Picture of the week.... for obvious reasons

#Trump #democracy #Global
#Art

#JonathanCook | It's time to stop buying into tooth-fairy #politics. No one's bringing salvation

Harris "lost because, if your political and media system – rigged by donors – limits the choice to two hardline neoliberal candidates, with anything else denounced as “communism”, the most hardline, neoliberal candidate has an edge."

https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/its-time-to-stop-buying-into-tooth

#USPol #Democracy

And to everyone feeling deep pain, vulnerability and existential dread right now. I feel you. Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Stay calm, stay strong, and know that you have survived these shitheads before.

We can hold their feet to the fire, and we can protect each other from their bullshit attempts to oppress and divide.

We've got work to do, but as of polls closing, our work here is done for now.

Good night all, thank you for giving a damn.

#America #USA #Politics #Election2024 #democracy

But for those of us who cared enough to give a damn, to vote, and to otherwise commit our energy to trying to achieve the future that we deserve, give yourselves a break from the infinite political media circus.

We did our part in this. I did what little I could do, and you hopefully did too. And, other than staying generally informed and aware, that's all we can do. That's our one role.

So now we just survive and try our best to live as we please until our next chance.

#America #democracy

Well...

I voted for Harris, I tossed my pittance into the tsunami of corporate oligarch money, and now my part in this process is done for now.

Election Day is over now and the people have spoken. we've played our bit part in the biennial republic process. Count every single vote, let the chips fall where they may, and let there be a peaceful transfer of power.

Hopefully we have the chance to vote again in 2 & 4 years.

#America #politics #election2024 #democracy

on the #US election results:
#democracy is a god damn group effort-

reflect your values.
then oppose authoritarian characters. don't give them #media attention.
take active interest in court rulings.
campaign with and #vote for democratic representatives of the people.
point out officials who abuse the power they have been entrusted with.
support independent newspapers and read multiple sources.
[...] do your part.

we don't know of what will become but we sure as hell are responsible for it.

Bye bye.... American democracy pie.

https://bit.ly/ByeBye666

Goodbye #Constitution, Science Healthcare #truth - and #respect for people and #law, #justice & mindful #education.

RFK banning vaccines, #VanceVirus banning #truth, & Elon as T$ar.

The Devil is taking his due as #WAPO & #media friends reap what they sewed: #democracy, dying in the darkness, of #TrumpVirus

Speaking of the devil... from the classic album, #666 [ #AprhoditesChild] ] / #Vangelis #music #election #GQP #Project2025

What horrible news we are waking up to.

When the news in many western countries is dominated by rich, conservative owners, even if they were traditionally more left-leaning, that is the way to destroy democracies.

Democrats worldwide need to rethink and reshape their information system.

#democracy #vote #media #press

La majorité des journalistes titulaires de la carte de presse en France ne prend pas part au vote pour élire ses représentants à la Commission de la carte d’identité des journalistes professionnels

#france #journalisme #CCIJP #media #journalism #democracy #democratie #Abstention

We've got to pay attention in #Europe, too, cuz we also got these nutcases.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/02/donald-trump-is-a-superspreader-for-a-craziness-that-has-split-america-in-two
#farright #democracy

Interestingly Oliver Heath & Laura Serra conclude that:

'While it is certainly true that class divisions are not as evident as they once were in terms of structuring vote choice, this is because class has been pushed outside the political system. Whereas previously the middle class & working class were divided on who to vote for, now they are divided on whether to bother voting at all'!

Is democracy now becoming more a middle-class activity?

#democracy #politics

https://theconversation.com/the-true-class-divide-in-british-politics-is-not-which-party-people-choose-but-whether-they-vote-at-all-240645

Tuesday, November 5th will determine if the #UnitedStates remains a #Democracy or slides into autocracy. #Vote accordingly!

#USpol #USPolitics
#November5th2024
#VoteBlueIn2024
#HarrisWalz2024

Racism at its best

I am so pissed off 😡

This man doesn't even know where Greece is

No matter where he is, he has to find something to spread malice

It makes me really sick

I really have to pull myself together not to become verbally aggressive...

