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Recent Examples of Big Brotherism
Weaponizing social media and other U.S. businesses to do what the Constitution would not allow government to do is Big Brotherism.
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WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
WSJ, 31 Mar. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Big Brotherism
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Under rules designed to prevent the instability that facilitated the rise of fascism in the 1930s, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier can only dissolve parliament and call an election if the chancellor calls, and loses, a confidence vote.Fox News, Fox News, 16 Dec. 2024
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Years later, in 2016, Viren sets out to write a book that treats that period in her life as an allegory for the rise of fascism in the United States.Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2024
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There is danger there, however, as Harold is a Jewish American and Germany is seeing the rise of Nazism and antisemitism.Pete Hammond, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2024
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The Trump rally had no symbols of Nazism or Fascism, and organizers portrayed it as a mainstream political rally with celebrities, comedians, media personalities and the candidate.Russell Contreras, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
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The collapse of the Assad regime, the tyranny in Damascus, offers great opportunity but also is fraught with significant dangers.Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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The show is airing at a time when a lot of people are thinking about tyranny in a very concrete way.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2024
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Older generations lived under the violent military dictatorships of the nineteen-sixties, seventies, and eighties, and young people are aware of this legacy.E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2024
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Of 5,000 people held at the school during the dictatorship, fewer than 250 survived.Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Big Brotherism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Big%20Brotherism. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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