The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/
American politics makes more sense when you realize the "liberals" are conservatives and the "conservatives" are fascists, and the former think they're in solidarity with the latter against the rest of us even though the latter would rather see the former die.
NOT AN ALLY.
US Pissant keeps threatening Canada, Greenland [Denmark], and Panama... https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-canada-panama-canal-greenland-1235217402/ #USA #cdnpoli #polcan #stateoftheworld
Donald Trump's presidential transition team is laying the groundwork for the U.S. to withdraw from the World Health Organization soon after he takes office, experts say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/24/world/politics/trump-transition-who-withdrawal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #donaldtrump #who #us #covid19
I keep hearing “we need a liberal version of Joe Rogan’s podcast.”
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Its "purity politics" except we basically just want all of the tired, the downtrodden, the misfits, the marginalized, the excluded to have the ability to safely pursue a meaningful life without having to worry about their rights being taken away every 4 years, & we want people to be held to account in doing so while respecting each other in solidarity.
And we cannot have these things as long as billionaire overlords exist.
Fuck outta here with that shit.
You've had 100% of the say since Reagan.
Its time for a resilient left message.
I WONDER IF THIS IS A SIGN THAT X MIGHT BE USED FOR FOREIGN INTERFERENCE??
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jd-vance-elon-musk-x-twitter-donald-trump-b2614525.html
I wasn't going to say much about the result, but I will say this...
IMO the neoliberal economics of the past forty-five years have broken democracy - by filling the average person's life with so much uncertainty economically (eg jobs, housing) that they'll reach out for passing strongmen and accept various scapegoats.
This economic dislocation gets passing mentions in analysis, but I think it's actually *the* big thing. However, it would require such a huge effort to fight vested interests that it gets almost instinctively pushed aside.
And centre-left parties are so complicit with the existing economic order and its corporate backers that they're hopeless at answering the challenge - see the Democrats, Labor, Labour, the Social Democrats, etc. They're only able to offer more of the same with tweaks, and that's become highly unappealing.
It feels a lot like the 1930s, and I'm not sure how we get out of this fascist spiral (a big modern equivalent of FDR's New Deal such as a UBI, maybe?) Economic business as usual isn't going to cut it, that's for sure.
YouGov asked an interesting alternate-history question: who would win today if Trump was still facing Biden?
With lots of caveats: Trump would be up by 7 points. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/05/trump-biden-harris-alternative-universes/
Sadness over the loss of a Canadian hero. Sinclair's commission, a culmination of sorts of his life's work fighting for indigenous justice, offers us settlers a clear path forward in the face of a cruel and complicated history of colonialism, exploitation and genocide. We absolutely need to hold our governments' feet to the fire in return.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/murray-sinclair-death-1.7372862