Manuel A. García
@ftpmag.bsky.social
Active grandfather, avid reader, photography enthusiast, writer. Widely traveled, always eager to learn. Retired engineer, construction manager, executive. Former member of academia. Seeker of truth & justice. fittingthepieces.substack.com
"If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young Americans will have to know some. This is not the end, but a beginning.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"Perhaps [young Americans] will slide from inevitability toward eternity. It must be hoped that they...become a historical generation...rejecting the traps of inevitability and eternity that older generations have laid before them."— T. Snyder On Tyranny, Eplg. POTUS fascism antidote. #RESISTANCE
May 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
"Perhaps [young Americans] will slide from inevitability toward eternity. It must be hoped that they...become a historical generation...rejecting the traps of inevitability and eternity that older generations have laid before them."— T. Snyder On Tyranny, Eplg. POTUS fascism antidote. #RESISTANCE
“By embracing the politics of inevitability, we raised a generation without history. How will these young Americans react now that the promise of inevitability has been so obviously broken?"— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 18, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“By embracing the politics of inevitability, we raised a generation without history. How will these young Americans react now that the promise of inevitability has been so obviously broken?"— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism.
Protect #libraries. Oppose #censorship.
Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
Protect #libraries. Oppose #censorship.
Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
"History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism.
Protect #libraries. Oppose #censorship.
Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
Protect #libraries. Oppose #censorship.
Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something. The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz thought that such a notion of responsibility worked against loneliness and indifference."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something. The Polish poet Czesław Miłosz thought that such a notion of responsibility worked against loneliness and indifference."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"[History] reveals moments, each one of them different, not entirely unique. To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being the cocreator of another."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
"[History] reveals moments, each one of them different, not entirely unique. To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being the cocreator of another."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.”— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"If you once did nothing because you thought progress is inevitable, then you can continue to do nothing because you think time moves in repeating cycles.”— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"The path of least resistance leads directly from inevitability to eternity. If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE
May 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
"The path of least resistance leads directly from inevitability to eternity. If you once believed that everything always turns out well in the end, you can be persuaded that nothing turns out well in the end."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE
"The politics of inevitability is terribly vulnerable to the kind of shock it has just received. When something shatters the myth, when our time falls out of joint, we scramble to find some other way to organize what we experience."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS. #RESISTANCE
May 16, 2025 at 2:19 PM
"The politics of inevitability is terribly vulnerable to the kind of shock it has just received. When something shatters the myth, when our time falls out of joint, we scramble to find some other way to organize what we experience."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS. #RESISTANCE
“The danger we now face is of a passage from the politics of inevitability to the politics of eternity, from a naïve and flawed sort of democratic republic to a confused and cynical sort of fascist oligarchy."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“The danger we now face is of a passage from the politics of inevitability to the politics of eternity, from a naïve and flawed sort of democratic republic to a confused and cynical sort of fascist oligarchy."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
“If the politics of inevitability is like a coma, the politics of eternity is like hypnosis: We stare at the spinning vortex of cyclical myth until we fall into a trance—and then we do something shocking at someone else’s orders”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue Antidote to POTUS fascism #RESISTANCE
May 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“If the politics of inevitability is like a coma, the politics of eternity is like hypnosis: We stare at the spinning vortex of cyclical myth until we fall into a trance—and then we do something shocking at someone else’s orders”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue Antidote to POTUS fascism #RESISTANCE
"[In the politics of eternity...]Since the crisis is permanent, the sense of emergency is always present; planning for the future seems impossible or even disloyal. How can we even think of reform when the enemy is always at the gate?”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Fascism antidote. #RESISTANCE
May 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"[In the politics of eternity...]Since the crisis is permanent, the sense of emergency is always present; planning for the future seems impossible or even disloyal. How can we even think of reform when the enemy is always at the gate?”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Fascism antidote. #RESISTANCE
"[If we dwell on victimhood, since]...the nation is defined by its inherent virtue rather than by its future potential, politics becomes a discussion of good and evil rather than a discussion of possible solutions to real problems."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to fascism. #RESISTANCE
May 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"[If we dwell on victimhood, since]...the nation is defined by its inherent virtue rather than by its future potential, politics becomes a discussion of good and evil rather than a discussion of possible solutions to real problems."— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to fascism. #RESISTANCE
"The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 14, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
“In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures."— Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue, ISBN 978-0-8041-9011-4. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"[A president]:...we need..‘riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.’ He couldn’t quite pull off this scenario in January 2021, but it was not for lack of trying..”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM
"[A president]:...we need..‘riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great.’ He couldn’t quite pull off this scenario in January 2021, but it was not for lack of trying..”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"A president described a regime change in the style of the 1930s as desirable: ‘You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster.’"— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 13, 2025 at 12:27 PM
"A president described a regime change in the style of the 1930s as desirable: ‘You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster.’"— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
"Steve Bannon promised policies that would be ‘as exciting as the 1930s.’ When exactly was the ‘again’ in the slogan ‘Make America great again’? It is, sadly, the same ‘again’ that we find in ‘Never again.’"— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
"Steve Bannon promised policies that would be ‘as exciting as the 1930s.’ When exactly was the ‘again’ in the slogan ‘Make America great again’? It is, sadly, the same ‘again’ that we find in ‘Never again.’"— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
“An American president used the slogan “America First,” which is the name of a committee that sought to prevent the United States from opposing Nazi Germany in the 1930s."— Timothy Snyder, On T. Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 13, 2025 at 12:23 PM
“An American president used the slogan “America First,” which is the name of a committee that sought to prevent the United States from opposing Nazi Germany in the 1930s."— Timothy Snyder, On T. Epilogue. Antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
“[National populist leaders such as those in]…Poland and Hungary alike make similar gestures toward a glowing image of the 1930s. Putin’s war is fascist.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION
May 12, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“[National populist leaders such as those in]…Poland and Hungary alike make similar gestures toward a glowing image of the 1930s. Putin’s war is fascist.”— T. Snyder, On Tyranny, Epilogue. A highly recommended antidote to POTUS fascism. Resist daily as you are able. #RESISTANCE #COMPASSION