>The MAGA Ideology That Brought Us to This Moment<

#Authoritarianism vs #Democracy

#Unequal-the beginning of violating the people's rights & the #ConceptualFramework of a #purge

"#bigbeautifulbill" #ICE #Trumpism

"..if you admit the principle that some people are better than others, well, by definition, they should be able to rule.
And that's the idea behind #kings.
..that's the idea behind oligarchies, a group of people organizing a government to rule everybody."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=jIonrnzj_BU&si=t2DOuo0fbqoGKsiQ

#unequal : not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like

- French: inégal

- German: ungleich

- Italian: disuguale

- Portuguese: desigual

- Spanish: desigual

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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

#Check out : #Israel is a #democracy, perhaps in the way that all our so-called democracies evolve, more #authoritarian, more #oppressive, more #oligarchic, more #differential and #unequal - anyway #Israel is an #occidental #invention

« The next morning I left the festival and made my way from Ramallah to Jerusalem. I had to wait an extra hour or so for a taxi with the right color license plate, yellow, and so be allowed to cross through a checkpoint in Israel’s wall and onto the road to Jerusalem on the other side. I made small talk with my driver, then retreated back into my thoughts of the journey so far. It was my sixth day in Palestine, but I felt like I had been here for months. The days were filled with tours, the nights with talks—even the meals felt like seminars. Some of this is just being abroad somewhere far from home. But most of it was the specificity of this place—how much it seemed to embody the West and its contradictions, its claims of democracy, its foundations in exploitation. Of all the worlds I have ever explored, I don’t think any shone so bright, so intense, so immediately as Palestine.
But when the light cleared I had new eyes, and I could see my own words in new ways—and the words from which they were derived—the stories, columns, speeches, and talks presented by “willing intellectuals.” So much seemed obvious. I now noted a symmetry in the bromides—that those who claimed Israel as the only democracy in the Middle East were just as likely to claim that America was the oldest democracy in the world. And both claims relied on excluding whole swaths of the population living under the rule of the state. Riding in that taxi toward Jerusalem, the truth of this struck me as undeniable. I’d spent most of my time in the Occupied Territories, a world of minority rule. But even in the state proper, caste reigned. Palestinians living in Israel have shorter lives, are poorer, and live in more violent neighborhoods. Certain neighborhoods in Israel are allowed to discriminate legally against Palestinian citizens by setting “admission committees.” The committees, operating in 41 percent of all Israeli localities, are free to bar anyone lacking “social suitability” or “compatibility with the social and cultural fabric.” Openly racist appeals are the norm, as when Benjamin Netanyahu warned in 2015 that “the right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are heading to the polling stations in droves.” For all my talk of being fooled by the language of “Jewish democracy,” it had been right there the whole time. The phrase means what it says—a democracy for the Jewish people and the Jewish people alone. »

Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

#Separate and #unequal

A critical view of #racerelations in #America

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/essays/the-message-ta-nehisi-coates-book-review-clifford-thompson

#Communists created dramatically increased living standards & sense of #dignity for people who otherwise would've been left to the #exploitation of the #imperialist powers.

The relatively high but #unequal #wealth of imperialist countries can't be compared to what communists built for themselves.

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #DNC #RepublicanParty #RNC #Trump #JDVance #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #Musk #Fascism

Women and girls continue to bear disproportionate impacts of heatwaves in South Sudan that have become a constant threat

#ExtremeHeat has affected a large region of continental Eastern #Africa since mid-February. Extreme daytime temperatures have been recorded in South #Sudan particularly affecting people in poor housing and outdoor workers, a very large part of the population.

After dozens of children collapsed with #heatstroke in #Juba, schools were closed for two weeks nationwide starting February 20 and the population was advised to stay indoors and keep hydrated. Both are a huge challenge for many across the country as houses are often built with iron roofs, lack cooling and electricity and access to clean #water. In Juba, a third of the population does not have access to water and only 1% of the city offers green space and shade for people who do not have access to cooling at home. #Heatwaves are arguably the deadliest type of #ExtremeWeather event and have a large impact beyond #mortality, on e.g., #morbidity, #agriculture, #infrastructure, and #economic opportunities the death toll is often underreported and not known until months after the event and many other impacts are not systematically assessed. Those reported so far in South Sudan only represent a very small #sample of the full impacts. The impacts we do see already disproportionately affect #women and #girls, and widen the gap between their opportunities and those of men in an already #unequal #society.

https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/women-and-girls-continue-to-bear-disproportionate-impacts-of-heatwaves-in-south-sudan-that-have-become-a-constant-threat/

John Maynard #Keynes “#EconomicPossibilities for Our Grandchildren”, the truth is that, at least in a simple technological sense, the global North has largely “solved” its economic problem. Yet #technology is, always has been, and will continue to be neutral. Even if #humanity possesses #sufficient specialized #knowledge to #liberate itself, a gravely and #persistently #unequal #social #structure continues to hamper all the world’s countries

Ask for a #UBI ❤️

https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/rethinking-universal-basic-income-economic-productivity-quality-life-and-sustainable

#UBI4ME