We glibly believed it could never happen here even though we’ve been warned again and again. And in some sense, even though it’s been here all along — hiding in plain sight. I’ll be adding to this authoritarianism dictionary over time, as I can chip away at it and as new words get added to the lexicon.
Term | Topic | Definition | Notes | Read more |
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13th Amendment | ||||
14th Amendment | white supremacy | |||
15th Amendment | white supremacy | |||
19th Amendment | misogyny | |||
4chan | alt-Right | A notorious internet message board with an unruly culture capable of trolling, pranks, and crimes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan | |
8chan | alt-Right | If 4chan isn't raw and lawless enough for you, try the even more right-wing "free speech"-haven 8chan, which is notorious for incubating a large swath of the Gamergate culture. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan | |
abortion | religious extremism | |||
active measures | Russian | |||
aggrieved entitlement | ||||
America's "original sin" | white supremacy | slavery | ||
amoral | ||||
armed robbery | organized crime | |||
ASPD | abuse & control | antisocial personality disorder | ||
assassination | ||||
astroturfing | Pretending a well organized and financed operation is a grassroots groundswell | |||
authoritarianism | ||||
banality of evil | ||||
banana republic | politically unstable countries whose economies are monocultures controlled by an oligarchy; puppet states | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic | ||
birth control | misogyny | |||
bitcoin | alt-Right | |||
Black Codes | ||||
BLM | white supremacy | Black Lives Matter | ||
BLM (US) | Bureau of Land Management | |||
blockchain | alt-Right | |||
blood libel | ||||
bolt hole | End Times | A type of retreat or refuge for those in the survivalist subculture, to be absconded to in case of disaster or apocalypse. | ||
Brown v. Board of Education (1954) | white supremacy | Supreme Court decision ordering the desegregation of schools. Resistance to the ruling took the form of "states' rights" advocates, among much else. | ||
bug-out location (BOL) | End Times | Another name for a bolt hole or survivalist refuge location. | ||
Calexit | Movement to split the state of Californnia into East and West states | Nigel Farage, Scott Baugh, Arron Bank, Gerry Gunster | ||
capital gains tax | ||||
civil society | ||||
Civil War | ||||
Cluster B | ||||
collective narcissism | ||||
Communism | ||||
conscience | ||||
conspiracy theory | ||||
covert narcissist | ||||
cults | ||||
deep state | Networks of opposition within governments who undermine the official regime | Was also used as a concept in WWII Germany to mean anyone "not loyal to the Nazis" | https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/world/americas/deep-state-leaks-trump.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0 | |
democratic socialism | ||||
desegregation | ||||
disinformation | ||||
domestic violence | abuse & control | |||
Doomsday Clock | ||||
double standard | misogyny | |||
down ballot | ||||
doxing | abuse & control | researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual | ||
Drain the Swamp | Campaign slogan of Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential contest. | He was referring to the dastardly no-good downright evil of individuals like his campaign advisor, Roger Stone, known for his role in about-to-be impeached Richard Nixon's campaign as a "dirty trickster," a moniker he relishes to this day. | ||
Emancipation Proclamation | white supremacy | |||
empathy | ||||
estate tax | ||||
"Eternal Rome" | ideology positing Russia as a geopolitical bulwark of conservatism against a weak-kneed West (part of Alexander Dugin's reformulation of Eurasianism theory) | |||
exfiltration | The removal or copying of data from one server to another without the knowledge of the owner | |||
facial recognition | ||||
fake news | ||||
false flag | Russian | covert operations designed to deceive by appearing as though they are carried out by other entities, groups, or nations than those who actually executed them | ||
fascism | ||||
fellow travellers | ||||
fifth column | ||||
fifth world war | Russian | non-linear war; the war of all against all | term coined by Putin's vizier Vladislav Surkov | http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n20/peter-pomerantsev/putins-rasputin |
