Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote
Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote
Police say there is no evidence of foul play, ahead of local elections in western Germany.Paul Kirby (BBC News)
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Argentina: Nazi-looted Italian painting recovered
Canada's budget will focus on austerity and investment, says PM Carney
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Wednesday that the upcoming federal budget would focus on both austerity and investments, adding that current government spending was unsustainable.
Canada has been dealing with economic uncertainty since the start of the year, so the primary focus of the budget will be to cut operational spending and trigger investments into major projects, Carney told reporters in Toronto.
"It's a budget of austerity and investment at the same time and that's possible if you have discipline," he said
Say that to people who are about to get austered, just to make Carney's banker golf buddies a little wealthier.
We Americans know where this goes, and after Obama, I'm not willing to acknowledge this bullshit notion that one side is better because it's more publicly polite.
Oh, I certainly do: Watching Democrats and Republicans vote exactly the same way. Just wait, the Democrats are about to decline to shut down Donald's government again, and then see if you can still gaslight yourself into thinking there's any real difference.
Imagine having the power to limit fascism, even temporarily, and just saying: "Nah, don't feel like it."
That's the Democratic Party.
What the fuck are you talking about? Both sides are bad but only one is actively rounding up legal immigrants and sending them to concentration camps or El Salvador. They are not the same.
There are shades of grey here that you seem unable to comprehend. One party is measurably better than the other.
Picking the less worst option over the actual worst option are both roads that lead to the same place, one is a little longer and has better scenery, but the destination you end up at is the same either way.
Picking either one means you're going the wrong direction entirely.
Losing $5 and losing $100 are both bad but I know which one I'd pick. They are not equal and insisting they are is what led us here today.
The better solution is not to lose any money at all, and in the long term that's the goal. But in the mean time I'll pick $5 every time.
'Front runner' to be North Korea's next supreme leader makes international debut in China
- Kim Jong Un's daughter seen as potential successor
- Ju Ae gains protocol experience on first overseas trip
- South Korean intelligence sees Ju Ae as likely successor
SEOUL, Sept 3 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his teenage daughter to Beijing this week in her first public outing overseas, fuelling further speculation that she may be his potential successor in the family's dynastic rule over the nuclear-armed state.
Secretive North Korea has never revealed her name or age, but South Korean intelligence officials believe she is the daughter identified as Ju Ae by former American basketball player Dennis Rodman
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What to know about Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang as Trump justifies attack
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This will never be anything other than an "alleged" drug trafficking boat. All they had to do in order to make this believable, was to capture the boat. Instead, they blew it up, along with all the evidence that would have proven their claims, and justified their presence there.
Why is it that everything the Trump administration does, is done in the sketchiest way possible? It's like they're going out of their way to prove they have no credibility.
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EU Commission approves 'milestone' Mercosur, Mexico deals
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds
Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle ageDenis Campbell (The Guardian)
What are the most upbeat songs with kind of depressing lyrics?
- It's Not Unusual
- Escape (The Piña Colada Song)
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I believe that's the same for every planet. And every moon. For every orbit.
Its just that the barycenter is inside the more massive object when one is much more massive than the other. Not that this makes much of a difference to anything.
LOL - After being called out for a blatantly racist comment, OP removed his link and edited the subject to blame the mods.
Doing a proper removal.
Thailand's ruling party seeks snap election to thwart rival's PM bid
- Ruling party targets house dissolution as rival gains crucial support
- Renegade party Bhumjaithai wins support of largest force in parliament
- Thailand in deadlock for days since PM's dismissal by court
- Dominant Shinawatra dynasty's struggling to win backing to rule
BANGKOK, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The leader of Thailand's Bhumjaithai Party said on Wednesday he had enough votes to become prime minister after winning over the biggest group in parliament, as the ruling party moved to block his path by petitioning the king to approve a snap election.
There has been a dramatic scramble for power in Thailand since Friday's sacking of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra by a court, with Pheu Thai, the long dominant ruling party of the billionaire Shinawatra political dynasty, clinging on desperately to avert a humiliating fall from grace.
UK Deputy PM fights to save her career after admitting underpaying tax
- Rayner admits underpaying tax on new home
- She refers herself to government's ethics adviser
- Opposition politicians call for PM to fire her
- Starmer offers her his support
LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was fighting for her political future on Wednesday after acknowledging she had underpaid property tax owed when she bought an apartment in a southern English seaside resort.
