#democratic

anubis2814@friendica.myportal.social

I know it wont do any good but I might be voting for Dean Phillips as a protest candidate in the #democratic #primary just because he has said to a certain extent that Israel has gone overboard in #Gaza. Will look into more details on the issue, and my state is one of the last states, but like when I voted for Bernie in 2020 even though I had serious beef with him for how he treated Warren, I wanted to give his side more seats at the convention even if its not a majority. If there are enough people casting these kinds of protest votes, it can sway the convention and place pressure on the party to change their stance.

libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2024-state-court-races

#State Supreme #Court Races Could Make or Break 'Firewall for Our #Democracy'
JULIA CONLEY
Jan 04, 2024

..."In Wisconsin, Justice Janet Protasiewicz won her state supreme court seat last April in an election that inspired the state's highest-ever turnout for an off-election year #judicial race. Supporters of the #Democratic judge highlighted her strong backing of #abortion #rights, voting access, and worker protections, and noted that a Democratic majority on the state's high court could decide whether former President Donald Trump would be able to challenge the 2024 election results, as he attempted to in 2020.

Voters in Ohio and Michigan are among those who face similarly high stakes this year, Harris said. In the former state, two Democratic judges and one Republican are up for reelection to a court that currently has a 4-3 majority favoring the GOP.
...
In Michigan, where the high court has a 4-3 Democratic majority and two judges on the 2024 ballot—one from each party—victories for the GOP could also allow a new conservative majority to reverse several pro-abortion rights laws passed in 2023.

"After Roe v. Wade was overturned, we had to turn to state courts and state constitutions as the critical backstop to protecting access to abortion," Brigitte Amiri, deputy director at the ACLU's Reproductive Freedom Project, told the AP. "And the stakes are unbelievably high in each of these cases in each of these states."

The results of this year's state court races could also have implications for redistricting efforts, which the Republican State Leadership Committee told the AP it is focusing on heavily, calling the state supreme courts the "last line of defense against far-left national groups."...

libramoon@diaspora.glasswings.com

#California U.S. #Senate #Democratic Debate in Los Angeles #cspan #video
Democratic Reps. Barbara Lee, Adam Schiff, and Katie Porter participated in a forum for the 2024 race for candidates seeking the Democratic U.S. Senate nomination in California co-hosted by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, Roll Call, and Courage California. Among the topics debated were the cost of living, support for unionized workers, and California’s homeless population.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?530982-1/california-us-senate-democratic-debate-los-angeles#

escheche@diasp.org
digit@iviv.hu
tpq1980@iviv.hu

The #West has disastrously low #birthrates that are particularly bad among the Indo-European (White) people-group.

Meanwhile, according to 2015 #UN #data, we are sterilizing ~30% of our reproductive #population & around another 40% is using #contraception.

I could understand this situation if our birthrates were excessive, or if there was legitimate #overpopulation, but our birthrates are disastrously low & we are importing mass #immigration, so clearly we are not overpopulated.

This is a #depopulation agenda without a #democratic mandate from the people.

#thewest #indoeuropean #uk #usa #sterilisation #sterilization #fertility #depopulationagenda #theelite #eu #europe #technocracy #technocrats #overpopulation #antihuman #elites #puppetpoliticians #antinatalism

digit@iviv.hu

some people still #dontlookup ( see start clip in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I5LBpsyMDo )

even in 2004, when i was becoming aware of this, it had already been promoted, without hiding, for years.

#cloudseeding (and other purposes), via #chemtrails (and other methods, like ground-based cloud-seeding and cloud production) all marketed as #geoengineering despite the #weatherwarfare origins of this lineage of #weathermanipulation, and not in #democratic scrutiny.

i strongly doubt the other purposes are for our #health.

escheche@diasp.org
escheche@diasp.org

Capitalism vs Socialism is NOT Markets vs Planning

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=K-jCqjM4Kmc

#ProfWolff shows how the #economics of existing capitalist and socialist economies make use of both #markets and #planning. The opposition of markets and planning is largely false and has worked to distract students and observers of economic systems from better differentiations such as how they differently #organize their #workplaces: #hierarchical in the case of #capitalist, #democratic in the case of #worker-cooperatives. Some major implications of this critique of the "planning versus market" obsession are discussed in relation to the #US, #SovietUnion, and #China.

