NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump
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This week, Trump told us who he is. Believe him. If his adminstration picks look like a plan to destroy America from within, it likely is.
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How do we know this? Because it always is. It's the authoritarian playbook. Lawsuits are first. Prosecutions are next. America needs to learn these moves fast. It's already later than you think.
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Surprise!
His plan depends on them moving in lock step. Sadly RepubliCONs default to that when pressured
But good stuff here. 💯 tracking the same way.
Which authoritarian would be willing to tolerate a large group of highly educated professionals, led by science and evidence rather than the dictats of the 'Great Leader'?
If Trump were to try and force a dismissal, the potential hit to financial markets might be more than he envisages.
You'll find commentary by Prof. Snyder about the twenty lessons on YouTube also.
The lessons are simple and straightforward, and they reflect the experience of resistance movements against the fascistic regimes of the last century.
That was the first mistake
People don’t understand, before he did all that other horrible stuff, Hitler silenced his opposition with violence.
This is McMuskism: it’s McCarthyism on steroids, political persecution + Trump + Musk + Silicon Valley surveillance tools.
It’s the dawn of a new age of political witch-hunts, where burning at the stake meets data harvesting and online mobs.
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https://apnews.com/article/trump-woke-education-24f864d83e2f5745d12a79ebac0d7cc4
His name isn't McMusk
5/ You have more power than you think. We’re supposed to feel powerless. That’s the strategy. But we’re not. If you’re a US institution or organisation, form an emergency committee. Bring in experts. Learn from people who have lived under authoritarianism. Ask advice.
As an individual, not an institution, what is my emergency plan? Specifics. Pay cash. Download Signal, turn on disappearing messages. Maybe use cell phone 4 emergencies only? Don't kiss the ring. how does an individiual abide that I wonder. So, do the SB GFs get expert 2 speak on authoritarianism?
Just, Starmer, remain strong in European Family
https://substack.com/home/post/p-151436990
I'm thinking you should think bigger like Mehdi Hasan.
https://bsky.app/profile/angryblacklady.bsky.social/post/3lfnqym7usk2i
https://bsky.app/profile/annieleymarie.bsky.social/post/3lb5ntmkahs2o
Meaning we should prevent this from becoming an echo chamber? We should not block?
Number 7 'Know who you are' @timothysnyder.bsky.social's unmissable advice. He said his key warning is still 'Do not obey'. But this is what lies beneath it. Know what you stand for.
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As a dane I am not worried (yet) but I only used Messenger at bit and want to send a message to Sillicon Valley.
If they start helping Trump with his revenge I will delete each and every of their app as soon as I read about it.
Court orders is no excuse.
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Even before the already-mentioned Nazi support, SubStack paid Transphobe Graham Linehan to join. Subsequent related incidents pushed me to Buttondown.
From 2022: https://mashable.com/article/substack-writers-leaving-misinformation
What we might need is a decentralized, privacy-preserving network.
I’m dubious about any platform (hence the Anon account) and if what it is dire as your article sounds, we need it now.
Love @theguardian.com the way it is now. ❤️
This did NOT only just start with Trump. Republicans built their Conservofascism for a better would be fascist dictator.
https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3l6toxk566r2r
(Just the term, I hate the broligarchs themselves)
https://x.com/Kasparov63/status/1857549353055084893
Also renew any other IDs like drivers licence or any proof of citizenship now too.
Make copies of things like birth certificate and hide somewhere.
Personally, I’d also start putting cash aside with a focus of having more cash than money in bank where possible.
I have a feeling many of the people who get sucked in by populist propaganda have a weaker sense of self
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjwycG_9Ujo
Muskrat's tailor is certainly earning the money with those custom long-line jackets he stitches up, yes?:
Not least, evidenced by their silence over the deliberate targeting and murder by Israel of nearly 200 journalists in Gaza. Where's the outrage?
Call a thing a thing.
But how far to go with protecting oneself. What steps? Turn off location, delete stuff ( that doesn't really delete?), what kind of steps are we really talking about?
Like un-linking your google account with those you couldn't remember the pw for? Taking all your cc info off sites?