‘Obviously illegal’: Experts pan Trump’s plan to deport ‘homegrown criminals’
Trump has suggested that "homegrown" criminals who have been convicted of certain crimes should be deported, but the idea raises significant legal questions.
If an immigrant who the government claims is a gang member can be deported to El Salvador without any due process rights, then why not a U.S. citizen?
That was the nightmarish scenario immigration advocates and constitutional law experts were considering on Monday after Donald Trump again pushed a provocative plan to deport U.S. citizens who have been convicted of unspecified crimes.
Trump discussed the issue in the White House with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, who has agreed to deposit people deported from the U.S. into a notorious prison.
Arte terapia e inclusione: il museo MUDY di Dynamo Camp in Garfagnana
Arte terapia e inclusione: il museo MUDY di Dynamo Camp in Garfagnana
Arte terapia: benefici, tecniche e il museo MUDY di Dynamo Camp in Garfagnana L’arte terapia è una pratica terapeutica che unisce l’espr...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Nvidia says it will build up to $500bn of US AI infrastructure as chip tariff looms
Plan comes after Donald Trump reiterated import threats and chipmaker’s CEO dined at US president’s resort
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived at the Southeast Washington, D.C., headquarters of the National Labor Relations Board.
AI bots dominate internet traffic
AI has led to a remarkable shift in internet traffic. Automated traffic (51 percent) is greater than human traffic for the first time in ten years.
AI bots dominate internet traffic - Techzine Global
Generative AI ensures the dominance of bots in internet traffic: 51% is now automated, of which 37% is malicious, according to an Imperva report.Berry Zwets (Techzine)
Situazione complicata e pericolosa per l'accordo sul nucleare iraniano
USA e Israele contro l’Iran, ma la Russia avverte: così si rischia la catastrofe | Strumenti Politici
Negli ultimi tempi l’attività in Medio Oriente degli Stati Uniti si è distinta per gli attacchi insieme a Israele contro i filo-iraniani.Redazione Strumenti Politici (Strumenti Politici)
Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days
Yet another excuse to keep checking our phones.
Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days
Android is launching a new security feature that will force devices to reboot themselves if you haven’t unlocked them for three days.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
UN calls on Trump to exempt poorest countries from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs
Unctad says many countries targeted with high tariff rates are unlikely to be a threat to US
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These are not the same
After sharing Ed Zitron’s latest piece called “OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry” I got a few responses arguing in a similar way: People agree that “AI” and especially “generative AI” is a massive bubble that does not really make much sense – if you imply rational decision making. Training the models, building the data centers, inference, inflated wages, potential licence costs and the costs of damages … economically the whole sector doesn’t make too much sense (Sequioa Capital agrees). Sure some people believe that they’ll find the machine god in old 4Chan posts but I also would not consider that to be rational in any way, shape or form. The singularity is just a weird ersatz-religion for rationalist nerds confronted with their own mortality.
But the argument goes on: There have always been bubbles but especially with technologically driven bubbles, something, usually infrastructure is left behind that the following generations can built on. The US railroad system for example or for ageing technologists such as myself maybe more present: The dotcom bubble.
The Internet we have today exists because the dotcom bubble lead to the infrastructure buildout of cables, some data centers, peering structures etc. that the next generation of Internet startups could be built upon. The death of the bubble fertilised or created the soil that all those social media platforms and UberForX things could flourish on. So while genAI might be a bubble, it will create all those models and integrations that will survive OpenAI’s (and Anthropic and whatever else those companies are called) financial shenanigans.
I think those things are not the same.
I do agree that something will be left behind: The data centers that have been built and that are still being built will still be there and I am quite sure someone will find new use cases for the NVIDIA cards everyone is buying or will replace those machines with standard server components to add to their hyperscaler infrastructure. But does that mean that the genAI stuff will survive?
Generative AI systems have a few unusual properties that make them very distinct from traditional digital services.
Digital services have a tendency to push marginal cost down: Adding another license to your database or even adding another account to your infrastructure costs you basically nothing when you’ve already got the systems running. Traditional digital goods and services scale really well: If your server maintains 1000 or 5000 accounts often doesn’t matter too much (depends a bit on the service of course), the cost does not scale up linearly, in fact the bigger you are the more of those scaling benefits you can reap for example by building caching infrastructures that save even more processing costs. This is how things work in the digital. But genAI is different.
