#mobocracy

[oldgayjew]

The Electoral College is the reason we don’t have mob rule (yet) and it lets everyone have a voice ... 

In a Democracy the majority rules ... all minorities are subject to the wishes and opinions of the largest group, which is being created with illegals by the Nazicrats, and have no say in anything ... that’s how the Southern Democrats  kept their slaves ... 

Oh, hey, Raskin ... WE LIVE IN A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC NOT A MOBOCRACY !

[lochee]

never ever EVER will i call mob ‘shigeo’. hell even ‘mob’. its always mobby, mobz, mobbo, mobster, mobalicious, mobility scooter, mobocracy, mobilisation-

[gaykarstaagforever]

Wagner update:

We don't get reliable information out of the Putinverse and there are new rumors and suppositions every day, but

It seems that right now, Prigozhin went from being in Belarus briefly to being back in St. Petersburg, and isn't facing any charges. And Belarus offered Wagner fighters an old Soviet army camp there, and they were supposed to move there, but just haven't, and are still in Ukraine. I guess still active in the war. I assume the soldiers who marched on Moscow with Prigozhin just...went back there? And haven't faced any charges either.

Meanwhile there has been a purge of some kind of people in the regular army, eliminating anyone who supported Prigozhin's rebellion.

There are also rumors that Putin wants Prigozhin assassinated but Putin wants everyone to think he is that sort of guy so it doesn't mean much. Like, sure. But if he hasn't done that already, he clearly has other plans for this.

My guess is that Prigozhin's Rebellion actually worked the way he intended. It made the point that the regular army needs to support Wagner in their racist war-crimes that are the invasion of Ukraine. Putin had sided with the generals against Wagner, but when Prigozhin refused to roll over for them, Putin suddenly realized how valuable Wagner and Prigozhin is to this thing he started and can't end. Even if they remain an independent militia, he goddamn needs them. Because the regular Russian army is dogshit. The WHOLE THING was that Wagner was supposed to submit to regular army command; Prigozhin refused. It was never an anti-Wagner thing until Prigozhin told the generals to go fuck themselves.

This really was a slap-fight between competing Russian military contingents that Putin let get out of hand. And now he's stepped up to sort it out. Yes, Prigozhin pissed him off with the rebellion, but Prigozhin has the loyalty of his guys and Putin needs those guys. So Prigozhin is probably safe until Putin can figure out how to replace him with someone else. Which could be tricky since the Wagner guys are in large part personally loyal to Prigozhin.

The regular army goons who backed Prigozhin involved themselves in this shit and aren't vital to the war effort (because they are toadie fuck-ups in general), so Putin has to get rid of them: they can't be trusted to sit still and shut up when the rowboat flips over.

The Lukashenko connection here was either a plot by Putin to get Prigozhin to settle down for a minute so they could talk, or maybe Lukashenko legit offered to mediate and Putin took advantage of it. Either way, it provided a show method of diffusing the situation and making Putin look more secure than he is. And it was certainly never more than that.

I don't think Putin is at actual risk of losing power. All of these factions seem pro-Putin, because they are all rabid Russian Supremacists who want to rebuild the Soviet Union, but with more them building giant mansions. And that is all Putin is. Where he's at risk is losing control of the various competing factions of the military. These guys already get away with siphoning money off into secret bank accounts and being creative about when and how they follow orders. They are more gang members than soldiers. Putin has to continuously balance out heavy-handed control of them and letting them get away with shit so they think they are "with" him and stay loyal. Like a mob kingpin has to do. Because Russia has been a mobocracy since Putin took power. That's how he runs things.

This whole mess was basically a mafia civil war. It exposes Putin's weaknesses. That could potentially put him at risk NOW, if someone realizes the old man is slipping. But I still think they all still need each-other to do whatever it is they are all jointly failing at. Putin is safe until someone stronger stands up, and Putin still seems good at cutting those guys down. And Prigozhin had no interest in being that guy in the first place.

[alphaman99]

a novel perspective

Natalie Fawn Danelishen

"Women and the right to vote. And the result has been a century+ of socialist, redistributionist, it-takes-a-village collectivism.

The great anti-suffragist Grace Duffield Goodwin was aware the dysfunctional society that would result from enlarging the mobocracy base. She recognized that: government = force; voting was for the purpose of political expediency; and a larger voter base would only add to the power and corruption of government. She also understood that the majority of the suffrage movement was bent on shifting the roles of women in society toward the agenda that is currently advanced by the modern radical-left-feminist movement.

