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Feddit.org announced today that they are changing their rules to match German law despite their server not being hosted in Germany.
Feddit.org now bans:
The sentence "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"
Comparing Israel to the Nazis
Calls to end Zionism
Calling for the dissolution of Israel
And much more. The full original post can be found here, or
::: spoiler Click here for full text of original post:
Hi.
In the past few days, discontent regarding mod decisions in this community has been brewing, particularly when it comes to comments on Palestine, Israel, and Israeli politics and actions. There are also misunderstandings regarding mod intention and German law. We hope to clear that up with this post.
While the servers of feddit.org are in Austria, most of the mods of this community as well as admins of this server live in Germany. Speaking of, our server admins have also posted a write-up on the same topic.
And with that, let's go:
In Germany, antisemitism is specifically sanctioned in German criminal law, both for speech and as a motivation for other criminal behavior. In addition, Germany seeks to protect the Jewish state of Israel (the so-called "Reason of State" introduced in 2008) and thus verges toward protecting Zionism as well. Certain criticism of Israel/Israelis is also categorized as "Israel-related antisemitism".
Since criminal law is involved, enforcement can mean things like police raids and device confiscations. After such police action, it does not really matter if it was appropriate or if cases are dropped or never charged: The damage is done. All told, it's not that fun.
There is also no point in engaging in discussions about the veracity of statements that could get us into legal trouble. In addition, we believe that you can express most opinions without breaking rules.
If your comment contains the following, it will be removed from this community:
Calling for the dissolution of Israel, or calling for a one-state solution without specifying equal rights for all people; Jewish in particular.
Calling for a destruction, annihilation, an end of all Zionism or the like.
Equating Israeli actions and (historical) Nazism.
The slogan "from the river..."
Endorsement of or justifications for Hamas or Hezbollah, or slogans or graphics positively referring to these organizations. These are considered terrorist organizations in Germany.
... and obviously: Any of the common antisemitic tropes or calls to violence against Jews or Israelis
Comments will not be removed for the following:
Denouncing genocide.
Denouncing Israeli war crimes.
Criticizing Zionism as an ideology or political movement.
Referring to the current Israeli government as "criminal," "expansionist," or "far-right".
If your comment is removed nonetheless, these are not the reason. I'd also like to stress that this community was never a free-speech-absolutist zone: It is a (usually lightly) moderated community. There may also be times when bans go too far. In such cases, please DM the @EuroMod@feddit.org account (which all mods have access to).
:::spoiler To help you understand why, I'll leave an assortment of sources here (translations via DeepL).
Berlin in mid-May [2024] around 6 o'clock in the morning. A loud, continuous "banging" against the apartment door wakes student Alina T. from her sleep. [...] When her husband opens the door, several LKA officers, two employees of the district office and the SEK "storm" past him into the apartment. Puzzled, he looks at the search warrant. [...] The background to this was a Facebook entry in the student's profile: "From the river [...]
In November 2023, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and for Home Affairs also issued a prohibition order against Hamas.[60] According to the order, "the slogan 'From the River to the Sea' (in German or other languages)" is a distinguishing mark of Hamas[61]. [...] the current legal situation [regarding "Denial of Israel's right to exist"] is - contrary to what the statements of the Federal Ministry of Justice suggest[63] - anything but clear. Whether incitements to eliminate the State of Israel are prosecuted depends on the respective legal opinion and the prosecution will of the respective public prosecutor's office.
In this context, Section 111 StGB, which covers public incitement to commit crimes, may also be relevant. Incitement to extinguish Israel's existence by force may be punishable under this provision. The same applies to calls to publicly display the Hamas flag. If Hamas attacks are publicly cheered and celebrated, this may also be punishable. This means that people who cheer on Hamas's actions or publicly express their sympathy with the attacks may constitute the criminal offence of "approval of criminal acts" under Section 140 of the German Criminal Code (StGB).
