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RE: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/116945743728926765
When your democratic country has the police lying and killing with government support, you don't live in a democracy.
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RE: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/116945743728926765
When your democratic country has the police lying and killing with government support, you don't live in a democracy.
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RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116770962344040787
Neoliberal authoritarianism machine goes brrrrrrrrrr
#WesternDemocracy #AutoritarianNeoliberalism
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RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/116770962344040787
Neoliberal authoritarianism machine goes brrrrrrrrrr
#WesternDemocracy #AutoritarianNeoliberalism
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I really wish people would stop using "humanity" when they mean the actions and deliberate inactions of Western capitalist governments.
Using "humanity" hides those people who have names and addresses and who are actively preparing for mass extinction of, amongst others, the poor, brown and Black parts of humanity.
#ClimateChange #WesternDemocracy #Capitalism #Necropolitics #Surveillance
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I really wish people would stop using "humanity" when they mean the actions and deliberate inactions of Western capitalist governments.
Using "humanity" hides those people who have names and addresses and who are actively preparing for mass extinction of, amongst others, the poor, brown and Black parts of humanity.
#ClimateChange #WesternDemocracy #Capitalism #Necropolitics #Surveillance
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Against ‘Jewish Safety’ by Alana Lentin
"Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”
In the way we see that calls for “Jewish safety” are tacit calls to underwrite a war to preserve the West."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/
Edit: link
@[email protected] @[email protected]
#Europe #Iran #antisemitism #Israel #Palestine #WesternDemocracy
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Against ‘Jewish Safety’ by Alana Lentin
"Thus, the almost total impunity granted Israel as it has exacted death and destruction on the people of Palestine and sown murderous chaos around the region since its founding can also be understood in terms of the function it serves for the West. Israel’s recent June 12 attack on Iran exposes this in no uncertain terms. Germany, erroneously thought by a majority of observers to be driven in its rabid support for the Zionist colony by guilt for its genocide of the Jews of Europe, made its desires clear. Commending the strikes, German Chancellor Merz said, “This is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”
In the way we see that calls for “Jewish safety” are tacit calls to underwrite a war to preserve the West."
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/against-jewish-safety/
Edit: link
@[email protected] @[email protected]
#Europe #Iran #antisemitism #Israel #Palestine #WesternDemocracy
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RE: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/116087470098321002
Add to this that the Dutch police has been working in secret with Palantir since 2012, but with knowledge of the OM and AIVD, seems all our Western democratic governments are setting up the Stasi 10.0.
#BiometricSurveillance #SurveillanceState #WesternDemocracy #Palantir
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RE: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/116087470098321002
Add to this that the Dutch police has been working in secret with Palantir since 2012, but with knowledge of the OM and AIVD, seems all our Western democratic governments are setting up the Stasi 10.0.
#BiometricSurveillance #SurveillanceState #WesternDemocracy #Palantir
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Always interesting to read that the governments who send out this statement that NZ doesn't want to join, are themselves complicit, via their warm diplomatic contacts, trade and arms deals with Israel, in the situation they call "appaling."
@[email protected] @[email protected]
#WarCrimes #WesternDemocracy #GazaWinter #ComplicitInWarCrimes #NZpol
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Always interesting to read that the governments who send out this statement that NZ doesn't want to join, are themselves complicit, via their warm diplomatic contacts, trade and arms deals with Israel, in the situation they call "appaling."
@[email protected] @[email protected]
#WarCrimes #WesternDemocracy #GazaWinter #ComplicitInWarCrimes #NZpol
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This thread by @autonomysolidarity shows again how a Western democracy can have fascism in its policies: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/115258503553963533
It's not a matter of "being a fascist or an anti-fascist." Fascism is what you do and think, not who you are.
And very important: fascism is much more normalised than too many people think, because after 1945 Western democracies put a lot of effort in obscuring their own fascism in the colonies and against workers.
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This thread by @autonomysolidarity shows again how a Western democracy can have fascism in its policies: https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/115258503553963533
It's not a matter of "being a fascist or an anti-fascist." Fascism is what you do and think, not who you are.
And very important: fascism is much more normalised than too many people think, because after 1945 Western democracies put a lot of effort in obscuring their own fascism in the colonies and against workers.
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Major Historical Threats to American Democracy & in 2025 – History Analysis by Perplexity Pro – September 10, 2025
Major Historical Threats to American Democracy 2025
The Civil War Crisis (1850s-1860s)
The most severe threat in American history came from the convergence of polarization over slavery, racial conflict, and economic inequality between North and South. This led to actual secession, civil war, and the temporary breakdown of democratic governance.