And mostly, Miss Grace understood that casting votes for political office did not change existing statism and tyranny, and that, indeed, the system was broken, so why grant it more power from the irrational mob?"

-Karen DeCoster Campbell

[havocinthebluebox]

Top album 2022 (bonus 2)

Things I loved but didn't make it to the top :

Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts

Desolate Shrine – Fires Of The Dying World

Trolldom – Av Gudars Ätt

Aries – Le Dernier Sacre

Thos Ælla – Sempiternal Mobocracies

Aara – Triade II : Hemera

Vargatand – Vargatand

Αχεροντας – The Seven Tongues of ΔΑΗΜΩΝ

Gaerea – Mirage

Pensées Nocturnes – Douce Fange

FT-17 – Aisne 1914

Pestilent Hex – The Ashen Abhorrence

Destroyer 666 - Never Surrender

Lili Refrain - Mana

Vaino – Metsänpeitto

Celeste – Assassine(s)

Amorphis – Halo

Ysyry Mollvün – Ysyry Mollvün

Arð – Take Up My Bones

Vaina – ✥ Futue Te Ipsum ✥ Angel with Many Faces

Ghost – Impera

Besna – Zverstvá

Messa – Close

Heltekvad – Morgenrødens Helvedesherre

The Nest – Her True Nature

Bâ’a – Egrégore

Heltekvad – Morgenrødens Helvedesherre

Desolate Shrine – Fires Of The Dying World

Bhleg – Fäghring

Darkher – The Buried Storm

Al-Namrood – Worship the Degenerate

Arthuros – Ultraromance

Horn – Verzet

Predatory Night – Death and the Twillight Hours

Sacrifizer – Le Diamant de Lucifer

Lunar Chalice – The Shadow Pilgrimage

Vandalorum – Flagellum Dei

Dark Fount – Become the Soul of Mist

Satyricon – Satyricon & Munch

Nubivagant – The Wheel and the Universe

Czarny Bez – Ludzie, Duchy, Bogi

Miséricorde – Le Loup des Ruines

Grima – Frostbitten

Avel – Avel

Dregahir – Dregahir the Crebain

Wampiric Rites – The Wolves Howl to the Moon

Lustre – A Thirst for Summer Rain

Wyrms – Sarkhral Lumænor

Satanic Warmaster - Aamongandr

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EP, demos, singles, etc :

...And Oceans - The Collector and his Construct

Ieschure/Moloch – Among the Swamps and Darkness

Hulder – The Eternal Fanfare

Unholdun – Unholdun

Archgoat – All Christianity Ends

Gallower – Eastern Witchcraft

Sainte-Marie des Loups – Obéissance… Jusqu’à la mort

Osi and the Jupiter – Night in White Satin

Woods of Desolation - The Falling Tide

Häxan – Rains

Roi Rouge – Tant que je respire, j’espère

Kawir – War of the Giants

[laotzurumisocrates]

OSHO: What You Need to Know About a Mob

[jpf-sydney]

Authoritarianism and civil society in Asia

New item:

This chapter compares recent efforts by legislators in the 'electoral authoritarian' regimes of Cambodia and Myanmar to control critical narratives by civil society, particularly international non-governmental organizations (NGOs), aimed at the ruling governments. The Cambodian government passed a 2015 law governing the actions of both domestic and international civil society organizations despite sustained criticism from various stakeholders. Myanmar's earlier attempts to constrain international civil society organizations and more recent developments undertaken before the 2021 military coup, and responses from domestic and international critics are explored. The chapter draws observations from both cases about how elites justify such legislation, what form the legislation takes, and what the ensuing debates suggest for regional trends in Southeast Asia.

Shelf: 362.06 AUT Authoritarianism and civil society in Asia. edited by Anthony J. Spires and Akihiro Ogawa.

London : Routledge, 2023. ISBN: 9781032188874 (paperback) ; 9781032188850 (hardcover)

xvi, 254 pages ; 25 cm. (Routledge contemporary Asia series).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapter and index (pages 251-254). Text in English.

Table of contents:

Introduction. Civil society in Asia : challenging and navigating the boundaries of authoritarianism / Anthony J. Spires and Akihiro Ogawa.

1. A'leader-full' movement under authoritarianism : mobilization networks in Hong Kong's anti-extradition movement / Yan-Ho Lai.

