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Or earlier! Any red state can turn blue if enough voters turn out.
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Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
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Democracy = Dictatorship? | Why Democracy Is Mathematically Impossible
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25/01/2025, saturday 25 january 2025, 01:00 p.m, indore, madhya pradesh, india.
In the context of nation's border and war: There is no such thing as a real ceasefire and no man's land, because both are scams and will always lead to pointless democracy, which will lead to all kinds of democratic disagreements, because all the disagreements that exist within so-called democracy are simply the art of automating countless pointless disagreements on a massive scale, not any solution to solving any kind of problems.
25/01/2025, saturday 25 january 2025, 11:20 a.m, indore, madhya pradesh, india.
So-called modern democracy means that it will always fail to solve all the basic problems. In modern times only undemocratic governments can solve all the problems because in democracy the so called opposition parties will never allow anything to be solved.
"Democracy basically means of the people, for the people, by the people but the people are retarded" - A quote by indian philosopher Osho
30/11/2023, Thursday 30 November 2023, 07:26 AM Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India Standard Time(IST)
'An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared. There should be varied and free points of contact with other modes of association. .. This is fraternity, which is only another name for democracy. Democracy is not merely a form of government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an attitude of respect and reverence towards fellowmen.' Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1891-1956), 'Annihilation of Caste'.
A Brief Note on Political Structure
A BRIEF NOTE ON POLITICAL STRUCTURE
PRASANNA K CHOUDHARY
Human communities self-organise in order…
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Get Art the Vote
Whether your focus is guns, the environment, big banks, the wall.
You have the right to vote, VOTE!
You have the ability to vote, VOTE!
You have the most important thing needed to change and have the future you want, you have the power that comes from your vote, VOTE!
and if for some reason you don’t have an opinion, talk to your friends, talk to those who cannot vote, don’t take this for granted
Three protests in Five days
Three protest in Five days and I’m exhausted.
With the hail coming down, hands and feet frozen, voice crackling, stomach empty I am so fully exhausted; but proud, because even though I feel dead, I also feel..
Last night it’s become clear to me that I must I must bring gloves to work to stand outside as the protest last Thursday, January 19th and last night, January 24th at Trump International Hotel Columbus Circle were last minute with the Women’s March in NYC on Saturday
There were definitely some eye-opening experiences in both good and bad ways; and I’m glad I experienced them both. First, I realized how bad my social anxiety is as it took me a while to feel comfortable chanting in the crowd.
Second, and more global, was that I don’t believe in always chanting the phrases or agreeing with them just because I’m in the group and while for now I can just not chant what I don’t believe in, I wonder how I will feel in the long run. Being at the protest, demonstration is a show of one more person who doesn’t want the Dakota Access Pipeline, or is upset that woman are still not equal. But does my being there for one action, even though a lot of these are connected and I agree with most, automatically support the others.
Ones I agree with:
“Native Life Matters”
“We Stand with Standing Rock” and “City by City, Block by Block”-->This was probably my favorite overall as it encompasses not only the protest and the Dakota Access Pipeline itself by that those at Standing Rock and across the country were together
“Water is Life”
“Show me what Democracy looks like, this is what Democracy looks like”
“Love Trumps Hate”
“Whose streets? Our streets!”
And Ones I didn’t agree with:
“Stop the pipeline, not the people”
“Dump Trump”--> I don’t like him either, but this just isn’t going to solve anything now. I understand what is meant behind this when they say “Not My President”. They want to make it clear that all of the hate he spews is not representative of all of this. But I feel this is more of a divider than anything else
My final and most critical eye opening experience was the fear. I’ve been trying, as a white person, to see how those of other races feel walking down the street. I cannot fully ever understand it, I wasn’t raised to because I wasn’t raised to have to but I feel I got some of it last night. Walking from Trump International Hotel across Central Park South the police were at first just casually around and helped direct a few people and then escorted us blocking traffic as we went towards Trump Tower. but then, two blocks north of our destination we were stopped. Directed onto the left we were lead into, what seemed to be a trap. The gates went all around and we were not allowed to move them. For the next thirty minutes I saw the police officers surrounding the front of the protest grow, and I don’t mean grew as we were all closer together and now so were they grow, I mean REALLY GROW.
At first nothing was going on, but when asked why we weren’t allowed to cross and why were trapped in we received no response (but this I understand as the officers around us surely weren’t the ones in charge and didn’t want to escalate any feelings). But as the Women’s March Protest on Saturday and the previous Trump International Hotel Protest on Thursday had been peaceful it didn’t make sense and obviously protesting two blocks north would not be effective as we are protesting the President’s actions that day of moving forward with the Dakota Access Pipeline and KeystoneXL. All I know is that the police number grew slowly at first and then in a surge. They had called for backup and where officers had stood comfortably apart, they were now forming a barricade; in a protest of an estimated two thousand, I felt overwhelmed by their presence. Overwhelmed and scared. Eventually the protest got around the barricade and moved all they way down to Time Square and I’ve yet to hear of any violence.
