This is indeed a strange firm.

It seems there is only one lawyer associated with it: Terry Collingsworth, the Founder and Executive Director of IRAdvocates. I couldn’t find anyone else in a quick search, although the firm claims to be active globally.

I also found just 2 verdicts by that firm (both were dismissed by the court). One was covered by Reuters in an article in January 2026:

On January 15, a federal jury in Alabama sided with coal producer Drummond and found Collingsworth and his firm liable for defamation and racketeering. The verdict capped a 24-year legal fight with Drummond, which accused Collingsworth of filing “fraudulent” lawsuits and orchestrating a scheme to pay witnesses to deliver false testimony linking Drummond to a Colombian paramilitary group responsible for killing hundreds of civilians …

No, this is not true. This, again, has nothing to do with economics.

Your communication style is on par with the content you provide. What you’re saying makes no sense. You are wrong, dude, but I don’t even pretend to listen. This conversation is waste of time.

GDP isn’t an appropriate metric for measuring wealth.

Dude, this doesn’t make any sense (one reason being that what you call ‘the bottom battle of governance like Malta and Italy’ are not so far away from the EU average, and much better in global comparison like large economies like the U.S. and China).

You can have this opinion, but you apparently can’t back it with relibale data. It’s just some ‘We are bad’ narrative to drag down Europe or, in this case, Germany as it happens so often here in this comm.

Germany’s Gini is around the EU average in the long term, in 2023 and 2024, the deviation was even just 0.1 points.

There’s a lot you can say about inequality in Germany, but your arguments don’t make sense. If you look at Gini and many other inequality measures, Germany’s inequality is around the average. This is not a matter of interpretation, that’s a simple fact.

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My data is the most recent, in that case it refers to the years 2024 and 2025.

Finland - whether you’d compare the 2025 Gini or the 5-year average, or any other metric - is among the countries with the lowest inequality in Europe (and, therefore, in the world). Nothing what I do is cherry-picked.

Germany has not higher inequality than its neighbours as you claim. If you insist you’re right and not mistaken, however, just name a source.

Why so uneasy?

I provided a source for Gini. Eurostat is the European Statistal Office under administration of the European Commission.

If you looked at Eurostat/ European Commission, you saw that Finland and Malta have slightly lower Gini coefficients than Germany, around somewhere at the average. So the source you named doesn’t support your claim.

So what are your sources?

What are your sources?

I guess @sem@lemmy.ml’s is a typical ml comment. They just keep parroting the same propaganda over and again without even trying to understand the topic.

Germany’s Gini coefficient for disposable income in 2025 is 30.1, according to Eurostat. Some EU countries show a higher Gini, some a lower one.

It’s the same thing everywhere. Germany’s inequality is around the Eurooean average by any comparative standard that I have seen. (And, again, Europe’s inequality is much lower than in most other world regions, particularly in larger economies like the U.S. and China.)

But if you think my data is cherry-picked, I’m open to learn something new. What are your sources?

Germany” clearly is rich compared to its neighbors, it just has worse wealth inequality.

Where do you get this from?

The top-1% wealthiest’s share in Germany is at a similar level as its neighbours at around 27%. Switzerland and Austria’s data are bit higher (above 30%), only in Belgium and the Netherlands the top-1% own significantly less than in Germany.

Other measures like the top-10% shares show similar patterns. Germany’s data show that the country’s inequality level is roughly the same as its neighbours.

(Btw, other large economies, notably the U.S. and China, have significantly higher inequality than Germany and most democratically governed countries in Europe and beyond, with China have been experiencing rising inequality in particularly in the last two decades.)

The U.S. recently has imposed tariffs (again) on dozen of countries, primarily for alleged insufficient measure to prevent forced labour imports from China.

Many analysts see the move as a legal workaround for Donald Trump’s broad tariff program, announced on “Liberation Day,” April 2, 2025, which the US Supreme Court struck down in February. It is also noteworthy that Trump’s tariffs over forced labour do not include imports deemed to be critical for the U.S. industry such as rare earth minerals.

If there is forced labour in any supply chain, it needs to be eliminated, of course. But this appears to be a bogus claim for something else. It’s almost hilarious that Chinese propaganda is now using the ‘Western neoliberal’ Trump as a means to criticize the West.

Oh, no. I just don’t buy your morality. You are frequently condemning atrocities here but not there. There is another agenda you’re pusuing, and it has nothing to do with human rights.

From the original report:

Within The Com, so-called blood walls and cut-signs are promoted and sometimes required as entry criteria for certain groups. Blood walls are inscriptions or paintings made with blood that display the extorter’s online alias and group affiliation … Cut-signs involve individuals carving the extorter’s name into their own bodies, with images or videos of these acts later shared to enhance the extorter’s and their group’s status within The Com …

The Com produces manuals or guides covering topics such as grooming, murder, improvised explosives, or ideological viewpoints. These manuals are created by groups to instruct members on methods for committing violent attacks, grooming and (s)extorting vulnerable minors, or conducting doxing and swatting.

Doxing involves uncovering and exposing an individual’s personal data to extort or harass them. Personal information, such as a home address, may be used to carry out “swatting”. This is a tactic where the extorter contacts law enforcement with a hoax emergency call or threat, falsely claiming a violent crime is about to occur at the victim’s address. This prompts an emergency response, often endangering the individual and their family. The procedure is used to intimidate victims and may cause physical or psychological harm …

Good they took that down.

Some of the comments in this thread are extraordinarily weird. Calling this some thing like ‘censorship by the executive branch’ is out of touch imo.

That’s a different topic. It has nothing to do with fast fasion’s impact and the environmental and social harm it entails.

I am all against any form of surveillance, including ‘age verification.’ But I am also against platforms such as Tiktok for deliberately targeting children and tacitly accepting all the negative consequences.

And what are China’s atrocities in East Turkestan? And in Tibet and Inner Mongolia?

Edit: I don’t mind the downvote, but why? @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz claims to be concerned about human rights, but seemingly only on selected topics as they frequently refuse to touch certain topics. You can only assume there is some other agenda.

There is ample evidence for the devastating effects of ultra-fast fashion.

Here are just two brief summaries, but you’ll easily find more:

The environmental costs of fast fashion

Toxic threads? The hidden dangers of ultra-fast fashion

France made a good first step. Let’s hope that others will follow soon.

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Europe must act more decisively in a lot more issues imho, particularly the support for Ukraine defense against Russia’s must increase, China’s severe human rights violations go largely unaddressed at least in public, … it’s not only Israel I would say.