You got the part where it's nice to have someone to blame if it goes bad but forgot the part where it's nice to show off your smart financial choices when it goes good.
Vučić's second and last mandate expires in mid-2027.
Maybe he is trying to get into the world Guiness book for first fascist to leave politics early without having a plan to not really leave. You never know, somebody has to be the first.
I'm currently experimenting giving up on trying to get your shit together, it's quite a good life but it's still really hard not to make choices that have undesirable effects. Especially if those choices have desirable effects in the short term. Speaking about short term gratification, i should really put away my phone and go to sleep.
Thanks for calling me out on this; because you are right that just the fact of there being democracy alone does not say anything about how fucked an individual is. I based my statements on news that reached me from various sources, and while it's too big a task to dig up those articles, I looked up some of the data to check how right I am. Turns out the people are mainly more fucked when it comes to political rights and civil liberties, less so when it comes to other important things.
Freedom House gives countries a 'Freedom in the World'-score from 0-100, the oldest record for Burkina Faso is from 2017 (https://freedomhouse.org/country/burkina-faso/freedom-world/2017), and from then on it's score decreases each year from 63/100 to 20/100 this year. If you're genuinely interested please check all data there.
Healthwise, people aren't as clearly less or more fucked then before; child mortality is still declining, and life expectancy is still increasing based on data from the WHO (https://data.who.int/countries/854). If you look at the graph there on Universal Health Coverage and Health Emergency Protection you can see a sharp decline in 2023, but a steady increase before the military coup which seems to be continuing from a lower base.
Economically it is also not as clearly good or bad. based on info from the world bank (https://data.worldbank.org/country/burkina-faso), gdp is increasing and poverty is declining. There was a sharp increase in inflation around the time of the coup, but at the same time unemployment decreased.
In case there is a tankie in the comments, yes these are all western institutions, i don't care if you believe the data to be untrustworthy because i do trust the data despite their questionable impact on (some parts of) the globe.
Under legislation submitted to Parliament this week, renewable energy producers will no longer lose state-backed operating support when wholesale electricity prices fall to zero. Instead, support payments will be suspended only when power prices remain negative for more than two consecutive hours. The measure will apply retroactively from June 1, 2026.
BRUSSELS — The European Commission has preliminarily concluded that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure should fall under the EU’s digital dominance rules, in a move that extends Europe’s most powerful tech regulation into cloud infrastructure for the first time.
The decision, which follows a market investigation launched last November, marks an expansion of the Digital Markets Act — which has so far covered consumer-facing platforms, app stores and search engines — into the €220 billion European market for cloud computing services.
Both companies will now have the opportunity to argue why their cloud services should not be designated gatekeepers before the Commission reaches a final decision in the administrative procedure by December.
Not to say the current military regime is a good thing, but it's not like the French have treated France Afrique countries with good intentions since decolonisation. Surely the people there are more fucked now then 5-10 years ago, and fuck Russia and China for their part in this, but the people of Burkina Faso have been fucked way before that 2022 coupe the article mentions.
Gathering those kinds of funds as simple peasants is not easy at all :(
Because in a democracy the majority is calling the shots.
I'm confused, you just said those with money call the shots. Is it because the politicians aren't the only ones receiving big bags of money? We the peasants not only need responsible politicians but also responsible (and well-funded) media outlets.
I didn't recognize it as a flag and i'm not even American, just saw a red background with a tiny little flag in one corner and three white text boxes in the others.
Personally, i rather have them say things i agree with than living on a beach somewhere staying quiet about everything. Not saying i want him in control of anything, but the more people echo things i agree with the more likely they will materialize some day.
I'd really like to hear a valid argument from those who were too young to vote during the referendum and now want to stay out. I'd also like to ask them if they believe the Scots and Northern-Irish are free to leave the UK if they wanted to. Not that i expect i'll hear something new when i ask them, I just really want to see if there is someone in that group that actually believes the things they'd say.
Do you mean 'we, society as it is right now' or 'we, the human species'. Because i don't really disagree, but at the same time i've seen people get through stuff i expected would kill them. I'm quite convinced some people will survive the storm. Might not be many if we continue this way though
I think youre right, most people are still too busy fucking around to notice finding out. But there will be a point everybody will see clearly how bad We've fucked up
You got the part where it's nice to have someone to blame if it goes bad but forgot the part where it's nice to show off your smart financial choices when it goes good.