Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" from November. We are living through it now. snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati... - ThreadSky

timothysnyder.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Just going to repost my essay "Decapitation Strike" from November. We are living through it now.
https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike

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syg29.bsky.social•1 day ago

We need a road map how to resist this nightmare

nosln.bsky.social•1 day ago

bookwoman298.bsky.social•18 hours ago

well put! In the end it's all about SKIN IN THE GAME. Once enough people feel the sh.. is hitting them, things will turn around. But the Dems badly need authentic leaders with an overview. btw where are Harris/Waltz these days?

dlheil.bsky.social•1 day ago

Why are so many of this administration’s leaders overseas simultaneously meeting (planning) with Israel, Turkey, et al?

Watch troop movements. US strike against Iran in process?

reggiejay.bsky.social•23 hours ago

“Without a civil service, the law becomes mere paper, and all that works is the personal connection to the government, which the oligarchs will have, and which the rest of us will not.”

reggiejay.bsky.social•23 hours ago

“This is the engineered helplessness promised by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are to head a black hole named after a cryptocurrency.”

desertsun66.bsky.social•1 day ago

His appointees are all extremists

handi817.bsky.social•1 day ago

Mr Snyder:
I agree:
"There is also a history of engineered regime change and deliberate state destruction. In both histories, five key zones are health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence.

handi817.bsky.social•1 day ago

These people, with power over these areas of life, can make America impossible to sustain."

But it ain't who you think it is:

janehop.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is terrifying but we must pay attention and act!! Snyder's words from months ago are all playing out in real time!! Don't rely on people in power. We all need to be in the streets and screaming loudly!

savonnrg-1.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Demonstrate April 5th!

janehop.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I'll be out there!!

suzup5.bsky.social•1 day ago

Both inside and outside Congress, there will have to be simple defiance, joined with a rhetoric of a better America. And, at moments at least, there will also have to be alliances among Americans who, though they differ on other matters, would like to see their country endure. T. Snyder

soderbrod.nafofellas.com•1 day ago

They have a nihilistic fascination with destroying structures and practices that have taken centuries to hone. They want to collapse one form of society to raise another, uglier and crueller.

handi817.bsky.social•1 day ago

That's correct. And these are the people behind it. See my pinned.

savonnrg-1.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Must re post!

snippyboobah.bsky.social•1 day ago

Finally! Someone entered the chat with “Nihilism”!

That’s the mantra, that’s their MO

Discuss and debate and protest all you want. This is the way to end it, Italian style

lynneofbayarea.bsky.social•1 day ago

thank you

andil.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I won’t make it through the next 4 years.

lmkona.bsky.social•1 day ago

I shudder to think who the replacements would be. What’s below the bottom of the barrel?

lstewartsc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Truth. So on the money.

marvelousmarg.bsky.social•14 hours ago

.📌

jan-ray.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thanks for this essay, which needs to be the response to every post indicating the regime’s incompetence. As the saying goes: their incompetence isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.

consbegone.bsky.social•3 hours ago

The intention of these Trump appointments is clear: to create American horror.

consbegone.bsky.social•3 hours ago

We are confronted with a group of people who could bring an end to the United States of America.

It is a mistake to think of these Trump people as flawed. It is not they will do a bad job in their assigned posts. It is that they will do a good job using those assigned posts to destroy our country.

consbegone.bsky.social•3 hours ago

These Trump appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.

consbegone.bsky.social•3 hours ago

From this perspective Trump's... appointments -Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard- are perfect instruments.They combine narcissism, incompetence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, and foreign influence as no group before them has done

consbegone.bsky.social•3 hours ago

Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States. How could you do so? The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence.

consbegone.bsky.social•3 hours ago

There is a history of the modern democratic state. There's also a history of engineered regime change & deliberate state destruction. In both histories 5 key zones are health, law, administration, defense, intelligence. People with power over these areas can make America impossible to sustain

lesliecolorado.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Amazing, spot on. Toronto is lucky to have you.

ianward.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's a perfect example of a kakistocracy. (I had to look it up.)

piprgrl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Frightfully prescient.

n0valis.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for reminding me to read the article again. You were pretty accurate about how this would play out. My wife and I just cancled last week our planned vacation to the SW of the US. But sadly, we feel too scared to travel in Trump Nation nowadays. And too disgusted.

evedillingham.bsky.social•1 day ago

New Mexico is not Trump Nation. Come on down!

reggiejay.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Do not come anywhere in the U.S. they are kidnapping people for no legal reason and trafficking them to slave camps. It’s horrifying.

meisterfes.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank You for the analysis. My parents were born at the beginning of the third Reich. As a child I saw the US an CH as the only eternal democracies worldwide.
Today I'm happy not to see the violence of the Nazis in US politics. But I won't ask about the internal surrender of a state any longer.

caledonia100.bsky.social•18 hours ago

There is Nazi violence in the US. Just think of the deadly effects of systemic racism, slayings by police, wrongful convictions of people of color, trauma from breaking up families when one parent is undocumented, etc.
No, we don’t have a Holocaust (yet), but the idea is present in MAGA minds.

meisterfes.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Sadly, You make a point, I guess. I think of the pictures of the deportations to El Salvador. But they didn't build concentration camps for their oponents like the nazis 8 weeks after the Machtergreifung. So:... not the degree of violence ...

syk1331.bsky.social•7 hours ago

I have one thing left to say about the 'STATE OF OUR NATION'...1776!

onemoney.bsky.social•1 day ago

Thank you for accurately describing what has happened and is happening. As long as we know what's going on and don't normalize the deviance we have a chance to rebuild.

overwatch1776.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I encourage Americans to read and think seriously about Timothy Snyder’s essay from last year. His premise is plausible if not probable. If we do not stand up for our nation now and put relentless pressure on our elected members of Congress, we will lose our nation to a tinpot dictator.

mdavey10.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unfortunately the democrats ignored your warning. They had no plan to stand up to Trump. The shock and awe worked and only now are they beginning to get into the game when it’s already the 2nd quarter.

a-climate-refugee.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’ve read the books and I’m still f-ing shocked. Contact with my elected officials go unanswered, so I’m protesting at a local office. Time to demand results, asking has been dismissed.

dardenne.bsky.social•1 day ago

We know.

thelorso.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ugh.

owenhowlett.bsky.social•10 hours ago

So prescient! I'm constantly disappointed in media and politicians who characterize regime actions as "incompetence" or "mistakes". They want a system where all that exists is fealty, so mistakes are simply not a thing because there's no objective standard to compare conduct against.

humanokrat.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Billiant analysis. That is how it works. But what to do?

slowtalking.bsky.social•1 day ago

I find myself thinking back to your essay far more often than I would like. You called it right.

nononoitaintmebabe.bsky.social•1 day ago

Money pours into the US out of the perception that we are a nation of laws and debt obligations are backed by the full faith and credit of our government. What happens when that faith is lost?

marcwoodhurst.bsky.social•1 day ago

amdjerz.bsky.social•23 hours ago

@booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @mikiesherrill.bsky.social

amdjerz.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Read this folks!

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