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@unruly@mastodon.social avatar unruly , to random

If we are all going to die any, I'm dying laughing at the Right.

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is a bad joke.

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@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

Listen to Pete.

A screenshot of a Twitter post by Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) with a profile picture of a man in a suit. The post reads: "Donald Trump is way less popular than he wants you to believe. And you are significantly more powerful than he wants you to think." The background is dark blue, and the text is white.
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@georgetakei

Pete for Pres.

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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

Yesterday I posed the Q.:

Is, or will, Charlie Kirk be the Tangerine Tyrant's Horst Wessel?

Looking at the Kirk Memorial in Glendale stadium... the answer looks increasingly like 'yes'....

(history really is rhyming if not exactly repeating)

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@ChrisMayLA6

Horst being killed by communists, Kirk being killed by what might be a rightwinger seems a big distinction. Of course that won't stop them from the effort as its more likely to spur on the effort of communicating their false narrative against the left to keep the right from further fracturing.

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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us avatar ChrisMayLA6 , to random

John Naughton argues that we are currently experiencing the 'morbid symptoms' of a Gramscian interregnum; the period Antonio Gramsci described between the collapse of the old order and the (as yet delayed) birth of the new.

I've always had a lot of time for Gramsci's ideas (indeed when a functioning academic I was sometimes referred to as a neo-Gramscian) & think that Naughton is right on the button with this analysis.

Well worth 5mins of your time!

https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/the-three-sickbag-spectacle-of-tech-bros-at-the-court-of-trump-20

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@girlinblack @vonFriedland @ChrisMayLA6

The quote from Gramsci is quite descriptive. I know he also has insights on praxis. Waiting to see what will follow is hopeless and helpless. What will arise depends on both sound analysis and strategic action.

"The philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways. The point, however, is to change it."

--Marx

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@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

"That is not who we are."

United States representative Eric Swalwell says it exactly like it is: Trump's sensorship of comedians is unamerican.

https://youtube.com/shorts/AX0L5EvMFBo

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@randahl

It maybe used to be unamerican but time will tell if it's still unamerican. What America is now ain't lookin too good.

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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

BREAKING NEWS: Reports indicate that the Department of War is changing its name to the Department of Slaughter. Pete Hegseth will make the official announcement later today while clubbing a baby seal on live television.

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@lowqualityfacts

There remains a lot of truth in your fiction.

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@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

Trump and his apparatchiks have a new rule: If they merely accuse you of being bad, they can order the military to murder you -- with impunity, as long as their criminal regime remains in power.

Coming soon to America's streets and homes if we don't stop them somehow.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/04/trumps-killing-alleged-venezuelan-drug-traffickers

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@dangillmor

The Supreme Court Injustices said so.

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@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

Listen, I can rise to meet the historical moment or I can remember to eat a sandwich, but you can't expect me to do both.

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@evacide

No one yet has risen to the occassion. The sandwich rules.

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@randahl@mastodon.social avatar randahl , to random

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says discussions on Ukraine security must include Russia at the table.

Lavrov clearly does not want to repeat Hitler's grave mistake of letting The Allies plan D-Day without a single Nazi at the table. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@randahl

Can we trust the US in this? I think not.

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@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

One way rich people get that way is to stiff their creditors. Trump has done it for decades. In this report, CNN shows how Musk has adopted that tactic.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/us/elon-musk-company-unpaid-liens-invs

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@dangillmor

Rich people stiff everyone they can.

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@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , (edited ) to random

More than two dozen retired senior US military officers and 22 former US ambassadors are among those telling a federal court that dismantling VOA is “unlawful and unwise,” as it helped achieve important foreign policy goals and confirmed America’s role as a beacon of democracy and freedom.

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@w7voa

Beacon of Democracy and Freedom is a little over the top for the nation that founded the eugenics movement.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Fwiw, I thought this was well done and so far NonCompete's answer re: "why Trump botched the Epstein story and coverup" is the only one (aside from he is the king diddler; which is my theory) that makes any sense.

If Trump is indeed purging his Cult to ensure maximum loyalty, then that points to the likelihood of an even more extreme, openly fascist program coming down the pipe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZZcGJfEtM

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@AnarchoNinaWrites

Can and will, unless stopped.

