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  • What lurking suspicion do you have about something but is hard to prove?

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  • I suspect that child abuse in these circles is something like murder or other serious crimes for less influential forms of organized crime like the classical mob (Cosa Nostra and so on): these heinous crimes serve as proof of loyalty and at the same time as a bargaining chip that the mob boss can use against his "soldiers." That would explain why there are disproportionately more pedophiles in the GOP, for example. That may not be the only reason, but pedophilia is clearly the common denominator among those who support the authoritarian-fascist regime in the US.

    In any case, Epstein was also obviously used by Mossad to collect blackmail material against influential people.

    It seems to me, especially given the proximity of the US regime to the equally fascist Israel, that this is a fundamental strategy to prevent co-conspirators from going public with their knowledge.

  • How to stop a dictator | I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

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  • Yes, that's true. The Fediverse is also susceptible to manipulation. That's why I'm not a fan of broad rules such as "no politics" in the largest communities, as their breadth would make it easy to buy off a few moderators, which shouldn't be a problem at all if you have even a little capital.

    Nevertheless, traditional journalism is dead because its business model is simply no longer financially viable today. Investigative journalism is very expensive and, with the loss of advertising revenue (wnet to search engines and mainstream social media apps), it is simply an impossible business model today. In fact, most of the traditional media today is run at a loss by billionaires like Bezos (Washington Post, among others).

    I'm not saying that the Fediverse is a promise of salvation. I'm just saying that it's the only option left.

    The internet as such was originally designed to be decentralized, but it was taken over by big capital, for which we are now being presented with the bill in all the remaining democracies of the world.

    In my opinion, the only response can be to do everything possible to return to decentralization, in order to at least put obstacles in the way of the powerful of this world.

  • How to stop a dictator | I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

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  • That goes without saying, but the choice of information media that people use influences their decision. As long as these information media are controlled by billionaires, which is absolutely the case for the majority of voters, not only in the US, the outcome of the elections is a foregone conclusion.

    One should not assume that even obvious misinformation has no effect if it is spread widely enough. It is, of course, commendable to believe in people, but this hope is clearly dashed by the US.

    Do not believe for a moment that something like this cannot happen in your home country.

  • How to stop a dictator | I spent months studying how authoritarians like Trump lose. The answer is shockingly simple.

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  • In itself, the answer is really simple, at least for the remaining democracies, and a solution would be entirely possible: people would have to switch to decentralized media apps, such as those provided by the Fediverse, and stop attributing so much credibility to legacy media. This would significantly reduce the scope for concerted disinformation, which is the main reason for any autocratic form of government being possible, which is of course never in the interests of citizens.

    How this can be achieved is the question, and the answer can of course only be education, because the majority of people are obviously unaware of how they are being duped.

  • Open source license that doesn’t allow your code to be used for AI data training?

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  • The thing about licenses is that they only work if they can be defended in court. In the US system in particular, it is simply impossible for a private individual to do so (even multi-billion-dollar corporations with their highly paid lawyers seem to be powerless against artificially inflated AI giants such as OpenAI).

    Therefore, it must be assumed that even restrictive licenses will simply be disregarded.

  • What lurking suspicion do you have about something but is hard to prove?

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  • Regardless of their nationality, billionaires largely pursue the same interests in order to strengthen their position of power in the political system in which they are most involved.

    This is, of course, a conspiracy theory, but the Epstein files, for example, certainly suggest this - as does the fact that billionaires' companies are all multinational and that it is almost impossible to trace where the incredible amounts of capital in the international economic system actually come from (such as the massive concentrations of capital managed by asset managers like Black Rock).

    In short: I suspect that the biggest problem facing people worldwide lies in the power of the respective so-called elites, and I think that they coordinate among themselves in order to remain in power or to expand it further.

    This is how I explain the resurgence of Nazi ideology, which is actively promoted by billionaires in very different countries.

  • With expected US retreat, Germany seeks to strengthen its role within NATO

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  • True. Unfortunately, however, the Nazi party AfD is quite strong in Germany, whose success is largely due to the fact that the same US corporations that enabled openly fascist candidates to win elections in the US also control the (social) media landscape in Germany.

