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4 votes
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Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. The Hungarian Presidency will collect “guidance for further work”. Take action to stop chat control now!
11 votes -
Over 100,000 protest in France against new prime minister
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Challenge or opportunity? EU-China economic cooperation and the Belt and Road initiative.
4 votes -
Laboratories at home and abroad: Russian information operations pre-deployment
9 votes -
The games behind your government's next war
11 votes -
Russian banks say yuan coffers empty, urge central bank action, while Chinese banks in Russia are avoiding currency trading for fear of secondary Western sanctions
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 2
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
8 votes -
The new Māori Queen: Kuini Nga wai hono i te po, 27, to succeed her father Kiingi Tuheitia as Māori monarch
22 votes -
Bethesda yanks Thatcher's Techbase Doom mod from in-game browser
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Sweden has announced controversial plans to scrap its tax on airline tickets from 2025
6 votes -
Congressional insider trading: Is it real? And can we use it to our advantage?
9 votes -
I never expected to run for office—here's what I learned
32 votes -
Bipartisan group of 350 US city mayors commit to electrifying fleets and broadening EV charging infrastructure
18 votes -
US Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to invest $76 million closing legacy oil & gas wells in Pennsylvania
16 votes -
America is losing Southeast Asia: Why US allies in the region are turning toward China
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Where do you fit in the US political typology?
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China-linked ‘Spamouflage’ network mimics Americans online to sway US political debate
25 votes -
Sweden's immigrant hip-hop stars are redefining Swedishness – Muslim rappers are dominating the charts with music sharing the Swedish Muslim experience
7 votes -
The New York Times is a fluffer for Donald Trump on Arlington Cemetery desecration
19 votes -
At the University of Michigan, pro Palestinian protestors have "Shut Down" student government, by being elected to it (gifted link)
35 votes -
Donald Trump vs Kamala Harris: Who is leading in the US presidential election polls?
35 votes -
EU ChatControl is back on the agenda
10 votes -
Finland's Fortum starts using US nuclear fuel in bid to reduce Russian dependence
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The American/Western right-wing is a threat to queer people worldwide
This is something I've been thinking about for a long while. I will try to briefly explain my reasoning. I live in a country that's not a western country. It has plenty of its problems with...
This is something I've been thinking about for a long while. I will try to briefly explain my reasoning.
I live in a country that's not a western country. It has plenty of its problems with right-wingers, and they certainly do hate queer people. However, for years I've been observing and interacting with these people. Many of them, especially teenagers, 20 and 30 year olds, use the language and rhetoric of the American/Western right-wing.
They constantly talk and complain about SJWs, even though there is barely any left-wing in this country, much less a "SJW" type. They talk about "blacks" infiltrating the tv shows, movies, games. They talk about black people as if they are invaders. An ex-friend of mine, whom I cut contact with because of his increasing radicalization due to right-winger brainrot on Twitter, even said they will come here and ruin our country, "like they did to Europe". He doesn't talk to or have any friends from another nation, and has said this due to the American and Western brainrot spreading on Twitter.
This is extremely weird, because nobody before recent times had a major problem with black people here, because it's an extremely rare occurance whenever you see a black person. So, even right-wingers didn't seem to pay any attention to them. But this all changed with the utter shit rhetoric spread by the American and Western right-wingers on social media sites.
This applies to queer people as well. I've heard and seen so much imported rhetoric that I'm amazed at the international connectedness of right-wing hate. For example, even though trans people never were the focus of any big attention on social media before, thanks to the weird "tranvestigation/infiltration" rhetoric spread by American and Western right-wingers on social media, local sites here started fixating on trans people, especially trans women. However, this in time spread to hating on queer people in general. Just the other day I reported a major hate speech graffiti I saw in my neighbourhood. Luckily it was removed, but I heard from friends similar recent occurances of this hate speech graffiti targeting queer people. Never before in my life I had encountered such a thing. I suspect the trigger was the propaganda spread by American and Western right-wingers.
Why did I create this topic?
Well, first of all, I wanted to share my story and observation.
Second, I wanted to bring attention to a problem I deem important.
And third, the userbase of this site seems to be mostly Americans, and I wanted to challenge an assumption many Americans seem to have—that hateful propaganda on social media seems to almost exclusively come from USA's enemies. No, American and by extension western right-wing is extremely strong. It has extreme reach and powerful rhetoric. It's a global problem. I've been paying attention to this topic since 2015, and in recent years more and more American alt-right rhetoric I've seen in 2015-2016 on American internet started being voiced here more and more.
So, I guess, queers from other countries, beware of American alt-right rhetoric. It has a powerful effect on local right-wingers in other countries, and you might benefit from studying and learning to deconstruct and fight it.
This is also another reason why USA's elections are everyone's problem. The internal power struggles and ideological battles there are exported to the rest of the world.
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Initiative to extol benefits of allemannsretten, Norway's “right to roam”, to international tourists has met with strong criticism – tourism campaign shelved over environmental fears
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 26
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Over the last ten years Finland reduced road deaths by a sizable 29% – the average decline in the European Union was 16%
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Eiffel Tower will keep Olympic rings permanently, Mayor says
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Trusted aide would likely play key role in Kamala Harris review of US-Israel policy
11 votes -
Kamala Harris plans to tax unrealized US stock gains — but only for people worth $100 million
51 votes -
California lawmakers pass bill allowing Amsterdam-style cannabis cafes
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How bad maps win elections - Gerrymandering explained | Map Men
18 votes -
ABBA becomes the latest in a long line of artists to ask Donald Trump not to use their music at campaign events
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Mexico ‘pauses’ diplomatic relations with US and Canadian embassies
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UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns. Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts while seeking disciplinary action.
18 votes -
US Republicans are sneaking anti-trans amendments into beneficial bills
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How anti-trans US policies in Project 2025 could impact all families
27 votes -
The intractable puzzle of growth
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Blue and red US states were putting period products in schools — then came the anti-trans backlash
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Why I’m running for Commissioner of Agriculture in North Carolina
9 votes -
Social platform X edits AI chatbot after election officials warn that it spreads misinformation
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Donald Trump trials - Megathread - US Federal Jan 6 case with Special Counsel Jack Smith
Court of Appeals disclosed congressmember Scott Perry's texts re Trump, then removed them
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Book review: "Escaping Gravity" By Lori Garver
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Megathread - Updates on the Donald Trump trial regarding classified documents
Things are starting to happen in this case also.
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Norway's government wants to relax restrictions on abortion to make it legal for women to terminate pregnancies up to the eighteenth week of gestation
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What works: Groundbreaking evaluation of climate policy measures over two decades
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of August 19
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This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
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17 votes -
Kamala Harris's speech killed any hope she would end the Gaza genocide
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Stavanger's pristine white facades create a timeless, quaint atmosphere. Yet, amidst this traditional setting, a vibrant street art scene has emerged.
4 votes