Yes, that’s clear, but then it would have to be Piedfed rather than Lemmy. Still, I wonder how that’s possible. If even a niche platform like Lemmy immediately censors itself as soon as the power of billionaires is mentioned. I’m not up for it. For me, that’s a very clear signal: I will no longer contribute anything to this platform.
Yes, exactly. That’s why I’m concerned about the system in my home country. However, I find it incomprehensible how anyone who is a US citizen can still believe in the illusion that the US is a democracy. It has been an oligarchy for at least thirty years and, to be honest, always has been - that is to say, a nation that is actually ruled by a few instead of by its people. This was the case long before the first term of the current, unusually criminal president. He has changed little in terms of the facts, but is simply particularly unscrupulous, thus making it obvious that the US system has long since ceased to have anything to do with democracy.
I’m sorry to have to say it so bluntly, but your comments suggests that, like many Americans, you are not really aware of what a democracy is. If there were such awareness in the US, it would not be possible, for example, for there to be no statutory health insurance, no protective rights for workers, and so on.
Is that really what democracy is about, or is that just what billionaires have made of it?
I ask because you are applying a monetary standard instead of what the citizens want. This leads me to suspect that you are a US citizen, as this system no longer has much to do with democracy at all since the fewer than twenty people who make up the Supreme Court, the highest judicial authority in the US system, ruled that there is no upper limit on “campaign donations,” that they do not have to be disclosed, and that “political consultants,” such as Musk, do not need confirmation by the people to be entrusted with powers that in any other democracy worthy of the name would naturally require the consent of the citizens.
Oh, and one more thing: the Supreme Court has also ruled that the US president is de facto above the law – which is also incompatible with any democratic constitution.
Immer gern. Ich bin inzwischen allerdings leider schon soweit, dass ich mir diese Vorgänge nicht mehr mit Inkompetenz erklären kann. Vielleicht ist es etwas verschwörungstheoretisch, aber das bitte ich zu entschuldigen - ich fürchte, ich habe inzwischen jeden Glauben an die Politik verloren.
Edit: Die Ansage der Grünen lautete allerdings tatsächlich so - das ist keine Verschwörungstheorie, sondern auch hierzulande die Realität.
Die haarsträubende Ausrede war, dass der Naturpark Schwarzwald um einige, wenige Kilometer erweitert werden soll - das habe man der CDU wacker abgerungen, hieß es … im Austausch dafür, dass grundlose und verfassungswidrige Massenüberwachung auch in Deutschland zur Realität wird und ebenso dafür, dass kein Ermittlungsverfahren gegen jene korrupten CDU-US-Assets eingeleitet wird, die bereits zuvor den besagten Palantir-Deal auf eigene Faust und unter Umgehung jedweder demokratischer Kontrollmechanismen ganz einfach abgeschlossen haben. So haben die Grünen - natürlich unter den allerschlimmsten Bauchschmerzen - die Sache ernsthaft noch als so etwas wie einen politischen Deal verkaufen wollen. Absurder könnte es wirklich nicht mehr sein, aber irgendwie mussten sie ja begründen, warum sie bereit sind, sogar noch die sensibelsten Daten direkt an offene Faschisten weiterzugeben - an den Demokratiefeind Peter Thiel ebenso wie an den organgenen Kinderschänder im weißen Haus.
In BaWü hat die Landesregierung entgegen eine Petition mit mehr als 13.000 Unterschriften (wurde frühzeitig beendet, weil unsere verehrten Politiker lieber schnell abgestimmt haben, bevor noch mehr Gegenstimmen zusammenkommen) sogar eigens das Polizeigesetz geändert, um dem bereits zuvor völlig widerrechtlich mit Palantir geschlossenen Vertrag rückwirkend noch irgendwie zumindest den Anschein von Legalität zu geben. Damit ist der Einsatz der Palantir-Massenüberwachungsanwendung “Gotham” hier beschlossene Sache, obwohl m.E. verfassungswidrig (s. Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung).
Hier findest du auf der Seite des Landtags eine PDF-Datei mit den Namen aller Abgeordneten, die dafür gestimmt und damit die Bürger verraten haben - neben den üblichen Verdächtigen wie CDU und AfD haben auch die Grünen so gut wie geschlossen dafür gestimmt, was zeigt, dass auch diese Partei trotz ihrer hehren Sprüche offensichtlich so sehr vom US-Lobbyismus unterwandert ist, dass sie eklatant entgegen die Interessen der Bürger handelt.
Es ist wirklich zum Kotzen.
Indeed, in the US, prisoners are exploited as slave labor, with private companies essentially running the prisons and earning billions in the process.
On the other hand, the super-rich get away with the most heinous crimes imaginable.
I would say that it wasn’t us, the ordinary people, who created this terrible world, but we definitely allowed the worst among us to do so - and we even rewarded them for it, so that this monstrous world is now ruled by the most ruthless, like a monarchy that was believed to have been overcome. Apparently, civilizational progress is not bound to the passage of time, as I strongly suspect that we are regressing civilizational: back to absolutism with its degenerate rulers who give free rein to their perverse desires - and they can do so, because they are at the top of a society they exploit with impunity.
Well, the president is an orange pedophile…
Has the guy finally realized he’s still a visionary? After all, you’re usually on the right track if you do the exact opposite of what this jerk says. So maybe that’s the best approach here.
I’m not a fan of this proposal, because it can only be implemented with age verification, which we all know what that entails, but if he’s against it, you almost have to be for it.
Nah, better not. The right thing to do is ignore all his pronouncements and make sure everyone finally leaves his goddamn self-aggrandizing platform - and that he spends his twilight years deservedly in prison.
In any case: Fuck this pedophile piece of shit.
