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13 votes
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UK asylum seekers will be deported to Rwanda
14 votes -
New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039 (gifted link)
18 votes -
Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain
7 votes -
CO-VIDS: The Ghandi trap
3 votes -
Arizona grand jury indicts eleven Republicans who falsely declared Donald Trump won the state in 2020
53 votes -
US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform
58 votes -
HHS strengthens privacy of US reproductive health care data
9 votes -
Somalia bans fishing trawlers from its waters
15 votes -
Dominica High Court overturns ban on same-sex relations
13 votes -
How Sweden is failing its spacetechs – it's not about the budget, says one founder who moved his company to Finland
7 votes -
The persistence of the Venezuelan migrant and refugee crisis (2023)
5 votes -
Venezuela to accelerate cryptocurrency shift as oil sanctions return
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 22
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
6 votes -
US state North Carolina medical marijuana sales begin at Cherokee nation store
12 votes -
Ronald Reagan-era emergency health care law is the next abortion flashpoint at the US Supreme Court
18 votes -
Iran's missile strike on Israel - The attack, defence & Israel's counter-strike
14 votes -
Residents in southern Illinois county to vote on non-binding referendum to separate state from Cook County
13 votes -
Hawaii lawmakers take aim at vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire amplifies Maui housing crisis
14 votes -
Illinois now home to federally recognized tribal nation after landmark decision from Department of Interior
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Maui wildfire report: Officials declined extra help before a deadly inferno engulfed Lahaina, killing more than 100 people
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Fellow Canadians, what's on your mind this week?
I'm preoccupied with a couple of things. The first being that the federal budget was just released and I'm feeling like a national school lunch program and an injection of money into housing with...
I'm preoccupied with a couple of things.
The first being that the federal budget was just released and I'm feeling like a national school lunch program and an injection of money into housing with the expectation that cities build higher density dwellings is... Something they should have done mid mandate?
Is there even time to implement this stuff? Are we getting close to the point where we've spent too much?
Second is a quote from a compilation of personal accounts from travellers into this country's north in the 1800s. Farley Mowat assembled the stories and wrote the forward for "Tundra" in the 1960s and says the following
"Until 50 or 60 years ago, the Arctic was a living reality to North Americans of every walk of life. It had become real because men of their own kind were daring it's remote fastness in search of pure adventure", unprotected by the vast mechanical shields that we now demand whenever we step out of our air conditioned sanctuaries".
He goes on to talk about how -- most of all -- easily heated dwellings and running water had a softening effect on people, and that (basically) we fear and avoid Canada's climate far more than our forebearers did.
Wondering what people's thoughts on this are.
From what you learned from grandparents or earlier generations about spending time outside, would you agree that the comforts of home are just too damned seductive?
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US House approves $95 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan (gifted link)
41 votes -
Indiana now has a religious right to abortion
28 votes -
Bid to secure spot for glacier in Icelandic presidential race heats up – decade-old idea for Snæfellsjökull has snowballed into a full-blown campaign
5 votes -
California sets nation-leading limit for carcinogenic chromium-6 in drinking water
17 votes -
Man sets himself on fire near courthouse where Donald Trump is on trial (gifted link)
41 votes -
San Francisco sues Oakland over proposed airport name change
18 votes -
European Commission approves creation of an environmental zone in the city centre of Stockholm, where petrol and diesel cars will be banned entirely from 2025
23 votes -
All roads lead to Romania, as PM vows motorway to Moldova will open this year
6 votes -
Israeli missiles hit site in Iran
21 votes -
France urged to repay billions of dollars to Haiti for independence ‘ransom’
23 votes -
China is battening down for the gathering storm over Taiwan
25 votes -
Copenhagen and Paris mayors exchange lessons learned after huge fires destroy landmarks
12 votes -
Russia appears prepared to create “environmental havoc” by sailing unseaworthy oil tankers through the Baltic Sea in breach of all maritime rules, says Swedish foreign minister
10 votes -
Intelligence community largely won House FISA fight. Now comes the US Senate.
