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10 votes
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Sweden's espionage scandal raises hard questions on spy recruitment – intelligence agencies debate whether foreign-born citizens are more targeted
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All people are created educable, a vital oft-forgotten tenet of modern democracy
14 votes -
Slovenia elects first woman president in a runoff vote
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Sanna Marin's Finnish government could collapse, as human rights laws stalled – new Sámi Parliament Act is the right of self-determination
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of November 7
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15 votes -
About political messages on the Rust blog
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If the goal of Denmark is to end piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, a focus on constructive political dialogues could be a good place to start
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In Finland, where forests cover around 75% of land, the EU's upcoming biodiversity strategy has sparked outrage in the forestry industry, as well as the government
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‘These are conditions ripe for political violence’: How close is the US to civil war?
8 votes -
Pew Research Center's US political typology
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 31
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9 votes -
Researchers have been given a £420,000 grant to explore the potential use of a blockchain-based voting system in Greenland
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Denmark's centre-left has secured the most votes in a general election – unexpectedly gained two seats and secured its best result in two decades
5 votes -
Just days after promising advertisers that Twitter would not be a “free-for-all,” Elon Musk promoted a right-wing rumor about the vicious hammer assault on Paul Pelosi
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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva narrowly defeats Jair Bolsonaro to win Brazil presidency again
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Denmark's election on Tuesday is expected to change its political landscape, with new parties hoping to enter parliament and others seeing their support dwindle
4 votes -
Adidas ends partnership with Ye [Kanye West] over antisemitic remarks
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It appears both the West and Beijing itself have grossly overestimated Chinese expansion in Greenland
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Denmark is a right-wing paradise – even centrists are terrified of immigration
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 24
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9 votes -
The most lawless county in Texas
9 votes -
Candadian House of Commons gives unanimous consent to recognize residential schools as genocide
11 votes -
Katrín Jakobsdóttir, crime fiction fan and Iceland's Prime Minister, has published her first thriller novel with her close friend and bestselling author Ragnar Jónasson
4 votes -
Norway-style windfall tax on energy companies could raise £33.3bn extra by 2027, plugging a hole in UK government finances, analysis has found
4 votes -
The 2022 Nuclear Posture Review: Arms control subdued by military rivalry
10 votes -
Germany plans to legalise recreational cannabis
10 votes -
Rishi Sunak to become first British Asian PM as Penny Mordaunt bows out
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Lawmakers in Finland have approved a legislative reform that will ease the process of getting an abortion in the country
5 votes -
Inside Viktor Orbán’s response to the war in Ukraine
7 votes -
A growing share of TikTok's adult users say they regularly get news on the site, bucking the trend on other social media platforms
7 votes -
Regardless of the outcome of the November 1 polls, Denmark is expected to maintain its restrictive immigration policies
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Ulf Kristersson, the leader of the conservative Moderaterna, was elected on Monday as Sweden's prime minister with the support of the anti-immigration Sverigedemokraterna
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So, uh, about the UK
It's difficult to talk about the UK at the moment because, and it's hard to give this enough emphasis, IT'S AN ENORMOUS CLUSTER-FUCK AND EVERYTHING IS AWFUL. To give you some idea, Truss is...
It's difficult to talk about the UK at the moment because, and it's hard to give this enough emphasis, IT'S AN ENORMOUS CLUSTER-FUCK AND EVERYTHING IS AWFUL.
To give you some idea, Truss is currently less popular than Putin and is the least popular PM the UK has ever had (in the years that we measured).
There's a bill going through tonight about fracking. But it's been turned into a confidence motion on Liz Truss, and it has full hard /// three line whip, slips withdrawn. (basically, members of the Conservative Party have been instructed to vote in accordance with their party's wishes, and not doing so is serious, and can lead to the MP effectively being expelled from their party.) And the three line whip is against their 2019 manifesto pledge.
Normally, we'd expect to see MPs rebelling against this. Certainly, at the moment, a bunch of them are in the mood to do so.
