This is a very very silly talking point that dissolves on contact with reality. Any negotiation between states that aren't autocracies involve elements of the country "talking to itself" to coalesce on a negotiating position.
October 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
This is a very very silly talking point that dissolves on contact with reality. Any negotiation between states that aren't autocracies involve elements of the country "talking to itself" to coalesce on a negotiating position.
yep...i am even worried that Trump & GOP after midterms will go after the youtube situation with the indy podcasters here...just like they effed up all the other news media...i mean that's how autocracies work. And USA is more that than anything else.
October 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
yep...i am even worried that Trump & GOP after midterms will go after the youtube situation with the indy podcasters here...just like they effed up all the other news media...i mean that's how autocracies work. And USA is more that than anything else.
#Gift Dictators in autocracies use public money for propaganda to praise themselves.
Trump clearly wants us to be his #autocracy.
And the Roberts #SCOTUS assists him in solidifying his rule.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
Trump clearly wants us to be his #autocracy.
And the Roberts #SCOTUS assists him in solidifying his rule.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency (Gift Article)
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
www.nytimes.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:10 PM
#Gift Dictators in autocracies use public money for propaganda to praise themselves.
Trump clearly wants us to be his #autocracy.
And the Roberts #SCOTUS assists him in solidifying his rule.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
Trump clearly wants us to be his #autocracy.
And the Roberts #SCOTUS assists him in solidifying his rule.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
imagine writing this! knowing it's going to be published in a book! that people will read! and remember you for! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
October 2, 2026 at 5:08 PM
imagine writing this! knowing it's going to be published in a book! that people will read! and remember you for! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
No clue who this is. But bet on it, the guy's an incompetent fascist tech bro puppet. That's how it works in autocracies.
October 2, 2026 at 4:18 PM
No clue who this is. But bet on it, the guy's an incompetent fascist tech bro puppet. That's how it works in autocracies.
Hope in a time of democratic decline
->resilience | More on "American democracy in decline" at BigEarthData.ai
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Hope in a time of democratic decline
The US score on the University of Gothenburg’s V-Dem Liberal Democracy Index declined by 24% in only one year, while its world rank dropped from 20th to 51st place out of 179 nations.“ The US joins nearly a quarter of the world’s nations undergoing democratic backsliding, and is on its way to joining the three-quarters of the world population, some 6 billion people, who live in autocracies. If President Donald Trump’s first term “laid the foundation”, according to the report, the second term has seen the backslide quicken. The bad news is now measurable. V-dem rates the US as an elected democracy, losing its higher position as a liberal democracy. V-dem points to a breakdown of liberal characteristics including freedom of expression, respect for civil liberties, and well-functioning checks and balances, especially those between the executive branch and the judiciary. Freedom House reports a similar dramatic decline. As does the Democracy Meter. Such a democratic crash is typically associated with coup d’etats. According to V-Dem we are back to the lowest level of democracy since 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, establishing the US as a democracy that enfranchised, at least in law, all citizens...
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October 2, 2026 at 10:18 AM
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7g...
He makes several true points: 1. the idea that democracies are the good guys and autocracies are the bad guys is fiction. No such thing as good or bad guys it’s just competing for power.
He makes several true points: 1. the idea that democracies are the good guys and autocracies are the bad guys is fiction. No such thing as good or bad guys it’s just competing for power.
John Mearsheimer: Is China the Real Winner of Ukraine War? | Endgame #136 (Luminaries)
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October 2, 2026 at 2:03 AM
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl7g...
He makes several true points: 1. the idea that democracies are the good guys and autocracies are the bad guys is fiction. No such thing as good or bad guys it’s just competing for power.
He makes several true points: 1. the idea that democracies are the good guys and autocracies are the bad guys is fiction. No such thing as good or bad guys it’s just competing for power.
I don’t even think Trump counts as an autocracy. Autocracies at least want to run the government. Trump just wants to steal and be praised. He hates trying to run the government. It’s why he’s so bad at it. It’s gangsterism. “Government” by criminal enterprise.