2. The gravitational pull between liberalism and authoritarianism in Thailand's colour-coded politics : civil society in a binary star system / Rawin Leelapatana.

3. Philippine civil society and democratic regression under Duterte : connivance, resistance, and legacies of elite co-optation in the context of a wake state / Jasmin Lorch.

4. Authoritarian neoliberalism and resistance of the anti-nuclear movement in Turkey / Pinar Demircan.

5. Before and after hell's interval : Sri Lankan civil society under near-authoritarian regimes / Udan Fernando.

6. Relevance in a state of flux : civil society and environmental protection in Kazakhstan / Fengshi Wu.

7. Challenges for Myanmar's civil society : depoliticization and Yangon's urban development under the NLD government / Tamas Wells.

8. Backsliding to authoritarianism in Japan? State and civil responses to experiences of Japanese women repatriated from Nanchuria / Mayuko Itoh.

9. North Korean civil (and uncivil) society in South Korea / Jay Song.

10. Uncivil society : religious organizations, mobocracy, and authoritarianism in Asia / Jeff Kingston.

11. Governing the limits of civil society in Cambodia and Myanmar / Melissa Curley and Stephen McCarthy.

12. built on shifting sands : INGOs and their survival in China / Anthony J. Spires.

13. Can mass organizations help strengthen authoritarian power in rural Vietnam? Dang Thi Viet Phuong.

[himhks91]

Sanjay Singh की भी हुई गिरफ्तारी, अब किसकी बारी? THE INSIDE STORY। Sanje...

I don't think so BJP reads scientific history.India was always ruled by satraps who owed suzearainty to a big king of the region.

The idea of one king ruling whole of India exclusively occured only few times that to on the principles of suzerainity,

Democracy gave India a pan India federall structure with a central biase,exactly suiting it's history. Which political party is not corrupt Is BJP a clean party ,the recent charges on Adani r a proof, materialisms misappropriation has to be checked by society,Democracy gives a bloodless transition to next government,but without educating the masses it becomes mobocracy,where caste and religion r over exploited ,these emotive issue will get you votes but no political evolution and poor will get poorer both with brains and body,it is the greatest sin commited by myopic leadership

In Democracy if debate and discussion do not happen ,it will never evolve the spirit of nation and India will remain brittle....

[funnysideolife]

Watch "Manipur violence: video shows women paraded naked in violence-hit state" on YouTube

It is utterly shameful for the image of India.

Violence is a tactical and operational management definitely used by beuracracy and short sighted local politicians but in Manipur how come it was allowed for months.

Humans r not violent by nature,it is when justice is denied that violence erupts.

But to weponise the bodies of women is exactly death of human civilization.Men should remember they r in this world because of women.

Democracy is strength of India,but not mobocracy .Politicians on both side should realise that and discuss and debate about and find solution to local issues,otherwise mobocracy will destroy us.

I remember many Manipur students use to come to my city ,they were very friendly people,one of them taught me set theory in maths quite vivid in my memory.

[deshbandhu]

मोदी सरकार ने लोकतंत्र को भीड़तंत्र में बदला : खड़गे

मणिपुर में दो महिलाओं को नग्न घुमाने की घटना सामने आने के बाद भी प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी की चुप्पी पर एक और तंज करते हुए कांग्रेस अध्यक्ष मल्लिकार्जुन खड़गे ने गुरुवार को कहा कि केंद्र और भाजपा ने "लोकतंत्र और कानून के शासन को भीड़तंत्र में बदल दिया है। एक ट्विटर पोस्ट में, खड़गे ने कहा, "मणिपुर में मानवता मर गई है। मोदी सरकार और भाजपा ने राज्य के नाजुक सामाजिक ताने-बाने को नष्ट करके लोकतंत्र और कानून के शासन को भीड़तंत्र में बदल दिया है।

Visit: https://www.deshbandhu.co.in/news/leadstory-modi-government-turned-democracy-into-mobocracy-kharge-365322-1

[industrial-horror]

PIG - Mobocracy (lyric video)

[hardynwa]

