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Blissful #bonobos resolve conflict in (mostly) peaceful ways. Maybe they can inspire #human #democracies to be fairer, kinder and more just? Help these remarkable beings to survive #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🔥🩸🚜❌ #Boycott4Wildlife #apes #primates

http://palmoildetectives.com/2022/02/20/bonobos-can-inspire-us-to-make-our-democracies-more-peaceful/

"After unexpected victories for the #centerleft in #Canada and #Australia, however, whether the U.S. is a bellwether or an outlier for other #democracies is up for debate. Trump’s belligerent #nationalism has made it difficult for right-wing politicians elsewhere to ride his coattails without seeming like they’re betraying their own national interests. "
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/05/labor-australia-election-trump-albanese-tariffs-china/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=bGFib3ItYXVzdHJhbGlhLWVsZWN0aW9uLXRydW1wLWFsYmFuZXNlLXRhcmlmZnMtY2hpbmE=&pid=CW3545104

@euronews @news-euronews
Are all the "Leaders" of the world's major so-called #Democracies just mad, evil fucking tyrants? :blobunsure:

Is It Happening Here? Other countries have watched their #democracies slip away gradually, w/out #tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are. https://archive.is/5cFz9 When #Trump ran again, in #2024, his #autocratic #rhetoric was more pitched. He promised #retribution, a #purge of ideological #enemies, and #mass #deportations on flimsy legal pretexts. WH debuted set of lawn signs 2 highlight undocumented people who have been arrested since Trump’s return 2 power

Explore how #recommenderSystems shape the #public in deliberative #democracies. This recently published whitepaper by Melusina offers a solid foundation for policymakers navigating digital transformation. Read more: https://doi.org/10.26298/1981-5982-euom #DigitalEthics

80 years after Benito #Mussolini’s death, what can #democracies today learn from his #fascist rise? https://theconversation.com/80-years-after-benito-mussolinis-death-what-can-democracies-today-learn-from-his-fascist-rise-251154

“The European #history of the 20th century shows us that societies can break, #democracies can fail … and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands,” #TimothySnyder writes. He also has some lessons to help us avoid that. doncurren.blogspot.com/2025/03/book...

Book Review: Two Books for a T...

#News do not fool yourself, #Democracies are at #war with both #Russia and #USA, period.

That's diplomacy for you. Made by #Russia, supported by #China, paid for by #India, unnoticed by #America, unfelt by #Europe.

Our only chance lies in the unification of #democracies. The current trends of nationalism and division are leading to a strengthening of #totalitarianism.

https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/13/at-least-21-killed-and-83-injured-in-russian-missile-attack-on-ukraine-s-sumy

Rare colored footage taken right near and directly after the end of WWII.

"The #Americans had precise ideas on how the Germans were to organize their future. The US occupying forces came with well-prepared plans for the structure of administrative bodies, political parties, and cultural life in this new #freedom, with everything based on the model of Western #democracies. At first many Germans had their doubts about this concept."

https://youtu.be/K7JeTqXdH7I?t=2063

Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Are Paving the Way for #Authoritarianism
A leading global #democracy research institute says democratic “backsliding” must be turned around quickly—warning that after 10 years, recovery is “close to impossible.”
For the first time in more than 20 years, by #2025 #DemocracyReport’s estimate, the world now has more #autocracies (91) than #democracies (88), with liberal democracies (29) now least common regime type.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/trump-press-freedom-authoritarianism
https://archive.ph/n35Qh

“Democracies often fail not with coups, but when elected leaders manipulate state institutions.”—Anne Applebaum [Pulitzer Prize-winning author] @anneapplebaum >

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/anne-applebaum-on-democracys-tipping

#interview #democracies #manipulations #autocracy #democracy #DonaldTrump #oligarchs #RussianPropaganda #ElonMusk #DOGE #Ukraine #RussianFederation #vigilance #video

What #Authoritarianism Means. Even critical observers underestimated speed scope of Trumpist assault, they overestimated democratic resilience. The assault on the constitutional order, on the foundations of democratic self-government have been unprecedented. In mere weeks, Trumpists have managed to turn America from a democratic system albeit one w significant flaws into 1 that no longer deserves to be counted among the world’s #democracies. #America is something else now.https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-authoritarianism-means

15.03.2025: #romania is standing up for #europeUnited !
#Europe is the force for the new #freeWorld ! Forget about #putin or #trump - it’s only us: The #european #democracies fighting against #fascism !

The moment when protesters formed a heart using their phones to light up white sheets with blue writing. In the background, ❝Ode to Joy,❞ the European anthem, is heard. ❝Romania, awaken!❞ is chanted in the square

In the midst of the participants, some of the protesters formed a heart while the European Anthem was being sung

#Democracies are getting less. In 2024 the U.S. still had a good #Democracy rating. It 2025 it won't https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-state-of-democracy-around-the-world/

"Deep wisdom of the cosmos:

What is the purpose of the #USA in the world now?"

"Dear demoralized #Left #American:

The job of your country now is to serve as a horrifying and disgusting example to #democracies in the world about what to avoid: the #plutocrat-#bigot #political axis"

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-canada-liberal-party

#Canada

Political chart showing a dramatic change in the fortunes of Canadian conservatives after Trump took office

new report worth reading on #civilSociety in sliding #democracies https://www.gc.cuny.edu/sites/default/files/2021-05/Sustaining-Civil-Society-Lessons-from-5-Pooled-Funds-FINAL-10-20-19_1.pdf

#politics #trump #democracies #oligarch #gaslighting #alt #ALT4you
Heather Cox Richardson Political Technology manipulation

According to a 2020 report from the Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee, “the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election...by harming Hillary Clinton’s chances of success and supporting Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin.”

That effort was “part of a broader, sophisticated, and ongoing information warfare campaign designed to sow discord in American politics and society...a vastly more complex and strategic assault on the United States than was initially understood...the latest installment in an increasingly brazen interference by the Kremlin on the citizens and democratic institutions of the United States.” It was "a sustained campaign of information warfare against the United States aimed at influencing how this nation’s citizens think about themselves, their government, and their fellow Americans.”

In other words, they used “political technology,” manipulating media to undermine democracy by creating a false narrative that enabled them to control public debate.

Last night, President Donald Trump illustrated the power of virtual politics when he talked for an hour and forty minutes to a joint session of Congress. He lied repeatedly, starting with the lie that he had a historic mandate—in fact, more people voted for someone else than voted for him—and moving on to the idea his first month

@xankarn

#UShistory #USpol #Fascism
#TrumpCoup

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I cannot think of a coup in the history of #democracies that has ever been so openly discussed before the fact (campaign speeches, #Project2025, etc.,) than the #TrumpCoup by the #TrumpMuskDuumvirate.

The thing to watch, among all over things, is the traditional purge of key military positions, which has been ongoing. For those of them that were shocked, they are not much of a loss for the 🇺🇸, as they..

https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/401174/trump-fired-generals

#Democracies

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