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@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

You can't really understand the MAGA base's sense of betrayal on the Epstein Files without understanding "QAnon" and the long-held belief that Trump is secretly at war against a cabal of Democrat child abusers, writes CNN’s Brian Stelter. https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/media/trump-maga-media-epstein-files-conspiracy-bondi

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@w7voa

MAGA projection, the real child abusers are MAGAts.

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@mondoweiss@social.mondoweiss.net avatar mondoweiss , to random

Palestinians did not choose a life of war and occupation. But since this life was forced on them, they have no choice but to survive — and resist.
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/palestine-letter-our-resilience-isnt-a-choice/

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@mondoweiss

Because we didn't and don't do enough to prevent a life of war and occupation we too will have to survive it and resist.

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@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

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@georgetakei

Works for China!

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@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

Well no, again, I am not really offering you a "nonviolent" solution tho because like I said, if you take away their money, these nazis are going to start shooting.

This is the part that I just can't with a lot of Americans because like, I dunno how to explain to you that your priors are just, fucking wrong, without insulting you even though I don't mean to.

We don't shoot first mate, never in history; even Castro tried peace first. It's just, they will shoot you for saying "no."

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@AnarchoNinaWrites

You must turn the other cheek when your enemies strike you said no one ever who wanted to survive.

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@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , (edited ) to random

Trump and Musk, dismantling USAID with obvious malice in their hearts, caused the deaths of countless people -- mostly children -- in the developing world. If it wasn't murder, what was it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/opinion/waste-musk-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q08.3ltE.iYTaU2nRio-2&smid=url-share

(Unlocked commentary from the NY Times, which periodically tells things are they are.)

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@dangillmor

When the many victims are the most vulnerable and innocent, it is worse than mass murder.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , (edited ) to random

Look, I ain't trying to be mean okay, I'm honestly trying to help you so you don't waste your time and energy when there are so many awful things you could be spending it on fighting instead.

Stop with the "Congress didn't approve the war" bit; it's a dead end. Presidents sneak bomb countries all the time without being punished, Trump just sucks at it. They're not gonna impeach him for something 70+% of Congress wanted to do.

Save your energy for the Gestapo/war crimes we commit. This ain't it

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@AnarchoNinaWrites

Ahh but we must follow the rules /s

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@AnarchoNinaWrites@jorts.horse avatar AnarchoNinaWrites , to random

The thing that encouraged me most about No Kings protests yesterday is how many of them were not what I expected. They looked like, well, protests. There was palpable anger and folks were being disruptive. We're not there yet, but it absolutely seemed like some of that LA energy carried over to at least the blue state No Kings events and man, that's a sight for sore eyes.

I have little faith in the Dem-aligned libs trying to leverage this; but my faith in Americans in general grew yesterday.

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@AnarchoNinaWrites

The protests were uplifting. I try to have zero faith in anything or anyone.

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@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Stephen Miller designed a policy to rip children from their parents.

Terry Moran called him a “world-class hater.”

Only one of those caused outrage.

Guess which one.

https://www.theindex.media/theres-no-civility-clause-for-fascists/

A photograph of Stephen Miller in a suit, facing the camera with a stern expression. The text overlays the image in white: “The Index.” at the top left with a checkmark. At the bottom, bold text reads: “There’s No Civility Clause for Fascists,” followed by: “It’s not offensive to call Stephen Miller hateful. It’s offensive to pretend he’s not.”
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@Daojoan

I don't know Terry Moran but these days it's rare to find the sort of honest and accurate description of hate-filled fascists on major news networks. Likely, this is because most folks on major news networks are the propaganda children of the hate-filled fascists. The best news sources are on Mastodon.

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@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."

"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

https://themindfile.substack.com/p/against-ai-literacy-have-we-actually

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@tante

Totally.

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@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

VOA "was one of the very few windows into the world the North Korean people had, and it has gone silent with no explanation." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98pnx35xj2o

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@w7voa

Another must read, if not only to be enlightened about North Korean repression, then to learn what's coming to any country, even your own, when it permits governance by autocrats of any stripe or color.

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Narrator: They are not considering the offer.

