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🎵Guess who's going to be voting for a Brazilian election for the first time this Octobeeer🎵
It me! :D
This year they have a polling station in my province so it's economically and logically feasible for my mom and I to vote!
In the past, the closest polling station was in Vancouver, which would either be an hour-and-a-half plane ride or a 12-hour drive.
Let's get Bolsonaro the hell OUT! :D
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AND IF THE REPUBLICAN FUCKS WOULD HAVE DONE THEIR FUCKING JOBS THEY WOULD HAVE VOTED TO IMPEACH HIS ASS!
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“The proposal might be less provocative if not for the inescapable context: More than eight in 10 of Jackson’s 150,000 residents, as well as most of its elected leaders, judges and police officers, are African Americans. The proposed court system, and the police force, would be controlled almost exclusively by white officials in the state government.
Atop that, the new courts and police patrols would serve neighborhoods that contain the bulk of Jackson’s white population. The city’s Black neighborhoods would largely be skirted.”
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Contested States In World Politics
This #book #investigates a phenomenon in #WorldPolitics, namely entities lacking #InternationalRecognition of their status as #IndependentStates. It includes #casestudies on the #Eurasian Quartet, #Kosovo, #Somaliland, #Palestine, #NorthernCyprus, #WesternSahara & #Taiwan.
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#Abkhazia#Contested State#De facto states#Deon Geldenhuys#Development Policy#Diplomacy#Eurasian Quartet#International Recognition#Kosovo#Nagorno-Karabakh#Palestine#Politics and Government#Politics and Power#Somaliland#South Ossetia#Statehood#Taiwan#Transdniestria#Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC)#Western Sahara
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#politics#us politics#government#the left#homelessness#end homelessness#progressive#twitter post#current events#news#capitalism
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Where do I even begin? I'm appalled. The Canadian government living up to its roots in colonial-settler violence... this is beyond criminal. Contact your MP's. This erasure and anti-Palestinian racism is unacceptable.
For anyone reading this on or after February 26th, 2024 -here is more information/updates:
#feminist#social justice#free palestine#palestine#free gaza#current events#settler violence#settler colonialism#canada politics#canada#canadian#canadian government#signal boost#member of parliament#house of commons#justin trudeau#trudeau news#gaza strip#gaza genocide#cultural genocide
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Of the 19 hijackers who carried out the Sept 11 attacks:
15 were from Saudi Arabia (a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
2 were from the United Arab Emirates (also a powerful/oil-rich country the U.S. works hard to maintain diplomatic relations with)
1 was from Egypt, 1 from Lebanon.
None of the hijackers were from Iraq.
None of the Sept 11 hijackers were Iraqi.
None of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq.
#9/11#serious post#not a shitpost#this should be one of the first things kids learn when they learn about the 9/11 attacks#politics#this is just...it's such an essential and brazen fact and i rarely see basic outrage over it#i want outrage. i want fury. i want disgust over the way fundamental facts are disguised and discarded and downplayed#because there are things we should KNOW. basic fact we should ALL KNOW. and they are tucked away in the footnotes.#and no this is NOT to put the blame on other middle eastern countries#we know this was carried out by a specific terrorist organization not a national government#but King George the Second decided (and was encouraged by his cabinet!) to invade a nation!#a nation that was not at all related or responsible!!!#a dictatorship to be sure--but a dictatorship that King George the First had been happy to support#so what changed? why did we go in guns blazing to DEMOLISH a country *we had NO PLANS OF REPAIRING*???#well. because they wanted a villain didn't they. a nice clean war. clarity of purpose. us the heroes against them the villains#and when you're in that mindframe--truth is irrelevant. you can pick your villain (your victim) by rolling a roulette wheel#truth is irrelevant#worse: to the people in charge#truth is a HINDRANCE#'Alternative facts' existed long before it became a catchphrase#facts don't matter. truth doesn't matter. the impulses of a handful of volatile & rich & power-high people--that's History. congratulations
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Administering affect
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"How do the worlds that state administrators manage become the feelings publics embody? In Administering Affect, Daniel White addresses this question by documenting the rise of a new national figure he calls "Pop-Culture Japan." Emerging in the wake of Japan's dramatic economic decline in the early 1990s, Pop-Culture Japan reflected the hopes of Japanese state bureaucrats and political elites seeking to recover their country's standing on the global stage. White argues that due to growing regional competitiveness and geopolitical tension in East Asia in recent decades, Japan's state bureaucrats increasingly targeted political anxiety as a national problem and built a new national image based on pop-culture branding as a remedy." -- Provided by publisher.
Shelf: 319.1 WHI
Administering affect : pop-culture Japan and the politics of anxiety.
by Daniel White.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2022.
ISBN: 9781503632196 (paperback) ; 9781503630680 (hardcover)
x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239 pages) and index (pages [241]-246).
Table of contents:
Introduction : pop-culture Japan and the circuitry of affect
Soft power : an affective history of the politically possible
Nation branding : the hypernormalization of Cool Japan
Anime diplomacy : characterizing obligatory nationalism
Kawaii diplomacy : ambassadors of cute and the gendering of anxiety
Administering affect : anxiety and the everyday
Conclusion : melancholic belonging and the future of pop-culture Japan.
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Attention Christians - THIS is what Jesus would do. Put his body on the line, speak truth to power, and demand justice for the starving and oppressed. 🙌
Thank you, @christiansforafreepalestine, for being an example of true decency and faith in action.
“Our scriptures say ‘woe to you, who eat while others go hungry!” they called out to senate staff.
Saying “Congress won’t eat until Gaza eats,” over 60 Christians from across the U.S. are nonviolently blockading the Senate Cafeteria to pressure the Senate and their staffers to support a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, restore aid to UNRWA, and end military funding to Israel. #CFPAction
#palestine#free palestine#gaza#human rights#christianity#christians for palestine#free gaza#israel#unrwa#activism#ceasefire#ceasefire now#Christian#faith#jesus christ#us congress#us complicity#us politics#us government
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The Eurasian Quartet In Contested States In World Politics
Chapter 4 in #ContestedStates examines the #Eurasian quartet – #Abkhazia, #SouthOssetia, #Transdniestria & #NagornoKarabagh which are among the youngest of today’s contested states as a group.
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#Abkhazia#Contested State#Contested States In World Politics#De facto states#Deon Geldenhuys#Development Policy#Diplomacy#Eurasian Quartet#International Recognition#Nagorno-Karabakh#Politics and Government#Politics and Power#South Ossetia#Sovereign States#Statehood#Transdniestria#Unrecognized States#World Politics
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