#richardwolff #economicupdate #capitalism #socialism #money #inflation #democracyatwork

tpq1980@iviv.hu

The big #problem with #British #politics is that it doesn't exist. #Read some #political #history and #philosophy and you'll soon realise there is a de facto one party state in the #UK.

#Conservatives = neoliberal-globalists.
#Labour = neoliberal-globalists.
#LibDems = neoliberal-globalists.
#Green = neoliberal-globalists.
#ScotsNats = neoliberal-globalists.

The only real choice is the #colour.

The Conservatives #conserve nothing, grow #government, permit mass #immigration, support #speech crime, support thought #crime, increase #regulations, support "#multiculturalism", support "LGBTQIA+", hate #autochthonous British people, borrow #money at interest, print #currency, support #globalism, support foreign #wars, support net zero, support offshoring #industry, take part in #cronyism, don't support free market #capitalism, want to give illegal #migrants #amnesty, support the #corrupt #Ukraine puppet government, supported illegal #lockdowns, supported illegal #medical #mandates, supported #unscientific mask wearing, support illegal on-the-spot #fines, support #biometricID, support ignoring #paedophilia, support ignoring crime #statistics regarding #race, support the World Economic Forum, support #agenda2030, support "the great reset", support low #birthrates, support #miscegenation and support #depopulation.

Labour support everything the so-called Conservatives do and they don't support the #working classes and in-fact appear to hate the autochthonous British working classes and consider them, in the words of Jack Staw, a people "not worth saving."

Lib Dems are neither #Liberal, in the classical sense, or #Democratic. They wanted to overturn the #EU #referendum and reject the Democratic #vote on membership and they're #neoliberals, which is a philosophy that includes attacks on classical Liberal concepts like free speech, free thought and free inquiry. They also support everything the so-called Conservatives and Labour party do.

#Greens support the the reduction of #CO2 from the current 400ppm to zero, which will kill all life on #Earth as it will prevent #photosynthesis occurring, therefore preventing #plants growing and eliminating them as a food for #humans, #insects and #animals, destroying the food chain and the Earth's #biosphere. They don't understand how the #climate or biosphere works and are ostensibly useful idiots for plutocratic #elites and big #corporations. They also support everything the so-called Conservatives, Labour party and Lib Dems do.

The #SNP wants to take #Scotland out of the UK union and give the Scots "#independence" by signing them up to EU union. Essentially all this does is transfer dependency from #London to #Brussels and exchanges the #English for the Franco-Germans. Scotland will be no more independent and in some ways even more dependant. The SNP also support everything the other neoliberal-globalist parties do too.

In short, there is no political #choice beyond colour because there is no meaningful differentiation between political philosophies, or outcomes of voting. Whatever party you vote for, you get the same policies, the same lies, the same #corruption, the same #cronyism, the same #sophistry, the same national trajectory, the same everything, only with some minor and ostensibly superficial differences in packaging and delivery.

British politics is a total #farce that doesn't even engage in any recognisable political #debate because other than faux ad hominems, jeering and lip-service to non-existent political #principles there's nothing to debate, because they all agree...