A tweet by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump ) reads: "I told Canada, which very much wants to be part of our fabulous GOLDEN DOME SYSTEM, that it will cost $61 Billion Dollars if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State. They are considering the offer!"
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@georgetakei

The USA is the Gulf dome between Canada and Mexico.

@w7voa@journa.host avatar w7voa , to random

NYT and CNN report the GSA is to send a letter to federal agencies today asking them to identify contracts with Harvard in order to stop $100 million going to the university. This is in addition to recent cuts by the government to Harvard totaling $2.65 billion.

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@w7voa

The US Government is at war with its civil institutions. It is at war with its civil society. This civil war is so far fought mostly with financial bullets and bombs.

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@thejapantimes@mastodon.social avatar thejapantimes , to random

Israeli soldiers mistakenly fired warning shots at diplomats representing the European Union, U.K., China, Russia and other countries on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/05/22/world/politics/israel-shots-eu-china-diplomats/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon

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@thejapantimes

Make no mistake. Just like the tens of thousands of Gazans were "mistakenly" shot and killed.

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@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

Here’s an idea: Stop acting like the Gestapo.

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@georgetakei

Gestapo will gestapo. It's who they are. Don't be nice to ICE.

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@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

tells Walmart "to eat the tariffs" but uh..

..wasn't Trump one of the few on this planet who keeps insisting that tariffs are paid by foreign countries? :nkoFacepalm2:

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@stux

Thankfully the free world is leading itself and waving to the fascist US from its rear view mirror.

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Moody’s downgraded the U.S.’s credit rating for the first time in history because the Republicans can’t get their fiscal house in order and Trump is playing whack-a-tariff with our biggest trading partners. Are we great yet, America?

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@georgetakei

The last time this land was great it was pre-colonial. It will never be great again as long as Cons rule over it.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_history_of_the_United_States

@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

You just traveled to the Middle East, Donald. They let you go, no issues.

Post from Donald J. Trump reads, "THE SUPREME COURT WON'T ALLOW US TO GET CRIMINALS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!"
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@georgetakei

We love you George! ❤️

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@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

Why does he wear orange make-up in the first place? Can anyone explain it?!

A tweet from Molly Ploofkins (@mollyploofkins ) reads: "When my grandma started doing her make-up like this, it was time to take the car keys away." The image shows a person with blonde hair, wearing a black suit, white shirt, and red striped tie, standing in front of the U.S. flag. The tweet includes a profile picture with the text "JUST SAY NO TO FASCISM."
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@georgetakei

Most of the filthy rich and the filthy rich wannabes are all like Trump. Shocking, I know. One of them finally came out of their closet. All of them make me cringe.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

More news from USA criminal gangsta state

"Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum Friday afternoon directing the Department of Energy to “consider using all lawful authority to rescind” or weaken regulations for water and energy efficiency for dishwashers and washing machines. The action also includes water use standards for showers, faucets, toilets, and urinals."

https://www.theverge.com/news/664670/water-energy-efficiency-standards-trump-dishwasher-washing-machine-showerhead-toilet

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@gerrymcgovern

Trump "takes aim"? Look out!

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@NewsDesk@flipboard.social avatar NewsDesk , to random

The European Union is looking to free itself from reliance on Russian energy, and they’re looking to oil and gas executives for help. Read more from @politico
https://flip.it/WqLiQo

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@NewsDesk @politico

Maybe Canada joins the and starts sending energy resources there.

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@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

FAA clears SpaceX for 25 launches a year from its Texas launch site
If SpaceX can clean up Starship's reliability issues, the company is free to fly.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/faa-clears-spacex-for-25-launches-a-year-from-its-texas-launch-site/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica

Swastirocket explosions coming to Texas.

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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

Warning, uncharacteristically high quality post

This week I got engaged to the loveliest girl I've ever met. I couldn't be happier.

Me in a green shirt standing next to my beautiful girlfriend on rocks in front of a forest.
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@lowqualityfacts

Congrats! 🥂 High quality, as usual.

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“The Hitler tariffs, announced on Friday, February 10, 1933, stunned observers. “The dimension of the tariff increases have in fact exceeded all expectations,” the Vossische Zeitung wrote disapprovingly, proclaiming the moment a “fork in the road” for the German economy. It appeared that Europe’s largest and most industrialized nation would suddenly be returning “to the furrow and the plow.” The New York Times saw this for what it was: “a trade war” against its European neighbors.