OpenAI loses money on every user who pays them. They lose money on users with a 20$ subscription, they lose money on people with a 200$ subscription. Because genAI is inherently expensive to run. The optimizations that work for traditional services who can cluster certain kinds of processing (often by grouping users into a limited set of boxes and just treating them as the box assigned to them) do not apply to genAI. You keep having to heat up your NVIDIA cards and cool them and replace them. And people who do actually pay for your service will use it more. For for example Meta’s platforms or even Google Search more usage is good because it means more ad revenue. They make money by scaling up. OpenAI needs its users to use the service as little as possible to avoid losing even more money. For traditional digital platforms popularity is good. For OpenAI it’s poison.
So there is a structural reason why those companies probably can’t be economically valid: Digital spaces are built around winner-takes all scaling but for genAI providers that is economical suicide.
Let’s say OpenAI and Anthropic die. Let’s say the bubble bursts and the hype moves on to the next thing – whatever that will be. Will AI stick around?
Sure at first people will migrate to self-hosted stuff running on their machines. You can replace your coding assistant with some open weight model, it might be worse but still serviceable. But those models didn’t come from nowhere. Someone paid to develop them, someone had to pay electricity bills, NVIDIA’s bills, the bill of the private security firm that fought the demonstrations against your data center that took all the water people wanted to drink. So we’ll be stuck with whatever we at that point.
Which is exactly what happened with the dotcom bubble: We had the wires that were left by Pets.com exploding. But the wires had two advantages: They were agnostic to the data they carried, adding more of them or maintaining them was comparatively cheap and the marginal cost of adding more data to the wire was basically zero – until you reached capacity and needed to add another wire.
But AI models age like milk. Think of a coding assistant trained only up to right now, April 15th, 2025. Anything invented after this date, any breaking library update is not part of the training data and will lead to bad and false predictions by the model. AI models are conservative by definition, tied to the past of the moment they were trained on with no understanding of the future or even what kind of trajectories the future might take. In order to stay useful, to look “intelligent” and current AI models need to be constantly updated with new training material (and potentially removed older training material). Most AI models of the kind used today have very short shelf lives. (Smaller, specialized models often do not have that problem as much, think of models to do face detection or pose detection from video: The human body doesn’t change that much)
Something will be left by the AI crash, that is for sure. But I do not think it will be generative AI systems which – without constant expensive updates and maintenance – become useless at best and actively harmful at worst quickly. And that is the question we need to be asking: What will be left and who will that be used by?
When I see large data centers with a bunch of inference machines in them, there are clear uses but those probably won’t be the “cute” genAI some people use. The inference will shift to doing video processing and people classification because that’s where the money is: When a tech bubble bursts, the tech sector always turns to the state to either hold the bag or buy the remains. What will be left when OpenAI burns is infrastructure that players like Palantir will use because their problems fit the hardware and their business model can create the necessary money from governments all over the planet.
The AI crash won’t leave us with infrastructures that are useful to democratic and humane societies, with useful tools to do something productive with, but with infrastructures tailor-made to suppress it.
Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/28636656
By Julie TurkewitzJazmine UlloaIsayen HerreraHamed Aleaziz and Zolan Kanno-Youngs
April 15, 2025"And in this case, the Venezuelan men were declared “alien enemies” and shipped to a prison with little or no opportunity to contest the allegations against them, according to migrants, their lawyers, court testimony, judges and interviews with dozens of prisoners’ families conducted by The New York Times.
The government’s public declaration of the act was made on March 15 at 3:53 p.m., according to court records. The migrants were all on flights to El Salvador by 7:36 p.m.
Yet most of the men do not have criminal records in the United States or elsewhere in the region, beyond immigration offenses, a New York Times investigation has found. And very few of them appear to have any clear, documented links to the Venezuelan gang. "
Inside Trump’s Rushed Effort to Deport 238 Migrants
The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.Julie Turkewitz (The New York Times)
Tidningen The Verge har tillsammans med Vox Media gjort en undersökning om hur US-amerikanska internetanvändare ser på utvecklingen av Internet just nu. Undersökningen visar enligt artikeln några tydliga trender
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Är framtiden för internet verkligen små gemenskaper? - Svenssons Nyheter
Är framtiden för internet verkligen små gemenskaper? Tidningen The Verge har tillsammans med Vox Media gjort en undersökning om hurAnders_S (Svenssons Nyheter)
Analysis: As he lionizes a strongman, Trump flexes power over the law, top colleges and the media
Summary
Donald Trump is escalating a battle against institutions that challenge his strongman instincts, including the courts, the legal profession, elite education and the media. The administration is projecting presidential authority in a broader and more overt way than any modern White House.
