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The author argued that the EU’s treatment of Huseyin Dogru showed how much authoritarianism had developed in Europe. They added that people could face problems for supporting Palestinians or highlighting what they described as the EU’s role in fuelling NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine. #EU #Authoritarianism #HumanRights #EU #UA

The author said their Brussels conference on liberal authoritarianism had been full and that participants agreed the rise of what they described as liberal authoritarian rule in EU member states, with support from Brussels, was unacceptable. They also said the Hungarian people could rely on the entity linked in the post. https://t.co/nuP9nj0EAI #LiberalAuthoritarianism #EUPolitics #BrusselsConference #EU #HU

DHS raid on Rep. Omar is a great example of very bad by rule-of-law democracy standards, pretty good by consolidated authoritarianism standards. Deeply wrong, with lies, bigotry, harassment, abuse of power. AND a sign of weakness, limited capacity, failure to make the dictatorship of their dreams.

The author argued that Serbia faced a historic choice between a European future represented by students, democracy, the rule of law, clean institutions, opportunity, and prosperity, and what they described as an old system of authoritarianism and corruption under Vučić. They called for Vučić’s Serbia to be isolated. https://t.co/dm5YRChUc1 #Srbija #Evropa #Demokratija #RS #EU (translated)

The era of political show trials are back! Today the authoritarian rule in Hungary reached a new low. The judiciary is acting on the PM's personal instructions. Two months ago, during a heated outburst at the session of the Hungarian Parliament, PM Péter Magyar accused Balázs #Hungary #Authoritarianism #Judiciary #HU

Neo-communist tactics. The Tisza authoritarian rulers are raising taxes, fuel prices are soaring, and they are wrecking the Hungarian economy. Authoritarianism creates new victims every day. Today it’s them, tomorrow it’s you. They would rather stage political theatre than face https://t.co/1nAu7d15FJ #Authoritarianism #Hungary #EconomicCrisis #HU

Say no: "Europe is building a system where every click, every transaction, every website visit. Is tied to your passport. This is not consumer protection. This is digital authoritarianism." 🚫 #DigitalAuthoritarianism #PrivacyRights #SurveillanceState #EU

Serbia belongs in Europe. But authoritarianism, the glorification of war criminals and democratic backsliding have no place in the European Union. Thank you, Commissioner @MartaKosEU, for standing up for European values. https://t.co/O6OzGbDbm0 #Serbia #EuropeanValues #Democracy #RS #EU

Seen in this light, the government’s authoritarian turn is not simply about crushing a rival party; it is about removing any organised resistance to the new government’s neoliberal shock therapy, and locking in the new EU- and NATO-dictated agenda for years to come. #Authoritarianism #Neoliberalism #Resistance #EU #NATO

CANCEL XI’S VISIT TO WASHINGTON. 🇺🇸🇹🇼 America must not reward Xi Jinping with a propaganda triumph in Washington while Beijing threatens Taiwan, pressures its neighbors, supports Russia economically, weaponizes strategic trade and expands authoritarian power. And President https://t.co/JKLhavjVZw #CancelXi #Taiwan #Authoritarianism #US #TW #CN #RU

Most shocking about Trump 2nd term is not the epic grift, ICE paramilitary violence or the assaults on free speech. These abuses, while horrifying, are predictable. What's stunning is the capitulation of so many US elites to Trump’s vulgar authoritarianism https://t.co/EI02lJyKrL #Trump #Authoritarianism #USPolitics #US