    If we want to preserve our democracy, I believe there is no way around finally putting a stop to the influence that mentally ill billionaires have on public opinion.

    Otherwise, Germany will probably end up in a similar situation to the US: With a government made up of corrupt puppets whose Nazi ideology essentially serves to conceal the fact that they are pursuing disastrous, neo-capitalist policies that are exclusively in the interests of the top one percent.

  • What are your latest "buy European" wins?

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  • I just installed Ubuntu on my mom's laptop. I also considered Mint, but Ubuntu seems to me to be the distribution with the least risk of any major issues.

    Either way, the point was to finally get away from Windows, especially since my mom doesn't use any applications for which there isn't a reliable Linux alternative anyway.

    Donations to LibreOffice and so on have also been transferred - in the amount of the license costs for Windows 11 and MS Office for now.

  • Geplante Abschaffung des Bürgergelds: In der SPD kaum Solidarität mit den Armen

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  • Denke, ihm dient die Wiederwahl als Parteivorsitzender und damit die direkte Regierungsbeteiligung eher als Sprungbrett in einen gut bezahlten Aufsichtsratsposten oder eine ähnliche, bestens dotierte "Anschlussverwertung" - da ist Finanzminister und Vizekanzler in einer neoliberalen Koalition um einen Kanzler, der mehr Lobbyist als Volksvertreter ist, doch genau das richtige.

    Glaube kaum, dass sich ein ausgemachter Opportunist wie Klingbeil mit einer schnöden Pension zufrieden geben wird. Wenn es ihm auch nur im Entferntesten um seine Partei gehen würde, hätte er nach der vorausgegangenen, katastrophalen Wahlniederlage selbstverständlich seinen Posten räumen müssen.

    Hat er aber nicht und so schafft sich die SPD nun eben selbst ab, um die Karriere der verbliebenen "Schein-Genossen" zu befördern.

  • Geplante Abschaffung des Bürgergelds: In der SPD kaum Solidarität mit den Armen

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  • Dass Lars Klingbeil nach dem mit Abstand schlechtesten Wahlergebnis, das die SPD jemals hatte, weder zurückgetretenen ist noch abgesetzt wurde, sagt eigentlich schon alles, was man wissen muss...

  • Dow drops 600 points as confusion grows after Trump hikes global U.S. tariffs

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  • Has the Dow fallen enough now for the DOJ to start prosecuting pedophiles?

    /s, but in itself almost not, because Bondi apparently was serious about her absurd statement in front of the the House Judiciary Committee.

  • ‘Ridiculous’: Pentagon doesn’t even know what to do with extra $500 billion Trump wants to spend

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  • I think the problem these people face is more about how to implement the directive to funnel most of this absurd supplementary budget directly into the pockets of a few, preferably conservative, cronies of this criminal regime...

  • What are some Ship of Theseus bands, where all original members have been replaced by someone new?

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  • The Drifters ("Under the Boardwalk," "Save the Last Dance for Me," "This Magic Moment") have been more of a product than a band since the mid-1950s, when manager George Treadwell bought the name. Since then, there have been several incarnations of the Drifters with different lineups, and at times, different lineups have toured under the name at the same time.

    The Drifters had three "golden" periods: the early 1950s, the 1960s, and the early 1970s (after the Atlantic label period).

    The lineup included more than 60 musicians in total. Nevertheless, the band is in both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame - with different lineups:

    The first lineup (founded by Clyde McPhatter) and the second lineup (with Ben E. King) were inducted separately into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame - once as "The Drifters" and once as "Ben E. King and the Drifters."

    The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee package includes members from several incarnations: four from the first lineup (Clyde McPhatter, Bill Pinkney, Gerhart Thrasher, Johnny Moore), two from the second (Ben E. King, Charlie Thomas), and one from the post-Atlantic phase (Rudy Lewis).

  • Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠

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  • ‘People are in awe’: exhibition unveils ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

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