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  • Is there such a thing as "megathreads" in the Fediverse? I'm asking because of current events, as many posts are repetitive and the discussion is therefore inconsistent.

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  • I'm on Piefed(.social). However, the discussion is still mainly taking place on Lemmy. If there is such a megathread on the war in Iran on .world, for example, I can't find it.

  • Yanis Varoufakis calls prosecution after admitting taking ecstasy 40 years ago ‘ridiculous’

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  • We really need to see that it is in our own interests to eradicate US lobbying. This also means that all EU politicians who have allowed themselves to be bribed must be removed from office.

    In my opinion, this includes the majority of politicians from established parties who have been in government in EU countries in the last 10 years.

    It is simply necessary to hold them accountable, as voters have rightly lost confidence in them. If there are no consequences, parties such as the AfD in Germany will prevail, which has "Alternative" in its name but absurdly tries to conceal the fact that it is nothing more than MAGA with that: a neo-Nazi party that propagates fascism and is controlled by the same billionaire financiers who helped Nazi ideology succeed in the US - for the same reasons: the realization of the omnipotence trauma of fascist billionaires.

  • Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150

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  • This is not tragic, but a war crime - and this war is itself a crime, simply because it is completely contrary to international law.

  • TIL that Ayatollah Khamenei built a secret organization called BAYT. This organization is more powerful than the government and employs 40,000 people. The goal was to make sure killing him is useless

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  • Yes, and it's also great that the regime is setting up a secret police force with ICE that has a budget equivalent to the military spending of a medium-sized country...

    Seriously, how can any reasonably rational person accept this? Why doesn't the population paralyze the country with a general strike until this criminal regime is forced to resign? That would also be an opportunity to finally overcome the associated oligarchy and force through the reforms that have been necessary for ages. This includes a fundamental update of the constitution, which has not been updated for at least 150 years, something the US seems to be proud of for some inexplicable reason, which can only mean that this country is unaware that it is still celebrating a system of apartheid.

    The same applies to the rule that constitutional judges are elected for life - for obvious reasons, there is no other democratic country in the world that would adhere to this; likewise, there is no democratic country that has an electoral college system or similar that does not even take into account the population of a particular state.

  • TIL that Ayatollah Khamenei built a secret organization called BAYT. This organization is more powerful than the government and employs 40,000 people. The goal was to make sure killing him is useless

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  • Well, that may be one of the countless reasons why the US, under reasonably sensible leadership, has not attempted to attack Iran. Now it has come to pass because a pedophile, threatened by his heinous deeds catching up with him, decided to try it anyway in order to distract from the crimes he and his degenerate crew are committing - in open violation of international law as well as US law. He and his accomplices in Israel apparently trust that the US citizens will let him get away with it unpunished. How about it, US citizens - is that the case? Is there really no justice left in your country?

  • Anon wonders about Iranian leader

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  • Only a complete idiot like the orange pedo in the White House would believe that a autocratic regime that has been in power for decades and has also been engaged in a "cold war" with many of its neighboring countries for decades would fall immediately because its 86-year-old leader was killed.

    But hey, it speaks volumes how the US is acting together with its genocidal allies: Congratulations on the murder of an aging despot in violation of international law, and my expression of utter contempt for the murder of the many innocent little girls that these two criminal states committed as if it were not the most despicable war crime.

    Fuck off with your self-righteous remarks, you goddamn monsters. Nobody except your Nazi henchmen wants to hear that.

  • Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective.

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  • What's up with the Epstein Files?

  • Oman’s Foreign Minister Said US-Iran Deal Was ‘Within Our Reach.’ Then Trump Started Bombing

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  • The whole point is to distract attention from the Epstein files. So...

  • Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender

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  • Thank you very much for the explanation :)

  • Ariana Grande: The Last Racebender

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  • Can someone explain this to me? I'm out of the loop when it comes to mainstream social media, and I suspect that's what this is about...

  • Does anyone else also have this weird feeling that maybe governments can already break into smartphones and this whole "we can't break into it" they tell the public is a facade?

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  • Thanks for pointing that out. I'll definitely take a look at that. It's remarkable how the US has managed to maintain an image of "freedom" for years, even though it uses autocratic surveillance methods not only only on any other country but on its own citizens - and also for years and years. You almost have to be grateful to Trump for revealing all this in such an incredibly stupid way, just to enrich himself.

  • Does anyone else also have this weird feeling that maybe governments can already break into smartphones and this whole "we can't break into it" they tell the public is a facade?