October 1, 2026 at 10:47 PM
I don’t even think Trump counts as an autocracy. Autocracies at least want to run the government. Trump just wants to steal and be praised. He hates trying to run the government. It’s why he’s so bad at it. It’s gangsterism. “Government” by criminal enterprise.
the above post is obviously not a claim that every monarchy everywhere engages in this kind of behavior. NB that you can't say 'if I wanted to live in an autocracy, I would move to an autocracy,' because we usually assume that most people do not willingly move to autocracies without very good reason
oh for sure. constitutional monarchies have a leg up on presidentialism most ways you cut it
October 1, 2026 at 10:40 PM
the above post is obviously not a claim that every monarchy everywhere engages in this kind of behavior. NB that you can't say 'if I wanted to live in an autocracy, I would move to an autocracy,' because we usually assume that most people do not willingly move to autocracies without very good reason
TBH the mind boggling thing is that it took Trump 2.0 for this to start happening. Y'all have been hostile to the rest of us for years, I've been to autocracies with less threatening and superior customs officials and thats how you treat the documented "aliens" from nations with comparable gdp.
“.. We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.”
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
@semafor.com
www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
October 1, 2026 at 8:36 PM
TBH the mind boggling thing is that it took Trump 2.0 for this to start happening. Y'all have been hostile to the rest of us for years, I've been to autocracies with less threatening and superior customs officials and thats how you treat the documented "aliens" from nations with comparable gdp.
Yes, those things can simultaneously be true when most of the governments in the region are autocracies.
The Egyptian government is close to the US because it has no choice. The Egyptian people are indifferent to hostile. This is not a great state of affairs, even if it's better than the 70s.
The Egyptian government is close to the US because it has no choice. The Egyptian people are indifferent to hostile. This is not a great state of affairs, even if it's better than the 70s.
October 1, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Yes, those things can simultaneously be true when most of the governments in the region are autocracies.
The Egyptian government is close to the US because it has no choice. The Egyptian people are indifferent to hostile. This is not a great state of affairs, even if it's better than the 70s.
The Egyptian government is close to the US because it has no choice. The Egyptian people are indifferent to hostile. This is not a great state of affairs, even if it's better than the 70s.
My yacht needs to be big enough to sail to Middle East autocracies and do comedy shows to rehabilitate their public image
October 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
My yacht needs to be big enough to sail to Middle East autocracies and do comedy shows to rehabilitate their public image
He's not wrong though. The other autocracies that murder prisoners at least have the decency to make their executioners face the facts of what they're doing
John Yoo on Christa Pike, who survived a botched execution: "Why not use the firing squad? So I think what's gonna have to happen is Tennessee is gonna have to go back and try again."
October 1, 2026 at 3:17 PM
He's not wrong though. The other autocracies that murder prisoners at least have the decency to make their executioners face the facts of what they're doing
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The Threshold Effect: Preference Falsification Versus Weak Preferences in Russian War Support - https://cup.org/4hGfoyp
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Why is Ukraine lumped in with the electoral autocracies?????
October 1, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Why is Ukraine lumped in with the electoral autocracies?????
And Biden will end up remembered as an enabler of genocide, an opponent of vigorous armed resistance (even in Ukraine), a vital partner of the middle eastern monarchies and autocracies, a peddler in the anti-muslim double standard, and- to top it off- a man who couldn't string two sentences together
October 1, 2026 at 4:10 AM
And Biden will end up remembered as an enabler of genocide, an opponent of vigorous armed resistance (even in Ukraine), a vital partner of the middle eastern monarchies and autocracies, a peddler in the anti-muslim double standard, and- to top it off- a man who couldn't string two sentences together
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A US president gets 4 years before becoming an ordinary citizen with the tag "former." Rivals in Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran plan across decades. Is American erraticism just an ad-hoc equalizer for borrowed time?
#Geopolitics #USForeignPolicy #GrandStrategy #Elections
A US president gets 4 years before becoming an ordinary citizen with the tag "former." Rivals in Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran plan across decades. Is American erraticism just an ad-hoc equalizer for borrowed time?
#Geopolitics #USForeignPolicy #GrandStrategy #Elections
The Four-Year Paradox: Why American Power Stumbles Before Entrenched Autocracies and Royal…
How electoral clocks, sovereign debts, and presidential envy collide across an unhedged and shifting global landscape.
medium.com
September 30, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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A US president gets 4 years before becoming an ordinary citizen with the tag "former." Rivals in Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran plan across decades. Is American erraticism just an ad-hoc equalizer for borrowed time?