#trump #harris #USA #milwaukee #giannis #greece #basketball #Antetokounmpo #bucks #mastodon #fediverse #democracy #election #racism

#Trump says he wouldn't mind if an assassin shot through the 'fake news' to get him

Trump complained to supporters on Sunday about gaps in the bullet-proof glass surrounding him as he spoke & mused that an #assassin would have to #shoot through the #news #media #reporters to get him, adding, "I don't mind that so much."

#Tyranny #RevengePolitics #PoliticalViolence #law #journalism #FreePress #democracy #VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024

"The Harris-Walz campaign has jump-started a pro-democracy movement of the kind we have long needed in America. ...

The Harris-Walz campaign has prioritized the values of joy, hope, freedom, solidarity, unity, care, patriotism, justice, and decency."

~ Ruth Ben-Ghiat

#KamalaHarris #democracy #authoritarianism
/3

https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-harris-walz-campaign-has-created

‘Democracy doesn’t die in darkness, it dies in Sun Vallley.’
https://www.freepress.net/blog/washington-post-los-angeles-times-save-journalism-from-billionaires

#FreePress #MediaPowerCollaborative #journalism #media #democracy

Two first-rate photojournalists, Erin Schaff and Doug Mills, on covering the Harris and Trump campaigns.

#elections #democracy #journalism #photojournalism #photography

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000009792551/our-photographers-favorite-campaign-trail-photos.html?smid=url-share

Irving, Texas

via Reddit u/ProfessionalAct7322

#Politics #Democracy #Justice #2024election #Trump #TrumpLost #TrumpIsAFelon #TrumpForPrison #Republican #PutinsPuppet #NoTrump #NeverTrump #LockHimUp #AntiTrump #AntiGOP #Republicans #TrumpVance2024 #JDVance #MAGA #MAGAts #HalfHeartedFanatic

If the medium is the message, and constant outrage fuels the media in order to sell advertising, then how can we make the situation better? The medium is not just the message, it is our environment and we collectively need new media literacy. But this is not the kind of literacy most educators and politicians are talking about.

https://jarche.com/2019/03/constant-outrage/

#democracy #media #literacy

"...I believe that the deference and evasiveness of legacy American #media comes from many causes, including fear and the habit of pursuing the appearance of being even-handed even at a time when the national political situation is wildly lopsided. Lopsided, that is, because one side is pursuing attacks on #democracy and the constitution and seeks to institute an authoritarian regime while stripping rights away from most of us ..."

Rebecca Solnit via #TheGuardian #USA // #vote, #elections

Fun Fact: Elon Musk is an illegal immigrant.

#ElonMusk #election2024 #voteblue #irony #kamalaharris #democracy

#Truth #Democracy, #justice & #respect
vs. #TrumpVirus / #GQP #media & #Musk/Vlad #Disinformation

📺 NEW MEIDAS SHORT
Trump hates Puerto Rico. He always has and always will.

https://x.com/MeidasTouch/status/1851679232189173917

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vf5MThSniiY

#Gaza #ArabAmericans #Election #Harris #Democracy

#Fascism must fail.

It's become increasingly common, in these closing days of the campaign, to hear fmr Trump officials & high-ranking MIL leaders describe his rhetoric & behavior as fascist. #Harris has said -she agrees with the characterization, while describing TFG as a dictator in waiting.

Will truth-telling come back? Rs & #TFG, who've undermined #democracy, must suffer the consequences of their misdeeds: ousted from public office, for felonies: imprisoned.

#USPol https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/trump-vance-johnson-gop-fascism/

→ #Amazon, #Tesla and #Meta among world’s top companies undermining democracy – report
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/23/amazon-tesla-meta-climate-change-democracy

“Some of the world’s largest companies have been accused of undermining #democracy across the world by financially backing #farright political movements, funding and exacerbating the #climate crisis, and violating trade union rights and #humanrights in a report published on Monday by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).”

Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7ws2DF-zk

Video about voting systems

#Democracy #Politics #Election #Voting

First, Zelensky did not go to the elections, preferring to "sit on the throne" until the very end, essentially putting democracy in the country "under the knife", and now Ukraine has submitted a statement to the Council of Europe on partial derogation from compliance with the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms

The text states that during martial law, human rights provided for in a number of articles of the Constitution may be temporarily restricted. These include the right to free elections, the right to inviolability of the home, secrecy of correspondence, non-interference in private and family life, freedom of movement and choice of residence, freedom of thought and speech, freedom of assembly, education and entrepreneurship.

