#totalitarian state

[saywhat-politics]

The Pentagon evicted NYT, Politico, NPR, CNN, Washington Post, NBC, and The Hill from their offices, replacing them with right-wing outlets like Breitbart, OAN, Newsmax, and the Daily Caller. This is what government-controlled media in a totalitarian state looks like.

[chronicallyuniconic]

How can anyone get better, under the conservatives proposals to get people back to work ??

This scheme will help so few people, but will definitely damage many.

Disabled people are not pawns for your political games

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I have one consistency, which is being against the totalitarian - on the left and on the right. The totalitarian, to me, is the enemy; the one that's absolute, the one that wants control over the inside of your head, not just your actions and your taxes.

- Christopher Hitchens

[battlestariroh]

Barbie/Thomas the Tank Engine revelation

Só it's a well-known fact that Thomas the Tank Engine takes place in a fascist dystopia. See here for receipts: https://www.cracked.com/blog/thomas-tank-engine-horrible-racist-classist-monster

[Sir Topham Hatt literally immuring one of his subjects for disobedience, a punishment he can apparently impose without any due process whatsoever]

It occurs to me that during the scene in "Barbie" where Sasha calls Margot Robbie a fascist, Margot Robbie responds that she can't be a fascist because doesn't "control the railways":

["She thinks I'm a fasicst? I don't control the railways or the flow of commerce"]

Só it turns out that Mattel owns Thomas the Tank Engine along with Barbie:

Ergo, Margot Robbie must be referring to Thomas the Tank Engine when she says she can't be a fascist because she doesn't control the railways!

[philosophors]

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

— Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World”

[tomorrowusa]

Journalists covering a demonstration in Moscow by wives of Russian soldiers were arrested by Putin's police.

Some 20 journalists were detained by police in central Moscow on Saturday at a rally of Russian soldiers' wives calling for their men to be returned from the front in Ukraine. Independent Russian news outlet SOTA reported that 27 people were taken from the demonstration and transported to the nearest police station. Reuters news agency said one of its journalists was among those detained while filming women laying red carnations at the tomb of the unknown soldier in the shadow of the Kremlin's walls in central Moscow. Moscow police did not comment on the raid. "Journalists should be free to report the news without fear of harassment or harm, wherever they are. We are committed to covering world events in an independent, unbiased, and reliable way, in keeping with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles," a Reuters spokesperson said in a statement. The demonstration was organized by a group called The Way Home, which urged "wives, mothers, sisters and children" of reservists from across Russia to come to Moscow to "demonstrate (their) unity." The Moscow prosecutor's office said Saturday that the rally had not been coordinated with the authorities. Authorities warned against calling for and participating in unauthorized demonstrations. For several weeks, wives��of currently mobilized Russian men have been campaigning for their husbands' return from the front, as well as opposing further mobilization. 

In Russia, an "unauthorized demonstration" is one which does not support Putin and his fascist policies.

Speaking of fascists, Tucker Carlson is apparently in Moscow.

Tucker Carlson Being Spotted in Moscow Sparks Frenzied Speculation

The reported appearance of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in the Russian capital has sparked intense speculation over the purpose of the conservative media personality's visit to Moscow. Carlson arrived in Moscow on February 1, and was spotted attending the Bolshoi Theater in the capital, according to Russian outlet, Mash. Questions quickly swirled over why the TV anchor would have traveled to Moscow, and whether he intended to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin during the visit.

A Tucker interview with dictator Vladimir Putin would probably be as incisive as his interview with Trump. 😝 Perhaps Putin will let him see the famous Trump pee tapes.

Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll decide to defect while in Russia. His views are much more in tune with a totalitarian state than with the United States.

[deborahdeshoftim5779]

One man's immortal bravery in the face of homicidal totalitarianism. This is 'Tank Man', the unnamed Chinese man who stood in front of government tanks after the Chinese government massacred its own citizens in Tiananmen Square between June 3 and June 4, 1989.

As a result of his stand, the tanks responsible for wholesale slaughter were unable to pass.

Nobody knows what became of 'Tank Man'. Nor do we know the true number of Chinese slaughtered by their government for demanding civil and political reform. With a zeal that outstrips Orwellianism, the Chinese Communist Party has banned all mention of the death toll, the massacre, and attempts to commemorate the dead.

Thanks to the freedom of Western nations, a gift that must never be abandoned, we can see the true face of evil that Communist China represents.

May all the victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre rest in peace.

[zee-man-chatter]

MASS PSYCHOSIS - How an Entire Population Becomes MENTALLY ILL

Nearly 7 million people have watched this video. It’s 20 minutes long, but if you watch one video this week, watch this one, it will help save your mind from the current madness we’re in. If you like it, share it with others.

In this video we are going to explore the most dangerous of all psychic epidemics, the mass psychosis. A mass psychosis is an epidemic of madness and it occurs when a large portion of a society loses touch with reality and descends into delusions. Such a phenomenon is not a thing of fiction. Two examples of mass psychoses are the American and European witch hunts 16th and 17th centuries and the rise of totalitarianism in the 20th century. This video will aim to answer questions surrounding mass psychosis: What is it? How does is start? Has it happened before? Are we experiencing one right now? And if so, how can the stages of a mass psychosis be reversed?  

