politics

Tyranny is probably established out of no other regime than democracy.

Filipino president verbally attacks the Pope, jokes about raping missionaries, announces that “I don’t care about human rights”, catcalls female journalists, encourages citizens to shoot drug dealers, and called the US ambassador “a gay son of a whore”. But also, he is lauded for his work promoting women’s and LGBT rights in the Phillipines, and during his tenure as Mayor of Davao transformed it from “the murder capital of the Philippines” to “the world’s fourth safest place”.

Joke in a Russian newspaper: 'Trump only watches the Olympics to see how high the Mexican pole vaulters can jump'

The only winner tonight is the Voyager probe, which is speeding away from the Earth at 17 kilometers/second.

Pravna država bi bila država koja primenjuje svoje zakone, a vladavina prava bi zahtevala da ti zakoni nešto valjaju.

Fascism is therefore broadly identical with a normalization of war-powers in a modern state, that is: sustained social mobilization under central direction. Consequently, it involves, beside the centralization of political authority in a permanent war council, a tribal hystericization of social identity, and a considerable measure of economic pragmatism…Since fascism had entirely filled the Overton Window, it lost contour, and became invisible. The word persisted in public conversation only as an empty slur. Under this cover, and the absurdly misleading branding associated with it, American fascism ascended to a state of global hegemonic dominance.

A far more accurate account of the past year is that an openly proto-fascist cult leader has emerged to forge a popular movement that has taken over one of the major political parties, eroded central norms of democratic life, undermined American democratic institutions, and now stands on the brink of seizing power in Washington.

Good to know that, to the American public, the most qualified woman is still not as good as the least qualified man.

regarding USA 2016 elections

Demokratski izborni procesi, u odsustvu demokratske kulture i jake srednje klase, neizbežno doprinose jačanju nedemokratskih snaga.

When we look closely, we find that many of the assumptions of modern society are based on shared illusions.