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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/17/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy-20-lessons-for-the-post-truth-world-donald-trump
@gregggonsalves I have this sinking feeling that the broligarchy will come after Bluesky, and its leadership will sell out using the same sort of language with which people weaselled out of disavowing Trump. And Bluesky is not truly decentralised: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113487613965056474
^^^ This is an excellent summary of how much frightening the situation is, by Carol Cadwalladr.
It nicely complements the less call-to-actionish post by @tzimmer_history in his blog Democracy Americana, Why the Second Trump Regime Will Be Far More Dangerous,
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/why-the-second-trump-regime-will
and the long interview of Yannis Varoufakis on French public radio by @xporte
about his recent book on Technofeudalism
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-code-a-change/le-code-a-change-30-10-8640768
@gregggonsalves As I started reading this article, I felt echoes of Tim Snyder's "On Tyranny" -- neatly summarized at https://snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny -- and then of course I got to #7 where Cadwalladr makes the comparison explicit.