If you identify as a #Libertarian and you think it makes any sense for #trump to speak at your convention, then you are clearly in denial because he is obviously a #fascist#autocrat
Brainwashing and personality cult have reached such proportions in #Russia that citizens are blaming #NATO and #Ukraine for the meanness of their top authorities and are asking Tsar #Putin for help
@Zettelnotizen this comes straight from the times of the Russian Tsardom: the serfs implore the #Autocrat to help them to deal with the local Bojar.
Instead, accusing an incompetent/unwanted politician of conspiring with foreign powers to destabilize #Russia comes directly from the #Soviet Penal Code: this motivation was widely use to purge party members.
The Autocrat role is to decide whether to use the plea of the serfs to purge the bojar, or to allow the bojar to punish the serfs.
"Believe the #autocrat. He means what he says. Whenever you find yourself thinking, or hear others claiming, that he is exaggerating, that is our innate tendency to reach for a rationalization. This will happen often: Humans seem to have evolved to practice denial when confronted publicly with the unacceptable." Masha Gessen #Orban#Trump#Putin#Lukashenko#Khomeini#GeertWilders#Afd#Hungary#Russia#downwithdictators
"Elon Musk, a self-described "free speech absolutist," agreed to censor Twitter in Turkey on Saturday, the day before a critical election, at the request of the nation's autocratic government."
~ Judd Legum
If there's a strongman or strongman wannabe anywhere in the world, Elon Musk bows to him, because he imagines himself a strongman. His worldview and politics are simple. Yet NY Times tells us he's "complex."