#Geopolitics #USForeignPolicy #GrandStrategy #Elections
A US president gets 4 years before becoming an ordinary citizen with the tag "former." Rivals in Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran plan across decades. Is American erraticism just an ad-hoc equalizer for borrowed time?
#Geopolitics #USForeignPolicy #GrandStrategy #Elections
Not sure we’ll get a new crop of New Hollywood directors out of this monopolization.
It is not great that autocracies like Saudi Arabia are able to throw in limitless cash into this.
It is not great that autocracies like Saudi Arabia are able to throw in limitless cash into this.
September 30, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Not sure we’ll get a new crop of New Hollywood directors out of this monopolization.
It is not great that autocracies like Saudi Arabia are able to throw in limitless cash into this.
It is not great that autocracies like Saudi Arabia are able to throw in limitless cash into this.
• The world has 92 autocracies and 87 democracies (Dec 2025)
• 74% (6 billion) of the world live in autocracies
• Only 7% (0.6 billion) of the world live in liberal democracies
'During the last decade, almost all aspects of democracy registered far-reaching declines.'
www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
• 74% (6 billion) of the world live in autocracies
• Only 7% (0.6 billion) of the world live in liberal democracies
'During the last decade, almost all aspects of democracy registered far-reaching declines.'
www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
September 30, 2026 at 7:45 PM
• The world has 92 autocracies and 87 democracies (Dec 2025)
• 74% (6 billion) of the world live in autocracies
• Only 7% (0.6 billion) of the world live in liberal democracies
'During the last decade, almost all aspects of democracy registered far-reaching declines.'
www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
• 74% (6 billion) of the world live in autocracies
• Only 7% (0.6 billion) of the world live in liberal democracies
'During the last decade, almost all aspects of democracy registered far-reaching declines.'
www.v-dem.net/documents/75...
This judge is highly compromised. He is simply doing exactly what this Far Left government tells him to do.
This is what happens in autocracies like Russia!
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This is what happens in autocracies like Russia!
www.facebook.com/share/p/19oU...
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September 30, 2026 at 7:04 PM
This judge is highly compromised. He is simply doing exactly what this Far Left government tells him to do.
This is what happens in autocracies like Russia!
www.facebook.com/share/p/19oU...
This is what happens in autocracies like Russia!
www.facebook.com/share/p/19oU...
What happens when authoritarian governments work together across borders? This review examines Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc., which explores the networks, relationships, and systems connecting modern autocracies worldwide. Read more: https://ow.ly/A8LK50ZIV80
September 30, 2026 at 6:05 PM
What happens when authoritarian governments work together across borders? This review examines Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc., which explores the networks, relationships, and systems connecting modern autocracies worldwide. Read more: https://ow.ly/A8LK50ZIV80
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Tian & Pérez-Durán review 70 studies on accountability in 15 Asian autocracies, highlighting the dominance of vertical mechanisms and the roles of social & horizontal accountability.
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Tian & Pérez-Durán review 70 studies on accountability in 15 Asian autocracies, highlighting the dominance of vertical mechanisms and the roles of social & horizontal accountability.
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September 30, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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Tian & Pérez-Durán review 70 studies on accountability in 15 Asian autocracies, highlighting the dominance of vertical mechanisms and the roles of social & horizontal accountability.
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Tian & Pérez-Durán review 70 studies on accountability in 15 Asian autocracies, highlighting the dominance of vertical mechanisms and the roles of social & horizontal accountability.
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September 30, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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yes...part of how autocracies like ours take root is cuz there's not a solid activated resistance. I know a few podcasters are trying to get the word out, but it's tough...
September 30, 2026 at 1:05 AM
yes...part of how autocracies like ours take root is cuz there's not a solid activated resistance. I know a few podcasters are trying to get the word out, but it's tough...
The Bright Side:
Openly advocates for transatlantic solidarity and coordinated industrial strategy against rising autocracies.
Openly advocates for transatlantic solidarity and coordinated industrial strategy against rising autocracies.
September 30, 2026 at 12:57 AM
The Bright Side:
Openly advocates for transatlantic solidarity and coordinated industrial strategy against rising autocracies.
Openly advocates for transatlantic solidarity and coordinated industrial strategy against rising autocracies.