AI models can meaningfully sway voters on candidates and issues, including by using misinformation, and they are also evading detection in public surveys according to three new studies.
You might think it's not a priority with all the doom happening around.
But the erosion of privacy rights is directly linked to the erosion of human rights, and the loss of democracy.
Privacy makes it safe for you to discuss, to organize, to resist, and to be your true self. This is exactly why fascists and authoritarians are attacking it.
If we lose privacy, we lose everything else. We have to defend it with all we've got.
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Why should parties use RCV in primaries? It drives party unity. Under the current system, the winning candidate could win with <50% of the vote when many candidates are running, which leaves many party members disappointed and unenthused with their presidential candidate. RCV requires the winner to have true majority support (>50%), so the winner is a true consensus choice that more voters in the party can actually be excited about.
Hinter denen, die marschieren, stehen die, die tolerieren. Hinter denen, die drauf schlagen, stehen alle, die nichts sagen. Hinter denen, die salutieren, stehen die, die’s akzeptieren. Und aus denen, die es dulden, werden die, die’s mitverschulden.
It’s interesting how #democracy always seems to be lacking in places rich in oil or rare earths. Got to be grateful for the US & A who are always there to help with that. #Venezuela
I find it curious that when us little folks DON'T spend money the conservatives want us to believe its a lose; "costing the economy". We are expected to not ask the obvious question; lost to whom?
We still have the 12 bilion $ in our pockets,
Critical thinking is the real deficient in the world. #democracy is more than voting!
What is Illinois's favorite Thanksgiving food? We used #RankedChoiceVoting to find out! After a contentious race and 7 rounds of tabulation, we found a true consensus majority winner: Stuffing! Thanks to the 96 voters! View the full tabulation process video here: facebook.com/share/v/1AKuGRsaP…
What is Illinois's favorite Thanksgiving food? We used #RankedChoiceVoting to find out! After a contentious race and 7 rounds of tabulation, we found a true consensus majority winner: Stuffing!...
Like me, you don't have to agree with his (conservative) politics or his style to benefit from his analysis of the UK and Europe. He's OK in small doses. (when he doesn't shout)
@kuchinster — 2025-11-25 12:36:54 Speech by Joseph Stalin on the draft constitution, November 25, 1936. Extraordinary VIII All-Union Congress of Soviets of the USSR
The constitutions of bourgeois countries are usually based on the belief in the immutability of the capitalist system. The main foundation of these constitutions is the principles of capitalism, its basic pillars: private ownership of land, forests, factories, plants, and other means of production; the exploitation of man by man and the existence of exploiters and exploited; the insecurity of the working majority at one end of society and the luxury of the non-working but secure minority at the other end; and so on and so forth. They are based on these and similar foundations of capitalism. The
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@kuchinster — 2025-11-25 12:36:54 Speech by Joseph Stalin on the draft constitution, November 25, 1936. Extraordinary VIII All-Union Congress of Soviets of the USSR
The constitutions of bourgeois countries are usually based on the belief in the immutability of the capitalist system. The main foundation of these constitutions is the principles of capitalism, its basic pillars: private ownership of land, forests, factories, plants, and other means of production; the exploitation of man by man and the existence of exploiters and exploited; the insecurity of the working majority at one end of society and the luxury of the non-working but secure minority at the other end; and so on and so forth. They are based on these and similar foundations of capitalism. They reflect them and enshrine them in law.
In contrast, the draft of the new Constitution of the USSR is based on the fact of the elimination of the capitalist system, on the fact of the victory of the socialist system in the USSR. The main basis of the draft of the new Constitution of the USSR is the principles of socialism, its fundamental foundations, already won and implemented: socialist ownership of land, forests, factories, plants, and other means of production; the elimination of exploitation and exploitative classes; the elimination of poverty for the majority and luxury for the minority; the elimination of unemployment; labor as the duty and honor of every able-bodied citizen according to the formula: “those who do not work shall not eat.” The right to work, that is, the right of every citizen to a guaranteed job; the right to rest; the right to education; etc. The draft of the new Constitution is based on these and similar foundations of socialism. It reflects them and enshrines them in law.
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Bourgeois constitutions tacitly proceed from the premise that nations and races cannot be equal, that there are nations with full rights and nations with limited rights, and that, in addition, there is a third category of nations or races, for example, in the colonies, which have even fewer rights than nations with limited rights. This means that all these constitutions are essentially nationalistic, that is, constitutions of dominant nations.
