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SI Simon Hennessy · Scripting Horizons

6 Reasons People Dismiss Authoritarian Warning Signs

People often talk about authoritarianism as if it arrives with a warning label. History suggests otherwise. Pick almost any period of…

Jul 05, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #normalcy-bias #democracy #authoritarianism

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KE Keiichi Hori

Authoritarianism: An Ephemeral Selfishness with Blasphemy against Authority

Unpeer-reviewed paper (Philpapers)

Jul 02, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #authoritarianism #selfishness

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LU Lucien Armand

China and Collective Narcissism: A Psychosocial Analysis of National Identity and Behaviour

An exploratory essay using collective narcissism as a lens, alongside nationalism, authoritarianism, and historical memory.

Jun 22, 2026 · 18 min read · 0 claps #geopolitics #china #political-psychology

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RI Richard Pearson

Richard Pearson DC Pieces Together a Horrific Picture of US Torture, Harm, and Authoritarianism

Richard Pearson has amassed a body of evidence that supports US authoritarian policies that are contrary to fundamental rights and freedoms…

Jun 19, 2026 · 24 min read · 0 claps #washington-dc #torture #civil-rights

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AS Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson

The United, Not Synonymous, States of America

Belonging isn’t a soft value. It might be the bedrock of the antidote to authoritarianism, and the path through the nightmare of now.

Jun 18, 2026 · 12 min read · 0 claps #belonging #culture #politics

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KR Kritika Sapkota

अधिनायकवादको डिजिटल ढाल

आजको राजनीतिक सञ्चार (Political Communication) मा पैदा भएको एउटा डरलाग्दो संकट हो, shitposting as a shield for authoritarianism. देशका…

Jun 07, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #humor #governance #algorithms

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EX Exe Protocol (Media Room)

Agency Is Free. Execution Is Not

What ex/ante Got Right About Digital Authoritarianism — and What Still Needs Building

Jun 04, 2026 · 4 min read · 0 claps #blockchain #defi #cryptocurrency

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TH The Opinion Board

India’s Oldest Political Startup Is Dying Like Every Founder Who Refused to Let Go

Congress’s collapse reveals the same pattern that kills tech unicorns — and BJP turned it into content marketing for authoritarianism

May 31, 2026 · 9 min read · 0 claps #indian-politics #political-strategy #india-news

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FA Fabricio Revilla · Authoritarianism through Systemic Science and Digitalization

The Valley of Double Echoes: How Global Communist Authoritarianism Hacks Nations’ Minds for…

Global communist authoritarianism has been waging a cognitive war against the world, exploiting informational bias and echoes so that free…

May 24, 2026 · 6 min read · 0 claps #geopolitics #cybersecurity #psychological-warfare

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FA Faris Khasawneh

The Say-Do Gap: How Authoritarianism Manufactures Dishonesty

How manufactured dishonesty silences populations, erodes trust, and stalls entire nations.

May 15, 2026 · 8 min read · 0 claps paywalled #authoritarianism #political-psychology #developing-world

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AI Aidanjr · Soul of the Story

Revolution and Politics in Star Wars (Part One)

How Star Wars grew from a tale of rebellion against tyranny, into a nuanced analysis of how weak democracies can fall to authoritarianism.

May 07, 2026 · 12 min read · 6 claps #star-wars #film #film-analysis

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BR Brian Migiro

Slow‑Burn Authoritarianism: Lessons for Emerging Democracies

Why democratic decline begins quietly — and how citizens can recognise the warning signs before it’s too late.

May 02, 2026 · 3 min read · 0 claps #democracy #vigilance #authoritarianism

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KE Kelli Ostergard

Why The Pendulum Swings — Written December 24, 2024

The rise of today’s far right and their promotion of Authoritarianism is the result of a decades long swing away from the move towards…

Apr 20, 2026 · 2 min read · 0 claps #politics #democracy #authoritarianism

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SK Skeptikal Vakil

Allegations of Digital Structural Authoritarianism is just theoretical anxiety of the academically…

In a linkedIn post, Rudraksh Lakra describes the proposed amendments to the IT Rules, 2021 bringing constitutional discipline to ordinary…

Apr 07, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #tech-law #regulatory #free-speech

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BR Brandon Lennan

Review: ‘The Secret Agent’ (2025) — The Thrills of Digression

Kleber Mendonça Filho explores life under authoritarianism in the style of a trippy, darkly funny and surprisingly communal spy flick.

