No wonder the U.S., together with the butchers from Israel, is deliberately bombing schools.

What a despicable rogue state, led by the most deranged monsters humanity has to offer—so monstrous that not a trace of humanity remains.

That makes it pretty clear that most executives are the worst possible people to run a company. Well, that’s just how it is when ruthlessness and greed are the only criteria used to select top executives.

But hey, even if they were to lose their jobs because they’re burning through so much money, things will go on as usual: Anyone who’s ever held a top management position will always be hired for the same role somewhere else, because competence is definitely not the deciding factor here. Never was, never will be.

This also fits the times we live in alarmingly well—because of the absurdity of it all. Well, it’s hardly surprising, given that we’re seem to be heading back toward the dark ages with its anti-progress monarchs who would rather see the world burn than relinquish any of their power. I think today’s billionaires are very much in that tradition.

Well, I think it’s more important to tune out the noise this regime is constantly making and pay attention to the things they keep quiet about.

Besides, what is Europe supposed to do? Station nuclear warheads in Greenland?

Yes, that’s true. But instigating a military conflict with its own allies would be quite self-destructive, even for this criminal regime, which is, after all, well known for making empty threats as well.

I can’t for the life of me imagine what the benefit would be for the billionaires who control the U.S.

Trump and his henchmen may be utterly unscrupulous and obviously not the brightest, but there is one constant: every decision they make serves to line their own pockets.

I simply cannot fathom what benefit this gang would gain from invading Greenland. What is absolutely certain, however, is that this would have disastrous consequences for trade between Europe and the U.S.

Europe would undoubtedly have to respond, and that would cost all parties involved billions uppon billions.

It may well be that Trump himself would accept that in his narcissistic self-interest or in an attempt to completely ruin the U.S. However, I consider it much more likely that this is just the usual bullshit, because that’s definitely part of his communication strategy: one scandal after another to distract from his actual, sinister schemes. He’s been quite successful at that so far.

Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members, and triggers an obligation for each member to come to its assistance.

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If there were no straight up declaration of war by all NATO member states, the U.S. would lose its closest allies, and sanctions would be imposed that would cost everyone involved a great deal of money.

“Because he can” won’t be enough for the people who put Trump in the position he’s in.

An attack on Greenland is an attack on a founding member of NATO, since the island belongs to Denmark despite its autonomy. The U.S. won’t attack NATO. Why would it? Not even that orange pedo would be that unbelievably stupid.

This nonsense was already ridiculous the last time around. I don’t understand how anyone can take this seriously.

I’m afraid that’s just as hard—if not impossible—as figuring out which artists created all those iconic Disney characters. That’s just how soulless corporations are.

I could never handle building a site like that myself because just doing the research would be so absolutely depressing.

This is exactly what those who are broadly portrayed as visionaries want.

Unfortunately, it never seems to have dawned on the general public that those who market themselves this way were never the visionaries.

Take Dennis Ritchie, for example, one of the original creators of C, who died just days before Steve Jobs: The media went out of their way to emphasize what a loss humanity had suffered, while failing to acknowledge that someone had died to whom humanity owes a great deal. They celebrated only the greedy capitalist who knew how to market a technology, but not at all the rather humble man who made a tremendous contribution without enriching himself at the expense of the common good.

That was a long time ago, but today’s world is still exactly the same - it even got way worse from there: no recognition for those who actually achieve great things, but only for those who step into the spotlight and thus appear to be the ones to whom humanity owes something.

In my view, this encapsulates everything one needs to know about our time—the absurdity of charlatans desperately wanting to be billionaires or even trillionaires.

This attitude has nothing to do with the real world, and it is a hubris that no halfway decent person would ever presume to have—yet humanity is ruled by exactly these megalomaniacal monsters because it collectively allows it.

So we are ruled by the worst that humanity has to offer—by unscrupulous opportunists who live only for themselves, have no sense of community, and have set up a system of undeserved triumph in such a way that only their own despicable kind can follow them.

It is a system that is directed against humanity itself.

