#strongmen
"The appeal of these leaders for many rests on their having the power to get away with things that ordinary men cannot, whether in the bedroom or in politics."
-- @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social , "Strongmen: Mussolini to the present"
October 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM Everybody can reply
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🚨 No Kings. No Tyrants. Ever.

The Founders didn’t fight a monarchy for us to hand power to billionaires and strongmen.

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October 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM Everybody can reply
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Europe readies itself to survive in a world of hostile strongmen
Brussels feels like a city preparing for war
Europe readies itself to survive in a world of hostile strongmen
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October 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM Everybody can reply
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“We are the ones who are tough on Latin American strongmen” means “we will commit crimes, statutory and moral, to prop up Latin American strongmen who partner with the exact gangs we say we’re fighting.”
October 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM Everybody can reply
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If they get off without getting mussolinied it will encourage future fascist strongmen!
October 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM Everybody can reply
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Trump ends with “This war wouldn’t have started if I were President.” That’s ego armor. Strongmen can’t accept failure, so they deflect, lie, or rewrite history to protect themselves, never the truth.
October 18, 2025 at 12:08 PM Everybody can reply
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Turbulent times are generating hard-headed politics in the EU and NATO. My column, The Telegram, reports on a strikingly serious and grimly realistic mood in Brussels, an international capital wrestling with an age of strongmen.

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Brussels feels like a city preparing for war
Europe readies itself to survive in a world of hostile strongmen
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October 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM Everybody can reply
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Also, Bondi said they were going to do the same thing to the antifa terrorists here at home!

This video explains that strongmen usually kill people abroad before they do it at home on their own people!
October 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM Everybody can reply
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Epoch Times Editorial Board about to come out against fraudulent strongmen
October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM Everybody can reply
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💪🇺🇸 At the No Kings Day rally, they wore the world they serve. USAID workers standing for people, not power. No crowns. No strongmen.
October 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM Everybody can reply
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EVERYONE: Pls read Ruth Ben Ghiat's "Strongmen" book

The things being done now are right out of the playbooks of Mussolini, Hitler, Kaddaffy, Pinochet, et al

As magnificent as the rallies were yestdy, we need more, larger
And we need better leaders than Hakeem and Chuck

When's the next one
October 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM Everybody can reply
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They don’t fear violence; they fetishize it. What they fear is happiness, because happy people don’t need saviors or strongmen.
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No Kings, No Pants, No Problem
How Portland answered authoritarianism with bare asses and better ideas.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM Everybody can reply
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The oligarchich engines of capital and propaganda are trying to capture werewolves too. Look at recent romanticisation efforts of "reject modernity, embrace outdoors" and "the all-natural life" of the hunky, furry strongmen with a big, red rocket
October 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM Everybody can reply
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you cannot use this electoral system to fight strongmen and fascists who don't care about its constraints!
October 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM Everybody can reply
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This is a very good - if very lugubrious - read

Pithy, acutely observed and unstinting in showing how liberal democracies are being pushed aside by strongmen - and how ineffective, and divided are the politicians supposed to protect them
October 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM Everybody can reply
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👑🚫 No crowns! No clowns! 🚫🤡

Join us for #NoKings this Saturday, October 18. This country doesn’t belong to strongmen. It belongs to the people.

✊ Find a Third Act event near you: thirdact.org/wgevents
October 15, 2025 at 11:06 PM Everybody can reply
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🎶 Tale as old as time,
Populist in climb,
Jails the foes and frees the crime,
Justice re-defined.

CBC can rhyme,
Call it “Politics” ok fine,
But it’s just the same old line,
Despots in disguise.

Tale as old as time,
Strongmen out of rhyme,
Cry “lock him up!” while kissing crime,
Politics divine
October 18, 2025 at 1:04 PM Everybody can reply
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But it's part of Donnie's message about being tough on crime. The path to dictatorship by strongmen around the world. The average citizen will put up with anything if they think you are making them safer even losing their own freedom .
October 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM Everybody can reply
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Nein, das kommt bei ihm aus dem Bauch, er will ein strongman unter strongmen sein. (Wenn es nicht auch andere Motive gibt, die ich nicht belegen kann.)
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM Everybody can reply
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Maga makes people believe they're mostly powerless.. but.. if you give your power to these fake strongmen.. you will finally have power..

..and you believe their "no refund" policy still holds up after you realize they screwed you over the entire time..

..former maga.. go get your fucking refund..
October 23, 2025 at 2:20 AM Everybody can reply
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Wordhippo says 'wasteland' is a synonym so we're going to let it have that and share a snip of #GotYourNose today, #WIPSnips.
October 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM Everybody can reply
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For sure, but just saying the reason the protest chose "No Kings" instead of "No Fascists" or "No Strongmen" seems pretty obvious to me for iconography and historical reasons.
October 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM Everybody can reply
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🔥 “No Kings Day” means no strongmen, no saviors, no orange emperors with delusions of divinity. The crown belongs in the trash where fascism festers.
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October 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM Everybody can reply
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a xenofobia e os estilos de autoapresentação de maneiras que lembram o fascismo histórico e a ditadura clássica." Ruth Ben-Ghiat, autora de Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present "Aspirantes a fascistas é um livro brilhante e provocativo, de
October 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM Everybody can reply
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The is dictator talk.

How have we gotten to a place where the U.S. president is praising and siding with dictators and autocratic strongmen?

How the US has fallen😢
Trump in Egypt: "This country is doing very well. It has good leadership. It's nice when you say, 'How is your crime situation?' and they don't even know what you're talking about. Because if he has crime he puts it out very quickly. Some people think that's not nice, but I think it's great."
October 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM Everybody can reply
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