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  • At what point does a legal system become a means of justifying obvious crimes?

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  • Does it make a difference?

    Injustice remains injustice, even if those in power declare it to be just. However, if they ignore the law and no one holds them accountable, there can be no hope for improvement, because that is only possible in a state where the law no longer matters.

    What interests me is when this happened. It was apparently a gradual transition, unlike in Nazi Germany, where the law was explicitly changed to justify inhumanity.

    The U.S. Nazis thus seem to be pursuing a different strategy to seize absolute power—a strategy that U.S. citizens are evidently enabling them to carry out because what they do is blatantly illegal, but the law is not enforced.

  • At what point does a legal system become a means of justifying obvious crimes?

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  • I can’t understand how you can still believe you’re living in a functioning constitutional state.

    Everything you say is completely refuted by the Epstein case alone.

    I can’t understand how anyone can be so blind.

    As I said, in Germany, massive violence was necessary to bring about Nazi rule.

    In the U.S., that doesn’t even seem to be necessary, because its citizens apparently view blatant injustice as the norm.

    The point at which the U.S. legal system endorses absolute injustice has long since been reached. Even the Supreme Court agrees.

  • At what point does a legal system become a means of justifying obvious crimes?

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  • It was a very specific question. You’re the one turning it into an abstraction.

    I can give a very specific answer to that, since I’m from Germany: In Germany in 1933, the Nazis used the legal system to give their inhuman crimes a veneer of legality. The reason for this was their absolute and extremely violent seizure of political power. They even retroactively legalized murders—including those of their own henchmen, such as Ernst Röhm, and many of their own party members.

    Millions upon millions were murdered by the Nazis—and all of this was sanctioned by the legal system of that monstrous state.

    This did not end until 1945 with the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany.

    However, a victory was evidently not achieved, for today in Israel and the U.S., hundreds of thousands of people are being held in concentration camps that are hardly any different from those of the Nazis.

  • At what point does a legal system become a means of justifying obvious crimes?

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  • If you think there’s something cryptic about this, it explains to me how what’s happening in the U.S. is possible.

    I’m from Germany, the country where the Nazis ruled from 1933 to 1945. Everything they did was, at least in hindsight, covered by the law.

    The difference from the U.S. today, however, is that the Nazis in Germany were only able to put their degenerate ideology into practice after they seized absolute power. They didn’t do that until 1933—and even then, they maintained the appearance of legality and enshrined their inhuman ideology in law.

    The U.S., however, claims to be a democracy, a constitutional state, and yet it is detaining tens of thousands of people—just as the Nazis were only able to do once they had murdered hundreds of thousands of their political opponents.

    That is what my question refers to.

    To put it another way: When will U.S. citizens realize that their legal system primarily serves to oppress them?

  • At what point does a legal system become a means of justifying obvious crimes?

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  • The quote you've taken from this article could hardly be more inappropriate, since it bears no resemblance to reality—in either version.

  • At what point does a legal system become a means of justifying obvious crimes?

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  • That was a long time ago—here in Germany, it was 1933 when Hitler enacted the so-called Enabling Act.

    Nazi Germany was defeated in World War II, but U.S. billionaires made sure that their counterparts were never held accountable for their crimes.

    That is why, in light of recent events, I ask

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    At what point does a legal system become a means of justifying obvious crimes?

  • Peak Internet Culture

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  • That's absolutely right; the only problem is that those chief-idiot are so rich that they control most of what the Internet means to the vast majority of people.

    That's just how people are, unfortunately, as evidenced by the fact that platforms like Twitter or Reddit, for example, are still used by the masses.

  • Italians may help Germany get its trains to run on time

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  • Yes

  • Italians may help Germany get its trains to run on time

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  • Yes, this is the result of neo-capitalist policies; Deutsche Bahn has been partially privatized, which—as is always the case with this logic—means that profits flow into the pockets of billionaires while losses are borne by the general public. That is why, for example, Germany’s internet infrastructure is at the level of a Third World country, even though Telekom generates enormous revenue.

