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Toni AittoniemiTrump doesn’t have a desire to take over <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenland</a>, Silicon Valley has.This is part 1 of the Silicon Valley billionaires’ plan to take over the whole world.This is about the <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/NetworkState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetworkState</a>. The plan to build pure corporate <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracies</a>, as the next superpower of the world.They see the end of nation states and <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a>, and yearn for a world where <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#corporations</a> rule supreme.<a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=07sKLHzlYc8" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/watch?v=07sKLHzlYc8</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RepublicOfGeorgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicOfGeorgia</a>: First year of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Georgia</a>’s ‘foreign agent’ law shows how <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracies</a> are replicating <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Russian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russian</a> model − and speeding up the time frame Published: March 28, 2025 6:25am EDT"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a> is on the move worldwide and becoming more resilient."One of the driving forces behind this phenomenon is something scholars call '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AuthoritarianLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AuthoritarianLearning</a>,' a process by which autocratic leaders study each other and adapt tactics based on what appears to work, and how to proceed when they encounter <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a>."Take Georgia. The ruling Georgian Dream party has steered the Caucasus nation from a path toward democracy back to autocracy – and it has done so by learning from Russia. In particular, it adopted a '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForeignAgent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForeignAgent</a>' law in May 2024 – legislation that came straight from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/VladimirPutin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VladimirPutin</a>’s playbook."Sold to the public as increasing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transparency</a>, the legislation has been utilized to persecute Georgia’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/opposition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opposition</a> and arrest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dissidents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dissidents</a> with impunity."As researchers examining the structure and effects of autocratic regimes, we view Georgia’s first year of its foreign agent law as an example of how politicians are not only learning the tactics of Russian authoritarianism but improving on them in a shorter time frame."Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/first-year-of-georgias-foreign-agent-law-shows-how-autocracies-are-replicating-russian-model-and-speeding-up-the-time-frame-250878" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/first-year-of-georgias-foreign-agent-law-shows-how-autocracies-are-replicating-russian-model-and-speeding-up-the-time-frame-250878</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightToProtest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiProtestLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiProtestLaws</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgianLaws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeorgianLaws</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriminalizingDissent</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CriminalizingProtest</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RepublicOfGeorgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicOfGeorgia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GeorgianDream" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeorgianDream</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProtestSponsors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ProtestSponsors</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExpandedPolicePowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ExpandedPolicePowers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliceState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracy</a>

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Authoritarianism</a> A leading global <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after 10 years, recovery is “close to impossible.” For the first time in more than 20 years, by #2025 <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DemocracyReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocracyReport</a>’s estimate, the world now has more <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracies</a> (91) than <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/democracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracies</a> (88), with liberal democracies (29) now least common regime type. <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-freedom-authoritarianism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-freedom-authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://archive.ph/n35Qh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/n35Qh</a>

MarkTrump is testing waters on Ukraine to see how far he can go elsewhereA ‘win’ in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> may lead Trump to act in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Greenland</a>Globally <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s focus is cooperating with world’s leading <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracies</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/oligarchies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oligarchies</a> to get <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> get richer at the expense of just about everyone else.In part, this is because the Trump administration is testing the waters to see just how far and how rapidly it can go.<a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-testing-waters-ukraine-gaza-canda-greenland-russia-uk-labour-keir-starmer/?utm_source=Fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-testing-waters-ukraine-gaza-canda-greenland-russia-uk-labour-keir-starmer/?utm_source=Fediverse</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AuthoritarianCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AuthoritarianCapitalism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/DictatorTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DictatorTrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TrumpCoup</a>

A.Stringer"A month ago, <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JoeBiden</a> was <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PresidentoftheUnited" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PresidentoftheUnited</a> States, and for all of his sclerotic tendencies and faults, while he held that office no-one was in any doubt where the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/President" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#President</a> stood: that he believed in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Westernalliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Westernalliance</a>, favoured <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/democracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracies</a>, abhorred <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracies</a>, and would defend <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a>."(2) We're waking up to a new US/Russia axis - by Lewis Goodall <a href="https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/were-waking-up-to-a-new-usrussia?utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/were-waking-up-to-a-new-usrussia?utm_medium=ios</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DefendDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DefendDemocracy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/savedemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#savedemocracy</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a>

h o ʍ l e t t→ Zuckerberg's free speech pivot will abet Southeast Asia's authoritarians <a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Zuckerberg-s-free-speech-pivot-will-abet-Southeast-Asia-s-authoritarians" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Zuckerberg-s-free-speech-pivot-will-abet-Southeast-Asia-s-authoritarians</a>“Autocracies worldwide are not just learning from one another but actively collaborating to tighten their grip on the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digital</a> sphere. <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a>'s double standard -- resisting regulation in <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/democracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracies</a> while bowing to <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/authoritarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarian</a> demands to protect its <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/market" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#market</a> dominance -- risks becoming the blueprint for a darker, more repressive digital <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/future" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#future</a>.”<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zuckerberg</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Asia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Asia</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracies</a> <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/worldwide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldwide</a>

