Total: 15 posts
Posts in: Elections
- an exhibition of optical effects and illusions
- a: a constantly shifting complex succession of things seen or imagined
b: a scene that constantly changes - a bizarre or fantastic …
- thinks Sanders has a very narrow path to the nomination (almost impossible).
- will vote for Clinton if she's the nominee.
- thinks Democrats and the Clinton campaign are setting …
Elections
LGBTQ
UKPolitics
USPolitics
The Greens are the Only Anti-Establishment Party
The Green Party is increasingly seen as the only viable alternative to the establishment parties in today’s political landscape. From the Canary: "Polling shows public see the Green Party as the anti-establishment party”.
Polling indicates that …
Activism
Elections
USPolitics
FarRight
The Big Ask
I like what Cory Doctorow posts on here a lot. I agree with his prescriptions to the problems a lot too. However, what’s lacking is context regarding why these solutions may not come to fruition.
It’s hard to call a government that allows …
Elections
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FarRight
The Rise of Far-Right Leaders in Western Democracies: British Politics is Driving me Crazy Edition
Hi, my name is Marti Abernathey and I’m an American that’s settled in the UK. I’m happy here, but lately British politics and the thinking around it from the general public is gas-lighting me. From Davie Moo’s TikTok:
Transgender
Elections
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USPolitics
The Labour Party's Unseen Influence on Trump's Win
I haven’t seen too many people talk about one angle of the Donald Trump win. They did awfully after getting advice from the Labour Party. You can never tell how much advice they actually listened to Labour advisors like Jonathan Ashworth, but the …
Elections
UKPolitics
USPolitics
FarRight
What Trump’s Election Tells Us About Global Politics
I’m an American living in the UK, and my wife is Brazilian. in both the UK and in Brazil, I’m seeing people say they can’t believe that Trump won the election. This is an extremely myopic view.
Fourteen million voters picked the …
Activism
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TERFs
The Rise of the 4B Movement Post-USA Election and How it’s Transphobic
Since the election of Donald Trump in the USA, there’s been a resurgence of the 4B movement online. From Wikipedia:
4B (or “Four Nos”) is a gender critical, radical feminist movement. It first emerged during the South Korean …
Elections
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Healthcare
The Future of American Politics: Moving Beyond Party Lines
I woke up yesterday morning in my bed in Southeast England. I realized the country of my birth has elected Donald Trump again. I wrote this post in 2016 talking about the many reasons the Democrats lost to Donald Trump. Over the four years after the …
Elections
USPolitics
Fediverse
Democratic Phantasmagoria
phantasmagoria
noun
phan· tas· ma· go· ria (ˌ)fan-ˌtaz-mə-ˈgȯr-ē-ə
Racism
Podcast
Elections
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FarRight
The Dilemma at the Center of the UK Labour and USA's Democratic Party
I'm an American living in the UK for the last six years. When I lived in the United States, I was involved with Democratic politics on a state and national level. Reflecting on that experience has made me conclude that the Labour Party and the …
Elections
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Healthcare
War
Bernie or Meh, The Clinton Path to Defeat
I’ll say it up front, I’m a Bernie Sanders supporter that:
Media
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USPolitics
War
James O'Brien on Jeremy Corbyn:
Listening to the podcast of the Thursday edition of LBC's James O'Brien's radio show, I was surprised that he'd admit that he might be wrong about The Labour Party's leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Previously, he'd said that Corbyn supporters were akin to …
Media
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Healthcare
Scroungers, Benefit Cuts, and the Tory Media
This morning I was listening to LBC radio and the radio presenter, John Stapleton (who was sitting in for James O’Brien), took a call from someone that said the Tories don’t care about benefit cuts and people in poverty: [soundcloud …
Indiana
Elections
MyStory
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Midwest
The Republican Utopia
Listening to Mitch Daniels answer questions on the radio on Wednesday night, he lost my vote in the next election. I’m quite the liberal/progressive when it comes to my political beliefs. Even so, last election I voted for Mitch Daniels for …
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TRUTH IS BAD!
A youth opinion writer for the Indianapolis star wrote recently that
"Howard Deans recent comment generalizing the GOP as 'pretty much a white, Christian party' was both untimely and ill-advised." and that "The greatest prospect for the Democratic …
Media
Elections
USPolitics
Decisive Victory
The Bush website proclaims a decisive victory! You be the judge….
CNN: Kerry: 87% Bush: 21% Tie 2%
CBS: Kerry: 87% Bush: 22% Tie: less than 1%
and that bastion of liberalism…
Fox News Kerry 51% Bush 48% Tie: less than 1% …