Its expansive interpretation of statues and questionable interpretations of judges’ rulings is causing alarm about its impact on the rule of law, freedom of expression and the Constitution.
Trump’s own hardline aspirations were revealed through the prism of his increasingly ruthless deportation policy, raising profound questions about apparent abuses of due process and human rights.
The sense of a coming constitutional collision is growing impossible to ignore.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/politics/trump-bukele-immigration-colleges-media/index.html
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Tim Easy 4G Smartphone (2017) — Unboxing e Primo Avvio di un device Android da un altro pianeta
Contro ogni previsione personale, nonché anche più in generale degli appassionati del #TIMfonino — di cui a questo punto non posso troppo biasimare un’eventuale perdita di interesse nell’argomento (cosa che mi renderebbe l’unica persona sul pianeta Terra a cui frega ancora qualcosa di questo merdaio telefonico, pensate che vita), ecco che ho appena finalmente rilasciato […]
Trump official declaring ‘anyone who preaches hate for America’ will be deported worries users: ‘They just skip the First Amendment’
Top Trump official Stephen Miller's recent declaration that anyone who "preaches hate for America" will face deportation has ignited alarm online, with critics warning the statement disregards First Amendment protections.
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Social media users and legal analysts raised immediate concerns, pointing out that expressing dissent or criticism of the government is protected under the First Amendment. Some worried the administration was veering into authoritarian territory.
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The backlash has reignited broader debates over the limits of free speech, especially as civil liberties fall under scrutiny. While immigration enforcement remains a core theme of President Donald Trump's platform, critics are increasingly questioning whether rhetoric like Miller's is a precursor to more aggressive suppression of dissent.
Trump Official Declaring 'Anyone Who Preaches Hate for America' Will Be Deported Worries Users: 'They Just Skip the First Amendment'
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller's pledge to deport those who "preach hate for America" has sparked fears of free speech violations.M.B. Mack (Latin Times)
Yes, bigoted dipshit.
Assuming all Americans support their government and treating them poorly because of it is being a bigoted dipshit, simple as
And the dissenting comments to that opinion all read almost exactly like how MAGAts talk, it's funny and gross how much like them you are
Nobody said all Americans support their government you reading comprehension challenged moron, we said your government reflects your people. Since so many voted for him and still support him and since you lived in a DEMOCRACY your government represented your PEOPLE (that's literally what the word DEMOCRACY stands for); there is clearly something wrong with your people's fkin culture. Just like there was something wrong with German culture in the 1940s (DUH) and pointing it out and having unfavourable views of the current American culture and people is NOT bigotry. You live in a dictatorship and there's way too many people going with it to say it isn't supported on a wide scale. Wake the fk up. My husband is literally American and he understands this concept that people outside the US will see Americans a certain way, because so many are letting it happen. What is wrong with you?
Edit: That user has a history of getting their comments removed by mods AND telling others that they are "dumb" or lack reading comprehension when THEY are the ones misrepresenting what is being said (hence they get downvoted to hell when they do it). Talk about projection. What a joke. Blocked and forgotten.
U.S. businesses sue to block Trump tariffs, say trade deficits are not an emergency
U.S. businesses sue to block Trump tariffs, say trade deficits are not an emergency
The Trump administration's argument is undercut by its imposing tariffs on countries the U.S. does not have a trade deficit with, the plaintiffs say.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
Mostre imperdibili: Alphonse Mucha e Giovanni Boldini a Ferrara
Mostre imperdibili: Alphonse Mucha e Giovanni Boldini a Ferrara
Alphonse Mucha e Giovanni Boldini: due mostre imperdibili a Ferrara per scoprire l’Art Nouveau e la Belle Époque Ferrara si conferma a...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
That official Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remake will reportedly shadow-drop next week, finally putting us robe-wearing Patrick Stewarts out of our speculation misery
That official Elder Scrolls Oblivion Remake will reportedly shadow-drop next week, finally putting us robe-wearing Patrick Stewarts out of our speculation misery
Come on, just pop through that damn wall and stab us already, if you're going to!Mark Warren (VG247)
Porte scorrevoli: una scelta per ottimizzare lo spazio di casa
Che cosa è un Mockup e perchè è necessario per le aziende?
Che cosa è un Mockup e perchè è necessario per le aziende?
Cosa si intende quando si parla di mockup? In cosa consiste questa attività e perchè è essenziale per le aziende e i loro prodotti?Av Grafica & Design (AV Grafica & Design)
Weather Report - Heavy Weather (1977)
Heavy Weather è il settimo album dei Weather Report, pubblicato nel 1977 dalla Columbia Records. L'album vendette circa 500.000 copie e si sarebbe rivelato l'album di maggior successo commerciale della band. Heavy Weather ricevette una recensione a 5 stelle dalla rivista DownBeat e fu votato album jazz dell'anno dai lettori della rivista... Leggi e ascolta...
