An FCC policy, known as the ‘Fairness Doctrine’ once required broadcasters to present balanced viewpoints on controversial issues, but its 1987 repeal paved the way for the rise of ideological programming and figures like Rush Limbaugh and networks such as Fox News and MSNBC to capitalize on this deregulation to prioritize audience engagement through outrage and identity politics.

Russia is systematically recruiting ordinary Europeans for low-level sabotage and surveillance through fake job offers on social media and job boards, targeting individuals across socioeconomic backgrounds with financial incentives. The “disposable agent” model exploits greed and reduces operational risk by using locals unlikely to be under existing surveillance. Recent recruitment attempts reached TVP World journalists via SMS and Telegram, mirroring documented patterns across Europe and Poland specifically.

Defense: public awareness and reporting of suspicious recruitment offers.

Hello friends. When I observed the recent developments and young people all over the world through social media channels, I realized that the policies produced by classical political institutions in order to win over young people did not find a sufficient response in us (young people). If I summarize the political problems we have experienced and are experiencing:

• Neo-liberal policies have become dysfunctional, but political institutions continue to keep neo-liberalism in an unquestionable position
• The generation born after 1995 is the first generation in human history to live in worse economic conditions than its predecessors, but a political demand has not yet been created for this absurd situation.
• The youth unemployment and housing problems have become unsustainable in all developed economies, but no developed country is willing to take a social state step that will solve these problems.
• The insistence of the 68 generation (baby boomers) on not transferring the wealth and positions they gained under very easy economic and competitive conditions compared to today to younger generations.
• There is a global crisis of elderly politicians, and younger politicians continuing to play the role of an unqualified "yes man" rather than fulfilling the demands of younger generations.
• The failure to develop a comprehensive policy to solve the mental collapse experienced by young generations who have become screen addicts since 2008 as a result of the Cloud Revolution (you can also call it the smartphone revolution).
• Techno-Oligarchy and the upper classes in general are being taxed less and less, and the oppressive regimes and far-right movements supported by this new capital class are threatening democracies all over the world.
• The classical left (communism-socialism-anarchism) has entered a deep period of collapse worldwide, and world politics is being trapped between the far-right and neo-liberalism.
• The young generation, who are addicted by digital means, made it difficult to get a job, cannot afford a home, whose income is decreasing, and who are constantly expected to pay the bill for the extravagant lives of the older generations, has a large single male population that has reached 60 percent in some developed countries, who do not have sex, do not marry, and do not have a lover.
• A demographic collapse in developed countries, directly related to this single male population, and the unsustainability of retirement systems in the next 30 years.
• The mental dilemma and fracture created by the fact that the young generations, who use the technological tools and opportunities that have become a part of life in the modern world much better than the older generations, are in a sense mentorless and earn much less than the elderly, who are much less qualified than them.
• The failure of the current parties and political institutions, which were established according to political paradigms long before the cloud revolution, who do not understand the mechanics of this new type of living, but use these technological opportunities only for advertising purposes, and whose directors are mostly very old people that unable understand the needs of the young generations and do not include them in the management and policy making process.
• Even discussing neo-liberalism being marking as communism and banning, no other ideas being including into intellectual publications, even the Nobel Prizes being giving out with these ideological motives, neo-liberalism becoming a religion and a cultural hegemony. I think that a new youth movement should be formed that takes a political approach to all these developments and focuses on providing solutions. What do you think? Is a new political movement necessary? Do you think there are other issues that need to be taken into consideration besides these issues? My aim is a kind of collective reasoning. Thank you in advance for your time and answers.

25 years ago today.

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE who was old enough remembers exactly where they were that morning. I know exactly where I was. You probably know exactly where you were.

So isn't it a huge red flag when the President can't seem to remember where they were during something like 9/11?

Trump has told different stories about what he was doing around that time and now apparently firefighters picked him up and carried him away from danger.

Come on. Time to impeach?

Or did something change? Or did you never believe it?

Let’s see if 25 years changes perspective!

The September 11 attacks,[c] colloquially known as 9/11,[d] were a coordinated series of suicide attacksperpetrated by the Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. A total of 19 terrorists hijacked four airliners, flying one into each of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in New York City. The third plane crashed into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in a rural field in Pennsylvania during a passenger revolt

Uyghur in china's xinjiang face serious oppression. this is documented. Over 3 million are detained in camps. prayer, fasting, and Islamic names are banned. Around 16,000 mosques have been demolished. Uyghurs are forced into labor programs, subjected to massive surveillance with facial recognition and spyware apps, and have government informants living in their homes. DNA sampling is mandatory and passports are confiscated to prevent people from leaving. there are also claims of forced organ harvesting.

UN reports and Human Rights Watch verify most of this stuff. People need to know what's actually going on.

