Das stimmt schon, aber deren Präsenz auf dieser Plattform hat ja keineswegs dazu geführt, dass hier Rationalität eingekehrt wäre. Darauf hat selbst der reichweitenstärkste Inhaltsproduzent ohnehin so gut wie keinen Einfluss, denn was die Menschen sehen, steuert im Wesentlichen Musk, wofür es mehr als genug Belege gibt.

Von daher bleibt nur noch, die Plattform zu verlassen. Tut man das nicht, wird es weiter eine selbsterfüllende Prophezeiung bleiben - eben eine Plattform, die man nicht verlassen kann, weil alle dort sind.

Außerdem zählt der Besitzer sowie dessen Milliardärsclique zu den wichtigsten Unterstützern der CDU. Das ist auch der Grund, wieso die CDU mit ihren stumpfen, ausländerfeindlichen Parolen gerade bei Twitter so erfolgreich ist, denn der Algorithmus fördert gezielt diese Inhalte, damit die Leute von diesem Unsinn nach Möglichkeit so sehr abgelenkt sind, dass sie nicht durchschauen, wer tatsächlich dafür verantwortlich ist, dass es ihnen von Jahr zu Jahr schlechter geht. Das funktioniert leider erschreckend gut...

I think there are mainly two reasons for this:

1. In fiction, you’re simply not personally affected, so you don’t have to face any adversity or negative consequences. It costs nothing to see yourself as part of the revolutionary movement, and you don’t put yourself in danger.

2. Apparently, many people simply don’t want to admit what monsters their leaders really are, even though it’s actually obvious. This is the result of decades of propaganda, I think: The U.S., for example, has always seen itself as the friendly superpower that brings freedom and democracy to the world. Now that it is obvious even to the biggest idiot that this has always been a lie - since the regime has abandoned the facade - people are looking for other explanations to maintain the worldview they have long held to be true - such as the excuse that the current U.S. president is being controlled by evil forces from other countries (Russia/Israel) and therefore does not represent his own, indeed so righteous, country at all.

The same applies to the United States, which not only advocates openly for the abolition of international law but, together with the genocidal butchers in Israel, tramples on human rights and commits the most horrific war crimes. Russia is doing the same in Ukraine.

While it is, of course, entirely true that China commits human rights violations on a daily basis, so do autocratic, unjust regimes such as Saudi Arabia - and not just since yesterday.

Therefore, it seems entirely appropriate to me to point out that China, at least, is not bombing other countries - though if they were to decide to do so, it would likely be a war of aggression against Taiwan, in which case they could just as easily invoke the law of the jungle, as the unscrupulous monsters who rule Russia and the U.S. demonstrate.

Their murderous acts make it all the more important to hold accountable those countries that not only commit human rights violations within their own borders but also, through their evil ambitions, undermine what little humanity remains in the form of international law - these countries are far more dangerous to a world even halfway worth living in.

Nevertheless, China, too, commits serious human rights violations and should be held accountable for them - but it only becomes harder to hold them accountable when the despots who raze entire hospitals and schools to the ground are not even reprimanded for their atrocities.

Edit: The same can be said about the erosion of civil liberties and privacy protections - in this context, too, the U.S. and Russia are leading the way, seeking to normalize unwarranted mass surveillance through their unscrupulousness or, quite practically, through malicious corporations like Palantir.

That sounds like very little, considering that anyone still working under this criminal regime at the DOJ is clearly making themselves liable to prosecution.

Obstruction of justice, blatant corruption, and the resulting facilitation of the most serious crimes simply don’t look all too good if you don’t want to end up in prison or, as a lawyer, at least want to keep your license - but hey, the U.S. isn’t exactly a constitutional state tbh: Presumably, the remaining opportunists are speculating on a nice position in the emerging autocracy, which then won’t even need to keep up the pretense anymore.

Who can blame them for trying, when we see every day that even blatant crimes in the U.S. have absolutely no legal consequences?

Yes, that was indeed a very interesting story:

Zimmermann challenged these regulations in an imaginative way. In 1995, he published the entire source code of PGP in a hardback book, via MIT Press, which was distributed and sold widely. Anyone wishing to build their own copy of PGP could cut off the covers, separate the pages, and scan them using an OCR program (or conceivably enter it as a type-in program if OCR software was not available), creating a set of source code text files. One could then build the application using the freely available GNU Compiler Collection. PGP would thus be available anywhere in the world. The claimed principle was simple: export of munitions—guns, bombs, planes, and software—was (and remains) restricted; but the export of books is protected by the First Amendment. The question was never tested in court with respect to PGP. In cases addressing other encryption software, however, two federal appeals courts have established the rule that cryptographic software source code is speech protected by the First Amendment (the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Bernstein case and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Junger case)...

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Has it gotten so bad that you have to send stuff to the manager to get it printed?

That's true, but unfortunately it won't be solved, at least not in the US. Simply because private prisons are such a profitable business there.

That's cute and all, but it's also pretty much what Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Spotify and all the other tech giants are doing when they're joyfully tracking what people are doing without their knowledge or consent.

I find it quite strange that "old and weird" seems to work better than "corrupt and criminal".

A system that appoints supreme constitutional judges for life and without even halfway serious democratic checks and balances seems to me the perfect recipe for disaster and corruption. But hey, I'm from Europe, so what do I know... ¯_(ツ)_/¯