Aral Balkan on Nostr: I don’t know who needs to hear this but if every four years you must vote to keep ...
I don’t know who needs to hear this but if every four years you must vote to keep out fascism, you’re not living in a democracy, you’re living under siege.
Tolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. Either democracies have constitutional protections and democratic institutions to enforce them to ensure fascism can never be voted into power or they are just fascisms in waiting.
Published at
2025-04-30 06:39:46 UTCEvent JSON
{
"id": "b3fcf134532828e49f4de7fb5b9a4eae84008ab31602b1ac7bb5a8ad9c54a9ce",
"pubkey": "0bcb4fea58ca0749444278a4850b964fba08d7aee656cb583838bc703bec7759",
"created_at": 1745995186,
"kind": 1,
"tags": [
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114425540532785916",
"web"
],
[
"proxy",
"https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/114425540532785916",
"activitypub"
],
[
"L",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"l",
"pink.momostr.activitypub:https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/114425540532785916",
"pink.momostr"
],
[
"-"
]
],
"content": "I don’t know who needs to hear this but if every four years you must vote to keep out fascism, you’re not living in a democracy, you’re living under siege.\n\nTolerance cannot tolerate intolerance. Either democracies have constitutional protections and democratic institutions to enforce them to ensure fascism can never be voted into power or they are just fascisms in waiting.",
"sig": "f10748207fb73cf3806880d8d12700052245bac97e805ee3d356ccdfa846059ad905293f0c5cd8e61b72be5ec73781e6d2da640aa6045c14f3c9951a6587b469"
}