27 votes -
Saudi Arabia and UAE refused to open airspace to Israeli and US aircraft during Iran attack
9 votes -
2020 election lawsuits continue... Smartmatic settles OANN defamation case: Here’s where Dominion and Smartmatic’s other lawsuits stand now
10 votes -
Russian honeytraps useless against French spies … their wives already know: Documentary on French secret agent culture
19 votes -
Swedish parliament passed a law Wednesday lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16
34 votes -
NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
40 votes -
UK MPs back smoking ban for those born after 2009
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Ukrainians contemplate the once unthinkable: Losing the war with Russia
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As I get older, I get more and more disillusioned with "activism", and I'm fine with this
Long story short, I grew up believing that a great deal of worth of someone's life was effecting change, especially politically. That's why I valued activism. It took courage, especially...
Long story short, I grew up believing that a great deal of worth of someone's life was effecting change, especially politically. That's why I valued activism. It took courage, especially considering I don't live in a developed country.
The older I got and more problems I faced, I started to realize how unsatisfactory, even hollow this was. Modes of activism I engaged in didn't seem to fulfill me emotionally anymore, they were mostly impersonal, and they didn't seem to change anything. I have a lot of views that are extremely unorthodox for the place I live in, and I don't see any political movement that internalizes those values. I am extremely alienated from the "nation" I am supposedly part of, and from the political movements within it.
Another angle is that I recently realized how misguided I was. I was mostly doing mental labor, believing in the axiom that ideas can change things. But after some time and readings, I started thinking activities that aim for collective action and concrete changes (e.g. syndicates) were much more important. These are not available to me.
I feel like I have wasted a lot of my time. I pursued ideals more than my own emotional needs, believing they would make me happy and fulfilled, and they didn't. I pursued a way of engaging in politics that felt good but didn't effect change.
Don't get me wrong, while this is exasperating, it's also extremely liberating, joyful even. I enjoy the moments of quiet destruction that bring about the new. I no longer feel ashamed to admit I want comfort and stability in my life, and I don't want to take unnecessary risks. I have enough problems as is.
With this being said, I haven't given up on effecting change. I think it's much more convoluted and different than what I imagined when I was younger, and it's not generally about "going out there and showing up" or writing political texts and such. There are also levels to creating change, as it's not a binary thing.
At this point, I want to primarily live for myself, participate in some kind of change without risking myself to the point of overwhelming anxiety, and make more personal and real connections with people in general, including during effecting change.
What I've written here is a bit rough, but it's still an ongoing and raw process for me, and this post is more of a conversation topic, rather than a properly structured argument. I am interested in hearing your opinions. Has anyone had similar experiences, or things this post reminded you of?
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 15
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate...
This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.
This is an inherently political thread; please try to avoid antagonistic arguments and bickering matches. Comment threads that devolve into unproductive arguments may be removed so that the overall topic is able to continue.
8 votes -
Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong to hand power to successor Lawrence Wong on May 15
6 votes -
In the years after World War II, neutral, peace-loving Sweden embarked on an ambitious plan – build its own atomic bomb
16 votes -
Iceland's digital election website made it so easy to run for president that scores of people ended up throwing their hats in the ring by accident
13 votes -
Creating an official politics group?
So this topic is something that could very easily just be bothering myself, but I figured I’d share before unsubscribing to ~misc. If this is the wrong group, I apologize, please feel free to move...
So this topic is something that could very easily just be bothering myself, but I figured I’d share before unsubscribing to ~misc. If this is the wrong group, I apologize, please feel free to move it to the correct location. I will also preface this by saying I only really view Tildes occasionally, and am not the most active user, so those two things might be contributing to this.
I am wondering if creating an official Politics group would be beneficial to Tildes. I’ve noticed that the majority of recent posts in ~misc is mostly regarding politics. I don’t want to necessarily just unsubscribe from ~misc, in case something non-political and interesting to myself ends up getting put there, but if that’s the solution I’m more than happy to do it.
I just figured that with the amount of activity going on there fairly regularly, either a dedicated ~politics group or a sub group (maybe ~misc.politics or ~news.politics?) would be better? That way other users similar to myself could unsubscribe to that instead of unsubscribing to the much broader ~misc group.
I personally do enjoy the way that Tildes is setup, and don’t see any bad interactions in those posts. It’s definitely more of a personal thing.
That said, I don’t want to make people think that I’m telling them how things should be run, merely throwing my two cents out there, no matter how worthless they are.
Thanks to everyone for posting, and to the mods/admin for keeping everything running smoothly. This really is a solid community!
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Duty to Warn's John Gartner breaks down Donald Trump's cognitive decline
32 votes