raul_sebastian

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Romanian expat, living in Berlin, trying to eke out an existence on the steep margins of decent and meaningful living. Book industry professional.
Autour de Donald Trump gravite une nébuleuse d’intellectuels et d’entrepreneurs qui entendent dépasser la démocratie libérale. Qui sont les néoréactionnaires ? Quelle est leur influence réelle à la Maison Blanche ?https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/repliques/qui-murmure-a-l-oreille-de-trump-2149173
Qui murmure à l'oreille de Trump ?

Autour de Donald Trump gravite une nébuleuse d’intellectuels et d’entrepreneurs qui entendent dépasser la démocratie libérale. Qui sont les néoréactionnaires ? Quelle est leur influence réelle à la Maison Blanche ?

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By not hanging together, the rich let us hang them separately.delicious

This article is disturbing in many ways, but the thing that jumped out at me is that in the US, while the right is more likely to support authoritarianism than the left, it’s only by four points, probably close to the margin of error — but, unlike every other country, “centrists” support authoritarianism at a *much* higher rate than either right or left. (See Figure 2.) That’s a flashing red alert sign, with klaxon.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/02/28/who-likes-authoritarianism-and-how-do-they-want-to-change-their-government/
Who likes authoritarianism, and how do they want to change their government?

The share of the public that supports authoritarian systems ranges from 85% in India to 8% in Sweden.

Pew Research Center
“Faith and Family” vs Democracy
 
On the normalization of Mike Johnson, the media’s inclination to accommodate power, and the perpetuation of “real American” extremism.
 
My new piece: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/faith-and-family-vs-democracy
“Faith and Family” vs Democracy

On the normalization of Mike Johnson, the media’s inclination to accommodate power, and the perpetuation of “real American” extremism

Democracy Americana
“We need to learn to see not just with Western eyes but with Islamic eyes and Inuit eyes, not just with human eyes but with golden-cheeked warbler eyes, coho salmon eyes, and polar bear eyes, and not even just with eyes at all but with the wild, barely articulate being of clouds and seas and rocks and trees and stars.”
— Roy Scranton, “We’re Doomed. Now What?” (2015), in “Question Everything: A Stone Reader,” edited by Peter Catapano and Simon Critchley (2022)
Here's what happens to government-funded journalism when the authoritarians/fascists take over: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/23/italy-government-giorgia-meloni-state-broadcaster-rai
Italian government accused of exerting ‘ruthless’ influence at state broadcaster

Source claims Giorgia Meloni’s coalition seeking to ‘cancel Italy’s antifascism footprints’ amid series of high-profile Rai departures

The Guardian
Die Berliner Staatsanwaltschaft betrachtet den Vorwurf, die @AufstandLastGen sei eine kriminelle Vereinigung als unhaltbar.
Die Aktionen sind „nicht nur durch die verfassungsrechtlich verbürgte Meinungsfreiheit gedeckt sind, sondern sogar im Einklang mit der Staatszielbestimmung des Schutzes der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen (Art. 20a GG) stehen.“
Die Aktivisti haben das Bundesverfassungsgericht im Rücken, wenn sie sich gegen den Rechtsbruch der Bundesregierung stellen.
https://taz.de/Klimaprotest-keine-kriminelle-Vereinigung/!5935457/
Klimaprotest keine kriminelle Vereinigung: Absurder Vorwurf

Die Ermittlungen gegen die Letzte Generation entbehren jeder Grundlage. Ein Berliner Staatsanwalt sieht keine schweren Straftaten.

Before the day runs out, go give @mmasnick some support on his second-ever Product Hunt launch — a game that simulates what it's like to be a social media content moderator!

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