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Just_Vote_Dem

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3. I gave this answer about something else

Reply to HereForTheParty (Original post)

Wed Jan 15, 2025, 07:42 PM

Jan 2025

but it is appropriate here (ABC didn't listen to Timothy Snyder)

1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.

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