Another news report > In connection with the controversial Palestine Congress in Berlin, the German authorities have also imposed an entry ban on former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. "In order to prevent antisemitic and anti-Israel propaganda at the event", several entry bans have been issued, the news agency AFP learned from security sources on Sunday. One of these concerned Varoufakis. (Notably, Varoufakis would have spoken about one-state solutions ...)
Seit dem 7. Oktober haben antisemitische Vorfälle in Deutschland stark zugenommen. Doch nicht hinter jedem Fall steckt eine strafbare Handlung. Auch bei bloßem Verdacht kann es zu Durchsuchungen kommen - und sogar zur Abschiebung.
It is because their admins are in Germany and they fear the extreme repercussion that the German State has done recently. Did you even read the post you pasted? Are are you intentionally trying to stir up drama?
Not everyone lives in safety these days. Fascism has made it hard to do things like host a volunteer run online forum safely. There are cases where the heavily armed anti-terrorism unit SEK search peoples houses at gun point for this. Do you think online moderators should be required to catch a bullet for your posts?
~~Not being able to criticize leaders that the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants against is bonkers and simple censorship.~~
EDIT: After reading the official announcement thoroughly, I have to say the title seems... wrong? There are very specific things that are not allowed, some of which I can agree with. Others however, I do not.
Despite all the culture of remembrance, despite all the memorials and despite all the history lessons, the general public is simply not aware of how efficiently, ruthlessly and industrially the Nazis carried out the Holocaust.
At its peak, in Operation Reinhard, from April to November 1942, 2.5 million Jews were murdered. 10,000 every day. In specially built camps to which people were transported by rail and sent directly to the gas chambers, where there was practically no chance of survival. In Majdanek, over 18,000 people were murdered in 9 hours. By 1945, two thirds of European Jews had been murdered and in the end only the advance of the Allies prevented the rest from being murdered as well.
This is the much-vaunted singularity of the Holocaust, namely the systematic, industrial murder in special murder factories. This industrial rate of murder is unique in the long history of genocides. Stalin's camps were cruel, but they were not extermination camps with gas chambers. This also applies to other genocides.
So if you honestly compare the Gaza War with the Holocaust, you quickly realize that it is something completely different. And anyone who seriously equates the two is trivializing the Holocaust to an extent that almost borders on Holocaust denial. This is guaranteed to lead someone here to call me a “genocide denier”, but: if Israel acted like the Nazis in the Gaza Strip, all the women and children would be dead by now and a few last surviving men would be maltreated to death as work slaves. And yes, we all know why Israel of all places is constantly compared to the Holocaust, even though there is no factual basis.
*automatically translated from a feddit.org user I very much agree with. Not citing the account to not disclose them to save them from brigading.
This is the much-vaunted singularity of the Holocaust, namely the systematic, industrial murder in special murder factories. This industrial rate of murder is unique in the long history of genocides.
The Israelis used goddamn IA and bombed entire block because a software established a high enough probability that a some hamas goon might be there.
That's bullshit. The parallel is extremely warranted.
This kind of seems... reasonable? Like, they have and convey a compelling legal reason for needing to do this. There's plenty of other Lemmy instances where these opinions and statements can be freely expressed. Further, they're explicitly allowing discourse that conveys similar sentiment but doesn't go against German law.
I guess my question is, what's the objection here?
Mostly that they host the main Europe-centric comm, !Europe@feddit.org. You can see the problem when criticism of Europe's most powerful country is censored in said comm, and users banned, for relatively innocuous comments.
They do not. Their servers are not hosted in Germany. If their moderators feel like they would be endangered for not following German law they should step down instead of applying their German censorship to a European server.
Their moderators and German users appear to proudly agree with these German censorship laws in the comments beneath their post. So the legal part looks more like a convenient excuse.
I’m not calling for the admins to be burned at the stake. If you don’t perceive an obvious slant in their words that’s fine - I’m sharing my take just like they’re sharing theirs.
Y'all should actually read the post. They're clear that they don't want to do this but fear extreme repression by the German government, and they even listed examples of what exactly they're trying to avoid. I'm no Israel apologist, but I'm convinced.
