[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I think the U.S. will decline much more quickly. The Orange Guy has been in office for barely more than a year and a half, again—the damage he’s done this time around is pretty much irreparable.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Does it make a difference?

Injustice remains injustice, even if those in power declare it to be just. However, if they ignore the law and no one holds them accountable, there can be no hope for improvement, because that is only possible in a state where the law no longer matters.

What interests me is when this happened. It was apparently a gradual transition, unlike in Nazi Germany, where the law was explicitly changed to justify inhumanity.

The U.S. Nazis thus seem to be pursuing a different strategy to seize absolute power—a strategy that U.S. citizens are evidently enabling them to carry out because what they do is blatantly illegal, but the law is not enforced.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I can’t understand how you can still believe you’re living in a functioning constitutional state.

Everything you say is completely refuted by the Epstein case alone.

I can’t understand how anyone can be so blind.

As I said, in Germany, massive violence was necessary to bring about Nazi rule.

In the U.S., that doesn’t even seem to be necessary, because its citizens apparently view blatant injustice as the norm.

The point at which the U.S. legal system endorses absolute injustice has long since been reached. Even the Supreme Court agrees.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

It was a very specific question. You’re the one turning it into an abstraction.

I can give a very specific answer to that, since I’m from Germany: In Germany in 1933, the Nazis used the legal system to give their inhuman crimes a veneer of legality. The reason for this was their absolute and extremely violent seizure of political power. They even retroactively legalized murders—including those of their own henchmen, such as Ernst Röhm, and many of their own party members.

Millions upon millions were murdered by the Nazis—and all of this was sanctioned by the legal system of that monstrous state.

This did not end until 1945 with the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany.

However, a victory was evidently not achieved, for today in Israel and the U.S., hundreds of thousands of people are being held in concentration camps that are hardly any different from those of the Nazis.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

If you think there’s something cryptic about this, it explains to me how what’s happening in the U.S. is possible.

I’m from Germany, the country where the Nazis ruled from 1933 to 1945. Everything they did was, at least in hindsight, covered by the law.

The difference from the U.S. today, however, is that the Nazis in Germany were only able to put their degenerate ideology into practice after they seized absolute power. They didn’t do that until 1933—and even then, they maintained the appearance of legality and enshrined their inhuman ideology in law.

The U.S., however, claims to be a democracy, a constitutional state, and yet it is detaining tens of thousands of people—just as the Nazis were only able to do once they had murdered hundreds of thousands of their political opponents.

That is what my question refers to.

To put it another way: When will U.S. citizens realize that their legal system primarily serves to oppress them?

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

The quote you've taken from this article could hardly be more inappropriate, since it bears no resemblance to reality—in either version.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

That was a long time ago—here in Germany, it was 1933 when Hitler enacted the so-called Enabling Act.

Nazi Germany was defeated in World War II, but U.S. billionaires made sure that their counterparts were never held accountable for their crimes.

That is why, in light of recent events, I ask

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They still aren't doing that, quite the opposite, in fact, which shows who's really running the U.S. and what a farce this so called democracy is—the very democracy they supposedly always defend around the world. For example, in Israel, which also had the very best connections to Epstein, as evidenced even by the little information that the so-called U.S. law enforcement agencies are willing to disclose.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

That's absolutely right; the only problem is that those chief-idiot are so rich that they control most of what the Internet means to the vast majority of people.

That's just how people are, unfortunately, as evidenced by the fact that platforms like Twitter or Reddit, for example, are still used by the masses.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

You could actually list every billionaire in the world. It’s simply impossible to become that absurdly rich without getting involved in these schemes. They all know each other and would never allow anyone who was even remotely decent to rise to their level.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

Absolutely, and they are undoubtedly one of the key players responsible for the global resurgence of fascism—for example, in the form of the current U.S. regime, but at the same time also in other countries, first and foremost Israel, but also in Europe, and in every remaining democracy. Their unlimited resources make this possible, and they want more and more.

As I said: These are humanity’s worst enemies.

[-] DandomRude@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago

The Walton family is certainly one of humanity's greatest enemies.

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Gepostet von Martin Sonneborn mit folgender Beschreibung:

Dieser Auszug aus der Rede von Navid Kermani beim feierlichen Rekrutengelöbnis im Bendlerblock lohnt sich nicht nur wegen des dummen Gesichts, das Verteidigungsminister Pistolius dabei macht... Smiley!

