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10 Telltale Signs Of Dangerous Authoritarianism
X.com ^ | 4:45 PM · Aug 14, 2025 | The Babylon Bee✓ @TheBabylonBee

Posted on 08/14/2025 5:27:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

https://babylonbee.com/news/10-telltale-signs-of-dangerous-authoritarianism

In case you haven't already heard, you're living in an oppressive, authoritarian dictatorship now. Don't believe it? It's easy to see once you know what to look for.

The Babylon Bee has come up with the following list of telltale signs of dangerous authoritarianism:


  1. Someone you don't like won an election because more people voted for him: This should never be allowed to happen in a democracy.

  2. People walking around smiling and enjoying their lives: Those poor, uninformed victims of oppression.

  3. A TV show that lost $40 million a year got canceled: What are late-night talk shows supposed to do now? Be funny?

  4. Literal concentration camps being built in the imaginations of journalists: Few things are more terrifying than literal imaginary things.

  5. A super-hot actress did an ad for jeans: No one wants to live in a world where they have to look at attractive people.

  6. Police trampling on the rights of hardworking carjackers and muggers: True freedom means never being arrested.

  7. Jews are openly welcomed on university campuses: How far the education system has fallen.

  8. Funding for Iraqi Sesame Street cut: Who will teach the little children their Alif, Baa, Taa's?

  9. Food stamps no longer allowed to be used for Skittles: Fascists are waging war on the rainbow in more ways than one.

  10. People you disagree with get to say stuff: How can anyone think this is fair?


Every item on the list above should send shivers up your spine. What other clear signs of totalitarianism do you see in America? Leave them in the comments.

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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: authoritarianism; babylonbee; dictatorship; humor; tds

1 posted on 08/14/2025 5:27:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Recently someone robbed a bank near our area.

One of our dear little liberals informed us that he was probably someone who had just lost his job and insurance and so it was Trump's fault.

The world inside their heads must be very strange indeed.

2 posted on 08/14/2025 5:35:38 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

In their minds banks and insurance have more money than they need and deserve to have it taken from them.


3 posted on 08/14/2025 5:36:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

#TDS is real. More proof right there.


4 posted on 08/14/2025 5:40:11 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

It’s not just a strange place. It’s stranger than we can imagine.
We’re dealing with real “Twilight Zone” phenomenon.


5 posted on 08/14/2025 7:00:47 PM PDT by sjmjax
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To: FreedomPoster

My anti-POTUS relatives have taken to calling him djt in their posts lately. It must make them feel really good to be so disrespectful to him. Isn’t it sad to think that people are wasting so much energy and emotion, on simply hating Donald Trump? One of their favorite labels for the administration is authoritarianism.


6 posted on 08/14/2025 7:03:45 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

LOL!!!!


7 posted on 08/14/2025 8:28:07 PM PDT by 4Liberty (One person’s Socialism is another’s neighborliness. -Tim Walz)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

1 Trump
2 Trump
3 Trump
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8 posted on 08/14/2025 10:34:35 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Bee gave me a smile! Well done, as usual!!


9 posted on 08/15/2025 4:02:29 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I have heard shoplifters argue that it was “only” taking stuff from a store/company and “nobody” is hurt. As if they aren’t actually robbing people. They really cannot see the connection.


10 posted on 08/15/2025 4:17:03 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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