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leblancfg · @leblancfg

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Signed up for a couple sessions at a local #strongman gym last Friday and had an amazing session. Can’t wait for upcoming improvements there!

Decided to max out my #splitjerk Sunday and PRed by 20 lb / 9kg!

…and tore my hip flexor on Monday doing back #squats 🤦🏻‍♂️ sad that it means a long break from #crossfit.

#strongman #splitjerk #squats #crossfit

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy

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"And that's when somebody like Trump comes on the scene and scans the political marketplace and says, 'Oh, here's a constituency, white working-class voters, malcontents, and so he brilliantly swooped in and said, 'You are the forgotten. I love you and I'm going to save you.'"

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy

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In America's multi-racial democracy, the election of Obama followed by a female candidate for president sparked huge backlash: people began to say that everything that was happening was a wrong direction for the nation — with white men as the drivers of the discontent and rage.

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy

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YouTube - Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump's strongman cult

Ruth Ben-Ghiat discussed with Aaron Rupar "the general set of conditions that lead a population to embrace somebody like a Trump": she says that when men — white ones in the Euro-American context — feel their status and privilege threatened, strongmen wannabes like Trump come on the scene to exploit the anxiety rapid social change elicits.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Kn9J1pBywo&t=1s

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Adam · @adamsdesk

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#Strongman #competition #sports

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy

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"Saddled with indictments, Netanyahu is consumed with self-preservation at any cost. …

Netanyahu's coalition is composed of ultranationalist and ultra-religious forces who desire a Jewish ethnostate and annexation of the West Bank, which the Supreme Court has obstructed in the past."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

So what they're seeking to do is undermine the justice system as a check on Netanyahu.

#Natanyahu #strongman #authoritarian #corruption #Israel

https://lucid.substack.com/p/israel-at-a-crossroads-where-will

#natanyahu #strongman #Authoritarian #corruption #israel

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy

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"'What Trump is doing is, he's asking for personal loyalty to him to outweigh the rule of law,' said Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. 'We see this in any authoritarian takeover of a system. We see the authoritarian say, 'Devotion to me is more important than the rule of law.' "

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy

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OPB - New charges against Trump focus on lies. Scholars see an authoritarian playbook

"'The use of lies [by strongmen types] takes place in a larger effort to turn the public against alternate sources of authority,' [Ruth Ben-Ghiat] said. Those sources might include independent courts, legislative bodies and law enforcement agencies. Or — it may be the fourth estate."

~ Odette Yousef

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https://www.opb.org/article/2023/08/07/new-charges-against-trump-focus-on-lies-scholars-see-an-authoritarian-playbook/

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Nonilex · @Nonilex

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The Atlantic - Hillary Rodham Clinton: The Weaponization of Loneliness

The #Weaponization of Loneliness

The question that preoccupied me & many others over much of the past 8 yrs is how our #democracy became so susceptible to a would-be #strongman & #demagogue. The question that keeps me up at night now—w/increasing urgency as 2024 approaches—is whether we have done enough to rebuild our defenses or whether our democracy is still highly vulnerable to attack & subversion.

by Hillary Rodham Clinton
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/hillary-clinton-essay-loneliness-epidemic/674921/

#weaponization #democracy #strongman #demagogue

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Mike Christensen · @IncredulousMike

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In fairness, this isn't just a #Trump thing. A lot of this stuff has been in the #Republican playbook for years before Trump came on the scene and took advantage of it.

#authoritarianism
#strongman

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/07/1191813216/new-charges-against-trump-focus-on-lies-scholars-see-an-authoritarian-playbook

#strongman #authoritarianism #republican #Trump

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy

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"Long accused of sexism, racism and xenophobia, he had to defer to magistrate judge Moxila Upadhyaya, a woman born in Gujarat, India. His future trial will be overseen by Judge Tanya Chutkan, a woman born in Kingston, Jamaica, and appointed to the bench by Barack Obama."

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William Lindsey :toad: · @wdlindsy

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"For four years, Trump would enter rooms to the strains of 'Hail to the Chief' and everyone would rise to their feet. Now the power dynamics were reversed: at the cry of 'All rise!', it was he who was forced to stand."

~ David Smith

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