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ruthbenghiat.bsky.social • 23 days ago

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It is simply astounding how, in just over two months, the US has almost caught up with two decades of democratic backsliding in Turkey.

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bobbafeta.bsky.social•23 days ago

Let your voice be heard.

https://handsoff2025.com/?SQF_SOURCE=pda

juliadilliard.bsky.social•23 days ago

The Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 have been preparing their fascist takeover of the US for the last 50 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/trump-project-2025-history

always4bangtan.bsky.social•23 days ago

📌

samma-vayama.bsky.social•23 days ago

Irony is that the endgame they will achieve with their Plan is the destruction of the world’s climate and life on earth as we know it. A Pyrrhic victory.

juliadilliard.bsky.social•23 days ago

They will destroy themselves as well in that scenario.

samma-vayama.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yep.

mrcansays.bsky.social•22 days ago

At this point the U.S. is about as bad as the ethnic cleansing apartheid state of Israel

plagueisland.com•23 days ago

The foundations of democracy feel increasingly precarious, not under siege from tanks in the streets, but from something perhaps more insidious: a 'slow strangulation' conducted from within. Across the democratic world, norms erode,

Read, share and subscribe.

https://www.plagueisland.com/p/the-dark-enlightenment-lens-understanding

will2009alpha.bsky.social•23 days ago

Just the beginning of a very sad chapter in the life of the USA!

We shall overcome!

deborahelizabeth.bsky.social•22 days ago

Fascist regimes work hard to evoke despair and helplessness in resistance movements. We don't have to let them.

As is the case with armed resistance, nonviolent resistance requires courage and involves serious risks. However, fascist power is more precarious than it looks, and we can bring it down.

jeffvazsr.bsky.social•23 days ago

Trump has certainly taken the advice of Recep Tayyip Erdogan

amamazed.bsky.social•22 days ago

True...
The similarities between comrade donald and Erdoğan are astounding...

thelordgod.bsky.social•23 days ago

We've always been great at everything we put our minds to!

(That's sarcasm people)

evilgenius70.bsky.social•23 days ago

Thank republicans.

healthcarechik.bsky.social•22 days ago

May we eventually respond the way the people of Turkey are responding today. Millions have poured into the streets to take back their country from authoritarian rule.

gloria6262.bsky.social•22 days ago

And it won’t stop until we vote these Republicans out of office.

jail4magats.bsky.social•22 days ago

Ooof. 🤦‍♀️

dornette.bsky.social•22 days ago

We’re #1! We’re #1!

kdawg.com•23 days ago

It's like how we invented the drive-thru. America is good at doing things quicker, apparently good or bad. 😬

kmcn13.bsky.social•23 days ago

Even closer is you find a perverse equivalence in Eric Adams and Ekrem Imamoglu

barneyflintstone.bsky.social•23 days ago

mmsmms.bsky.social•23 days ago

The ❤️ button can send the wrong message. To be clear: I hate that this is happening, but I’m glad you’re spreading the word.

mavoyofficial.bsky.social•23 days ago

it's almost like they are intentionally weakening the United States to serve the interests of its foreign adversaries 🤔

todders707.bsky.social•23 days ago

Now that’s a revelation

rpseguin.bsky.social•23 days ago

Destroying American soft power, making America turn against its allies, causing rifts in NATO, destroying the functioning of our government, harming the American people and destroying our democracy to install a fascist dictator, …
These are ALL part of Putin’s plan!

rpseguin.bsky.social•23 days ago

ALL of those things being carried out gleefully by Putin’s #KompromatPuppets the #FascistGOP, Trump, Musk and their enablers!

Aided and abetted by a complicit news media and by a large number of ignorant, brainwashed people!

The Republican Party was the best purchase Vladimir Putin ever made!

coconutlizard.bsky.social•23 days ago

Frightening

chudonew.bsky.social•22 days ago

Trump is Yeltsin

In the 90s, Yeltsin's Russia underwent tremendous change, but was worse off in health & life expectancy.

The privatization of state-owned industries threw hundreds of thousands of workers out of their jobs & created a new class of wealthy oligarchs.
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/09/world/yeltsin-approves-new-constitution-widening-his-role.html

studentsdemocracy.bsky.social•22 days ago

kmcdson.bsky.social•22 days ago

It surely is….

yoqueray.bsky.social•22 days ago

The Turks, who we now learn are very very motivated to retain what's left of their democracy, saw 2 million protestors flood onto their streets.
Seems like a pretty good indicator of who gets to keep their democracy and who doesn't.

pastorjason666.bsky.social•22 days ago

🍊🤡73 has been telling us he’d do this all along.

ingerw.bsky.social•23 days ago

pauletteparis1.bsky.social•23 days ago

👀💔😪

enragedapostate.bsky.social•23 days ago

To my Turkish family and friends on the Anatolian plateau: Allah korusun

andrewsfca.bsky.social•23 days ago

Say it ain't so! Oy!

classymover.bsky.social•22 days ago

Boy there was an army of conservatives ready to go on Day One - Project 2025. I'll never get why all the hate.

ronduplantis.bsky.social•23 days ago

The founders warned us that allowing concentration of power would result in a dictatorship. They pleaded with us not to ever allow ANY party to control actual govt functions and power. Power was supposed to be atomized.

Circa 1832, after the founding generation died off, we chose to ignore them.👇

ronduplantis.bsky.social•23 days ago

Yes it is the Rs who’ve gone off the rails into authoritarianland. But if we’d never allowed ANY party to control power, Trump and MAGA (a small faction of us) would never had that brass ring of control to grab via commandeering of a party.

We must fix this nightmare.

http://www.realindependent.com

bd-sint.bsky.social•23 days ago

The democratic backsliding of the United States didn't start two months ago. It's frustrating to see how so many people ignored, dismissed or tolerated the deficiencies in American democracy and all the anti-democratic actions over the past decade and more, and still don't really realize that.

so-called-b.bsky.social•23 days ago

Like Steve Bannon said to overwhelm us nonstop with nonsense and we'll collapse. 🙄

nomnomnomdeplumb.bsky.social•23 days ago

USA!? USA!?

beausoleil202.bsky.social•23 days ago

American exceptionalism.

neilnotes.bsky.social•21 days ago

198 Ideas
https://www.brandeis.edu/peace-conflict/pdfs/198-methods-non-violent-action.pdf

Important Book
https://fullspectrumresistance.org/

Stay Safe
https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/protesting-under-fascism/

Pranks
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501756061/pranksters-vs-autocrats/#bookTabs=1

Gum Up Autocracy
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

Radical Care
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349800/pirate-care/

neilnotes.bsky.social•21 days ago

Short Video on Staying Safe in Demonstrations
https://bsky.app/profile/thejenniwren.teamlh.social/post/3llmlo5znsc24

hanschristian2025.bsky.social•23 days ago

There goes the "no moral equivalence" defense. If you reread Chomsky now, he sounds eminently reasonable

sassylibrarian.bsky.social•22 days ago

MATA

bellchamber.bsky.social•22 days ago

It has been obvious to me since 2016 that Trump/GOP were aligning themselves with Putin/Kremlin. Especially culturally. No more protests. No more rule of law. No more lgbtq/poc/women having such freedom, independence and respect in society. No more rights. Just autocracy/theocracy/oligarchy.