UAE official warns Israel West Bank settlement plans cross 'red line'
- Annexation in West Bank would undermine spirit of normalisation accords with Israel, UAE envoy tells Reuters
- UAE's criticism touches on Israeli plans to build settlement dividing West Bank
- Far-right Israeli minister says maps being drafted for annexing territory in West Bank
DUBAI, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates warned Israel on Wednesday that annexation in the occupied West Bank would constitute a "red line" for Abu Dhabi that would severely undermine the spirit of the Abraham Accords that normalised UAE-Israeli relations.
The comments by the UAE, the most prominent of the three Arab states that signed the accords with Israel when President Donald Trump was first in office, amounted to Abu Dhabi's sharpest criticism of Israel since the Gaza war erupted in 2023, when Hamas launched its cross-border raid from the enclave.
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Russia says it captures 'about half' of Ukrainian city Kupiansk, Kyiv denies report
MOSCOW, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that its troops had captured "about half" of the city of Kupiansk in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region, but Ukraine's military denied any such advance.
Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield reports from either side.
Kupiansk has been the focus of months of increased Russian military activity and heavy fighting. Russian troops captured the city in the early weeks of their February 2022 invasion and Ukrainian forces took it back later that same year.
Much of the city has been destroyed as Moscow tries to seize it back as part of a slow advance westward along parts of the 1,000-km (620-mile) long frontline.
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President Javier Milei gets judge to ban publication of audio recordings of his sister inside presidential palace
Milei gets judge to ban publication of audio recordings of his sister inside presidential palace
Argentine government denounces illegal espionage operation carried out by ‘individuals linked to Russian intelligence services’ ahead of crucial midterm electionFederico Rivas Molina (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers
Greece passes draconian legislation with prison terms for rejected asylum seekers
Those who have asylum claims rejected and do not leave within 14 days will face prison terms of two to five yearsHelena Smith (The Guardian)
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Sask. RCMP raid 'Queen of Canada' cult compound, arrest 17 adults
Officers seized 4 replica firearms, no charges laid as of Wednesday afternoon
Saskatchewan RCMP arrested 17 adults, including cult leader Romana Didulo, in the village of Richmound on Wednesday after a firearms investigation.
At a news conference on Wednesday afternoon in Regina, Insp. Ashley St. Germaine said RCMP executed a search warrant at a privately owned decommissioned school in Richmound at around 4:30 a.m CST.
Didulo and her followers have been living for two years in the village of approximately 118 people, located 365 kilometres west of Regina, near the Alberta border.
Germaine said RCMP got a report on Aug. 25 of one of the building's occupants possessing a firearm. That led to the investigation that culminated in the raid.
"A team of skilled and experienced senior officers was established to oversee this large and complex operation," she said.
More than 30 police vehicles from multiple jurisdictions, including two tactical vehicles, were at the scene, Germaine said.
A livestream video, posted by Didulo to her followers on Telegram at 5:51 a.m. CST on Wednesday, captured the moment when two officers wearing tactical gear burst into a room where Didulo was standing.
"Leave the phone down. You're under arrest," one officer says in the video.
Didulo surrenders to officers and the camera is pointed at the floor for a few minutes. Voices off camera then remark that the phone is livestreaming before the video ends.
My buddies father in law was the mayor of that town when this shit all started. I wonder if he still is.
He told me they got family members of his wife to turn against them in town meetings, like HARD, like never talk to your brothers again bad.
They're fruits, but I'm betting "replica firearms" means "black powder". Yes, they can certainly be deadly, but my god, if you're never used black power, it's a monster pain in the ass. I can get a total of 3 or 4 shots off, reloading each time of course, and the barrel is too filthy to shove the next ball in.
BP guns are such a joke, even felonious Americans can own them, and most states allow them to be shipped straight to your porch. I have never heard of a crime being committed with one. LOL, it's like California banning modern .50cal guns. Has anyone in the history of ever used a .50BMG to crime?! OK, except Israel.
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At least 15 dead after Lisbon's historic funicular derails
At least 15 people have been killed and 18 others injured after a carriage on Lisbon's famous Gloria funicular derailed and crashed, emergency services said.
