#democray — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #democray, aggregated by home.social.
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HEATHER COX RICHARDSON 5/24/26
WE ARE AMERICA
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The English Cory #Doctorow in a brilliant analysis.
- Fascists come to power by mobilizing grievances. By choosing a scapegoat, fascists can create support from people who are justifiably furious that the services they rely on have collapsed.
- Fascism – what Hannah Arendt called 'organized loneliness' – can only take root when people stop believing that their society will reward their lawfulness with an orderly and humane existence.
#Democray #Trump
https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/always-great/#our-nhs -
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) - #Minneapolis #USA #Trump #ICE #Democray https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=SJJcaJXbEWQVGugN
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"Everything good you have is the product of someones struggle"
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#PearlHarbor #History #DorisMiller #trump #Democray #Equality #Fascism #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25 PEARL HARBOR DAY AND A NEW ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
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#PearlHarbor #History #DorisMiller #trump #Democray #Equality #Fascism #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25 PEARL HARBOR DAY AND A NEW ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
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#PearlHarbor #History #DorisMiller #trump #Democray #Equality #Fascism #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25 PEARL HARBOR DAY AND A NEW ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
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#PearlHarbor #History #DorisMiller #trump #Democray #Equality #Fascism #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25 PEARL HARBOR DAY AND A NEW ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
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#PearlHarbor #History #DorisMiller #trump #Democray #Equality #Fascism #alt
Heather Cox Richardson 12/5/25 PEARL HARBOR DAY AND A NEW ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY
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📌 Thank You ♥️ Adam Schiff Grateful for these words ⬇️ #AdamSchiff #Democray 🐥
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A Real Nuclear Option for Orbán’s Hungary - EU Scream podcast
Call it the real nuclear option for bringing Viktor Orbán’s Hungary to heel — but also call it a risky thought experiment. Tom Theuns of Leiden University wants to empower the EU to sever ties with a rogue member state like Hungary, where Orbán has fashioned an autocracy and set about cultivating the EU’s strategic rivals. Introducing an expulsion threat could push EU autocrats like Orbán to show more respect for rule of law and democracy, says Tom, while the current lack of any such mechanism has instead emboldened them. For now, Tom’s ideas still are legally theoretical, not to mention politically delicate. In his new book, Protecting Democracy in Europe, Tom envisages democratic states each leaving the EU and then immediately re-founding the Union — an EU 2.0 — minus any autocratic states. More than two dozen countries would need to coordinate national consents in advance, using the same EU treaty article that Britain used in Brexit. But if all doesn’t go to plan — think obdurate legislators, sudden calls for referendums, or a even French demand for more subsidies — the exercise could usher in the kind of political warfare that sinks the EU for good. Tom’s goal is, above all, to end what he calls fatalistic and defeatist thinking — that the EU must remain stuck in perpetuity with Orbán’s brand of kleptocratic illiberalism. “Supranational union with an autocratic state is a choice,” insists Tom. “EU member states can also choose to disengage.” In this episode Tom also reflects on what happened a quarter-century ago, when European authorities failed to block Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) from government, to elucidate a pattern of insufficient EU responses in the Hungarian context.
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A Real Nuclear Option for Orbán’s Hungary - EU Scream podcast
Call it the real nuclear option for bringing Viktor Orbán’s Hungary to heel — but also call it a risky thought experiment. Tom Theuns of Leiden University wants to empower the EU to sever ties with a rogue member state like Hungary, where Orbán has fashioned an autocracy and set about cultivating the EU’s strategic rivals. Introducing an expulsion threat could push EU autocrats like Orbán to show more respect for rule of law and democracy, says Tom, while the current lack of any such mechanism has instead emboldened them. For now, Tom’s ideas still are legally theoretical, not to mention politically delicate. In his new book, Protecting Democracy in Europe, Tom envisages democratic states each leaving the EU and then immediately re-founding the Union — an EU 2.0 — minus any autocratic states. More than two dozen countries would need to coordinate national consents in advance, using the same EU treaty article that Britain used in Brexit. But if all doesn’t go to plan — think obdurate legislators, sudden calls for referendums, or a even French demand for more subsidies — the exercise could usher in the kind of political warfare that sinks the EU for good. Tom’s goal is, above all, to end what he calls fatalistic and defeatist thinking — that the EU must remain stuck in perpetuity with Orbán’s brand of kleptocratic illiberalism. “Supranational union with an autocratic state is a choice,” insists Tom. “EU member states can also choose to disengage.” In this episode Tom also reflects on what happened a quarter-century ago, when European authorities failed to block Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) from government, to elucidate a pattern of insufficient EU responses in the Hungarian context.
