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10 votes
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As COVID-19 gets worse, Trump is talking about things that the average American couldn't care less about
10 votes -
Stop trying to shame socialists into voting for Joe Biden: It’s really about performatively denouncing leftists as irresponsible, for the edification of the liberals who are watching
19 votes -
Raging at China over coronavirus won't help – scrutinising our own governments might
7 votes -
How to argue with your comrades: it’s easy for socialists to blame our own comrades for our defeats. But those losses are more rooted in the powerful structures we’re up against than our own failures
8 votes -
US Appeals court rules against Donald Trump on Emoluments Clause
9 votes -
It's no accident Britain and America are the world's biggest coronavirus losers
14 votes -
Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down governor’s extension of stay-at-home order
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Bernie Sanders says another US presidential run is 'very, very unlikely'
10 votes -
What to make of those new US Senate polls that have Democrats way ahead
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How a leftist cartoonist’s college campus drawing nearly became a far-right meme
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Anatomy of an internet shutdown
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Political consultant suggests rallying dems with giant, 'Fortnite-style' holographic Biden
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A few articles on the Polish elections' breakdown
Poland 'holds' ghost election with 0% turnout (mostly explains what and who led up to this.) Opposition 'slams' presidential election by post (citing lack of preparation, mostly.) Polish election...
Poland 'holds' ghost election with 0% turnout (mostly explains what and who led up to this.)
Opposition 'slams' presidential election by post (citing lack of preparation, mostly.)
Polish election delayed indefinitely with just 4 days to go (mostly the same as the first article, but also cites how the later these elections are held, the worse Duda (current Polish president) 's chances unsurprisingly become.)
Race to the bottom: all Polish election outcomes are bad [opinion article] (a short analysis on the possibility routes the election could have taken. Admittedly somewhat outdated given the elections have clearly been postponed.
Related article: Poland's ruling party just made it's anti-democratic intention radically clear (tl;dr they're really invested in 'illiberal democracy', not too unlike the Republican party.)
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#DemocracyRIP: What the Russian government did to the 2016 elections in the US was just the beginning
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China has imposed an import ban on four Australian abattoirs in an apparent escalation of Beijing's trade war tactics
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Famine is a choice. One billion people are now food-insecure. But starvation is not an inevitability
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Pandemic has shown Australians we have less in common with the US than we thought
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The four men responsible for America’s COVID-19 test disaster
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How do you deal with the world getting hopeless everyday?
I am an introvert, I hang around online most of the time. But, I've cut off most of the social media in past couple of years, now my online presence is reduced to whatsapp, tildes, youtube and...
I am an introvert, I hang around online most of the time. But, I've cut off most of the social media in past couple of years, now my online presence is reduced to whatsapp, tildes, youtube and sometimes reddit. I take in news from well respected sources, although most of them are left leaning.
Even after significantly limiting myself from news and social medias I cant help but feel world is getting worse everyday. Climate change, Increasing support for far right politics, increased consumption of fake news/propaganda etc..
I am going through some personal job related issue myself, I don't know what I am working towards. Why the hell should I waste my energy and time if I can't even see a better future? I don't think I am depressed, I am sad and frustrated that I dont have anything to look forward to.
Surely there are people in here who dealt/ dealing with this. How do you cope with this? what do you tell yourself when you see another fuck up from the world?
P.S: English is not my first language.
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'Genocide by default': America prepares for a brutal coronavirus slow burn
19 votes -
US polling suggests Tara Reade's allegations are having a moderate effect on public opinion of Joe Biden
21 votes -
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
8 votes -
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
21 votes -
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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Both Senator Richard Burr and his brother-in-law may have traded stocks on insider information related to the coronavirus
9 votes -
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
7 votes -
What would the effects of a breakup of the UK be and how likely is that to happen?
6 votes -
Philippines largest TV network ABS-CBN ordered shut
11 votes -
Sparks fly in virtual hearing on Andrew Yang’s NY primary lawsuit: ‘New Yorkers are being denied their right to vote’
7 votes -
Republicans are sacrificing other Americans' freedoms for their own, like once happened in the American Civil War
9 votes -
Up to 85,000 voters could be removed from Florida electoral rolls
8 votes -
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
22 votes -
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
27 votes -
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
17 votes -
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
8 votes