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Just_Vote_Dem

(3,195 posts) Wed Dec 11, 2024, 06:57 PM Dec 11

Wow-some of our Dem Reps and Senators must not have read Timothy Snyder's 20 Lessons

On Fighting Tyranny-and here's a few:

1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

3. Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections.

10. Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

All 20 at https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth

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Wow-some of our Dem Reps and Senators must not have read Timothy Snyder's 20 Lessons (Original Post) Just_Vote_Dem Dec 11 OP

one suspects last second conversion will not keep people out of the camps nt msongs Dec 11 #1

Yep, converters would be seen as hypocrites most likely, and get the axe much worse n/t Just_Vote_Dem Dec 11 #4

Oh Yeah... Fetterman comes to mind when I read Cha Dec 11 #2

Hi Cha, you're very welcome Just_Vote_Dem Dec 11 #3

Adding Insult to Injury. Cha Dec 11 #5

Threats are being made and violence will follow..... Bread and Circuses Dec 11 #6

Meantime, some of our own people are betraying us. wnylib Dec 11 #11

#11 is my favorite LearnedHand Dec 11 #7

That is also a great one! n/t Just_Vote_Dem Dec 11 #8

I cannot tell you how disappointed I am in the American people ..geeze NotHardly Dec 11 #9

Wanna get REALLY disappointed? Just_Vote_Dem Dec 11 #10

msongs

(70,363 posts)

1. one suspects last second conversion will not keep people out of the camps nt

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 07:02 PM

Dec 11

Just_Vote_Dem

(3,195 posts)

4. Yep, converters would be seen as hypocrites most likely, and get the axe much worse n/t

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 07:09 PM

Dec 11

Cha

(306,135 posts)

2. Oh Yeah... Fetterman comes to mind when I read

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 07:04 PM

Dec 11

the First Rule.

TY

Just_Vote_Dem

(3,195 posts)

3. Hi Cha, you're very welcome

Reply to Cha (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 07:07 PM

Dec 11

I was apprehensive when Trump won-and now when I see what some of our reps are saying-

Cha

(306,135 posts)

5. Adding Insult to Injury.

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 07:14 PM

Dec 11

Thank you Again!

Bread and Circuses

(302 posts)

6. Threats are being made and violence will follow.....

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 07:16 PM

Dec 11

Along with harassment by the Felon’s FBI, IRS. The Felon will use the judiciary and law enforcement to get even with Democrats. He said it and now it will be done.

wnylib

(25,037 posts)

11. Meantime, some of our own people are betraying us.

Reply to Bread and Circuses (Reply #6)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 09:45 PM

Dec 11

LearnedHand

(4,261 posts)

7. #11 is my favorite

Reply to Just_Vote_Dem (Original post)

Wed Dec 11, 2024, 09:03 PM

Dec 11

It precisely captures why I hate television show "analysis" by vapid anchors:

11. Investigate. Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate to others.