official signs we are marching to autocracy thread

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Trump lives in a egotocracy. His advisors and managers are more insidious and will continue to march.

Their behavior is brazen to the point of flaunting, looking for pushback.
 
rodoheel said:
Let me make this easy for you: I do not think that Trump is necessarily "demanding that wapo fire anyone that wrote something he didn't like." Which is part of why I said, above, that this story is a weird fit for this thread title. What I do think is that Bezos has been trying very hard to suck up to Trump and part of that has been changing the tilt and tone of WaPo's editorial coverage, in particular, over the last year or more. There has been a lot of news coverage about Bezos's communication to the E-board about the policy changes, their reaction to it, and the wider media world's reaction to it, that i suspect you haven't missed (and if you have I don't know how).

I read the "Russian-friendly junta" article earlier, and yes, I do not think there is anything in the article that Trump would say is upsetting to him. It is pretty much a neutral description of Trump's approach to foreign policy. Read it yourself, and if you think differently, quote the passage in question.

I haven't read the other articles in detail, just skimmed a few. If you have and want to link the actual passages you contend express a negative opinion of Trump, please go ahead. Based just on titles. the "cover-up" one about Trump's hand seems the likeliest to convey a negative opinion - and Trump is very vain so he probably doesn't like the attention on that - but I haven't read it.
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Lol's. Sure. I'll put that at the very tip top of the list of things I'm not going to waste my time on. If you have any other things that you aren't intelligent enough to figure out for yourself and need someone to explain to you as one might to a very special person, let me know. Plenty of room on that list.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Lol's. Sure. I'll put that at the very tip top of the list of things I'm not going to waste my time on. If you have any other things that you aren't intelligent enough to figure out for yourself and need someone to explain to you as one might to a very special person, let me know. Plenty of room on that list.
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For the record, even though I'm willing to continue responding (guess I just like to argue), this is why a lot of people find conversations with you to be very frustrating. You make an assertion about the content of articles based only on their headlines; refuse to read them; and when I point out that from what I reviewed they don't support the proposition you cited them for, rather than even attempting to look at them, you just default to some trite and dismissive point (with a completely unnecessary and uncalled for personal insult thrown in) that implies that, you know, actually critically evaluating the merits of your own argument is beneath you. Your entire (online) personality seems to be that you will only consider any given issue or argument at a surface deep level, and when asked to apply even a modicum of critical reasoning, your brain responds violently to the very notion.
 
ChileG said:
Guys, even starting this thread is just as bad as shooting four schoolchildren.
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I am having some misgivings for starting this thread. rodoheel feels that it was more important to focus on the article I introduced than the purpose of the thread itself, and to top it off I have received a "cease and desist" warning from the DOJ which may explain why there has been a mysterious black hummer that has been parked in front of my house for the past few days.

Nevertheless, rodoheel and the DOJ notwithstanding, I will not backdown. Unless nycfan asks me to take down my thread I will stand my ground.
 
gtyellowjacket said:
The Washington Post criticizes Trump and to a lesser extent bezos/amazon all the time. Without looking, I bet there are five or six articles on the front of the Wapo web page criticizing some Trump policy or other right now. Why would criticism of trump get anybody fired?
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Key words [and typical of a gt post] WITHOUT LOOKING
 
gtyellowjacket said:
You're right. Instead of five or six pieces criticizing White House policy, I looked and there were only 11 plus one criticizing amazon. Guess I got lucky.
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You mean leaving aside the fact that you never read any of those articles and produced zero evidence, besides their headlines, that any of them actually criticized Trump?
 
gtyellowjacket said:
Terrible. I know they've let a couple of comedians go but hopefully they draw a line at their news coverage.
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jacket my man...

You need to catch up because Trump and his minions are already targeting news coverage he does not like.
 

Brian Klaas: “The United States is now a competitive authoritarian system”​


Is the United States still a democracy?​

I would say the United States is now a “competitive authoritarian” system. This is political science jargon for countries that have the trappings of democracy, but without a level playing field.

In other words, there is genuine competition in the United States between political parties and democratic institutions persist, but the state is able to manipulate outcomes to its advantage, disadvantage its opponents and use state power in illegitimate or undemocratic ways with little to no recourse against it.

Political scientists continue to debate this topic, but few would classify the United States as a robust democracy. It is either a democracy in crisis that is barely clinging onto the label, or one that has tipped over the edge into competitive authoritarianism – and I believe it’s the latter."

More at the link...


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Brian Klaas: “The United States is now a competitive authoritarian system” - EUROPP

Is the United States still a democracy? It is either a democracy in crisis, or one that has tipped over the edge into competitive authoritarianism.
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