MarkPlaybook of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracies</a> explained in new <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#book</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Autocratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocratic</a> regimes like <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> are increasingly bold in efforts to undermine norms defining democratic <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WorldOrder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldOrder</a> after WWIIA month after <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RussiaInvadedUkraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RussiaInvadedUkraine</a>, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said “this is not about Ukraine at all, but world order”“The current war is fateful, epoch-making moment in modern history,” he continued. “It reflects battle over what world order will be.”<a href="https://kyivindependent.com/deals-over-ideals-anne-applebaum-explains-the-playbook-of-autocracies-in-new-book-and-how-to-undermine-them/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://kyivindependent.com/deals-over-ideals-anne-applebaum-explains-the-playbook-of-autocracies-in-new-book-and-how-to-undermine-them/</a><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RussianAggression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RussianAggression</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HybridWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HybridWar</a>

The Kyiv Independent [unofficial]Ukraine Daily summary - Wednesday, December 18 2024 Ukraine 'strongly condemns' African delegation's visit to Russian-occupied territories -- Russia heavily attacking in Kursk Oblast for 3rd day, actively using North Korean troops -- Russia may encircle Ukrainian forces near Velyka Novosilka, monitoring group says -- Anne Applebaum explains the playbook of autocracies in new book -- and more <a href="https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20Wednesday,%20December%2018%202024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20Wednesday,%20December%2018%202024/</a>

Kim PeralesAutocracies, a🚨to the US/world:<a href="https://toad.social/tags/Autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracies</a>: no longer run by one single bad guy -become sophisticated NETs that rely on “kleptocratic FIN structures, a complex of sec. svcs… & tech. experts -provide surveillance, propaganda, & disinfo.”For 30 years, global <a href="https://toad.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> evolved every year since 1974, but declined for the last 20 yrs. Rulers deprive citizens of any real influence or public voice -transparency or accountability & repress anyone who challenges them. <a href="https://toad.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/36612" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/36612</a>

ZeMKIZeMKI member Dr. Daria Dergacheva will be presenting at <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/ECREA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ECREA</a>’s 2024 pre-conference “The Informational <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Influence</a> of <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/Autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Autocracies</a> Abroad” in Ljublyana, Slovenia, on September 23rd 2024.Further information: <a href="https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/dr-daria-dergacheva-at-ecreas-2024-pre-conference-in-september/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/en/dr-daria-dergacheva-at-ecreas-2024-pre-conference-in-september/</a>

Tim MakApplebaum: The relationship between modern <a href="https://journa.host/tags/autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracies</a> – they are not an alliance...What they are more like is a huge international <a href="https://journa.host/tags/conglomerate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conglomerate</a> within which there are separate companies that cooperate when it suits them, but otherwise do their own thing…

Chuck DarwinHer book examines some of the ways that <a href="https://c.im/tags/Silicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Silicon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Valley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Valley</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#billionaires</a> have become effectively complicit in enabling <a href="https://c.im/tags/autocracies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracies</a> to thrive, agreeing to censorship on their platforms, following the money. She has been prominent among those writers shining a light on the ways that 🔸coordinated propaganda strategies in autocracies are fuelling division in the west.🔸♦️Getting an American president who doesn’t like Nato in office is a lot cheaper than fighting wars♦️“Of course, I don’t think either Trumpism or the Brexit campaign were foreign ideas,” she says. “I mean, because I worked at the Spectator in the 1990s I knew many people who were anti-EU then and who had grassroots deep in the English countryside. But as we know, what the Russians do, and now others, 🔷they don’t invent political movements – they amplify existing groups.”🔷In the case of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a>, she suggests, “he is clearly somebody who they cultivated for a long time. Not as a spy or anything. But they were offering him opportunities, you know, he was trying to do [property] deals there [in Moscow]. And he’s been anti-Nato since the 80s. He’s openly scorned American allies all of his life. In one of his books, he talks about what a mistake it was for the US to be fighting the second world war. 👉So of course, the Russians would want someone like that, because their aim is to break up Nato. 👈❌And if they can help get an American president who doesn’t like Nato in office, that’s a huge achievement. It’s a lot cheaper than fighting wars.”

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