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MoscowMigrant

#Neofascism, driven by a style of aggressive hypocrisy, and emotional dominance, is gaining ground globally.

Courts have taken action - Marine #LePen was banned in #France, #AfG labeled extremist in #Germany, #Georgescu barred in #Romania - yet public sentiment hasn’t shifted.

On the contrary, candidates like #Simion, a #Trump-#Putin supporter, now lead elections. If we don’t develop a #liberal alternative, we may soon find ourselves living in a neo-#fascist #world.

moscowmigrant.com/posts/stylis

MoscowMigrant · Stylistics of neo-fascismRussia is on the list of the most unfree countries, while the U.S. media freedom rating is declining. Putin and Trump demonstrate a unified style – boorish. And this style is finding followers all over the world.
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Scott Lucas

Pjotr Sauer/Shaun Walker at Guardian:

#Russia "hybrid warfare" across Europe and multinational effort to track down network behind sabotage ops

Polish-led investigation broke up Russian-backed criminal network last Nov --- Group accused of sending parcels w camouflaged explosives on cargo planes across Europe, triggering fires at 3 locations

Prosecutors believe the plotters planned shipments with explosives to US and Canada

Biden Admin called Russian counterparts to demand #Putin halt plans

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demi7en 🎗🇪🇺

@EugeneMcParland Maybe one very pleasant day humanity will have forgotten the urge to...

... euphemize unelected despots as "Presidents".

#XiJinping or none of his #CCP predecessors have *never* contested any remotely democratic election. Democracy is CCP's #1 existential threat anywhere on the planet.

The current Kremlin bunker inhabitant #putin dismantled #russia's first attempt at democracy immediately in early 2000s and has thus never acted as an actual president would have; he's a mere low-ranking KGB psycho propelled into the bunker by sheer ruthlessness and greed of his ilk.

Unlike the Chinese "Dada", putin isn't even an actual "strongman" any longer but CCP's vassal afraid of things crawling under the kremlin carpet.

Oh, and may there be awesome fireworks at their war machine shindig on the russian despots' day.

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bernie_j_w

erhellend für viele heutige strukturelle Defizite
als eine Wurzel mehrerer heutiger Problemlagen:

Jahre langer Filz von CDU etc. mit fossilen Konzernen
[-->> siehe Link unten am Ende]
hat einen doppelt hohen "Preis":

1. fatale Abhängigkeiten von 'fossilen Diktaturen' wie Russland und andere
2. Viele Mrd.€ teure Folgen des Klimawandels
taz.de/Die-Klimasabotage-der-U #CDU #fossile #Kohle #Erdöl #Erdgas #Benzin #Putin #Russland #Katar #Klimawandel #Klimakrise #Klimaschutz #Habeck #Wirtschaftsminister

Eine Illustration eines Windrades, auf dem Leute klettern
TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH · Die Klimasabotage der Union: Verhindern, verzögern, unterlassenDie CDU ist eng mit der fossilen Industrie verbandelt. 20 Jahre lang blockierten Partei und Lobbyisten gemeinsam die Klimapolitik. Eine taz-Recherche.
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RoundSparrow 🐦

#FWakeRedditCensor #CensoredByReddit
#FWakeAdamCurtis ++ #AdamCurtisBBC
#mqjefua
#FWakeWeaponizedFilters Reddit owners weaponize filters to silently remove criticism of #Putin #Rusiaa

content of the unpublished forbidden quote from Adam Curtis, BBC: lemm.ee/post/63042048

Should be published here, but unpublished:

old.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJok

lemm.eeReddit owners refuse to publish criticism of Putin / Russia quote from Adam Curtis of the BBC from 2014 - lemm.eehttps://old.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1kehni8/i_dont_get_it/mqjefua/ [https://old.reddit.com/r/ExplainTheJoke/comments/1kehni8/i_dont_get_it/mqjefua/] May the 4th Be With You. Content of the unpublished forbidden comment:   > it’s engagement bait, they want people to be confused and comment asking for clarity, which in turn boosts their post and shows it to more people. That’s how Putin has run his government and held power for 25 years, endless confusion, Adam Curtis of the BBC in 2014 called it “Contradictory Vaudeville” politics. Antics politics. Surreal comedy and absurd humor draw people in to the total mockery, endless mocking. “In the twenty-first century the techniques of the political technologists have become centralized and systematized, coordinated out of the office of the presidential administration, where Surkov would sit behind a desk on which were phones bearing the names of all the “independent” party leaders, calling and directing them at any moment, day or night. The brilliance of this new type of authoritarianism is that instead of simply oppressing opposition, as had been the case with twentieth-century strains, it climbs inside all ideologies and movements, exploiting and rendering them absurd. One moment Surkov would fund civic forums and human rights NGOs, the next he would quietly support nationalist movements that accuse the NGOs of being tools of the West. With a flourish he sponsored lavish arts festivals for the most provocative modern artists in Moscow, then supported Orthodox fundamentalists, dressed all in black and carrying crosses, who in turn attacked the modern art exhibitions. The Kremlin’s idea is to own all forms of political discourse, to not let any independent movements develop outside of its walls. Its Moscow can feel like an oligarchy in the morning and a democracy in the afternoon, a monarchy for dinner and a totalitarian state by bedtime.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia, 2014   “Surkov is one of President Putin’s advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way. He came originally from the avant-garde art world, and those who have studied his career, say that what Surkov has done, is to import ideas from conceptual art into the very heart of politics. His aim is to undermine peoples’ perceptions of the world, so they never know what is really happening. Surkov turned Russian politics into a bewildering, constantly changing piece of theater. He sponsored all kinds of groups, from neo-Nazi skinheads to liberal human rights groups. He even backed parties that were opposed to President Putin. But the key thing was, that Surkov then let it be known that this was what he was doing, which meant that no one was sure what was real or fake. As one journalist put it: “It is a strategy of power that keeps any opposition constantly confused.” A ceaseless shape-shifting that is unstoppable because it is undefinable. It is exactly what Surkov is alleged to have done in the Ukraine this year. In typical fashion, as the war began, Surkov published a short story about something he called non-linear war. A war where you never know what the enemy are really up to, or even who they are. The underlying aim, Surkov says, is not to win the war, but to use the conflict to create a constant state of destabilized perception, in order to manage and control.” - BBC, Adam Curtis, 2014
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