I agree. Nobody should be risking their safety / livelihood / whatever to host a random internet discussion site. That doesn't mean we should leave the situation as it is. I believe the main concern is to move off the !europe comm there and onto the new one at !europe@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Zionism is a fascist ideology. There is nothing to gain from hosting in a country where people feel compelled to suppress opposition to and liberation against that fascist ideology out of fear of incarceration and police brutality
Feddit users commenting beneath it support this. One of them made this "meme":
Feddit.org has also been banning users for things such as comparing Israel to the Nazis before they made this post. Then they owned up to it as their personal views. This is why they do not say they disagree with the German laws but they "do not wish to discuss it."
I get their concerns but we shouldn't be bullied into silence. The Israeli government is a piece of shit and we should all be allowed to say that until they've proven otherwise.
From the text of their original post it sounds like you're still allowed to say that. It's worth reading the post text itself (not saying that to change your stance, I have complicated feelings about this choice by them, but knowing what they're actually saying is worthwhile)
You can do anything except demand things which could meaningfully resolve the issue.
People are not being allowed to call for the dissolution of the Israeli Apartheid government . They are only allowed to voice slight discontent with Israel.
Forcing people to call a major crime a minor crime is a massive form of repression in itself and it serves to downplay reality while pretending there is no censorship.
Calling a state criminal, expantionist, genocidal, brutal, saying that they should answer for their crimes, give back palestinian territories immediatly, be boycotted by the whole world, even be subject to military intervention is still perfectly fine, and that's clearly not "slight discontent". If you were conscious of this, you message is huge bad faith.
What they do not allow is calling for the end of Israel, in any way. That's indeed a major crackdown on freedom of expression, but it does not leave you wordless for Israel criticism, unless your only goal is to be against Israel, and you don't care being alongside Palestine.
Genocidal : again, genocide is NOT a nazi-only thing. And yes it's bad to not be able to equate, yet alone compare Nazis and Israel government. But you can still say 'Israel is genocidal'.
Palestinian territories : this is my bad, not an expert on the matter + did not think through. I meant territories destined to Palestinians in previous two-state solutions and at least recent territory annexion. From what the message says, you can still say that.
Military intervention : you can support the intervention without supporting people doing it. Also, you can support official interventions of other countries instead of guerrillas groups. The fact that most of those groups use terrorists methods, like targetting civilians (yes, those one that Israel and most states in the world also use) does not help with terrorism part, and i think we all agree that there should be no support for hamas or hezbollah directly, though they fight for objective we should defend. (and yes, Israel is doing worse for religious and racist reasons too, and they have a kind of immunity partly because of the anti-antisemitism rethoric partly because they are a state and states are rarely condemned for use of terrorist tactics, all of this is compatible).
I don't think they are actually zionist or pro-genocide. But they are definitely not good mods, and they just didn't handle it in a good way. It's not the first time I've seen problems with that community moderation team, they tend inho to powertrip. I suppose they are friends or the same people as feddit.org admins and that's why they defend them so much. But I don't think that moderation team is up to the task of moderating a big community.
Nothing wrong with it, moderation is hard, very hard. And not everyone is qualified for it. They should just step back. Or just close the community if they are so heavy censored by their country legislation.
It reeks to me of living in a bubble your whole life and never having experienced police repression - so your only response is "it can't be the police, they've never done anything against me, it must be the protestors that are wrong"
Usually I'm one that hates leftist infighting but defacto trying to suppress a genocide because the "law says so" is rather weak. Still I totally understand wanting to protect yourself from repression but surely if you cared about both justice and your well being you would just hand over the community to someone else? Unless of course you actually agree with the "law"...
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Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
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Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
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@benda Everything. Electronics, computers, hardware etc. You watch USA people’s videos of how to make/do stuff and they’re always like “just pick this up at your local YayAmerica Mart for $2, couldn’t be easier!” and you look it up and it’s like $49 Canadian or $2 US plus $50 delivery and more for duty when they deliver it.
My guess is nothing else happens until Friday. Thursday at the earliest. Then more delays. Lots of delays.