In contrast to these constitutions, the draft of the new Constitution of the USSR is, on the contrary, deeply internationalist. It proceeds from the assumption that all nations and races are equal. It proceeds from the assumption that differences in skin color or language, cultural level or level of state development, as well as any other differences between nations and races, cannot serve as a basis for justifying national inequality. It proceeds from the assumption that all nations and races, regardless of their past and present situation, regardless of their strength and weakness, should enjoy equal rights in all spheres of economic, social, political, and cultural life of society.
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The distinctive feature of the draft of the new USSR Constitution is that it is free from such reservations and restrictions. For it, there are no active or passive citizens; for it, all citizens are active. It does not recognize any difference in rights between men and women, “sedentary” and “non-sedentary” persons, the wealthy and the poor, the educated and the uneducated. For it, all citizens are equal in their rights. It is not property status, national origin, gender, or official position, but the personal abilities and personal labor of each citizen that determine his or her position in society.
Finally, there is one more feature of the draft new Constitution. Bourgeois constitutions usually limit themselves to establishing the rights of citizens, without concern for the conditions for exercising these rights, the possibility of exercising them, or the means of exercising them. They talk about the equality of citizens, but forget that there can be no real equality between the master and the worker, between the landowner and the peasant, if the former have wealth and political weight in society, and the latter are deprived of both, if the former are exploiters and the latter are exploited. Or again: they talk about freedom of speech, assembly, and the press, but they forget that all these freedoms can become empty words for the working class if it is deprived of the opportunity to have at its disposal suitable premises for meetings, good printing houses, a sufficient quantity of printing paper, etc.
The distinctive feature of the new Constitution is that it does not limit itself to establishing the formal rights of citizens, but shifts the focus to the question of guarantees for these rights and the means of exercising them. It does not simply proclaim the equality of citizens' rights, but also ensures that the elimination of exploitation and the liberation of citizens from all forms of exploitation are enshrined in law. It does not simply proclaim the right to work, but also ensures its legislative consolidation by establishing the absence of crises in Soviet society and the elimination of unemployment. It does not simply proclaim democratic freedoms, but also ensures them by law with known material resources. It is therefore clear that the democracy of the new draft Constitution is not “ordinary” and “generally accepted” democracy in general, but socialist democracy.
These are the main features of the draft of the new Constitution of the USSR.
This is how the draft of the new Constitution reflects the shifts and changes in the economic and socio-political life of the USSR that took place between 1924 and 1936.
Next is an amendment to Article 17 of the draft Constitution. The amendment proposes to remove Article 17 from the draft Constitution altogether, which refers to the preservation of the right of the Union republics to freely secede from the USSR. I believe that this proposal is wrong and therefore should not be adopted by the Congress. The USSR is a voluntary union of equal Union republics. Removing the article on the right to freely secede from the USSR from the Constitution would violate the voluntary nature of this union. Can we take this step? I think we cannot and should not take this step. It is said that there is not a single republic in the USSR that would like to secede from the USSR, and that therefore Article 17 has no practical significance. It is certainly true that we do not have a single republic that would like to secede from the USSR. But this does not mean that we should not enshrine in the Constitution the right of the Union republics to freely secede from the USSR. There is also no Union republic in the USSR that would want to suppress another Union republic. But this does not mean that the article on the equality of rights of the Union republics should be excluded from the Constitution of the USSR.
Правда. 26 ноября 1936 года: Товарищи! Конституционная Комиссия, проект которой представлен на рассмотрение настоящего Съезда, была образована, как известно, по специальному постановлению VII Съезда Советов Союза ССР.
We'll discuss everything we accomplished this year and how we did on our goals. You'll also get to meet our new statewide organizer and discuss our main focus areas for 2026!
journalists are allowed to ask all legal questions, but not limitless . and mostly not to the cancellor directly but to the "Pressesprecher" / speaker of government.
The answer though might also not be always very clear / concrete but merely in dependence of political agenda and situation.
Is there a tradition in Germany for the chancellor to regularly give journalists the opportunity to ask open-ended questions?
I've seen Brazilian presidents get asked difficult questions several times and not respond well. Sometimes it was embarrassing. The media has obviously explored such situations avidly.
I don't recall this happening in Germany, but that may be because I'm still learning German and rarely read the news.
“For someone like the president, or the vice-president, or for that matter for the surrounding clutch of oligarchs, none of what I write here has any meaning. For them, it is unthinkable that something -- a space, a monument, a White House, a city, a country -- could belong to the people and not to a private individual. And __
Ein weiteres Beispiel dafür, was für ein niederträchtiger, gefährlicher Mensch er ist.
