bbirke.bsky.social
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Do't forget the big silicone cartridge from the DIY store!
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It could get really evil in collaboration with the US, when mere illegal immigrants go to gang prisons, or to be feared soon, any opponent of the MAGA regime. That would ultimately spoil the good that had come to El Salador, albeit under breach of legal principles. 🔚
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... a point to stop: it may happen that innocents are arrested, but they must get a chance to come out again, something previously spoiled by intimidated or complicit judges. It gets evil, when the treatment of violent thugs is applied to just poor people, street vendors, political opponents. ➡️
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I must concede, the original cleansweep against gangs was a success, and given the situation of constant terror, breaching rule of law a bis was clearly the lesser evil. Those who demand to effectively tolerate mob rule for legal reasons, usually live in safe places themselves. Only that there's ➡️
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China isn't a friend, and they have a lot of wrongs on their side, but when they're right like here, it's impossible to deny.
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Of course it's not Bukele acting on his own. If the US administration insisted, and he was still alive, he would be back within hours. Or at least deported somewhere else, not a prison for organized crime. Or this prison is really something worse than just a prison, and now targeting mere opponents.
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I found a creepy placard on a protest, which said: "Fight like it's Germany 1938!". By 1938, if you opposed, you would have quickly ended up in an SS or Gestapo dungeon or concentration camp. The Nazis consolidated most of their power during 1933, no later than 1934. Now it's much faster! 🔚 6/6
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If any violence is going to happen, as response to a totalitarian power grab, it shouldn't be random vandalism, but targeting the roots: the neoreactionary and theocratic authoritarians, rogue financiers and corporate leaders who pulled off something, which Trump alone is far too stupid to do. ➡️ 5/6
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If there's an autocratic turnover around that day, little time is left. Compare the events of Trump's 2nd term to the gradual autocratic creep under Putin, Orban, Erdogan, and Germany 1933 on the other side, it's much closer to 1933, all written down in Project 2025 or announced by Trump. ➡️ 4/6
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School shootings and other mass killings moved in various directions, but were definitively spoiled by Anders Breivik, Dylann Roof and Brenton Tarrant. But fighting back against bullies can be a positive inspiration, even if it doesn't exactly match the historic reality of Columbine. ➡️ 3/6
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Apart from the mainstream, many started to praise the shooters, for standing up against bullies. This view has later been challenged and, at least partly, disproved, but the "Legend of Columbine" still lives, as a kind of modern day Robin Hood legend (who, in reality, was likely just a robber) ➡️ 2/6
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This is going to be controversial: April 20th has another meaning, besides smoking weed, Hitler's birthday and ths year's Easter: It was the day of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999, which went through media and the nascent internet as rebelling and targeting bullies. ➡️ 1/6
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Don't forget that it was especially the Supreme Court, which gave him multiple verdicts, that can effectively serve as enabling acts. Immunity, "Unitary Executive Theory", Alien Enemies Act etc.
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... which would previously have failed, due to the personnel required for such surveillance. It may be necessary to quickly move either out of the area of MAGA reign, or secede territories. BTW, Canada will have a hard time to fend off a MAGA US invasion and need any support then. 🔚 3/3
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My idea would be alternative command structures, or secession. But MAGA have already created their blacklists well before Trump's 2nd election, and we can expect ongoing surveillance in Big Tech media, with tools like Palantir, for some time now. AI can make Orwell's 1984 reality, ➡️ 2/3
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Let's hope a rebellion in the army works! I'm not familiar with the US Army, but ChatGPT told me it would be unlikely, there would be rather a series of resignations and public protests, or at best, dragging feet. This would be quickly purged out. They already purged s.b. on the Greenland base.➡️ 1/3
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Maybe Darth Vader and the Imperator are others...
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We do not know how generic AI will work both smart and obedient - Musk seems to have a hard time to bring Grok in line. But tuning down intelligence may do the job, just like with their current choices for human employees. 🔚 4/4
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... by the time of the Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward. For a top developed country like the USA, the obvious result will be a Great Leap Backwards. Much like those autocrats, who want to keep their people stupid, because stupid people don't rebel that fast. ➡️ 3/4
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Different from Trump's/Musk's executive purge, which is all about loyalty. It's obvious that the current administration wants to create a classic autocracy, with executive, judges and military as obedient tools. The difference with China is, that it was mostly an agricultural country ➡️ 2/4
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Strange idea, comparing Trump's anti-intelligence policies to Mao's Cultural Revolution in China (maybe even the mass-murderous Khmer Rouge can be compared). One advantage of the "PMC" bureaucrats was perhaps their rather neutral interest, coming close to a technocracy. ➡️ 1/4
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Mainstream media bashing made sense, when they were almost the only information sources, with power to exclude and distort, and internet media were a true alternative. Todays social media are mostly garbage, controlled by algorithms, bot and troll farms or the owners themselves (esp. X).
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Die russisch-orthodoxe Kirche ist über den langjährigen FSB/KGB-Agenten Gundyayev, aka Patriarch Kyrill I., eindeutig Handlanger des Kreml, und es ist verständlich, dass man nicht unter dem Deckmantel der Religionsfreiheit ein moskautreues Marionettensystem agieren lässt.
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Does he surrender hard power, or does he just redirect it towards imperialist bullying and conquest, mainly against former allies. In the long term, the Trump administration will weaken the US in many ways, but for the next years, they have terrible military power to abuse.
