"The strategic ambiguity about whether or not we live in an autocracy is designed to preserve maximum maneuverability for the regime until such time as they have full control and no longer need to maneuver."
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We decry the Hamas capture of hostages. Then our own gestspos pull people off the street and send them to a gulag in El Salvador.
Please explain the difference to me.
Hmmm, there's nothing ambiguous about it. America is now an authoritarian state. That its citizens can't bring themselves to admit it or realize it, is a whole other thing.
Yes WE know here on Bluesky🦋 but if you stood on a street corner in any city right now and asked "Is American Democracy Over?" I doubt if even 5% of the responses would be Yes.
💯 People will continue to sleep walk through this, until it hits closer to home. A family member rounded up at a protest, getting fired from your job and blacklisted for previous social media posts, paranoia settling in because a neighbor was taken away by plain clothes thugs. The list is long!
Yes☝🏽 and when it is no longer "legal" to speak out the realization that something truly vile is "going on" will sink in 🤦🏻♀️
Not to mention waking up to our increased security & safety vulnerabilities on all fronts.
In our 3 branch system of fed government, it should be 2 to 1 against the branch that's out of control violating the Constitution. Congress now is as guilty of treason as the Executive. Thank goodness for the Judiciary, although confidence in SCOTUS is unfounded.
We ARE in a DICTATORSHIP. Fascism is not at the door; it's in the HOUSE and the SENATE. Oh, call it what it is: the TRUMP/MUSK AUTOCRATIC REGIME. But you know that. The control is what we have to take back. HANDS OFF!
It is sad that there are some Americans who live in a democracy but instead turns to the dark side and work towards a totalitarian state. They enjoyed the benefits from democracy but use it and turn it into an autocracy.
The rubber is really going to hit the road when the lawsuits hit the Supreme Court. If he's blocked from going his illegal E.O.s (and they're basically all illegal) and he complies, I think we'll make it. If he doesn't comply, it's over. If SCOTUS gives him a free pass, it's over.
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,
They are very close to achieving that, once the judiciary coup is completed there will be nothing and nobody can stop them to take away your rights to exist, let alone those under the Bill of Rights.
Republicans are under the spell of a PROFESSED PREDATOR incapable of empathy (without a capacity for shame, an even less regard for godliness.) He’s the cold GOP standard bearer for Republicans.
Evil is the new norm.
Better angels must keep speaking out. There’s more good in us than doom in them.
He left office breaking the law trying to stay in power last time, and we (not me, probably not you) voted him back in. People consume so much Russian propaganda that they thought that was a good idea. Stop all spending possible. It's the only protest that can't be stopped or spun by propaganda.
removing medical care, ALL “DEI” even at the Smithsonian making it look like groups of people don’t exist in our history including Women. Arresting people off the streets and locking them up shipping them out the US including Americans. Then we ARE a fucking dictatorship! CALL THINGS WHAT THEY ARE!
We are an up and coming totalitarian dictatorship in full violation of the laws and Constitution of this country. There is no doubt where we are and where we are going. It is not good!
"Democracy dies not in darkness—but in distraction."
This isn’t just history. It’s a diagnosis.
Every time we forget who government is for, we pay in blood, debt, or silence.
#MoralAlgorithm
Another day, another authoritarian outrage. We mustn't give in to despair but pick the battle(s) we can fight. There are millions of us and 100s of battles (so far).
Call your House and Senate Rep and tell them that this is NOT OK. You need to let them know that you will vote them out if they do not support our democracy. Demand it. Let your voice be heard. Go out and protest do not be silent!
Exactly, and now Trump has his hands on our election system.
Those counting on a free and fair election in 2026 are going to be disappointed.
No one is coming to our rescue.
The legislative and judicial branches are weak, and the republican members of those branches are actually part of the problem. My only hope is that the U.S. military is sane enough to do the right thing.
Bit by bit...dictatorship with the REPUBLICAN CONGRESS AS ENABLERS. all are guilty hiding away in their ivory towers of congress. Everyone is AFRAID of trump & his minions. Personal greed plays into this too.
This wouldn't be the first time ambiguity existed in America. For nearly nine decades, a large portion of Americans lived under apartheid rule. The Jim Crow era wasn't called apartheid, but it was, and Trumpism isn't called autocracy, but it is. How long it lasts is TBD.
Stop spending and stop consuming, as much as possible. It's a protest that can't be stopped. If money burns a hole in your pocket donate to the ACLU instead of spending it.
No one knows. LOL sure. People in denial dont know. People who know history know, its a fascist regime.
