Timothy Snyder: On Anticipatory Obedience

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Interesting timing, in light of the behaviour of Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bezos this last couple of days...and also the fact that I just bought my copy of Prof. Snyder's On Freedom.

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Unfortunately, and you know this as well as I do, creeping fascism doesn't stop when one (comparatively ineffective) figurehead dies, especially if there are more effective figureheads waiting for exactly that moment (and having been prepped for that, which thankfully Trump never has been).

[lovelydovely]

Yes, exactly. It never ends does it?? :o Are you thinking Vance? Or...???

[dewline]

Vance is the first preferred candidate of the current crop, yes. There are others in line behind him, of course.

[lovelydovely]

Ugh. :( :( :( I wonder what the ramifications of Trumps win will affect Canada and beyond??

[spiralsheep]

I was mostly thinking of the UK where Boris Johnson was appalling but also lazy and dimwitted. His exit has propped open the door for far worse to creep through into power.

The advantage of Trump is that he managed to be jealous of Mike Pence, lmao, so there's no way he's going to allow Vance to gain popularity without attempting to sabotage him. Add to that the fact Vance isn't part of any traditional party machine, and is widely interpreted as being mostly pro-Vance, and I have hopes that Trump will live long enough for them to damage each other as much as possible.

I mean, Kamala Harris (and Keir Starmer) aren't my idea of firmly halting the drift towards fascism either, tbh.

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Oh my god, BoJo was a fucking joke!!! DX Yeah, I forgot about Pencilneck. Politics is an inexact science. :/