Portugal's emergency medical service authority said that five of those injured were in a serious condition. The remaining thirteen, including a child, sustained minor injuries.
Several people were earlier said to have been trapped at the scene. They have all since been freed, authorities said.
Spain's Prime Minster Pedro Sánchez said he was "appalled by the terrible accident". Lisbon's mayor, Carlos Moedas, said the capital was "in mourning", adding it was a "tragic moment for the city".
Emergency services said foreigners were among those killed were, although nationalities could not be confirmed.
It is unclear how many people were on board at the time of the cable railway crash, which occurred near the Avenida da Liberdade around 18:05 on Wednesday evening.
Footage shared widely on social media showed the bright yellow carriage overturned and almost entirely destroyed. People could be seen fleeing the area on foot as what appears to be smoke filled the air.
One witness told Portuguese newspaper Observador the vehicle was "out of control, without brakes".
Lisbon crash one of our biggest tragedies, Portuguese PM says
A day of mourning has been declared after the 140-year-old Glória funicular derailed, killing at least 16.Alison Roberts (BBC News)
Judging by the location it crashed and somebody interviewed saying that "they were afraid it would hit the vehicle below", it careened down for quite a distance since it crashed near the bottom.
Mind you, that specific funicular doesn't actual travel that much of a distance (maybe 400m if I remember correctly - it's been a long time since I had a reason to go to that part of Lisbon).
Also because it's not that long a distance, it's actually faster to just walk it up or down for most people than wait for it, plus this was the one coming down (as deduced from there being one below), so it's quite likely that most people in it were tourists.
Gaza Genocide Provokes Anti-War Dissent Among Mormons
Gaza Genocide Provokes Anti-War Dissent Among Mormons - Inkstick
Campaigners are targeting the hearts, minds and multibillion-dollar investment fund of the Utah-based faith.Taylor Barnes (Inkstick Media)
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Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration
Judge voids $2.2 billion Harvard funding freeze by Trump administration
The Trump administration in April froze grants to Harvard University over concerns about antisemitism on the Ivy League campus and other concerns.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
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Domenica 7 settembre 2025, dalle ore 19, nuvole permettendo, presso il Podere Casanteria (via Canova 16, Faenza, tra Cosina e Pieve Corleto) in collaborazione con l'Associazione ACSÈ, osserveremo l'Eclissi Totale di Luna e le meraviglie del cielo di settembre, ad occhio nudo e con i binocoli e i telescopi del Gruppo Astrofili Faenza.
Ingresso libero e gratuito, prenotazione gradita ma non necessaria.
L'eclissi inizierà globalmente alle 17:28 con l'ingresso della Luna nella penombra della Terra, e alle 18:27 ci sarà l'ingresso in ombra, ma queste fasi non saranno visibili da Faenza, in quanto la Luna sarà ancora sotto l'orizzonte.
La fase di totalità (con la Luna completamente immersa nell'ombra della Terra) inizia alle 19:31, e in Italia la Luna sorgerà intorno a quell'ora.
In particolare, nella zona di Faenza, la Luna sorge intorno alle 19:34.
Bisogna considerare che il Sole a Faenza tramonta alle 19:37, per cui potrebbe non essere facile individuare il disco eclissato della Luna (rosso scuro e poco luminoso) tra le ultime luci del giorno. Prevediamo quindi che vedremo "comparire" in cielo la Luna eclissata mano a mano che si fa buio e il cielo diventa più scuro.
Alle 20:11 avremo il massimo dell'eclissi, alle 20:52 terminerà la totalità, e alle 21:56 la Luna uscirà completamente dall'ombra, ma sarà ancora in penombra fino alle 22:55.
Nonostante il caldo diurno, le temperature di notte possono ridursi notevolmente, specialmente in aperta campagna. Per passare una serata piacevole, si consiglia di portare qualcosa per coprirsi in caso di freddo.
