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This is NOT healthy America. This is America being #ravaged and slowly #destroyed by #conspiracy theories, and #deliberate stifling of #information. This is #criminal #suppression by #antiscience #nutjobs. The product of a #damaged brain and drug addled mind. People running this #government don't care about the common population. They'll save themselves with their hoarded money and let us perish via deliberate acts. #Rise, America! #Oppose these #tyrants. #USPolitics

utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/06/0

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@LevZadov @_Dreugan_ @nerb @msb @randahl
#Capitalism is the worker who doesn't own their own method of production. Their boss, the #capitalist, owns the machine or tool which the #worker uses to make products or deliver services.

This is true in free-market capitalism, #socialism and #communism.

What makes socialism different to communism, is that communists want to achieve their goals with #dictatorship and #suppression, and socialists with #democracy, #representation and personal freedom

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For decades, the right has targeted the protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act,

most visibly via court decisions,
as well as spurious voter roll #purges and #gerrymandering efforts,
which warp territorial districting law to divide opponents and consolidate supporters.

One of the most reliable methods of suppression, though,
is to tighten #voter #identification rules.

Requiring #citizenship #paperwork, which many (fully eligible) citizens do not possess,
leads to the emergence of a racially inflected pattern of #vote #suppression.

If you make voting as inconvenient and costly as possible,
by default, some percentage of those who are short on money and time
— people of color, students, low-income workers and others who juggle lots of obligations with few resources
— will decide that getting to the polls just isn’t worth it.

Maximizing this effect is the primary motive driving the rampant right-wing infringements on democratic participation,
Trump’s latest order included.

To justify these measures, the executive order
👉purports to combat large-scale voter fraud:
⚠️the familiar right-wing myth that millions of illicit votes are cast in the U.S., in numbers that could throw a presidential election.

(The real nationwide illegal vote count is a few hundred, at most

-- of those, quite a few were Trump voters.)

The type of voter fraud claimed by the right is so vanishingly rare as to be an utterly negligible force in U.S. politics.

If anything can be said to constitute actual substantive electoral fraud,
it is the right’s systematic and wildly successful campaign to #obstruct voting rights.

Trump’s order,
while perhaps the most aggressive foray into voter suppression of late,
is far from the only effort to impair democracy.

🔥Right now the SAVE Act is making its way through Congress;

the Republican-sponsored legislation would alter registration procedures
and demand proof of citizenship documents like
a passport, birth certificate or naturalization certification.

(As NPR reported, researchers have found that
👉 1 in 10 voting-eligible Americans don’t possess these documents.)❗

There’s notable overlap between the two efforts
— the administration seems to be hedging its bets.

“A lot of [the executive order] tracks pretty closely with what’s in the SAVE Act,”
said Diaz.

Should the SAVE Act fail, the executive order may
allow “the White House to get around the congressional lawmaking process
-- and do whatever they want.”

truthout.org/articles/trump-as

Truthout · Trump Assumes Unheard-of Powers in Ordering Federal Overhaul of ElectionsHis order on voter policy could disenfranchise millions, but multiple lawsuits have already sprung up to challenge it.

“Remove Hamas and the other Resistance groups from the Home Office list of proscribed organisations”

by David Miller in Al Mayadeen English

“David Miller exposes the UK’s use of counterterrorism laws to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and calls for de-proscribing Palestinian and Lebanese resistance groups”

english.almayadeen.net/article

#Press#UK#Labour
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@knutson_brain The theory is that perception of reality is formed through repetition, and that's how propaganda works. The theory is rough (and I guess rather weak in methodologically terms) but as long as most people comply those in power make use of it. That's why control of mass media has always been more important than terror. Only the weakest regimes must use extermination of dissenters as an additional principle. #rule #power #propaganda #suppression #terror

The immune system's inflammatory response to #Covid19 "alter brain function, particularly in areas governing impulse control, empathy, and emotional regulation" which then results in
"long-term neurological changes, with symptoms such as emotional dysregulation, impulsiveness, and aggression becoming more common."
Surely an explanation for some of the daily coldness, recklessness and egoism going on in the last two years, but not for all. There still is #corruption, #nepotism and #hypocrisy in politics to rightly get angry about, as well as a concerted push towards #fascism with #disinformation campaigns, #grift and #suppression, and above all #capitalism and western culture encouraging #exploitation, #dehumanization, and #confrontation.
thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/

Canary · The angry theatregoer outburst at Macbeth: is Covid-19 actually the culprit?Evidence emerges Covid-19 is changing our neurological function. So, was the man's outburst at Macbeth due to a change in brain behaviour?