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Full liberation for: Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Iran, Tunisia... All peoples deserve a liberal democracy that protects their freedom, human rights and pursuit of happiness.

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Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 1d

My Belarusian-born middle school classmate: barely visited Belarus ever, says Belarus has great healthcare, western police are very violent? Yes ofc Lukashenko is a dictator, but you haven't been to Belarus. Life is great.

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 1d

North Korea tho

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 2d

Fürther?

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 2d

This one here I support

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 6d

Why is that?

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 8d

Although true, he could basically do anything and SCOTUS wouldn't stop him. So institutional reform has priority over that act I would say.

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Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 8d

NSA related courts?

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 12d

You're missing that immigrants are the ones who build new houses.

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 12d

This case is infuriating. So Poland ignored ECHR ruling and its own courts?

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 12d

I might be incorrect, but this sort of secret court thing always makes me think: "only in the US"...

Reminds me of all the national security related courts regarding for example Guantanamo.

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Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 13d

Any articles on Hollande that you'd suggest reading? I don't really follow/know why you consider his presidency pathetic.

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 17d

Not commenting on the truthfulness of either statement, but your tone was fine I guess. So ignore the other dude.

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 17d

"The amount of stuff we need to dig up in order to solarize the planet is equal to one seventeenth of the fossil fuels we dig up every year. "

I think you should correct your post.

1/17= 5.8%
A third of what you posted.

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Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 18d

Congrats. Did this tattoo thing relate to nazi insignia, to be clear?

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 18d

Jeez I knew there was someone I know he was starting to resemble. Damn

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 18d

No need for palantir et Al to be involved tho

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 19d

I agree with everything and maybe it's not the right political moment for ID cards given his unpopularity, but there are ID cards almost everywhere and it's not a big deal at all. It's not unprogressive.

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Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 21d

I'd just like to add that I'm happy to see people whose opinions I respect commenting negatively on the Blair news. Made me feel like I'm going crazy.

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 21d

I'm nothing close to an expert on middle east matters, but Tony Blair and his closeness to gulf oil money made things rather weird for me. I suppose maybe other things like Iraq are more important to the judging this hypothetical pick. But a politicised white dude in Gaza? Wtf. Not even a diplomat.

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Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 21d

Could you give more context? thanks!

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 23d

This business as usual refers to a lack of action on inequality stemming from the financial crash?

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Bo Jacobs Strom @bojs.bsky.social · Sep 15

I find this seemingly common reading that Polanyi says you have to be nice to the far right completely bizarre - he specifically argues that instead of the rise of a mass movement it's the capitulation of democratic forces in the face of institutional deadlock and failure that lets the fascists in!

A passage from the great transformation including the lines "Moreover, there was a striking lack of relationship between its material and numerical
strength and its political effectiveness. The very term "movement" was misleading since it implied
some kind of enrollment or personal participation of large numbers. If anything was characteristic of
fascism it was its independence of such popular manifestations. Though usually aiming at a mass
following, its potential strength was reckoned not by the numbers of its adherents but by the
influence of the persons in high position whose good will the fascist leaders possessed, and whose
influence in the community could be counted upon to shelter them from the consequences of an
abortive revolt, thus taking the risks out of revolution....In no case was an actual revolution against constituted
authority launched; fascist tactics were invariably those of a sham rebellion arranged with the tacit
approval of the authorities who pretended to have been overwhelmed by force."

If a "revolutionary situation" is characterized by the psy-
chological and moral disintegration of all forces of resistance to the point where a handful of scantily
armed rebels were enabled to storm the supposedly impregnable strongholds of reaction, then the
"fascist situation" was its complete parallel except for the fact that here the bulwarks of democracy
and constitutional liberties were stormed and their defenses found wanting in the same spectacular
fashion. In Prussia, in July, 1932, the legal government of the Social Democrats, entrenched in the
seat of legitimate power, capitulated to the mere threat of unconstitutional violence on the part of
Herr von Papen. Some six months later Hitler possessed himself peacefully of the highest positions
of power, whence he at once launched a revolutionary attack of wholesale destruction against the
institutions of the Weimar Republic and the constitutional parties.

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Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 28d

Extremely interesting points.

Aside: family members of mine talk about Hitler being democratically elected. Ignoring the militia violence, the intimidation of opposition meeting and physical presence at polling stations as examples. Plus Hitler didn't even win a majority.

Democratic anonymity @comradebotany.bsky.social · 28d

North Korea is distinct from this

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Mary E. Mendoza @mmendoza.bsky.social · Sep 20

I’m pleased to announce that my forthcoming book, _Deadly Divide_, will be out in spring 2026 with @uncpress.bsky.social with the help of my fabulous editor Cate Hodorowicz (@catehodorowicz.bsky.social).

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