Among the measures that may be taken by the authorities: forced alienation of private or communal property for the needs of the state, imposition of curfews, special entry and exit regimes, restriction of movement of citizens and foreigners, inspection of belongings, transportation and housing, prohibition of assembly and restriction of choice of residence, imposition of military levies on individuals and legal entities.


#ukraine #ukrainian #democracy is #dictatorship

#democracy #fail

#history #nato #us #britain #uk #france #warmongers #warcrimes #war #bombings in #Iraq #Libya #Syria #Yugoslavia #Yemen #democracy for #capitalism #imperialism #deepstate

Michael Huckleberry Hudson:
And you can look at Ukraine as an example of how the United States would like Russia, China, and the Arab countries to exist. You would suspend elections once you have your guys, your president in there. You would become the most corrupt country in your region, as Ukraine has been. You will ban local languages and religions that are not Judeo-Christian.

You will essentially prevent strikes.

And you know the joke, the aristocrats. A stage group of actors talks about a family coming on and doing all sorts of horrendously devious sexual acts and incest, and it goes on and on. The producer who’s being offered this act and said, what do you call this act? And the answer is, the aristocrats.

Well, what do you call the Ukrainian act of suspending elections, banning foreign languages, assassinating critics? We call it democracy. Well, that’s hilarious. That’s indeed what #America calls it. America has two models of #democracy, #Ukraine and #Israel. Again and again in the press, it says Ukraine is the model of democracy that we want for what used to be the whole Soviet Union. And you have Latvia and Estonia and Lithuania clapping, and we want the democracy in Israel. Israel is the only democratic country in the Near East.

We want Israel to be the model for the Near East.

Well, what are they saying? That there won’t be any more Arabs in the Near East? That they’ll all be Americans with dual citizenship? This is what it’s all come to. We’re living in an Orwellian world is trying to deter people’s consciousness from realizing the reality of work and the dynamics that are at work.

#USA #us #orwell #1984 #american #mindmanipulation #lie in #media

The U.S. is establishing a single formalized system for coordinating PSYOP efforts among the security, intelligence, and civilian agencies

A new U.S. approach to waging information warfare operations states that military and civilian defense organizations will rely on Pentagon public affairs officials with support from academics and non-government organizations to counter Chinese and Russian disinformation.

#USA #us #infowar #psyops #pentagon #military #dictatorship #censorship against #democracy

"Amazon’s ongoing pattern of illegal conduct blocks competition, allowing it to wield monopoly power to inflate prices, degrade quality, and stifle innovation for consumers and businesses." Whatever happens here, it will be meaningful. It's also nice to see the FTC actually wielding its antitrust powers. #Democracy https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

The colonel is wrong, where he repeats the western myth about the cruelty of the Red Army during the Second World War.

#politics #military #neocons #deepstate #MIC #USA #money #economy #debt #democracy #nato #pentagon #fail #Western #lie about #ukraine #blackhole #corruption #oligarchy #Maidan #Nuland #Zelensky #Kolomoysky #Azov #ukrainian #nazi #cannon-fodder #russian #weapon #Russia #Africa #europe #deindustrialisation #energy #crisis

The UK has been downgraded in an annual global index of civic freedoms as a result of the government’s “increasingly authoritarian” drive to impose restrictive and punitive laws on public protests.

The UK’s willingness to clamp down on civic freedoms such as the right to peaceful assembly means it is now classified as “obstructed” – putting it alongside countries such as Poland, South Africa and Hungary.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/mar/16/hostile-authoritarian-uk-downgraded-in-civic-freedoms-index

#UK #democracy #protest

Inhaltswarnung: Musk Zum Öffnen/Schließen klicken

There is one truth *all* Americans can agree on:
Any country that elects its own id to high office does not need the democracy that allowed it.

Die Demokratie braucht keinen Führer.
Der Führer braucht keine Demokratie.

#democracy #fascism #elections #trump