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Voting machines

vendredi 5 août 2016 à 02:00

Russia could interfere directly in the US election by cracking voting machine security. We must change voting machines to stop this.

Not only Russia can do this. There is evidence that the Democratic primary in one state was rigged by manipulating voting machines.

BP renews museum sponsorships

vendredi 5 août 2016 à 02:00

Billionaire Polluters has renewed long-term sponsorship of several prominent museums. Activists criticize the museums, because this legitimizes BP's business and helps it win things such as subsidies.

To "really build and develop a partnership", as BP says it is "proud" to do, makes the problem worse.

We need to tax these companies to support museums and lots of other important things that need funds.

War talk from Democratic platform

vendredi 5 août 2016 à 02:00

The Democratic platform's statements on foreign policy have lots of war talk and false accusations.

I am not a pacifist. I think that fighting PISSI makes sense, because PISSI is a state: it has an army and controls territory. However, we need to end the drone assassination campaign, which takes place away from battlefields in the middle of civilian life.

Hostile comments

vendredi 5 août 2016 à 02:00

On one site in Germany, the most hostile comments were not anonymous.

UK "grammar school" admission bias

vendredi 5 août 2016 à 02:00

UK "grammar schools", which are supposed to help the most capable students advance even if they are poor, now admit mostly the well-off. It is part of a larger system so biased against the poor that a poor child must be exceptional in order to do well in life.

This unfairness should of course be corrected, but just making the selection for who gets a good life less unfair is only a step towards fixing the problem. The state should give the poor more support, so that everyone can have a good life.