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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social |
The danger is not just that a lot of people are embracing authoritarian politics but that too many other people are responding as if the rules of normal politics still hold
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EssaysConcern
@richarderskine.bsky.social
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One gets to feeling that the right have read Atwood, and think its an instruction manual.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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As the South prepared to mobilize after the election in 1860, Northerners continued to believe that they were bluffing, that they did not mean their rhetoric, and that concessions from Lincoln (and pro-slavery control of Congress) would settle them down. We all know what happened next!
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Toast Conger
@toastfloats.bsky.social
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Let me know how long it takes for Philip to block you. Apparently he doesn't like critiques.
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Kristi, Patriarchy Destroyer
@kristiwinters.bsky.social
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They want to reinstalled Jim Crow, but not just for Black people. For anyone they disagree with.
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CoffeeShopRabbi
@rruth.bsky.social
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Very disturbing. How should we be responding, in your opinion?
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Silicon Valley North - Citizens Climate Lobby
@cclsvn.bsky.social
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"Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." - Timothy D. Snyder
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Joel Barr
@uxaboveall.bsky.social
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I think the light's been blinking really since April 30, 2011. We actually laughed our asses off when it lit up and stayed lit, all of us, but especially the 4th estate.
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Iizard
@iizard.bsky.social
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Democracy for me Not for thee
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S knows that p
@sknowsthatp.bsky.social
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Sarah Tuttle
@niais.bsky.social
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It is wild how many people are seeing things like the Supreme Court case and being like "How big a deal is it really?" .... Um. An extremely big deal. Very large. T-Rex in the house sized.
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