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Genau wegen solchen Handelns wird Merz jetzt im rechten und konservativen Spektrum überall Wahlbetrug vorgeworfen. Er hatte im Wahlkampf voll auf das AfD- und Klimaleugner-Spektrum gesetzt, das jetzt natürlich enttäuscht ist.
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Remembering the game ... drive around and squeeze the ghosts between the lasers and then activate the trap. Marshmallow men crushing buildings...
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... showed results, which depict evidence as very vague and questionable. Not deporting people due to expected persecution is mostly right, but not for convicted gang members or terrorists. An issue in many Western countries. Even if they are, there should be a clear legal path for deportation. 2/2
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Question: Is Abrego Garcia a confirmed member of MS-13, as claimed? These deportations are certainly bad if they target people for random tattoos. But, even while I understand the problem of arbitrary disappearances, it must not boil down to support for organized crime! A quick AI search 1/2 ➡️
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Correct in terms of dysfunctional friends and family economy. The decisive difference to Hungary is the rapid speed of the change, and the economic and military power readily available at Trump's hands. Far more dangerous than Nazi Germany in it's time, which still had to rearm. Uncharted territory.
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... Some weird ideas come to mind, such as a secession of "blue" regions, or a mutiny of parts of the army. The very worst in such a case would be unchallenged, blind obedience. 2/2
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I think it may be necessary to build a shadow command structure for the army, to make it easy to "defect" once Trump abuses it. What will happen, if an invasion of Canada or Greenland is ordered, or shooting peaceful protesters? Will everybody obey? Will those who don't want have a chance? 1/2 ➡️
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What can they do best? The "mineral deal" is worthless, brings nothing in return, and Trump's USA are an enemy of a free Ukraine, ally to Putin.
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The old playbook of welcoming STDs as a terror, to enforce oppressive sexual "morality". But it may backfire at MAGA.
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TikTok and X are propaganda platforms, skewed towards Chinese and US autocratic and pro-Russian content. But all classic social media algorithms and rankings are prone to manipulation by botnets, and are manipulated. That is to be regulated. 🇪🇺
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Two birds with one stone: 1. wreck the classic democracies in Europe, keep them vulnerable to Russia, 2. Make nationalists in Europe infight, let the far-right parties bring Europe back to 19th, early 20th century discord.
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German nationalism, in this period, struggled for a united nation, considering an emperor as better than the patchwork of local rulers. Some demanded forms of democracy, but weren't successful. So Yarvin, Thiel, Musk want to turn the USA into everything they were built against. 6/6 🔚
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His favorite model seems to be Germany between the 30 Years War and unification (1648-1871). A patchwork of small states with absolute rulers and an established noble class. "Neo-cameralism" seems to be his term for it. Europe struggled for centuries to shrug this off. 5/6 ➡️
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One issue persists: what certain investors, bosses and ideologues envision, is fundamentally opposite to the foundations of the USA: "Moldbug" Yarvin not only promoted autocracy, but establishment of an inherited nobility, like in the periods of European feudalism. 4/6 ➡️
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The new US isolationism and aggression make global business increasingly difficult to impossible. Copying these platforms is no great task, and when the originals get banned, the users will be quickly taken over. China and Russia already did; now the US are about to become another Russia. 3/6 ➡️
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With a small number if investors and bosses turning into tyrants, both in their companies and US government, it may be time to move elsewhere, such as Canada or Europe. New innovation is about to come, compared to which X, Google and Amazon are dinosaurs. 2/6 ➡️
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So are startup forums dominated by 4chan like troll armies? It should be clear, that classic Silicon Valley IT has left it's pioneer phase. The years before Trump 2.0, all platform giants engaged in enshittification, exploiting their monopolies to make more money from ever worse services. 1/6 ➡️
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Let's face it: RFK Jr's firings are like DOGE: destruction under the pretext of efficiency. Either completely destroy things, or leave a small, dysfunctional apparatus of loyalists and sycophants. He'll probably create something to promote New Age quackery and snake oil.
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So let's research her sexual relationships! No matter what the lawsuit ends like, it's definitely going to be interesting.
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... without reliance or help from the US is already happening. And it can't be reversed, even if Trump could be pushed back under the rule of law. As of now, Trump is on a fast track towards autocracy, corruption and wrecking the old alliances. 2/2 🔚
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The article seems to ignore, that Trump is already moving far beyond gradual and temporary shift, but revolutionizing, or at least crippling, the USA. He wants to join the alliance of autocrats, therefore views especially Europe as an enemy. Former allies looking to save themselves 1/2 ➡️
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X is a propaganda platform, no longer a generic social media platform, like Twitter was. But most people still use it like they used Twitter. It has become Gettr or "Truth Social" for everyone, manipulating content presentation. That's the main reason why high fines or ban would be OK.
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... junk and spam sites, to turn the default feed on X into a sewer. X is no longer just a social media platform, but a dedicated propaganda outlet. That is where fines are OK, not for mere existence of extremist speech. But those excessive fines for users insulting politicians should stop. 3/3 🔚
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It would be ok if fringe legal speech existed on X, but had no algorithm pushing it to the top. These clickbait and ragebait promoting algorithms are the problem, not so much "hateful" content itself, whatever that is. And of course Musk's personal skewing of X rankings, pushing far-right 2/3 ➡️