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Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social |
Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.
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Pad Rock
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Reminds me of Arnold Schwarzenegger talking about growing up in post war Austria, how hollowed out all the men seemed
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UpChuckle
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it's weird kind of seeing how twitter was a sort of play microcosm of what happens when a king comes in and ruins everything thinking that he's infallible. it's technically still serviceable, but a lot of it is so much worse
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Tapani Hopkins
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And you can hardly ever get a straight answer from anyone. Everyone's 24/7 subconsciously wary of breaking an unwritten rule.
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Rocky N. Bullwinkle
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Time to reread Kundera?
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@saschavykos.bsky.social
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I think ot was in the Book How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley where he talks about the things that fend it off. We may be too late for that, but he mentioned the importance of normal, nonpolitical social groups to maintain ties. You know, bird watching whatever...
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Andy Pearlman
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I visited the USSR as a teenager and I'm reasonably certain I spoke to a KGB agent assigned to our group to pay attention to young adults. And she clearly was so insanely bored with her job that she stepped in to translate for me and an Estonian woman when we were trying to get into the one disco.
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Cid 🏳️⚧️
@velociriker.bsky.social
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Part of what people forget about 1984 is how much of the first act is just Winston going to work and being bored.
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@la-crystal.bsky.social
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I don't understand how it could be boring.
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James Jordan
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Anyone notice that the MAGA shit conveniently took hold after these people’s WWII vet grandads were dead and couldn’t tell them off?
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Dustin Du Cane
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Not all authoritarian regimes are boring and I’m not just talking about ones that are at war. They can be very exciting and even happy & prosperous for the majority along with terrifying and atrocious for a minority - Nazi Germany up to 1941, Imperial Japan, (male) Saudi Arabia and China currently.
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Enron Hubbard
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I've talked to a lot of old East Germans who talked about how carefree their youth was, and then they'd mention offhandedly their acquaintance who got shot trying to cross the border, or the time someone disappeared for a few weeks, or the time the Stasi asked them about an album they owned
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rahaeli
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More people need to play Papers Please
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Fabulous Abomination
@fababomination.bsky.social
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tim lapira
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also do it for those who won’t
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SurlyQueen
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For me this has been exemplified by living in a world after Sandy Hook and having to send a kid to school. Every drop off is routine and boring and every day there's that gnawing background fear. I'm sure I am totally fine and normal. 🥲
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Goldstein the Hon
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"Finally, they came for me And there was nobody left to speak up for me." -Martin Niemoller
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First Wordle Problems
@fwordleproblems.bsky.social
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Not the same thing exactly, but see also climate change. Living with it doesn't mean you'll die or be homeless! It means things will continue to get shittier for the people least able to cope with it. You might not even see it!
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RTOIT
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Nothing is allowed to work, because the dictator needs the society to depend on him and him alone to "fix things". America really needs to take a very deep breath and decide what she wants.
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lorem ipsum
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when I was ten my mom took me to Brasilia to watch some protests there, and she was fighting tears as she told me this wouldn't have been possible in previous years. As I was ten, I didn't understand at all, but I remember it, and when I was older I learned how bad the dictatorship was.
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@pilgrimsoul.bsky.social
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Our future?
NPR 1 July 2034 case study: Hong Kong Five years later, Hong Kong residents reflect on massive government protests. : State of the World from NPR www.npr.org/2024/07/01/1...
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Mara Wilson
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I have spent a lot of my life anticipating one major disaster or another, and when Covid hit, I found it was a completely different kind of fear and dread than I had been expecting. Fear and dread becoming a kind of background radiation in my life, rather than constant panic.
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JoyComethInTheMorning
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Similar to joining the army without the free clothes or regular meals or a modicum of respect.
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Alan Bleiweiss
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Not sure what you mean by boring, at least for any person that regime seeks to harm, subjugate, enslave, deport or execute. May be boring to those who go under the radar, and those the regime likes or finds useful.
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Doug Moffett
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Yeah,sure...good idea....
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@aazzuy2.bsky.social
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But resistance usually means that you'll end up in jail repeatedly right? Like I admired Timothy Snyder Is there a way to do it where you don't automatically end up there first? Like I get the point civil disobedience, but..m
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