[the-funtime-autocrat]

The Restrict act is a blatant violation of both the 1st and 4th Amendments, with very broad and vague language and draconian penalties. For instance, if one causes undue "risk" to US interests or persons, broadly defined, or if one engages in election interference, they are subjected to fines of up to $1million, civil asset forfeiture, and/or up to a 20 year prison sentence. Basically, it is the Patriot Act on steroids or the Patriot Act for the internet, and grants the government total power over regulating communications, grants the Executive branch dictatorial powers, including wartime powers, and formalizes the Fed Intelligence and Law Enforcement relationships across the digital sphere, as we saw with the exposure of the Twitter files, rather than just farming out tech censorship to the private sector.

Robert Stark, “Beware of The Restrict Act: Patriot Act For The Internet on Steroids” (March 31st 2023).

[davidjhopcroft]

Book

Book

She did not like the book and so she complained

About the library from which the book had been obtained

There were words and phrases beyond her comfort zone

She moaned to her parents as soon as she got home

Their first reaction was that this book must be banned

Then the situation kind of got out of hand

They decided the book should really be rewritten

So that those nasty bits could be hidden

The narratives really had to be changed

Some events of necessity would have to be rearranged

Even though a truth may become estranged

They sent me a copy of the revised edition to review

Showing how the narrative had been changed to protect you

Of the people who queued to leave their foreign homes

For a free passage on the tall sailing ships

To seek out a new life in a paradise overseas

Employment and a new home were provided to please

How the kindly plantation owners showed how they cared

For those who had fled horror and how their lives were spared

The wealth and riches of the new land could then be shared

A proper version was written of the nation’s history

The rainbow pictures painted of equality

Now the books are so much better don’t you see

Our children need to be told the truth I’m sure you agree

You might find this a more comforting version of their reality

There are still some books that await to be rewritten

The one where a girl loved a girl and was smitten

The book where a boy played with a doll was clearly wrong

I heard the governor kicked up a dance and song

His disciples nodded and followed like sheep quietly along

Those books had to be altered so they would belong

In a society that had to be carefully constructed

To match the dream that was being structured

The girl now dressed for the boys at night

The boy found an automatic rifle to his delight

They married and had children of course all were white

The young girl could now go to school

Unaware that she had become the fool

For the books now defined her new position

So clearly as being one of total submission

Copyright: David Hopcroft May 2023

[chronicallyuniconic]

you know we're part of a dystopian society, when the establishment wants to prevent medical professionals, doctors, from issuing sicknotes

totalitarianism is here, coming in hard & fast.

this is not a real democracy. we see them, with their authoritarian tendencies, their corruption, their oligarch ties and interests, their lack of accountability, their undermining of the law, their erosion of our civil liberties, but most of all, they have lost public trust.

[d33-alex]

Even Milton Friedman couldn't convince Thomas Sowell to abandon Marxism, but working for the federal government did.

Sure, corporations can get big and inefficient, but the government is the biggest corporation, and the only one that can use FORCE against you, the citizen.

And corporations have to compete against each other, the government only grows and becomes tyrannical.

You want government as small as possible — and keep it that way.

[healthyhabitjournal]

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[fakefrench10]

Worried and warm

What ever I looked like crossing the street on my bike, I hear from the car in front of me, the driver looks at me and shouts - “Schwule Italiener.. Das sind die Linke”. Gay Italians.. those are the leftists.

First time I trusted the city was in October 6th 2017. There was a storm on my third day living in Berlin. A big one on Berlin scale. Xavier was his name. The name of the storm. It was not that bad. For once a natural disaster didn’t have a woman’s name. It was not that bad. I saw a tree fell on a parked car. I thought the worst thing, before I had to walk through a park in Neukölln in the dark.

I had to walk all 4 kilometers to Hermannplatz, because the trains were not running. Nothing was running. And nobody. My navigation was running me through a huge park. Through a post-apocalyptic Berlin. Walking on an allee surrounded by fence, every face appearing towards me could be a maniac. The only face that appeared was a guy in tattoos. That. And he was not a maniac. He smiled and walked by.

The first time I didn’t trust the city was when my bike got stolen. I thought the worst thing, before 2024. Protests against AFD started. AFD - alternative für Deutschland. Better they were calling DFD - Deutschland für Deutsche. Far rights. Chances are they win the elections, and then gay Italiens like me or whatever we are, have no chance in this country.

Joi says that’s leftist’s fault, that afd is picking back up. That leftists have no strategy. Why would they have one. If they had one they would be in power. But they don’t want power. They want justice. It’s not leftist‘s fault. It’s totalitarian‘s fault. Those on left and right and up and down and inside and out.

[abjectionporn-blog]

Robert Jay Lifton Flag Thought Reform And The Psychology Of Totalism

[lilianeruyters]

Paul Lynch || Prophet Song

Booker Prize Shortlist 2023 Spoiler alert: I have to reveal some content in order to comment on this novel The undertitle of Lynch’s novel might well have been ‘how to turn into a fugitive’. In Prophet Song an average family all of a sudden becomes the victim of a regime growing more totalitarian by the day. The main character starts the novel as a wife and mother of four time with a fulltime…