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7 votes
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Fascism and the failure of imagination
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I'm curious how people on here stay politically engaged and aware while maintaining mental health?
the Israel-Palestine war has not been good to my mental health and the coverage and the treatment of the campus protests oddly is what did me in. Now one approach could be to just not watch the...
the Israel-Palestine war has not been good to my mental health and the coverage and the treatment of the campus protests oddly is what did me in.
Now one approach could be to just not watch the coverage but I have come around to the point of view that not watching meaning not knowing what's happening and you need to know what is happening if only for the hope to be more informed about the politics of the government you live in.
So I guess I am trying to understand what is a responsible way to digest news about something that enrages you? Or is there no such thing? Cause I don't do social media (aside from occasional reddit and just the frontpage when I do that once in a while) and I refuse to watch any 24/7 news networks. I only do an hour of CBC and like 1-3 daily news podcasts which each do like 10-20 min daily updates.
Cause the Israel-Palestine war doubled with the terrible way the campus protests are being treated has really shaken my faith and trust in institutions and I won't go into how cause I don't want to invite infighting on tildes and potential Islamophobia and antisemitism after what happened in that macklemore thread.
21 votes -
It’s the first time crypto has become an issue in the general election of a US Presidential race
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The aggressive Arizona grand jury that indicted Donald Trump's allies
6 votes -
Undocumented workers played a larger and more dangerous role in delivering the Olympic Games than the Emmanuel Macron administration acknowledges (gifted link)
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Are most political talks performative?
This is a thought I had, and I'm not saying it's necessarily true, or at least cynically true. But I think it brings to the fore an interesting point, and I want to emphasize how it feels like. I...
This is a thought I had, and I'm not saying it's necessarily true, or at least cynically true. But I think it brings to the fore an interesting point, and I want to emphasize how it feels like.
I feel like people are mostly interested in politics from a distant and uninvolved point of view. For example, in more progressive spaces, there's all this talk about fear of climate change, deteriorating international politics, rise of right wing authoritarianism, populism, nationalism, etc. However, I feel like people expect others to do something about it. There's this passivity and inaction, and no real effort to combat such changes. I feel like debates, talking, ruminating and such perform a theatrical function that makes you feel as if you've contributed to "doing good", but you actually don't do anything. This is what I mean by performative.
This is not to say talking is unimportant. It's a major component of politics, and it's a core value and function of democratic and egalitarian approaches. However, it feels to me like doomscrolling and dreading or being angry about political things is seen as being politically conscious and active, while political consciousness can't exist without action.
What are your thoughts about this? Have you had similar thoughts, or do you think differently? How do you emotionally handle this?
22 votes -
The five futures of Russia
25 votes -
Ireland can’t blame its anti-immigrant problem on Rishi Sunak – The sudden arrival of European-style populism in Irish politics is the result of thirteen years of government complacency
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of May 6
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.
9 votes -
As China and Iran hunt for dissidents in the US, the FBI is racing to counter the threat
19 votes -
MIT scraps diversity statements in faculty-hiring process
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Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich
19 votes -
The Day Iceland Stood Still | Trailer
8 votes -
Illinois Democrats speedily change candidate law; Republicans call measure ‘election interference,' "undemocratic"
14 votes -
The existence of a Roma police register is shocking but not surprising. It is directly linked to Norway's long history of antigypsyism.
16 votes -
Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly
16 votes -
7,000 Maui short-term rentals could be eliminated under new county bill
20 votes -
California junk fee ban could upend restaurant industry
37 votes -
Georgia rocked by protests as government pushes Vladimir Putin-style ‘foreign agent’ bill
26 votes -
George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist
12 votes -
Denmark to liberalize its abortion law to allow the procedure until eighteenth week of pregnancy
22 votes -
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron, in Kyiv, promises Ukraine aid for 'as long as it takes'
18 votes -
Arizona governor Katie Hobbs signs abortion ban repeal bill
49 votes -
Florida is the first state to ban lab grown meat - Ron DeSantis
37 votes -
Colorado lawmakers approve broad, nation-leading Right to Repair law
22 votes -
Former US President Donald Trump will speak at the Libertarian National Convention
28 votes -
Opinion: The many US campaign finance violations divulged in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial
25 votes -
How (and why) the right stole Christianity
21 votes -
US Supreme Court leaves in place a Texas law requiring pornographic websites to verify users' ages
33 votes -
US House Democratic leaders say they would help save Speaker Mike Johnson's job
16 votes -
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say
75 votes -
How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?
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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of April 29
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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.
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3 votes -
Iraq criminalises same-sex relationships in new law
8 votes -
Ireland plans to send asylum seekers back to UK under emergency law
14 votes -
New American military aid for Ukraine - What's in the package and what impact will it have?
12 votes -
US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V
20 votes -
It’s hard being black in France, says Omar Sy after Aya Nakamura racism row
19 votes -
Book ban fight in Nevada would create LGBTQ section of libraries
9 votes -
Ferrying voting machines to mountains and tropical areas in Indian elections is a Herculean task
13 votes -
Student revolt and the curtailing of critical speech
19 votes -
Canada bet big on immigration. Now it’s hitting the brakes.
31 votes -
British Columbia to recriminalize use of drugs in public spaces
35 votes -
The tech baron seeking to “ethnically cleanse” San Francisco
49 votes -
Critical psychiatry and the political backlash against disabilities: a closer look at James Davies
11 votes -
American non-compete clauses could become a thing of the past thanks to a new ruling
15 votes -
The Anglosphere has an advantage on immigration – English-speaking countries generally do better at both attracting and integrating talent
13 votes -
Key moments from landmark US Supreme Court arguments on Donald Trump’s immunity claims
35 votes -
UK asylum seekers will be deported to Rwanda
18 votes -
New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039 (gifted link)
33 votes -
Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain
9 votes -
CO-VIDS: The Ghandi trap
3 votes -
Arizona grand jury indicts eleven Republicans who falsely declared Donald Trump won the state in 2020
59 votes -
US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform
69 votes -
HHS strengthens privacy of US reproductive health care data
10 votes -
Somalia bans fishing trawlers from its waters
15 votes -
Dominica High Court overturns ban on same-sex relations
14 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
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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
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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
25 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
26 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
15 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!
19 votes -
Duty to Warn's John Gartner breaks down Donald Trump's cognitive decline
32 votes -
New Brexit checks will cause food shortages in UK, importers warn
25 votes -
Danish PM Mette Frederiksen's domestically popular tough immigration stance could prove to be a weakness with European Social Democrat colleagues in the upcoming EU elections
5 votes