Reshuffle cabinet, lawyer tells Ondo acting gov

An Ondo State-based legal practitioner, Mr Allen Sowore, has advised the state Acting Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, to use the power conferred on him by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu to reshuffle the state cabinet. Akeredolu transmitted the power to Aiyedatiwa to act as the governor while he (Akeredolu) proceeded on medical leave to attend to his ill health outside the country. But it was gathered that there was internal rancor within the state cabinet following the absence of the governor. Sowore, in a statement issued on Friday, frowned at the activities of some members of Akeredolu’s cabinet, whom he described as a ‘cabal’, saying they were allegedly frustrating the acting governor from performing his duties as stated in the constitution. the statement was titled ‘Akeredolu’s medical leave: before Ondo State skid into full anarchy and mobocracy’. Quoting Section 190 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), the lawyer said, “Whenever the governor transmits to the Speaker of the House of Assembly a written declaration that he is proceeding on vacation or that he is otherwise unable to discharge the functions of his office until he transmits to the Speaker of the House of Assembly a written declaration to the contrary such functions shall be discharged by the deputy governor as acting governor.” “But sadly, with a deep sense of patriotism, we regret to note the satanic activities of some members of the ‘Ondo State Cabal’ to sabotage and subvert the acting governor’s effort to assume the full and smooth running of government and its machinery while Mr Governor is away as stipulated by law. “They don’t want the Aiyedatiwa to feature, attend or even appear at any serious state function outside the state. They want to cage him so that he will not have a national connection and recognition as the acting governor. “The surreptitious sponsored blackmails to smear and besmirch the reputation of the acting governor in some sections of the media should not be allowed a breath in a sane society. Not even a state prided as the intellectual plinth of South Western Nigeria.” “I will not advise or counsel the acting governor to sack or terminate the appointment of any public office holder in the state like the then Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo did to the former Director General of State Security Service, Lawal Daura. He will be playing at the gallery. “Appropriately, a cabinet reshuffle and rejig of the state cabinet may be desirable to ensure the requisite unity of command in the instant circumstance. As critical stakeholders, we simply can not afford to look away while the state skid into full anarchy and mobocracy.” Read the full article

[penhive]

Country Saffron Swine

Country saffron swine although a democracy is ruled autocratically by its Prime Minister Poop Pork. Country Saffron Swine has a majority called Blasphemyicus and they happily worship anthropo-zoomorphic deities. Country Saffron Swine has also got people belonging to minority religions which are two: people with the Book of Good Worth and People of the Sacred Life. Prime Minister Poop Pork is slowly passing laws which are detrimental to the secular fabric of the country and its constitution. People of the Book of Good Worth worship an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent God called as Uncle Cross. Prime Minister Poop Pork passed a blasphemous law banning the conversion of the people of the Book of Good Worth. Further he also passed law banning the costume that women of the Sacred Life wear the Hijab. Missionaries of the book of good worth were paraded naked. Prime Minster Poop Pork and his henchmen are further vandalizing churches of the people of Good Worth. Not only is that it sad to know that a missionary and his children were burnt to death in the vehicle they are traveling by thugs of Poop Pork. Prime Minister Poop Pork while inaugurating the newly constructed Parliament Building did not have the courtesy to invite the first citizen of India, the President all because she belongs to a tribe. What Prime Minister Poop Pork did was without any shame, and  he inaugurated the parliament with religious men from the religion blasphemyicus. Prime Minister Poop Pork also did a political blasphemy of using the judiciary to annul the office of the member of the parliament, a young leader of the party Democracy. And the charges were flimsy and they are leveled against him for using his office for selling out public enterprises and also for his unholy nexus of nepotism of giving loans from the public exchequer to a rogue business man. He the poor soul was debarred from contesting elections. The sports people especially the wrestlers are protecting against the sexual abuse and molestation of one of them by a thug belonging to the party of Prime Minister Poop Pork. The protesting sports people were manhandled by the police who are his cohorts. Prime Minister Poop Pork also wants to revise school text books and expunge their colonial history and also the rule of kings belonging to the Sacred Life. His only aim is to promote Poop Porkism. If Poop Pork continues to the rule the country, it will degenerate into a mobocracy.

[brexiiton]

Israel's Internal Turmoil

Political leaders who have already been in office for more than 15 years - which is how long Benjamin Netanyahu has been Israel's prime minister - do not typically upend their country's politics. Yet that's what Netanyahu has done in recent weeks.

His government's proposal to reduce the power of Israel's Supreme Court has created what our opinion colleague Thomas Friedman calls that nation's "biggest internal clash since its founding." Hundreds of thousands of Israels - approaching 5 percent of the population - participated in protests last weekend. Ehud Barak, a former prime minister, has encouraged Israelis to engage in civil disobedience if the proposal becomes law. And many military officers have said they would refuse to report for duty.

