I know a lot of my followers are young and american, but I'm curious to hear from anyone in other countries with the experience of going from a semi-functioning democracy to a dictatorship.
How did you handle that? What did you hold on to? What advice do you have for us?
How did you handle that? What did you hold on to? What advice do you have for us?
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But yeah ..
We don't support/enable dictators here in Ireland to be honest
Oh and also voting is important y'know?
Just saying ...
Good luck with 'whatever has been voted for' for taking over now 😱🫣
But in 2 years you can mark their report card?
We have a lot of artists here 💙💙💙💙
(Well we're a relatively new 'republic' in Ireland&as a Irish woman I always understood the right to vote as a privilege not given to everyone in the world.Not voting of course is a choice, but you have de facto supported the winner)
Fair play to you
We will get our reward in the next life 💙
When my b.-in-law was a law student, he had to go hide in the countryside because "they" were looking for him.
If you say something like "$1/day is a terrible salary", you can be denounced as a "communist"...good bye.
Hard.
We left.
i'm on 2 antidepressants, full of white hairs, still haven't managed to stop smoking and i'm broke as shit
so is literally everyone else i know
but hey fernanda torres won the golden globe for best drama actress
Sit down.
Lean forward.
Put your head between your knees.
Kiss your ass goodbye.
I like comparing the current political moment in the US to the Gilded Age leading up to the Great Depression.
Agree that things are more complicated.. but with hundreds of characters is hard. Will look for a good book.
But I am fearful for the future and wish safety and normalcy for the American people and beyond.
BEFORE YOUR FIRST PROTEST.
Leave your phone and ID at home.
Sew your pockets shut.
Do not a word to the armed guards, especially after being arrested.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/makeup/374929/
and whether you are up to a beat down or a night in jail for the cause. Taking up jail space is a big drain on oppressors, but it is also a big drain on you.
If you are just going to do a loud parade, then no big deal, have fun !
For now.
Leave the purse at home too, or you might have the same problem.
Also thick clothing for rubber bullets, eye protection, helmets, and heavy welders gloves for returning gas grenades to sender.
Look at the #FreeGeorgia protests for GUIDANCE !
THEY ARE STANDING UP FOR THEIR DEMOCRACY !!
It won't matter soon anyway.
See for yourself
I'll fight it by myself if I have to.
The same billionaires are now at the prez inauguration to rule us while everyone is high.
This was not a white male victory per say but a failure to convince women to vote for a qualified woman. This must be addressed to change anything.
understand (not agree) many man voting trump.
but yes you are right. what should go around social media is women trying understand that group fear and start changing it. only women can do that. that is the hard but must do part.
And for sure, the ultra feminism i see sometimes turn them off.
the key is to figure what exactly makes them tick.
what do you thing these guys end up doing? yeah that is right.
I dont tell you what to do but simply how to help change things.
short of that that is the solution?
How the world looks at a 'policing' country that cannot hold a guilty rapist & felon to account?
How the world looks at a 'law-abiding' country who highest court is riddled with corruption?
Will they respect the USA?
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- How much should we drink, and how often?
- MST3K episodes "pre-haunted" with Trump jokes: yes or no?
- Should I grab that copy of "Hillbilly Elegy" out of the Little Free Library down the street?
Start locking up all opponents.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/19/trump-democracy-orban-modi-franco
U r basically left with 3 option
1. Be part of their genocide
2. Become a terrorist and fight for the Palestinian freedom
3. Leave the country
So I became a refugee in Brazil
But the war is not just against the Arabs, the government is fighting and stealing the people. I knew that the war about to start because it actually already stated before the 7/10, the country was a complete mess, and still is
(I'll give you a clue: None)
Regardless, who cares?
That's what YOU said.
You just owned yourself.
https://bsky.app/profile/mickeymoosenhauer.bsky.social/post/3lfdl546jjk2w
No censorship (fuck Trudeau flags), no forced injections-no one was held down, only banning AR15's, capping EMMISSIONS, not oil/gas, low crime rate etc.
He lied to the Nazis and helped hide people from them.
As demanded by the Nazis, what do you do when the superpower next door wants your country to play nice or pay the price? people like my great grandparents hoped for the nightmare to end.
And it did. Thanks to the allies.
When rights are taken away everyone who witness it should be aware that it starts at the minority groups but it will eventually effect their rights as well.
All we can do is to be compassionate, kind and treat other people right
I also held on to hope, but I'm still hoping.
Put up or shut up.
That’s kinda horrifying…
I hope the rest of your life has been more peaceful.
I’m scared. I’m scared for my family and friends.
I am going to wait a little bit and kinda “read the room” in the mean time - get passports for my son and myself, just in case. And save as much money as I can. I’m willing to stand up and have a voice
We had a brief reprieve until about 2016, but bizarrely I feel like djt is just a massive regression to the mean
😊
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNeEdKJXa/
Italy is currently run by the most far right party since WWII, their only policies are being racist xenophobes and giving us the first female prime minister (who has a very warped and far removed sense of feminism)
As a older Gen Z (I think? Idk these things I'm 25 yo) I'm just
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But very few young people are interested in voting
And everyone is very tired of electing the same politicians who do nothing and earn a boat load of money
There's also the problem of having a far too large number of people in the Parliament
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The only advice I have, as corny and overused as it is, is don't lose hope like we are currently doing
I hope for a change of tides here as well
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My advice is stay strong, don’t panic, and keep your head up.
You got this.
And in the future, I beg you not to engage trolls in my replies, it's what made twitter utterly fucking unusable on many occasions.
It is actually quite fun.
You put your opinions out there and you're forced to hear others. That's how it works.
Take some quiet time and clear your head. Always helps me when I get frustrated.
Spend the time you were gonna waste on them to write a nice comment for a creator you like or something. I promise it'll do WAY more good than fighting bots
Trolls piss me off, call me names, insult me, ECT.
And I understand wanting to fight back.
But it only ever intensifies the amount of trolling cause *now they know you'll respond*
Responding to the trolls only amplifies their posts more.
I REALLY want to get the whole "leave a nice comment instead" thing going
I've been harassed by trolls a ton but the things that keep me going are all the nice comments 💕
Even just a "I like this!" Was SO encouraging & helped me ignore trolls
Responding won't help
But being kind will. Not to the trolls, but to the people they're trolling
Also don't bring up drama/trolls: they know. They don't need reminders. Just tell them something nice that's unrelated cause getting your mind off of bad things is VERY important
Revolution is the easiest part however. National unity doesn't last long and 1 or 2 election cycles down the road counter forces are bound to take majority due to dissatisfaction of populace.
1/2.
If Russia were not to invade in 2014, their political forces would've easily gotten the majority in parliament in 2019.
tbh, what the world is doing rn is so bizarre even i can’t make sense of it … and i friggin grew up in communism.
wtv this is, it’s just as challenging…
Come To Brazil :3
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Or Canada, Because They Speak English And Have Even Better Politics
We have been sleepwalking into it for decades...
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html
https://www.openculture.com/2024/11/umberto-ecos-list-of-the-14-common-features-of-fascism.html