Slow Cooking a toad - How Authoritarianism creeps in
At the risk of getting my last youtube account deleted, I've been uploading unlisted content on there lately. So, the only way for anyone to find these videos is through this blog of mine.
That being said, I will also be uploading them to Rumble, and other places, with the idea of sparking curiosity about this blog, and having more people find Hive. For this, I prepared a short ending screen of sorts.
With housekeeping out the way
In this video I make reference to a recent tweet made by Wikileaks. Now, If this doesn't blow your mind, then you and I live on different planets.
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1906496195666882859
Bitchute might be a alternative as well as odysee if you want to spread your eggs out.
never been there, but I should look into it. You are right.
I second Odysee
I am definitely not travelling to the US in the near future. I am no radical, but they could pick up remarks I've made online to use against me. There are some worrying trends in the UK, but the US is going that way further and faster.
I wonder if more people will make use of Hive as a way to publish news about all this. I would expect that some US journalists are worried for their own safety. It could be that MAGA vigilantes will decide that they are being given the nod to take action. I'm sure Musk is making deliberate signals of support for that.
I can empathise with Israel as I have friends there, but they are doing terrible things right now. People are being arrested for criticising this, but outright actual Nazis who were involved in Jan 6 got released. This is political and possibly some business deals rather than concern for regular Israelis, IMHO.
The tidalwave of shit is overwhelming us, but all the underhand stuff has to be exposed.
I have no doubt my sharing of anti trump shit on fb has been already picked up by the Bots.
With all this AI stuff they can probably process more than ever.
Maybe we can flood the feeds with talk of gay and trans climate and vaccine scientists
How many witnesses live in the US or in a country that is very worryingly starting to embrace Nationalism? Using Hive as a way to publish abuses and news is a fantastic idea, but I'm sure that would make US based witnesses a target for Trump.
That is a potential issue. I don't know what the liability issues are for witnesses or where is considered safe these days.
Freedom of speech was obviously a way to get the votes never something they meant. This is too sad Meno too too sad. And people always act surprised when things get bad, but it never happens fast. Like the frog in hot water, they don’t jump out until too late. Maybe we’re already boiling
I'm with you, man. I thought it couldn't happen in the US. Not because of exceptionalism, not because the founding fathers crafted some thing that was impervious to corruption. But because I thought we had learned from history. I thought while nationalism and authoritarianism had existed well before WW2, that event really shows us all how bad it can be and we all learned to never allow it again.
Well... Trump proves that it can indeed happen again, that people don't learn, that the lower classes today are just as easily bamboozled by a demagogue as they have always been and given into the hatred of nationalism.
On one hand, I remain hopefully as I see signs of resistance. On the other hand, it's very depressing and sobering to see how easily he is doing all this and how the entire GOP and most of the Democrats are enabling him.
That said, as I told @steevc on Mastodon, I am scared to bring my wife into the US right now. She has a green card, but ICE shows they don't care about that. I have been very critical of Trump online and I haven't previously made any attempt to hide my real name. My wife uses my last name. Am I being too cautious? Maybe, but this shit is scary.
I would really encourage you to listen to this podcast with Sam Harris and Jonah Goldberg about how bad it's getting. Keep in mind Goldberg is a huge conservative and used to be on Fox News, but he is very anti-Trump. As he says in the podcast "You can call them [MAGAs] right-wing, but they aren't conservative". Harris hides the full podcasts behind a paywall, but I think I can share the full episode. Here: https://samharris.org/episode/SE3C5F6992F
There's nothing conservative about MAGA, not a damn thing. The party of family values? Get out of here. The Constitutionalists? Gtfoh. The fiscally responsible? GTFOH^2.
I'm going to check out that podcast
It is reasonable to assume that everything posted to social media is now being scanned by numerous AI's by a wide assortment of agencies and entities.
Posted using Political Hive
Well, up until now, I've not seen Wikileaks be wrong. So, I consider it a fact.
Orwellian...