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Turkey's ruling party is passing constitutional reforms to consolidate power:
Turkey's parliament approved the first seven articles in a second round of voting overnight on a constitutional bill that will extend President Tayyip Erdogan's powers, keeping the reform on course for a spring referendum.
The two largest opposition parties in parliament say the 18-article bill, which could enable Erdogan to rule until 2029, will fuel authoritarianism in the NATO member and European Union candidate country. The ruling AK Party, backed by the nationalist MHP, says it will bring the strong executive leadership needed to prevent a return to the fragile coalition governments of the past.
The seven articles approved overnight include increasing the number of MPs to 600 from 550, lowering the minimum age to be a lawmaker to 18 from 25, and holding parliamentary and presidential elections together every five years.
Also at CNN, Time, Al Jazeera, and The Guardian. You might also be interested in this take from the Daily Sabah.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by ikanreed on Thursday January 19 2017, @07:32PM
The world will gradually discover the importance of doing that again over the next couple decades.
JMorris thinks that being called racist for saying racist shit over the past couple decades was the worst that could happen to Nazis. I'm very sure that he has no idea how much violence actual fascism like he endorses brings. It might not end terribly for him, personally, but there will be so much death because of the new fascists before this shit is over.
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @07:52PM
And yet jmo imagines that the progressives/liberals are to blame... He's such a brainwashed tool it really is hard for me to fathom sometimes. I guess Bush/Cheney had nothing to do with the shitshow we're in. I guess the fact that our political leaders aren't really red/blue anyway has no impact on his viewpoints... He's either just a shitty person with nothing better to do, or he's some type of shill/spook just derailing conversations and pushing agendas. Impossible to tell nowadays, either way lets just keep calling him out as the authoritarian dirtbag he is.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by ikanreed on Thursday January 19 2017, @08:02PM
I don't like accusing people who I think are wrong of being brainwashed.
JMorris and the modern hard-right are people who I think are so morally and factually wrong that their individual deaths could very well be a good thing for humanity, in spite of the actual people who'd be hurt along the way, hence the "burn to death" comment. But that's still tempered by the fact that I don't know why they think the stupid and/or vile things they do. I can't see in their minds. And "brainwashing" is a fairly complex process that involves constant social reinforcement and purposeful isolation from contrary information.
These new-age fascists are something different. I think. I don't know. No one's making them chant racist mantras to fit in. No one is forcing them to ignore the historical similarities of their movement to previous fascist groups and not say a word about it. It lacks any structural similarity to classic brainwashing.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Grishnakh on Thursday January 19 2017, @09:48PM
One thing I've observed is that a lot of people are followers, and feel the need to find a group to fit into, and then they become happy foot-soldiers for that group, parroting its propaganda and philosophy and ardently defending it. It's not just the hard-right of today, you see this across history. It's how charismatic leaders get people to organize under them and do their bidding even when it's obviously morally repugnant. It's amazing how people can rationalize and justify their beliefs and decisions.
We see this today with both the alt/hard-right and also with the left: just look at all the Hillary supporters who refuse to admit that she was a terrible and unpopular candidate and that that, combined with the actions of the DNC as revealed by the Podesta leaks, led to Trump being elected even though he's so unpopular. When people become convinced they're on the "right side", they absolutely refuse to see and admit any mistakes made on their side.
TL;DR: people are sheep.