"Zu sagen, was ist, bleibt die revolutionärste Tat." R.L.

Zusammenfassung:

Kermani kritisiert die Unterstützung der Bundesregierung, insbesondere des Bundeskanzlers, für den völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg der US und Israels gegen den Iran.

Er verweist auf den Wert des internationalen Rechts für die Aufrechterhaltung eines ordnungsbasierten, friedlichen Zusammenlebens und fordert die Rekruten, zu denen er bei diesem Anlass spricht, dazu auf, einen möglichen Befehl zur Teilnahme an einem völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg zu verweigern.

Kermani begründet dies, indem er die Verantwortung betont, die insbesondere Deutschland für die Verteidigung des internationalen Rechts schon aufgrund seiner historischen Verantwortung trägt.

Subjektive Einordnung:

Meine Ermessens sind es dieser Tage leider viel zu selten gehörte, offene Worte, die deutlich machen, wie absurd das Verhalten der Bundesregierung ist, und wie konträr deren Duckmäusertum gegenüber den US jenen Werten entgegensteht, für die Deutschland auf internationaler Ebene einstehen sollte, zu deren Bewahrung und Verteidigung wir sogar verpflichtet sind.

Es ist ein unaufgeregtes, gut begründetes Plädoyer gegen eine Beteiligung an illegalen Kriegen, Kriegsverbrechen und Völkermord.

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Am 2. Juli haben die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD beschlossen, das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (IFG) faktisch abzuschaffen – ein Frontalangriff auf unsere Informationsfreiheit und Demokratie. Dabei versprach die Bundesregierung im Koalitionsvertrag noch das Gegenteil: eine Reform des IFG „mit einem Mehrwert für Bürgerinnen und Bürger". Diesen Angriff müssen wir stoppen. (...)

Link zur Petition

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Please go easy on the downvotes—the point here is to try to understand a perspective that many of you probably won't share.

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I’m talking about derogatory terms like “nerd,” “geek,” “wise-ass,” and so on, as well as sayings like “nobody likes a smart aleck.”

It seems to me that these terms and expressions are used much more frequently in the business world than derogatory terms like “show-off,” “charlatan,” “fraud,” and so on.

I can’t even think of a commonly used saying for the latter. Only: “Fake it till you make it,” which is really more of a reinforcement of the idea that knowledge isn’t very valuable.

Is it just my impression?

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This illusion is what made the current AI hype possible in the first place, and it is now causing humanity to take steps backward rather than moving forward. Yet AI technology could be used fairly and very effectively if it weren’t marketed exactly as it is: as a machine that supposedly enables everyone to do things they don’t have the slightest clue about.

This is what has made social media so profitable, and it’s also the reason why LLMs aren’t being used the way they should be, but are instead being sold as artificial intelligence to idiots who don’t have the slightest clue about the subject -not about what it takes or how long it takes to write a book, paint a picture, write a scientific article, code a secure application, or whatever.

The profit motive has turned the internet into the opposite of what it should have been, and AI technology has consequently ended up as an instrument of power in the hands of a small number of people who are incredibly narrow-minded but, unfortunately, also incredibly powerful due to their boundless greed.

It is the general public that bears the brunt of this boundless greed.

If things continue this way and we look just a few decades into the future, this is exactly what will spell the end of humanity, since profit is always prioritized over the common good.

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This is the introductory text of a petition from Germany calling on the President of the European Commission to enforce existing law rather than granting exemptions to U.S. tech giants on her own initiative, without consulting the public:

Google is violating Europe’s digital rules. The European Commission had therefore already planned to impose a fine of billions of euros. However, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is said to have blocked the decision at the last minute—apparently out of concern over political pressure from the U.S. This sends a dangerous signal: Europe’s laws must apply even when powerful corporations and governments challenge them. We call on Ursula von der Leyen and the European Commission: Enforce the Digital Markets Act consistently against Google. Defend our democratic rules against the power of the big tech companies.

Introduction to a Petition by Campact (German organization) with more than 70,000 signatures after one week

Please post links to similar petitions from other EU countries in the comments. It is unacceptable for our politicians to unilaterally suspend existing laws in order to sell us out to US corporations. Fight back!

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