Dedollarization would happen.

It will be painful for countries which are vulnerable and ill prepared.

I honestly think there’s a good chance it will happen soon. Trump is speed running “how to dismantle the US power and influence in one presidential term”.

I am convinced he is a total Putin puppet and the only reason it doesn’t always seem that way, is to be able to deny those allegations.

Yeah, I think their CEO might have QNAP stock or something.

It’s hilarious how dumb this is.

For one, we already give it away. The biggest customers of ASML are not European as it is.

Second, it will bring in billions for the European economy and it will allow ASML to better hold its leading position in the long-term, since China won’t need to compete with ASML. That’s beneficial for the European economy

Third, how does it hurt us?

If the USA is gonna be a prick, then I propose we give Russia and China EUV technology in exchange for peace in Ukraine.

Bibi is hoping the hostages all die soon in a way that the blame isn’t put on him.

Then he can proceed with his final solution.

Zionists really are the Nazi’s of our time.

Agreed. Algorithms, bots and fake news work together to create and perpetuate harmful narratives.

I think the DMA has the right idea and it should be extended. Any platform with a large user base should be heavily regulated and controlled.

We can still have mostly unregulated and uncensored free speech on small platforms, since those aren’t harmful for our democracy.

Totally agree.

It’s nearly impossible in rich areas for young people to afford a family sized house and daycare.

We need to solve those problems if we want young people to have families.

And even if the Supreme Court does rule it to be illegal, the only way to remove him is through impeachment.

That ain’t gonna happen.

And if it miraculously did happen, then J.D. Vance would pardon him and continue the grift, just in a little bit less obvious way.

Yeah, I agree.

On reddit it seems the remaining human commentators are those who have taken over the mannerisms of the bots and adjusted to talking to the bots.

And you always get stuck in these endless loops of hostile disagreement.

That’s just not how normal humans argue. Even on the internet.

Normal humans either agree to disagree or just give up. In both cases ending the conversation after all useful things have been said.

I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.

Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.

Bingo.

The idea that CEO’s will put morals over profits is hopelessly naive.

If you want companies to act morally, you need to implement legislation and be willing to enforce that legislation. And not small million dollar fines, serious fines like 10% of revenue and personal liability and even jail time for executives.

But the American public only cares about having the stock market go up. They don’t care about their data.

We have long passed the point where lobbying and bribing were just doing your fiduciary duty.

And indeed, it seems we are back to feudalism and you have to pay tribute to the divine king and kiss his ring.

Even Japan is restarting their reactors

Solar and wind are great, but major industrialized nations will need some nuclear capacity.

It’s going to happen sooner or later.

The question is just about how long we delay it, with extra emissions and economic depression in the mean time.

And how will they know if you’re a fundie or not?

What they’re doing is checking phones and social media. If they see you are a member of some antifa or BLM org, they’ll get you.

So don’t do those things via Facebook. Use meshtastic and hide your receiver.

But if you practice good OpSec and all they see is baseball, BBQ and church, then they won’t be able to tell the difference.

Thanks for the effort post with great tips!

I would also really recommend having a physical community near you, not just online contacts.

I would even go so far as to say: join a progressive protestant church It’s not a silver bullet, but the fascists in the US are Christian Nationalists and some of them will hesitate to mistreat a Christian. And some of them will feel an obligation towards a Christian.

This is a big part of why Martin Luther King wasn’t killed earlier. The thugs in the 50s had no problem persecuting “godless heathens” in the McCarthy era, but black Christians were Christians.

And yes, they were also mistreated, but it would have been much worse if they had been atheist or communist.

Fascists divide the world very black and white. Us v. Them

Looking like them provides a survival advantage.

https://nos.nl/artikel/2561959-belgische-geneeskundestudent-die-schuldig-is-aan-verkrachting-wordt-geschorst

They changed it though. Now they are saying she wanted him to be ineligible to practice medicine.

It is quite safe. What I heard about this case is that the victim was happy with the outcome.

They met at a party, she was drunk. He said he asked consent, she said he raped her. There was no evidence or allegation of force, just that she couldn’t have consented in her drunken state.

He had a clean record.

He got convicted and ordered to pay €3500 and if he commits another crime, then this one will count too.

She was satisfied with the outcome. She especially wanted recognition that it was rape.

I think this is a good outcome. If he ever rapes someone again, he’ll be a serial rapist and get the book thrown at him.

And on the flipside, I find it difficult to throw the book at people under the circumstances in these kind of cases.

There is nobody more entitled on this planet than the Orange man and his followers.

People really don’t understand how much wealth is being siphoned off the middle class.

Our technology is advanced enough that we can provide everyone on the planet a very comfortable life. Basically a European middle class lifestyle, but with less meat and air travel than the average European has today.

The fact that we don’t is because of greed.

Yeah, I was wondering how they are going to expel an EU citizen.

Germany, like really WTH is wrong with you.