    It’s the result of U.S.-style exploitative capitalism, from which we cannot break free because—just as in the U.S.—it has corrupted all the levers of power—but hey, that’s why Germany has so many billionaires compared to other countries.

    Edit: That, by the way, is also why the AfD is so strong in Germany. It’s a carbon copy of MAGA and owes its popularity to the same billionaires. This party is anything but an “alternative,” as its name might lead misinformed people to believe: It embodies everything Trump stands for—corruption and unscrupulousness—and that’s putting it quite mildly.

    Educate yourselves, read their party platform, and let people know what it stands for. If you don’t want an oligarchy, that’s your civic duty!

  • Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

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  • I don't think Russia plays much of a role here, but yes, absolutely: Trump and his henchmen are, in my opinion, merely accelerating the decline of the U.S.

    This former superpower is clearly on its last legs, as too many resources have been embezzled—as is typical in oligarchies. Therefore, aggression is all that remains for it, since its bloated military apparatus is the only thing left, alongside the IT sector, which is currently dismantling itself for the very same reasons that led to this situation.

    China is also a misanthropic autocracy, but the policies of its leaders are nonetheless far-sighted, forward-looking, and skillful, which is why China is already the superpower that the U.S. once was (albeit it's glory was bought on credit after WWII).

    Europe’s future, in my view, depends on whether it will be possible to shake off the influence of the U.S. and its disastrous turbo-capitalism. Unfortunately, it does not look that way, because in the strongest European countries, neo-capitalist forces are still at work, whose maxim is now turning into fascism precisely because their approach is no longer competitive in today’s world.

    Either way, dark times are ahead for science—and, consequently, for humanity as well.

  • Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

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  • Yes, that’s right. I recently spoke with five friends of mine who are chief physicians and senior physicians in Spain, Switzerland, and Germany: They all agreed—the U.S. is no longer conducting scientific research; the CDC, which used to be a globally important institution because many countries followed its guidelines, no longer exists, since all competent staff who refused to go along with this absurdity were fired.

    They are appalled at how quickly this decline was orchestrated by the Trump regime, especially since it took decades to reach an international consensus. All of them have lost all trust in U.S. institutions and believe that these inhumane policies will cost hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide.

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    Shouldn't we urgently define metrics that will allow future people to track the impact of LLMs on human cognitive abilities over time?

  • U.S. FCC approves giant space mirror to deliver 'sunlight on demand,' but what are the legal implications?

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  • Every Bond villain worthy of the title should have a diabolical plot worthy of respect.

    In Die Another Day, Gustav Graves ingratiates himself with the West, constructing a satellite named Icarus without the authorities realising that he is actually developing a space-based superweapon. Ostensibly, Graves has developed the satellite as a means of ensuring that crops can be grown year-round, bringing an end to starvation, but the truth is far more sinister: the purpose of the satellite is to provide North Korea with the clout to become a superpower, if not to actually dominate the world.

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  • As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews

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  • In other words: Now that he’s no longer getting any money from Google, he’s suddenly upset that no one is visiting his site anymore, because most of his former visitors now find the answers to their questions directly on Google—the very company to which he sold all of his website’s content.

    Well, he could have figured that out sooner. What a moron—but hey, he’s already pocketed the money for all the content he stole from his own users.

    It’s a good thing Aaron Swartz doesn’t have to witness all this, especially since the greediest of all corporations are now raking in money with complete impunity for the very thing he was supposed to go to prison for years—even though he had no intention of enriching himself at all.

  • BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat

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  • There isn't much luxury in a car that annoys you with ads, is there?

    But hey, maybe there's an extra-super-luxury subscription that lets you turn off the ads. You know, like YouTube Premium or something, except that the free version already costs several tens of thousands of dollars.

    It's a win-win: insecure rich guys can feel superior again and BMW gets $.

  • Do you offer ideas or methods of improvement at your work?

