La vergüenza del #decretoley, que siempre fue una vergüenza, es una vergüenza aberrante y miserable con este #gobierno:
https://civio.es/el-boe-nuestro-de-cada-dia/2022/07/07/decretos-ley-desde-1996/
(🇪🇸 #Spain)
Pregunta sincera: si eres de los que llaman a #Vox «ultraderecha» o «derecha radical», pero no consideras que #UnidasPodemos sea «ultraizquierda» ni «izquierda radical», ¿qué criterio sigues para hacer esa distinción? ¿Qué más tendría que proponer #Podemos para que los considerases «ultras», o cuál es el aspecto concreto de Vox que en tu opinión los convierte en «ultras»?
eg, in 🇪🇸 #Spain:
#Madrid (🇪🇸 #Spain) is the most liveable #city in the world, and the 9th best city in the world overall, according to the Mori Memorial Foundation’s “Global Power City Index” 2021.
https://mori-m-foundation.or.jp/english/ius2/gpci2/index.shtml
Antonio Escohotado, one of my dearest intellectual heroes, died today 😢
He was a true erudite, a polymath, and a free soul.
He devoured the classics, opposed dictator Franco, was the fiercest of Communists, pioneered the hippy revolution in #Ibiza, travelled the world, studied and experimented with most drugs known to mankind, changed his views, lectured #philosophy, taught himself a few languages, became the most articulate #liberal, wrote the definitive tomes on a variety of scientific subjects, changed his views again, and shared it all along the way.
What I admire the most, though, is that he read everything under the sun. Primary sources, secondary sources, biographies, commentary. And he seemed to remember it all. #Escohotado set out to deeply understand something — be it #theGreeks, #drugs, #economics, #ChaosTheory — and damned studied every single relevant page there is about the subject, tirelessly, for years, until he emerged with the most robust of opinions about the topic, and a comprehensive view in the form of a new #book.
I am very inspired by him to always freaking read the classics, and the sources.
And I have always lamented that his fame in the English-speaking world wasn’t commensurate with his many merits.
His last months were the chronicle of a death foretold: he chose to leave, and did so in his own terms, with dignity, in his beloved Ibiza.
I went to see him at public events here in #Madrid a couple of times. He was a giant, some unfortunate views or quotations notwithstanding.
I miss him already.
There’s a huge imbalance in #workdeaths, yes. In my country (🇪🇸 #Spain), last year there were 751 work-related deaths, of which 696 were men (source: last available official report by Ministerio de Trabajo y Economía Social).
/cc @namark
🔬 Some notable exceptions to that global trend:
In the 🇺🇸 #USA, the influence of income has vanished, and support depends solely (and strongly!) on education (highly educated ↔ leftist).
In #Scandinavia (epitome: 🇸🇪 #Sweden) it’s the opposite: education became irrelevant, and political preference depends only on income (perhaps because they are wealthy, egalitarian countries?).
🇵🇹 #Portugal hasn’t changed like the other countries: there the Right is still supported mostly by educated (and rich) voters. (NB: in the 50’s and 60’s, Portugal was a dictatorship).
🇮🇹 #Italy is the rare case where leftist parties ended up being the parties of the richest segment of the population. I wouldn’t read too much into this, though, as the political landscape there during the last decade or two has been a populist mess.
🇪🇸 #Spain is the country where education and income tell you the least about political preferences! There’s still the secular correlation “high income ↔ right wing”, but it’s very weak today. (NB: in the 50’s and 60’s, Spain was also a dictatorship).
When I was younger, I thought that the defining distinction between #theLeft and #theRight was solidarity — as in, the former necessarily has to have way more of it than the latter.
Gradually I came to realise that characterisation is problematic for three reasons:
I now think that the ratio personal freedom vs economic freedom better categorises Left vs. Right (cf #NolanChart). I like to think of those two dimensions as “#freedom to do what you please with your body” (food, drugs, euthanasia, suicide, sex, read, speech, thought, association, religion) and “freedom to do what you please with your property” (save, invest, buy, sell, donate, build, trade, settle).
This is not a defence of #anarchism or #libertarianism, by the way — I do believe certain restrictions on both kinds of liberties are necessary for any society to function at all.
At long last, common sense and decency prevail in #Spain 🇪🇸
[#Spain #España 🇪🇸 #Madrid #elecciones #politics #eleccionesMadrid2021]
#Público titula una #noticia entrecomillando un tuit satírico cualquiera, escrito por nadie importante, que no tiene ninguna relevancia en absoluto, y que está escrito… como si fuese el titular de una noticia. El resultado es una noticia que no dice —pero torticeramente parece que sí dice— algo muy concreto que de ser cierto —no lo es— sería grave y consecuente. Y todo esto en un artículo en el que precisamente acusan a otros periodistas de mala praxis, de parcialidad, de falta de rigor y de insultar al #periodismo.
[#Spain #España 🇪🇸 #Madrid #elecciones #politics]
Estas son las opciones para #eleccionesMadrid2021 de las que estás oyendo hablar:
🔴🔴🔴⚫🔵🔵
Y estas son todas las opciones que tienes disponibles:
⭕⭕⭕🔴🔴🔴🔴⏺️⏺️⏺️⚫⚫⚫⚪⚪⚪🔵🔵🔵🔵🔘🔘🔘
De nada.
https://elecciones.comunidad.madrid/es/formaciones-politicas/listado-candidaturas-proclamadas
«En 2019, la mediana del #salario mensual real de los #jóvenes entre 18 y 35 años era menor que en 1980, con caídas que van desde el 26% para aquellos con edades entre 30 y 34 años hasta el 50% para los de 18 a 20 años. Estas caídas se deben principalmente a una reducción muy acusada de la duración de sus empleos y a un aumento del peso del #empleo a tiempo parcial.»
— Fedea: “Lost in #Recession: #Youth #Employment and Earnings in #Spain”.
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42