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Hamartia

@ Hamartia @lemmy.world

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  • BBC staffers reveal editor's 'entire job' to whitewash Israeli war crimes

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  • This should be a surprise to no one. Torys have controlled the political content of the BBC News for decades.

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  • This is a bit of context from the Dec 6th edition of Private Eye.

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  • Statistics can help decern impact. But I think there's always going this be some measure of subjectivity no matter which way you try to call it.

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  • Intensity isn't a specific enough criteria. It has to be impact.

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  • There needs to be a reasonable degree to which interference with an election should be weathered (not ignored but the process to continue). Elections are very costly and disruptive. It would be insane to redo an entire election because you found that one person voted twice. The point at which you do redo it needs to be cognizant of the degree of disruption caused.

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  • Conclusion The CCR’s decision is a last resort attempt to prevent a further decline in the rule of law in Romania. Yet, its modalities, timing and face value are such as to shoot Romanian democracy in the foot. The gravity of the interference in Romania’s elections surely implied a need to intervene quickly, and to do something to protect democracy. The Court’s intervention however may more easily be seen as counter-productive in the long run. Once again, Romanian democracy stands on a shaky ground.

    Not sure I entirely agree with this conclusion.

    Their argument boils down to propriety. If the interference was spotted over both elections then both should be rerun not just the one in which the interference had material effect. This dissonance is amplified, they argue, when the election that is to be rerun is the one in which the incumbent (pro-EU) government was losing.

    If we look first at the decision to rerun just the election that was effected we can easily understand it in terms of efficiency and momentum.

    For an analogy let's look at soccer: If a striker is bearing down on goal, in the penalty box, and he is cynically fouled the game is stopped, the offender sent off, a penalty awarded, then the game resumes.

    However, if in the same scenario, a midfielder is fouled off the ball the play continues to allow the striker the opportunity to score. Once the ball is out of play the ref can return to the foul and dispense justice.

    The penalty kick is a rerun of play, or the election in this analogy. It's only necessary when the result of the game is heavily effected. If we stopped the game whilst a striker has a very good chance to score a goal when someone off the ball is fouled then it would incentivise bad faith teams fouling random players any time there was a clearcut chance.

    This decision making takes into account the difficulty of creating a clear cut chance on goal in a game of football and doesn't allow play to be disrupted. Foreign interference in elections has a wide range of desired outcomes but generally throwing a spanner into the engine of healthy democracies is what they are about. So if possible allow the play to continue. If play has been materially compromised then rerun.

    The second aspect is the public perception. To which we can look to the US and see countless examples of the democrats hamstringing themselves by obsessing with playing by the rules and the republicans ignoring rules and precedent when it suits them. This happens because they don't have a free press they have a bought press. I don't know the makeup of media ownership in Romania but a democratic government has to be able to navigate a path to getting things done under the constant flack of belligerent entities. Sometimes it needs to have the metal to weather reputational trolling.

  • Grand Rule

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  • Got that Lord Percy from Blackadder II energy.

  • Primitive Technology: Two Walled Tiled Hut

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  • Sometimes there is poetry in our lives

  • Primitive Technology: Two Walled Tiled Hut

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  • Imagine, years from now, his technology eventually overtaking the rest of the world's. Powering his city state with cold fusion. Inventing the first warp drive. Etc

    All while the rest of us keep on falling back into anti-science fascism because we can't figure out how to take the mega-rich's thumb off the scales of democracy/justice.

  • So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.

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  • Me too.

  • So this is how my neighbor fixes his fence.

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  • it's beyond the pale!

  • Do you know any independent written news sources?

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  • Private Eye

    Not everyone's cup of tea. Actually becoming aware of the amount of corruption and injustice in the UK can be accutely depressing.

    Their online offering is a tiny fraction of what is covered in the hardcopy.

  • I'm sure everyone remembers

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  • Yhe lack of traffic in London was amazing

  • I'm sure everyone remembers

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  • Thank Christ we finally get away from the endless skinny jeans -> baggy jeans cycle.

  • flouride

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  • Any chemical that can exist as a solid, a liquid and a gas at the same time isn't safe to put into our bodies!

  • flouride

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  • Yeah. It's not an entirely salient point. It does, however, underline the ubiquitous nature of fluorine.

    The biggest source of Flourine in the environment is just the normal weathering of rocks that contain it. The biggest of the anthropogenic sources include brick production, phosphate fertiliser application and coal burning.

    The minor amount added to drinking water really wouldn't be the biggest issue if it was as toxic as it's made out to be.

  • [Cool birb, but see comments. Not accurate.] Dinosaurs Still Live

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  • Mulleted stinkbird thank you.

  • New Rule

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  • Civilization

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  • You're still angry. And I don't exactly understand why. You seem angry to me because you are being uncivil and closed minded.

    But why? Do you think that meme is seditious or in some way undermines democracy? Do you think that there are only a limited range of responses to that meme that are acceptable, and you, somehow, are the arbiter?