"We have already started to approach the tipping points that will rapidly and unpredictably accelerate the processes causing the climate breakdown."

"The midterm elections may be the most consequential ones in American history. The are less than six months away, and many Americans don’t understand how high the stakes really are. There’s not much time to fix that."

"A burst of new disclosures exposing the extraordinary efforts by ex-President Donald Trump to steal power after his election defeat constitute a grave warning about the future and his potential bid to recapture the White House."

"The world has never before seen true democracy in action. Countries that claim to be democratic today, and that were supposedly established with democracy as their foundation many years ago, are not…"

Ten years after she left house arrest and vowed to fight for justice, Myanmar’s civilian leader has instead become a jailer of critics and an apologist for the slaughter of minorities.

[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/upshot/election-democracy-fear-americans.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/01/upshot/election-democracy-fear-americans.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur) >"A feeling of alarm and fear about the future of democracy, from voters across the political spectrum."

>"The Kremlin is setting up fake parties to control next year’s election — but this may no longer be enough."

This piece from 2016 is still quite relevant. “One of the falsehoods in the Clinton speech was the implied equivalency between civil resistance and insurgency. This is an autocrat’s favorite con, the explanation for the violent suppression _...Read More_

This youtube Democracy Now is the best/current information I could find on progressive Kurdish Rojava ( anti-capitalist, feminist, equality-seeking ) societal movement in Syria and the imminent threat/annihilation to come with Turkish _...Read More_

On 'platform' parties (Farage, etc.): "Like tech startups, they're aimed at rapid growth, w/ email sign-ups and PayPal donations replacing formal membership. And, in accordance w/ the creed of Silicon Valley, their purpose is to disrupt."

Looking at these results, I find it interesting that a plurality (if not an outright majority) of people view healthcare/education/climate/infrastructure/inequality as key issues that necessitate reform within the next 30 years. At the same _...Read More_

Was this ever posted? I forget how much Peter Thiel has to say on like, everything. I thought West's relationship in the whole thing was interesting.

"Surveillance capitalism was invented by Google more than a decade ago when it discovered that the “data exhaust” clogging its servers could be combined with analytics to produce predictions of user behavior. At that time, the key action of _...Read More_

"You cannot comprehend the level of inequality in our current world or even just our nation, but we choose to continue to live like this."

‘In addition to their belief in the curative powers of supply-side economics, and their desire to reward their donor base, conservatives consider redistribution a monstrous moral evil. Tax cuts represent a victory in a cause far larger than _...Read More_