> Chief Justice John Roberts granted the > “administrative stay” on his own, a move that will > extend the deadline until the court hands down a > more fulsome decision – probably within a few > days. Roberts handles emergency cases rising from > the federal appeals court in Richmond, Virginia.
This is a hard problem for the dominionists, because any ruling which is even remotely plausible legally is absolutely unacceptable politically, and vice versa. A timely ruling pretty much has to go against DOJ, but that raises the problem of how to narrow it down enough to avoid accidentally strengthening the 4A in lower courts. (Not that the ruling would be enforced. Bukele can just refuse publicly to return anyone and that'll be that.)
Whereas in the other direction, Gorsuch isn't fully committed to the dominionist project. So even if Roberts and Coney Barrett were both prepared to kill the 4A altogether (which seems doubtful now I say it out loud), they'd have to talk Gorsuch into whatever horseshit they come up with as the fig leaf. And even if they persuade Gorsuch, ruling for DOJ will be so obviously and blatantly at odds with the letter of the law that it will make the "exceptional circumstance" language from Bush v Gore look downright reasonable.
Either way, maximum delay seems likely, followed by a weak, heavily hedged ruling against DOJ.
The Supreme Court on Monday temporarily paused a court-imposed midnight deadline to return to the US a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, agreeing to a request from President Donald Trump that will give the justices more time to…
This isn't like the other case, which had some complexity they could work with to obfuscate the constitutional questions. This one is so open and shut that it's going to require some very careful writing. But get that's their job.
Raffi Melkonian: "Gotta say, I am not encouraged that SCOTUS has not yet resolved the El Salvador kidnapping case."
Have to admit I expected it tomorrow, and I thought sure there would be multiple request. But I say it's a called shot anyway.
And I'll also say, everybody online seems to be jittery about "effectuate" vs "facilitate" and I'm over here thinking about that admonition of "proper deference to the Executive Branch"
Do they mean proper deference regarding foreign policy or regarding the faithful execution of the 4A?
Ha ha just kidding. I know what I'd be telling my people to focus on if I were Pam Bondi.
And I'd tell them to take all weekend to think about how to use it.
"Foreign affairs cannot operate on judicial timelines"
Xinis isn't messing around though, so they may have to skip all the way to "Defendants are prepared to *facilitate* Mr. Abrego Garcia's return by arranging communications between the court and the goverment of El Salvador so that the court can negotiate with them directly, such and such time and date yadda yadda provided court maintains *proper deference* foreign relations yadda yadda" sometime next week.
That way Bukele gets to do the delaying for a while and it might even provide an opportunity to go back to SCOTUS.
> He is not “in the custody of a foreign sovereign” when that > fact results from their having a contract with the USA, > though. El Salvador has no more sovereign immunity here than > GEO Group.
Yeah, but that's just like your opinion, man. DOJ absolutely has a colorable claim to the contrary, because regardless of any contracts that might exist between defendants and government of El Salvador, or between intermediaries of one or both of those parties, Abrego Garcia is being held on foreign soil.
So is the plaintiff in the custody of a "foreign sovereign" or of a purely private entity with no connection the government of El Salvador? Who the hell knows.
But if it's the former, as DOJ claims, then there will be the problem of how to ensure deference for the foreign policy privileges of the executive during any return proceedings. And who will eventually get to decide how to handle that delicate balance? SCOTUS!
Xinis has got DOJ's number though, no doubt about it.
> Garcia's counsel says daily status updates would be > appropriate and they would respond as needed very quickly to > each update. > > Ensign says government intends to comply with SCOTUS order, > but court deadlines not practicable > > Judge: Then you can tell the public that every day in status > updates
If Roberts were capable of shame this would eventually become embarrassing, but I bet embarrassment is the least of his worries right now.
Told ya. Not that this part is hard to predict. Choices are very limited still.
But Xinis must have put *some* fear into somebody, because this means the "deference threshold" battle starts immediately, Monday at the latest. If they'd wanted to they could have gotten through the weekend with "ICE (or DOJ) is checking with State" but they went straight to "State Dept checked with Salvadoran Govt and they have him in *domestic* custody"
"Domestic"
That's worrying, because it might mean that whoever is actually in charge of legal strategy for this believes that some kind of deference fix is already in at SCOTUS. If they've already identified a legal incantation that they think will get five votes, they might want the (first) return trip to happen right away. Thankfully, it could also just be that a few days here and there isn't something they care about.