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guy who is not authorised to make foreign policy decisions travels overseas on public's dime to.... make foreign policy decisions??? So couple of obvious themes:
- guy likes to travel with comfort on public dime
- it's a private bribe session
- he'll be asking US to kick some money his way to take over the "uncooperative" government
French police kill man suspected of stabbing five people in Marseille
French police kill man suspected of stabbing five people in Marseille
According to the prosecutor's office, the suspect was a Tunisian national with legal status who had just been evicted from his hotel.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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French winemaker jailed for multimillion-euro fake champagne scam
French winemaker jailed for multimillion-euro fake champagne scam
Didier Chopin, 56, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of bottles of fake champagne he made with French and Spanish wines, to which he added aromas and gas to make them sparkling.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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Could have been but it's actually more than that:
he produced fake champagne on purpose, using wines from Spain, carbonated it and added flavour packs. He then marketed it as champagne and even attempted to export it. Once caught, he fled to Morocco to start a new business.
Real Champagne actually follow a lot of rules besides the protected origin, it's a blend of wines but it's not supposed to be carbonated, and flavor balance is to be made only with specific liqueurs.
Spain produces a lot of high quality wine, but also a lot of lower quality wine, used for mixing to make cheap "table" wine. Much of that is exported, often in cartons.
Many French winemakers have been importing that type of wine for decades to mix to increase volume in lower quality wines.
Donald Trump says Israel has lost its 'total control' over US Congress
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35636163
the full interview transcript is here (archive)::: spoiler the part of it about israel
REESE: A different war, Israel, a March Pew Poll, found that 53% of surveyed U.S. adults had an unfavorable view of Israel, that’s down – or that is up from 42% in 2022. Among young Republicans under 50, 50% have an unfavorable view of Israel. That’s up from 35% in 2022. There’s a growing group within the MAGA, America First coalition, Republicans, especially younger Republicans, who are skeptical of our support for Israel. Are you aware of this group? Are you worried about it?TRUMP: Yeah I’m aware of it. So, Israel is amazing, because, you know, I have good support from Israel. I have. Look, nobody has done more for Israel than I have, including the recent attacks with Iran, wiping that thing out. We, that plane, wiped them out like nobody ever saw before. You know, we got back and CNN was trying to say ‘well, maybe it wasn’t complete,’ and it turned out totally complete, beyond complete. But when, if you go back 20 years. I mean, I will tell you, Israel had the strongest lobby in Congress of anything or body, or of any company or corporation or state that I’ve ever seen. Israel was the strongest. Today, it doesn’t have that strong a lobby. It’s amazing.
There was a time where you couldn’t speak bad, if you wanted to be a politician, you couldn’t speak badly. But today, you have, you know, AOC plus three, and you have all these lunatics, and they’ve really, they’ve changed it. You’re too young to know this, but if you go back 15 years, probably that’s when it started, right. Israel, you would understand this very much, Israel was the strongest lobby I’ve ever seen. They had total control over Congress, and now they don’t, you know, I’m a little surprised to see that. And people, they forgot about October 7th. You know, October 7th was a truly horrible day, because I’ve seen the pictures.
REESE: I was just over in Israel, and we went right up to the war where you could hear the bombs dropping in Gaza. And we went to the places from October 7th. Scary. Being in it. I understand —
TRUMP: It was a really bad one, right?
REESE: Yeah.
TRUMP: And you know, you have people that deny it ever happened, they’re deniers. You have people that deny the Holocaust ever happened. So, they’re gonna have to get that war over with. But it is hurting Israel. There’s no question about it. They may be winning the war, but they’re not winning the world of public relations, you know, and it is hurting them. But Israel was the strongest lobby 15 years ago that there has ever been, and now it’s, it’s been hurt, especially in Congress.
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EXCLUSIVE: Full Transcript: Daily Caller Interviews President Donald Trump
The Daily Caller's White House correspondent Reagan Reese interviewed President Donald Trump for an hour in the Oval Office. This is the full transcript.Reagan Reese (The Daily Caller)
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(Some) People are up in arms about Russian meddling in the west, but Israel has been doing it since the 40's and no one batted an eyelash.
The fact that some (many?) Jewish lawmakers and military are allowed to have dual Israeli/US citizenship is baffling to me.
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John Swinney pauses new funding for arms firms supplying Israel
John Swinney pauses new funding for arms firms supplying Israel
The first minister said the government could not ignore evidence that Israel was committing genocide.Glenn Campbell (BBC News)
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Why just a pause rather than cancelling any arm shipment to Israel committing a genocide?
