Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz), page 7

https://www.stallman.org/glossary.html#trump
https://theintercept.com/2024/11/07/harris-trump-election-immigration-border/

*Harris Ran to [The wrecker's] Right on Immigration - and Gained Absolutely Nothing For It.*

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/07/trump-victory-despair-politics-fight
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-democrats-lose-to-republicans

If you ignore politics, your life may be easier for a while - until nasty policies, that you failed to fight, ruin thousands or millions of lives, and by chance yours is one of them. *Why Democrats Lose Even When Republicans Are So Endlessly Terrible*

[2/2] majority of Americans) were enemies to be fought bitterly. This is the bully's fault, and his strategy too. Before 2020 it would have been almost unthinkable. The bully's strategy is an attack on the unity of the United States, and his use of it makes him an enemy of the United States.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/ohio-police-lieutenant-democratic-voters
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#26_August_2019_('Blame_the_poor'_playbook)
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully

* [Ohio sheriff's lieutenant] received written reprimand for posting: "If you support the Democrat Party I will not help you." This illustrates the attitude of hostility that convinces Republicans to act as if Democrats (the

[2/2] caught doing this. That will make executives of churches take care, while not making any person a martyr. <!-- This is missing something-- The US needs to show churches that it will punish -->

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/04/texas-congressional-campaign-churches

*Texas House candidate campaigning in churches, in potential legal violation.* Christian churches have long tried to disregard the law against supporting political candidates. Punishment by a slap on the wrist encourages the defiance. Since that is a systematic campaign, I think the US needs to punish this enough to make churches think twice. I would suggest revoking the tax exemption of any church

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/moldova-russia-election-meddling-democracy

*How Moldovans bravely fought off Russian election meddling - and stood up for democracy.* If only we could say the same about the United States.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/05/migrant-workers-exposed-deadly-45c-temperatures-gulf-human-rights-report

Migrant workers in the Persian Gulf countries are compelled to work in temperatures of up to 45°C for as much as 14 hours a day.

[2/2] Beijing is a price worth paying to hamper that.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/05/china-blocking-uk-plans-beijing-east-london-mega-embassy-dispute

China wants to make its embassy to the UK much bigger. Why would it want this? One reason could be to keep Uygur and Tibetan protesters, whose protests we should support, further away. But if this allows China to have more diplomats in the UK, China would use them for nefarious purposes, including espionage and intimidation of oversees Chinese. An inconvenient old embassy in

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/05/what-are-you-haydn-the-hoaxers-who-fooled-the-classical-music-world

The truth seemed to be Haydn for a while.

https://www.wired.com/story/canvassers-elon-musk-america-pac-fired-stranded-michigan-mistreatment/

* A dozen black canvassers were tricked, threatened, and driven in seatless U-Haul vans [by Musk]. They were fired after WIRED reported on their plight - some without full pay or a way back home.*

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/04/two-sides-of-the-same-coin-governments-stress-links-between-climate-and-nature-collapse

* Representatives at the Cop16 summit in Colombia negotiated against a backdrop of extreme weather and ecosystem collapse.*

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/06/kokila-annamalai-singapore-activist-online-speech-laws-pofma-ntwnfb

[A political activist in Singapore] faces punishment after refusing to "correct" online posts criticizing Singapore’s death penalty and drug laws. Singapore strictly represses criticism of the government.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/05/people-do-not-want-to-believe-it-is-true-the-photographer-capturing-the-vanishing-of-glaciers

*"People do not want to believe it is true": the photographer capturing the vanishing of glaciers.*

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/01/eu-citizen-caught-up-in-home-office-residency-backlog-forcibly-removed-from-uk-costa-koushiappis

The UK deported a man based on administrative technicalities caused by delays due to the pandemic, without the hearing he was entitled to, and then gave him just three days to leave. This demonstrates that humans can be as rigid as robots if they are taught to do so.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/01/republicans-donald-trump-polls-us-election-lawsuits

*Republicans preparing to reject US election result if Trump loses, warn strategists.*

[2/2] messages without ever risking putting the worst candidate into office. It is a defect of our system that it compels people to vote for the so-so candidate rather than the one they really support.

[1/2] https://theintercept.com/2024/11/04/swing-state-vote-swap-kamala-harris-israel-gaza/

*Swing-State Voters Disillusioned With Kamala Harris Can Swap for Two Non-Swing-State Votes.* A similar idea was used by supporters of Ralph Nader's presidential campaign on at least one occasion. It sends the desired message without risking putting the worst candidate into office. I voted for Nader at least once, I am proud to say. If we had ranked choice voting, it would be easy to send such

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/02/farm-subsidies-wrecked-europe-environments-common-agricultural-policy

The EU's Common Agricultural Policy was supposed to protect biodiversity and the environment, but has failed to achieve that goal. Things are getting rapidly worse.