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"In places where #VoteBuying exist, it undermines the #legitimacy of the people who may be elected into #PoliticalOffice (..) since #elections are tools for #accountability and #GoodGovernance."
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ote-buying-in-Africa_fig1_259992513
Elon #Musk brought sooo much innovation from #Africa to the #Democray of the #UnitedStates of #America.
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"In places where #VoteBuying exist, it undermines the #legitimacy of the people who may be elected into #PoliticalOffice (..) since #elections are tools for #accountability and #GoodGovernance."
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ote-buying-in-Africa_fig1_259992513
Elon #Musk brought sooo much innovation from #Africa to the #Democray of the #UnitedStates of #America.
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"In places where #VoteBuying exist, it undermines the #legitimacy of the people who may be elected into #PoliticalOffice (..) since #elections are tools for #accountability and #GoodGovernance."
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ote-buying-in-Africa_fig1_259992513
Elon #Musk brought sooo much innovation from #Africa to the #Democray of the #UnitedStates of #America.
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"In places where #VoteBuying exist, it undermines the #legitimacy of the people who may be elected into #PoliticalOffice (..) since #elections are tools for #accountability and #GoodGovernance."
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ote-buying-in-Africa_fig1_259992513
Elon #Musk brought sooo much innovation from #Africa to the #Democray of the #UnitedStates of #America.
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"In places where #VoteBuying exist, it undermines the #legitimacy of the people who may be elected into #PoliticalOffice (..) since #elections are tools for #accountability and #GoodGovernance."
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/ote-buying-in-Africa_fig1_259992513
Elon #Musk brought sooo much innovation from #Africa to the #Democray of the #UnitedStates of #America.
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'The capacity to critique and challenge the actions of nation states remains a core tenet of socially engaged scholarship across a range of disciplines'.
– An open letter on academic freedom, in solidarity with Randa Abdel-Fattah
#Academia #Israel #Palestine #Democray #University #Research #AcademicFreedom @academicchatter
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If you appreciate freedom, sovereignity is compulsory.
Hence with an aggressive opponent, being armed to the teeth is compulsory. Much more so if he is your neigbour, or also even just the neighbour of your neighbour of your neighbour. The latter are my words.But listen to Pekka Kallioniemi:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io6PTL81ocQ
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Not "much more so" but rather "even if", of course.#Lithuania #russia #USSR #SovietUnion #Ukraine #sovereignity #freedom #democray #VatnikSoup #PekkaKallioniemi
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"If a social media campaign to promote a candidate constitutes illegitimate meddling, what about a traditional media campaign? ... rerun every British election because most newspapers blatantly favour the Conservative Party? ... denying the legitimacy of people’s votes because you believe they have been listening to the wrong voices ... hands power over election results to unelected courts and security services: ... now happening in Romania"
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/romanias-annulled-election-sets-dangerous-precedent-europe
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"If a social media campaign to promote a candidate constitutes illegitimate meddling, what about a traditional media campaign? ... rerun every British election because most newspapers blatantly favour the Conservative Party? ... denying the legitimacy of people’s votes because you believe they have been listening to the wrong voices ... hands power over election results to unelected courts and security services: ... now happening in Romania"
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/romanias-annulled-election-sets-dangerous-precedent-europe
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Extremely important and can’t be stressed enough: The importance of #dataprotection for #democray, Minister Morel
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Trump demanded that people "find more votes". He time and time and time again every year since the election has said that it was stolen and that the next one will be too. His people shouted "stop the count" in the streets. He's constantly praised dictators and said he wants to be one.
If he takes power again he will deliver. There will be no more elections. Ever.
Walz was too weak on this question. The same where the moderators.
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@notroot @originlbookgirl I don't engage I push back on the lies then they block me😂 😂 You are doing the right thing Just hang in there We will win.
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My views are more centrist. I like to tell folks that I’m a right wing #socialist and a left wing capitalist
I believe well regulated #capitalism can spur important facets of creativity. That is balanced by the view that billionaire types have the ability to profoundly destabilize #democray in the perverse pursuit of wealth. Can’t say I know what the upper thread hold for wealth should be it certainly should be less than a billion
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99-out-of-10 on the
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@Kyleric
"Nothing is ever as it seems!" That is reality as the #Oligarchy plays by its unknown rules except that the number 1and 2 rules are: Get rich by fair or foul means and keep power at all costs even when one has to adopt #Fascism. AND don't protect #Democray. -
A potent talk on the American Democracy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It5eSZyOZAk#Democray #Condtitution #Radicalism #politics #ArtistLife #feedom #voting #elections