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O Pedrito a fugir a sete pés


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O pessoal que critica o governo de Espanha não percebe como funcionam os governos regionais por lá. O pedido de ajuda tem de partir do governo regional para o central e o valenciano demorou 4 dias a fazê-lo para se vitimizar e dar a ideia de que a culpa maior era do governo central. O governo valenciano é do PP e da extrema direita do Vox.

"Isto resultou de uma incompetência assassina do governo valenciano, liderado pelo PP e que integra a extrema-direita do Vox. Governo (regional) que ao final da tarde do dia trágico dizia que não havia razões para preocupação, que toda a gente podia continuar a trabalhar, em vez de ir mais cedo para casa. O que os patrões aproveitaram para impedir quem quisesse de sair mais cedo. Quantos morreram porque saíram demasiado tarde dos empregos? Governo valenciano que acabou com uma agência de proteção civil dedicada a possíveis fenónemos climáticos extremos resultado das alterações climáticas."
 

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he/him

Não vou ler.
Pronto, tu é que sabes, amigo ;)

Mas repara que o governo valenciano, que integra membros do Vox (extrema direita, sim), recentemente acabou com uma agência de proteção civil dedicada a estes eventos climáticos extremos. Não foi o governo central. Estas decisões depois têm consequências. Mas é comum a extrema direita nunca assumir culpas de nada.
 

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Nunca li nada tão exacto sobre os processos mentais que conduzem ao estabelecimento e consolidação dum regime totalitário.
E não interpreto isto à luz de Trump (que de Hitler tem pouco ou nada), mas dos desenvolvimentos políticos dos últimos cem anos, com a entrada em cena dos meios de comunicação de massas e o seu aproveitamento político.

They Thought They Were Free, The Germans, 1933-45
Milton Mayer


"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany.
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"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

"This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

"You will understand me when I say that my Middle High German was my life. It was all I cared about. I was a scholar, a specialist. Then, suddenly, I was plunged into all the new activity, as the university was drawn into the new situation; meetings, conferences, interviews, ceremonies, and, above all, papers to be filled out, reports, bibliographies, lists, questionnaires. And on top of that were the demands in the community, the things in which one had to, was ‘expected to’ participate that had not been there or had not been important before. It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time."

"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it—please try to believe me—unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

"How is this to be avoided, among ordinary men, even highly educated ordinary men? Frankly, I do not know. I do not see, even now. Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ But one must foresee the end in order to resist, or even see, the beginnings. One must foresee the end clearly and certainly and how is this to be done, by ordinary men or even by extraordinary men?

"Your ‘little men,’ your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better. Pastor Niemöller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing; and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something—but then it was too late."

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’

"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

 
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Pior da campanha do Trump é o Elon andar metido e só postar disso fdx

Big bro, quero ver torres a apanhar foguetes e merdas do género
Quero lá saber da tua opinião política 😭😭😭😭😭
ele já há muito tempo que quase só comenta "política"...

tipo:
"He wants to erode the very fabric of civilization. Soros hates humanity," Musk tweeted Monday.

já está frito há alguns anos.
 

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O pior erro da Selzer foi em 2018, nas eleições para governador do Iowa, onde errou por 5 p.p.

Ela não errou no Kerry vs Bush de 2004, porquanto este último a ganhou por 0.6 p.p., dentro da margem de erro da sondagem. O mesmo se passou, creio, com o Sanders.

Acha mais provável ela estar errada, com o argumento do "todos os outros estariam errados". Bom, primeiro não existem assim tantos pollsters no Iowa; segundo, a verdade pode estar no meio, i.e., a Selzer ter publicado uma sondagem que pode ser um outlier, e os outros todos estarem a mascarar os resultados.

Alguns especialistas têm apontado para um fenómeno de pollster herding ("pastoreio"), ou seja, as empresas de sondagens estão a apostar em resultados muito próximos, mascarando-os e moldando-os ao seu bel-prazer, com medo de errar absurdamente. Dizem isso porque é impossível tantas sondagens darem um 50% / 50% perfeito na PA; até pode acontecer, mas não é assim que funciona.

O que nós conhecemos da Selzer tem que ver com o seu rigor, a sua exatidão e o seu prestígio. Ela não mascara dados, não molda resultados e não faz interpretações do eleitorado - pode ter uma amostra "má" ou pouco representativa desta vez, no entanto posso dizer com confiança que não mentiu.

E é impossível ela ter errado de forma abismal. Para o Trump, tudo o que não sejam mais de 7 p.p. sobre o oponente, será mau, porquanto ganhou o Iowa com 8 p.p. em 2020 e perdeu a eleição. Estaríamos a falar de uma diferença de 10 p.p. na sondagem da Selzer, simplesmente não vai acontecer.


Acordou às 5 da manhã com esta notícia. Se seguisse o fórum do Porto já sabia desde ontem à noite, que o @joaovilasboas tinha partilhado.
Isto aqui é muito para a frente. Só dados em primeira mão - estão as redações a nanar e está aqui o burro a trabalhar. Se o Balsemão Jr. quiser celebrar comigo um contrato de trabalho, fá-lo-ei com todo gosto desde que me pague o que pagava ao Bugalho.