(BTW I was thinking I'd heard of Kozak before and holy forking shirtballs, I certainly had. We have all heard of him. Exactly how he got involved is undoubtedly an interesting story that I'm disappointed I will never hear.)
> This is a concession by the U.S. government that its > “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this > has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is > unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments
Oh yeah, good point. The unconstitutionality is so shameless and brazen you could definitely go after the policy as a whole already.
The problem is still that the regime doesn't have to win. They just have to avoid losing in a way that's subject to remedy. And there are plenty of ways to make that happen, because FP is the exclusive domain of the executive, and remedy as such is not guaranteed by the constitution. So if SCOTUS ends up concluding the plaintiff's rights were grossly and deliberately violated, but in a manner which can only be remedied by congress, whatcha gonna do about it?
Going after the arrangement would be good though. And the sooner we get to the part where the regime is forced to ignore a SCOTUS order the better. Probably.
> If there is an international agreement with El Salvador for > these renditions, the Trump administration is legally > required under the Case-Zablocki Act to share it with > Congress. > > To my knowledge, they have not done so.
I didn't bookmark the filings from yesterday, but the gist of it is about what you'd expect.
They doubled down on Salvadoran "sovereignty" and also threw in some horseshit about the content of agreement with Bukele being classified for national security reasons in order to keep that secret (this is apparently also directly in violaton of a law I'd never heard of which states that all such agreements have to be shared with congress). There was something about claiming they've rescinded Abrego Garcia's previous protections too, but that seems to have been after the departure so I thnk it's just legal chaff.
The immediate question is whether Xinis starts using contempt, and if so whether anybody is incacerated as a result. I'm guessing no and no, but she does seem awful mad, and she certainly has the authority to throw some of DOJ's people in the clink if she wants to.
But I'm guessing she won't, and that the first thing to make its way back to SCOTUS will be the "deference" angle, to find out whether the executive branch has an affirmative obligation under the constitution to request Abrego Garcia's return at all, or if this is simply a no-remedy situation because foreign policy, bitches.
Then maybe another trip for the "facilitation" angle, where the question is what level of oligation USG has or does not have.
I'm writing this shit down as cope.
It's not like I've got any actonable options except documenting the atrocities.
Bukele sure as hell learned his lines though. Very on message.
The fact that they're keep talking about the MS13 business so long after it had been legally overridden makes me think they want to reintroduce it in fiings. Which is total nonsense legally speaking, but might give SCOTUS some kind of national security hook to hang some other delay onto.
Woot! Some legit good news, to the extent that it's possible for any part of this to qualify as good. The "expedited discovery" requested by Abrego Garcia's team is still on track.
What happened couple of days ago was that instead of getting hung up on DOJ's non-responsiveness, Xinis ordered expedited discovery of a bunch of stuff the WH desperately needs to avoid getting pinned down on: what exactly their agreement with El Salvador consists of, what Abrego Garcia's actual condition and status are right now, and what steps if any the government has taken to "facilitate" his return.
That discovery is likely to reveal some "shock the conscience" stuff in addition to routine legal malfeasance and contempt, so DOJ requested a stay pending a different horsehit appeal.
Not only did that request get rejected, but the decision is basically a long blunt manifesto about rule of law and separation of powers. The bsky link below has a link to the decision, and if you read it's pretty clear why it has a lot of people hooting and hollering.
Anyway this is good. It doesn't seem likely the administration will cooperate with discovery, but at least this way it can get started. And refusing to provide documents or be deposed is a much much clearer form of contempt than just late filing of shitty non-responsive briefs, which is what they've been doing so far.
The downside is of course the same one every setback the fascists experience for the next two years will have. They have no choice but to escalate. Meaning the next part gets *more* dangerous not less, and so forth. That's just how everything is going to be for a while though.
