Igor Delovski Board

[Ike]

http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/ausland/europa/More-punk-less-hell/story/10069405

More punk, less hell!

An extraordinary political experiment took place in Iceland: anarchists governed the capital city of Reykjavik for four years – and the amateurs achieved some astonishing successes.

[delovski]

newsweek.com - Putin is behaving more like a czar than a Bolshevik

"The West is dealing with an imperial Russia. Under Putin's leadership, policy
is more like that during the time of the czar before the 1917 Bolshevik
Revolution."

[Ike]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dBbGkVIiT_M

[Ike]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-women-214454


Why Women Rejected Hillary

It's long past time to stop pretending there's a 'women's vote.' Trump proved that we don't come together as a bloc anymore.

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/5hqc3f/an_extraordinary_level_of_tension_has_emerged_the/

An extraordinary level of tension has emerged - The CIA confirms american elections were undermined. NSA officials warn FBI can't be trusted. In unprecedented move, President Obama orders federal security investigation while Senators clash and President Trump attacks security state establishment

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/5r43td/an_open_letter_to_the_reddit_community/

President Trump's recent executive order is not only potentially unconstitutional, but deeply un-American. We are a nation of immigrants, after all. In the tech world, we often talk about a startup's 'unfair advantage' that allows it to beat competitors. Welcoming immigrants and refugees has been our country's unfair advantage, and coming from an immigrant family has been mine as an entrepreneur.

[Ike]

https://np.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5s0whp/eli5_why_is_a_terrorist_organization_like_isis_so/ddbxi3w/

The enemy we are fighting now, is an enemy we created

[delovski]

twitter - Stathis Kalyvas: Lessons I learned from Greece...

"Lessons I learned from Greece #1: abysmal incompetence of populist
government leads many to mistaken belief it will be over quickly

Lessons I learned from Greece #2: for a long time you think you've seen the
worst, but you haven't seen anything yet"

[delovski]

wp - A strange but accurate predictor of whether someone support
Donald Trump

"Psychologists use these questions to identify people who are disposed
to favor hierarchy, loyalty and strong leadership - those who picked the
second trait in each set - what experts call 'authoritarianism.' That many
of Trump's supporters share this trait helps explain the success of his
unconventional candidacy and suggests that his rivals will have a hard
time winning over his adherents."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/5yyczh/in_a_place_of_need_an_unhealthy_contradiction/deu12dc/

So with all that schadenfreude (and catharsis) out of the way, the more important question is what to do now. I've seen plenty of comments from the left that amount to letting these folks reap what they've sowed. I get the instinct, but I think that's both morally wrong in itself and frightfully hypocritical.

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/5yzbr4/turkeys_erdogan_calls_on_international/deu38ca/

Turkey has a referendum coming up in April to give Erdogan more powers

[delovski]

r - Dissecting Trump's Most Rabid Online Following

"What can we say about the animating force behind r/The_Donald? For one,
it's not universal among Trump supporters; nearly 63 million Americans voted
for Trump, and the 382,000 members of r/The_Donald represent less than 1
percent of that."

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/7a6znc/russia_organized_2_sides_of_a_texas_protest_and/

Russia organized 2 sides of a Texas protest and encouraged 'both sides to battle in the streets'

"In spring 2015, a number of [Russia's Internet Research Agency (IRA)] staffers held an experiment to see if they could successfully organize a live event in the US from behind their computer screens in St. Petersburg. They did this by targeting New Yorkers on Facebook and attempting to lure them to a specific event where they would receive a free hot dog. There were no actual hot dogs, but enough people showed up at the specified location to make the agency deem the experiment a success.

From this day, almost a year and a half before the election of the US President, writes RBC, the 'trolls' began full-fledged work in American society."

[Ike]

https://np.reddit.com/r/AskFeminists/comments/cfdf9z/how_would_you_describe_right_wing_philosophy/eu9ufky/

This is why it can feel like talking to a brick wall sometimes when an ardent
progressive like myself talks to a staunch conservative about something like,
say, proper sex education. All the research shows that sex education and
promotion/availability of contraceptives reduces teen pregnancy and the
transmission of STIs. To me, that is the end of the discussion, because I'm
basing my views on public health and policies thereof on the care/harm axis.
Conservatives, however, have additional foundational axes, like
authority/subversion ("Kids should do what their parents/pastors say and not
have sex before marriage!") or sanctity/degradation ("Sex education will put
sinful thoughts in the minds of my innocent children and tempt them with
sex!") that frankly sound fictitious to me. There are times when I can't even
conceive of caring about some of the things that form fundamental pillars of
their moral worldview. The respect of authority for authority's sake is
particularly egregious to me.

[delovski]

r - People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing views

"People with lower emotional intelligence are more likely to hold right-wing
views, suggests new Belgian study (n=983), even after controlling for age,
sex, and education level, indicating that deficits in emotion understanding
and management may be related to right-wing and prejudiced attitudes."

[delovski]

r - MAGA Protesters Chant 'Destroy the GOP' at Pro-Trump Rally

"Unfortunately towards the end of Reagan And certainly during the bush
senior era, you see the failure of that policy.

Now, you might think that conservatism in America learned its lesson and
attempted to try new things or go in a different direction but that is not in
conservatives blood."

