@bruno_j_navarro

I can only hope that my neighbors wake up, but not holding my breath. #florida #politics #autocrat

@RememberUsAlways Autocrats will #autocrat

Rougue @NATO member #Turkey won’t clear #Sweden’s way into NATO for 3 months, #Autocrat #Erdogan says https://breakingdefense.com/2023/07/turkey-wont-clear-swedens-way-into-nato-for-3-months-erdogan-says/

eicker.news #technews » #ElonMusk #Twitter »I Will Defend #FreeSpeech to the Death. Or Until an #Autocrat Asks Me to Stop.« https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-will-defend-free-speech-to-the-death-or-until-an-autocrat-asks-me-to-stop

Sen. Ted Cruz's Jan. 6 Scheming Exposed In Newly Unveiled Recording
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ted-cruz-recording-jan-6-capitol-riot-electoral-votes_n_644870f9e4b0d840388b5f65
Wth DOJ

#fascists
#liars
#CruzGrovel
#Autocrat

Will #RonDeSantis stand tough against the #authoritarian and #racist strong-man regime of #Israel?

Ha. No, of course not. He'll truckle to local #autocrat #Netanyahu (in hopes Israeli Intel goons will intervene on his behalf), cater to the #Christianist extremists of the US by supporting the Homeland of the End Times, and make yet a bigger ass of himself internationally than he is domestically.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/28/ron-desantis-israel-trip-00089153

🤔 🙄 . Everyone wants to be an #autocrat. The right wing rot has effected Israel. Benjamin #Netanyahu wants to be like #Trump.

In #Israel, Another Divisive Law on Another Day of Mass Protest

Amid a national crisis over a planned judicial overhaul, Parliament approved a bill protecting the prime minister from being declared unfit to govern.

🔗 : https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/world/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-protests.html

#Politics
#Mastodon
#News
#BlackMastodon

#Autocrat #Musk: Current & former Twitter employees tell BBC that features intended to protect Twitter users from trolling & harassment are proving difficult to maintain, amid chaotic work environment; Mr. Musk is shadowed by bodyguards at all times. Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64804007

"To #Russia, such a #policy would say tht things are abt to get much worse for #Putin forces. To #China, it says our commitment to #Ukraine & preserv'g the intl order we helped create is greatr than Beijing’s commitment to Moscow.

#Xinping has an interest in helping a fellow #autocrat, but he's also “an unsentimental practitioner of #realpolitik who “doesn't want to wind up on what could be the losing side.”
#RussiaUkraineWar #stupid #Russian #war #UkraineRussiaWar #US
http://bit.ly/3J8p5Wf

#RonDeSantis is now boasting that, with his cronies and contributors holding improvement district control over #WaltDisneyWorld, he can start forcing Disney to produce non-"woke" stuff that he and his base want to see.

Yes, Ron is escalating from "I'm going to punish you for criticising my agenda" to "I'm going to force you to vocally support me and mine," all through the coercive power of the state.

He's a budding #autocrat and he's probably running for #President .

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/desantis-promises-florida-will-control-disney-content.html

Martin Rowson on Vladimir Putin’s fictions – cartoon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/feb/21/martin-rowson-on-vladimir-putins-fictions-cartoon
#Putler #TinyDictator #Autocrat #Dictator #Sociopath

"Appetites of the #autocrat cannot be appeased; they must be opposed. Autocrats only understand one word, 'No!'" #Biden said. "'No, no, no. You will not take my country. No, you will not take my #freedom. No, you will not take my future.'"

#Putin "no longer doubts the strength of our #coalition" but "still doubts our conviction."

"He doubts our staying power. He doubts our cont’d #support for #Ukraine. He doubts whether #NATO can remain #unified.

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Musk says he wants Twitter to support democracy. So why is he acting like a tyrant?

.....Musk reacted very poorly to what he perceived as a crisis on Super Bowl night: President Joe Biden’s tweets were getting a lot more reach than his own tweets.

According to Platformer, the algorithm was tweaked so that all of Musk’s tweets bypassed the conventional filters that ensure customized content for users and boosted “by a factor of 1,000

#Musk #Fascist #Autocrat

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-twitter-tweets-timeline-rcna71035

Union-Busting Car Company’s Cars Unsafe

Today, the automaker recalled nearly 363,000 cars equipped with its “Full Self-Driving” technology after a report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that the Autosteer feature “led to an unreasonable risk to motor vehicle safety based on insufficient adherence to traffic safety laws,” the Associated Press reports.

#Musk #Tesla #Unsafe #Recalled #Antiunion #Unionbusting #Autocrat

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/tesla-union-busting-car-recall/

PUTLER...

"Vladimir Putin’s Russia Has a Hitler Problem"

https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/02/17/vladimir-putins-russia-has-a-hitler-problem/

#Fascism #DwarfDespot #TinyDictator #Autocrat #Dictator #Oligarch #War #Conflict

'Retaliation': Tesla fires Buffalo workers day after Musk was informed of union drive

Tesla fired dozens of workers at its factory in Buffalo, New York on Wednesday...

"These firings are the exact reason why we need a union at Tesla."

The outlet noted that "several of the terminated employees had been involved in labor discussions, according to the union, including at least one who was a member of the organizing committee."

#Autocrat #fascist #antiunion

https://www.rawstory.com/retaliation-tesla-fires-buffalo-workers-day-after-musk-was-informed-of-union-drive/

The advantage of distributed social aggregation platforms is that one #autocrat can't control the entire communications network.

The disadvantage of distributed social networking platforms is that one petty #tyrant of a #sysadmin can control or destroy *your* personal local ecology within the network.

This is why humanity invented #constitutional #democratic #republican #governance.

#Consent, #accountability, #recourse, and appellate process matter. #Justice matters.

#fediverse #mastodon

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when yet another democratically elected leader proves themselves an #autocrat, as #India's #NarendraModi rallies his government and its institutions to censor a #documentary about his history with #EthnicCleansing. #politics #writing #Modi

A Democracy for Three Wise Monkeys:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2023/01/31/a-democracy-for-three-wise-monkeys/

I have been writing that #elonmusk's #Twitter has become anti-#science and anti-#democracy months ago.

Slowly, the #mainstream media is catching up.

Here is a #bloomberg article painting a pretty clear picture of an #autocrat in power trying to subvert whatever #democratic #safeguards were left at Twitter:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him

Best for Twitter to be regulated out of existence. Need #DSA and #EU to do so.

#TuesdayColumn: That moment when #Erdogan outs himself as an #autocrat as opposed to a democrat for confusing the #FreedomOfSpeech for a weak excuse, rather than a #HumanRight. #SwedenVTurkey #QuranBurning #politics #writing

Lip-Service Democracy:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2023/01/24/lip-service-democracy/