Japan orders Google to cease alleged antitrust violation
Japan orders Google to cease alleged antitrust violation
Japanese authorities said Tuesday they had issued a cease-and-desist order to US tech titan Google over an alleged violation of national antitrust laws.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
Per la prima volta in Germania le persone atee hanno superato quelle cristiane - Il Post
Per la prima volta in Germania le persone atee hanno superato quelle cristiane
Lo dicono i dati ricavati dai registri statali, e c'entra anche una tassa che non vogliono più pagareIl Post
Bill Gates-backed Arnergy to expand solar access in Nigeria with $18M as demand surges
Bill Gates-backed Arnergy to expand solar access in Nigeria with $18M as demand surges | TechCrunch
Demand for solar energy in Nigeria has soared, drawing investor interest in Arnergy, a cleantech startup with $18 million in fresh funding.Tage Kene-Okafor (TechCrunch)
It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood
It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood
Now is the time to ask hard questions about what AI systems should and should not be able to do in the real world. Otherwise, the future may come faster than we expectJosh Harlan, opinion contributor (The Hill)
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Does My Code Kill Palestinians?
Does My Code Kill Palestinians?
A letter to workers at Google, Amazon, and MicrosoftHasan Ibraheem (Hasan's Fruit Stand)
Does My Code Kill Palestinians?
Does My Code Kill Palestinians?
A letter to workers at Google, Amazon, and MicrosoftHasan Ibraheem (Hasan's Fruit Stand)
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Does My Code Kill Palestinians?
Does My Code Kill Palestinians?
A letter to workers at Google, Amazon, and MicrosoftHasan Ibraheem (Hasan's Fruit Stand)
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China admits to being behind Volt Typhoon cyber activity targeting US
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/32710446
ArchivedOriginal article behind paywall
Volt Typhoon has been responsible for intrusions into vital critical infrastructure both in the continental United States and its possessions through the Pacific.
The group has made transport hubs and water utilities a particular target, with the hackers so far not causing any disruption but rather prepositioning themselves ahead of any hostile action.
The admission of Chinese responsibility came during a secret meeting between outgoing Biden administration officials and Chinese representatives on the sidelines of a summit in Geneva in December 2024. According to two anonymous observers, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported late last week that the Chinese attendants referred indirectly to the activity as being a warning for the US to stay away from any attempts to support or defend Taiwan.
According to the WSJ, the comments were “indirect and somewhat ambiguous”; however, US officials present felt the meaning was plain.
Speaking to Cyber Daily’s sister brand, Defence Connect, earlier this year, Adam Meyers, SVP of counter-adversary operations at CrowdStrike, said that Volt Typhoon’s activity was clearly aimed at disrupting any US action in the region.
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China admits to being behind Volt Typhoon cyber activity targeting US
Original article behind paywall
Volt Typhoon has been responsible for intrusions into vital critical infrastructure both in the continental United States and its possessions through the Pacific.
The group has made transport hubs and water utilities a particular target, with the hackers so far not causing any disruption but rather prepositioning themselves ahead of any hostile action.
The admission of Chinese responsibility came during a secret meeting between outgoing Biden administration officials and Chinese representatives on the sidelines of a summit in Geneva in December 2024. According to two anonymous observers, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported late last week that the Chinese attendants referred indirectly to the activity as being a warning for the US to stay away from any attempts to support or defend Taiwan.
According to the WSJ, the comments were “indirect and somewhat ambiguous”; however, US officials present felt the meaning was plain.
Speaking to Cyber Daily’s sister brand, Defence Connect, earlier this year, Adam Meyers, SVP of counter-adversary operations at CrowdStrike, said that Volt Typhoon’s activity was clearly aimed at disrupting any US action in the region.
China admits to being behind Volt Typhoon cyber activity targeting US
Chinese officials made the admission last year during a closed-door meeting at a Geneva summit in late 2024.David Hollingworth (Cyber Daily)
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Japan rules out big Trump concessions, must understand "emotional" views
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28212040
Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has said he will not make "big concessions" to Donald Trump in order to get a trade deal wrapped up ahead of talks due to start on April 17 in Washington, but also said on Monday that he would not be imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports.Ishiba told parliament that Japan needs to understand Trump's views on tariffs and trade "in terms of the logic and the emotional elements" behind them, Reuters reported.