[Ike]

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/khjx24/republican_lawmakers_vote_far_more_often_against/

Republican lawmakers vote far more often against the policy views held by their district than Democratic lawmakers do. At the same time, Republicans are not punished for it at the same rate as Democrats. Republicans engage in representation built around identity, while Democrats do it around policy

[Ike]

tns - In 1934, Wells arrived in Moscow to meet a group of Soviet writers

"While there Stalin granted him an interview. H G Wells: It seems to me that
I am more to the Left than you, Mr Stalin"

[Ike]

r - Conservatism is associated with a lesser ability to distinguish between true and false

"Study suggests that conservatism is associated with a lesser ability to dis-
tinguish between true and false claims across a wide range of political issues.
Socially engaging truthful claims tended to favor the left, while engaging
falsehoods disproportionately favored the right"

[Ike]

r - The 'Freedom Phone' that far-right leaders are hawking is a cheap Chinese Android--and a security nightmare

"They've been bragging about how easy it is since the Republican Southern Strategy:

Every day I have to marvel at what the billionaires and FOX News pulled off.
They got working whites to hate the very people that want them to have more
pay, clean air, water, free healthcare and the power to fight back against big
banks & big corps. It's truly remarkable.

..."

[Ike]

r - Vaccinated Democratic Counties Are Leading the Economic Recovery

"The more you argue with them, the more you just push the narrative 'I
know better than you, so I'm going to change your community for your own
good.' Which is just not something most will accept.

Conservative ideology is that your problems are your problems and anyone
who tries to solve them wants something in return and if they say they don't
then they want something you won't want to give up. The only politicians
they want to hear from are the ones telling them they'll stop people like
that, let them keep more of their money, and see that they're left alone to
solve their own problems.

You can't fix a cultural problem with social services when that culture is
based on a deep distrust of those who would push social services."

[Ike]

Y! - Trump Could Still Lead the U.S. to Civil War -- Even if He Doesn't Run in 2024

"It turns out that differences themselves do not lead to violence. This is the
finding of political scientists who have studied hundreds of ethnic conflicts
around the world. Almost all countries around the world are multi-ethnic and
religious and yet few experience civil war. In fact, most ethnic groups co-exist
quite peacefully.

For a society to fracture along identity lines, you need mouthpieces -- influ-
ential people who are willing to make discriminatory appeals and pursue
discriminatory policies in the name of a particular group. They provoke and
harness feelings of fear as a way to lock in an ethnic constituency that will
support their scramble for power."

[Ike]

Y! - The Right's Would-Be Kingmaker

"In 1998, Thiel helped create what would become the digital payments
company PayPal. He became Facebook's first outside investor in 2004 and
established the venture capital firm Founders Fund a year later. Forbes puts
his fortune at $2.6 billion.

Thiel, who called himself a libertarian, wrote that he had come to 'no longer
believe that freedom and democracy are compatible,' arguing that American
politics would always be hostile to free-market ideals, and that politics was
about interfering with other people's lives without their consent. Since then,
he has hosted and attended events with white nationalists and alt-right
figures."

[Ike]

Y! - The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: 'This Is a Jesus Movement'

"With spiritual mission driving political ideals, the stakes of any conflict,
whether over masks or school curricula, can feel that much larger, and
compromise can be even more difficult to achieve. Political ambitions
come to be about defending God, pointing to a desire to build a nation
that actively promotes a particular set of Christian beliefs."

[Ike]

nymag - 'Russia Is Completely Depoliticized' A sociologist from Moscow explains how the nation learned to deny reality.

"What I find more disturbing is that this denazification narrative turns into
an operational concept for the troops on the ground, and that's very, very
worrying. I mean, we already see what it leads to because once the troops
perceive the situation as a battle against Nazis, they start doing what they
were doing in Bucha. They were trying to purge, to purify, to clean the land
from the Nazis. And since Ukrainians have resisted, it obviously implies that
they, too, seem to be nazified."

[Ike]

Y! - Putin nemesis Bill Browder reveals the 'real money' funding Kremlin's war

"You think you can apply political science to Russia. You need to apply criminal
science. You need to be a criminologist to understand Russia. People don't go
into government to serve the country. They go into government to steal money."

[Ike]

Yes Minister:

YT - The Four Stage Strategy

In stage one we say 'nothing is going to happen'

In stage two we say 'something may be going to happen but we should do nothing about it'

In stage three we say 'maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do'

In stage four we say 'maybe there's something we could have done, but it's too late now'

YT - Why the UK is in the EU

[Ike]

YT - Project 2025 Private Training Videos

"Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy guide created by the
Heritage Foundation for a future conservative presidential administration, has
lost its director. In recent weeks, it faced scathing criticism from both
Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump, whose campaign has
tried to distance itself from the effort. But Project 2025's plan to train an army
of political appointees who could battle against the so-called deep state
government bureaucracy remains on track."

[Ike]

theguardian.com - I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost

"After all those conversations, I think the main reason that Harris and Walz lost
this campaign is simple: Trump. Ultimately, he was simply too much of a pull
again. Despite the gaffes, despite his views on women, despite his distaste for
democracy and despite an insurrection, voters just didn't care.

For reasons that I'm sure will be studied for decades, when he speaks, people
listen. When he speaks, people believe him. After all those calls, I can be
shocked at this result, but hardly surprised."

[Ike]

yt - Mickey Rourke: Piers Morgan Uncensored | 22-Jul-22

"Was it something you said about President Trump?" Piers continues.

"Just the truth," Mickey replies.

"And what truth is that?" Piers pressed further.

"Read my mind."

[Ike]

theguardian.com - Merkel: I mistook Trump for 'someone completely normal'

"Memoir of former German chancellor recalls US president's soft spot for
tyrants and apparent fascination with Putin"