Conflict between Palestine and Israel escalates
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So apparently the IDF intercepted the funeral of the Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. I guess that's one way you can neuter someone's martyrdom, just interrupt their funeral. So that's another country with lots of democratic backsliding.
www.nytimes.com
That said I don't think democracy is going to stay at least in its current form even in the US. You even have social liberal pundits arguing about pro-patriotic history education.
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And also that democracy should be toned down.
And that's people that are some of the most pro-democracy.
Meanwhile, Peter Thiel and various silicon valley types are arguing that democracy could harm their bottom line maybe in the future. So let's get rid of it.
newrepublic.com
The only people who are for democracy right now are democratic socialists, social democrats, liberal pundits that haven't been anti-woke, academics, and maybe some independent thinkers. Don't even get me started on Biden. Title 42 was very anti-democratic and borderline what the Hungarian government would have done.
www.cnn.com
Enjoy your democracy while you can my fellow Americans.
Killing of Palestinian Journalist: Israeli Police Attack Mourners at Palestinian Journalist’s Funeral (Published 2022)
Video showed police officers in Jerusalem beating and kicking mourners next to the coffin of Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera reporter who was killed on Wednesday, forcing one to the ground.
That said I don't think democracy is going to stay at least in its current form even in the US. You even have social liberal pundits arguing about pro-patriotic history education.
Jill Lepore Argues for American Patriotism (Published 2019)
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And also that democracy should be toned down.
And that's people that are some of the most pro-democracy.
Meanwhile, Peter Thiel and various silicon valley types are arguing that democracy could harm their bottom line maybe in the future. So let's get rid of it.
Peter Thiel Is Funding the Next Wave of Trumpism
The billionaire is backing far-right Republicans who are anti-democracy, anti-China, and pro-crypto.
newrepublic.com
The only people who are for democracy right now are democratic socialists, social democrats, liberal pundits that haven't been anti-woke, academics, and maybe some independent thinkers. Don't even get me started on Biden. Title 42 was very anti-democratic and borderline what the Hungarian government would have done.
Biden administration announces official end to Title 42, the Trump-era pandemic restrictions at the US border | CNN Politics
The Biden administration will end Trump-era pandemic restrictions that effectively blocked migrants from entering the United States on May 23, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.
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Enjoy your democracy while you can my fellow Americans.
Even in death, Shireen Abu Akleh exposes Israel's lies
Officials struggle to explain journalist's killing and attack on her funeral.
Video evidence from an Al Jazeera cameraman who was present, and which damningly contradicts the Israeli government's explanation and points towards deliberate targeting by the IDF.
The IDF, or at least some soldiers within it who, like many people possessing power with a lack of oversight and accountability, abuse that power.
Everyone knows IDF soldiers can shoot pretty much anyone they like with no repercussions whatsoever. Taking out a high profile Palestinian journalist who reports their abuses would be a badge of pride. No-one in the Israeli military or government is going to ask difficult questions, they'll just view it as another pest removed from the streets.
In many senses yes: it exerts disproportionate use of force, effectively terrorises an occupied population and permits its troops to murder civilians with near-impunity. Nevertheless, I would merely seek to avoid the implication that someone high up in the IDF ordered the assassination of a journalist without appropriate evidence.
They don't really need to, in order for the institution to be rotten. They merely need to have fostered a culture in which such actions are permissible. That would still indicate the problem goes beyond the individual and into the institutional.