#TimothySnyder :
1/11. The people who told you that fascism was not a threat were wrong.
2/11. The people who told you that Russia was not fascist were, if possible, more wrong.
3/11. Fascism is might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction over fact, pain over law, blood over love, doom over hope.
4/11. Fascism advances every injustice. Its victory will leave us serfs of a vengeful nature, of relentless technology, and of unquestionable oligarchy.
5/11. Analytic clarity is needed...
#TimothySnyder :
5/11. Analytic clarity is needed for political clarity. If you do not know what you face, you do not know how to act.
6/11. Once named, fascism can be defeated. Indeed, once named it can be easily defeated.
7/11. Russian fascism must lose on the battlefield. Americans can bring this about by supporting courageous Ukrainians.
8/11. American fascism must lose at the ballot box. Americans can bring this about by organizing, canvassing, phone banking, donating, and voting...
#TimothySnyder :
9/11. We know from history that fascism can lose. And we know today the contests that must be won.
10/11. Compared to challenges that others face around the world, our odds in 2024 and 2025 are excellent. Americans have chances, not excuses.
11/11. A defeat of fascism is not a negation. It is an affirmation: of a future that can be more beautiful, more just, and more free.
I'm thinking: we can alert each other to the works and speeches of #TimothySnyder
I'm thinking: we can collect those works and speeches or references to them in some more permanent / comprehensible form than the tutus on Mastodon. For example, here at Trojka trětího and Náměstí Prague 3.
Professor Timothy Snyder is so frickin awesome. This is who we all should be listening to. His breadth of knowledge, intelligence, character and heart demonstrate the best of America.
.. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is intimately connected to a possible Chinese war of aggression against Taiwan. As Taiwanese leaders continually and urgently remind us, Ukrainian resistance deters Chinese aggression. ..
"If we do not help Ukraine now, we lose all the things that Ukrainians have won for all of us these last two years. The world changes in a way that tips the balance to the tyrants and the aggressors. This is laid out in the appeal... People of various outlooks and backgrounds chose... to join the appeal to Congress — musicians, actors, thinkers, historians, entrepreneurs, diplomats."
I was born and lived most of my life in a country just like this. #TimothySnyder is the only American writer I know who truly gets it. It's not just his experience, it's also lots and lots of empathy and willingness to understand other people. Every word of this essay is true and matches my lived experience in #Belarus to a tee. Americans, don't let you country decay into that. #Vote