#undemocratic

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

April 10, 2023

Heather Cox Richardson

“Justin Jones is reentering the chamber at the Tennessee State Legislature to tremendous applause.” So said an MSNBC commentator today, after the Nashville Metro Council voted to return Democratic state representative Justin J. Jones to the Tennessee General Assembly. Last week, Republicans expelled Jones and his colleague Justin Pearson, who represents parts of Memphis, for breaches of decorum after they joined with protesters to call for gun safety legislation in the wake of a school shooting last week that left six people, including three 9-years-olds, dead. The colleague who protested with them, Gloria Johnson, survived a motion to expel her, too, by a single vote. The vote to reinstate Jones to the legislature in an interim seat, until a new election can be held, was 36 to 0. After the vote, Jones led a march of thousands of people—mostly young people, from the look of the video—back to the Tennessee Capitol building where he was sworn back into office on the Capitol steps. Once sworn back into office, Jones reentered the legislative chamber arm in arm with Representative Johnson. To great applause, he walked through the chamber, fist held high, past Republican representatives who sat silent and pretended not to see him, as the galleries cheered. The Shelby County Commission will vote on a replacement for Representative Justin J. Pearson on Wednesday. It can, if it chooses, return Pearson to his former seat until a special election can be held. In a statement yesterday, Chair Mickell Lowery of the Shelby County Board of Commissioners, a Democrat, said, “The protests at the State Capitol by citizens recently impacted by the senseless deaths of three 9-year-old children and three adults entrusted with their care at their school was understandable given the fact that the gun laws in the State of Tennessee are becoming nearly non-existent. It is equally understandable that the leadership of the State House of Representatives felt a strong message had to be sent to those who transgressed the rules.” Lowery went on to say: “However, I believe the expulsion of State Representative Justin Pearson was conducted in a hasty manner without consideration of other corrective action methods.“ Mickell noted that he was one of the more than 68,000 citizens stripped of their state representation by the state legislature and said he was “certain that the leaders in the State Capitol understand the importance of this action on behalf of the affected citizens here in Shelby County, Tennessee, and that we stand ready to work in concert with them to assist with only positive outcomes going forward.” Yesterday, representatives Jones and Johnson flew from Nashville to Newark, and it happened that Joan Baez, the folk music legend, was on the same airplane. In the Newark airport, Jones asked Baez to sing with him. As Johnson filmed them, together they sang two spiritual-based freedom songs that became anthems in the Civil Rights Era: “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round” and “We Shall Overcome.”

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[karadin]

House Republicans SILENCE Lawmaker In Stunning Anti-Trans Bombshell

GOP intentionally misgendered trans legislator Zooey Zephyr (a form of bullying) then as she spoke out against anti-trans laws, including withholding medical care, Republicans voted to censure and silence an elected representative of the people.

[drmprop]

Take another shot just to stay the same - Slipknot

[eaglesnick]

[thisisabernieblog]

@lordandgodoftheobvious @brendanicus @cavern-creature @whatevergreen @dicknouget @definitely-ellie @reinforced-fear-be-damned @apas-95 @missedthestartgun @mirtifero @petalsbleedingbeak

[in0ctobercountry]

Openly cheering for terrorism in Canada.

April 20, 2024

[captainxtra]

A reminder that Florida is currently ran by backwards and evil fucks.

[amitshridhar]

So-called modern democracy means that it will always fail to solve all the basic problems. In modern times only undemocratic governments can solve all the problems because in democracy the so called opposition parties will never allow anything to be solved.

"Democracy basically means of the people, for the people, by the people but the people are retarded" - A quote by indian philosopher Osho

30/11/2023, Thursday 30 November 2023, 07:26 AM Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India Standard Time(IST)

[lenbryant]

New Report: Gods + PewPew = MAGA

Great. The side with all the gods and guns is more prone to violence. Like we didn't know this already? I suppose un-aliving mayhem is what Jeebus would want.

(RNS) — Support for political violence and concern over the state of American democracy are both on the rise, with 75% of Americans believing the future of democracy is at risk in the next presidential election, according to a report released Wednesday (Oct. 25) by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution.

For the first time this year, support for political violence has peaked above 20%, with 23% of Americans believing “true American patriots may have to resort to violence to save the country,” versus 15% in 2021.

One-third of white evangelical Protestants support the idea, significantly more than any other religious group.

