what part of an unelective despotism do you consider an improvement
November 5, 2026 at 1:36 AM
what part of an unelective despotism do you consider an improvement
It's all despot fetishism all the way down, for brain-melted internet Stalinists too
Fractal despotism-gooning
Fractal despotism-gooning
November 5, 2026 at 11:29 PM
It's all despot fetishism all the way down, for brain-melted internet Stalinists too
Fractal despotism-gooning
Fractal despotism-gooning
Way too many people forgot that if the US elites wanted convergence with authoritarianism they baked in authoritarianism's weakness. "War turns into sticking one's prick into a hornet's nest" has doomed many a despotism before. Trumpism was never immune to that.
November 6, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Way too many people forgot that if the US elites wanted convergence with authoritarianism they baked in authoritarianism's weakness. "War turns into sticking one's prick into a hornet's nest" has doomed many a despotism before. Trumpism was never immune to that.
"No affordability agenda can be achieved with an authoritarian executive in place. Challenging Trump’s despotism and self-dealing with every possible tool goes hand in hand with legislating to deliver on so-called kitchen-table issues." thank you @natashalennard.bsky.social
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November 4, 2026 at 11:03 PM
"No affordability agenda can be achieved with an authoritarian executive in place. Challenging Trump’s despotism and self-dealing with every possible tool goes hand in hand with legislating to deliver on so-called kitchen-table issues." thank you @natashalennard.bsky.social
Funny *and* educational but feudalism never existed: It was despotism and authoritarianism with a different name invented by French economists who wanted to pretend this wasn't another form of slavery because of religion and money.
youtu.be/3N9DvwsAS2Q
youtu.be/3N9DvwsAS2Q
November 2, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Funny *and* educational but feudalism never existed: It was despotism and authoritarianism with a different name invented by French economists who wanted to pretend this wasn't another form of slavery because of religion and money.
youtu.be/3N9DvwsAS2Q
youtu.be/3N9DvwsAS2Q
Bubbe, you got it backwards. This isn’t TERFs using “gender critical” to sneak in transphobic bullshit. This is despotism and genocide hiding behind barriers of blanket labels of “antisemitism”.
Former is poisoning the apple, latter is apple rotting from inside.
Former is poisoning the apple, latter is apple rotting from inside.
November 5, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Bubbe, you got it backwards. This isn’t TERFs using “gender critical” to sneak in transphobic bullshit. This is despotism and genocide hiding behind barriers of blanket labels of “antisemitism”.
Former is poisoning the apple, latter is apple rotting from inside.
Former is poisoning the apple, latter is apple rotting from inside.
Fascinating archive.org find: a 1946 classroom film about how to detect signs of despotism in your community archive.org/details/Desp...
Despotism
Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the indiv...
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November 1, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Fascinating archive.org find: a 1946 classroom film about how to detect signs of despotism in your community archive.org/details/Desp...
“You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism that enslaves you both.”
Republicans are trying to stop a blue wave in the midterms the only way they know how: through demonization and bigotry towards vulnerable minorities www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
November 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
“You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism that enslaves you both.”
“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."
- Declaration of Independence, 1776 🇺🇸📜🗳️
- Declaration of Independence, 1776 🇺🇸📜🗳️
November 4, 2026 at 9:55 AM
“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."
- Declaration of Independence, 1776 🇺🇸📜🗳️
- Declaration of Independence, 1776 🇺🇸📜🗳️
Yup, time to drag they Overton window back. It is utterly unacceptable for our elected leaders to talk positively about despotism or illiberalism.
November 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Yup, time to drag they Overton window back. It is utterly unacceptable for our elected leaders to talk positively about despotism or illiberalism.
Thank you SO MUCH you wonderful, strong, and wise Canadian people. Thank you for fighting, and continuing to fight against Trump and despotism. And thank you for continually encouraging us, particularly in those dark days when thugs and soldiers were first unleashed on us!
God bless all of you.
God bless all of you.
November 4, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Thank you SO MUCH you wonderful, strong, and wise Canadian people. Thank you for fighting, and continuing to fight against Trump and despotism. And thank you for continually encouraging us, particularly in those dark days when thugs and soldiers were first unleashed on us!
God bless all of you.
God bless all of you.
I harbor them no ill will personally, but I cannot unsee what they have wrought.
They brought the country to the brink of despotism and civil war, and the best defense to be made on their behalf is that they were manipulated by charlatans who exploited their biases.
They brought the country to the brink of despotism and civil war, and the best defense to be made on their behalf is that they were manipulated by charlatans who exploited their biases.
November 5, 2026 at 1:58 PM
I harbor them no ill will personally, but I cannot unsee what they have wrought.
They brought the country to the brink of despotism and civil war, and the best defense to be made on their behalf is that they were manipulated by charlatans who exploited their biases.
They brought the country to the brink of despotism and civil war, and the best defense to be made on their behalf is that they were manipulated by charlatans who exploited their biases.
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And they also got more and more of the weaknesses of despotism full-blown while having to try to make that work in democracy, and gaining thus the worst of both worlds. As I said in April 2025 these people are not invincible, and *they* know that damned well.
*Successively*. The Nixon realist crowd got pushed out by the Reagan/Bush neocon crowd got pushed out by the Bush dumb neocon crowd got pushed out by the Trump caveman crowd. Each wave was less restrained & less professional & less capable. And they're not done.