Sources: The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; American Civil War (Wikipedia)
Reconstruction Collapse and Jim Crow (1870s-1890s)
Following the Civil War, violent suppression of African American voting rights through terrorism, lynchings, and systematic disenfranchisement effectively ended democracy for millions of Americans for over half a century. The Wilmington coup of 1898 exemplified this threat—elected officials were forced to resign at gunpoint and replaced with white supremacist Democrats.
Sources: The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; Reconstruction Era (Wikipedia)
The Founding Era Crisis (1790s)
Political polarization nearly brought down the young republic as the Founding Fathers split into hostile partisan camps, creating what one scholar called “partisan warfare” that threatened the nation’s survival.
Sources: We’ve been here before – JHU Hub – Johns Hopkins University; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; Foundation Era Crisis, 1790s (Wikiepedia)
Current Threats Under Trump’s Second Term (2025)
Significant Attacks on Electoral Integrity
- Suspended voting protections meant to expand voter access
- Dismissed critical voter access cases despite DOJ obligations
- Issued executive order baselessly accusing the Biden campaign of election interference
- Required proof of citizenship to vote and mandated changes to mail-in ballot practices
Sources: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election; Dangerous cracks in US democracy pillars – Brookings Institution
Undermining Rule of Law
- Pardoned approximately 1,500 January 6 insurrectionists, including violent offenders, on his first day
- Demanded DOJ seek evidence to prosecute the previous administration
- Attempted to freeze trillions in federal funding through illegal orders
- Challenged birthright citizenship guaranteed by the Constitution
Source: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
Executive Aggrandizement and Corruption Risks
- Granted unelected Elon Musk unprecedented access to classified information and power over government departments through DOGE
- Rescinded ethics commitments for executive branch personnel
- Implemented Schedule F to potentially replace thousands of career civil servants with loyalists
- Created new avenues for potential foreign influence through business interests
Source: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
Authoritarian Tactics
- Used rhetoric labeling political opponents as “evil,” “enemies,” “criminals,” and “lunatics”
- Made anonymous violent threats against federal judges reach “unprecedented highs”
- Weakened election infrastructure by disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force
- Created a “climate of political fear unprecedented in modern American history”
Source: Dangerous cracks in US democracy pillars – Brookings Institution
Ranking of All Threats to American Democracy
Tier 1: Existential Threats
- Civil War Crisis (1850s-1860s) – Actual dissolution of the Union and armed conflict
- Trump’s Second Term (2025) – First time all four democratic threats converge simultaneously
- Reconstruction Collapse (1870s-1890s) – Systematic disenfranchisement lasting decades
Tier 2: Severe Institutional Threats
- Watergate Era (1970s) – Presidential criminality and constitutional crisis
- World War II Internment (1940s) – Mass violation of civil rights under executive power
- Founding Era Crisis (1790s) – Near-collapse of early democratic institutions
Tier 3: Significant But Contained Threats
- McCarthyism (1950s) – Suppression of political dissent and civil liberties
- Various wartime restrictions – Temporary but concerning expansions of executive power
The systematic nature of current threats—targeting elections, rule of law, civil liberties, and institutional checks simultaneously—creates what experts call “an especially grave moment for democracy.”
Unlike past crises that involved one or two threats, this convergence makes the current period extraordinarily perilous.
Sources: The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy | PS: Political Science & Politics; and, Perplexity Pro research.
#2025 #AI #AmericanDemocracy #artificialIntelligence #AuthoritarianTactics #CivilWar #Convergence #Corruption #DOGE #DrWeb #Elections #ExistentialThreats #HistoricalThreats #HistoryAnalysis #JimCrow #Musk #Reconstruction #RuleOfLaw #September #WesternDemocracy
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Major Historical Threats to American Democracy & in 2025 – History Analysis by Perplexity Pro – September 10, 2025
Major Historical Threats to American Democracy 2025
The Civil War Crisis (1850s-1860s)
The most severe threat in American history came from the convergence of polarization over slavery, racial conflict, and economic inequality between North and South. This led to actual secession, civil war, and the temporary breakdown of democratic governance.
Sources: The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; American Civil War (Wikipedia)
Reconstruction Collapse and Jim Crow (1870s-1890s)
Following the Civil War, violent suppression of African American voting rights through terrorism, lynchings, and systematic disenfranchisement effectively ended democracy for millions of Americans for over half a century. The Wilmington coup of 1898 exemplified this threat—elected officials were forced to resign at gunpoint and replaced with white supremacist Democrats.
