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@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

This was an amazing soliloquy performed by an amazing actor that was written by an the Shakespeare hundreds of years ago that unfortunately is very apropos for today in the Trump USA https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116022348435120053

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

This sums the situation up nicely:

For anyone questioning the legality of attacking Venezuela and abducting their leader:

Remember we're talking about a highly corrupt leader, a known criminal who used his high office to make billions for himself, and has manipulated elections to stay in power, has used his military against his own citizens, has protected his corrupt friends and punished his political enemies.

And the President of Venezuela did some bad things too.

Just text saying: For anyone questioning the legality of attacking Venezuela and abducting their leader: Remember we're talking about a highly corrupt leader, a known criminal who used his high office to make billions for himself, and has manipulated elections to stay in power, has used his military against his own citizens, has protected his corrupt friends and punished his political enemies. And the President of Venezuela did some bad things too.
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@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

"The goal of the Nuremberg Trials was straightforward: To punish those who committed these horrific crimes and to deter others from engaging in the same conduct in the future. That is the very reason why Donald Trump along with Stephen Miller, Border czar Tom Homan and DHS secretary Kristi Noem--at the very least--need to be held accountable for their crimes in connection with their mass deportations that have repeatedly violated the law. If what they are doing is not a crime against humanity, then nothing is."

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trump-stephen-miller-tom-homan-and

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

““We visited a dark factory producing some astronomical number of mobile phones,” recalls Greg Jackson, the boss of British energy supplier Octopus.
“The process was so heavily automated that there were no workers on the manufacturing side, just a small number who were there to ensure the plant was working.
“You get this sense of a change, where China’s competitiveness has gone from being about government subsidies and low wages to a tremendous number of highly skilled, educated engineers who are innovating like mad.””

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

"The damage isn't theoretical. It's active. It's live. And it's reshaping the world. Trade routes are shifting. Investment is diversifying. Global power is rebalancing. China, Korea, and Japan are shaking hands. All of it is premised on a hard-earned truth: the United States cannot be trusted to lead. Not because of one man but because of what half the country has chosen to normalize. Not because of Trump alone but because every institution built to restrain him failed and then got in line."


https://www.theindex.media/trust-is-dead-trump-keeps-selling-the-corpse/?ref=dispatches-newsletter

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

"You should know Trump isn’t doing this on his own. The Hoover Institution has been plotting revenge against FDR since 1932. Groups like the Heritage Foundation and Heartland Foundation are generations old. The Federalist Society has been promising to overturn liberal justice since the 1960s. The Religious Right started working to overturn Roe v. Wade the day it was promulgated. All these groups have big money, and they play the long game.

What’s happening today is their platform, backed by their research. The fact it won’t work, that the 20th century won’t be put back into a bottle, that the Amendments put in place after 1865 somehow aren’t part of the “real” Constitution, is yet to be proven by events."

https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/all-in-the-family

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

"Because in Trump's world, peace is weakness, cooperation is betrayal, and suffering is sacred. April 2nd isn't a policy milestone. It’s a rally. It’s Ash Wednesday for the faithful. It's meant to be remembered like a national baptism, a reboot of American strength as defined by how much punishment we're willing to take.

Liberation Day is a lie. But lies, when repeated with spectacle and certainty, have power.

The global community cannot meet that lie with polite disagreement. We need to drag it into the light and expose its rot. This isn't the New Deal. This isn’t even Reaganomics. This is a movement willing to burn the economy just to watch the smoke rise behind a flag.

There's no negotiating with that. There's only resisting it—tariff by tariff, myth by myth, lie by lie. The more we normalize this performance, the more we validate the ritual. And the longer the global community lets America build its religion of pain, the more we risk becoming converts without even realizing it."

https://www.theindex.media/trumps-liberation-day-is-a-holy-war-on-reality/?ref=dispatches-newsletter

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

"I've seen smarter cabinets at Ikea." - quote of the day

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

The article has some useful context about Musk's career, notably what a sleazeball he has always been in his business and public dealings. It also points up the way governments have refused to do their regulatory jobs – and, less explicitly, how journalism has been a lapdog along the way.

But as it accurately points out Musk's desperate efforts to slow or reverse the well-deserved slide at Tesla, it doesn't get into the truly scary stuff. Namely, Musk won't give a damn about Tesla or its shareholders if his coup (per the first piece in this newsletter) succeeds. If he can divert U.S. government spending even more (see: SpaceX) into his bank accounts, Tesla will be an afterthought. Everything we know about this guy says there are no boundaries on his lust for money, and power. - @dangillmor


https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-human-meme-stock/682023/?gift=E9o0y7Rlfcfv2OQ1sSVCEgkDEKZYs7EieUCMLo2g4Cg&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

Like most Democrats, I’m trained to believe that you always vote for [continuing resolutions]. Government shutdowns are a stupid idea. It’s the radical Republicans who want to shut down the government.

But this is a bizarre situation in which the president of the United States and this billionaire are already shutting down the government.

So if I’m a Democrat in Congress, why do I vote for a continuing resolution to fund programs that are not continuing? It really is just a blank check.

It’s like giving Trump and Musk a trillion dollars and saying, Spend it as you like…

https://newrepublic.com/article/192575/transcript-trump-sinking-heres-dems-shouldnt-save-him

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@rberger This is the first post I've seen with this opinion posted on here, but as much as I'd like to boost it, a boost isn't going to happen because it's The New Republic behind a paywall. The New Republic prefers to keep the public in the dark.

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random

Elon Musk has ordered everyone to stop donating to Wikipedia.

I never started, until today seeing a similar message.

‪donate.wikimedia.org‬ is the link, if anyone feels like disobeying a direct order from a billionaire jerkwad.

@rberger@hachyderm.io avatar rberger , to random
A magazine cover in the stile of Mad Magazine but it’s called MA.I.D. With the subtitle “Giving A.I. the middle fingers” and the picture sowing a hand with 6 fingers and the two middle fingers giving “the bird”
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