escheche@diasp.org
hipstre@diasp.org

I am so #angry right now, I can't think. I can #rant. I can #emote. And I can think too. I am actually #thinking. I am going to try to remove all #politics from all of my feeds. When the #election comes, I look the stuff up. I decide how to #vote and I do it. On the matters of elected offices, it is decided forever. I am never going to vote for a #Republican, ever, under any circumstance. I made that decision in #1992, and have periodically re-examined it. I participate in #primary elections, so I examine the #Democratic candidates then and pick from among them. Then, I vote for whatever Democrat wins. I give a little #money to a political organization. I don't need or want to hear a single, fucking, goddamn, motherfucking, rapist, racist, Ku Klux Klan, trans, LGBTQIA+, cancel this, twitter that, fucking THING about anything else. All I can do is vote. That's it. If there's some other problem and I can do something, then I will consider it. Other than that, there's not a single fucking thing I can do. I can't "amplify marginalized gorups." No one gives a fuck what I have to say. And they shouldn't. I speak for myself. The marginalized groups, given how fucking "marginalized" they are, don't seem to be having any fucking problem at all getting their "voices heard." If there's something I can do I will consider it. I will vote for Democrats. End of story. I am not important in any fucking way. No one is listening to me. No one wants to listen to me. I don't want anyone to listen to me. I shouldn't have any #power. I don't want to live in a world where people who want power, get power. That's not going to happen in my lifetime. For my pathetic, pointless, zero of a life, and what's left of it, I can do one thing: vote. That's it.

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1483175197452771330

#DrKing was a great #civil-rights #leader, but he was more than that. He was a #political #revolutionary who summoned the #nation to “undergo a #radical #revolution of #values” to #overcome “the #giant #triplets of #extreme-materialism, #racism, and #militarism.” Never forget his #vision.

#martinlutherkingjr #mlk #berniesanders #quote #democratic #socialism

joebraun@diasp.org

The world’s #liberal democracies now confront a tragedy of the #un-commons.” #Information spaces that people assume to be #public are strictly ruled by #private #commercial interests for maximum #profit. The internet as a self-regulating #market has been revealed as a failed experiment. #Surveillancecapitalism leaves a trail of social wreckage in its wake: the wholesale destruction of #privacy, the intensification of social #inequality, the poisoning of social discourse with #defactualized information, the demolition of social norms and the weakening of #democratic institutions.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/opinion/facebook-privacy.html
#facebook #extraction

sylviaj@joindiaspora.com

Cuba ~ End the Embargo

‘If #JoeBiden or frankly any US politician #cared about the #Cuban #people, they’d push for an end to the US’s #crippling #economic sanctions on Cuba.’

‘All people have the right to #protest and to live in a #democratic #society. I call on the Cuban government to #respect opposition rights and refrain from violence. It’s also long past time to end the #unilateral #US #embargo on #Cuba, which has only #hurt, not #helped, the Cuban #people.’ …. #BernieSanders

‘It’s important to remember that before the #Cuban #Revolution, Cuba was a #colonial #piggy-bank for #American #capitalists to #exploit. The revolution stopped the United States from treating Cuba like its little plaything, which the United States has never been able to accept.’

‘The US continually punishes #Haiti & Cuba because these are nations that successfully #revolted against #white #supremacist #empires in generations past.’

‘The #whole #world has spoken against the US embargo against Cuba. In the #UN #GeneralAssembly, 184 countries voted to #condemn the #blockade. Only two, the US and #Israel, voted not to. Cuba loses $9.1 billion a year due to the blockade.’

‘Not only is the US blockading Cuba, they are claiming #veto #power over any other country which wishes to send Cuba #food and #medicine.’

‘The choice is clear. Which side are we on? The US, which continues to #violate #international #law by decades of crippling #sanctions even in the face of a #pandemic, or Cuba, which has created five different vaccines and sent thousands of #doctors to #heal #people around the world?’

‘Nobody is charged a dime in Cuba for their #treatment. But in the US, people are denied treatment unless they have tens of thousands of dollars to pay for medical bills. Again, which side are you on?’

‘In addition, Cuba has: – #Guaranteed #salaries; – #Nationalized #BigPharma; – #Distribution of #food, #electricity, and piped #water.’

‘The US is trying to create a #self-fulfilling #prophecy with Cuba. Cripple it with #decades of sanctions, then try to initiate an #astroturf #regime #change operation. This is typical M.O. for the #PoliceState.

'Never forget the explicitly stated goal of the US government’s murderous, #illegal, 60-year blockade on Cuba: to " #weaken the economic #life of Cuba," and " #decrease #monetary and #real #wages, to bring about #hunger, #desperation and #overthrow of #government."

#EndTheEmbargo #HandsOffCuba #VivaCuba! #VivaLaRevolucion! #VivaElPuebloCubano!

https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1414955958414061574