Sources: The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; Reconstruction Era (Wikipedia)
The Founding Era Crisis (1790s)
Political polarization nearly brought down the young republic as the Founding Fathers split into hostile partisan camps, creating what one scholar called “partisan warfare” that threatened the nation’s survival.
Sources: We’ve been here before – JHU Hub – Johns Hopkins University; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; Foundation Era Crisis, 1790s (Wikiepedia)
Current Threats Under Trump’s Second Term (2025)
Significant Attacks on Electoral Integrity
- Suspended voting protections meant to expand voter access
- Dismissed critical voter access cases despite DOJ obligations
- Issued executive order baselessly accusing the Biden campaign of election interference
- Required proof of citizenship to vote and mandated changes to mail-in ballot practices
Sources: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election; Dangerous cracks in US democracy pillars – Brookings Institution
Undermining Rule of Law
- Pardoned approximately 1,500 January 6 insurrectionists, including violent offenders, on his first day
- Demanded DOJ seek evidence to prosecute the previous administration
- Attempted to freeze trillions in federal funding through illegal orders
- Challenged birthright citizenship guaranteed by the Constitution
Source: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
Executive Aggrandizement and Corruption Risks
- Granted unelected Elon Musk unprecedented access to classified information and power over government departments through DOGE
- Rescinded ethics commitments for executive branch personnel
- Implemented Schedule F to potentially replace thousands of career civil servants with loyalists
- Created new avenues for potential foreign influence through business interests
Source: The Trump Administration’s Campaign to Undermine the Next Election
Authoritarian Tactics
- Used rhetoric labeling political opponents as “evil,” “enemies,” “criminals,” and “lunatics”
- Made anonymous violent threats against federal judges reach “unprecedented highs”
- Weakened election infrastructure by disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force
- Created a “climate of political fear unprecedented in modern American history”
Source: Dangerous cracks in US democracy pillars – Brookings Institution
Ranking of All Threats to American Democracy
Tier 1: Existential Threats
- Civil War Crisis (1850s-1860s) – Actual dissolution of the Union and armed conflict
- Trump’s Second Term (2025) – First time all four democratic threats converge simultaneously
- Reconstruction Collapse (1870s-1890s) – Systematic disenfranchisement lasting decades
Tier 2: Severe Institutional Threats
- Watergate Era (1970s) – Presidential criminality and constitutional crisis
- World War II Internment (1940s) – Mass violation of civil rights under executive power
- Founding Era Crisis (1790s) – Near-collapse of early democratic institutions
Tier 3: Significant But Contained Threats
- McCarthyism (1950s) – Suppression of political dissent and civil liberties
- Various wartime restrictions – Temporary but concerning expansions of executive power
The systematic nature of current threats—targeting elections, rule of law, civil liberties, and institutional checks simultaneously—creates what experts call “an especially grave moment for democracy.”
Unlike past crises that involved one or two threats, this convergence makes the current period extraordinarily perilous.
Sources: The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; The Crisis of American Democracy in Historical Context; Rising Threats to U.S. Democracy | PS: Political Science & Politics; and, Perplexity Pro research.
#2025 #AI #AmericanDemocracy #artificialIntelligence #AuthoritarianTactics #CivilWar #Convergence #Corruption #DOGE #DrWeb #Elections #ExistentialThreats #HistoricalThreats #HistoryAnalysis #JimCrow #Musk #Reconstruction #RuleOfLaw #September #WesternDemocracy
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A good repeat for today: Vivafalastinleen from 2024. This is about genocide, but the same goes for fascism, which is much closer than you think, or only statements against war crimes, or working together with anti-democrats, or millions to the surveillance state while letting old people and disabled people prematurely die because they cost too much.
CW eye contact
#genocide #WesternDemocracy #EuropeanUnion #EUpol #USpol #CovidIsNotOver #FreePalestine @palestine @israel
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A good repeat for today: Vivafalastinleen from 2024. This is about genocide, but the same goes for fascism, which is much closer than you think, or only statements against war crimes, or working together with anti-democrats, or millions to the surveillance state while letting old people and disabled people prematurely die because they cost too much.
CW eye contact
#genocide #WesternDemocracy #EuropeanUnion #EUpol #USpol #CovidIsNotOver #FreePalestine @palestine @israel
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A good repeat for today: Vivafalastinleen on TikTok. This is about genocide, but the same goes for fascism. See also my pinned toot with a quote from Paxton.
