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"History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Protect #libraries. Oppose #censorship. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something. The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz thought that such a notion of responsibility worked against loneliness and indifference."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"[History] reveals moments, each one of them different, not entirely unique. To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being the cocreator of another."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.”— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"The path of least resistance leads directly from inevitability to eternity. If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE

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"The politics of inevitability is terribly vulnerable to the kind of shock it has just received. When something shatters the myth, when our time falls out of joint, we scramble to find some other way to organize what we experience."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS. #RESISTANCE

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Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

“The danger we now face is of a passage from the politics of inevitability to the politics of eternity, from a naïve and flawed sort of democratic republic to a confused and cynical sort of fascist oligarchy."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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“If the politics of inevitability is like a coma, the politics of eternity is like hypnosis: We stare at the spinning vortex of cyclical myth until we fall into a trance—and then we do something shocking at someone else’s orders”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue Antidote to POTUS fascism #RESISTANCE

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"[In the politics of eternity...]Since the crisis is permanent, the sense of emergency is always present; planning for the future seems impossible or even disloyal. How can we even think of reform when the enemy is always at the gate?”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Fascism antidote. #RESISTANCE

"[If we dwell on victimhood, since]...the nation is defined by its inherent virtue rather than by its future potential, politics becomes a discussion of good and evil rather than a discussion of possible solutions to real problems."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to fascism. #RESISTANCE

"The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

“In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

"[A president]:...we need..‘riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.’ He couldn’t quite pull off this scenario in January 2021, but it was not for lack of trying..”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"A president described a regime change in the style of the 1930s as desirable: ‘You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster.’"— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"Steve Bannon promised policies that would be ‘as exciting as the 1930s.’ When exactly was the ‘again’ in the slogan ‘Make America great again’? It is, sadly, the same ‘again’ that we find in ‘Never again.’"— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

“An American president used the slogan “America First,” which is the name of a committee that sought to prevent the United States from opposing Nazi Germany in the 1930s."— Timothy Snyder, On T. Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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“[National populist leaders such as those in]…Poland and Hungary alike make similar gestures toward a glowing image of the 1930s. Putin’s war is fascist.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

HONOR YOUR MOTHERS AND JOIN THE #RESISTANCE “National populists are eternity politicians. Their preferred reference point is the era when democratic republics seemed vanquished and their Nazi and Soviet rivals unstoppable: the 1930s.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism.

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Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

“Every reference to the past seems to involve an attack by some external enemy upon the purity of the nation.”— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"The man who runs naked across a football field certainly disrupts, but he does not change the rules of the game."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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"[Neoliberalism] When applied to politics, it again carries the implication that nothing can really change, that the chaos that excites us will eventually be absorbed by a self-regulating system."— T Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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“Some spoke critically of neoliberalism, the sense that the idea of the free market has somehow crowded out all others. ...but the very use of word was usually a kotow before an unchangeable hegemony."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE

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"What appeared to be critical analysis often assumed that the status quo could not actually change, and thereby indirectly reinforced it.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

"Once inevitability [or liberal democracy] was taken for granted, criticism indeed became slippery."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

"We learned to say that there was ‘no alternative’ to the basic order of things, a sensibility that the Lithuanian political theorist Leonidas Donskis called ‘liquid evil.’"— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

"[Acceptance of the inevitability of liberal democracy] ... stifled policy debate and tended to generate party systems where one political party defended the status quo, while the other proposed total negation."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

“[The] acceptance of [the inevitability of liberal democracy] stilted the way we talked about politics in the twenty-first century."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

"...once we accepted the politics of inevitability, we assumed that history was no longer relevant. If everything in the past is governed by a known tendency, then there is no need to learn the details.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

“The politics of [liberal democracy’s] inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE

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Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"Communism also offered a teleology, promising an inevitable socialist utopia. When that story was shattered [in the 1990s], we drew the wrong conclusion: ...we imagined that our own story was true.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE

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Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"[The politics of inevitability]...is called a teleology: a narration of time that leads toward a certain, usually desirable goal."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

“[Inevitability politicians]...portray the present simply as a step toward a future that we already know, one of expanding globalization, deepening reason, and growing prosperity."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION

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Manuel A. García @ftpmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"After communism in eastern Europe came to an end...we imbibed the myth of an ‘end of history.’...we lowered our defenses...and opened the way for...the kinds of regimes we told ourselves could never return.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE