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#hungary s #dictator #orban slips farther towards #totalitarianism as he leaves the #icc to welcome #netanyahu charged with #warcrimes against the citizens of #palestine living in #gaza
It would be great to see him get apprehended along his journey.
#justice #antifa #war #crimesagainsthumanity #tyranny #genocide
https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-says-it-is-withdrawing-icc-israeli-leader-visits-2025-04-03/
It would be great to see him get apprehended along his journey.
#justice #antifa #war #crimesagainsthumanity #tyranny #genocide
https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-says-it-is-withdrawing-icc-israeli-leader-visits-2025-04-03/
only valid version of history. The regime isn’t just attacking facts — it’s going after the institutions that preserve them.
#Propaganda #Democracy #Totalitarianism
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#Propaganda #Democracy #Totalitarianism
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The US elites are fighting with time against a demographic shift that is overdue. Inevitably this will be a political shift, affecting the UK Fr De Israel oligarchs (Anglo Saxons and Zionists united). The demographic shift in the US causes anglo-saxon-franco-zionists to become a minority in their own empire. Hence the brutal and abrupt hostility against rivals of this global hegemony, Russia, China, India, Islam.
#neoliberalism #marxism #totalitarianism
#Russia #China #India #BRICS
#neoliberalism #marxism #totalitarianism
#Russia #China #India #BRICS
This is what Sheldon Wolin called “inverted totalitarianism”
“The Billionaire War on Democracy: Tech Oligarchs’ Hostile Takeover of America”
by Don Knight in Midnight Manuscripts on Substack
“If you haven’t been paying attention to the tech billionaire movement to turn the U.S. government into a technocracy, now is the time to start—because it’s happening in real time”
https://open.substack.com/pub/donovanwashere/p/the-billionaire-war-on-democracy?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
#Press #US #Technocracy #Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Totalitarianism #Oligarchs #Trump #PayPal #Mafia
“The Billionaire War on Democracy: Tech Oligarchs’ Hostile Takeover of America”
by Don Knight in Midnight Manuscripts on Substack
“If you haven’t been paying attention to the tech billionaire movement to turn the U.S. government into a technocracy, now is the time to start—because it’s happening in real time”
https://open.substack.com/pub/donovanwashere/p/the-billionaire-war-on-democracy?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
#Press #US #Technocracy #Musk #Thiel #Sacks #Totalitarianism #Oligarchs #Trump #PayPal #Mafia
The Billionaire War on Democracy: The Tech Oligarchs’ Hostile Takeover of America
How Musk, Thiel, and Sacks Are Dismantling Democracy to Seize Absolute PowerDon Knight (The Midnight Manuscripts)
A quotation from Arendt
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)
[small]Sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/arendt-hannah/45087/[/small]
#quote #quotes #quotation #dictatorship #freepress #freedomofthepress #information #journalism #judgment #media #opinion #pressfreedom #publicopinion #totalitarianism
The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed?
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)
[small]Sourcing, notes: https://wist.info/arendt-hannah/45087/[/small]
#quote #quotes #quotation #dictatorship #freepress #freedomofthepress #information #journalism #judgment #media #opinion #pressfreedom #publicopinion #totalitarianism
https://wist.info/arendt-hannah/45087/
The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? Other parts of this inte…wist.info
Encryption backdoors are like leaving the door open for a totalitarian society... I don't see why people are unable to understand this...
"If they're going to cave into Zuck's demand to facilitate spying on Instagram users, do we really think they'll resist Kier Starmer's demands to remove Signal – and any other app that stands up to the Snooper's Charter – from the App Store?
It goes without saying that the "bad guys" the UK government claims it wants to target will be able to communicate in secret no matter what Apple does here. They can just use an Android phone and sideload a secure messaging app, or register an iPhone in Ireland or any other country and bring it to the UK. The only people who will be harmed by the combination of the British government's reckless disregard for security, and Apple's designs that trade the security of its users for the security of its shareholders are millions of law-abiding Britons, whose most sensitive data will be up for grabs by anyone who hacks their accounts."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/25/sneak-and-peek/
#CyberSecurity #UK #Apple #Encryption #Backdoors #Privacy #Totalitarianism #iCloud
"If they're going to cave into Zuck's demand to facilitate spying on Instagram users, do we really think they'll resist Kier Starmer's demands to remove Signal – and any other app that stands up to the Snooper's Charter – from the App Store?
