You know what to save for the future, when it's time to write about the least popular president in North America ever, less than Jefferson Davis.
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No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice — when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves.
[Il n’y a point de plus cruelle tyrannie que celle que l’on exerce à l’ombre des lois et avec les couleurs de la justice, lorsqu’on va, pour ainsi dire, noyer des malheureux sur la planche même sur laquelle ils s’étaient sauvés.]
Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline [Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence], ch. 14 “Tiberius” (1734, 1748 ed.) [tr. Lowenthal (1965)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/79852/
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Commuting and pardoning political allies and supporters is a sign of #authoritarian and #despotic rulers. Why should any individual be allowed to commute or pardon people, who have been convicted in a proper trial? #democracy #authoritarianism #despotism
There is not even an attempt to conceal the motivation: ""This is far worse than what George Santos did, and at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!" Trump wrote."
The new political climate
US journalist and professor Jeff Jarvis "describes a dangerous authoritarian shift: freedom of the press, education, and the courts are under attack, critical voices like Jimmy Kimmel are being silenced, and many media outlets are adapting out of fear—or are being taken over outright." (podcast)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISkz16BTSQY
Read Hanna Arendt,
The Origins of Totalitarianism
https://cheirif.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hannah-arendt-the-origins-of-totalitarianism-meridian-1962.pdf
#journalism #democracy #FarRight #race #racialisation #SettlerSociety #equity #media #PostTruth #MSM #law #courts #totalitarianism #despotism #tyranny #dictatorship #book
But “of all the forms #democratic #despotism could take,” #Tocqueville continues, “the worst would be to turn over all the powers of #government to the hands of an irresponsible person.”
www.salon.com/2025/05/17/w...
When a president goes rogue: I...
Militarization of Domestic Cyberspace
Fire and Police have the #Military so they don't require the truth.
Title 32 is for #Martial_Law and not just supporting foreign directed cyber operations. #Patriot_Act #Totalitarianism #US_Constitituion #Army #Despotism
Certainly the influence of the past is very strong at the present time; it is reviving, and this rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. It is on the march, and it seems to be winning — a dead thing yet a conqueror! It comes with its army of superstitions, its sword, which is despotism, its banner, which is ignorance, and in recent years it has won ten battles. It advances, laughs, and threatens; it is at our door.
[Le passé, il est vrai, est très fort à l’heure où nous sommes. Il reprend. Ce rajeunissement d’un cadavre est surprenant. Le voici qui marche et qui vient. Il semble vainqueur ; ce mort est un conquérant. Il arrive avec sa légion, les superstitions, avec son épée, le despotisme, avec son drapeau, l’ignorance ; depuis quelque temps il a gagné dix batailles. Il avance, il menace, il rit, il est à nos portes.]
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 7 “Argot,” ch. 4 (4.7.4) (1862) [tr. Denny (1976)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/78840/
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No person is so foolish that they don’t understand that if we remain asleep at this moment we will have to live through a rule that is not only cruel and arrogant but ignoble and disgraceful too. You know this man’s arrogance, his friends, and his whole household. To serve shameful lusts, bullies, disgusting and irreverent thieves, those drunkards — well, that is the worst suffering married to the greatest dishonor.
[Nemo est tam stultus qui non intellegat, si indormierimus huic tempori, non modo crudelem superbamque dominationem nobis sed ignominiosam etiam et flagitiosam ferendam. Nostis insolentiam Antoni, nostis amicos, nostis totam domum. Libidinosis, petulantibus, impuris, impudicis, aleatoribus, ebriis servire, ea summa miseria est summo dedecore coniuncta.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 34-35 (3.14/3.34-35) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2021)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
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Rashid Khalidid on Why He Won't Teach at Columbia This Fall
#DemocracyNow!
#US #Politics #Economics #Academia #Fahrenheit451 #Project2025 #Despotism #Trump #TrumpRegime #AmericanApartheid #IsraeliApartheid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUrG6mce_-4
Ça me rappelle quelqu'un...
« dans [gouvernement] le despotique, un seul, sans loi et sans règle, entraîne tout par sa volonté et ses caprices. »
MONTESQUIEU, L’Esprit des Lois (1748)
#tyranny #authoritarianism #democracy #ruleoflaw #despotism
“From offshore detention camps and pardons for seditionists to open attacks on judges, watchdogs, and journalists, this administration has followed, with unnerving precision, the authoritarian playbook. And make no mistake, this isn’t speculative. These are real-world policies and executive actions, documented in public records and reported by independent outlets. The pattern is not subtle. The mask is off.”
"As you read this, you might hear a lot of boxes being checked in your mind, and you might wonder if Grok is calling the shots. But, dear reader, this is all purely theoretical. As they say in the movies, any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental."—Open Culture
The Steps a President Would Take to Destroy His Nation, According to Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot, Grok >
#destruction #how_to #Grok #answers #according_to_grok #national_destruction #despotism #chatbot #theory #answers #according_to_grok #USA
#Trump #Bolsonaro #MAGA #USA #Brasilien #Fascism #Despotism #Dictatorship
Just a question of time, Don...
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/bolsonaro-brasilien-gericht-100.html
A quotation from Alexander Hamilton
The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
Letter (1792-08-18) to George Washington, Enclosure: “Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration,” Objection 14
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/7…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexanderhamilton #civildisorder #control #corruption #demagoguery #democracy #despotism #disorder #incitement #lawlessness #republic #security #subversion #tyranny #unrest
A quotation from Thomas Jefferson
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Document (1776-07-02), “Declaration of Independence”
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#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasjefferson #declarationofindependence #absolutepower #custom #despot #despotism #endurance #government #inertia #overthrow #putupwith #rebellion #revolution #suffering #tyranny
"Soviet losses in World War II exceeded those of all other Allied forces combined and were roughly double those of Nazi Germany, whose capital, Berlin, ultimately fell to Red Army troops."
#giftArticle #russia #ukraine #peace #war #despotism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/04/urkaine-arms-defeat-russia-trump/
A quotation from Jorge Luis Borges
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
[Las dictaduras fomentan la opresión, las dictaduras fomentan el servilismo, las dictaduras fomentan la cureldad; más abominable es el hecho de que fomentan la idiotez.]
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentine writer
Speech (1946), “Hurry, Hurry [De’le, De’le],” Argentine Society of Letters [JLB 57]
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/borges-jorge-luis/21…
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