You don’t see any behavioural similarities between drug use and social media usage?

Your critique isn’t addressing that, you state instead that media is social. Well yeah. Drug consumption is in many cases too. But that doesn’t define it.

You also make it seem as if there was just a single dangerous outlier in the game that can’t be used as a reference.

How about the studies of the algorithms of Meta, youtube, reddit, that revealed how they work on the dopamine centres of their users and manipulate them?

Dementia

Just stay tuned!

a few hours later I can report good news: the accused were found not guilty!

The Swedish Academy declined to be involved in the project, which was launched by the government in 2023, saying it was divisive and put ideology before the literature.

Usually that’s the point of such lists.

So when we will finally start calling out and opposing US fascism?

of course you’d find it relevant, because you’ve been reading it over and over

Yeah, another great latin phrase…

Because if it’s Latin there must be meaning beyond meaning.

I wonder whether you read the linked article. Cause, wouldn’t you be embarrassed to use it then? A phrase from the late, late Roman empire, that the terrific idea obviously didn’t prevent from falling, largely in use in humanistic imperial societies, even manufacturing guns referencing the phrase, doesn’t make you pause?

Why, you were almost finished? You only missed the serious part.

You didn’t stop because of the word now, did you? Did you?

everybody’s part of it. welcome to Germany 1933

Ah cool, I hope it explains my many, many questions

One could wonder whether those types don’t wear clothes before they get into office, but it’s just like that: they want to get into office for the fucking lifestyle and that’s it.

So, whole towns, maybe countries are being gentrified now? And these towns, countries might have done that deliberately? Mad?

Sounds like it, we just have to ignore the basis of our fucking capitalist/nationalist system. You need to attract capital to survive, and when you do, it fucks you over. And it can do it easily, cause it can just say screw you, if you don’t play ball, I go to another nation state.

And then people are being told to get angry at the foreigners, the internationalists, the Jews, the gays, until of course bad things are starting to happen. And we’ve been played by this cycle for centuries by now. It’s been analysed, talked about, a little bit fought about, things got a little better after some world wars, and now we’re at the end of a cycle again, and everybody’s shocked. SHOCKED.

And I’m bloody sick of it.

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How did neo-liberalism make it to the left?

I didn’t want to imply that, I would just generally distrust any initial statements by security forces and rather report on what the critics of those state.

It’s true the headline is unclear. I don’t think the headline implies the SBU being corrupt though. I find it weird though that you would as an explanation pick the formal statements of the SBU which stands accused of overreach in the article. It’s becoming a major problem that often newspapers would just repeat statements by the security services without any further investigation into their claims, and here, where there’s at least a little more info on it, even G7 representatives complaining, you chose to state the official line.

Oh man, and the “scoop” was so underwhelming anyway

Gee thanks for repeating the SBU handouts. Nevertheless the article continues:

But NABU, which has embarrassed senior government officials with corruption allegations, said the crackdown went beyond state security issues to cover unrelated allegations such as years-old traffic accidents. Anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International said the searches showed that the authorities were exerting “massive pressure” on Ukraine’s corruption fighters. Ambassadors of G7 nations in Kyiv issued a statement saying they had a “shared commitment” to uphold transparency and independent institutions. But the ambassadors said they had met NABU officials and had “serious concerns and intend to discuss these developments with government leaders”.

for more, read the article…

For those seemingly getting riled up, because it’s not one of the major fascist platforms hosting this snippet, here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_C07hwKALW8

Maybe now we can talk about the content and what’s happening here. How absurd the discourse about pro Palestinian sentiment has become.

For those who don’t know what it’s all about, it was a huge story in the UK but should concern us all:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/02/bob-vylan-glastonbury-band