authoritarian doesn’t mean competent
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weirdly the competent authoritarians of recent history don't seem to provoke the same kind of frenzy as the incompetent ones
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I’m a huge critic of state, but I can’t imagine a better recipe for accelerating public consent for the evacuation of the public sector by a corporate coup than several weeks of “govt is futile”
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Maybe the psyop or authoritarianism is power getting people into a lose-lose parsing out what’s “less bad.” (Or that it’ll be the end of civilization if anything changes.) I was talking about gov shut down conceptually ^and^ when 2/3 of taxes are spent on crippling countries.
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In terms of sliding into a dictatorship, we're closer to Interwar Austria than the Nazis as we're most likely to do so by accidentally falling into a parliamentary failure state that effectively deletes the government
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ever heard of black ops or off budget ops? Military/intelligence Contractors still get paid, don't they?
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The first thing to go is the legislative branch.
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Only if you think it's Republican vs Democrat instead of rich vs non rich. Authority over the non rich is nearly complete and being accelerated under this administration.
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Repeated stoppages, interruptions, and walkouts were a hallmark of the Weimar government in its late stages
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not necessarily: discrediting democratic institutions is absolutely part of the playbook, including the government and the president
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I don't think that's inconsistent at all! In fact, governmental dysfunction and authoritarianism often go together!
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You’re mixing together separate issues. The GOP & esp. Trump’s authoritarianism is in plain view, for anyone willing to look
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Unless the government was just a front for something else more inflexible and unyielding
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