And meanwhile, this seems like a very solid and hard-to-reverse win.
Some kind of national security privilege is presumably how they're gonna fight it next — they already tried to claim the contract with El Salvador was classified — but discovery will let at least Xinis force them to explain why it should be classified.
The other good news from yesterday was that Van Hollen did get to talk to Abrego Garcia, even though—very revealingly—he did not get to visit CECOT. (Van Hollen "looks forward to providing a full update upon [his] return.")
I personally didn't think Abrego Garcia was dead, but it's nice to have proof of life, and proof that he's (presumably) compos mentis and (presumably) hasn't been physically tortured. This also proves that Bukele isn't convinced Trump can protect him.
That's the thin end of a wedge that other people can now exploit.
It's also good IMO that Van Hollen can, if he and others want it to happen, testify *first hand* about the status of the plaintiff. Which is what DOJ and ICE and State keep refusing to do.
That may be useful in the future, when Xinis makes the inevitable leap from discovery to contempt, because... uh... let me see if I can put this delicately.
Contempt will only matter if its accompanied by arrests. But those warrants go to the US Marshalls first, which means there's going to be a big and extremely ugly disagreement about whether, how, and by whom, the defendants will or won't be taken into custody.
Because the marshalls work for Pam Bondi. Who is going to adamantly oppose them doing their jobs.
If the marshalls do their job anyway, great! No problemo. But if they don't, there's a non-trivial chance of showdowns between different groups of "law enforcement" professionals.
So the more obvious and clear-cut the contempt is, the less likely it is that the showdown turns into a shootout.
Me personally I'm not convinced we get through this without *any* shootouts. But delaying them until public opinion has had a chance to shift a little further against t̶h̶e̶ ̶G̶e̶s̶t̶a̶p̶o̶ ICE and Trump *seems* like a good outcome.
Probably. It could also just be delaying the inevitable and making it worse. There's no way to know which.
Seen a bunch of people saying this might mean they're about to bring him back.
Nah. The safe bet is that this is (again) a bad faith delay while they continue searching for a "foreign policy" or "national security" angle that gets five SC justices to declare it congress's problem. That's not exactly "safe harbor" but it delays further discovery or reckoning for months or years. Long enough to become a "Teaching the King's Horse to Talk" scenario.
In fact, my guess is that what we see at the end of this stay is more privilege requests, *despite* Xinis's bad attitude about those. Meaning DOJ/State filing a(nother) brief explaining that discovery would have significant national security implications, so if it happens at all it needs to be under seal or ex parte or whatever.
Which either gets accepted by Xinis or gets appealed. It doesn't solve DOJ's real problem, but it's an easier argument to get swing justices to sign off on, and keeps anything substantive from happening until a better FP/NatSec argument shows up.
The problem with just bringing Abrego Garcia back (whether during the 7 day stay, or in general) is that it has to happen over Miller's categorical objections. If anyone other than Trump makes that decision they go straight to the top of Miller's shit list.
But Trump would have to unambiguously say "okay bring him back now." How likely is that?
So DOJ (still) has only two other options for the next couple of weeks: either come up with a strong FP/NatSec claim, or proceed with discovery. And regular discovery would be very Very VERY Bad. *Personally* risky for both Noem and Bondi, in addition to the likelihood of a standoff between one group of LEOs trying to arrest somebody held in contempt, and another group protecting them.
Nobody in the legal system wants that. Not Xinis, not SCOTUS, *especially* not DOJ, since they just arrested a WI judge, and they'll want the implications of that to sink in for a while.
Hence a slow, highly classified discovery. Possibly after a quick trip to the circuit panel or to SCOTUS. Anything else forces the issue.
I am kind of curious about this, but it's not enough to draw any conclusion.
> Lawyers for Abrego Garcia filed their own sealed document, > styled as a response in opposition, but Xinis wrote that her > order was made “with the agreement of the parties.”
There's no way to rule out "horse head in the bed" scenarios with these guys. We really don't know one way or the other.
