#democracies — Public Fediverse posts

Steady decline in #Putin's ratings is sending a message, just not the kind #polls in #democracies are designed to capture

As #Kremlin's grip over internet tightens , #pro-war military #bloggers, state-approved “opposition” parties & even #influencers railed against #online #crackdown

State-linked #pollsters report Putin's approval rating has steadily declined, reaching its lowest point during the all-out invasion of Ukraine.

https://kyivindependent.com/russias-online-crackdown-reveals-rift-in-kremlin/

#Russia #RussianInvasion #WarCrimes

Watch Aya Jaffs’s inspiring talk at the #2MR-Conference online:

»Reclaim the internet for #democracies. How Tech Cooperatives can help«
👉 https://watch.2mr.social/w/53cbnLPN9gAu1i1gX8gA5M

> If this is success, their version of #freedom sounds like a threat.

Also check out Aya's column »Code & Capital« at @surplusmagazin:
https://www.surplusmagazin.de/autoren/aya-jaff/

#AyaJaff #Broligarchy #BigTech #OMR #democracy #digitalrights

#PhD in ERC-funded project "Residential #mobility and the realignment of #electoral #politics in established #democracies (RESPOL)."

in #Hamburg, 4 years, 75% FTE according TV-L E13
Deadline: 26 May

#survey #data #radicalright #extremism #research #job @sociology #panel

Full job ad: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=ca177b0bcec1fb4f3e25711ef1f014eb5404f620

#PhD in ERC-funded project "Residential #mobility and the realignment of #electoral #politics in established #democracies (RESPOL)."

in #Hamburg, 4 years, 75% FTE according TV-L E13
Deadline: 26 May

#survey #data #radicalright #extremism #research #job @sociology #panel

Full job ad: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=ca177b0bcec1fb4f3e25711ef1f014eb5404f620

#PhD in ERC-funded project "Residential #mobility and the realignment of #electoral #politics in established #democracies (RESPOL)."

in #Hamburg, 4 years, 75% FTE according TV-L E13
Deadline: 26 May

#survey #data #radicalright #extremism #research #job @sociology #panel

Full job ad: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=ca177b0bcec1fb4f3e25711ef1f014eb5404f620

#PhD in ERC-funded project "Residential #mobility and the realignment of #electoral #politics in established #democracies (RESPOL)."

in #Hamburg, 4 years, 75% FTE according TV-L E13
Deadline: 26 May

#survey #data #radicalright #extremism #research #job @sociology #panel

Full job ad: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=ca177b0bcec1fb4f3e25711ef1f014eb5404f620

#PhD in ERC-funded project "Residential #mobility and the realignment of #electoral #politics in established #democracies (RESPOL)."

in #Hamburg, 4 years, 75% FTE according TV-L E13
Deadline: 26 May

#survey #data #radicalright #extremism #research #job @sociology #panel

Full job ad: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=ca177b0bcec1fb4f3e25711ef1f014eb5404f620

#WhenTheTaleWagsTheDog

*👉️️️️️️️Who says #DonaldJTrump is unpredictable?👈️️️️️️️*

(12/n)

...have caught too few of these modern-day tyrants👈: #Raisi, #DaSilva, #Yoon + #Maduro.

However, much more serious than these individuals is the global degeneration of #democracies into #plutocracies and the almost enslaving trend of #Technofeudalism*..

* Technofeudalism:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/111949124362576334
(#Thiel, #Musk, #Zuckerberg, #Bezos, and many others) in connection with #enshittification 5), and #shrinkflation 6).

“And also for reminding us that what has become a boring everyday reality for the West, such as #rights and #freedoms, constitutions and #democracies, #prosperity and predictability, which we stopped caring about and began to undermine and question, is something you are ready to fight for,” Tusk noted.

https://www.euronews.com/2026/02/15/we-must-not-stop-being-good-tusk-says-in-munich

#RussianAggression #USAggression #Europe #peace

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How long can #Singapore’s #NMP scheme stay relevant?
🤔"Intro'ed in 1990 by then-PM Goh, e NMP platform was created to allow #nonelected MPs to provide #alternative #nonpartisan views.. scheme wasn't estab'ed to be a “talent pipeline” for #political parties.. “We must strengthen e NMP system to be the much-needed non-partisan ‘third side’ of the house to prevent the ills of #twoparty #systems tt we r seeing before our eyes in some mature #democracies” Anthea Ong" #ambition
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3299679/how-long-can-singapores-nmp-scheme-stay-relevant-why-2-resignations-have-raised-eyebrows

If floundering leaders r #newnorm we’re in v dangerous time
"post-WW2 welfare states eroded by capital’s escape fr #regulations, #taxation & #employment #standards tt govts once enacted, & none of e nations’ #governments cld arrest e shift in income fr wages to invts. #Offshoring ⏬️ # of & rewards for jobs in #industry.. broad prosperity of 30 yrs aft WW2, when #democracies w adv econs saw #realwages & median incomes⏫️ due to #preglobal #socialcontracts has long vanished"
https://prospect.org/world/2024-12-23-biden-unpopular-check-out-fellow-leaders/

This is exactly what the #Repugliqunt, #Russian #Oligarch and #CPP Global #Overlords want!
Why do you think the #Chinese #Communist Party and #Putin spend so much time and money poisoning the #news and #disinformation available to the #Democracies of the #West ?
It's a long game: lobotomize their youth; erode trust in the #RuleOfLaw; promote #conspiracy and #anxiety; increase mental health #pathology... then sit back and wait for it all to crumble.

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/22/screen-time-bad-unhealthy-kids-mental-health

And at the same time the #CCP #dictatorship of #China has been forcibly #sinicizing #Tibetan children for *decades* using similar methods.

When the clear intention is destroying the identity of people under occupation it is #genocide.

The world is finally, still too slowly, waking up to the dangers of hostile despotism, but the evidence of it has been there for anyone interested to see for decades.

Also, CCP getting away with enslaving Tibet emboldened it to crush the #Uighurs, and #putin to try the same by invading #Ukraine.

The despots facing no consequences meant their victims faced it all. At least Ukraine is getting the help they deserve.

#Democracies simply put business far ahead of the most basic moral considerations for decades...

@fulelo