I’ve always had mad respect for M. Gessen. I’ve been thinking abt this Q for some time now in part because I’ve had the good fortune to know people who’ve confronted it elsewhere & also learn from respected voices like Gessen & @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social Reccomend reading her book #HowToLoseACountry
If US were Turkiye: Mamdani wins; Trump cancels the election; people vote again; he wins again. Trump strips his degree, jails him for corruption, brands him a terrorist, and locks up his supporters. #HowToLoseACountry
If you need to listen something calm and thoughtful, here’s @fieldzine.bsky.social podcast with me. Many thanks to #SamField for being who he is. open.spotify.com/episode/6w8O... #HowToLoseACountry #Together via @canongate.co.uk
It was a special #howtoloseacountry night at #KilnTheater in #London . We cried, laughed and most importantly felt not so alone anymore. Many thanks to everyone who was there and special thanks to the brilliant #intelligencesquared and @canongate team.
Who else watched the May 2025 #LocalElection with growing horror? 🙋🏾♀️🙋🏼♀️🙋🏽♂️🤦
Well, next on our reading list is @ETemelkuran's book:
#HowToLoseACountry
Check out our post to see why YOU need to read it right now!
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#Fascism #ReformUK #Nationalism #Racism #StopReform
Text: “How to Lose a Country In order to build such a giant web, Erdogan's party exploited these people's already dire living conditions and, more impor-tantly, gradually transformed their basic social rights into matters of party political charity. When people's needs are urgent, it's not hard to convince them that instead of fighting for social equality it makes more sense to show loyalty to a political party in return for a daily loaf of bread and a few lumps of coal. This charity was, of course, dependent on Erdogan's generosity.”
As Erdogan did in Turkey. EceTemelkuran describes in her great book #HowToLoseACountry.
Stars and Stripes flying upside down, a sign of a country in distress
Whatever ailment plagued King George III in the late 18th century is now affecting the wannabe king in the Oval Office in the 21st
#HowToLoseACountry #StateCapture #CountryInDistress
Many thanks to #lucianapeker for this thorough interview on #HowToLoseACountry (#ComoPerderUnPais) and #Together ( #Juntos) After my lecture on Fascism in Madrid, she asked the right questions. Well, coming from #Argentina, she knows what the entire world is about to experience.
See you in #Brussels on the 11th of February to understand the current insanity of the world together. I’ll be in conversation with the one and only #anneliesbeck at #Bozar #howtoloseacountry #together #amanifestoagainsttheheartlessworld
Photo of a book called: How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Ece Temelkuran
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Just some light reading after a long day at work. How to Lose a Country by Ece Temelkuran
#howtoloseacountry #EceTemelkuran
I was hoping to read Together. Delighted it’s going to be reprinted.
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The joyful sequel to #HowToLoseACountry Soon to be republished by @canongate.co.uk and @simonandschuster.bsky.social
