I asked Der Spiegel to share this important interview with Robert Kagan in English.

[jeffjarvis@mastodon.social]

I asked Der Spiegel to share this important interview with Robert Kagan in English. @bredow made it happen. This is how American media should be talking:
"We Are Watching a Country Fall Under Dictatorship Almost Without Resistance"
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/u-s-historian-robert-kagan-we-are-watching-a-country-fall-under-dictatorship-almost-without-resistance-a-d262290b-cca0-4c2f-945d-2ef3b64c574f?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh

[carbon_compound@mastodon.social]

ping @benroyce

[itchy@mastodon.sdf.org]

@jeffjarvis @bredow

Do nothing GOP

[oscarfalcon@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis @bredow

The word "almost" in that sentence should be removed, because it is falling without resistance.

[jeffjarvis@mastodon.social]

Sorry that there's a paywall on this. I was hoping Der Spiegel would share it openly.

[carbon_compound@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis 👀 https://archive.is/kEcyB

[sortius@infosec.exchange]

@jeffjarvis @bredow this is what I've been screaming for months. Resistance isn't pithy signs and frog suits

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social @bredow@troet.cafe

It's not that people like me don't want to resist, it's that, outside of "go commit random acts of mayhem", what can we do that meaningfully stops it? I, and at least those I've broached the subject with, are all pretty much resigned to "when they come for us, try to make them pay for it in as much blood as we can". Given the power of the state, that's probably a lot less blood of the state's representatives than our individual own.

[grammasaurus@mastodon.social]

@carbon_compound @jeffjarvis thank you for posting this link

[ferricoxide@blahaj.zone]

@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social

When I clicked, there was no paywall (if you don't count the "let us advertise at you" type button)?

[hoare_spitall@mastodon.world]

@jeffjarvis @bredow I'm sure your intentions were good, but the Spiegel im English isn't really playing the game, keeping what must be the larger part of the article behind a paywall. Even if the 'Obelus' isn't much, asking Americans to pay in Euros will not produce a broad readership.

[tattered@social.vivaldi.net]

@jeffjarvis @bredow “Almost without resistance”.

[verbalprimate@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis @bredow

You can also hear Kagan talking to gross on Fresh Air. This discussion was chilling. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5699388/is-the-u-s-heading-into-a-dictatorship

[nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis @bredow Sadly, about 80% of the problem here is the fact that the media had long ago been compromised via various methods into systems that greatly helped the far right gain power and weaken the left. And now that most of the media is completely compromised, they'll never ever report correctly. (At least not here in America.) Unfortunately, that includes social media and etc, so they'll algorithm away articles like this such that those who actually need to see never do.

[jonasdahl@expressional.social]

@jeffjarvis @bredow Project 2025. Another way to say 1984. Or USSR.

[leelatorres@ieji.de]

@carbon_compound @jeffjarvis
Don't let archive.is .ph or .today run Javascript. It use it for DDoS against a Finish blogger because of a private grunge
https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-Operator-uses-users-for-DDoS-attack-11171455.html

[robo105@mastodon.social]

@jeffjarvis @bredow Trump knows he is doomed if he loses power so losing power is not something he will accept. His opponents are still clinging to the idea that the old rules will still work but those useless incantations have little use in the Brave New America

[byrnensorg@mastodon.ie]

@ferricoxide @jeffjarvis @bredow That's the point Kagan made in a nutshell, the public are pretty much resigned to wait till they come for them, instead of organising, finding exploiting weak points, arming up, creating security zones, generally preparing for civil war on the streets if need be, instead apathy and resignation reign. Learn from countries that successfully resisted the might of the US in the past and build on that.