It goes without saying that the "bad guys" the UK government claims it wants to target will be able to communicate in secret no matter what Apple does here. They can just use an Android phone and sideload a secure messaging app, or register an iPhone in Ireland or any other country and bring it to the UK. The only people who will be harmed by the combination of the British government's reckless disregard for security, and Apple's designs that trade the security of its users for the security of its shareholders are millions of law-abiding Britons, whose most sensitive data will be up for grabs by anyone who hacks their accounts."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/25/sneak-and-peek/
#CyberSecurity #UK #Apple #Encryption #Backdoors #Privacy #Totalitarianism #iCloud
“The Empire Self-Destructs”
by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack
“We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression”
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-empire-self-destructs?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
#Press #US #Empire #SelfDestruction #Trump #GOP #Fascism #WhiteSupremacy #ChristianNationalism #Coup #Corruption #Totalitarianism #Hubris #Israel #Palestine #Genocide #Ukraine #PermanentWar
by Chris Hedges in The Chris Hedges Report on Substack
“We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression”
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-empire-self-destructs?r=27oltk&utm_medium=ios
#Press #US #Empire #SelfDestruction #Trump #GOP #Fascism #WhiteSupremacy #ChristianNationalism #Coup #Corruption #Totalitarianism #Hubris #Israel #Palestine #Genocide #Ukraine #PermanentWar
The Empire Self-Destructs
We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
Fediverse the ultimate neoliberal social engineering experiment
Where private ownership provides absolute freedom and lack there of is sentence to #slavery and submission to masters
Before you execute the messenger just consider a scenario then be as critical as you want, as long as criticism is based on rational arguments, not emotional metaphysics and characterizations!
Say you write a little book, you find a publisher that is cheap and quick and you only have enough to print 100 copies, and you sell them basically at cost. 100 people buy them, read them, pass them around, before you know it your ideas have been exposed to more than 1000 people. But lets also say the printer through some clause in the agreement can buy them all back, at face value, and then destroys them. In the fire all markings, comments, notes written by readers are also gone. Furthermore the printer can take legal action against anyone making reference to the ideas on the book.
#FEDIVERSE
No rules, but the servers’ owner’s discretion. No rights, just conditional access and entry to the guestrooms. Server owners are never accountable for material, ideas, arguments, documents, ever hosted, they can make them all vanish.
#Accountability #Federation Rules #Judicial System ? NONE.
To write a document, to explain an idea, to analyze a topic, to make a thesis public, or simply to express an opinion, take work, and work has some value, it can’t all be a waste of time. In physical world expressing an idea in public to whoever is listening is prohibited in the most oppressive and totalitarian regimes. Once an idea is shared it is no longer the property of the person that expressed it, it is shared by all those who have heard the idea. In #Fediverse “the owner” of the space where expression takes place is in the absolute discretion of the host. There are no repercussions for any owner removing a participant, blocking one’s access, even when shared expressions come from other servers, and deleting all content. And by deleting the initial content the rest of the participatns’ comments vanish as well.
#Fediverse, is the ultimate virtual simulation of an absolute and TOTAL neoliberal world. There is not a square millimeter that is public, it is all privately owned, and the rules are indicative, they must be obeyed by “guests”, but the owner is the ultimate authority that can decide whether you exist or you vanish, whether the material shared/published deserves to stay public or be destroyed.
Guests of fediverse servers may either kiss owners’ rear ends and self-restrict to owners’ ideas and perceptions, or risk being removed and all the content shared and exchanged be removed. So they behave accordingly, as subordinates to the dictators hosting the space they use to share ideas and information.
Somehow, very few people find all this disturbing, and in contrast to social media owned and operated by large corporations, many progressive, democratic, liberal minded people thing and act convinced that this is better. I have no clue what goes on in most corporate social media, long ago when I used twitter I don’t remember any post of mine being removed. As far as I can tell, as long as they can sell IDs, cookies, email accounts, and advertising they couldn’t care less what you think. Communists (authoritarian/totalitarian and libertarian/democractic), anarchists of all colors and flavors, never see so much restriction, sensitivity, and censorship as exercised in #Fediverse.
