Notices by abolitionniste 🇪🇺 (abolitionniste@bagarrosphere.fr)

#TimothySnyder : ‘You have to be in the moment in order to get through the moment’. #msnbc 8 min #video

“Freedom means you decide who you are, and then when things change around you, you continue to be that person. And in so doing, you do constructive work. You set an example for other people. You meet new people who are also trying to remain themselves.”

https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/timothy-snyder-you-have-to-be-in-the-moment-in-order-to-get-through-the-moment-224024645792

#TimothySnyder : What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist? : Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.

"To be a fascist and to call someone else a fascist requires a cunning that is natural to Trump."

https://archive.li/fv43K @DebErupts

The threats today are compelling and urgent, and there may someday come a time when the balance of power has shifted so markedly that the postwar international system cannot be sustained. Yet that moment of failure has not yet arrived, and so the goal of U.S. strategy should be not to hasten it by giving up prematurely, but to push it off as far into the future as possible. Rather than simply acquiescing in the decline of a... MESSAGE CLIPPED

FULL TEXT: 23 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1897#p1897

#tg211496239

A tragic sensibility begins with the recognition that tragedy is normal—that international orders are often more fragile than even the sharpest contemporaries realize, and that their downfall tends to be more catastrophic than those observers anticipate.

Hal Brands & Charles Edel: The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, Chapter Seven

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In some ways, the situation that America inhabited after World War II could hardly be called tragic at all. If the war had laid much of the world low, in doing so it had vaulted America to Olympian heights. In 1945, the U.S. gross national product (GNP) was three times that of its closest competitor, and American military expenditures were nearly three times those of all the other major powers combined. America alone possess... MESSAGE CLIPPED

FULL TEXT: 6 https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1880#p1880

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#TimothySnyder Blooming and Dooming: How to be Online This Election Season

"Recognize the doomers, and ignore them. Most of them are not human, most of the humans are not American, and none of them care. They are like a pothole in the road: there is no point reasoning with them. Just keep moving along, doing your thing."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/blooming-and-dooming

#KamalaHarris

#TimothySnyder : Running: A little fundraiser for the Harris campaign

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https://snyder.substack.com/p/running

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If... future... hinges on our capacity to create something different... then what... matters is whether we... rediscover the freedoms that make us human in the first place... We are projects of collective self-creation... What if we treat people, from the beginning, as imaginative, intelligent, playful creatures who deserve to be understood as such?

#DawnOfEverything : A New History of Humanity by #DavidGraeber and #DavidWengrow ; Ch 1.

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#TimothySnyder : Biden Experiments: How it might go, from here to victory

"I believe that Joe Biden is a decent and competent human being who cares more about his country than about his own feelings. This is far from just a personal impression... The question, broadly, is whether the United States will continue to exist... the one thing that matters is keeping Trump out of the White House. The decision of how best to achieve this is President Biden’s to make."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/biden-experiments

Elections to the European Parliament 6-9 June 2024

A notable difference between the European Parliament election pages 2004 and 2024:

2004, it's probably best to jump in...

And 2024...

I find the difference really remarkable. I'm not sure what he's telling me. 2004: In depth, detailed, longer, how it works, structured...? 2024: Superficial, brief, shorter, instructive, fussy...? I'm sniffing.

https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=813#p813

Translated: https://trojkatretiho-cz.translate.goog/viewtopic.php?p=813&_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en#p813

#ElectEU #ep2024

Elections to the European Parliament 6-9 June 2024

For me... it is clear... Pirates... It is also clear to me that for at least 20% or 30% in Czechia this is a rational choice... But the goal... was to have an all-Union council on how to vote, and there is still a lot of confusion about that...The European Union - a power for good in the world?

https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=786#p786

Through translator: https://trojkatretiho-cz.translate.goog/viewtopic.php?p=786&_x_tr_sl=cs&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en#p786

#ep24 #ep2024 #ElectEU #eurovolby #eurovolby2024 #MyEU #digitalomat

@energiepirat @HistoPol @Pierrette @thegib @Veza85UE , I finished a sequence of posts in a phpBB topic "Macaronic Conversation" here: https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=637#p637 . Please, read the sequence, and continue a macaronic conversation here. Each using our own language. Others are invited too 🙂

#BabelEU

"Makaróny" in Czechia is something different from "maccheroni" in Italy. An illustration to the phpBB topic "Macaronic Conversation" https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=631#p631 .

@energiepirat @Pierrette @thegib @Veza85UE

#BabelEU

#Ukraine #TimothySnyder : An Appeal to Congress: Please read, share, and act

"If we do not help Ukraine now, we lose all the things that Ukrainians have won for all of us these last two years. The world changes in a way that tips the balance to the tyrants and the aggressors. This is laid out in the appeal... People of various outlooks and backgrounds chose... to join the appeal to Congress — musicians, actors, thinkers, historians, entrepreneurs, diplomats."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/an-appeal-to-congress

'Both-sides-ism is suicide for democracy' because of Trump, #TimothySnyder says. #video 6 min.

https://https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/-both-sides-ism-is-suicide-for-democracy-because-of-trump-tim-snyder-says-208279621690

The Bloodbath Candidate. In Context, Trump is Worse by #TimothySnyder

"... when Trump threatens a bloodbath he means a bloodbath... what Trump says and who Trump is. He's the bloodbath candidate."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-bloodbath-candidate

Chancellor Scholz Must Change Course and Support #Ukraine to Win. An Open Letter to Germany’s Leaders from International and German Experts by #BenjaminTallis #RalfFücks #MaximilianTerhalle

"Chancellor Olaf Scholz is putting Germans and all Europeans in danger. His current policy seriously risks defeat in Ukraine, which would embolden Moscow and raise the likelihood of a wider war with Russia..."

Add your signature to the 🧵 .

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/03/14/chancellor-scholz-must-change-course-and-support-ukraine-to-win/

#MyEU #GeoEU #GermanyEU #PhillipsPOBrien

#TimothySnyder :

There was once this republic that lasted for more than 200 years.

This republic had a minority faction in parliament that supported Russia.

This republic also had antique procedural rules that allowed one person to halt a vote.

Some legislators from this republic used procedural rules to support Russian imperialism.

Then this republic ceased to exist.

I was thinking of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. What were you thinking of?

https://bsky.app/profile/timothysnyder.bsky.social/post/3klxjlfv5kx2e

Trump v. Anderson. Writings on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment by #TimothySnyder

"For the past six months I have been writing and speaking about Trump's disqualification from office under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Here I provide the eight essays I have posted on Substack, as well as a discussion on NPR and the amicus brief I was honored to co-sign. Then I supply resources that helped me along the way."

https://snyder.substack.com/p/trump-v-anderson