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Political ads

lundi 7 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Facebook has banned political ads for the week before election day. That has a good side, but it includes the ads by state election officials which tell people where and how to vote.

Facebook could run those announcements gratis; then they would not be ads.

Attack on the free press

lundi 7 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Extinction Rebellion rejects the charge that its one-day blockade of several right-wing British newspapers, all owned by one company, was "an attack on the free press." Basically, a press dominated by one company which covers up the most important information is effectively not a free press to begin with.

False equivalence

lundi 7 septembre 2020 à 02:00

FAIR: The Washington Post paired frequent right-wing violence against BLM with barely any violence by BLM supporters to construct a false equivalence.

Election results

lundi 7 septembre 2020 à 02:00

Sanders states what the US needs to do to prepare in advance to confront the wrecker if he tries to deny or disregard the election result.

The problem is, these preparation steps are a wish, not a plan. In states controlled by Republicans, they have a history of voter suppression. They won't do what needs to be done. The mainstream media may not want to help. Facebook may have made a deal with the wrecker. That leaves only step 4 which can be carried out by people (Congressional Democrats) that probably want to do it.

Republican democrats

lundi 7 septembre 2020 à 02:00

"Centrist" Democrats made a big fuss when the Republican former governor of Michigan endorsed Biden.

For me, it shows how close Biden is to being a pre-conman Republican.

One way to convince the wrecker to accept defeat could be to convince Putin to offer him asylum in Russia. But once he is gone, we will still need to restore democratic elections.

The article describes three changes: eliminating the electoral college, ending voter suppression and gerrymandering, and breaking through the two-party system that gives us the choice of moderate right wing vs extreme right wing.

The author proposes that the peoples of other countries dominated by the US should have some say in the US government. I agree there is a problem to be fixed, but I don't think the US government can play, simultaneously, the two roles of most-of-the-world government and government of one country.