Citizens United has facilitated the early stages of foriegn control over the sovereignty of the USA. Just as China was 'opened up' and dominated by Western colonial nations using military force, the USA will be carved up by foreign autocracies through coercion and bribes.
We need to wake up.
We need to wake up.
April 3, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Citizens United has facilitated the early stages of foriegn control over the sovereignty of the USA. Just as China was 'opened up' and dominated by Western colonial nations using military force, the USA will be carved up by foreign autocracies through coercion and bribes.
We need to wake up.
We need to wake up.
In 2013, Gerschewski proposed that autocracies survive through three pillars:
Repression – control through fear and coercion
Co-optation – buying loyalty through rewards
Legitimation – building belief in the regime’s right to rule
No regime can rely on just one.
Repression – control through fear and coercion
Co-optation – buying loyalty through rewards
Legitimation – building belief in the regime’s right to rule
No regime can rely on just one.
August 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
In 2013, Gerschewski proposed that autocracies survive through three pillars:
Repression – control through fear and coercion
Co-optation – buying loyalty through rewards
Legitimation – building belief in the regime’s right to rule
No regime can rely on just one.
Repression – control through fear and coercion
Co-optation – buying loyalty through rewards
Legitimation – building belief in the regime’s right to rule
No regime can rely on just one.
We were having a look at some of the articles from last year. This seems very apt right now.
"The infiltration of institutions and democratic processes through coercion and bribery is an effective means of undermining democratic processes."
#Security
#Democracy
"The infiltration of institutions and democratic processes through coercion and bribery is an effective means of undermining democratic processes."
#Security
#Democracy
China and Russia’s ‘useful idiots’ – espionage, bribery, and populists - Bylines Scotland
A look at how autocracies like Russia and China use corruption and infiltration to undermine their democratic rivals
bylines.scot
February 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
We were having a look at some of the articles from last year. This seems very apt right now.
"The infiltration of institutions and democratic processes through coercion and bribery is an effective means of undermining democratic processes."
#Security
#Democracy
"The infiltration of institutions and democratic processes through coercion and bribery is an effective means of undermining democratic processes."
#Security
#Democracy
Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on how autocracies establish and sustain themselves with reference to the Putin and Trump regimes:
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Trump and Putin: Partners in crime
Coercion, conformism and corruption in Moscow and Washington
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Good piece by @nickcohen.bsky.social on how autocracies establish and sustain themselves with reference to the Putin and Trump regimes:
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Yeah, there's what I think of as an anarchist reframing possible to one's worldview taking seriously the justification of modern representative democracies as structurally better than autocracies but still basically big coercion machines imposed on you & so lacking any robust moral claims on anyone
September 26, 2024 at 1:41 PM
Yeah, there's what I think of as an anarchist reframing possible to one's worldview taking seriously the justification of modern representative democracies as structurally better than autocracies but still basically big coercion machines imposed on you & so lacking any robust moral claims on anyone
There are many good reasons to accommodate budding dictators, and only one reason not to: Anticipatory obedience is a key building block of their power. The autocracies of the 21st century often don’t need coercion; their subjects comply willingly. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Opinion | To Obey Trump or Not to Obey
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
There are many good reasons to accommodate budding dictators, and only one reason not to: Anticipatory obedience is a key building block of their power. The autocracies of the 21st century often don’t need coercion; their subjects comply willingly. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
In their latest paper for @cspjournal.bsky.social, former Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows @samseitz.bsky.social and @laurensukin.bsky.social explore how public opinion influences the credibility of coercive nuclear threats.
https://bit.ly/4cyewu0
https://bit.ly/4cyewu0
Coercive nuclear threats under domestic dissonance: How public opinion shapes the nuclear credibility of autocracies and democracies
How does public opinion influence the credibility of coercive nuclear threats, and how does it enable and constrain strategies of nuclear coercion? Drawing on original survey data, we investigate w...
www.tandfonline.com
September 8, 2026 at 2:17 PM
In their latest paper for @cspjournal.bsky.social, former Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows @samseitz.bsky.social and @laurensukin.bsky.social explore how public opinion influences the credibility of coercive nuclear threats.
https://bit.ly/4cyewu0
https://bit.ly/4cyewu0
Alethekanon:
Palace intrigue in closed autocracies is designed to distract observers from the unchanging permanence of coercion.
Palace intrigue in closed autocracies is designed to distract observers from the unchanging permanence of coercion.
September 13, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Alethekanon:
Palace intrigue in closed autocracies is designed to distract observers from the unchanging permanence of coercion.
Palace intrigue in closed autocracies is designed to distract observers from the unchanging permanence of coercion.
Counterpoint: autocracies use the threat of printing your vote in the newspaper as a tool of coercion to make you vote how they want.
June 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Counterpoint: autocracies use the threat of printing your vote in the newspaper as a tool of coercion to make you vote how they want.
Autocratic systems can be of religious nature or governed by strongmen, despots, oligarchs, tyrant families or autocrats ruling apartheid systems or nationalist, populist, ultra-right, fascist, theocratic or kleptocratic regimes. #Autocracies#Coercion #StateViolence
February 19, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Autocratic systems can be of religious nature or governed by strongmen, despots, oligarchs, tyrant families or autocrats ruling apartheid systems or nationalist, populist, ultra-right, fascist, theocratic or kleptocratic regimes. #Autocracies#Coercion #StateViolence