#historical #quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn courtesy of Dmitry K on X: “You must understand: the Bolshevik leaders who took over Russia were not Russians. They hated Russians. They hated Christians. Driven by ethnic hatred, they tortured and killed millions of Russians without the slightest human remorse.
The October Revolution was not what you in America call the ‘Russian Revolution.’ It was an invasion and conquest of the Russian people.
My compatriots suffered more horrific crimes at the hands of these bloodthirsty men than any people or nation has ever suffered in the history of mankind. This should not be underestimated.
Bolshevism was the greatest human slaughter of all time.
The fact that the world knows nothing about this reality is proof that the global media itself is in the hands of the perpetrators.”
On April 9, a collection of peace activists affiliated with the People’s Arms Embargo returned to Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, one hour north of San Francisco to stage a protest to try to block entry into the base.
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China will take firm measures to safeguard the legitimate interests of its companies, following the United States' latest attempt to block the global use of Huawei Technologies' Ascend artificial intelligence chips, the Ministry of Commerce said on T…
SOMEONE STOP #IsraelTerroristState NOW Anyone???? Fucking #europe???? Where is the #UN???? They killed 125 people in one friking DAY. Hours. And the world is silenced. SHAME,SHAME SHAME AND FUCK ISRAEL #fuckisrael
SOMEONE STOP #IsraelTerroristState NOW Anyone???? Fucking #europe???? Where is the #UN???? They killed 125 people in one friking DAY. Hours. And the world is silenced. SHAME,SHAME SHAME AND FUCK ISRAEL #fuckisrael
@Java @FourOh-LLC I, like many people, also get frustrated because hurding cats is very tedious and requires great patience. Trump has to use all legal means to accomplish the mission for the same reasons violence wouldn’t work. Sociopaths, narcissists and nihilist live in the realm for deception, violence and illegality. To make legal and lasting changes to a corrupted system requires making them play the game that exposes their weaknesses and limitations.
Is Donald Trump a peacemaker? It is probably fair to say the jury is still out. He says he wants peace in Ukraine. He bombed Yemen. He certainly is approaching Israel in an unprecedented way. Trump th...
"I have never had a flu shot or the Coronavirus shot. I haven't been sick for years, and during the pandemic, most of my vaccinated friends and acquaintances caught the Coronavirus multiple times."
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"I, too, am a retired RN, and I stopped getting a flu shot because I always got sick EVERY winter when I did. I was always told that I got the strain of flu that was outside of the spectrum. After being told this three years in a row, I
stopped taking the flu shot ,and I did NOT get the flu. I walk dogs in my semi-retirement on weekdays only, for the most part, and I get plenty of fresh air and exercise. I also avoid large crowds of people from October until the end of Spring. So far, so good. Thank you, Dr.Dhand."
I got the rest of the components on the board and complete the kit! I'm pleased to report that it works! And ... It. Is. LOUD! I can't have both the gain and volume up past like 9:30/10 at the same time here at home. Only tried the strat so far. Will try to make time to try some humbuckers this weekend. I'll need to take all the guts and knobs off for the Baroness to make it purty.
@benda Thanks. It my first time soldering. I definitely did a few joints too hot. And I may have melted a few dents in parts of the PCB holder trying to steady my hands! 😅
practice makes perfect. and with soldering, especially. i built all the dsub snakes in my bedroom studio. somewhere around... 22 of them? the first couple took me over 2 hours each. by the end, i would knock it out in 45 minutes start to finish.
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
“One of the things we’ve talked about a lot on this podcast is, that an enormous percentage of what you’re seeing on social media in terms of interactions and debate is not real. It’s not organic,” he explained.
Pezeshkian to White House leaders: Who supports killers of 60,000 people in Gaza? Did you defeat Daesh or was it Iran and Martyr Soleimani? parstoday.ir/en/call_of_islam/…
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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pledges to rescue 252 Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in El Salvador and reunite families, highlighting migration as a human
@fluffy uh yes covid is still going on, turns out if you don't do anything to prevent it from being spread...it spreads. And "vax and relax" policies don't work once a variant evolves to escape past the vaccine protection. Which the current vaccines at least in my area are aimed at variants that haven't really circulated in ~2 years
Yeah, Kevin McKernan has found DNA levels from 7 to 450 times the arbitrary "allowable" level of it as a contaminant in the RNA.