It is absurd, I have never seen or imagined that deleting and censoring people would have been so pervasive and extensive as seen on #Fediverse, primarily #Mastodon servers. #Diaspora owners seem much more respectful of guests and users, and less intrusive in their guests’ discussions.
So all I see here is a neoliberal social engineering experiment going well. If this cannibalism can be tolerated by the “left” minded people then this may actually work on the physical world as well. Absolutely NO PUBLIC SPACE AND NO HUMAN RIGHTS, just obedient respectful guests in private space.
Sad, very sad, unbelievable dystopia. And this is gradually becoming an isolated ghetto of the left that has little or no effect and affect to the remaining world. Just as in real political repression, you keep attacking what you want to neutralize, you force them to barricade and contain their collective being, till nobody can see or hear them.
So real social activists who want to affect and inspire “real people” will lark on corporate media among the many, while the self defined radicals will gather up in this private ghetto where they are under the illusion they are safe and away from fascists.
Smart fascists start and run #fediverse servers as concentration camps of progressive, left, radical, activists to self contain themselves away from society.
#fediverse #neoliberalism #public domain #progressive #alternative #left #chaotic #disorder
#libertarian #communism #anarchism #syndicalism #democracy #communalism
#totalitarianism #capitalism #fascism #private ownership #marxism #dictatorship
@(heretical_I@kafeneio.social)
@Acta Populi
Where private ownership provides absolute freedom and lack there of is sentence to #slavery and submission to masters
Before you execute the messenger just consider a scenario then be as critical as you want, as long as criticism is based on rational arguments, not emotional metaphysics and characterizations!
Say you write a little book, you find a publisher that is cheap and quick and you only have enough to print 100 copies, and you sell them basically at cost. 100 people buy them, read them, pass them around, before you know it your ideas have been exposed to more than 1000 people. But lets also say the printer through some clause in the agreement can buy them all back, at face value, and then destroys them. In the fire all markings, comments, notes written by readers are also gone. Furthermore the printer can take legal action against anyone making reference to the ideas on the book.
#FEDIVERSE
No rules, but the servers’ owner’s discretion. No rights, just conditional access and entry to the guestrooms. Server owners are never accountable for material, ideas, arguments, documents, ever hosted, they can make them all vanish.
#Accountability #Federation Rules #Judicial System ? NONE.
To write a document, to explain an idea, to analyze a topic, to make a thesis public, or simply to express an opinion, take work, and work has some value, it can’t all be a waste of time. In physical world expressing an idea in public to whoever is listening is prohibited in the most oppressive and totalitarian regimes. Once an idea is shared it is no longer the property of the person that expressed it, it is shared by all those who have heard the idea. In #Fediverse “the owner” of the space where expression takes place is in the absolute discretion of the host. There are no repercussions for any owner removing a participant, blocking one’s access, even when shared expressions come from other servers, and deleting all content. And by deleting the initial content the rest of the participatns’ comments vanish as well.
#Fediverse, is the ultimate virtual simulation of an absolute and TOTAL neoliberal world. There is not a square millimeter that is public, it is all privately owned, and the rules are indicative, they must be obeyed by “guests”, but the owner is the ultimate authority that can decide whether you exist or you vanish, whether the material shared/published deserves to stay public or be destroyed.
Guests of fediverse servers may either kiss owners’ rear ends and self-restrict to owners’ ideas and perceptions, or risk being removed and all the content shared and exchanged be removed. So they behave accordingly, as subordinates to the dictators hosting the space they use to share ideas and information.
Somehow, very few people find all this disturbing, and in contrast to social media owned and operated by large corporations, many progressive, democratic, liberal minded people thing and act convinced that this is better. I have no clue what goes on in most corporate social media, long ago when I used twitter I don’t remember any post of mine being removed. As far as I can tell, as long as they can sell IDs, cookies, email accounts, and advertising they couldn’t care less what you think. Communists (authoritarian/totalitarian and libertarian/democractic), anarchists of all colors and flavors, never see so much restriction, sensitivity, and censorship as exercised in #Fediverse.