Mar 06, 2026 · 5 min read · 100 claps #movies #movie-review #film

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JI Jim Loving

Profile in Courage Challenging and Defeating Authoritarianism in the Philippines and the United…

Maria Angelita Ressa — A Case Study in Courage, Nerve, Leadership and Action

Feb 19, 2026 · 16 min read · 0 claps #democracy #authoritarianism #maria-ressa

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PA Patrice Walker · The DIY Diaries

Craft as Activism AKA “Craftivism”

Protesting in the streets isn’t the only way to fight back against authoritarianism.

Feb 07, 2026 · 3 min read · 366 claps paywalled #crochet #knitting #quilting

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GA gab1930s

The Rise of Authoritarianism: Parallels Between ICE and the Ku Klux Klan, and the Warning to…

Introduction: The Historical Context of Oppression in America

Feb 03, 2026 · 6 min read · 50 claps #gab1930s #kkk #government

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CH Charles Idelson

We’ve crossed the border to authoritarian rule, but the fight is not over

“The border between democracy and authoritarianism is the least protected border in the world.”

Jan 26, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps #trump-administration #ice-protests #minneapolis-protest

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FA Fareed Fakhoury

From HTS to the “Transitional State”: Rebranded Authoritarianism One Year After Assad

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Dec 13, 2025 · 17 min read · 200 claps #syria #hayat-tahrir-al-sham #state-building

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AN Antonio Isidio de Queiroz Neto

Discipline Without Authoritarianism: A New Perspective on the Teacher-Student Relationship

The Core of Order: Distinguishing Authority from Authoritarianism

Nov 21, 2025 · 3 min read · 0 claps #professor #alunos #teaching-and-learning

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SA Sandro Salamat Al-Azimah

The Audacious Sanitization of Wahhabism (I): How Extremism Masquerades as Reform

Wahhabism claims “pure Islam” while erasing Muslim diversity, fueling sectarianism, authoritarianism, and global Islamophobia.

Nov 15, 2025 · 40 min read · 0 claps #wahhabism #islam #muslim

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CO Comrade KAS

What Is a Tankie-and Why You Don’t Want to Be One

On authoritarianism, anti-imperialism, and the betrayal of socialist principles

Oct 25, 2025 · 3 min read · 2 claps #communism #anti-authoritarianism #tankie

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DA David Foley

Phantasms of the Will

To be American these days is to feel like you’re living in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel, authoritarianism sliding into phantasmagoria…

Sep 21, 2025 · 6 min read · 0 claps #donald-trump #will #the-phoenician-scheme

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SI Simon Hennessy · Scripting Horizons

The Playbook of Authoritarianism: Five Warning Signs Democracies Ignore

Democracy does not usually fall overnight Authoritarianism does not come all of a sudden as most people would like to believe it is, but it…

Sep 14, 2025 · 7 min read · 0 claps #authoritarianism #democracy #scapegoat

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SI Simon Hennessy · Scripting Horizons

What History Teaches Us About the Rise of Authoritarianism Today

It would be a mistake to think that it was tanks that allowed Adolf Hitler rose to be the chancellor of Germany in the year 1933 when it…

Sep 07, 2025 · 7 min read · 0 claps #authoritarianism #rise-of-authoritarianism #warning-signs

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TA TaraElla · The Libertarian Reformist View

Why Right-wing Influencers Moving Away from Anti-Woke Talk is Sinister

It’s part of the right’s shameless move towards adopting woke-style authoritarianism

May 27, 2025 · 5 min read · 126 claps #politics #liberalism #conservatism

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PR Priscilla Stuckey

56. Thirsty for the Waters of Life — Priscilla Stuckey

We’ve had 2000 years of authoritarianism, and it shows

May 11, 2025 · 19 min read · 0 claps #authoritarianism #inner-knowing #original-sin

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HU Human Spam Dispatch by Garrett B. Matty · Bouncin’ and Behaving Blogs TOO

America’s Spine Is Gone

Power and greed have replaced integrity while the nation slides into authoritarianism

Jan 31, 2025 · 2 min read · 50 claps paywalled #trump #america #god-help-us