Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
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Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines. Le chercheur du CNRS aurait subi un contrôle aléatoire à son arrivée, avant que son ordinateur et son téléphone ne soient fouillés.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58907227

“The space researcher was allegedly randomly checked on arrival, during which his professional computer and personal telephone were allegedly searched. Similarly, messages about the Trump administration’s treatment of scientists have been found.”

  • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    As an anarchist I would love direct democracy immeasurably more than what we currently have. You aren’t wrong. It is a republic, a Democratic Republic; that uses representative democracy. But that doesn’t argue against it being a democracy. Just not a direct democracy. Which by the fact that we have an actual name for it. Means that there are other types of democracies that aren’t direct democracies. Such as Democratic Republics.

    Like I’ve said elsewhere I’m not defending our current system it fucking sucks. But the problem with it is more that there aren’t safeguards to keep the wealthy from capturing it. And that the wealthy have captured it. It can function marginally okay without them in control. But I don’t know that that’s ever really happened in our country’s history. I’m absolutely for replacing it with something more democratic.