Australia operates an automated system that supposes welfare recipients owe the state money, unless they can prove to the robot that they don't.

At the moral level, whether this system is illegal under Australian law is a side issue. That many of the "debts" it collects are bogus is evil, but not the system's principal evil. The principal evil is that it squeezes poor people harder, when they are already squeezed to the crushing point.

Australia should tax the rich and businesses more, so as to give the poor a life that is not quite so hard.

The mainstream media pretend that Bernie Sanders' supporters are mainly white males.

China is trying to intimidate visitors to Hong Kong by tailing one researcher and publishing details of his movements.

He was followed by human agents, but it is expensive to follow many people that way. However, many governments can get now follow everyone with the same thoroughness using using cameras and their cell phones. That is the real threat to our privacy and political freedom, and that is what we must fight to eliminate.

Bolsonaro wants to take away part of the Yanomami reservation.

The Yanomami reserve also functions more or less as a wildlife reserve and a carbon sink. Converting even part of it to plantations therefore would hurry and increase global heating and extinction disaster.

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