Via the #CBC @ 5:00pm ET on Oct 17, 2025

Former prime minister #JeanChrétien is warning that Donald #Trump is a #ThreatToDemocracy because the U.S. president "does not care much about the #RuleOfLaw," and that "could cause a lot of problems south of the border."

"#WesternSociety is built on the rule of law," Chrétien said in an interview with CBC’s #TheHouse. "When there is no more rule of law, it’s #blackmail on a daily basis, and it’s not working."

#Canada #Never51

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jean-chretien-trump-threat-to-democracy-9.6933230

The Identity Politics of Masculinity as a Colonial Legacy

"The #PreColonial #Indonesian notion of personhood diverges from a western conceptualisation and is expressed instead through #cooperation, #mutuality, #sharing, #caring, and a readiness to #negotiate and #compromise – all of which are characteristics that are associated with feminine qualities and were thus considered inferior according to #Eurocentric understandings of the #subordination of women in #WesternSociety"

by Desi Dwi Prianti
03 Nov 2019

"[In this paper] I argue that a hierarchical structure between masculine and the feminine was introduced by the #Dutch #colonisers – a structure in which they considered themselves to represent the superior, masculine side of the binary, whereas the colonised were seen as their effeminate subjects."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2019.1675612#d1e112

#ToxicMasculinity #Colonialism

@Anarkat
There seems to be four forces at play causing the #entropicDecline of #westernSociety, the #ForthTurning

1) FakeWars we are growing weary of now,
2) True #environmentalists who want to end the #growth,
3) FinanceCapital (#financialisation) 'eating it out' by #printingMoney for themselves hoping to #takeTheWorldPrivate in its last days (these people are currently winning, close to power)
4) growing #fascist (fake #liberty) movements that want #forcedLabour (#MSMSupported).