Elon Musk, world's richest man, is offering $47 to every person who signs this petition - The Economic Times https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/elon-musk-worlds-richest-man-is-offering-47-to-every-person-who-signs-this-petition/articleshow/114006020.cms

That's why a #democracy can't afford #billionaires. Even millionaires are problematic, if they have too many of those millions. So he wants a million people to sign his petition. Each gets USD 47. (Why not 50? So cheap?) While you and I will never have 47 millions, for him it's small change. When he coughs, his companies lose way more than 47m.

But I think it's the first time someone is that openly buying votes. The best democracy money can buy...

Elon Musk, world's richest man, is offering $47 to every person who signs this petition

Elon Musk's Elon's America PAC is offering $47 to registered voters who refer others to sign a petition supporting the First and Second Amendments. The goal is to get one million signatures in key swing states by October 21.

^{ET Online (Economic Times)}

Donald Trump’s Plot Against America - Democracy Docket

Donald Trump is plotting to overthrow American #democracy. It is not a secret, and he is not subtle. The only question is whether enough people will care enough to stop it.

Trump is not hiding his intentions for a second term. Echoing #Hitler’s rise to power, he has called his political enemies “vermin” and promised his supporters that, if elected, he would be their “retribution.”

Trump’s enablers have outlined a plan for him to replace tens of thousands of career civil servants with #MAGA loyalists and to take personal control of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute his political rivals. He is almost certain to use an old law — the Insurrection Act — to convert the military into his personal domestic police force.

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/donald-trumps-plot-against-america/

#corruption #violence #trump #authoritarian #dictatorship #lawless

Donald Trump’s Plot Against America - Democracy Docket

Donald Trump is plotting to overthrow American democracy. It is not a secret, and he is not subtle.

^{Democracy Docket}

LOL... No sooner did I cite the excellent Beatles Song, than someone offered up this:

Sir TrumpVIrus of the Stable Genius Klan: "I'm Only Sleeping"

#TrumpVIrus vs. #justice #accountability #truth #civilization #democracy #DementiaDon

I'm Always Sleeping

^YouTube

We could create a #world in which work is done by #robots and #AI, so that all humans could be artists? Why don't we do it?

#technology #art #humanity #future #economy #war #terror #violence #police #politics #democracy #freedom #artwork #work #humanrights #question #utopia

Why isn't this the #headline on page one of every #media company?

Watch:

#Assange #news #war #politics #freedom #journalism #press #democracy #society #ethics #humanRights #government #Wikileaks

Umberto Eco has a cogent essay about how to spot the signs of what he calls "Ur-Fascism", or the essential components of fascism.

I turned it into an infographic, because, well, you know why...

Mirror of the article here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism

High Res PDF of the infographic here: https://markarayner.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/14-Signs-of-Ur-Fascism.pdf

#fascism #authoritarianism #elections #infographic #democracy

That a Western democracy uses mass repression against climate activists is not the an aberration of the democratic principle but the fullest conclusion of it. Democracy emerged at a specific historical context contingent on the development of the capitalist mode of production and of the exploitation of fossil fuels to fuel the valorization process. Within this specific historical context, we cannot expect democracy to do any different. #ClimateCrisis #Democracy

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/10/dutch-police-use-water-cannon-detain-2400-climate-activists?traffic_source=rss&utm_source=press.coop

Dutch police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists

More than 10,000 people marched along the A12 highway into The Hague, ignoring warnings from authorities not to do so.

^{Al Jazeera}

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