Wegen eines völlig legitimen Videos – in dem sechs Demokraten das Militär einfach nur daran erinnern, illegale Befehle zu verweigern – fantasierte Trump sofort von „Verrat“ und „Todesstrafe“. Ein Demokrat schützt die Verfassung. Trump träumt davon, politische Gegner töten zu lassen.
Das ist nicht „starker Führungsstil“. Das ist autokratische, zutiefst verkommene Machtbesessenheit. Wer so redet, ist eine Gefahr für jede freie Gesellschaft.
Earlier this month, Minneapolis used #RankedChoiceVoting for its mayoral race! We interviewed voters to see how they enjoyed using it on the day of the election. Here's what they had to say: youtube.com/shorts/qyJykR9J3G8…
Earlier this month, Minneapolis used #RankedChoiceVoting for its mayoral race! We interviewed voters to see how they enjoyed using it on the day of the elect...
Changes in the insurance market have started to affect home prices in the most disaster-prone areas, new research finds, pushing some homeowners’ finances to the breaking point.
These two #Steyer and #Bloomberg wasted more than $1 Billion in their vanity runs. If they had poured that cash into helping #Democrats win more seats in the #House and #Senate, things would have turned out far better. But their egos rule absolutely everything.
One of our lead volunteers, Abigail Nichols, met with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson last week to discuss bringing ranked choice voting to Chicago as a way to increase voter engagement, give voters more choices, and save money! The mayor expressed support. We're working hard to move RCV forward in our city!
The first two weeks of this #crowdfund is good! I didn't expect so much so soon! Thank you very much for your love to this #solarpunk film! It's a future with no central governments, no politicians, no police, and tech exists to make every village largely self-sufficient. I need your support to envision this future. Boost or donate if you can!
I discuss the various genres that I work in, including Africanfuturism, afrofuturism, and solarpunk, and why I'm embracing the later as my preferred genre.
This #SolarPunkSunday support my short film, to enable me master the visual effects needed to bring a near future world to life. I'm telling a story set in a country without governments, politicians or police, where ordinary folk govern themselves in a direct #democracy Sharing this post with your networks, or donating, will help envision this future!
I'm making a new short film, which I'll release on my PeerTube channel. It is a final target practice for a feature film (titled Big Tree) that I intend to shoot next year, themed on direct democracy in a near-future solarpunk world.
'they are forced to cope with a disproportionate amount of online toxicity while also wrestling with the broader question of what the attacks say about their place in politics'...
Men may also be abused but the threats & abuse women in politics experience are of a different order & focus.
The toxic misogyny that tries to undermine women's role(s) in politics is anti-democratic & must be resisted!
The writer is an idiot! At no point, the topic of #climatechange is mentioned. Nor the terrifying #oil #industry and how it destroys #democracy worldwide. Nor the harm from a #car -centric lifestyle. Less cars and that too #EV would help humanity immensely. #China can manufacture all that is needed right now and sell it cheaper than the shitty alternatives.
This global snapshot highlights city climate project disclosure trends from 2020 to 2025, underscoring the importance of year-on-year, comparable reporting.
This is about the US and uses Octavia Butler's approach to projecting into the future. Rings true to me. I try to do some of these things in my writing too.
This is about the US and uses Octavia Butler's approach to projecting into the future. Rings true to me. I try to do some of these things in my writing to.
Authors: Yonatan Berman and Branko Milanovic
Institution: Stone Center Working Paper Series. no. 28
Date: December 2020
Abstract:
Homoploutia describes the situation in which the same people (homo) are wealthy (ploutia) in the space of c…
"#Climatechange is compounding and multiplying the challenges faced by those who have already been #displaced, as well as their hosts, particularly in #fragile and #conflict-affected settings."
Main reason why the city of Sequoia in "A New Faith" is set in Scandinavia instead of a #refugee camp in #Africa #SouthAsia etc.
A man in Fitchburg appeared to suffer a seizure while holding his young daughter as immigration authorities tried to detain him, while bystanders pleaded for...
On Tuesday, the soaring cost of power was a key factor in several races, including those in Georgia, Virginia, and New Jersey. Democrats have a plan that can match their economic populist rhetoric.
Never really understood how #nuclear is a part of the #affordability argument when it is one of the most expensive sources of electricity even after decades of being deployed worldwide. #Clean - sure. But #cheap?
@Emmanuel Florac — 2025-11-28 19:57:08
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