Source: https://www.saveuighur.org/

The simple fact is that it is often easier to hoodwink a large group than a smaller, more invested group. The voters as a collective are that large group. In addition, with the spoiler effect, it is hard for voters to express their true opinion. Even when an alternative to first-past-the-post voting is used, that effect is still there, but reduced. When parties are elected instead of representatives, the problem is that parties, like representatives, can lie and not do what they promised. In addition, political parties and elected representatives are inherently partisan.

With voting, many remain rationally ignorant and do not vote. After all, a single voter rarely is the deciding factor; the voters know this, so many do not bother with voting.

While direct democracy appears like a viable alternative, it is not since it is difficult to get an issue on the ballot, and the voters cannot decide all the minutiae as they lack the bandwidth.

With sortition there is no active effort on the part of the electorate, unlike voting. The electorate can remain rationally ignorant and put forth no effort. For those that are selected through sortition, they will have a real incentive to be knowledgeable and care.

Imagine that you are selected at random to represent a district in a legislature and it comes with a high salary. No campaigning pressure, no donors are needed, and no pressure from an electorate. You could focus solely on what policies are the most beneficial to your constituents while not worrying about your popularity with anyone.

It has been said that those who seek power should be the last ones to hold it, and sortition acknowledges this reality.

Theories are great, but there needs to be a spark. The fundamental problem is not whether or not sortition works or how it would work, but actually getting sortition adopted. The catch-22 is that the same broken system that needs to be fixed is the same system that would need to vote themselves out with sortition. Since no place has sortition, people do not know what they are missing out on.

The solution: use direct democracy where it can be done. For instance, Nebraska has a unicameral state legislature, while every other state is bicameral. It was only possible to do so, as in Nebraska, voters can amend the state's constitution without the legislature's consent. There is no structural reason why the same could not turn one chamber of a state legislature into a sortition-based one.

With even one chamber of one state legislature changed, that could be the catalyst to bring sortition into the mainstream.

My flavor of sortition is delegated sortition. In delegated sortition, you would have approximately equally populous districts. A number of eligible voters would be selected at random for that district. They form that district's sortition board. With a majority vote, the sortition board selects that district's representative for that term. The sortition board then dissolves. This happens across all the districts. A representative can be reappointed or changed out in the next term.

While there will be some flukes here and there, overall it would allow the representatives to be much more aligned with their constituency. This is as close as you can get to every voter directly deciding on everything.

laura Loomer openly says the goal of amplifying events in Spain is to "make the general public harbor animosity toward Islam." This is not about truth – it's about manufacturing a scapegoat to protect Israel from criticism.

while Western media focuses on fabricated muslim invasions, israel is actively destroying homes in Gaza, uprooting olive trees in the west bank, and killing civilians in lebanon. this is a deliberate distraction.

who benefits from you hating muslims? who benefits from you ignoring what Israel is doing? answer is zionists and islamophobes. They want you to hate Muslims. They want you to ignore Israel. Dont fall for it. the real invasion is not Moroccans in spain ,it's settlers in Palestine, bombs in Gaza, and bulldozers in West Bank

Note: I am an atheist, and this is not related to my belief; it is related to fairness.

https://xcancel.com/LauraLoomer/status/2083115855848652936

So if McConnell had to step down before today, it would have been a special election with Maisse eligible.

Now that it is not the case, how long do people think before he resigns or is ruled medically incapable?

Or do people think they'll just pull the plug?

Personally, I think they'll save it for when they need to distract from something. So it may be a week or two.

As policies all around the Western world are pushed to curtail the Internet freedoms, more emphasis is made on reaching Internet freedom in an era of surveillance and control.

Some people, particularly those living under authoritarian regimes for a while, have developed strong culture and technology of censorship circumvention.

Russians creatively develop state-of-the-art and heavily battle-tested VPN protocols and routing strategies that are near impossible to restrict. Chinese develop creative trafficking to overcome the Great Firewall. Iranians come up with strong proxying tools and offline communication. Indians are catching up as well.

Considering the current political course, and without giving up on political action, people will need this experience to stay informed and free around the Web and elsewhere. Might be worth it to start taking notes, instead of blindly relying on what worked so far.

Alt text: protesters standing under Russian flag; the protester has a sign with words "Save Internet; Save Russia". Another protester holds a sign with an index finger and the word "Resist".