The survey also delves into American’s adhesion to white Christian nationalist ideology. According to 33% of Americans, God gave America to European Christians as a promised land where they could create an exemplary society. More than half of white evangelical Protestants agree with this statement; 77% believe the founders intended to create a Christian nation.

Americans who believed God wanted the U.S. to be a promised land for European Christians in turn are more likely (39%) to support the use of political violence to save the country than those who disagree (16%).

For 55% of Americans, American culture has changed for the worse since the 1950s. White Christians believe it is the case more than any other religious groups: 77% of white evangelical Protestants, 60% of white mainline or nonevangelical Protestants and 57% of white Catholics think American culture has changed for the worse since the 1950s.

Joy Reid, an MSNBC host and political analyst who participated in the panel discussion, said the increasing support for political violence results from competing visions of American society. Many voters’ main concerns are cultural issues that can’t be solved politically. “People do not have confidence in democracy as a way to solve their fundamental concerns,” said Reid.

“What’s so striking here is we’re having elections in two different countries,” said Eugene J. Dionne, chair and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, referring to the two parts of a divided U.S.

The survey also examined America’s main concerns out of 20 political issues, including immigration, racial inequality, LGBTQ rights and school curriculums. For 62% of Americans, the increasing cost of housing and everyday expenses is a critical issue, followed by crime and health care.

[agentfascinateur]

One Year No Justice

And then we wonder why Supreme Courts are corrupt... they don't uphold the law against criminals!?!

[mikeo56]

Like everything else these days, surveillance has become globalized. In 2019, the New York Times reported that there was a steady spread of surveillance technologies designed to detect Muslim Uyghur minorities across several regions in China (Mozur 2019). In India, law enforcement recently used new wiretapping tools to plant evidence on victims’ computers and then use it to arrest them (Greenberg 2022). In South Africa, private surveillance technology is fueling the beginnings of a “digital apartheid” that could limit black people’s physical movements in white enclaves (Hao and Swart 2022). In Uganda, a cybersurveillance unit dismantled years’ worth of the organizing efforts of tens of thousands of its citizens within days (Parkinson, Bariyo, and Chin 2019). In the United States, immigration officials surveil migrants through a vast dragnet of child welfare, housing, and employment records, as well as data from utilities, phone, and social media, without a warrant or congressional oversight (Georgetown Law Center on Privacy & Technology 2022).

Rather than the product of a grand strategy to remake the world for autocracy, the globalization of surveillance abuse illustrates a larger problem: Democracies have not succeeded in crafting an alternative that reinforces the fundamental democratic principles of equality, freedom, transparency, and accountability (Fisher 2021). Consequently, only 17 percent of the world views American democracy as worth emulating (Wike et al. 2021). The fact that the United States and its allies have driven much of the democratic world’s decline underscores the need for alignment on a shared vision that repairs, builds, and attracts (Klein 2022; Khatiri 2020).

To achieve this new vision, there needs to be more concrete, applied, and solutions-oriented discussions about tackling the erosion of democracy on both the domestic and foreign policy fronts. Widely accepted, common principles about the role of ethics in technology should be applied to usher in a broad alignment among democracies as to how surveillance technology should be used.. Below are several recommendations for policy makers in the United States and aligned countries that offer an initial roadmap to build on these principles—and lead by example in pursuit of a credible alternative to the surveillance state.

[newsdaliy]

Telangana Politics | Nadda criticizes TRS government over corruption, undemocratic injunction order

Telangana Politics | Nadda criticizes TRS government over corruption, undemocratic injunction order

ANI Photo Warangal (Telangana). Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president JP Nadda on Saturday accused Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao and said that the people of the state would soon say goodbye to this “new Nizam”. Addressing a public meeting here at the conclusion of BJP state president B Sanjay Kumar’s third phase of ‘Padyatra’, Nadda said the permission for the meeting was…

[workersbushtelegraph]

Democratic Rights attacked

The Liberal city council has banned Max Chandler-Mather. Who’s running for the seat of Griffith for the Greens in the 2022 election, the Federal Election … and banned his organisation from putting up more than a few signs around the seat of Griffith. This is my protest for this undemocratic action. Brisbane City Council has placed a limit on political signage in front yards and threatened the…

[falloutnewvegastransedmygender]

[gaytransbimbo]

if this isn’t the perfect time to burn DC to the ground and demand total restructure of the government idk when is