Scottish Green co-leader Ross Greer welcomed the first minister's announcement but called on him to go further and urge all Scottish businesses to boycott Israel, a call Swinney rejected.
So Israel will keep getting revenues from trading that will be used for the genocide
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That price includes a whole bunch of stuff besides the actual tank. To quote the Czech Ministry of Defence (machine-translated):
The purchase price of 44 tanks includes self-propelled and anti-mine protection systems, as well as integrated logistics support including spare parts, support management, documentation and training.
So basically it's 44 tanks plus a massive service and supply contract to keep the tanks running properly
Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality
Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality
The Chinese and Russian leaders have been in power for 13 and 25 years respectively, with neither expressing any intention of stepping down.Emily Atkinson (BBC News)
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Fifa says 2026 World Cup tickets will start at $60 but dynamic pricing looms
Fifa says 2026 World Cup tickets will start at $60 but dynamic pricing looms
The World Cup organizer has set a price floor of $60 per match, though that will likely change as variable pricing takes hold early.Alexander Abnos (The Guardian)
States fast-track wind, solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline
States fast-track wind, solar permits and contracts to beat Trump’s deadline
Federal tax credits have brought project costs down 30 to 50 percent, advocates say.Alex Brown, Stateline (Grist)
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Jamaicans head to polls for election as ruling party faces corruption concerns
Jamaicans head to polls for election as ruling party faces corruption concerns
Polls point to ‘very close election’ between the Jamaica Labour party and the opposition People’s National partyNatricia Duncan (The Guardian)
Sudanese rape victims speak from Chad’s refugee camps
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Sudanese rape victims speak from Chad’s refugee camps
Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have fled Sudan’s war, only to be faced with violence again in Chad.Caitlin Kelly (Al Jazeera)
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in reply to xc2215x • • •There really is no news story here other than a wild right-wing conspiracy theory.
There are tens of thousands candidates in this election with 17 known deaths among the candidates, 7 of which are AfD candidates. This might seem high at first glance, but since there is no central institution keeping track of this, there might be more deaths for the other parties that are just not known. Also, as others have pointed out, many AfD candidates are older men. One of the dead was 80, two others around 70.
I wish these conspiracy theories weren't just casually echoed in headlines and social media.
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in reply to ValiantDust • • •I.e. „nobody touches my schnitzel“
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in reply to xc2215x • • •Waiting for the day he is found dead with his own fist full of ketamine in his ass.
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in reply to rustyfish • • •Not in 🇺🇲. He is safest there, as the country is full of temporary embarrassed trillionaires.
One quick look at the 🇺🇲 replies I get when I tell them to insurrect, answers their quo.
Hope Germans continues making strange disappearance until they are all gone.🫡
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in reply to whiwake • • •Seems like you're projecting.
So by “whiwake, ” I can assume you're Russian, and support Vladimir?
whiwake
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in reply to whiwake • • •whiwake
in reply to 反いじめ戦隊 • • •The part where you bully people directly to satisfy that dopamine rush you crave. This is most likely undiagnosed anti-social personality disorder.
It’s that part where you refuse to answer direct question. You do it on purpose. I find it pretty funny, which is why I keep asking you direct questions.
How does my username, that was randomly generated, sound Russian to you? Or, are you just chasing that dopamine again? 😂
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in reply to whiwake • • •Ok, you're def. projecting there. Maybe disconnect, touch grass, form an antifa.
Here’s a direct answer: how does knowing where I am aid eliminating the AfD problem. Bist du Deutscher?
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in reply to Tja • • •1) Thank you for asking first, instead of downvoting.
2) Sure, let me try:
Logistically, A[merican+Mao[ist]]s (pun) haven't dismantled a single [deathcamp](Maoist equivalent. you may know “gulag”). [So why] risk getting shot down while flying across the Pacific Ocean? Another Pearl [Harbour], just [to help another] lemmy+Mao (portmanteau&insult)?
This was written in way Chinese & Japanese can grasp the historical contexts we both faced being persecuted from the Chinese Communist Revolution, and Japanese deathcamps in the US. The folks I’m insulting are Maoist sympathizers: e.i. MAGA: which lemmyverse has 5 instances thereof.
mass incarceration, in the US, of Japanese during WWII
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Tja
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in reply to CmdrShepard49 • • •While I thank you for doing something whiwake refused to change off themselves for, you are grossly mischaracterizing what I said in that 🧵.