There's an additional complication here though - a bunch of MPs have sent in letters of no confidence, and that could trigger Yet Another Leadership Race (they've already met the threshold, but they've raised the bar to be half the party needs to send the letters because lol who cares about rules). But, if an MP is expelled their letter no longer counts. So a bunch of MPs are openly saying they're only voting for this fracking bill because they think Truss is hopeless and needs to go.
https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1582672374369226753
https://twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1582762437954375680
Also, Suella Braverman (who managed to be a crueller home secretary than any who've been before her which is remarkable considering the list of utterly hateful cunts who've had the job) was sacked / resigned today.
So, if there's not much talk here from people in the UK it's because nothing makes any sense and everything's changing every day.
31 votes -
How one man on a bridge marred Xi Jinping's big moment
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 17
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4 votes -
Australia's CSIRO abruptly scraps globally recognised climate forecast program
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As the midterm elections approach in the US, does Finland have the answer to fake news?
6 votes -
US will take in some Venezuelans, expel others to Mexico
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 10
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4 votes -
UN rebukes Finland for violating rights of its children held in Syria camps – child rights committee says Helsinki must do more to repatriate those detained
3 votes -
The big trouble if DC becomes the 51st state
6 votes -
What to watch for at the 20th Party Congress
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Are billionaires a market failure? And if not market, are they social failure?
I was reading this text from the Washington Post (sorry for the maybe paywall): https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/xi-jinping-crackdown-china-economy-change/ The opinion asserts...
I was reading this text from the Washington Post (sorry for the maybe paywall):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/06/xi-jinping-crackdown-china-economy-change/
The opinion asserts that in response to liberalization of Chinese life, driven by capitalistic economic growth, is the reason that Xi Pinjing "cracked down in every sphere imaginable — attacking the private sector, humiliating billionaires, reviving Communist ideology, purging the party of corrupt officials and ramping up nationalism (mostly anti-Western) in both word and deed."
My conspiratorial brain latched on to the humiliating billionaires line, and started thinking about a between the lines message along the lines that billionaires are good and should not be humiliated, a subtle warning-response to the progressive grumblings here in the U.S. that a failure to support capitalism will result in totalitarianism.
Then I started thinking about the questions, are billionaires good for society? I had always held the position that a billionaire is a market failure (in my econ 101 understanding of the term), much like pollution. It is improper hoarding and unfair leveraging of capital into disproportionate and un-earned degree of pesonal privilege.
It is certainly a by-product of euro-american capitalism, whereby the desires and welfare of the many are trodden on by those with the ability to fight and to shape the regulatory machine meant to protect the interests of the common-wealth.
I see a few possibilities. One, is that my understanding of economics is wrong, and producing as many billionaires as possible is the ultimate goal of capitalism and in fact good for everyone, even in theory.
Two, it is indeed as I suspect, a market failure. And the failure here is one of degree, it is not, in fact problematic to have some individuals with significantly greater wealth among us, and is, in fact, beneficial overall, but to have some with so much more than the rest of us (wealth inequaility) is a result of getting in the way of a clean functioning marketplace.
Three, economic theory is working as described, and economic theory/activity is an insufficient foundation for the maintenance and success of a whole society, and we need to find a way to constrain it to its own sphere, so that it provides us with what we need to be healthy and happy, but no more.
I turn to the bright minds of tildes: am I looking at this right?
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of October 3
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8 votes -
As part of a new series that looks abroad for inspiration on how to fix flaws in the US political system – we ask whether Norway's young MPs have the answer
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Kotka, in southeastern Finland, removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin
5 votes -
Danish general election called after PM faces mink cull ultimatum – Mette Frederiksen bypasses vote of no confidence by calling 1 November ballot
3 votes -
Taiwan vows to respond to China’s military flight incursions
6 votes -
UK scraps tax cut for wealthy that sparked market turmoil
11 votes