Democrats are in denial, they think peaceful protests and voting will change things. LOL. If voting changed anything trump, musk, thiel and vance would be on death row
Here is what I know. As an American, age 54. The blatant grift, coercion, and incompetence is beyond anything I ever could have conceived for an American government. I am ashamed and appalled. Squabble at your peril over what to call it; it is dangerous and we are in jeopardy.
Is one semi-pregnant or fully pregnant? Is Schrodinger's cat dead or alive? I suppose once you can't question the government, you'll already be deep in an autocracy, and such philosophy is mute.
The men sent to El Salvador know, the physician & students who had legal visas taken away, threatened with deportation, know. Thousands of fired federal employees, AOC, Bernie, Chris Murphy, Jasmine Crockett, Meidas & ALL OF US watching know. When are the Dems, and the media, going to catch up?
Why "ambiguity"? What else do you need to chase these criminals out of office? Or are you just using this to continue lazily and merely boo-hooing, hoping that the demon will go away by itself? Your elected president has set the world on fire and continues to fan the flames.
There will be growing protests this summer. At some point either naturally occurring or incited by right wing agitators there will be violence.
This is what Trump is gearing up for. He’ll declare martial law and quash further protests. By the time the mid terms come around it will too late.
I can't imagine them giving up, even thou they chose the biggest fraud puppet, to lead their power grab to take-over of our democracy. After watching America in Color and seeing how they have been trying to take the country back for most of it's 250 years, it's now or never - they are exposed!
You can be sure martial law is right around the corner. Then you will have American soldiers on every street corner enforcing Republican mandates and ICE can really get busy.
Not calling what they're doing authoritarian is just for the media. They'll refuse to outright call it that until the very last second. Meanwhile, the rest of us know precisely what's happening... oh, except for MAGAts. They think all this is just 'owing the libs'.
Here we go "Prominent scholars Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley are resigning from Yale University, leaving the United States, and will begin teaching in Canada"
Apparently Snyder had already made the decision, but the other two (one is a philosopher) decided to go because of the increasingly toxic coal mine gas
No ambiguity-we are in an autocracy. The preliminary injunctions against Trump will come before SCOTUS. If SCOTUS reverses them (likely), we will legally have a de facto king ruling by Executive Order. If SCOTUS rules against Trump, he will ignore them & we will illegally have a de facto king.
Stupidity implies low intelligence and ignorance. F Elon's cult are not stupid, they know he is wrecking our government and our Constitution and they like it the way someone is thrillled at a light at then end of a tunnel, until they realize it's a runaway train.
There is not any ambiguity if one looks at their deeds, not their words. Masked men with no identification snatching families without warrants and sending them to unknown locations without any due process; Ignoring court orders and proceeding with illegal and unconstitutional acts. This is Fascism!
The U.S. is now in 'competitive authoritarianism'—democratic institutions exist, but the system is rigged. Elections happen, but media control and suppressing dissent make real competition impossible. Just look at Hungary, Russia, and Turkey.
Eyes wide open people, destination has been reached - the dictatorship shit show! Just because they don't have enough people to do it everywhere, all the time, doesn't make it a "slippery slope" or being "on the verge" of fascism Are people waiting for the open-air executions to actually call it?!
It certainly looks like we are heading toward dictatorship. It will continue until we have politicians with a backbone who are honest to the constitution.
A South African emigrant with racist traits is buying the US.
In the 50s, a seamstress took on the establishment and won. When will the Rosa Parks of this era start boycotting the autoracy that is being implemented in plain sight?
Trying to declare war with Venezuela will ultimately lead them to try to enact Martial Law, especially with the growing number of protests around the nation.
I really don’t think there’s any ambiguity. It does no one any good to pretend that we aren’t already in an authoritarian regime. This notion that we’re “almost there” is buying them more time, yes. So don’t perpetuate the myth.
Does Dictatorship come with fanfare? Or does is come like a tsunami of Executive Orders meant to bypass The Legislative and Judicial Branch of Government and land in The Supreme Court before a SCOTUS Favorable to POTUS?
The Russo-Hungarian-Turk playbooks can clue journos in international affairs.
As Trump voters become more aware of GOP plans to strip their benefits, as they start to feel the effects of tariffs & rising prices, their anger will reach a tipping point. Trump believes he can control us by imposing martial law. 350 million pissed-off Americans w/arsenals of guns beg to differ.
Congress has abdicated their role & our last hope is the courts.
SCOTUS has already given DonOLDS unearned openings but may come in before it's too late.
