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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

Fascism. "If this were happening somewhere else – in Latin America, say – how might it be reported? Having secured his grip on the capital, the president is now set to send troops to several rebel-held cities, claiming he is wanted there to restore order..." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

aug 30, 2025, 11:20 am • 297 127

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The Metaphysicalist @metaphysicalist.bsky.social

It may look like authoritarianism, but it's actually a Kakistocracy dressed up in an authoritarian costume. It's not a sure thing if it ever becomes a real one, it may simply become completely broken, and a failed state.

aug 30, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
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His Royal Huwness @litterygeniarse.bsky.social

Better a decade late than never

aug 30, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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ILuvPolitix @iluvpolitix.bsky.social

This is what 77M American vermin voted for.

aug 30, 2025, 11:22 am • 5 0 • view
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Eric Banks @ericbanks.bsky.social

And the ones who didn’t vote or wrote in someone else.

aug 30, 2025, 12:35 pm • 3 0 • view
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Katie Sweeney @k8iesweeney.bsky.social

Clearly & succinctly.

aug 30, 2025, 11:27 am • 0 0 • view
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Ultrapop @ultrapop.bsky.social

What's also amazing is that he's so fucking stupid, such a pawn for the GOP project 2025 and a Russian asset all at the same time.

aug 30, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
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tom4okstate.bsky.social @tom4okstate.bsky.social

Jarring to see it all laid out there. Didn't even get to January 6 and the criminal conviction.

aug 30, 2025, 11:58 am • 0 0 • view
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Yosemite Sam @yosemitesocs.bsky.social

I also keep thinking that this is more and more sounding like the Caeser playbook than Hitler's rise to power, though there are aspects of both

aug 30, 2025, 11:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Yosemite Sam @yosemitesocs.bsky.social

If I were you, I'd seriously consider emigrating.

aug 30, 2025, 11:39 am • 0 0 • view
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fourcatsandadog.bsky.social @fourcatsandadog.bsky.social

We are a banana republik

aug 31, 2025, 5:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social

And in the Süddeutsche: The oldest democracy in the West is slipping into autocracy. Oh, Freunde, we've slid all the way down that slope into full fascism. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/komm...

aug 30, 2025, 11:43 am • 53 8 • view
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A moose in a kaboose @kaboosemoose.bsky.social

O Freunde, nicht diese Töne!

aug 30, 2025, 11:50 am • 0 0 • view
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Eaglesfanintn @eaglesfanintn.bsky.social

Play the game, imagine if you took that column and swapped every reference to Trump and the Republicans with Obama and Democrats. What the right is allowing to happen would have Hannity’s head explode and the same guys now in ICE would be armed insurrectionists.

aug 30, 2025, 11:33 am • 1 0 • view
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Julio Perez @jperez78.bsky.social

America is like the frog in a pot of boiling water!!!

aug 30, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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crazycatlady54.bsky.social @crazycatlady54.bsky.social

good Lord people, we are already there, wake up

aug 31, 2025, 8:38 am • 1 0 • view
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Jane @janetea4.bsky.social

Ironic that we spent the last 60 years telling the world to crush Authoritarian regimes while we in America sat back and handed the keys to the world to a wannabe Dictator and his buddy Vald. MAGA was never intended to make us Great. It was intended for destruction of Democracy world wide.

aug 30, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
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OliverRupert @olivierrupert.bsky.social

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aug 30, 2025, 1:12 pm • 5 1 • view