When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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Throughout history destroying public access to information and history is key to seizing absolute power. We will see a reverse exodus of talented smart innovative people to Europe, similar to those who fled to the US in the early 20th century.
It has the twofold “benefit” of consolidating power and siphoning public money into private hands. Our whole democracy is going into a wood-chipper for a game of “Who’s Gonna Be The First TRILLIONAIRE?” 😞
Not to mention what they’re doing to universities. To be fair, college campuses are often liberal and republican students don’t feel like there’s a place for them- that’s a big problem. But the right is also making education sound like it’s not only unnecessary but is demonized.
This is exactly what happened with the cultural revolution in China. Professors were removed from universities and put out to plant rice. This is an authoritarian regime under Trump. Americans stand up for your rights Congress do your fucking job. Put the brakes on what shit is happening here
Word. My SIL's family fought Mao then escaped to the USA from Taiwan where the Nationalists had been driven. My SIL is a magat. She sees no parallels. My head explodes with her willful blindness.
Thank you for your note. Your sister-in-law is really blind to what’s happening when the policy start affecting her, That’s when she will realize she is making a mistake.
Perhaps? She is an intelligent person - an MD. But I have come to the conclusion that it is delusional to think that the magats will See The Light or come to their senses. It is their identity and if they admit they were wrong, it is too big a hit to their ego. Like a personality disorder.
Time to replace Congress. Come up with a strategy. About 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote in the last election. Why let 1/3rd of population dominate 2/3rd? Are we really that stupid? If so maybe we deserve the consequences of our apathy of our lack of citizen responsibilities in America.
It also happened in Nazi Germany, it's pretty standard behaviour for an authoritarian regime, though far too many Americans still think we are overreacting.
Canada needs to become headquarters for the resistance shadow opposition government which by the way needs to be populated with young politicians for full generational change.
That's in large part because we as a country never really valued those things to begin with. The education system was always garbage designed to produce obedient corporate drones who couldn't think critically. Capitalism sowed the seeds of fascism like it always does.
this man is going to be fuckin senile by then. he already acts like he has a brain tumor, i legit cannot imagine him lasting long enough for that to even happen.
Look at the states with the worst educational results & how most of these states vote. Underfund education, do not teach critical learning skills, bombard citizens with propaganda (FOX, Social Truth) until lies become truth - control the masses - win the elections & destroy democracy-sound familiar?
It has always been the case. Witness the sustained attack on public education, and the effort to teach fantasy alongside hard science. We cannot be complacent. It’s a fight for our lives.
Trump wants them ignorant and uneducated. Well, almost like now, because whoever voted for Trump... has little brain
Trump los quiere ignorantes e incultos. Bueno casi como ahora, porque quien haya votado a Trump... poco cerebro tiene
As Pres. Jefferson stated so many years ago:
"An informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny"
Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
Intellectualism is a threat to tyrannical rule.
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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The public ?
They knew too much !
This is the problem with Democrats, they wait till shit hits the fan before they show any opposition to the GOP when they should be working on our behalf 24/7. Isn't that why they are elected in the first place.
We can treat them as the human traffickers they are cosplaying. If you are law enforcement, show the fuck up with your uniform and badge and read the Miranda. 0TW a good spray in your eyes of some strong tear gas and maybe even a good thump in the forehead of a taser is wot U dzrve
This is nothing but the TRUTH!... DUMB DOWN America so the Functionally-Illiterate King and his Oligarchs can Rule the Uneducated masses!... It's Hitler's Playbook!... It's Project 2025! 😡😡😡
They are also targeting Public Health; they want a subservient population that are both mentally and physically incapacitated, reduced to begging for food to survive!
And a public which depends on its taxes paid are used to protect us all and help those in need, is a public who will REVOLT against a leadership that does otherwise.
The Rethuglicans along with the convicted felon want to dismantle and diminish the public school system. Banning books, vouchers and censoring free speech at universities are all forms of silencing those who recognize fascism when they hear and see it.
If they moved the capitol to Louisiana, well known for it's very high educational standards, it would probably make a lot of sense. Or Alaska to make it easier for the Fuhrer to fly to safety when this all come crashing down.
I get kind of tired of saying this but the Nazis did the same thing. He is actually really following the same pattern of b.s. As soon as all the WWII era people passed this bullshit resurfaced right away.
They've got the half of the country who are naturally stupid, meticulously brainwashed. Now they're just trying to make the other half as dumb as the ones that vote Republican.
Don't let them win without even putting up a fight which is what most elected Democrats are doing right now.
Resist!
It's easier to control less educated people than informed people. The Republicans understood this and launched a campaign targeting the former, and it was a real success. Moreover, by controlling the majority of information, they ensured impunity. This is a dictatorship in the making.
And depressed! Most people go to the Smithsonian because it lets you admire the past, enjoy the present, and dream about the future! Who would want to deprive people of that? Someone who never visited! 🧌
Trump said he likes uneducated people. He made it quite clear what he intended to do. And Trump also said that if people voted for him, they would never have to go to the polls again. It's all very transparent.
