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My friend is an English teacher from Ukraine and one of the people I meet via Engin. I found about this organization on DK, and I recommend it highly for people to support people in Ukraine learning English. The Strongman Fantasy And Dictatorship in...
by stlgeek
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 09:57 AM PDT
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Democratic states tend to transform into authoritarian autocratic dictatorships in stages Political scientists and other political experts have been sounding the alarm bells that Donald Trump is a danger to democracy in the United States. But what...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Mar 30, 2024 at 02:16 AM PDT
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There has been a tendency in modern times that a surefire symptom of a country sliding into dictatorship is stripping women of any personal rights. As most of us know, the attack on reproductive rights isn't about the sanctity of the unborn life. It's...
by Audreybeardsley
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on Thu Mar 28, 2024 at 05:34 PM PDT
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A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
by Mike Luckovich
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 03:54 PM PDT
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The battle between democratic freedoms and despotic oppression worldwide is intensifying. As we saw here last month, more people will vote for national governments in 2024 than in any year ever. Bizarrely, many American voters seem happy to vote for...
by Alan Austin
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 04:44 AM PDT
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The NYT and rest of the mainstream media (MSM) are acting as if it’s business as usual. They think that subtlety (or not so subtley) bashing and catastrophizing Democrat's chances in November is ...
by ThinkOutsideTheBox
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on Mon Mar 18, 2024 at 12:31 AM PDT
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Although the Donald is known for hugging and humping our country’s flag, he is against everything the United States of America is really about. And if he somehow gets a second term, he’ll have a cabinet that would enable him to wield a lot more power...
by Perlinator
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on Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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*The Republican party really does stand for freedom! Just be aware that they define freedom very differently than you and I do. When the ruling class gets more freedom, the rest of us get less freedom. And if we lose so much freedom that the USA...
by Perlinator
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 08:44 PM PDT
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"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." George Orwell, 1984 , p. 103 The warning signs of the threat the 77-year-old, ...
by TheseusInWisconsin
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on Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 08:00 AM PDT
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Okay, let’s start by stipulating that we are all working like hell to defeat Trump and his enablers on election day in November. We’re donating, we’re volunteering, we’re fighting back against mountains of bullshit being spewed by his supporters. But...
by Hlinko
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on Fri Mar 01, 2024 at 02:39 PM PST
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This is frickin’ scary!! And you can’t change the movie, so we’re all stuck with facing this! A long-time friend/colleague of mine said if our democracy falls, she’s leaving the country. I pointed out that the other so-called safe countries, like...
by WatchfulEye
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 05:09 PM PST
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I’ve always viewed bipartisanship as sort of a gentleman’s agreement between the two major parties. One which has remained unwritten but occupied a very real place in American politics. It basically said that both parties are committed to a democratic...
by psychusa
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 02:23 PM PST
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Recent reporting suggests that Trump followers, by and large, are fine with him being or becoming a dictator. It seems crazy, but there it is, irrefutable: they’d rather have Trump as a dictator than Biden or any Democrat as a “normal president.” But...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Feb 07, 2024 at 08:15 AM PST
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This article first appeared in The Paradise Progressive An in-depth examination of the nature of dictatorships, democracy and possible futures, nationally and in Florida Feb. 4, 2024 by David Silverberg As he has so many times in the past, Donald Trump...
by Silmedia2
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 10:20 AM PST
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What is behind the hate that people have for the rest of the country. They were told that they should be self reliant, but that didn’t work out We used to have unions and pensions. Now we have 401K’s and a stock market which is privately owned by the...
by myoungatheart5
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on Tue Jan 16, 2024 at 08:20 AM PST
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If, God forbid, Donald Trump gets into the White House again, he will not be President; he’ll be Dictator! And anyone who believes that a Trump regime is the path towards freedom is living in Opposite Land. Here is my version of the “About Us” page of...
by Perlinator
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 03:50 PM PST
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William Cooper is the author of “How America Works ... And Why It Doesn’t” All agree on one thing: Trump must not win. There’s my take at CNN earlier this week: “The widespread fear that Trump will actually be a dictator, however, is misplaced. If...
by wcooper11
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on Sat Dec 16, 2023 at 11:51 AM PST
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Some people seeing this article may be thinking “I love Donald Trump and I’m all in favor of a MAGA dictatorship!” If that’s what you’re thinking, be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. You may think that you want a MAGA dictatorship NOW;...
by Perlinator
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on Mon Dec 11, 2023 at 04:22 PM PST
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There’s no failure of the imagination among us as to the horrors a Trump dictatorship would entail. It’s not a problem of how to explain it to people in simple terms. People understand what a Trump dictatorship means, and some people, way too many...
by Alonso del Arte
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 06:31 PM PST
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What I and many others would love to force MAGAts to hear. And force each of their five brain cells to grind away, and really think about: You had the nerve, the damned crass nerve, to tell me that you, you of all people were a patriotic *American*....
by prfesser
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 12:21 PM PST
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