Thanks for the encouraging words—I see it exactly the same way, but sometimes I’m a bit disheartened by how many people remain inactive or just don’t care in the slightest.

It’s probably just as you say: Apparently, a catastrophe will have to happen first before people shake off their apathy.

The only question for me is what form that catastrophe will take: Climate change, in any case, will be irreversible. And from the history of my home country, I also know just how high a price must be paid for people to realize that fascism is merely a tool used by the powerful to realize their megalomaniacal fantasies of power in a totalitarian state that nips all resistance in the bud.

It’s hard to believe, but even in Germany, those wretched Nazis are on the rise again. The last time, the stupidity of the population—which failed to prevent their seizure of power—led to one of the greatest catastrophes humanity has ever experienced: millions upon millions were murdered. And now many of my fellow citizens have forgotten this, or are repressing all the horror and inhumanity, because they refuse to acknowledge who the true enemies of the people really are.

I find that deeply shameful—especially because I come from Germany, a country where citizens should know better.

I find all of this frightening and extremely frustrating, but of course you’re absolutely right: we mustn’t lose hope, even if the monsters of this world are tightening their stranglehold significantly these days, precisely through technology.

The Department of Justice is refusing to hand over redacted information from investigative files connected to Jeffrey Epstein, despite an order from a federal judge to either release the documents or explain why they were withheld.

US-Regime: Time to throw up the smokescreen again! Muhahaha, no one will ever see through this!

Rest of the World: C’mon, again? Why even bother? It’s not like there are any consequences to worry about for your deranged billionaires. So…

It seems to me that this sums up pretty much exactly what today’s billionaire-driven cutthroat capitalism has indeed produced: a bleak world of repetitive sequels whose sole purpose is to make the rich ever richer. From the countless Spin-offs to once-beloved franchises like Star Wars and the like to remakes of every film and series from the past that was even remotely successful, to the same old days in the never-ending grind of work, all the way to the predictable end of most creativity caused by LLMs feeding off each other with the same old remixes.

Here you can truly see the devastating influence that U.S. ideology has worldwide: In other countries, there is even free education, but the logic of maintaining the status quo—in which innovation is only welcomed if it cements the existing order—has nonetheless become the inescapable system of the world order.

It’s almost like a return to the Dark Ages, when the elites brought the development of civilization to a standstill for centuries through their monopoly on knowledge, education, and even leisure—which is a prerequisite for idleness needed for being creative.

Given the way technology is being co-opted by the super-rich, LLMs seem to me to be the central tool for bringing progress to a standstill: They rob young people of any prospect for a professional future, creative individuals of their already precarious livelihoods, and inventors and volunteers of their ideas and their work—while the credit is falsely attributed to the “genius” of those billionaires who operate these systems and claim they somehow came up with it all on their own — when in fact they’re merely regurgitating what already exists, what they stole to lock it up behind their paywalled LLMs.

And perhaps the most disastrous aspect of all: Cloud-based LLMs create a knowledge monopoly in the hands of those corporations—numbering fewer than ten—which are the only ones capable of offering this technology because of the massive cost, thereby shifting the power of interpretation even further to the few unscrupulous owners of these giant corporations that know nothing but boundless greed on their own.

Overall, it seems to me that humanity is regressing, and absurdly, this is in large parts attributable to supposedly disruptive technology—except that the disruption largely consists of the world appearing more hopelessly lost than it has in decades.

I think, overall, this is also reflected in the fact that most people have lost the hope—which was widespread just twenty years ago—that technology could change the world for the better.

I feel bad for being so pessimistic, especially since that’s exactly what the super-rich want: for the situation to seem so hopelessly inevitable that it seems it could never be changed. But with all that going on, it’s really hard to see even a glimmer of hope anywhere.

Ist er, weshalb er ja auch immer wieder Vorträge über den Leibhaftigen hält - scheint eine Art Selbstfindungsversuch gepaart mit dem krankhaften Narzissmus, der dazu gehört, sich selbst als eine schillernde Fantasiegestalt aus der christlichen Theologie aufzuspielen.