These are the same tactics Hitler and Lenin and Stalin and such used.
WE need to follow the lead of Massachusetts and provide at least a Associates Degree education paid for any citizen of this country, and those on the path to citizenship.
They want everything. If you think there is an end to their aspirations at your expense then look at the backwardness of the lives of the majority and the avarice and luxury of the few.
I realise now my comment is stupid, it’s already like that but it will get worse.
Then it's on ALL of US to keep educating ourselves and others around us by sharing our knowledge and our #books. Especially reference tomes like @britannica.com
Demand that our elected officials, even if they don't listen, to NOT let #America become illiterate by shuttering these instructions.
You can resist them simply by reading a banned book!
Educated people use logic. Trump wants dumb people who will stand in line and gently "moo" while awaiting the guy who comes by to deliver the lethal blow, like in a slaughterhouse.
Trump wants to kill us. His actions speak loudly of this plan.
Tactically attacking the thing that would make people realize what they were up to, ye.
I used to think "But they're smart! They're educated! Why would they support that?" But yeah... They're smart enough to ride the wave.
We pay universities billions in state and federal funds for the privilege of paying ridiculous prices for tuition while research is paywalled. We're paying to make ourselves ignorant and handing the spoils of our labor to people who control information.
Those in charge now have the narcissistic notion that a pure white society ( ala Hitler) is the cream De la cream of minds!
Little do they realize that their current actions are the epitome of mediocre mindsets & downright ignorance! Those involved In that party by far very stupid.
What is more disturbing is the percentage of those who voted for them in 2024!
So much for majority white excellence! Not there! DEI is necessary for rational to return!
It seems that many of the so-called "Greatest Generation" went over there 80 years ago, and instead of being appalled, they said "this is a-ok" and took their time trying to emulate it. Well, here we are. But this time, no country will come a-running to save the US.
I don't see how it's a threat. Not like any of these MAGA people accidentally tune into NPR and within seconds become woke liberals. If they are of voting age, public school has already failed them. These people usually think they ARE informed and make sure you know liberal media is giving you lies.
Yeah this has been in the playbooks for always. This isn’t a Trump thing but we got here because of the constant worry that an educated working class would fuck up capitalism.
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.
They seek to concentrate all power within evangelical hands, subjecting all knowledge to their approval. Blasphemy laws to dictate permissible speech and action. Future generations educated in state-funded religious schools perceiving their teaching as the only truth.
The best way to move up in society is with public schools and public libraries. MAGA doesn’t want an educated lower economic class. In many states it’s his base.
Incorrect if you support home school in its current format, which allows for a fuckton of kids to basically be totally illiterate in most red states due to their very lax homeschool education laws and regulations.
You'd know these things if you actually read books and studies on them.
It's peak irony whenever a Trump MAGullible starts one of their sycophantic sermons on the mango Messiah with an admonishment for the rest of us to think.
Also, most of that has been on the Koch family hit list since at least 1980. Did everyone forget all of the thnk tanks and donor networks that family has to get Republicans elected?
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Makes them gullible.
The more naiveness, the less knowledge to know better?!
Like Adults are being reverted to mentally of innocent children, instead of me mature rational adults?!
Yes keep the “peasants” ignorant of the world. Not sure we taught enough history to learn how Hitler claimed his world power. Ban books, create fear and hate of others that aren’t “white”, round up people who don’t beleive the same as them. When will WE learn from the past- History repeats itself!!!
Thomas Jefferson said that the best way to preserve democracy was to ensure that the people were well informed and educated. It’s fitting that the opposite of that leads to the erosion of democracy.
Hence the relaxed child labor laws, starting in FL, 14 yr olds working overnight on school nights = higher dropout rate.
Make American Illiterate Labor.
Just like Pol Pot! Wait for the Feds to start rounding up educated, white, people they don’t agree with. Instead of killing them off and mass burying them, they’ll send them to an El Salvador prison.
TIME TO HIT ALL BOOKS STORES USED & NEW GRAB ALL BOOKS ABOUT HISTORY & LIBRARYS B4 THIER BANNED & BURNED ...LIBRARIANS REMOVE THE HISTORY BOOKS TO A SECURE LOCATION & HOPEFULLY RETURN IN FUTURE JUST SAY THEY WERE REMOVED 1 NITE & U DONT KNOW WHO TOOK THEM SHUT OFF CAMERAS SAVE USA FROM DUMBING DOWN
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I fully support Carmen’s perspective regarding Vladimir 🇷🇺 Trump’s attack on institutions that provide accurate knowledge based information. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!! It’s also one ☝️ of the biggest threats to authoritarian & dictatorial regimes. No time to be complacent .. DO SOMETHING!
If he had a valid business plan, he would not need taxpayer subsidies. He has a Board, an IPO, investors... how is it the taxpayer job to ensure his profits?????