Methods and reagents used by the pharma companies to "test" their product are such that they fail to detect the plasmids and random scraps of DNA. This is obviously deliberate, but if they are ever really called out in public, they will acknowledge it as a little oopsie, an "honest mistake".
Mistakes were made. And Fauci has killed and maimed more people than Stalin, Hitler, and Pol Pot all together.
Ça alors ! Quel malencontreux hasard qui tombe à pic pour .... pour qui déjà ?! Karim #Khan, le procureur qui a demandé à la #CPI d’émettre des mandats d’arrêt à l’encontre du premier ministre israélien Benyamin #Netanyahou, de l’ancien ministre de la Défense Yoav #Gallant.... se retrouve dans la mouise....
The US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from deporting dangerous Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
The US Supreme Court on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from deporting dangerous Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.
CNN’s Senior Data Reporter, Harry Enten, had disappointing news for Democrats, and turncoat Republicans, who thought (hoped?) Trump’s approval numbers would be falling when, in fact, they are rising.
CNN’s Senior Data Reporter, Harry Enten, had disappointing news for Democrats, and turncoat Republicans, who thought (hoped?) Trump’s approval numbers would be falling when, in fact, they are rising.
Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed Martin said former FBI Director James Comey is going to prison after he posted an assassination threat against President Trump.
Associate Deputy Attorney General Ed Martin said former FBI Director James Comey is going to prison after he posted an assassination threat against President Trump.
Stalin: Proletarian culture does not abolish national culture, it gives it content. On the other hand, national culture does not abolish proletarian culture, it gives it form. The slogan of national culture was a bourgeois slogan as long as the bourgeoisie was in power and the consolidation of nations proceeded under the aegis of the bourgeois order. The slogan of national culture became a proletarian slogan when the proletariat came to power, and when the consolidation of nations began to proceed under the aegis of Soviet power. Whoever fails to understand the fundamental difference between these two situations will never understand either Leninism or the essence of the national question. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Ein Geschäftsmann kann dich nicht zwingen, sein Produkt zu kaufen. Macht er einen Fehler, leidet er unter den Folgen; versagt er, trägt er den Verlust. Ein Bürokrat zwingt dich, seinen Anordnungen zu folgen, … Macht er einen Fehler, leidest du unter den Folgen; Versagt er, überträgt er den Verlust an dich – in der Form höherer Steuern.“ #AynRand (1905 – 1982)
i watched this video on all the vile shit the smash pedos did to hax and holy shit it's absolutely fucking vile i hope all the people involved in that cesspool gets aids youtube.com/watch?v=lnEguS2hDh…
A Smash Bros. professional and entrepreneur has passed away. How did we get here? Hax gofundme (To Support His Mom): https://www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-of...
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⚖️ Montana just became the first U.S. state to ban law enforcement from purchasing personal data from brokers — and it’s a privacy milestone 🚫📱
Under this new law: 📍 Government agencies can’t buy sensitive data (location, biometrics, etc.) without a warrant 🔍 It closes a major loophole used to sidestep Fourth Amendment protections 📄 Agencies also can’t require people to waive rights through service terms 🧱 It sets a precedent for digital due process in a data-saturated world
This isn’t just a state law. It’s a model for what digital civil liberties legislation should look like nationwide.
Montana has done something that many states and the United States Congress have debated but failed to do: it has just enacted the first attempt to close the dreaded, invasive, unconstitutional, but easily fixed “data broker loophole.
All eyes are on Turkey, as Russia and Ukraine sent teams for talks… they just arrived in different cities. Now, the Russian delegation in Istanbul is giving Kiev one more chance to attend talks at 10:...
Recent podcast guest, writer, and longtime liberty advocate Carey Wedler breaks down how political zealotry becomes an easy target for manufactured fear—and just how widespread and deeply embedded that tactic has become.
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