CW eye contact
'For those who think genocidaires are a viable option just because they're "democrats" or "liberals"'
"Here's something people don't seem to understand. If they're comfortable killing other people, eventually they'll be comfortable killing you. If they're comfortable acting genocide against one group of people, they'll eventually are comfortable acting genocide against you. You are not exempt from the rules of violence that they set."
Same for governments who are comfortable working with governments who genocide, or politicians who are comfortable working with politicians who are fascists.
#genocide #WesternDemocracy #EuropeanUnion #EUpol #USpol #StopCopCity #CovidIsNotOver #PalestineGenocide #RuleOfLaw @palestine @israel
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A good repeat for today: Vivafalastinleen on TikTok. This is about genocide, but the same goes for fascism. See also my pinned toot with a quote from Paxton.
CW eye contact
'For those who think genocidaires are a viable option just because they're "democrats" or "liberals"'
"Here's something people don't seem to understand. If they're comfortable killing other people, eventually they'll be comfortable killing you. If they're comfortable acting genocide against one group of people, they'll eventually are comfortable acting genocide against you. You are not exempt from the rules of violence that they set."
Same for governments who are comfortable working with governments who genocide, or politicians who are comfortable working with politicians who are fascists.
#genocide #WesternDemocracy #EuropeanUnion #EUpol #USpol #StopCopCity #CovidIsNotOver #PalestineGenocide #RuleOfLaw @palestine @israel
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A good repeat for today: Vivafalastinleen on TikTok. CW eye contact.
'For those who think genocidaires are a viable option just because they're "democrats" or "liberals"'
"Here's something people don't seem to understand. If they're comfortable killing other people, eventually they'll be comfortable killing you. If they're comfortable acting genocide against one group of people, they'll eventually are comfortable acting genocide against you. You are not exempt from the rules of violence that they set."
Same for all governments who are comfortable working with governments who genocide.
#genocide #WesternDemocracy #EuropeanUnion #StopCopCity #CovidIsNotOver #PalestineGenocide #justice #RuleOfLaw @palestine @israel
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Until an EU country ends all their trade agreements with Israel, I'm not going to share any of their empty words of "state" or "condemn" blabla. I'm done with these waste of time, playing us for fools tactics.
Democracy is as democracy does. Show me your friends, etc.
#Palestine #democracy #WesternDemocracy #HumanRights #WarCrimes
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Until an EU country ends all their trade agreements with Israel, I'm not going to share any of their empty words of "state" or "condemn" blabla. I'm done with these waste of time, playing us for fools tactics.
Democracy is as democracy does. Show me your friends, etc.
#Palestine #democracy #WesternDemocracy #HumanRights #WarCrimes
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https://r.flora.ca/p/metaviews-debut
Jesse Hirsh and I speak from the future.
Well, Jesse spoke from the future when it comes to thinking about the current state of individualism and “western civilization”, and I was left wondering how long it will take loyalists to those worldviews (from the left and right of the Western political spectrum) to catch up to him.
@metaviews #ActuallyAutistic #CorporateCulture #WesternDemocracy #Eugenics
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https://r.flora.ca/p/metaviews-debut
Jesse Hirsh and I speak from the future.
Well, Jesse spoke from the future when it comes to thinking about the current state of individualism and “western civilization”, and I was left wondering how long it will take loyalists to those worldviews (from the left and right of the Western political spectrum) to catch up to him.
@metaviews #ActuallyAutistic #CorporateCulture #WesternDemocracy #Eugenics
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Almost halfway into this episode.
Among a lot of interesting things Nesrine Malik says on the present political situation, she has some very good political advice for politicians like Starmer and Timmermans, who think being centrists, or palatable to centrists, is the way forward for the left.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMNf4VZE8EI&list=PLLkT5TSHWFSZJeAga5pdyL6pJ9hC6h6H6&index=2&pp=iAQB
#UKpol #Trump #Sudan #Gaza #WesternDemocracy #Europe #voters #centrism #ThirdWay #Timmermans #PvdA #LabourParty #InternationalRuleBasedOrder #UN #Gramsci #rupture #KierStarmer #interconnectedness #refugees #war #far_right #gaslighting @palestine #Israel #ArabWorld
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One of the links between Western democracies and Israel: the development and testing of weapons and surveillance technology.
"I spent some time looking at obscure defence and military websites, cataloguing tweets and posts that get next to zero engagement, and came to the conclusion that governments are as much planning to fight internal enemies as they are external ones.
