computational form. Like Thatcher herself, real world AI boosts bureaucratic cruelty towards the most vulnerable. Case after case, from Australia to the Netherlands, has proven that unleashing machine learning in welfare systems amplifies injustice and the punishment of the poor. AI doesn't provide insights as it's just a giant statistical guessing game. What it does do is amplify thoughtlessness, a lack of care, and a distancing from actual consequences. The logics of ranking and superiority are buried deep in the make up of artificial intelligence; married to populist politics, it becomes another vector for deciding who is disposable."

danmcquillan.org/ai_thatcheris

danmcquillan.orgAI as Algorithmic Thatcherism
#CapitalismKills#thatcherism#AI
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Six Grandfathers Mountain

@Nonilex
@skykiss

Seems we need to add (SOME) quality, professional, experienced court ⭕ #lawyers to this group of autocrats from #russia #china #maga Republicans that are #antidemocratic #antidemocracy leaders (see pre post or image)

NOTE, guests on #msnbc have labeled the #trumpattorney ⭕ #necheles (pronunced as necklas) as a pro, experienced and a quality attorney, strange, why is she on the other side? Proves talent doesn't make you a good person automatically

Autocrats in China, Russia are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and freedom around the world. 🚨 These dictatorships around the world have coalesced to promote autocracy - and how some Americans (we see you, Republicans) and Europeans help them. Lawsuits, threats, and smear tactics have chilled government, academic, & tech-company responses to disinformation.
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Brad Rosenheim

That's odd. Why would stockholders vote against their best interests? Well, it is to protect the companies from stockholders with both lots of money and a conscience*. Here is another one asking stockholders to vote against climate change policies and having an independent chair of the board. Sounds so Democratic, and it preserves the feels of the snowflakes who don't want to think about global warming.

*I realize that not a lot of folks with a conscience have lots of money, at least not on the scale of those driving our ecologic demise. The two are almost mutually exclusive. Almost.

#stocks
#ClimateChange
#capitalism
#AntiDemocracy

Sample ballot for a publicly traded USian company recommending that stockholders vote against having an independent board chair and to got against a proposal policies for climate change. I have highlighted those two lines on the ballot.
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Absinthe

WaPo: #trump calls #RichardGrenell ‘my envoy.’ Neither is in office.

Richard Grenell is meeting with far-right foreign leaders & attacking President #Biden.
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Grenell, the former #acting director of #NationalIntelligence under #tfg,
arrived in #Guatemala in January, days before the new president was to be sworn in — and threw his support behind a right-wing campaign to undermine the #election.

#AntiDemocracy #fascism #tre45on #gop
gift: wapo.st/4asgIzW

The Washington Post · Trump calls his globe-trotting ex-diplomat ‘my envoy.’ Neither is in office.By Beth Reinhard
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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

Worthy Read: @Teri_Kanefield wrote a seres of articles that explains our political dilemma

About a third of the population is, by nature, authoritarian and #AntiDemocracy

In the 1940s—when the world was reeling with shock over the rise of fascism that led to World War II and the devastating brutality of those regimes—German sociologist Theodor Adorno began studying what came to be called the authoritarian personality.

The #authoritarian personality is also called an #AntiDemocratic personality.

#fascism #republicans #republican #republicancult #nazi #trump #elections #election #vote #voteblue
terikanefield.com/can-democrac

The Political Spectrum Left to Right
Political Horseshoe: Far left and Right = authoritarianism
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