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In Spain, schools overlook the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship.

Many young Spaniards reach adolescence without ever having studied either the Spanish Civil War or the dictatorship, making them more susceptible to revisionist and neo-Francoist narratives.

mediafaro.org/article/20250403

The Cuelgamuros Valley mausoleum, which served as Franco's tomb until 2019 and where more than 30,000 fighters from both sides of the Civil War are buried, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain. | SUSANA VERA / REUTERS
Le Monde · In Spain, schools overlook the Civil War and Franco's dictatorship.By Sandrine Morel

Romania made headlines—and shocked the world—when it annulled a presidential election at the end of last year, citing evidence of foreign interference aimed at supporting a pro-Russian far-right candidate. Romania’s Moscow-backed dictatorship was among the most brutal behind the Iron Curtain, a painful past that still unites much of the country today.

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#oscararias #NobelPeacePrize #trump #dictatorship #DictatorTrump

We live in a literal dictatorship;

“Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like "a Roman emperor."
Arias, 84, was president between 1986 and 1990 and again between 2006 and 2010. A self-declared pacifist, he won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in brokering peace during the Central American conflicts of the 1980s.”

reuters.com/world/americas/cos

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This is a short (14 minute) segment from The Humanist Report that covers a lot of the same ground I was writing about concerning Trump's very serious plan to violate the US Constitution and serve a 3rd term as president, and also his executive order designed, quite obviously, to rig elections. I've always been a person who needs to read words on a page or screen to really absorb analysis, but I know some of you learn better with the videos, so that's why I periodically share the good ones.

Like myself, the host is adamant that the mainstream establishment is fooling itself and engaging in wishcasting when it ignores the obvious reality that Trump, who just admitted he wasn't joking, fully means to do this. What he adds that I was trying to get at in my analysis but might not have made explicit enough if the pedantic pushback I heard from weird liberals is any indication, is that if Trump is working on illegally violating the constitution to run again, in an election he intends to rig, that means the regime is *already* attempting another insurrection (although technically, I think it would be another autogolpe.) Furthermore, if the regime were to hold such an election under those circumstances, it would obviously not be an election at all, but the consolidation of fascist regime change in the United States of America.

The Humanist Report: Trump is Dead Serious About Becoming a Dictator

youtube.com/watch?v=I-Hcygb30Y

#Fascism #Trump #Elections #GOP #SteveBannon #Rigged #Video #OnePartyRule #VoterFraudIsntReal
#MikeFigueredo #Dictatorship #TheHumanistReport #USPol

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@hanse_mina A good test of paratisism: taxation with or without representation.

🇨🇳☭ China ruled by CCP (since 1949): taxation with *NO* representation ever. (Calling for representation/democracy makes you disappear!)

🇹🇼🇳🇫 Taiwan: Taxation with democratically elected representation.

So who are the parasites really? 🧐

#Taiwan#CCP#china
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Interesting the Rogan is fine with alleged gang members to be sent to El Salvador but not the gay makeup artist. Some of the deported were sent because they came from Venezuela and had tattoos. That is what happened to the makeup artist.

Hardly evidence of wrongdoing or even being members of a gang.

Dictators NEVER willingly give up power, there has never been a single instance in all of history, they end up having to be REMOVED

"DT said Sunday that 'I’m not joking' about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029."

apnews.com/article/trump-third

President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 28, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
AP News · Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term as presidentBy Chris Megerian