How likely is it that temporarily embarrassed Maoists will cease TSA insta-deathcamping, when not a single ICE facility has been demolished, and instead they are constructing more?
I don't fear insurrection, I fear 🇺🇲s are Maoist through and through. So why bother?
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in reply to 反いじめ戦隊 • • •"I keep telling these people who are being crushed with an oppressive boot to stop being crushed with an oppressive boot, but they just won't listen. "
Listen, what you're saying has no nuance and is easy to say without having to take any action yourself. Even if you're well meaning, only actions matter here and trying to have an understanding and context of actual life in America. It's easy to be on the outside looking in on the trainwreck here.
You clearly have no idea how many protests and riots we've had in response, but it gets swiftly stomped out. You don't seem to understand how the strength of one of (if not the) strongest military power can be used against its own people to end a peaceful protest with force. If the police won't do it, they send in the National Guard.
I'm not proud of my country. I don't make excuses for my country. In many ways I hate my country. But your words are tone deaf and frankly pathetic.
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in reply to naticus • • •And if you read my replies, Korea broke its boot. Thailand broke theirs. Spain bombed theirs. Indonesia is literally showing them up. France has done it twice now. Netherlands once.
Why are you 🇺🇲s so different that you can not replicate success of your prior allies?
Why are you, so successful at installing despots around the world, that when a coup starts at home, you fail so damn hard at keeping the wigs off?
If you have already accepted your deaths, then why even bother replying to me on lemmy? Just check out, no need to further assist fascists more than you already have. Just like end it.
I’m just not hopeless, that I won't bring down one with me along too.
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in reply to 反いじめ戦隊 • • •That is exactly the fucking answer. Who is doing this? Our military. Because they're that god damned strong. You just listed a bunch of countries that while things may have been difficult, they do not at all compare to a super power's military strength. They just don't. That's not something I'm happy about, and that's not even American exceptionalism talking, that's just the reality and the disparity of the different miliary strengths.
I'm not accepting it and you don't get to say when I can and cannot speak out just because we disagree.
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in reply to naticus • • •Good. Then I’ll continue saying “beat your ‘god damned strong’ military at urban guerrilla Vietnam proved still works on their asses.” Your Maoists failed twice to make scrambled eggs, now show me what “Democrats” can do, other than comply.
You have the perfect distraction now, that the chariman is at war with Venezuela. 🫡
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in reply to 反いじめ戦隊 • • •Yep I completely agree that our Democratic party does incredibly little. They got all upset at Trump calling them Do Nothing Democrats during his first term, but it's the fucking truth. Voting Democrat is only the "lesser evil" because the alternatives are either fascists or independents who have no power hold whatsoever at ANY level of government in the entire nation.
The part that is infuriating for me is that I'd rather at least have a more centrist party if not outright liberal party, because Democrats are still conservative; they're just further left of Republicans. The only liberal parties are independents and you cannot get federal power without first having local/city power, and then state power, and finally federal. It'll never work on any other way in the US and that's been proven for over 200 years.
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in reply to naticus • • •What is this “it” you think has been tried that “hasn’t worked yet”?
Do you think parades with cute little signs are “doing something”? What am I thinking, of course you do.
“People are trying.” 😅 Nobody is trying. Going to a protest in a Saturday is less than nothing. If I’m wrong, show your work.
naticus
in reply to WizardofFrobozz • • •WizardofFrobozz
in reply to naticus • • •naticus
in reply to WizardofFrobozz • • •WizardofFrobozz
in reply to naticus • • •My point is that what is happening to the US is happening and will continue to happen because of people like you insisting that they’re doing enough and getting defensive when anyone says otherwise.
It’s fine, keep it up. The fascists are counting on it.
naticus
in reply to WizardofFrobozz • • •It's easy to point blame at something or someone when you're completely unaffected by the problem and have zero personal stake. What I'm trying to tell you is that everyone needs to prioritize their own privacy online and it wouldn't matter if I was a resistance general or the just the random dude on the street. We all have something to lose.