Overall I am happy I went to these protests as it reminded me, if for nothing else, to get involved and was another way of casting a ballot for myself and against harmful policies. Now onto the next
Look America, why can't you see how absurd you now look as a country, your leader would rather play golf than respect the soldiers who died protecting the constitution her also supposed to protect. He would rather get a pay back from a sports washing Saudi organisation than show his respect. It's no wonder the rest of the world don't want anything to do with him or the rest of his cabal.
Yes it's hard to explain why I'm agreeing with Mike Pence as well.
On Tyranny — Prologue
This is a book by Timothy Snyder on recognizing the tools of tyranny, how they caused the downfall of democracy in other countries, and how we can resist these symptoms in our own countries. It was published in 2017 from an American perspective. I greatly enjoyed the reading and thought that it would be, perhaps, as constructive for others as it was to me. As such, I shall be posting sections from the book, starting with the prologue, and working my way through all 20 "lessons" included. Happy reading!
"Prologue: History and Tyranny"
"History does not repeat, but it does instruct. As the Founding Fathers debated our Constitution, they took instruction from the history they knew. Concerned that the democratic republic they envisioned would collapse, they contemplated the descent of ancient democracies and republics into oligarchy and empire. As they knew, Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants. In founding a democratic republic upon law and establishing a system of checks and balances, the Founding Fathers sought to avoid the evil that they, like the ancient philosophers, called tyranny. They had in mind the usurpation of power by a single individual or group, or the circumvention of law by rulers for their own benefit. Much of the succeeding political debate in the United States has concerned the problem of tyranny in American society: over slaves and women, for example.
It is thus a primary American tradition to consider history when our political order seems imperiled. If we worry today that the American experiment is threatened by tyranny, we can follow the example of the Founding Fathers and contemplate the history of other democracies and republics. The good news is that we can draw upon more recent and relevant examples than ancient Greece and Rome. The bad new is that the history of modern democracy is also one of decline and fall. Since the American colonies declared their independence from a British monarchy that the Founders deemed 'tyrannical,' European history has seen three major democratic moments: after the First World War in 1918, after the Second World War in 1945, and after the end of communism in 1989. Many of the democracies founded at these junctures failed, in circumstances that in some important respects resemble our own.
History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade generated expectations of progress. In the early twentieth century, as in the early twenty-first, these hopes were challenged by new visions of mass politics in which a leader or a party claimed to directly represent the will of the people. European democracies collapsed into right-wing authoritarianism and fascism in the 1920s and '30s. The communist Soviet Union, established in 1922, extended its model into Europe in the 1940s. The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands. It would serve us well today to understand why.
Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the democracies in addressing them. Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people. They put a face on globalization, arguing that its complex challenges were the result of a conspiracy against the nation. Fascists ruled for a decade or two, leaving behind an intact intellectual legacy that grows more relevant by the day. Communists ruled for longer, for nearly seven decades in the Soviet Union, and more than four decades in much of eastern Europe. They proposed rule by a disciplined party elite with a monopoly on reason that would guide society toward a certain future according to supposedly fixed laws of history.
We might be tempted to thing that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex. In fact, the precedent set by the Founders demands that we examine history to understand the deep sources of tyranny, and to consider the proper responses to it. Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.
This book presents twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today."
In case it wasn't clear at the top, this section comes from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. Any misuse of punctuation is probably Snyder's fault, as I just copied the text word for word, syntax and all. That being said, any typos are probably my fault. I'm too used to autocorrect. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the reading! I hope to post more soon!
His dark prediction about the future has become our present.
Jefferson: It wasn't enough to enshrine some rights in the constitution and the bill of rights, the people had to be educated and they had to practice their skepticism in their education otherwise we don't run the government- the government runs us.
We live in an age based on science and technology with formidable technological powers.
If we don't understand it, by we I mean the general public, if it's something that "oh I'm not good at, that I don't know anything about it", then who is making all the decisions about science and technology that are going to determine what kind of future our children live in? Just some members of congress, but there's no more than a handful members of congress with any background in science at all.
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r u capable of fighting for your rights?
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Back to the streets of Israel, fighting for democracy! Fighting against Netanyahu’s extreme right government.
I know ya'll dont really care about politics if its not USA stuff but the world should know that Lopez Obrador, Mexico's president has said on national tv that he wants to close down the INE (the national electoral institute) claiming that it's a waste of national resources, by that he means money. The INE organizes the electoral processes and guarantees the exercise of electoral rights. It is where you register to vote, it is where you go to vote. This man has publicly stated that he thinks democracy is a waste of money and he wants to shut down the organization that guarantees us that right. Our rights are in jeopardy right now. They have been threatened. And I dont see people talking about it. Not even mexicans, and its worrying.