Financial Crimes Enforcement NEtwork (FinCEN) | organized crime | Department within the Treasury that handles and maiontains FBAR filings from US persons holding in excess of $10,000 in foreign banks. | ||
FISA Court | organized crime | |||
FISA warrant | organized crime | |||
fiscal policy | ||||
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) | Legal statute requiring those persons lobbying on behalf of a foreign government or other entity to register such with the U.S. government. | |||
foreign bank account report (FBAR) | Required disclosure to the US treasury by persons holding in excess of $10,000 in funds in foreign banks. | |||
forensics | ||||
Freedmen's Bureau | ||||
FreedomFest | Conservative evangelical event annually in Las Vegas | |||
free trade | ||||
fronto-paralimbic area | Part of the brain associated with empathy, along with the anterior insula | |||
GamerGate | alt-Right | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy | ||
genocide | ||||
gift tax | ||||
"global cabal" | conspiracy theory | euphemism in far-right Russian discourse to refer to a perceived "Jewish conspiracy" behind the international order of institutions like NATO and the EU | similar to/related to "cultural Marxism," neo-Nazism, and anti-Semitism in general | |
Grand Jury | 16 to 23 people impaneled to hear evidence from a legal prosecution, and decide if said prosecution has a caseworthy set of evidence to bring charges. | |||
Greensboro Massacre | ||||
Great Migration | ||||
Great Society | ||||
human trafficking | organized crime | |||
hybrid warfare | ||||
incel | misogyny | "involuntary celibate" -- a male individual who believes society owes him sex | ||
inflation | ||||
information warfare | ||||
interest rates | ||||
interposition | white supremacy | Dubious theory underpinning the idea of states' rights, which is that individual states have veto power over any laws passed by the federal government | ||
Jim Crow South | white supremacy | |||
Johnson Amendment | prosperity gospel | Allowed televangelists to funnel tax-free riches into luxury goods and political advocacy | ||
Kochtopus | Term for the sprawling political machinery of the Kansas-based billionaire Koch Industries inheritees, Charles and David. | |||
kompromat | Russian | compromising material on a head of state or other important figure; typically used for blackmail purposes | ||
lamestream media | alt-Right | |||
liberalism | Political and ethical framework based on individual liberty via human rights and equal protection | Liberalism is a political philosophy or worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. Whereas classical liberalism emphasises the role of liberty, social liberalism stresses the importance of equality. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally they support ideas and programmes such as freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, free markets, civil rights, democratic societies, secular governments, gender equality, and international cooperation | ||
lobbying | ||||
"Lock her up!" | alt-Right | |||
Logan Act | ||||
lynching | white supremacy | |||
machine learning | ||||
Mafia state | organized crime | A systematic corruption of government by organized crime syndicates. | Term coined by former KGB/FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko. See also: kleptocracy | |
MAGA | ||||
malignant envy | ||||
malignant narcissism | abuse & control | |||
manosphere | misogyny | |||
Marxism | ||||
#MeToo | misogyny | |||
micropenis | misogyny | |||
micro-propaganda machine | MPM | the “micro-propaganda machine” — an influence network that can tailor people’s opinions, emotional reactions, and create “viral” sharing episodes around what should be serious or contemplative issues | https://medium.com/@d1gi/the-election2016-micro-propaganda-machine-383449cc1fba#.3iq7mbess | |
misogyny | ||||
money laundering | organized crime | |||
narcissism | ||||
narcissistic collusion | ||||
national debt | ||||
national deficit | ||||
negging | abuse & control | |||
neomania | obsession with the new -- a hallmark of Americsan culture | |||
New Deal | ||||
non-linear warfare | Russian | |||
novichok | military-grade nerve agent developed by Russia and used in the poisoning of former FSB agent turned Putin critic Andrei Skripal and his daughter in Lonson in March, 2018 | |||
oligarchy | ||||
one-party state | ||||
open source intelligence | ||||
oppo | short form of opposition research | |||
outrage industry | ||||
Palantir | ||||
pathocracy | ||||
patriarchy | misogyny | |||
