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Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by scrollaway on Saturday January 10, 2026 @07:29AM (#46565159)
You're in complete denial. The most famous dictatorship of the previous century was also democratically elected. Take a step back and look at where your country is at:

- Sitting president controls all branches of the government including the supreme court

- State-controlled TV media and propaganda channels through state-controlled social media

- US rubbing shoulders with other autocrats & dictators, and now part of the UN voting block with north korea / syria / eritrea / russia / etc

- President threatening members of the opposing parties of arrest under treason charges

- USA kidnapped another country's leader, because of their oil (ZERO pretense)

- USA currently threatening to seize land from a sovereign EU nation with pro-MAGAs justifying it at every step

- Did you already forget that your sitting president attempted a coup or what?

I just picked some obvious ones, but the list is long. Devin Stone made a good video about it a month ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn-rkKIMNAs)

Hyperbole? Gimme a break. The rest of the world is watching and knows you're deep in it now. Just because it was not immediately a dictatorship in his first term doesn't mean it hasn't progressed and gotten worse ever since - You're still living in 2015.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by mattmaroon on Saturday January 10, 2026 @08:11AM (#46565433)
“ The most famous dictatorship of the previous century was also democratically elected.”

And how did it go from a democracy to a dictatorship? Because he convinced the people to give up their rights in response to a perceived threat.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by saubeidl on Saturday January 10, 2026 @08:27AM (#46565566)
No, actually, through a campaign of propaganda that wasn't stopped.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

Goebbels himself remarked how stupid the institutions were for granting them freedom of speech:

> When our enemies say: well, we gave you the freedom of opinion back then- yeah, you gave it to us, that's in no way evidence that we should return the favor! Your stupidity shall not be contagious! That you granted it to us is evidence of how dumb you are!

-- Joseph Goebbels, 1935

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by marcosdumay on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:37AM (#46566051)
> propaganda that wasn't stopped

That's a really misleading way to say it. Because they took charge of the entire structure aimed at stopping propaganda, and used it to amplify theirs.

The more laws and government agencies Germany had to fight propaganda, the easier time the Nazis would have had.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by scrollaway on Saturday January 10, 2026 @10:28AM (#46566483)
It took many steps, not just a convenient on-topic one. And among those many steps, the US has taken most of them at this stage.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by amarcheschi on Saturday January 10, 2026 @08:02AM (#46565350)
Mussolini introduced women suffrage, I'm not joking.

However, a few months after he deleted elections

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by scrollaway on Saturday January 10, 2026 @08:05AM (#46565378)
Reminds me of that time I implemented multithreading in an app we shut down a month later.
Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by andsoitis on Monday January 19, 2026 @09:45AM (#46679560)
> Mussolini introduced women suffrage, I'm not joking.

No single person introduced women suffrage. It emerged through independent movements across different countries.

That said, it is generally accepted that New Zealand (1893) was the first self-governing country to grant women the right to vote nationally. Key figure: Kate Sheppard.

Earlier partial or local suffrage: Sweden 1718 - 1772 (limited), US 1869 (Wyoming territory).

Key global leaders of women suffrage: UK - Emmeline Pankhurst, US - Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth C Stanton (results in 19th Amendment)

Global timeline: 1893 New Zealand, 1902 Australia (with racial exceptions), 1913 - 1918 Nordics, 1918 - 1920 UK and US, 1945-1960s Much of Asia, Africa, and Middle East, 1971 Switzerland!

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Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by csoups14 on Saturday January 10, 2026 @09:13AM (#46565872)
> That's what it was

Fake electors plot, Georgia phone call to "find 11600 votes". You seem convinced that he just talks, we have ample evidence that isn't true.

> Even if they took over Congress, would that need they would be the new Congress? You really believe that?

I was unaware conspiracies are only illegal if they succeed.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by GoblinSlayer on Saturday January 10, 2026 @01:37PM (#46568588)
>USA currently threatening to seize land from a sovereign EU nation with pro-MAGAs justifying it at every step

That EU nation can join NATO to prevent it.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines by scrollaway on Saturday January 10, 2026 @08:37PM (#46571909)
Denmark already is in NATO, smartypants.