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  • In 2020, the European Court of Justice declared the Privacy Shield agreement, an agreement on data exchange with the US, incompatible with European law and thus effectively terminated it, not because of the activities of any corporations, but because data stored on US servers is not sufficiently protected from access by the US government (Schrems II ruling). The reason for this is the absurd legislation in the US, such as the Patriot Act, which, although it has been weakened, still allows the state to force any company or private individual to hand over all data processed on servers physically located on US soil, even without any suspicion or a court order.

    As a result, all US companies doing business in the EU were forced to operate servers on European soil in order to continue their activities legally. European companies that used US providers that did not comply had to switch to providers that do not operate servers in the US.

    Unfortunately, it took only 21 months for US lobbying to undermine the European Court of Justice's decision: in 2022, a follow-up agreement was adopted, the "EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework," which is no different from its predecessor at all. The legal situation remains the same in the US, and once again there is no protection of data from the US government.

    In short, anyone who uses services that are processed on US servers is not protected from arbitrary access by the US - and this also applies to EU citizens.

  • FIFA President Gianni Infantino attended Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ meeting wearing a red hat.

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  • I don't feel sorry for anyone sitting there.

  • Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns

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  • I consider it a certainty that Musk, as the owner of Twitter, manipulates what people see and artificially pushes content that is to his liking. There is more than enough evidence of this.

    Regarding Shirley's video, I can only say that none of what he claims to have uncovered is true—none of his assertions stand up to scrutiny, and it is simply wrong to believe that this real problem was not known and addressed long before his video. This has nothing to do with journalism.

    What these people are doing is stirring up fears and exaggerating half-truths in order to deliberately give them a completely disproportionate significance that fits their extremist worldview and advances their political agenda - to this end, they also deliberately spread misinformation. In doing so, they are doing society absolutely no favors; on the contrary, they are damaging discourse based on rational arguments, which is essential for any democracy.

  • Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns

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  • I just think it's likely. I can't name a source that would prove that the Trump administration directly commissions videos like this.

    However, people like Nick Shirley, who made the "Minnesota child care center fraud video," work in a highly dubious manner, as described in this article, which also discusses his proximity to Trump's MAGA a bit. In addition, some MAGA influencer accounts are apparently financed from abroad or even reside outside the US. Equally suspicious is how Trump handles the press pool at the White House, replacing seasoned journalists who ask critical questions with right-wing extremist social media conspiracy theorists.

    All of this leads me to conclude that this regime is using every means at its disposal to control the media discourse. In the latest edition of The Tonight Show, John Oliver provides an informative and amusing overview of how the spread of far-right ideas and the associated misinformation works on Twitter.

  • TIL the creator of the 'I love you' virus suffered no legal consequences, because the philippines had no legal consequences for malware at the time.

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  • The prominent hacker Kevin Mitnick, on the other hand, was sentenced to a long prison term, with the judge perhaps slightly overestimating the danger he posed:

    Mitnick served five years in prison—four-and-a-half years' pre-trial and eight months in solitary confinement, because, according to Mitnick, law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he had the ability to "start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone",[36] implying that law enforcement told the judge that he could somehow dial into the NORAD modem via a payphone from prison and communicate with the modem by whistling to launch nuclear missiles.[37]

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  • Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns

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  • I think it's quite likely that the US regime also commissioned this video and then promoted it with Musk's help.

    They have been doing this for a long time. Another prominent example of such lies, pushed with enormous media power, is the false claim that Trump won the election against Biden, which directly led to the attack on the Capitol by MAGA fanatics on January 6, 2021.

    I don't believe that MAGA strategists are overly influenced by social media in their approach. Rather, I believe that many of the apparent majority opinions presented on mainstream social media platforms are artificially created to suit their tastes with the support of people like Musk, Zuckerberg, and other media moguls, as these influential billionaires are united on their side and are well capable of accomplishing this.

  • Trump Reportedly Mulling Plan to Declare ‘National Emergency’ Paving Way for Major Power Grab

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  • The US regime has already committed so many serious crimes by now that I would be surprised if it did not try to establish a dictatorship. If it did not do so, all members of the government would risk prosecution as soon as they were voted out of office, even in a legal system as corrupt as that of the US.

  • Vance says administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns

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  • I was referring to the ridiculous video by this right-wing "influencer" who uses flimsy methods to try to expose alleged fraud at childcare centers in Minnesota. There is hardly anything accurate about this video.