Consensus Is Not an Argument “Historians agree that Nazism was right-wing” is not an argument. It is intellectual outsourcing: replacing evidence with the number of authorities who repeat the same conclusion. Ideologies require criteria. You cannot cherry-pick political characteristics, notice that they fit your preferred category, and then pretend the classification has been demonstrated—especially when virtually every item on the list exists on both sides. Nationalism? Both. Militarism? Both. Protectionism? Both. State intervention? Both. Economic planning? Both. Collectivism? Both. Welfare policy? Both. Authoritarianism? Neither side has a monopoly. So what actually makes Nazism “right-wing”? The economic argument collapses even faster. Nazi Germany heavily directed its economy. So did the United States and Britain during the same period of war preparation and total war. If state direction proves socialism, then your criterion suddenly makes the Allies socialist too. If it doesn’t, stop using it selectively to classify Nazism. You cannot rig the test and then celebrate the result. And here is the inconvenient part: if economic policy cannot independently resolve the question, then the Nazis’ own ideological claims cannot simply be dismissed because they are inconvenient. Their party was literally called the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, and they repeatedly described their movement as socialist. No, self-description does not automatically make them socialist. Political movements can lie. But rejecting their description requires an actual criterion demonstrating why it was false. “Because historians say so” is not a criterion. It is an evasion. The deeper problem is that modern political taxonomy often works backwards: decide the label first, then curate the evidence until the label looks inevitable. That is not historical analysis. It is circular reasoning wearing an academic costume. So ask the question that actually matters: was Nazism committed to individual liberty—or to subordinating the individual to the collective, the state, and the nation? If Nazism is right-wing, prove it from coherent ideological principles

“Consensus Is Not an Argument “Historians agree that Nazism was right-wing” is not an argument. It is intellectual outsourcing: replacing evidence with the number of authorities who repeat the same conclusion. Ideologies require criteria. You cannot cherry-pick political characteristics, notice that they fit your preferred category, and then pretend the classification has been demonstrated—especially when virtually every item on the list exists on both sides. Nationalism? Both. Militarism? Both. Protectionism? Both. State intervention? Both. Economic planning? Both. Collectivism? Both. Welfare policy? Both. Authoritarianism? Neither side has a monopoly. So what actually makes Nazism “right-wing”? The economic argument collapses even faster. Nazi Germany heavily directed its economy. So did the United States and Britain during the same period of war preparation and total war. If state direction proves socialism, then your criterion suddenly makes the Allies socialist too. If it doesn’t, stop using it selectively to classify Nazism. You cannot rig the test and then celebrate the result. And here is the inconvenient part: if economic policy cannot independently resolve the question, then the Nazis’ own ideological claims cannot simply be dismissed because they are inconvenient. Their party was literally called the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, and they repeatedly described their movement as socialist. No, self-description does not automatically make them socialist. Political movements can lie. But rejecting their description requires an actual criterion demonstrating why it was false. “Because historians say so” is not a criterion. It is an evasion. The deeper problem is that modern political taxonomy often works backwards: decide the label first, then curate the evidence until the label looks inevitable. That is not historical analysis. It is circular reasoning wearing an academic costume. So ask the question that actually matters: was Nazism committed to individual liberty—or to subordinating the individual to the collective, the state, and the nation? If Nazism is right-wing, prove it from coherent ideological principles” - ChatGPT

Turkey is bigger than Erdoğan. I stand for a free, democratic and European Turkey — and against authoritarianism, censorship, political imprisonment, religious intolerance and the erosion of the rule of law. Europe should never abandon the millions of Turkish citizens who want https://t.co/837ETcS4Oe #FreeTurkey #DemocracyNow #StandForFreedom #TR #EU

History does not repeat itself exactly. But authoritarian powers often reuse the same strategic logic. In 1940, Hitler wanted Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated because Roosevelt represented the greatest danger to Nazi Germany: the possibility that American economic and military https://t.co/SnsjUMpMXD #Authoritarianism #HistoryRepeats #PoliticalStrategy #DE #US

The Brussels-backed Hungarian Prime Minister first nationalized one of the country’s most popular conservative media outlets, @mandiner, then fired its editor-in-chief. Today, he ordered it to shut down operations altogether. And he is celebrating this on his FB. Authoritarian #Hungary #MediaFreedom #Authoritarianism #HU