That they are planning to fight us.
The development of AI is massive in this effort."
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/let-them-eat-drones
#WarCrimes #AI #drones #billionaires #WeaponIndustry #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #WesternDemocracy #fascism #ClimateChange #migration @palestine @israel
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One of the links between Western democracies and Israel: the development and testing of weapons and surveillance technology.
"I spent some time looking at obscure defence and military websites, cataloguing tweets and posts that get next to zero engagement, and came to the conclusion that governments are as much planning to fight internal enemies as they are external ones.
That they are planning to fight us.
The development of AI is massive in this effort."
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/let-them-eat-drones
#WarCrimes #AI #drones #billionaires #WeaponIndustry #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #WesternDemocracy #fascism #ClimateChange #migration @palestine @israel
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"He and I and a couple of other writers were out to dinner that night and I was talking about this idea that the load bearing beams of Western society were sort of falling apart. This notion of equal justice and respect for the law, of international human rights, and so on and so forth."
https://lithub.com/omar-el-akkad-on-genocide-complicit-liberals-and-the-terrible-wrath-of-the-west/
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"He and I and a couple of other writers were out to dinner that night and I was talking about this idea that the load bearing beams of Western society were sort of falling apart. This notion of equal justice and respect for the law, of international human rights, and so on and so forth."
https://lithub.com/omar-el-akkad-on-genocide-complicit-liberals-and-the-terrible-wrath-of-the-west/
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"He and I and a couple of other writers were out to dinner that night and I was talking about this idea that the load bearing beams of Western society were sort of falling apart. This notion of equal justice and respect for the law, of international human rights, and so on and so forth."
https://lithub.com/omar-el-akkad-on-genocide-complicit-liberals-and-the-terrible-wrath-of-the-west/
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Suddenly remembering the Biden administration and the EU proposing a deal to Egypt, take in Palestinians from Gaza in exchange for debt relief, in October 2023 ...
#HumanRights #WarCrimes #WesternDemocracy @palestine @israel
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Elections, Accountability and Democracy in Ancient Athens
"But, today I want to investigate with you whether elections are really democratic at all, let alone function as expressions of the will of the people and as a form of accountability? To get at this problem, I want to look back to the first democracy, the democracy of ancient Athens and to think about the nature of Athens’ democracy, what were its ideals, what were some of its practical manifestations and, finally, what a fuller understanding of the Athenian model might offer us as Americans when considering our own assessments of democracy and its mechanisms. Specifically, did the Athenians conceive of elections as fundamental to their democracy? Were elections an expression of the DEMOS? And, finally, were they a measure of accountability for officials?" Rebecca Futo Kennedy, 2012
https://rfkclassics.blogspot.com/2012/05/elections-accountability-and-democracy.html?m=1
#election #democracy #America #USA #Classics #ClassicalAthens #AncientAthens #Athens #accountability #Vote #WesternDemocracy @histodons
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“This week, two of the largest countries in Europe have chosen the same path that Spain chose a year ago: rejection of the extreme right and a decisive commitment to a social left that addresses people’s problems with serious and brave policies,”
- Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/july-7-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
#WesternDemocracy #Vote #Fascism #Oligarchy -
'You might take my life and freedom but you can't take my soul'
https://open.spotify.com/track/1q5DqTKr9qJNVxHzfnGHBP?si=c5efb54f45164e6c
#AmericasChickensAreComingHomeToRoost
#Capitalism
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'You might take my life and freedom but you can't take my soul'
https://open.spotify.com/track/1q5DqTKr9qJNVxHzfnGHBP?si=c5efb54f45164e6c
#AmericasChickensAreComingHomeToRoost
#Capitalism
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5) This article was published 3 days prior to the #DublinRiots and gives a small sense of the odd alliance that is the #FarRight and how they use #SocialMedia to promulgate their dreck
What’s odd about the alliance? I find it head scratching that the associated ragey posts are directed at #Migrants, #ClimateChange, #ReproductiveRights, #Vaccines to name just 4 areas. All topics sure to drive wedges in #WesternDemocracy. The question is at the behest of who and why?
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5) This article was published 3 days prior to the #DublinRiots and gives a small sense of the odd alliance that is the #FarRight and how they use #SocialMedia to promulgate their dreck
What’s odd about the alliance? I find it head scratching that the associated ragey posts are directed at #Migrants, #ClimateChange, #ReproductiveRights, #Vaccines to name just 4 areas. All topics sure to drive wedges in #WesternDemocracy. The question is at the behest of who and why?