Politicians only read Xitter or Facebook, but places like the fediverse or even Reddit are ignored. They should be made aware of what people are saying regarding their decisions. Email is practically invisible and dead for most people as they live on other platforms and nobody will look up the email of some the minister of agriculture. But if somehow we could just @MarineLePen @Orban @KajaKallas anywhere on the web and they'll get an email in their inbox, I wonder what that would do to public policy...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50468275

At the core of the current world order’s domination is the English-American law. It defines what is legitimate and who is legitimate. It is very selfish, provincianistic and ruthless. It does not care about others in the world. It does not care that there are other people in the world, with different life experiences, circumstances, climate, anything. American law, at its essence, provides legitimacy to very few people in the world, and everyone else is a criminal or some sort of degraded entity. Every judge is really just a 12th century man of a small English farm town, hearing arguments of how this or that is more fitting to his 12th century farm town morals, evaluated within the contexts of those who lived their whole lives in that town. If you ever have the free time to go to court as a spectator, you’ll notice (if you’re not trained in American law) that what happens there is essentially people trying to justify themselves in white society. The arguments don’t have to make sense, and they usually don’t in a global setting.

With a combination of fortunately-timed war victories and complicity of leaders in other societies, the authority of this court has been extended to the rest of the world. It is of no shock to us that Americans like Lindsey Graham feel entitled to put a man like Nicolás Maduro in its stands to judge him. They own the world and the world has been given to them. But there is one country and only one that in recent times has consistently, openly defied law and the reach of that 12th century English farm town patriarch: Iran.

Not even China dares confront him in the open: they have made peace with inheriting the legacy of the the European-American world order in international law, and operating inside that framework.

Russia showed its face most blatantly when Maduro was seized. Cuba and North Korea are merely capable of their own survival. They know and understand, like Soviet Russia did, that the old Englishman was full of shit. A crook, a racist, a genocidal savage with great command of the English language, but a savage at his core. Every legitimate person in America: those with 800+ credit scores, clean records, LinkedIn profiles, they are ultimately offshoots of that man’s ethics. They hide behind a facade of intellectual laziness to avoid giving the opportunity to “legitimize” those who do not come from the same English farm town, but grant the same opportunity to others who come from other European towns. The motor of the ethics is racism, not actual values for the vast majority of those legitimate citizens.

There are people in the world who know this, granted, less and less thanks to the total information dominance of Meta & Google. In this context, Iran, with its Islamic values that refuses to compromise, becomes the last place in the world that has the capability to confront the genocidal agenda of the English patriarchs.

Busification at Mickiewicz Square, In the center of Lvov, a Ukrainian man was tackled by a TCC officer and then kicked by two of them, hitting him in the face and torso. Judging by his reaction, he was knocked out. All of it was accompanied by a police officer. He was dragged away shortly.

so i'm not from russia. but i read a lot about it because i want to know how russia works internally.

i think that russia has a kind of feeling that it has to prove itself to the world. historically, for most of human history, if you wanted to prove to other people how great you are, you have to fight a war somewhere and win a lot of land / treasures, etc.

this is changing now and russia has not woken up to it yet. it's like they're still living in the past or sth. we have to communicate more intensely with russia to make them understand this new world.

Alito's Hypocrisy Colorized as seen in Time For Kids, Jan 20, 2006.

DW News reports that Ukraine's Defense Ministry admits to approximately 200,000 soldiers currently absent without leave (AWOL), alongside roughly 2 million displaced Ukrainians. Defense Minister Fedorov acknowledged a "€300 billion funding shortfall" and "systemic breakdown in military structures." Soldiers cite exhaustion, unclear service terms, and forced conscription tactics. Serhii Hnezdilov, a 19-year-old drone operator whose 3-year contract was extended indefinitely after the 2022 invasion, publicly stated: "Every Ukrainian should contribute to defense, but soldiers deserve to know clearly their term of service." The core issues: units disbanded without warning; troops reassigned to high-casualty brigades with minimal training; commanders neglect soldier welfare; forced street recruitment damages morale. Oleg, an engineer, described his reassignment as "a death sentence," saying most transferred soldiers lacked basic combat training. Over 1 million Ukrainian soldiers remain active, but the system is unsustainable. DW notes no clear end-date visibility for the conflict, fueling continued desertion. Military leadership acknowledges poor trust among troops but reforms lag behind the crisis.

i just want to state that this is my own opinion. i know others will see it differently and this post is gonna get 50 downvotes because people ... idk what people are thinking.

anyways, if you look at world history, sure, people always migrated, but mass-migration of people was rather the exception than the norm, and basically anytime that massive amounts of people migrated at once, it was because they conquered another place and committed a genocide. because there was no general other way to settle a place that's already settled. because of reality constraints: food production doesn't scale linearly with farmers. it scales linearly with land available.

anyways, we live in modern times now and surely things are different? well, kinda, but not fully. yes, when european people settled in america, it did cause dramatic suffering among the native population. there are various estimates out there saying that around 30 million native americans lost their lifes due to disease, famine, violence. (ironically this was probably less devastating than many other genocides that happened in world history when large migrations occurred, because about 10 million native americans survived, which means it's not a complete genocide. still bad though)

anyways, my summary is that basically there's never really been a large-scale migration in human history that hasn't caused chaos on the receiving end. that's why i fundamentally don't see free migration as a universal human right.

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