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  • I feel this is too simplistic. There are apparently parallels to Nazi Germany’s ideology, and the Nazis represent without doubt one of the worst regimes in human history. But they didn’t ‘invent’ this. Their racism, their hatred, and their view on women whose place is ‘in the family’ has been here for much longer, and it is by far not limited to the ‘Western’ world (in China, officials go from door to door urging women to become pregnant, just to name an example, and a recent UN study found that one in eight women and girls alive today experienced rape or sexual assault before they are 18 years old).

    One thing I’m missing in this discussion is the role of men in the family. No one appears to talk about that, at least not publicly. (Just stumbled upon this 1 min video.)

    But that’s just my opinion. Also, I’m not a historian or sociologist, so take this with a pinch of salt.








  • Ian Bassin, a democracy expert, calls these moves “anticipatory obedience”: fear by owners that if Trump wins he could take vengeance on companies that cross him. They noted that the leadership at CNN and the Post changed after the Trump administration tried to block the takeover of CNN’s parent company and tried to deny a cloud computing contract for Amazon, Bezos’s company.

    That’s very telling and a stark reminder why decentralization in media and the entire economy is important.

    Washington Post editor-at-large Robert Kagan stepped down in the meantime. As Semafor reports on the newspaper’s recent editorial meeting:

    […] But there may be more: “people are shocked, furious, surprised,” said an editorial board member [referring to Jeff Bezos’ non-endorsement decision], citing internal discussions around resignation. “If you don’t have the balls to own a newspaper, don’t.”

    Addition:

    Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein Blast Washington Post’s ‘Surprising’ Decision Not To Endorse

    "Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of American democracy and that makes this decision even more surprising and disappointing, especially this late in the electoral process.”





  • It seems so.

    From the article in my previous post above (here again):

    At a polling station for residents of the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria - which is economically, politically and militarily supported by Russia - the BBC stumbled upon evidence of vote-buying.

    A BBC producer heard a woman who had just dropped her ballot in the transparent box ask an election monitor where she would get paid.

    Outside, we asked directly whether she had been offered cash to vote and she admitted it without qualms. She was angry that a man who had sent her to the polling station was no longer answering her calls. “He tricked me!” she said.

    She would not reply when asked who she had voted for.

    UPDATE: Latest news say Moldova says ‘Yes’ to pro-EU constitutional changes by tiny margin and despite unprecedented Russian interference.