Of course, that's why the Nazis and Stalin's secret police (and the Warsaw Pact secret police) targeted the "intelligentsia" because that's where the resistance developed...
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https://youtube.com/shorts/aNLBYkNRUsY?si=JwE5OeWQUoDEZuEq
Wait, that sounds familiar… 🤔
Trump los quiere ignorantes e incultos. Bueno casi como ahora, porque quien haya votado a Trump... poco cerebro tiene
Freedom is an illusion.
You not knowing what "facist" means, & who truly represents such ideals, is another VERY IMP0RTANT reason we need an educated society!
We need y'all to wake tf up & stahhhp perpetuating their bs ways of life.
So0o0o, I'd have to say just about as deep as your dikk fits into your mama.
Nasty.
"An informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny"
Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny.
Intellectualism is a threat to tyrannical rule.
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The public ?
They knew too much !
Another reason they stopped teaching kids cursive writing in school a decade or so ago.
Trade them for the hostages they have of ours.
This is what came to mind...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/magazine/trump-george-orwell-1984.html
Opposite of what a maggot is.
All that book learnin’ makes the yungun’s see they’re being lied to.
Not many can think critically however- and this is where Dump gets his power
There is no doubt that this criminal in the white house has no intention of leaving it and turning this Country into Russia!
Way back.
Don't let them win without even putting up a fight which is what most elected Democrats are doing right now.
Resist!
To understand this administration, one must understand Hitler. No one understood Hitler better than Dietrich Bonhoeffer. https://youtu.be/813IyB_vt_Q?si=9v3vXRP1-rpxZ8el
WE need to follow the lead of Massachusetts and provide at least a Associates Degree education paid for any citizen of this country, and those on the path to citizenship.
Our 'Founding Fathers' were educated men.
I realise now my comment is stupid, it’s already like that but it will get worse.
Demand that our elected officials, even if they don't listen, to NOT let #America become illiterate by shuttering these instructions.
https://bsky.app/profile/javiercorrales.bsky.social/post/3lic77eb2zk23
Educated people use logic. Trump wants dumb people who will stand in line and gently "moo" while awaiting the guy who comes by to deliver the lethal blow, like in a slaughterhouse.
Trump wants to kill us. His actions speak loudly of this plan.
I used to think "But they're smart! They're educated! Why would they support that?" But yeah... They're smart enough to ride the wave.
Libby & Hoopla are awesome too!
they get funding the more you check out & read & listen to & watch. ❤️🔥💞💝
& a ton of libraries have tool checkouts & 3d printers & laser cutter engravers & …
education opens up more opportunities.
Little do they realize that their current actions are the epitome of mediocre mindsets & downright ignorance! Those involved In that party by far very stupid.
What is more disturbing is the percentage of those who voted for them in 2024!
So much for majority white excellence! Not there! DEI is necessary for rational to return!
I just could never seem to get the wording right.
Yours is phrased perfectly.
Just the Nazi way of life
Dumb them up.
We shall overcome
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.
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It's happening fast. Resist.
Yk what they say about history, right? It's not actually what happened that makes it into the books.
It's the stories produced by the side that won.
'History' & 'accuracy' are not synonymous.
And if U were properly educated, you'd kno that.
What're you afraid of??
Hahahah. Silly boi-lady!
Lol, ironic choice of words, don'tcha think, madam?
At least your fourth grade comebacks are finally starting to match your education level.
unreliable narrators were understood back at least as far as Thucydides, rube
Lmfao
Nice try, madam.
You'd know these things if you actually read books and studies on them.
Which red states?
What specific "lack homeschool education laws" are you referring?
Which ones, hun?
But, unfortunately, you folks choose to listen to people who tell you what to think. Rather than those of us telling you to question everything.
Ignorance is bliss, tho, right?
We think it's gross.
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Fucking your dead bro's widow. And your cousin.
Don't forget the NEICE!
This dipshit thanks anecdotal evidence is reliable.
Jesus fucking Christ, magats are stupid as fuck.
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If your assertion were true we'd be living in paradise by this time.
None of our institutions work any more and liberals are clinging to them like a scrap of wood after a shipwreck.
So tone deaf.
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The more naiveness, the less knowledge to know better?!
Like Adults are being reverted to mentally of innocent children, instead of me mature rational adults?!
MAGA faithful have none. They do not question anything except that which they are told must be questioned.
https://www.brandeis.edu/peace-conflict/pdfs/198-methods-non-violent-action.pdf
https://fullspectrumresistance.org/
https://touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/protesting-under-fascism/
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501756061/pranksters-vs-autocrats/#bookTabs=1
https://archive.iww.org/history/icons/sabotage/
Make American Illiterate Labor.
I fully support Carmen’s perspective regarding Vladimir 🇷🇺 Trump’s attack on institutions that provide accurate knowledge based information. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!! It’s also one ☝️ of the biggest threats to authoritarian & dictatorial regimes. No time to be complacent .. DO SOMETHING!
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