Yes, unfortunately that is true, except that these “legal entities” cannot be held liable for their crimes in the same way as humans. Therefore, the people who control these companies cannot be held liable for their crimes.
This is a legal trick that illustrates that the law has nothing to do with justice, while ensuring that billionaires are “legally” above the law that applies to everyone who is not a billionaire.
Yes, I agree with you: inaccurate generalizations don’t help anyone, and insults even less so - quite the contrary. That’s exactly the kind of mindless nonsense that has helped demagogues like Drump succeed. It only serves to distract attention from the real culprits.
The only thing I wanted to say with my comment is that I can halfway understand why people are frustrated and allow themselves to be led to make such bogus statements. I think you’re absolutely right that it makes much more sense to look forward rather than backward, to put an end to political infighting and to join forces to fight the real enemies, because they are essentially the ones who benefit from discord - it’s their strategy.
The GOP’s approach is a good example of this: since the Tea Party movement under Sarah Palin and then MAGA, this party has developed into an anti-democratic juggernaut: instead of discussion and compromise, it now insists solely on its inhumane hardliner positions, slander, disinformation, etc. - not talking to each other rationally, but merely spreading hatred and hostility.
Unfortunately, this model has also been adopted by right-wing extremist parties in my home country, and they too are unfortunately very successful with it.
Democracy simply cannot function this way, because it requires the exchange of rational arguments and a willingness to cooperate for the benefit of all. With hatred and slander, on the other hand, it is impossible to shape democratic processes for the good of all.
Therefore, baseless accusations and insults are extremely counterproductive.
It is, of course, absolutely true that the vast majority of US citizens are decent people. However, they are represented by an unscrupulous criminal regime whose misdeeds do not even stop at protecting the obviously numerous child abusers in the ranks of the mafia-like organization that constitutes the administration - far from it.
You have to understand that the world is furious and also holds US citizens responsible, because after all, it is their elected representatives who are obviously guilty of the most heinous crimes and get away with all of this completely unpunished, even though it is perfectly obvious what monsters they are.
This is attributable to the frustration that it is not only US citizens who suffer from the criminal syndicate that the US regime represents and which, in the person of the orange rapist at its head, even openly displays it’s disgusting grimace of absolute malice these days. The fact is that other countries also suffer from their crimes. However, people in other countries can do nothing about it except turn away from the US in disgust.
It is, of course, sad how unreflective this sometimes is, but it is simply the logical consequence of the actions of the US regime.
I fear that as long as decent people in the US do not organize themselves and finally hold the criminals at the top of their system accountable, US citizens will have to accept the accusation that they are allowing the most heinous of all crimes to happen.
If they do not act themselves, it will always continue this way, because the Epstein case shows that neither politicians, nor the legal system, nor law enforcement agencies can be expected to hold those responsible to account - on the contrary: the entire system is obviously so infiltrated that it serves unscrupulous criminals rather than citizens.
This should be clear to everyone by now - and that is what comments like the one above are aiming at: for the rest of the world, at least the democratic part, it is simply incomprehensible that more than 300 million Americans are apparently unable to finally rise up against the tyranny of the so-called US elite, who are actually the exact opposite: they are the scum of the US population, who have attained positions of power through a system that depends on greed, unscrupulousness, and inhuman selfishness for success.
It is really time to put a stop to these people and fundamentally dismantle the system they have created to enable their crimes in the first place.
Everything points to this - very clearly, in fact, even though millions of documents have been redacted or withheld entirely for the very same reason, which is also a flagrant violation of the law.
The question that has been asked here, however, is how anyone can be okay with this. You answer the question of why a criminal regime in a corrupt system that not only allows these crimes but makes them possible in the first place protects one of the perpetrators, one of their own depraved gang.
Your answer raises the same initial question: How can anyone accept that serious criminals, including numerous child molesters, have been getting away with the most heinous crimes with impunity for decades? How can anyone come to terms with the fact that their own law enforcement agencies are so corrupt that they do not fight organized crime, but are actually used to facilitate it? How can anyone be okay with that?
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Yes, that’s true. They are incredibly incompetent, but also so unscrupulous that they are still quite successful at enriching themselves. Given the lack of consequences, they seem to be completely indifferent to how obvious it is by now.
I suppose that’s what happens when you always let the worst criminals get away with their crimes.
Anyway, I think that even after the first year of his second term, the orange moron is undoubtedly the most corrupt president the country has ever had in its history.
Well, organized like the mob, you know, the old mafia connections of the father of the orange child molester - and those of Roy Cohn, his mentor…
Organized like his good friend Jeffrey and all those people…
Either way, it’s an utterly absurd circus that only serves to highlight the fact that the US is ruled by organized crime.
But hey, there don’t seem to be any consequences for the criminals responsible - so things will just carry on as they are.
It’s just sad that this really isn’t just a clown show, but that the criminal machinations of the US regime are causing considerable damage to the entire world.
It’s truly unbelievable that legacy media headlines still portray the US regime’s statements as even remotely credible…
I am well aware of that.
I’m just generally disappointed that the largest Lemmy communities have arbitrary rules like “no politics.” That opens the door to abuse by mods - and that’s a significant problem because, due to the limited reach of the Fediverse, it’s even easier to buy off the people who control the large communities. It’s even a bargain compared to mainstream Platforms like reddit. After my experience with the above-mentioned post, I have lost all trust. Therefore, I will create a new account on Piedfed, as I fundamentally reject the political agenda of the Lemmy developers, and I will no longer contribute anything to Piedfed either. I had hoped to find an objective, independent social media application with Lemmy, but that is clearly not the case - maybe I’m better off elsewhere in the fediverse as a mere lurker.