A black-and-white image with the headline "Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs" and subheading: "By seeking to ‘liberate’ Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards." The image shows a person speaking at a podium with arms raised, addressing a large crowd, with uniformed soldiers nearby. A table with water bottles is in the foreground. The byline reads "BY TIMOTHY W. RYBACK," and a red "A" is in the bottom right corner.
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@georgetakei

Can't wait for Fuhrer suicide day.

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@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

"Worldwide annual AI-related water consumption will swell from 560 billion in 2023 to 1.2 trillion liters in 2030. The latter figure is equivalent to the amount of water 480,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools. Water is consumed when it is evaporated or otherwise used in such a way that it’s not returned to the watershed from which it was drawn."

https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/ai-water-use-studies-show-tech-may-be-thirstier-than-thought/article_3a0f3177-7b2d-4aea-96a9-2dfa2a0a5984.html

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@gerrymcgovern

When the choice is the water of life or the AI idol and the AI idol wins, then what?

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@stux@mstdn.social avatar stux , to random

The US government is arresting judges who don't comply with the dictator now

How much more needs to happen before we're gonna call the US a dictatorship?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPQeZalnArY

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@stux

The US is a dictatorship.

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@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

When the midterms come, understand this:

The GOP no longer sees losing as legitimate.

If they lose, they'll claim fraud.

If they win, they'll claim mandate.

But there’s no version where they quietly accept defeat.
https://www.theindex.media/the-midterms-are-coming-the-gop-is-going-to-cheat/

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@Daojoan

They cheated last time too.

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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

Very impressive.

The pigeon is the only bird that can fly backwards.
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@lowqualityfacts

Be careful we could attract MAGA types with such high quality facts.

On second thought, no worries, we'll block them back to X🚽 where they came from.

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Humans independently edit Wikipedia for humans. They don’t have any Ads or cannot be bullied into removing content. Wikipedia is free from AI slop. No wonder tech bros with AI companies want to eliminate it so that their fake AI text generator can show or push propaganda. Please do not let Wikipedia die. It is an independent source and far more reliable than Gen AI companies. It is a real shame that it comes to this.

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@nixCraft

Wikipedia is proof of anarchy.

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@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social avatar RememberUsAlways , to random

disputes , instructions include removing all .

"China says there are no negotiations with the U.S. over tariffs."
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/china-says-there-are-no-negotiations-with-the-us-over-tariffs/



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@RememberUsAlways

Trump is the will of Putin. Hoping for the lesser of the worst, in this case China over Trump.

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@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

Calling the United States a developed nation seems increasingly inappropriate

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@Daojoan

United?

There are only States.

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@Daojoan

Take out the wealth of a few billionaires from overall wealth and the US is Third World and in decline.

Spread that wealth and the US would be a developing country.

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@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

Nothing like a collective effort to show how quickly the wheels can come off.

A post by Art Candee (@ArtCandee ) with a verified blue checkmark says: "Thank you to everyone around the world who helped bring Tesla’s net income down 71%! Now THAT is a successful protest."
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@georgetakei

Don't let up!

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@BlowUpRadio@gardenstate.social avatar BlowUpRadio , to random

I'm getting very concerned by the lengths Amazon goes to for promotion...

Ad on Amazon that the movie Conclave is coming to Prime in 15 hours and 58 minutes
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@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar dangillmor , to random

We're pretty close to the end of the American experiment, now that the corrupt Roberts court has basically rubber-stamped Trump regime's kidnap-and-send-to-El-Salvador policy. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-venezuelan-deportations.html

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@dangillmor

It's toast. The only hope will be in the ashes as fertilizer.

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@georgetakei@universeodon.com avatar georgetakei , to random

After Trump and Trumpism are consigned to the dust bin of history, we will need to spend a long time earning back the trust and friendship of our allies.

Tweet from Mark Carney stating he spoke with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to reaffirm a mutual commitment to strengthening trade, security, and economic ties between Canada and the U.K., emphasizing the importance of reliable allies during consequential times.
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@georgetakei

It's not feasible without a complete change in how the US operates as a neo-fascist state. It's like saying, repair a relationship with rascist Russia.

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