politics

Unless the worker's share of GDP reverses its downward trend, and capital's share peaks, then populists worldwide will reject establishment parties in almost every future election.

Anarchists are simply people who believe human beings are capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to. It is really a very simple notion. But it’s one that the rich and powerful have always found extremely dangerous.

Remember, perhaps the most important commodity in politics is attention: mass media failed us this election by focusing on trivia while not doing enough to follow and correctly report huge stories. Our attention was diluted into trivia and gossip and unjustified mass hacks that were actually political sabotage, not whistleblowing, and in some cases misinformation.

Vlast pripada onome ko gospodari vanrednim stanjem.

Britain has changed since 1998.

Back then, it only took workers about three years to save enough money for a down-payment on a house. Now it takes 20 years.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

London voted against Brexit.

NYC, LA, SF, etc against Trump.

Istanbul, Ankara against Erdogan.

All very deeply divided societies.

My favourite thing about being in the EU. There's a lot to love about being in the EU:

✓ Freedom to move and work

✓ Forming a trading powerhouse

✓ Ensuring consumer rights and safe products

✓ Backing up human rights and rule of law

✓ Maintaining the peace

✓ Creating a Europe-wide solidarity corps

✓ Allowing scientists share research and resources

✓ Eliminating roaming

✓ Erasmus

✓ Health insurance that works anywhere

✓ The right to visit any EU embassy and get help

✓ Education certificates recognised anywhere in EU

✓ Pooling resources to spend more cleverly and work together

But my absolute favourite thing about the EU is the optimism of an incredibly unlikely project. It is easier to divide people than to bring them together. It is easier to tear things down than it is to build them. It is easier to whimper and panic in the face of a challenge than to face it. But that is not what the European Union is about. The EU brings together instead of dividing. The EU builds things when others would tear them down. And more than anything else, the EU faces its challenges with the ambition and determination that the European people deserve.

Happy Europe Day my friends 🇪🇺

The state, and especially an authoritarian state, is constructed like a bank: the minute that citizens-depositors lose faith, they withdraw everything of value.

Fear of personal responsibility? Marginalization of people who think differently? Resignation to fate? Feelings of inferiority toward the rest of the world? These are traits against which the state should be acting. Instead the government strengthens them, because it is useful for it.