Farida Nabourema has dedicated her life to fighting the military regime in Togo, Africa's oldest autocracy. She's learned two truths along the way: no country is destined to be oppressed — and no country is immune to dictatorship. But how can you tell if you're at risk before it happens? In a stirring talk, Nabourema shares the four key signs of a dictatorship, along with the secret to defiance for those living within an oppressive system.
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I think it is. Pls help!
If a country has the ability to influence your beliefs through the media they have the ability to make you commit atrocities
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You are boring yeah, people *want* to contract polio, measles, and all those other nasty diseases!
+TyV Vulpintaur Nah, that is not the point. If you have mind control drugs and the ability to inject them into your populace, surely some of the vaccines have behavioral altering drugs doped in them.
You are boring yeah, if only those mind control drugs actually exist…..
+TyV Vulpintaur Oops, I have said too much
Forget this conversation ever happened and keep vaccinating your kids. Don’t forget to drink Tap Water.
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“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum. Even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives the people the sense that there’s free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.” -Noam Chomsky
*Kim Jung Un:* No, but actually yes.
Ted: “Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship?”
Egyptians: “That a question or Sarcasm?”
also America
“Am I a djoke to you?”
+JASDKA1 I
Just so we’re clear a constitutional republic is a governmental infrastructure that clearly defines a government’s obligations and clearly restricts it’s jurisdiction. It democracy on the other hand allows the government to manipulate 51% of its people to oppress the other 49%
Please watch “Requiem for the American Dream (2015).” I learned a lot from watching that documentary, especially about how the system works.
Wow this woman is so brave and it should be a lesson to all of us. Unbelievable story she touched my heart really. She seems so honest but Thank God she has overcomed all this past things and she is still fighting for Justice. It is a Wonderful thing to see.
Russia…
I love my country so much, so it hurts to see all the things that are happening now…
Thank you for the inspiration. I think we here are getting closer to brighter future. At least at the moment I have hope.
There is no hope for Russia. After Putin expires, your country by that point would have been so damaged and neglected that it will be on the cusp of disintegration.
“Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression.”(Ronald Reagan)
“China & North Korea will remember that”
I am impressed by the poverty of comments in the media.
I hope they don’t lie like they do over here always give you a good front but they never show up to do the job
“Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? ”
Unfortinatelly It has already become
Oh yeah? Where do you live?
This woman is an inspiration to us all. I truly hope nothing bad happens to her.
Why ?
Yes she needs her own security guards!
Majority of dictators are usually elected in.
Meaning that the scary “coming in and stripping power” idea of tyrants is very outdated. Citizens more often than not will voluntarily give up their powers/rights to a leader for various reasons (security, war, crisis, financial collapse, etc.). We choose the dictator, not the other way around in most cases.
So how willing is your country to become a dictatorship? How willing are they to give up their freedoms in order for emotional security? It’s often countries that are in a bad place to start with and become desperate enough to turn to a dictator.
I felt for a moment that you are talking about my country, Syria… we’ve been living in exactly the same situation for 49 years, autocracy, father and then his son and so on…
Thank you for this inspiring talk ❤
Brother, I hope you take care of yourself
What goes on in Syria is terrible
I hope that Assad will fall, and all the hostile elements will leave Syria and you will be able to maintain a truly democratic government that will take care of all the citizens equally.
As an Israeli and a Jewish American.
I hope that Israel and Syria could live in peace and empower each other.
You have a long way to go, be strong
India too will become dictatorship if Modi and Yogi win again.
Brazilian folks,
Please watch this TED talk.
(let’s count how many answers “e o Lula”)
1) Is power in the hands of the few?
2) Propaganda
3) Militarization
4) Cruelty