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And this is called 'limited government'? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFg9...

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Trump demands higher share of GDP than Germany’s World War I reparations: this $500bn payback from Ukraine goes far beyond US control over the country’s critical minerals. It covers everything from ports and infrastructure to oil and gas, and the larger country's resource base.

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ChatGPT: "Musk has been criticized for using his influential position to amplify misleading narratives. Reports indicate that his posts have incited events like anti-immigration riots in the UK and propagated false claims about political figures."

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Bill Gates: “Do I rate the intelligence of the false prophets and their followers highly? No. It amazes me that there are people stupid enough to believe all that nonsense. But the last thing I want is to become bitter, angry and frustrated, because then I might as well join them.”

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Bill Gates: “Do I rate the intelligence of the false prophets and their followers highly? No. It amazes me that there are people stupid enough to believe all that nonsense. But the last thing I want is to become bitter, angry and frustrated, because then I might as well join them.”

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The US leadership in science and innovation is under threat. There is a threat of a reverse brain drain, with bright minds no longer coming to the US or leaving. The current situation is reminiscent of the 1930s, when intellectuals fled Germany. newrepublic.com/article/1914...

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In the current climate, the US leadership in science and innovation is under threat. There is a threat of a reverse brain drain, with bright minds no longer coming to the US or leaving. The current situation is reminiscent of the 1930s, when intellectuals fled Germany.

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Democracy is based on trust in its institutions. But that is not wat Trump and Musk are instilling. The MAGA cult is instilling fear and terror. How else to explain why normal Republicans are silent?

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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are scuttling the American economy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUSu...

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Investigative journalist @gregpalast.bsky.social explains how he uncovered how over 3.5 million votes were purged from the 2024 elections, numbers similar to NPR’s analysis. Listen to the interview here or wherever you get your podcasts: loom.ly/H0nR12w #oligarchy #dictatorship #dictatortrump

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Why appeasement is a very bad idea: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNNz...

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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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These are talking points straight from the Kremlin. It is clear that Trump’s plan to “end the war” is to remove Zelenskyy, replace him with a Putin stooge, and then let Putin take over Ukraine.

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Surprise, shock and horror - again - at Trump doing what Trump does - again. Collective amnesia in the US and the West more broadly is Trumputin’s greatest enabler. This, below, was written roughly this time last year. Today, action would be a more useful response than pearl-clutching.

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Hey Charly, can't you update this and do one on the Fanta Führer?

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Feeling betrayed:

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Boo away, Canadians. Don't blame you. Grew up in Michigan & went to Windsor often. Spent a couple months in Toronto on a job, have vacationed in Vancouver. Always loved Canada & the Canadian people. It appalls me Cheetos Mussolini is treating the best neighbors a country could ask for so poorly.

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Kürzlich gingen 2,35 Mio. Euro an die AfD. Nach Recherchen von @spiegel.de & @derstandard.at erhielt der angebliche Spender zuvor jedoch eine Schenkung des Immobilienmilliardärs Henning Conle. Der hatte AfD-Chefin Weidel schon einmal heimlich unterstützt: www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

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JD Vance owns AcreTrader, an app that lets wealthy—often foreign—investors buy up U.S. farmland. Guess who’s deliberately tanking farm economies so JD and his billionaire tech buddies can scoop it up for pennies. civileats.com/2024/09/18/j...

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Elon Musk has become the world’s biggest hypocrite on free speech.

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Vance is an international embarrassment. Donald Trump is a laughing stock. The world is moving on from U.S. leadership because of the catastrophic policies and rhetoric of Donald Trump. www.meidasplus.com/p/jd-vance-g...

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Don't they have eggs and tomatoes in Munich now that pitch, tar and feathers are out of fashion?

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If Ukraine cannot be allowed to NATO, maybe it can at least be allowed to the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF). The JEF won't be hostage to NATO consensus-based decision-making process and could potentially respond far more swiftly and reliably to a crisis. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_E...

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Let us flood the zone with truth: www.meidasplus.com/p/meidas-co-...

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Ich weiß nicht, was schlimmer ist: Das heutige Telefonat mit Putin oder die Tatsache, dass in Deutschland bei den Wahlen über Migration diskutiert wird, statt über die Gefahr, die von Russland als größte Herausforderung für uns alle in Europa ausgeht.

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The Americans urgently have to get their act together before captain chaos drives them into the ground. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR5Y...

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Extreme nationalists are like primitive tribesmen, and that is incompatible with Christianity.

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The Democrats should urgently get their act together: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Once seized from Finland, Karelia now is Russia's most miserable region. Meanwhile, Finland itself continues to rank among the happiest countries in the world. This is the Russian way: invade a country, sacrifice 150,000 lives, seize a piece of land, and turn it into a decaying wasteland.

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📌 Das trifft auch auf uns und andere europäische Länder zu: Entweder man gibt jetzt viel Geld aus oder man wird sich früher oder später über eine viel teurere Zukunft wundern…

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When it comes to durable peace in Ukraine, Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braze understands what the Trump team appears not to: "Degrading Russia's military capabilities is the way to peace". Weakness, of the kind Trump & Hegseth showed today, only encourages Putin. www.politico.eu/article/ukra...

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"We’re going to lose our democracy," said Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, unless Americans and "particularly" young people take steps to inform themselves well and combat the misinformation chaos created by the rise of the internet.

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Keir Giles: "The key point is that if the UK's Armed Forces are not large, strong or capable enough to deter Russia from launching a small war, then Britain will have to fight a large one; hence defence spending now, is insurance against a far more expensive future."

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That, indeed, is the situation that we are in now: x.com/CalltoActivi...

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What the Democrats in the US should temporarily do is use the same tactics as the Republicans: flood the zone with news and propaganda through their own radio and TV stations. They've been too modest, but that's not how you win against bullies.

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The February 24 issue of TIME Magazine depicts Elon Musk as president of the United States, sitting on the Resolute Desk, which is used by U.S. presidents in the Oval Office of the White House.

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This is a dangerous disaster for U.S. security, democracy, and global influence: olgalautman.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

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If you want to know what just happened to the US and if you really have no clue, just watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9Tv...

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The UK is in much more trouble than it seems to realise. 85 years of being able to rely (mostly) on the US being on our side is coming to an end. Even if Trump doesn’t hit us with tariffs, his policies will undermine Europe’s security, including the UK’s.

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Counter-proposition from @jmkorhonen.fi: if the US is now your adversary, then the Trump-Musk purges are actually a good thing since they comprise the deliberate elimination of competence in the United States’ government agencies and state levers of power. (Historians of Stalinism just twitched.)

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You can think of what Elon Musk is doing to the American Civil Service as a corporate reorganization. But the U.S. Civil Service is not a business enterprise. Although much depends on the intentions and outcome, in politics a similar action would be called 'eine Gleichschaltung'