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Yet there’s potentially a more sinister angle. California Forever aligns suspiciously with a cultish dystopian movement to build so-called “network states”—private zones where tech zillionaires can abandon democratic society to live under the rule of their own private micro governments. The secret plot to assemble vast swaths of land and build a new city fits…
One of Gagné’s final points is that “We have to stop mocking” the NAR and other dominionists, “because these people are very serious…. We have to stop downplaying it and put a light on it and say, ‘They believe this.’ We’re not the measure of the entire world. People have different ways of conceptualizing the…
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled to remove Donald Trump from the state’s 2024 election ballot. The attempt will likely fail and backfire — but it’s indicative of American liberalism’s current distaste for the unpredictable messiness of democracy. The decision to lean into this approach to the ballot is going to cause more problems than…
Representing a huge win for Ecuador’s Indigenous groups, this year the country held a referendum on extractivism, the first of its kind worldwide. On August 20, citizens headed to the polling stations to choose whether to halt oil exploitation in the Yasuní National Park in the Amazon and prohibit mining in the Chocó Andino region in…
Remember the Chinese spy balloon—aka the “civilian airship used for research, mainly meteorological, purposes” (according to China)—that in February flew over the United States until the US Air Force shot it down? Apparently the super-secret surveillance device was, um, using an American internet service provider to communicate with its operators in China
This is an objectively good thing. It’s sad that it’s been marred in the way that it has. Imagine how this would’ve been hailed if they hadn’t leant into red-neck policies around bonuses and naming of govt departments. It makes me both sad and optimistic. “I think that would make me [Luxon] a better prime…
In recent decades, we’ve seen a growing understanding of the importance of honouring Te Tiriti o Waitangi, including amongst tauiwi (non-Māori). Many of us have experienced the benefits of Māori leadership and changes which reflect Te Tiriti commitments to work together and share decision making on important issues. We value the development of respectful and…
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/504994/christopher-luxon-s-reo-maori-lessons-paid-for-by-taxpayer
I have two tests to determine how worldly a kiwi (normally business person is). If they do complain about “1” then I know they have never done anything substantive overseas and are parochial fools. If they do complain about “2” they have never noticed the esteem that Māori have gained in the rest of the…
Nice stuff for me, but not for thee. The Satanic altar at Iowa’s state capitol showcases the same GOP bad faith, but at least with some levity. As atheists and other religious minorities have long argued, the reason Republicans want nativity scenes and other such religious symbols up on government grounds is obvious: To signal…
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