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The kids are alt-right: Teachers know the warning signs when students are radicalized by online hate movements. They just don’t know how to stop it — or if it’s a power struggle they can ever win
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America is following disastrous Trump advice to slow down testing
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Are there any major problems in society that we genuinely do not have any good solutions to?
One of the most notable aspects of political discourse today is how many of the problems we have seem to have relatively simple solutions for how consequential they are: To reduce wealth...
One of the most notable aspects of political discourse today is how many of the problems we have seem to have relatively simple solutions for how consequential they are:
To reduce wealth inequality, we can use progressive taxation, antitrust, support of unionization so that poor people/workers have a large stake in their wages.
To give poorer people equal opportunity, we can use welfare initiatives like free (as in paid by taxes/free at the point of use) college, better pay for teachers and more equitable resource (as in textbooks, tables, chalk distribution for schools so poor people get more equitable education to rich people.
To reduce crime, violence and repeat sentencing we can reduce poverty (see the top question), encourage mental health initiatives and do not have cops take thatand have jail be rehabilitative rather than punitive.
To make make software less centralized and invasive, we can require Internet companies give you full, immediate disclosure of all the forms your data will be used and let people opt out of all of them, delete all their data, and also enforce antitrust when it comes to social media platforms (I.E Facebook should not own Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and their new TikTok analogue and the first thing you should see when logging into any of them is a list of ways these companies will collect your data and let you opt out of all of them and be as anonymous as you please)
To make sure democracy is indeed representative of the people and works well, we can introduce a parliamentary system or multi-winner congressional seats and institute STV or RCV or just approval voting if you really can't have more than 1 representative for an area (the US senate is cucked)
To make more progress in stopping COVID, we can have mass testing by the government, people must take social distancing seriously and wear masks, medics need to be taken seriously and properly supplied with PPE and all that.
Given these solutions, what are large problems we have/will have that we genuinely don't have an answer to instead of just not wanting to do something about it?
A few examples that come to my mind are:
How do we get corrupion out of a government? Since the vast majority of stuff I have mentioned in this post would be done by governments and governments under extensive corruption cannot be trusted to regulate anything.
How do we regulate news outlets to be fair and objective? We can get news outlets to be publically/popularly funded instead of ad(large-corporate)-funded and enforce antitrust, but that doesn't stop bias, outright lying and sensationalism.
How do we get peple to change their minds? Evidence of everything I've mentioned in this post is more than around, but that hasn't convinced Republicans/conservatives. For some people groups, acceptance has literally been a decades-long political campaign to be recognized as normal or ok.
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34 more.How do we get people to befriend eachother and be social and tell apart those who genuinely don't want to do this and those who do but don't know how to or don't like to/aren't good at doing it in the ways usually available?
If we choose to let the population decline (see the climate change question), are we fully prepared for the consequences of having a society that will be growing older and older, perhaps indefinitely?
If we choose to not let the population decline and seek to keep birthrates at replacement level, how do we convince people to do so? If we don't/can't and start using things like artificial wombs to have children, who will take care of them? Do we make orphanages socially acceptable/valued and well-funded? Do we turn kindergartens and schools into a 24/7 institution and add in non-study things like housing and video games, and make teachers basically parents, but with many children to take care of?
If electoralism fails, what can we do to still have a voice in the world? Can we do anything?
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How will voting by mail work for you?
Are you able to vote by mail? Are you signed up to do it? Would you actually put your ballot in a mailbox or drop it off somewhere?
20 votes -
Joe Biden picks Kamala Harris as his US Vice President
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Head of Iowa Postal Workers Union says that mail sorting machines are being removed from post offices in the state, hindering ability to process mail
38 votes -
FiveThirtyEight 2020 election forecast
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Reddit CEO defends their intention to run Trump ads ahead of election, outlines their plans to move comments on ads into subreddits
51 votes -
Why does the right lie so often?
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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)
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The unraveling of America
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Everything, um, unusual about Kodak’s Trump-assisted pivot to pharmaceuticals
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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
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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
20 votes