pdb · @pdbowman
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Laure · @LaureM
183 followers · 3318 posts · Server federate.social

@guardian your are asking homo sovieticus who’s been spoon fed conspiracy and agitprop from state media, what they feel? They literally don’t know anything. Watch the video cnn.com/videos/world/2023/06/2

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Alley Stoughton · @fullyabstract
550 followers · 751 posts · Server fosstodon.org

"Absolutely. I remember getting on my bike in Manhattan, maybe four or five years ago, and suddenly realizing that this sense that I am unrecognizable, unintelligible to the world in which I live, was gone." -- in The New Yorker on being nonbinary

newyorker.com/news/the-new-yor

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Jeffrey Gray · @phoca2004
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MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
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MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
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Bruce Mirken · @BruceMirken
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Steve Silberman · @stevesilberman
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Fascinating, probing interview with 's brilliant on what's really at stake in debates about rights. By David Remnick. newyorker.com/news/the-new-yor

#newyorker #mashagessen #trans

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Queer Lit Cats · @QLC
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Queer Lit Cats · @QLC
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colapunk · @colapunk
607 followers · 841 posts · Server todon.nl

@Grutjes @petermwsn
yesterday gave a great keynote speech about the paralel-polis, the 'city' we build of cooperative structures, as an alternative and to survive the ugly world outside.
..in which they also touched on the subject of hope..
shifttalks.nl/indrukwekkende-a

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colapunk · @colapunk
603 followers · 834 posts · Server todon.nl

Superinterressante keynote van tijdens .

Over hoe we de toekomst niet moeten vergeten terwijl we knokken tegen auotcratie en andere oppressieve systemen. Over de parralel-polis, de parralele wereld die we op moeten bouwen, vóórdat het oude weg kan. Over doen waar je invloed op hebt, als grote veranderingen buiten je macht liggen.

Ook over hoe productief het is om je alternatieve dingetje te doen terwijl de destructie in de rest van de wereld doorgaat. Help je de machthebbers niet met de facade ophouden dat het allemaal goed gaat?

Helaas geen antwoorden. Fijn hoor, filosofie ;)

#doeverdommewat #denbosch #shifttalks #mashagessen

Last updated 3 years ago

Buitengewoon interessante vrouw .
Journalist Masha Gessen ontvluchtte het Rusland van toen de liberale waarden steeds meer onder druk kwamen te staan en belandde in het Amerika van Trump. Gessen schreef veel over deze twee leiders, won meerdere prijzen en schreef de bestseller ‘Surviving autocracy’. Hoe reageer je op autocratische leiders? En hoe bescherm je een kwetsbare democratie?

#mashagessen #buitenhof #poetin

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Dana Rail · @danarail
271 followers · 471 posts · Server wandering.shop

@Helenahoayun I highly recommend THE FUTURE IS HISTORY by .

The subject is the decline of post-Soviet into its current state of oligarchy and authoritarianism, and she examines it from different viewpoints by telling the stories of several very interesting people.

Very timely reading, too.

#mashagessen #russia

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WithBiden/Harris · @PreAnteDiluvian
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bs2 · @bsmall2
196 followers · 3346 posts · Server mstdn.jp

> We are used to thinking of propaganda (a word whose Latin roots mean “towards action”) as intended to move people to think or act in a particular way.. But there was a different quality to totalitarian propaganda. Its purpose was not just to create certainty (the enemy is evil incarnate), but a curious kind of doubt. “In fact,” as Russian émigrée and New Yorker writer has put it, “the purpose of is to take away your ability to perceive reality.”

#propaganda #totalitarian #mashagessen

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