peculiar institution | white supremacy | slavery | ||
plausible deniability | ||||
Plessy v. Ferguson | 1896 | |||
plutocracy | ||||
populism | ||||
postmodernism | ||||
post-truth | ||||
Potemkin village | Any structure or facade built expressly for the purpose of making the situation appear more favorable than it really is | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village | ||
Powell Memo | Lewis Powell's 1970s memo to the wealthy white male elite, in anger over the crackdown against tobacco companies, as a call to arms to organize politically against "anti-capitalist" forces | |||
PR | abuse & control | public relations | ||
Progressive Era | ||||
propaganda | abuse & control | |||
prosocial behavior | ||||
psychopath | abuse & control | |||
psyops | Russian | |||
PUA | misogyny | "Pick Up Artist" -- a self-styled lothario who helps train other would-be casanovas in his ways of manipulative charm | ||
race riots | ||||
race war | ||||
rape culture | misogyny | |||
Reagonomics | conspiracy theory | see also: trickle down economics, supply side economics, Chicago School econ | ||
retweet | When a Twitter user amplifies the tweet of another, by "retweeting" it out to her or his network | |||
Right anterior insular cortex | Part of the brain associated with empathy; psychopaths have a deficit here | |||
right-wing authoritarian | ||||
Ruby Ridge | ||||
sadopopulism | ||||
Second Wave Feminism | misogyny | |||
senicide | ||||
sexual assault | misogyny | |||
sexual harassment | misogyny | |||
shadow profiles | surveillance capitalism | Data that Facebook collects on people who are not members of Facebook, via association with their friends who are | https://www.zdnet.com/article/firm-facebooks-shadow-profiles-are-frightening-dossiers-on-everyone/ | |
shared reality | ||||
show trials | ||||
Signal | encrypted messaging app | |||
SJW | white supremacy | Social Justice Warriors -- used as a pejorative by the alt-Right | ||
socialism | ||||
sociopathy | ||||
sockpuppet accounts | Fake social media accounts used by trolls for deceptive and covert actions, avoiding culpability for abuse, aggression, death threats, doxxing, and other criminal acts against targets. | |||
SMS | texting | |||
special interest groups | ||||
spearphishing | An email designed to appear as if from a trusted source, to solicit information that allows the sender to gain access to an account or network, or installs malware that later enables the sender to gain access to an account or network | |||
spite voter | ||||
stochastic terrorism | http://www.vox.com/2016/8/10/12422476/trump-second-amendment-hillary-stochastic-terrorism-anti-abortion-violence | |||
suffrage | The right to vote, sometimes referred to as "the franchise." | |||
swatting | hoaxed reports to emergency services intended to provoke a SWAT team response at the target's home; a form of Internet-based attack used by Gamergate, the alt-Right, and other groups and individuals | |||
symbolic violence | ||||
tax avoidance | ||||
tax fraud | organized crime | |||
tax havens | ||||
Third Wave Feminism | misogyny | |||
total war | ||||
trial balloon | Information put out or leaked to the media to gauge public reaction. | |||
trickle-down economics | conspiracy theory | |||
truth decay | conspiracy theory | |||
The Turner Diaries | white supremacy | |||
unmasking | cybersecurity | Intelligence protocol redacting American identities from transcripts of foreign intercepts | ||
volcel | ||||
Voting Rights Act | white supremacy | |||
Waco, TX | ||||
wag the dog | abuse & control | |||
wage gap | misogyny | |||
watering hole | cybersecurity | hacker attacks that infect entire websites | ||
whataboutism | Russian | Classic debate tactic of old Soviet apologists to deflect criticism of Soviet policy; whenever an American would levy a critique, the response would be, "What about the bad things America does?" | Trump parrots this strategy in an early Feb 2017 interview with Bill O'Reilly, in response to a comment about Putin being "a killer" | http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/04/politics/donald-trump-vladimir-putin/ |
white nationalism | white supremacy | |||
women's liberation | misogyny | |||
World War I | WWI gave job opportunities to blacks in the North, causing a great migration -- as well as a backlash and resistance from Southern law enforcement. | |||
World War II | ||||
Yes California | Movement to secede from the US entirely, run by Marcus Ruiz Evans, Louis J. Marinelli | Marinelli lives in Russia |