Japan Rules Out Big Trump Concessions, Must Understand 'Emotional' Views
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba spoke to his parliament ahead of trade talks with the U.S.Shane Croucher (Newsweek)
ACCESS.bus: The Forgotten USB Competitor
ACCESS.bus: The Forgotten USB Competitor
A few years before USB took over the world of peripherals, another upstart standard aimed to do the same thing. And I’m not talking about FireWire.Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet.
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How can I sell my car with expired registration in India?
Selling a car with expired registration in India can be challenging as valid registration is typically required for a legal transfer of ownership. However, you can follow these steps to sell your car with expired registration:
- Obtain a non-use certificate (NOC)
- Complete the transfer of ownership (TO) process
- Clear pending dues and fines
4.Sale agreement and payment - Handover process
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XAI: Unlocking Cybersecurity Potential
XAI: Unlocking Cybersecurity Potential - Rackenzik
Discover how XAI enhances cybersecurity with transparency, trust, and advanced explainability for secure, reliable systems.Rackenzik
XAI: Unlocking Cybersecurity Potential
XAI: Unlocking Cybersecurity Potential - Rackenzik
Discover how XAI enhances cybersecurity with transparency, trust, and advanced explainability for secure, reliable systems.Rackenzik
RBB-Rundfunkrat: „Ringen mit der Polykrise“
Gestern Nachmittag schon reingekommen: Ein Bericht von der Sitzung des RBB-Rundfunkrates am 11.04.2025, von @JanaBallweber.
„Ich saß am Freitagabend viereinhalb Stunden im RBB-Rundfunkrat und holy shit brennt es in diesem Laden lichterloh…“
Berlin (KNA) – Wenn es in der Weltpolitik wieder einmal drunter und drüber geht, es an allen Ecken und Enden knirscht und die Verantwortlichen gar nicht wissen, welche losen Fäden sie zuerst wieder aufwickeln sollen, dann spricht man von einer Polykrise…
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RBB-Rundfunkrat: „Ringen mit der Polykrise“
Gestern Nachmittag schon reingekommen: Ein Bericht von der Sitzung des RBB-Rundfunkrates am 11.04.2025, von @JanaBallweber. „Ich saß am Freitagabend…Mediathekperlen (NexxtPress)
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'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': ICE Arrests Palestinian Columbia Protest Leader | Common Dreams
Julia Conley
Apr 14, 2025
"A month after the international far-right pro-Israel group Betar named Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi as the next target in its campaign to push for the deportation of Palestinian rights defenders, Mahdawi was arrested Monday at an immigration office in Colchester, Vermont, where he had arrived to complete a test to be a naturalized U.S. citizen. "
'Immoral, Inhumane, and Illegal': ICE Arrests Palestinian Columbia Protest Leader
"He came to this country hoping to be free to speak out about the atrocities he has witnessed, only to be punished for such speech," said Mohsen Mahdawi's lawyer.julia-conley (Common Dreams)
Israel Bombs Last Functioning Hospital in Northern Gaza
Israel Bombs Last Functioning Hospital in Northern Gaza
Israel has bombed the last functioning hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, killing a child who asphyxiated from a lack of oxygen and leaving sick and wounded Palestinians on the street with nowhere to go for treatment.Democracy Now!
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Why the double standard about Israel’s foreign interference? - Yves Engler
Why the double standard about Israel’s foreign interference? - Yves Engler
Benjamin Netanyahu is openly throwing his weight behind Pierre Poilievre. But few are pushing back against this flagrant interference in Canada’s election. On Friday the Israeli prime minister posted, “Canada has always sided with civilization.yvesengler (Yves Engler)
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in reply to amino • • •now that I think of it, it works both ways, you could use it to criticise people who vote for Harris as she obviously didn’t have great policies on things like Palestine.
Or you could use it to criticise people who don’t vote because then they let trump win which is far worse for minorities than Harris.
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in reply to FundMECFS • • •why would people ever vote for Biden/Harris when they established the legal basis for Palestinians getting deported and mask bans being enacted? they could vote for the proud fascists instead of the fascism-lite.
I also hate the rhetoric pushed by blue MAGA that equates not voting with letting Trump win. I can't recall a single time in history where voting has defeated fascism. Also the fact that the people most impacted by Trump can't vote or don't have accommodations in place to be able to vote.
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in reply to amino • • •Couple examples of elections preventing facism:
Theoretically, anytime a facist runs and loses an election and doesn’t subsequently stage a coup into power, voting prevents facism.
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