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This American Life had a pretty good episode recently where they traced ICE terror through 911 calls. Worth a listen.

Oh no, they’re just genuinely concerned European companies won’t be able to be competitive and to put them out of business! Bless them.

Like, which idiot would even entertain the idea that google has our best interest in mind.

We pretty much all agree the US sucks here, you’re trying to argue the mass murdering mess of the USSR somehow didn’t also suck. Whataboutism won’t help you.

So you’re saying they should polish their text to make it more coherent? Huh.

Not to mention the re-normalization of rape culture. And to get rid of the fucking foreigners stealing all those lucrative jobs picking fruit or whatever. And to protect the god-given right of schoolchildren to blast each other’s brains out.

There’s all kinds of reasons really! We shouldn’t be so quick to judge.

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They’ve changed it in recent years, apparently changed it back for the half time show.

I suspect a lot of things would have been said had the artists been allowed to say what they wanted. I’m impressed and disappointed by their professionalism.

Then again, within the constraints of not saying anything political, it seems both Bad Bunny and Green Day did a decent job getting their points across.

Puppet jealousy.

(Worth noting that the title of the post has since been corrected, and it is no longer false/misleading, just a bit random)

I have met some questionable American academics who enjoyed the Joe Rogan Experience, which has puzzled me for a while. The fact that it’s less popular among the college educated than Fox News, Tucker Carlson Network and Breitbart certainly helps reinforce my world view a bit.

But the evangelical Christians want the Jews to trigger the rapture by fighting the final huge war in israel, and I imagine the antisemites are also fine with the Jews all being sent away to israel for then to be sent off to fight a senseless war to their deaths.

Somehow they managed to start off from different angles and both end up wanting Jews to die.

Like making love in a canoe…

This guy couldn’t sound more fascist if he broke into German 1930s marching songs. This video should be used in education.

I had no idea - that’s really cool!

Germans also seem to be privacy oriented people, I can imagine this combined with recent developments could have a real impact.

0 to 1 percent: 22 years
1 to 2 percent: 8 years
2 to 3 percent: 2 years
3 to 4 percent: more unstable, but between 1 and 3 years

I would say it’s an encouraging trend.

When I started using Linux in 2009 it had around 0.6 percent market share on desktop. Windows had 95%.

Today Windows is measured below 68%, and Linux has been measured above 4% by statcounter.com.

These things move faster the more people make the change. Linux only reached 1% in 2013, 2% in 2021, 3% in 2023, and 4% was somehow first measured already in 2024. For every single person making the switch it becomes easier for others to do the same, and companies consider Linux support to be a little bit more important. One can only wonder at which percentage of market share it will be offered as a mainstream alternative when buying a new computer, but it seems pretty clear that we’re getting there.

I guess my point is that we all won when you ditched Windows. Thanks for that.

Turning people into passive consumers of unthought thoughts

Interesting contrast to the church itself, which has the capacity of turning people into passive consumers of thoughts that have been painstakingly processed for centuries.

I mean, the stationing of US soldiers in NATO bases in Europe is pretty much an echange program, hopefully some of them learned something from it. I for sure think there are more reasonable people in the US military than in the government. But that’s a terrifyingly low bar.

Going out guns blazing will be seen as an escalation, even if that’s what they’re doing already. That’s just the reality of the situation. Hell, they’re currently trying to justify their killings with arguments such as “he held a phone” and “her foot fell on the gas after she died”, and parts of Trump’s base are nevertheless buying it. If anyone actually came at them with weapons they would be having a blast.

You don’t end violence with violence against footsoldiers.

Pressure against the regime works. Trump and Vance are not afraid of ICE agents getting killed, they would be overly excited about it. They are not, however, excited to see the country rise in pritest against their fascist takeover.

I’m just saying that the fact that America tends to lose its wars is very meager comfort for those on the receiving end of them. You can’t really win a war as a civilian.

Protests and strikes are working. Organize locally in a positive and constructive manner (maybe get active in a union? Do you still have those over there?), build community and dedicate time and effort to that. Be the opposite of the fascists, don’t just echo their ideas of violence.

It might not feel so badass, but you’ll do more good as a living organizer than as a dead agitator.

If you want to die a martyr, Luigi showed that there’s a better way than to go in guns blazing towards low-level losers working as fascist henchmen. Ultimately the awful people in ICE and US Border Patrol are also victims of this broken system, they’re just too stupid to have figured it out.