Bret Stephens, another Times Opinion columnist - who has often been sympathetic to Netanyahu's policies - has criticized the judicial plan as a threat to Israeli's moral standing. "Hyper-personalized, populist rule achieved by gutting institutional checks and balances is how democracies devolve into mobocracies," Bret wrote. In today's newsletter, we'll explain why the later stages of Netanyahu's political career are turning out to be more chaotic than anything that came before.

What changed? Netanyahu has always been on Israel's political right, but he was long able to build alliances with the center. The Israeli left, by contrast, has been marginalized and has not led the government since 2001.

One important cause was the breakdown of peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in the early 2000s. The failure of those talks - including the Palestinian leaderships walking away from the Camp David negotiations in 2000 - led many Israeli voters to give up on the idea of peace and support conservative parties. Netanyahu often led the coalitions that spanned the center and right.

But in 2019, while he was prime minister, Netanyahu was indicted on corruption and bribery charges. Many politicians who agree with his Likud party on substantive issues decided-that he needed to resign. "Israel's centrist parties are willing to serve in a coalition with Netanyahu's right-wing Likud in charge," Matti Friedman, a journalist who lives in Israel, wrote for The Free Press. "But they will no longer serve under Netanyahu himself: The prime minister, a master of the political maneuver, has simply lied to too many people too many times."

This refusal, combined with the continued popularity of the political right, has thrown Israeli politics into turmoil. The country has held five elections since 2019. Likud received the largest share of votes - 23 percent - in the most recent election. Even so, Netanyahu was able to put together a governing coalition only by allying with far-right and religious parties.

The current government, as a result, is more radical than the previous governments Netanyahu led.

Why the Supreme Court? Israel's Supreme Court has something in common with the U.S version: Both are among the most powerful courts in the world. In many other countries, the top court in the world. In many other countries, the top court does not overturn major laws and instead tends to make modest, technocratic changes. In Israel and the U.S., the court often has the last word. (In Israel, the underlying reason is the lack of constitution.)

The proposed changes by Netanyahu's government would strengthen the authority of the legislature, which in Israel is known as the Knesset. It is already more powerful than the U.S. Congress, because there is no independently elected president; a majority of legislators choose the prime minister. If the judicial changes go through, the Knesset would also gain the power to override Supreme Court decisions and would have few checks on its power.

Yesterday, the Knesset passed an initial version of some of the changes. Lawmakers will have to vote twice more before policies becomes law.

Some political commentators argue that the changes themselves are reasonable. "What's at stake here isn't the death of the nation's democracy, but straightforward party politics," Lahav Harkov of the Jerusalem Post wrote. "The discussion is, in fact, about the proper balance between different elements of a democracy."

Many other analysts disagree, arguing that the reforms would allow a prime minister to dismantle democracy, much as Viktor Orban has done in Hungary. "Theoretically, you could end up with a government that decides that election are going to take place once every 20 years," our colleague Isabel Kershner said.

Either way, the changes have inspired intense anger because they would give Netanyahu's government sweeping power to implement its preferred policies.

"Underlying this technical debate about the judiciary is a much broader conflict about what kind of society Israel should be," Patrick Kingsley, The Times's Jerusalem bureau chief, told us. "Ultra-Orthodox Jews and settler activists are taking advantage of the fact that they wield unprecedented power in Israeli society and government to try to unravel the influence of the court."

The stakes Netanyahu and his far-right allies have different incentives to neutralize the court.

For Netanyahu, a court that was subservient to Israeli's legislature would allow him to end his own corruption trial, which is still taking place. Netanyahu has denied he would do so.

For far-right parties, a neutered court would help that Knesset to enact major policy priorities - such as making it easier for settlers to seize land in the West Bank; protecting government subsidies for religious schools; and helping ultra-Orthodox Israelis avoid mandatory military service.

One reason for the intensity of the debate is the polarization between Israelis who are part of Netanyahu's coalition and who are part of Netanyahu's coalition and who are outside of it. He has appointed ultranationalist figures to major posts, including Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the far-right Jewish Power party, who threatened Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin weeks before his 1995 assassination and publicly thanked a rabbi who justified Rabin's murder. Ben-Gvir is now the national security minister.

"Israel society is at fever pitch," Patrick said.

The New York Times, March 15, 2023 9:51PM