The only thing I will say is that I do work for government myself. No, it's not an elected position, and no I'm not someone high up in legislation or anything like that. But I have been a public employee for decades now and my own state has proven that they can and will work to have someone forcefully resigned based on unfavorable social media posts.
So again, no.
But also "because of people like you" is exactly the kind of shit we should be fighting against saying in the first place, my dude. Because that leads to generalizations that those in power do take advantage of.
WizardofFrobozz
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in reply to 反いじめ戦隊 • • •反いじめ戦隊
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in reply to DoucheBagMcSwag • • •Klear
in reply to samus12345 • • •Coyote_sly
in reply to xc2215x • • •Tuukka R
in reply to Coyote_sly • • •A natural death at an old age?
Nah, nazis deserve much worse than these asses.
Cosmoooooooo
in reply to xc2215x • • •Hey everyone, the nazis (AFD) are taking over Germany. They should have been banned under their laws, but the government chickened out. Huge funding from nazi billionaires and Russian nazis are helping them to overthrow all rationality, and install nazis everywhere. Nazis need to be dealt with harshly and quickly, lest they take over your government from the inside.
No, not enough is being done.
This story is just sensationist bullshit, but can be used to spread awareness of German Nazis.
Ileftreddit
in reply to Cosmoooooooo • • •kureta
in reply to Ileftreddit • • •Ileftreddit
in reply to kureta • • •Cocopanda
in reply to kureta • • •lechekaflan
in reply to kureta • • •~~Punchable face.~~
No, no, punchable is too nice. Something stronger.
MajorasTerribleFate
in reply to lechekaflan • • •ameancow
in reply to lechekaflan • • •Something more like what Luigi does.
And by that, I mean Mario's brother who can jump on turtles and mushrooms of course.
plyth
in reply to kureta • • •He has it backwards. Democracy is used to keep people placid in Capitalism because they feel in control and think that they live the best possible life.
He must mean free market economy and he must believe that progress comes from free market competition and he sees that threatened.
Is he that naive that he believes that Palantir and such will be used to bring back free markets?
kureta
in reply to plyth • • •He thinks competition is for losers. You have to create monopoly if you are a serious capitalist. source
democracy is no longer enough to keep the masses silent, so we need a dictator so that the capitalists can keep on capitaling
- YouTube
youtu.beameancow
in reply to kureta • • •He is anti-humanity in all regards, he is one of the most openly psychopathic elites to have control over some fraction of the world.
But yeah Q-anon and conspiracy theorists, keep rummaging in pizza places and cement factory basements looking for the shadowy cabal who are hurting people. I'm sure you'll find the real bad guys aaaannnny day now.
hector
in reply to Ileftreddit • • •ruuster13
in reply to xc2215x • • •Treczoks
in reply to xc2215x • • •A_norny_mousse
in reply to xc2215x • • •Of course they be baking like crazy now. And of course some welcome that with open arms:
However...
A_norny_mousse
in reply to xc2215x • • •Always fascinating to look at this (black = CxU, light blue = AfD):
BTW, All Hail Leipzig!
HSR🏴☠️
in reply to A_norny_mousse • • •I can do one better:
% of foreigners in population
Source: service.destatis.de/DE/karten/…
% of votes cast for AfD in 2025
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternat…
Karte: Statistiken zu Ausländern und Schutzsuchenden (Flüchtlingen) – Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis)
service.destatis.deubergeek
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in reply to xc2215x • • •pyre
in reply to xc2215x • • •RonniePickering
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in reply to xc2215x • • •Cocopanda
in reply to xc2215x • • •T00l_shed
in reply to Cocopanda • • •HasturInYellow
in reply to xc2215x • • •I'm genuinely curious, does he believe himself to be a human? Or a capitalist? Is his goal to better the lives of humans or capitalists? He talks like he would gladly exterminate the entire human race so that finally the markets could be fully FREE.
Like.... Somehow these people managed to avoid being locked up for violent delusions and then were given EVERY RESOURCE ON THE PLANET TO MEET OUT THEIR DELUSIONS ON THE REST OF US.
MehBlah
in reply to HasturInYellow • • •hector
in reply to MehBlah • • •They want a market free from antitrust enforcement.
Preferably one with barriers to entry for new players.
Luckily for them that is exactly what they have. Or exactly as they have engineered I should say.
MehBlah
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