saubeidl

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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Indeed.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Blizzard is a bunch of sex pests and Microsoft is the guys with the AI upsells on every inch of their OS...
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
> If there's one thing the EU really does have, it's the capacity to revise regulations. This is the central power lever of the EU and one that is frequently underestimated. European power projection doesn't work through t
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Europe's 'painful' realisation it must be bolder with US: security report(theguardian.com)
6 points by saubeidl 8mo ago|0 comments
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EU and India launch talks on Horizon Europe association(research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu)
1 points by saubeidl 8mo ago|0 comments
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The tech titans who show up in the Epstein files(mashable.com)
6 points by saubeidl 8mo ago|3 comments
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Here's another one: https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-files-reveal-prosecuto...
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
I think "he was murdered by agents of the state before he could reveal anything damaging to the ruling class" is more likely than "he faked his own death and lives on an island somewhere".
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Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead(standard.co.uk)
30 points by saubeidl 8mo ago|22 comments
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
You almost got it. We all lose as long as money determines power in social relations.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
I was referring to a hacker as Stallman would've used the term. This sorta stuff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_culture > Richard Stallman explains about hackers who program: > What they had in commo
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Of course they did. They used their capital to influence democracy. That's capitalism baby!
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Yeah but the tech spend was way more effective. Elon took over Twitter.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
I would strongly assume the primary place is on some French government server somewhere and this is just the public mirror.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Real hackers care about open source software.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Biden. Him putting Lisa Khan in charge of antitrust enraged the tech oligarchs, who then all went MAGA and bought Trump the election.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Cause that's where the traction is. The beauty of git is that it's inherently distributed, github is just a clone like any other.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Idk man, as a communist let me tell you, my thoughts are definitely not far right, yet also not the most "acceptable". Maybe the thoughts you're referencing are just actually far right?
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US to bankroll far-right think tanks in Europe against digital laws(brusselstimes.com)
34 points by saubeidl 8mo ago|6 comments
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
What if this current system also always ends in blood, as history has shown so far?
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Lenin described this exact process a century ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperialism,_the_Highest_Stage... The 'choice' is an illusion. To quote Lenin, the state becomes the 'executive committee
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
I judge a system by what it does, not by what it's proponents say it could theoretically do. Extractive capitalism is real-world capitalism.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Yup. It's capitalism that's the core problem. Social media is just a particularly nasty outgrowth.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Personal accountability is contrary to human nature. We are primates dominated by our primitive urges.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
I would posit you are in fact incorrect. Whether it is on purpose or not (e.g. whether you're lying), I cannot say.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Removing the Jews, yes. Just like you're talking about removing the "illegals". The ugly details of what said removal entails are slow-rolled in a spiral of normalization. Again, initial talk was of deportation in the
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
The stripping of citizenship was implemented as prerequisite for the camps. You need a plausible excuse for the camps after all, as I'm sure you're well aware.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
> which leaves you with hyperbole, misrepresentation, and of course these sort of semantic games. > They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’ > "And you are an alarmist. You are saying
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
These banal semantics are the legalistic excuses used by genocidal regimes to justify the unjustifiable and to assuade the conscience of collaborators. A close mirror of what is happening in this thread, if you will.
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by saubeidl 8mo ago
Jews were not citizens. That's the oldest trick in the book, make up some dumb legalistic excuse for ones crimes against humanity. Just gate citizenship to the lilliest of whites and then put non-citizens in camps... https:/&#x

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