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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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Other celebrities who have been made into holograms by Proto Hologram include Big Brother host Julie Chen Moonves, Elton John, Olivia Rodrigo, William Shatner and Kenan Thompson.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Some viewers were already complaining Big Brother was too much of a time commitment at three weekly episodes; now Bowers would have to sell his boss on a show that would air six nights a week, including the aftershow.—
Anna Peele,
Vulture,
20 May 2026
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Meanwhile, in 2023, at a time when I was exhausted from the seeming futility of constantly writing and talking about it, fascism and the decline of democracy became popular topics in the mainstream media.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 May 2026
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Talking to Deadline ahead of the screening, Loach says the conflict still resonates with the Left to this day as the first international fight against fascism.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
19 May 2026
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Still, some historians object to reincarnating a place so central to Nazism as a cultural venue for pleasure.—
Shira Li Bartov,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Aug. 2025
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Threat of communism, along with awful economic misery, spawned fascism and Nazism, and World War II.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
22 July 2025
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The fictional Operant Bureau of Zero Parades would insist otherwise; the future is all that remains, the tyranny of narrative history consigned to a past best left forgotten.—
Alex James Kane,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2026
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Ḥusayn represents justice and piety in opposition to the injustice and tyranny of Yazīd I.—
Charles Preston,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
22 May 2026
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Many Florida Hispanics from Cuba and South America vote Republican after fleeing socialist or communist dictatorships.—
Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
17 May 2026
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When Brazil’s military dictatorship cuts a major highway through Yanomami land in the mid ‘70s, her images become an act of resistance and a turning point in her life, Maria Farinha Filmes said Thursday.—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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