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  • Things are still going pretty well. I've been doing this for about four years now. Being an employee is definitely less stressful, but hey, at least I know who I'm working for, and that's worth it to me.

    All in all, I can't complain.

  • Do you offer ideas or methods of improvement at your work?

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  • When I was still an employee, I did that for a while. The "reward" was always that I had to work unpaid overtime, and once the project was finished, someone else—who had absolutely nothing to do with it—took all the credit.

    So I went into self-employment.

  • CONFIRMED: Elon Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100 Million to Help Republicans in the Midterms

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  • No, I don't think so at all, but depending on whether the Democrats field a reasonably progressive candidate, there’s at least a slim chance. If not, and it comes down to the usual corporate Democrats—who, contrary to the will of the voters, clearly call the shots at the DNC—there’s no chance from the get-go.

    For the Conservatives, however, this chance does not even exist in the first place.

    So the Democrats are still the lesser evil, because the conservatives are not only many times more corrupt, they’re also completely unscrupulous in their inhumane actions.

    With a Democratic president, at least, it would still be possible to engage in dialogue on the international stage. A conservative, on the other hand, represents exclusively the interests of organized crime, as the current regime demonstrates day in and day out: It commits horrific war crimes, does nothing but enrich itself and its billionaire financiers, openly threatens even the U.S.’s former allies with armed force, and is doing everything in its power to replace international law with the law of the jungle.

    These people are the scum of humanity. The conformist, greedy opportunists among the Democrats are certainly despicable as well, but even they are no match for the absolute monsters currently ruling the country.

    Look up the term "Dark Enlightenment" —this far-right, inhuman "theory" is the foundation of what conservatives stand for and what they are working exclusively to bring about, since it benefits the billionaires and would give them absolute power without any restrictions. Should they continue to succeed in this, it would have enormous, negative consequences for other, still somewhat functioning democracies around the world.

    In short: A democratic president would definitely be the lesser evil—for the world as well as for the U.S. Anything that weakens the current regime is absolutely desirable.

  • CONFIRMED: Elon Musk Plans to Spend at Least $100 Million to Help Republicans in the Midterms

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  • That's because he doesn't want to go to prison.

  • Jesse Watters vows to leave U.S. for Europe if AOC becomes president

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  • Tell him he's not welcome here. We have zero tolerance for intolerance and mindless hatred!

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    If you agree with this view: Why do you think societies should allow billionaires to exist? How does that benefit the common good?

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    Have you ever had a productive discussion on the Fediverse or gotten anything positive out of interacting with other users? What was the thread about?

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    What are some truly timeless songs?

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    Are there more pejorative and disparaging sayings about people who actually know things than about people who pretend to know things?

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    Based on what you think the company you work for spends on salaries, what percentage does that company actually spend on creating value - that is, on the people who actually do the work?

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    Management has historically been interested in boiling down complex issues to so-called KPIs, so that employee performance can seemingly be presented in a simple dashboard. Are there such KPIs for AI?

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    Is there currently an influx of bots in the Fediverse, or is it just that the usual patriotism is kicking in?

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    What motivates social media trolls, or trolls in general?

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    Is it legally possible to explicitly exclude the use of content (text, images, code, etc.) for the purpose of training AI models by including a corresponding clause in the terms of use?

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    Which brands belong to US companies, even if they may not be immediately recognizable as such?

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    What is your choice for a dedicated Linux audio player?

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    How come posts on Lemmy often have fewer upvotes than the comments in the thread, even if they merely provide additional information or expand on the idea?

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    Cultural awareness has so far been shaped by thinkers and artists who often received little to no recognition during their lifetimes. Is even that still possible today?

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    What plot would a political thriller written in 50 years' time have?

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    What concrete steps can be taken to combat misinformation on social media? This problem is hardly an issue on this platform, but it certainly is elsewhere. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?

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    What is your opinion on national pride / patriotism?

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    Who will be the villains in future Hollywood movies?

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    Have you ever had fruitful discussions cut short because OP deleted the post? If so, is this a fundamental problem or just an annoyance?