“Does Fascism aim at restoring the State, or subverting it?” Mussolini teased his followers before the 1922 March on Rome that brought him to power, playing on his movement’s ideological ambiguity.
As an outside observer, I'd say that the only ambiguity seems to be coming from your mainstream media. Black and Brown people, trans people, international students, and Green Card holders are in no doubt about the status of the land they call home. The rest seem to be split down the middle.
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Please explain the difference to me.
Sorry, but it is
They will fail.
and anyone who does is too scared to busy to give a shit
Not to mention waking up to our increased security & safety vulnerabilities on all fronts.
These are truly twisted and evil people.
Felonious regime is fascism
Clearly absolutely 💯
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Putin should not be trusted ?
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Do not trust Trump.
Trump is a liar.
Trump is insane.
Trump speaks from the mouths
of his political appointees.
Trump’s political appointees
are lying for Trump.
And Trump is up Putin’s Butt !
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https://open.substack.com/pub/noelkeith/p/tranquil-piece-of-mind-vol-3-no-6?r=4c7psw&utm_medium=ios
Evil is the new norm.
Better angels must keep speaking out. There’s more good in us than doom in them.
They need religion and shitty bosses and authoritarian wannabe strong men to tell them when, where and how high to jump.
They’ve longed this.
He can’t spell “authoritarian”.
He can only spell “ME”.
Putin has wanted EU and NATO divided for long time.
Weakening the west is key. Keep this in mind ...
If you think this is off-point, you're missing what's really happened to the GOP ... https://www.businessinsider.com/the-russian-rupert-murdoch-2014-11
We're now in a dictatorship. If you think anything different, you're an idiot.
This isn’t just history. It’s a diagnosis.
Every time we forget who government is for, we pay in blood, debt, or silence.
#MoralAlgorithm
#MoralAlgorithm
PUH-LEEZ
PEOPLE ARE DYING
PEOPLE ARE DISAPPEARING
Is it a fiction to easy the pain of living without freedoms?
Or is it an inducement to Republicans that you're ready for more?
Either your are free, or you are not.
What the F happened to Americans?
To become an oligarch who can buy elections is the ultimate American consumer purchase
It is the American dream itself
The ultimate social status symbol
Full frickin' blown.
Every Capitol, April 5
https://handsoff2025.com
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/26/2308940/-Mental-Manipulation-Attacks-Understanding-Milton-Erickson-s-Confusion-Technique-and-The-Weave
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/1/29/2220336/-Trump-and-Republican-Psychological-Warfare-You-can-t-fight-it-if-you-don-t-understand-it
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/business/trump-auto-prices-tariffs/index.html
Those counting on a free and fair election in 2026 are going to be disappointed.
No one is coming to our rescue.
Smoke screen made of feigned ignorance
Great Article
Democrats are in denial, they think peaceful protests and voting will change things. LOL. If voting changed anything trump, musk, thiel and vance would be on death row
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The men sent to El Salvador know, the physician & students who had legal visas taken away, threatened with deportation, know. Thousands of fired federal employees, AOC, Bernie, Chris Murphy, Jasmine Crockett, Meidas & ALL OF US watching know. When are the Dems, and the media, going to catch up?
This is what Trump is gearing up for. He’ll declare martial law and quash further protests. By the time the mid terms come around it will too late.
It's a dumb typo to start off the article with. Fix it.
This is not the US anymore
Canaries in a coal mine.
Source: Live: Ukraine yesterday or Saturday
Apparently Snyder had already made the decision, but the other two (one is a philosopher) decided to go because of the increasingly toxic coal mine gas
There is no doubt in my mind.
It is simply a matter of time before they declare martial law and explicitly suspend civil rights for all of us.
Americans outnumber the cult 2:1.
#Resist
The ambiguity is not about language, it’s about actions and how much time does it take the legal system to catch up. If it does at all.
Absolutely nailed it.
Trump, musk, p. thiel, r. johnson (WI), are all showing us that the billionaires own us now. The repubs have sold us out and they all suck!
https://youtu.be/Jqof0Zl_0rs?si=UtGv3knyXreDKMQm
In the 50s, a seamstress took on the establishment and won. When will the Rosa Parks of this era start boycotting the autoracy that is being implemented in plain sight?
Time is of the essence.
Need yellow jackets?
The Russo-Hungarian-Turk playbooks can clue journos in international affairs.
SCOTUS has already given DonOLDS unearned openings but may come in before it's too late.
It’s something you know but haven’t been able to put your finger on.
It’s time for a little Chopin for me.
Have a lovely evening you guys:)
https://lucid.substack.com/p/what-is-fascism