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9 votes
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Belarus is trying to block parts of the internet amid historic protests
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The clean network: A US Department of State proposal to provide 5G free of China's interference
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Microsoft faces complex technical challenges in TikTok carveout
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The Trump Pandemic: A blow-by-blow account of how the president killed thousands of Americans
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Lebanon’s prime minister resigns in the wake of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut and the ensuing public outrage
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Denmark's vegan party says it has enough support to run for parliament – the party, founded in 2018, reached the 20,182 declarations needed on Thursday
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro wanted to send soldiers to shut down the Supreme Court and replace its ministers
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US Intelligence: China opposes Trump reelection; Russia works against Biden
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US President Donald Trump issues executive orders taking effect in forty-five days that ban "transactions" with Chinese owners of TikTok (ByteDance) and WeChat (Tencent)
19 votes -
The unraveling of America
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Everything, um, unusual about Kodak’s Trump-assisted pivot to pharmaceuticals
11 votes -
Democracy maybe?
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Axios: President Trump exclusive interview (full episode)
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Many Americans are convinced crime is rising in the US. Even if they're wrong, their fear is making everyone else less safe
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What is the 'sovereign citizen' movement?
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A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
7 votes -
Alex Jones tells his listeners to get ready to die in fight against the New World Order
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The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 million per week on Facebook ads, almost assuredly making it the platform's largest advertiser
@Judd Legum: The Trump campaign is currently spending $5.4 MILLION PER WEEK on Facebook That's a $280 million annual rate.The Trump campaign is almost certainly Facebook's largest advertiser In 2019, Home Depot was the largest advertiser, spending $178.5 million pic.twitter.com/4BjWknL73H
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Biden goes big without sounding like it
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Poland Supreme Court validates presidential election results
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With Obama saying "the filibuster is a 'Jim Crow relic' ”, it’s looking more and more like Democrats will abolish the filibuster if they win back the Senate
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There have been thirty-eight statewide elections during the pandemic. Here's how they went
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How compulsory unionization makes us more free
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US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin confirms TikTok is under review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US following national security concerns
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Anti-Putin protest in Russia’s far east attracts thousands for a fourth weekend
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Germany has woken up to a problem of far-right extremism in its elite special forces. But the threat of neo-Nazi infiltration of state institutions is much broader
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Explaining the urban-rural political divide: Why do Democrats so often concentrate in cities?
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Denmark is a liberal paradise for many people, but the reality is very different for immigrants
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What can we do to support voter turnout in the US elections this fall?
There is an important election in the United States this fall, and we've all heard a lot of concern expressed about efforts to suppress the vote. Under the shadow of all the other issues we're...
There is an important election in the United States this fall, and we've all heard a lot of concern expressed about efforts to suppress the vote. Under the shadow of all the other issues we're currently facing as a society, I know a lot of people who are asking "what concrete actions can I take to make a difference?" It seems like helping to get out the vote is one very important action.
So here's a question to the Tildes community: what suggestions do you have about how we (as individuals) can help get out the vote this fall? Big or small, donating money or doing physical work -- what can we do?
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Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after battle with coronavirus
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The Turkish century; part 2: The journey of the Turkish Republic
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Engineers of the soul: Ideology in Xi Jinping's China
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Ultimate immunity
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How the Simulmatics Corporation invented the future
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Here’s Donald Trump’s plan to regulate social media
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In the decades before the American civil war, violence broke out in Congress too
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For the people who want capitalism to be replaced by some form of socialism, why?
(Yes, I know "socialism" and "capitalism" are vague terms, hence why you should probably very much clarify what type of "socialist" system you want, since "socialism" can be anything from market...
(Yes, I know "socialism" and "capitalism" are vague terms, hence why you should
probablyvery much clarify what type of "socialist" system you want, since "socialism" can be anything from market socialism, Marxism-Leninism, Syndicalism, democratic socialism, Trotskyism, anarcho-socialism, anarcho-communism, Luxemburgism, etc. Also, I'm a far cry from informed in this, so please correct me when needed.)So anyway, if you call yourself a socialist or at least want to abolish capitalism, why?
So for the best reasons I have seen are:
- Capitalism is inherently hierarchical and incompatible with democracy, which is egalitarian.
Obviously not all types of socialism (I.E, most types of socialism that have been tried for more than a few years because they weren't overthrown or voted out) are egalitarian however and many of these systems are completely centralized.
- Big companies will naturally use the state to their own advantage, as capitalism is driven by self interest instead of any vague marker of "competition".
The main argument against this is that you definitely regulate capitalism to be more competitive with stuff like antitrust without abolishing the whole thing.
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US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's response to colleague who called her a misogynistic slur
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Incumbent Polish president Andrzej Duda narrowly beats Trzaskowski in presidential vote
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The war between alt.tasteless and rec.pets.cats
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How the Democratic party went from being the party of slavery and white supremacy to electing Barack Obama
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How Southern socialites rewrote civil war history
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Donald Trump is putting on a show in Portland; the president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered
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KnowYourVote - An aggregated source for info about US candidates
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Sen. Hawley introduces bill to fine American companies relying on Chinese slave labor
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Interview with Thomas Chatterton Williams on race, identity, and "cancel culture"
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The United States has abruptly ordered China to close its consulate in Houston, accusing diplomats of aiding economic espionage and the attempted theft of scientific research
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Why has the Republican response to the pandemic in the USA been so mind-bogglingly disastrous?
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The United States needs a third Reconstruction; whatever its shape, the era ahead must rekindle the aspiration of a nation molded in the ideal of perfect equality that we have always seeked
21 votes