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I always wonder whether the fall of the Roman Empire also was this stupid and deranged...

While funny, any proprietary platform run by US companies allied with trump shares the same set of problems. I don't like that people routinely choose the second worst option and are even proud of not having chosen the literal worst option.

Only the rich and powerful pedos though. The ones part of the in-group.

Imagine they'd find a poor brown one, or merely accused one of being a pedo... all hell would be unleashed.

Yeah. Politicians these days have tough competition: are they better or worse than an animal who does literally nothing?

... and not only that: a cat certainly wouldn't have made things worse for the general population.

Look up the paradox of tolerance.

if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance, thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance. This paradox was articulated by philosopher Karl Popper in The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945),[1] where he argued that a truly tolerant society must retain the right to deny tolerance to those who promote intolerance. Popper posited that if intolerant ideologies are allowed unchecked expression, they could exploit open society values to erode or destroy tolerance itself through authoritarian or oppressive practices

That is exactly what tolerating Nazi ideology within a society leads to. If you allow objectively harmful ideology on the grounds of balance or fairness, they are allowed to continue and eventually take over.

Even if you're a 100% centrist, you should never allow anyone to undermine or remove basic constititional or human rights. Yet that is exactly what Nazis do. Tolerating them means tolerating that.

This is just the beginning. It will not get better, because after this current shitshow there's the climate disaster growing and coming with full, unmitigated force. This will cause mass migrations, deaths and chaos world-wide. Humanity just fucked it up. Make the best out of it but don't expect anyone who's young today to have any sort of positive future.

What this also means: you cannot have any private conversations with windows users anymore. They all have to be considered fully backdoored. Even if the agent runs locally, you don't know what it all sends back to MS servers.

For people who have any slice of privacy consciousness left, this is the death of Windows. The difference between this and using a desktop directly from MS' cloud is negligible - MS can get access to potentially everything that's visible or readable on your desktop.

These things take time. Unfortunately, life still isn't bad enough for the average American, so shit can still go on like this without any revolts. And as long as that's not happening, this shit can still happen to many countries before people learn again.

Das zweite. Sehr viele Leute in der Gesellschaft glauben dass z.B. Sozialismus nicht funktionieren kann (egal in welcher Form), also nehmen sie auch den aktuellen Raubtierkapitalismus in Kauf und werden zunehmend stärker ausgebeutet. Vermutlich so lange, bis diese Leute sich den Alltag nicht mehr leisten können. Wie "gut", dass das als erstes die Unterschicht betrifft, bevor es die Mittelschicht betrifft...

Stands for "fear, uncertainty and doubt". It's actually a very relevant term. In a lot of contexts. It's when people influence you to either fear, have uncertainty about, or doubt something. Sometimes this happens without any intent, for example if you're unsure about some new situation or thing, you tend to first view it more negatively because you have some fear or doubts about it (which might not be warranted). But sometimes, it can have malicious intent (e.g. right-wing extremists spreading FUD about human subgroups they don't like. Usually the first step before more aggressive behavior happens).

Is that real? (In 2026, one can never be sure if something is satire or real)