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   leighelse{} (leighelse@mastodon.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 04:07:16 JST leighelse{}

   Political scientist Steven Levitsky talks with Der Spiegel reporter Claus Hecking about Donald Trump's authoritarian playbook.

   https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/harvard-professor-steven-levitsky-right-now-the-u-s-is-ceasing-to-be-a-democracy-a-d6595df5-68a5-4b74-ab09-1dbf5179ddbd

   "Autocrats are most destructive when they enjoy high levels of popular support: Politicians like Putin or Chávez sometimes have or have had 70 or 80 percent support. Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, on the other hand, was able to do much less damage because he lacked this backing. And Trump is not a popular president."

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 04:07:15 JST Aral Balkan

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     @leighelse And how much of that is because of exactly this business model, Der Spiegel?

     How much of it, motherfucker? :0_goose:

     #technofascism #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #DerSpiegel #germany #EU #EuropeanValues

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 04:24:37 JST Aral Balkan

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     @leighelse No worries. More than annoying: it is literally the business model of technofascism.

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     leighelse{} (leighelse@mastodon.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Mar-2025 04:24:38 JST leighelse{}

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral Thanks for pointing that out. I've never seen that popup. Isn't it annoying?

     (I don't have a subscription to Der Spiegel, but I do access it only through RSS on a very locked down Firefox, and live in Aotearoa New Zealand.)