Einzigartig macht ihn diese absurde Wahnvorstellung freilich keineswegs, aber leider brandgefährlich für die Gesellschaft, da er eben ein Psychopath mit unbegrenzten finanziellen Mitteln und einem ausufernden Netzwerk ebenso geisteskranker Milliardäre ist.

Insofern hat er schon gewissermaßen Recht: Er und seine degenerierten Spezis sind durchaus “die Geißel der Menschheit”.

FYI:

US Energy Secretary: “I’m thrilled to report that tomorrow morning, on July 4th, we will end subsidies for wind and solar projects”

That is the likely scenario.

It is, after all, quite obvious that state power is not only being abused to protect these criminals, but that it is what makes the most serious crimes possible in the first place. That is simply how things are in a corrupt state—here, the legal system does not serve to enforce the law at all, but rather to facilitate crime, just as is happening in the U.S. on a daily basis. There are countless other examples: a secret police force in the form of ICE, life sentences for opponents of the regime based on fabricated terrorism charges, the embezzlement of billions by unscrupulous opportunists, and so on and so forth.

This country is done for, especially since its citizens have apparently resigned themselves to the status quo. If that weren’t the case, the regime would have been behind bars long ago—it would never even have risen to this position in the first place. The U.S. president has a criminal career stretching back decades. The fact that he was able to assume office at all—and twice, no less—says everything there is to know.

Now he’s doing exactly what was to be expected, and the citizens still aren’t holding him accountable—even now, when it’s completely obvious that their country is ruled by organized crime of the worst kind.

Unfortunately, this is a massive problem for the entire world, as the regime itself tirelessly demonstrates by blackmailing other countries and committing the most egregious war crimes alongside its genocidal counterpart in Israel.

It would be very much in the interest of all reasonably decent people if U.S. citizens would finally hold their inhumane overlords accountable, but that’s about as likely as the Russian people rising up against their dictator.

So we’re all pretty much screwed, because this rogue state, armed to the teeth, can be defeated by no one other than its own citizens.

…yes, appropriate for protecting Epstein’s billionaires clients and accomplices, some of whom quite obviously make up this criminal regime.

This case really shows all too clearly what a lawless oligarchy the U.S. is. A true rogue state ruled by the scum of humanity.

I think most reasonably educated people around the world are fully aware of all of this.

I mention the Epstein case in one of my comments just because I assume that the vast majority of the population despises pedophiles and wants to see them punished for their monsterous crimes - to me, this seems more like a unifying factor that could be used to bridge political divides. I mean, with Massie, there’s even among today’s conservatives someone who doesn’t bow to pressure from within his own ranks. So it really should be possible to agree with your neighbor that a regime so obviously entangled in these crimes must be overthrown.

But hey, this is just one starting point - there are many more, given all the rampant corruption, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in the U.S. itself.

I’m afraid that U.S. citizens will have to get used to posts like this one, because the actions of the U.S. regime unfortunately affect the entire world, which is why the propaganda narrative of the friendly superpower spreading freedom is increasingly being recognized for the farce it has always been.

In this case, I am convinced that the U.S. will become a full-blown autocracy like today’s Russia sooner rather than later.

The regime has already laid the groundwork for this, and if it decides to do away with even the pretense of democracy - which I consider more likely with each passing day - resistance will effectively mean that those who have the courage to resist will vanish without a trace.

That’s how it was in my home country back when the Nazis took over Germany. Here, too, people were convinced that things would somehow work out on their own- what actually happened is written in the history books.

As I mentioned in my comment above: A general strike that continues until the government resigns seems to me to be the only peaceful solution. I cannot judge whether this is realistic, as I am not a U.S. citizen.

Viewed from the outside, however, it seems to me that this is only remotely realistic if the living conditions of ordinary Americans deteriorate to the point where they rise up. I have no doubt that the living conditions of American citizens will continue to deteriorate. But whether and when this will lead to sustained mass protests or even a sustained general strike, I cannot say.