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21 votes
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US President Trump flouts coronavirus protocols as security experts warn of need to protect the President from a lethal threat
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'Three decisions and a two-point plan': How Australia got on top of COVID-19
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Top Republican fundraiser and Donald Trump ally named postmaster general, giving US President new influence over Postal Service
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Scott Morrison is now very popular in Australia. He hasn’t earned that.
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Judge orders Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang, others to be reinstated to New York primary ballot
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Never Trumpers' strange relationship with the Democratic Party
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Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period
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Hungary no longer a democracy, Freedom House says
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“Political connections and cronyism”: In blistering whistleblower complaint, Rick Bright blasts Team Trump’s pandemic response
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What would the effects of a breakup of the UK be and how likely is that to happen?
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Philippines largest TV network ABS-CBN ordered shut
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Sparks fly in virtual hearing on Andrew Yang’s NY primary lawsuit: ‘New Yorkers are being denied their right to vote’
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Republicans are sacrificing other Americans' freedoms for their own, like once happened in the American Civil War
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Up to 85,000 voters could be removed from Florida electoral rolls
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How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization
11 votes -
New Zealand Prime Minster Jacinda Ardern to join Australian national cabinet on Tuesday
11 votes -
Republican Mitt Romney sides with Democrats calling for $12 hourly raises for essential workers in the USA
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The UK Labour party has a new leader: Keir Starmer
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Canadian Prime Minister announces ban on 1,500 types of "assault-style" firearms, effective immediately
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Protesters, some armed, enter Michigan Capitol in rally against COVID-19 limits
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un makes his first public appearance in twenty days, ending an absence that had triggered global rumors that he may be seriously ill
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Why Joe Biden should shy away from challenging Trump on COVID
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Tild~ers who live in multi-party systems, what are the parties present and their positions?
I'll start here in Brazil (these aren't all the parties BTW): PT (Workers' party) The generic center-left party. Likes adding or maintaining public services, likely stained for a generation with...
I'll start here in Brazil (these aren't all the parties BTW):
PT (Workers' party)
The generic center-left party. Likes adding or maintaining public services, likely stained for a generation with Dilma Rousseff being impeached and lula jailed (although he left recently) And badly crashing the economy thanks to Car Wash (although Moro seems to have proven himself to be rather less than impartial and it's not like they were the only ones involved.) They might not if/when Bolsonaro proves himself much worse than anything PT did but right-wing media will do their work here. They're also supported by a lot of people in the rural Brazilian Northeast which is probably pretty religious and conservative, but I don't think we see that in their legislation.
PSDB (Brazilian Social Democratic Party)
Not actually for social democracy, really more of a generic center-right party. Usually privatization/"efficiency" oriented party. Not very socially conservative but not socially liberal. Was going to die thanks to being establised for too long and having a bad record (they had the other impeached president in Brazil) but then Doria rode the Bolsonaro wave, although COVID has shown this a purely electoral move.
PSL (Social Liberal Party)
The current party of our president, although him being incompetent has led to people considering breaking up his party, but he'll just move to another one with a generic feel-good name (alliance for Brazil). Not actually socially liberal (this is a recurring theme), more a generic right-wing populist/Whatever Bolsonaro does party.
Partido Novo (New Party)
Generic capitalist party. It's Founders are owners of large Brazilian banks so I don't really imagine them caring about the actual ideology of classical liberalism and competition/meritocracy too much (even if they throw that term around a lot) and are more focused in big business corporatocracy.
REDE (Web of sustainability)
Generic green/environmentalist party. Was expected too be a frontrunner in the last presidential election but instead only got a sad 1% of the vote in the first round.
PATRIOTA (PATRIOT)
Hyper-Christian militarist party. Unironically wants to write a new constitution with a 'religious character'.
The guy who ran for president under them actually went to a mound in Israel to pray. Absolute meme candidate last election but you never know if next time they run someone serious.
PDT (Democratic "Workerist" Party)
Seems to be the Democratic Socialist/Social democratic analogue to the progressive movement in Brazil but I can't say for sure since people aren't hellbent on policy in any Brazilian circles and most of the most blatant problems in the US aren't as obvious in Brazil.
These are 7/33 political parties.
Fun facts about Braziliian parties: there are Democratic and Republican parties in Brazil and both are right-wing, capitalist parties. How's that for indulging in confirmation bias?
The Green party in Brazil also exists alongside REDE, meaning there are 2 environmentalist parties in Brazil.
There is a Brazilian women's party, but:
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It doesn't describe itself s feminist but 'feminine'
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When it was created it's congress members were 20/2 male
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They all shortly abanoned the party 2 moths later
Impying it's more likely than not some sort of corruption-related scheme.
There are 6 far-left/genuinely socialist parties currently listed;
The Brazilian Communist party
The Unified Socalist Workers' party
Popular unity (?)
The party of the Operary cause
The Communist party of Brazil (???)
Socialism and liberty party
That's a strange lot of infighting for some reason.
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It’s time to build for good
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Michigan Governor Whitmer announces plan for free college tuition for front-line workers battling coronavirus
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Chris Hedges: These "are the good times — compared to what's coming next"
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Trump perceived as abnormally sadistic and narcissistic by both conservatives and liberals, study finds
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Swedish city of Lund to manure the parks on an earlier date to deter Walpurgi celebrations
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Why Mitch Mcconnell wants US states to go bankrupt
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Maryland governor Larry Hogan shows what a post-Trump, more moderate GOP could look like
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US President Donald Trump claims ‘Noble Prize’ tweets were sarcastic then shares deepfake Biden video in barrage of conspiracy-laden tweets
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Nurses have quit en masse from Russia’s top coronavirus hospital in Moscow over poor working conditions and low wages
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George Wallace's base has found a home in the Republican party
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Notes on a nightmare #6: Against newspapers
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Political ships of Theseus | The American party switch
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Why the two-party system is the root of the problems in the US's constitutional democracy
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New evidence supporting credibility of Tara Reade’s allegation against Joe Biden emerges
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The purpose of Trump's COVID press briefings are to turn politics into a reality show
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Brazilian superminister Sérgio Moro resigns after Bolsonaro fires federal police chief Maurício Valeixo
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How Trump and demographics have changed the swing state map for the 2020 US presidential election
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Immigration to US to be suspended amid pandemic, Trump says
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Greenland wary of US plans for aid projects in its territory – politicians say expected announcement of $12m must not have conditions attached
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Shake Shack, Ruth's Chris and other chain restaurants got big PPP loans when small businesses couldn't
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Redditors tracked down who's behind the American protests to release lockdown. It's a couple of professional astroturfing companies
/u/derilect, working from information provided by /u/icesir, tracks down the organisers of the American protests against lockdown. It's two professional astroturfing companies: One Click Politics...
/u/derilect, working from information provided by /u/icesir, tracks down the organisers of the American protests against lockdown. It's two professional astroturfing companies:
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One Click Politics
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UJOIN
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The inside story of how a price war ended
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President Donald Trump seeks to add seventy-five million barrels of oil to US Strategic Petroleum Reserve amid historic price crash
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Politics and the beautiful soul
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The second phase of unemployment will be harsher: For American workers displaced by recession, widespread public sympathy soon gives way to moralizing anger
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A documentary called 'Mrs America' shows how Phyllis Schlafly partidarized the ERA, birthed the culture war and pioneered modern Conservative rhetoric
7 votes