To get free from #Dictatorships once established
it takes decades
First move will be to change the laws that regulate the succession of power
and freedom of information
and many 'rights' will be cancelled
followed by a forced 'normalization' by prohibiting dissent
so Americans
get ready
especially supporters of the 2nd Amendment
(Dictatorships DO NOT like population to be armed)
There will be many rapid changes
(and NOT for the better)
Unfortunately, we Europeans know dictatorships well.
I grow more #socialist every year, though I find myself afraid of the #dictatorship of the #proletariat because the primary examples I've seen in my lifetime have become #dictatorships of the #dictator en route to communism. We need to do something better, but I'm pretty convinced it's going to require massive #World#Revolution to do that, and can we survive that to the point we can make a healthy restart?
The only consolation I have in having to see the thousands of spineless, racist, #politically illiterate self-interested white Vote Blueberals on here is knowing how deep they're digging their own graves. If Biden wins, he and the DNC continues to do fuck all to protect US minorities and takes the party further right until a GOP win is guaranteed in 2029. If Trump wins, not only is the same shit going to happen, just faster. In both cases they will have destroyed every bit of trust and solidarity with the #leftist movements that are already organising.
Oh, and Trump and Biden are both equally likely to withdraw from Ukraine. Trump is buddies with Putin, just like Netanyahu, while Biden is going to have to placate his outraged constituency in some way, and Ukraine is a better sacrificial lamb than Israel will ever be.
We will never, ever, forget, that when push came to shove, Muslim lives became part of the "lesser" evil. All over anxiety of things that you thought might happen, rather than concern for what was already happening to disabled people, BIPOC and the Global South at the hands of your demonic so-called saviour. May you all rot.
From Chile to Honduras, Latin American governments are recalling ambassadors, severing diplomatic relations, and openly condemning Israel — a country with a history of propping up #dictatorships across the region — for its crimes against humanity in #Gaza.
The steadfastness of the Palestinian popular struggle for universal freedom and dignity is pointing the way forward for movements for justice everywhere, from #London to #Cairo and beyond.
Only through the violent suppression of popular sovereignty across the region have the #military#dictatorships, the #petro-monarchs, and the #settler-#colonial project in Palestine survived.
>#Israel played its own role in Latin America’s Cold War period, serving as a major arms dealer to the #US-backed military #dictatorships in places like #Guatemala and #Argentina.
♲ @mlansbury@despora.de:> ## How Russia’s liberal tech companies became the foundation of Putin’s war effort
When #Yandex's founders created the weekly ritual, they wanted to foster a sense of transparency, democracy, and community not found in other Russian companies.
Today, staffers can either join the khural in person or watch on live stream from across the world. Yet, while the meeting has remained a place for heated discussion, the exchange of views is not as frank as it once was.
"There is growing complicity through self-censorship," says Olga Solovyeva, a researcher at the U.K.'s Open University.
She has spent months studying the shift in Yandex's leadership from liberal and pro-democracy to increasingly apolitical as a case study for Russia's wider tech scene.
"Top management are censoring themselves, and employees are censoring themselves to avoid a potential clash of the views," she says.
Russia and North Korea forge closer ties amid shared isolation
Russia's defence minister was photographed this week viewing banned North Korean ballistic missiles with leader Kim Jong Un at a military expo in Pyongyang, signalling deeper ties between the two countries as they face off with the United States.
Comment: not a fan of former Canadian prime minister Harper, a Conservative. Much less so of far-right dictator Orban, who holds an odd fascination among American neoconservatives.
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