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   Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 00:05:37 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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   • Charlie Stross

   @cstross It's interesting that this pattern repeats itself across different countries, because it's also what's making these regimes less stable.

   Here in Poland, the authoritarian-but-not-extremely-so right needed to ally itself with the really-hard-right, and that forced them to push for a strict abortion ban they didn't really want because no one likes it. Ultimately, it made them lose an election.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 00:05:38 JST Charlie Stross

     Just a reminder that this bullshit is EXACTLY what the Taliban did the last time they were in power, in the mid to late 1990s. Same creeping dystopian encroachment.

     From outside, their internal politics is opaque—but I suspect there's a dynamic in play that promotes reactionary ideological purity (the same dynamic as in the UK Conservative party, or the US Republicans, or the Iranian clergy).
     https://universeodon.com/@KFuentesGeorge/113181372139445885