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@TimothyDSnyder
Jan 6 • 22 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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1. Do not obey in advance. Image
2. Defend institutions. Image
3. Beware the one-party state. Image
4. Take responsibility for the face of the world. Image
5. Remember professional ethics. Image
6. Be wary of paramilitaries. Image
7. Be reflective if you must be armed. Image
8. Stand out. Image
9. Be kind to our language. Image
10. Believe in truth. Image
11. Investigate. Image
12. Make eye contact and small talk. Image
13. Practice corporeal politics. Image
14. Establish a private life. Image
15. Contribute to good causes. Image
16. Learn from peers in other countries. Image
17. Listen for dangerous words. Image
18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Image
19. Be a patriot. Image
20. Be as courageous as you can. Image
These lessons were written in advance of the first Trump presidency. They are the openings of the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny," which has been updated to account for the Big Lie, the coup attempt, the war in Ukraine, and the risks we face in 2024.
amazon.com/Tyranny-Twenty…
"On Tyranny" has also been published in a beautiful graphic edition, illustrated by Nora Krug.
amazon.com/Tyranny-Graphi…

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Dec 13
1/5 If Trump wanted Russia to negotiate, he would make the war harder for the Kremlin, not create the conditions for Russian victory. I wish reporters would point this out.
cnn.com/2024/12/12/pol…
2/5 Putin has made clear over and over that his goal is to destroy Ukraine as a nation and a state and that he has no interest in peace talks.
3/5 Trump’s proposed policy is to force Ukraine to negotiate by denying it weapons otherwise. But the Ukrainians are not the problem! The problem is Russia, the aggressor.
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Dec 11
1/6 Dr. Helen Ouyang in @nytimes: “The country is not heading toward a single-payer system, but that doesn’t mean we have to continue leaving patients and their doctors in the dark.”
Yes, it does in fact mean that, absent some other drastic reform.
2/6 It doesn’t help to write and publish essays like this, which present doctors and patients as good people facing tragic choices in an unchangeable system. How the system works to kill Americans for profit has to be front and center.
3/6 Only the US among comparable countries enables useless middlemen to profit hugely by placing themselves between doctor and patient. We have to be reminded that we are uniquely choosing a senseless system that takes both our wealth and our lives.
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Nov 9
Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance.
Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016. Image
Lesson 2: Defend institutions.
#OnTyranny Image
Lesson 3: Beware the one-party state.
#OnTyranny Image
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Aug 17
1/4. Important work here: Trump is violent rather than strong, and using US troops on protesters would break America.
nytimes.com/2024/08/17/us/…
2/4. Crucial point in the reporting: the most radical plans, such as the use of US troops against Americans, actually go beyond Project 2025.
nytimes.com/2024/08/17/us/…
3/4. A point not raised here is the effect that orders to suppress American protesters would have on the military itself. Either it resists or it becomes a tool of fascist power.
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Jul 1
1/5. Unless Trump loses, America ends.
2/5. The Supreme Court has made this clear. As has Trump himself. Over and over.
3/5. Our enemies know this. Which is why they all, without exception, support Trump.
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May 22
1/11. The people who told you that fascism was not a threat were wrong.
2/11. The people who told you that Russia was not fascist were, if possible, more wrong.
3/11. Fascism is might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction over fact, pain over law, blood over love, doom over hope.
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