I think you can do worse than to sum up a lot of the Republican Party this century as the story of people who understood American politics overall extremely well but didn't understand their base being replaced by that base
November 5, 2026 at 12:51 AM
And they also got more and more of the weaknesses of despotism full-blown while having to try to make that work in democracy, and gaining thus the worst of both worlds. As I said in April 2025 these people are not invincible, and *they* know that damned well.
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
November 5, 2026 at 1:33 AM
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for."
We Democrats have been the only thing that stood between US and despotism for the last 50 years. We are still here when our democracy and you all needed us.
You’re welcome.
I thank Black voters most deeply for their grace-filled, courageous belief in democracy.
You’re welcome.
I thank Black voters most deeply for their grace-filled, courageous belief in democracy.
November 4, 2026 at 4:17 AM
We Democrats have been the only thing that stood between US and despotism for the last 50 years. We are still here when our democracy and you all needed us.
You’re welcome.
I thank Black voters most deeply for their grace-filled, courageous belief in democracy.
You’re welcome.
I thank Black voters most deeply for their grace-filled, courageous belief in democracy.
and the unelected despotism that has announced you are chattel to be murdered as some random ICE guy pleases strikes you as an improvement, rights-wise... why?
November 5, 2026 at 1:40 AM
and the unelected despotism that has announced you are chattel to be murdered as some random ICE guy pleases strikes you as an improvement, rights-wise... why?
Democrats have been the only thing that stood between US and despotism for the last 50 years. We are still here when our democracy and you all needed us.
You’re welcome.
I thank Black voters most deeply for their grace-filled, courageous belief in democracy.
You’re welcome.
I thank Black voters most deeply for their grace-filled, courageous belief in democracy.
November 4, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Democrats have been the only thing that stood between US and despotism for the last 50 years. We are still here when our democracy and you all needed us.
You’re welcome.
I thank Black voters most deeply for their grace-filled, courageous belief in democracy.
You’re welcome.
I thank Black voters most deeply for their grace-filled, courageous belief in democracy.
Religiou$ Republikan$ are the perfect tools of the Republikan Leadershit. Better willing slaves to Tyranny & Despotism don't exist than Religiou$ Fanatics.
November 2, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Religiou$ Republikan$ are the perfect tools of the Republikan Leadershit. Better willing slaves to Tyranny & Despotism don't exist than Religiou$ Fanatics.
My first vote was in 1990 for Ann Richards against Clayton "Relax and Enjoy It" Williams.
Seeing the state shake off decades of one-party despotism is, to me, an essential expression of the state's unique character. Here's hoping D's can embody that as they govern.
Seeing the state shake off decades of one-party despotism is, to me, an essential expression of the state's unique character. Here's hoping D's can embody that as they govern.
Y'know I haven't lived in Texas since the 90's, should be old enough to know better than to get sentimental about politics, but....
Texas responding to the depredations of the Trump administration by electing a Latina governor is the Texas I fell in love with during my decade there.
Texas responding to the depredations of the Trump administration by electing a Latina governor is the Texas I fell in love with during my decade there.
November 5, 2026 at 1:41 AM
My first vote was in 1990 for Ann Richards against Clayton "Relax and Enjoy It" Williams.
Seeing the state shake off decades of one-party despotism is, to me, an essential expression of the state's unique character. Here's hoping D's can embody that as they govern.
Seeing the state shake off decades of one-party despotism is, to me, an essential expression of the state's unique character. Here's hoping D's can embody that as they govern.
Listen, been mulling it over but just.. preemptively I need you to know if I am killed while I'm out there trying to defend the vulnerable from despotism. For the love of god dont let them stick "I voted" stickers on any memorial of mine. Avenge me with something more visceral, more explosive.
November 4, 2026 at 3:47 AM
Listen, been mulling it over but just.. preemptively I need you to know if I am killed while I'm out there trying to defend the vulnerable from despotism. For the love of god dont let them stick "I voted" stickers on any memorial of mine. Avenge me with something more visceral, more explosive.
From the Constitution:
“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.”
WE DID IT!
“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.”
WE DID IT!
November 5, 2026 at 4:43 PM
From the Constitution:
“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.”
WE DID IT!
“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.”
WE DID IT!
Seems like a bold claim for a centrist to be accusing others of division, given that their position on the spectrum is ideologically situated between egalitarianism and despotism.
Remember, many of those centrists dislike AES because he stands against violent supremacist ideologies like Zionism.
Remember, many of those centrists dislike AES because he stands against violent supremacist ideologies like Zionism.
November 3, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Seems like a bold claim for a centrist to be accusing others of division, given that their position on the spectrum is ideologically situated between egalitarianism and despotism.
Remember, many of those centrists dislike AES because he stands against violent supremacist ideologies like Zionism.
Remember, many of those centrists dislike AES because he stands against violent supremacist ideologies like Zionism.
I see that half of the American electorate is still very keen for despotism.
November 4, 2026 at 8:37 AM
I see that half of the American electorate is still very keen for despotism.
"I trust it is obvious to your Lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude on such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation—must be vain— must be fatal"
November 4, 2026 at 2:39 AM
"I trust it is obvious to your Lordships, that all attempts to impose servitude on such men, to establish despotism over such a mighty continental nation—must be vain— must be fatal"