Peter Seyferth reflects on his experience combating horseshoe theory on the German TV show 13 Questions. https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/08/20/anarchist-on-a-talk-show/ #anarchism #politics #germany #depol
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The Democrats are throwing one helluva fun party at their coronation convention. Some folks are criticizing them for it, but some folks will criticize anything.
FWIW I’d rather work my ass off to support the folks having fun then I would the folks trying to spoil not just fun, but life, for the rest of us.
Economics is certainly not a harmless science. In fact, it's not a science at all. It is a tool created by humans, a tool that can be used for good or for evil.
The following is from page 32 in a new book I just read called Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison…
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It is highly misleading to describe neoliberalism as “free market economics." In many ways it's quite the opposite.
Neoliberalism is the tool used by the very rich to accumulate more wealth and power. Neoliberalism is class war.
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Inciting rioters in Britain was a test run for Elon Musk. Just see what he plans for America
"If Musk chooses to “predict” a civil war in the States, what will that look like? If he chooses to contest an election result? If he decides that democracy is over-rated? This isn’t sci-fi. It’s literally three months away."
#Twitter #USpol #politics #SocialMedia #news #tech #technology #democracy #USA #ElonMusk
Make sure you understand what truly matters - the rest is just noise.
For me it's:
- Maintain our collective humanity
- Rebuild and strengthen our democratic institutions, processes, and values
- A physical environment that will provide our grandkids and their grandkids a realistic opportunity for a healthy and sustainable future.
#politics #future #grandkids #climatecrisis #democracy #humanity
"In #Britain, the canary has sung. This summer we have witnessed something new and unprecedented. The #billionaire owner of a #tech platform publicly confronting an elected leader and using his platform to undermine his authority and incite #violence. Britain’s 2024 summer #riots were #ElonMusk ’s trial balloon.
He got away with it."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/inciting-rioters-in-britain-was-a-test-run-for-elon-musk-just-see-what-he-plans-for-america
#SocialMedia #Disinformation #Propaganda #Lies #Twitter #Musk #Politics #US #USPol #USA #News
Armed and Underground: Inside the Turbulent, Secret World of an American #Militia
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Rounding up #migrants. Lists of “friendly” sheriffs. Debating #political assassinations.
Internal messages reveal AP3's journey from Jan. 6 through the tumultuous lead-up to the 2024 #election.
One member predicts: “It’ll be decided at the ammo box.”
#news #election2024 #government #crime #violence #immigration #politics
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-secret-ap3-militia-american-patriots-three-percent
On its 50th birthday we might ask how successful has the Health & Safety at Work Act been?
well in 1969 there were 323,000 workplace deaths & injuries.... top from 168,000 ten years earlier.
In 1974, the there were 2.9 fatal injuries per 100,000 workers; by 2023-24, it was down to 0.42 per 100,000 representing 138 work-related deaths.
Now that looks like success.... not Health & Safety gone mad, but workers & their families saved from tragedies!
#workers #politics
https://theconversation.com/the-uks-health-and-safety-at-work-act-is-50-heres-how-its-changed-our-lives-235794
Boissonnault’s former company, business partner face civil fraud allegation
Global Health Imports, co-founded by cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault, faces its seventh lawsuit and a new allegation of fraud.
#globalnews #Canada #Politics #GlobalHealthImports #RandyBoissonnault
https://globalnews.ca/news/10696127/boissonnault-ghi-civil-fraud-allegation/
Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos
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“Eradicate climate change references”...
Only talk to conservative media...
Don’t leave a paper trail for watchdogs to discover.
In a series of never-before-published videos, #Project2025 details how a second #Trump administration would operate.
#News #Video #election2024 #Election #GOP #Voting #HeritageFoundation #Government #Politics
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election
Do you sometimes miss the really good political comments between friends? Who take the time to read and dissect all the articles you don't have the energy or motivation for? Who show you where you need to pay attention and what was once again upsetting?
Imagine an intelligent woman walks into your pub and does exactly that about #USPol - just follow @GottaLaff
#FollowFriday #journalist #progressive #news #NicoleSandlerShow #society #politics #commentator
The US state of Utah releases its first list of banned books.
«They want to make it so that if one or two parents or school board members don’t like a book, they can easily take it away from every single resident in the state.»
Well beyond merely ironic to use democracy as the delivery vehicle for a policy of tyrannical rule by minority.
I also have come to think it not coincidental that our plutocratic overlords are devising schemes like this, which I see as the political analogs of leveraged buyouts, which also allow one power beyond what seems like should be their rightfully earned means, distorting the natural checks and balances of a market, democracy here being the marketplace of ideas.
A number of recent political moves have had this shape, not least of which the capture of the Supreme Court and really brazen exploitation of its power …
The US state of Utah releases its first list of banned books.
«They want to make it so that if one or two parents or school board members don’t like a book, they can easily take it away from every single resident in the state.»
Well beyond merely ironic to use democracy as the delivery vehicle for a policy of tyrannical rule by minority.
I also have come to think it not coincidental that our plutocratic overlords are devising schemes like this, which I see as the political analogs of leveraged buyouts, which also allow one power beyond what seems like should be their rightfully earned means, distorting the natural checks and balances of a market, democracy here being the marketplace of ideas.
A number of recent political moves have had this shape, not least of which the capture of the Supreme Court and really brazen exploitation of its power to bootstrap other independent power structures, leaving themselves as gatekeepers, but making these less regulated structures more untouchable.
Capture of the voting structures locally in each state feels like another. Privatization of government services is another. Injecting religion into the public sphere is another. The according of protected rights to corporations ("legal people") is another. In my mind, these all share a common tactical structure of exploiting a legislative weakness to create an unchecked power structure.
Further to the death of irony, too, the GOP wrongly complains, and recently offers Project 2025 as alleged antidote, that FDA, CDC, NOAA, and other science-based agencies are on par, doing the same. They want party loyalists installed there to keep science more responsive to the ruling party. As if that science is a thing one can or should vote on. But then they create their own similarly extragovernmental groups and processes but make no effort to make THOSE groups responsive to party.
It leaves me flabbergasted.
https://www.themarysue.com/utah-releases-first-list-of-books-to-be-banned-statewide/
#FreeSpeech #BookBan #BookBanning #UtahBookBanning #LBO #SCOTUS #democracy #privatizing #politics #FreedomOfSpeech
Content warning The misogynistic and racist hate campaign against a cisgender Algerian boxer
This is to the people who are buying into the far-right’s anti-trans hate raised against the Algerian Olympic boxer who is NOT ACTUALLY TRANS, but is receiving some of the fiercest gender-conformity policing I’ve had the extreme displeasure to see. Elon Musk, JK Rowling, the entire evil crew of evil fuckheads are in on it.
Spoiler: it’s about Imane Khelif, a cisgender and probably heterosexual woman, having her femininity policed, savagely and viciously, in a preview of everything the right wants to do against women who they don’t find properly submissive and attractive.
https://solarbird.net/blog/2024/08/03/the-hate-campaign-against-a-cisgender-algerian-boxer/
#misogyny #racism #fascism #olympics #uspol #uspolitics #politics