It is absurd, I have never seen or imagined that deleting and censoring people would have been so pervasive and extensive as seen on #Fediverse, primarily #Mastodon servers. #Diaspora owners seem much more respectful of guests and users, and less intrusive in their guests’ discussions.
So all I see here is a neoliberal social engineering experiment going well. If this cannibalism can be tolerated by the “left” minded people then this may actually work on the physical world as well. Absolutely NO PUBLIC SPACE AND NO HUMAN RIGHTS, just obedient respectful guests in private space.
Sad, very sad, unbelievable dystopia. And this is gradually becoming an isolated ghetto of the left that has little or no effect and affect to the remaining world. Just as in real political repression, you keep attacking what you want to neutralize, you force them to barricade and contain their collective being, till nobody can see or hear them.
So real social activists who want to affect and inspire “real people” will lark on corporate media among the many, while the self defined radicals will gather up in this private ghetto where they are under the illusion they are safe and away from fascists.
Smart fascists start and run #fediverse servers as concentration camps of progressive, left, radical, activists to self contain themselves away from society.
#fediverse #neoliberalism #public domain #progressive #alternative #left #chaotic #disorder
#libertarian #communism #anarchism #syndicalism #democracy #communalism
#totalitarianism #capitalism #fascism #private ownership #marxism #dictatorship
@(heretical_I@kafeneio.social)
@Acta Populi
"Totalitarian police states aspire to absolute control of all media of mass communication in an attempt to control the opinions of the masses."
Source: Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933-1945 by David Welch, 2001
#quotes
#media
#totalitarianism
Source: Propaganda and the German Cinema 1933-1945 by David Welch, 2001
#quotes
#media
#totalitarianism
My niece got me into #HungerGamesTrilogy books (she's a smart cookie) years ago. They're not just for #youngadults!
from 2012: #ClimateChange in The #HungerGames
How #dystopian young-adult fiction is tackling the social consequences of #GlobalWarming.
By Torie Bosch
March 21, 2012
"For those who have remained immune to The Hunger Games’ hype (and that’s just silly—read the books already!), Suzanne Collins’ story revolves around a cruel yearly pageant held in the country of Panem: One boy and one girl from each of 12 “districts” scattered through what used to be the United States are sent to battle to the death in a reality TV competition. Twenty-three will die; one will survive to live a life of luxury. We’re told that the games were instituted by the leaders of the Capitol, which governs Panem, to keep the district residents docile: The forced sacrifice of their children reminds them that they are allowed to live only so that they may provide the Capitol with goods and entertainment, panem et circenses."
https://slate.com/culture/2012/03/the-hunger-games-birthmarked-delirium-ya-fiction-on-climate-change.html
#PanemEtCircenses #BreadAndCircuses #WealthInequality #Fascism #Totalitarianism #Capitalism #GameShows #RealityTV
from 2012: #ClimateChange in The #HungerGames
How #dystopian young-adult fiction is tackling the social consequences of #GlobalWarming.
By Torie Bosch
March 21, 2012
"For those who have remained immune to The Hunger Games’ hype (and that’s just silly—read the books already!), Suzanne Collins’ story revolves around a cruel yearly pageant held in the country of Panem: One boy and one girl from each of 12 “districts” scattered through what used to be the United States are sent to battle to the death in a reality TV competition. Twenty-three will die; one will survive to live a life of luxury. We’re told that the games were instituted by the leaders of the Capitol, which governs Panem, to keep the district residents docile: The forced sacrifice of their children reminds them that they are allowed to live only so that they may provide the Capitol with goods and entertainment, panem et circenses."
https://slate.com/culture/2012/03/the-hunger-games-birthmarked-delirium-ya-fiction-on-climate-change.html
#PanemEtCircenses #BreadAndCircuses #WealthInequality #Fascism #Totalitarianism #Capitalism #GameShows #RealityTV
The Hunger Games and Other Young-Adult Books Tackling Climate Change
See all of Slate’s coverage of The Hunger Games here.Torie Bosch (Slate)