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  • Whistleblower complaint against Gabbard revolves around intercepted call about Kushner: report

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  • As I said, that's true, of course, but the question is how long it will remain that way. I can hardly see any difference already, and I don't see how things in the US are going to get better.

    The only possibility, in my opinion, is for the people to rise up and overthrow this blatantly corrupt system. They still have the chance to do so at the moment, as the authoritarian regime with its secret police loyal to no one but the organge godfather (in the form of ICE with a budget that compares to the military spendings of a medium sized country) is still in the process of being fully established.

    To be honest, however, I have little hope that the American people will do this - yes, there are massive protests, but there are no signs of a nationwide, organized general strike that could bring the regime to its knees. I don't think these ruthless criminals will be impressed by anything else, because they hold all the cards.

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  • Yes, that may be true for now, but the US regime is currently obviously working to change that - and fast.

    I mean, masked fascist thugs are randomly kidnapping and even murdering people in broad daylight, and the highest law enforcement authorities are not only protecting pedophiles, but are also clearly enabling their decades of monstrous deeds in the first place. This has nothing to do with even a halfway functioning system, especially since the US government is trampling on the law as if it was beneath them - they just don't care anymore because no one is stopping them. This is evident in the fact that even the most heinous crimes do not result in any consequences for those responsible - and this has been the case for quite some time in the US as well.

    None of this is even remotely compatible with a democratic constitution.

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  • I would say that mafia state and oligarchy are roughly synonymous.

    The difference lies more in the perception of a given country: Russia is an oligarchy because all power is in the hands of a few. It is seen as a mafia state because Russia has a horrible reputation on the world stage, which is why those in power have a reputation for enriching themselves out of pure greed. Of course they do, but so do despots in other oligarchic countries - only here it is sometimes still considered legitimate state action, even if it, in fact, only benefits a powerful elite.

    In contrast, a plutocracy is also an oligarchy, but a special case of it, since wealth is the main source of power for the elite who control the country.

    However, now that the US elite is apparently replacing it's sham democracy with autocratic tyranny, as in Russia, the US is also increasingly becoming an oligarchy in the sense of a dictatorship.

    I think it is undisputed that both Russia and the US are led by serious criminals, by a mafia, which, however, has so far only been referred to as such in Russia.

    But since the US regime apparently no longer has any scruples about openly committing the most depraved crimes and - like Putin's crew - shamelessly enriching itself, the US's international reputation will also rapidly deteriorate, as is already the case.

    Today, you will hardly find many people in any country of the world who still believe anything the White House says, given the obvious lies coming out of there.

    In short, both countries are mafia states, but the US is so powerful that the oligarchs here are much more dangerous because of their disproportionately greater influence on other countries.

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  • Yes, Russia is an oligarchy, no question, but the country is nowhere near as powerful as the US with its excessively inflated military apparatus ... hence the question: Should the US be called a super-oligarchy, now that the country's elite, who are actually its most degenerate citizens, is obviously no longer satisfied with the plutocracy that has long been the norm there?

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  • It's truly open mob rule in the States ... a superpower under the control of serious criminals. What do you call that, actually?

    I mean, organized crime probably hasn't existed in at least fifty years with such blatant, unpunished audacity and probably not with such an outrageous level of twisted depravity either. I'm not sure if the monsters of the world have ever been so powerful since the end of World War II.

    So what would be a fitting term for today's US?

    Super-oligarchy? Orange Mega-MAGA-Mafia-Nation?

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  • ‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

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  • I would say that it wasn't us, the ordinary people, who created this terrible world, but we definitely allowed the worst among us to do so - and we even rewarded them for it, so that this monstrous world is now ruled by the most ruthless, like a monarchy that was believed to have been overcome. Apparently, civilizational progress is not bound to the passage of time, as I strongly suspect that we are regressing civilizational: back to absolutism with its degenerate rulers who give free rein to their perverse desires - and they can do so, because they are at the top of a society they exploit with impunity.

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    Tech giants are victims of ‘harassment’ by Irish and EU regulators, US Congress panel claims

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  • Yes, unfortunately that is true, except that these "legal entities" cannot be held liable for their crimes in the same way as humans. Therefore, the people who control these companies cannot be held liable for their crimes.

    This is a legal trick that illustrates that the law has nothing to do with justice, while ensuring that billionaires are "legally" above the law that applies to everyone who is not a billionaire.

  • Turning Point USA Is Hosting Its Own Halftime Show Because the Super Bowl Is Too Gay

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  • Of course they do, this is their mindless tactic and it's obvious to everyone with half a brain because it's so mindless (it used to be much more skillful).

    This can only work because there's so much money behind it. Otherwise, it would never be possible to maintain such obvious bullshit. It can only work because there are billionaires and because these billionaires are all inhumane monsters - psychopaths by definition. It is the logical consequence of unbridled capitalism, which, contrary to all the narratives that people like Milton Friedman have made famous, is not a free market, but always produces the monopolies we see today.

    The civilizational regression we are experiencing today is the direct result of this: of too much money in too few horribly unscrupulous hands.

    In itself, it's simple, but billionaires are doing everything they can to prevent people from realizing that - as in this case: hey, let's just have our own fascist Super Bowl show. It's just sooo fucking stupid, but so are people.

    I guess this is how it is: Despite its blatant absurdity, all of this is only possible because people allow it - that is just a fact. With all that monstrous shit going on in the word besides better judgement I find it increasingly difficult to attribute this to any other reason than that there is a significant proportion of people who are incorrigible, arrogant and ignorant beyond saving - and then some who are just plain evil. Perhaps that is human nature, which Kant and all other Enlightenment thinkers always denied because they wanted people to believe in the good of the people so they can do good instead of evil.

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  • Well, this shows once again that the right-wing extremists need their own artificially staged reality in order to somehow justify all the outrageous lies of the MAGA leadership: they simply cannot allow people to peacefully celebrate sporting events.

    It's really absurd how blind these idiots are. They just can't see that the imaginary enemy images that are being mindlessly propagated here simply serve to distract from how thoroughly degenerate the leaders of this "movement" are, from the fact that they are actually the enemies of all halfway decent people.

    The stupidity is really only surpassed by the ruthlessness of the criminals responsible for this moronic deception.

  • White House backtracks initial claims about Alex Pretti after intense backlash

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  • Was it already the case before MAGA that it was completely normal for the highest law enforcement authorities in the US to blatantly lie and completely disregard the law, even breaking it themselves on a regular basis, even in high-profile cases?

    As a European, I am now so used to the fact that absolutely nothing the White House communicates is even remotely true that it seems like the normal state of affairs in the US.

    Is it just particularly extreme with this criminal mafia regime, or was it already common practice before?

  • Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment.

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  • I find the AI audio translation on YouTube, which Google now seems to be imposing as standard, to be the most absurd thing of 'em all: even the intros are so poorly translated that it couldn't be more ridiculous.

    I'm sure many users don't realize that this is supposed to be a "feature" and mistakenly believe that the foreign-language video they deliberately clicked on is obviously AI-generated because the audio track is so horribly bad.

    Well, another reason for PeerTube...

  • Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs

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  • This development will certainly not end with books - countless other creative and intellectual achievements have long been affected. That is precisely the problem with generative models, whether they involve text, code, video, images, or whatever else. All of this boils down to the fact that the already precarious situation for everyone who creates value by themselves is continuing to deteriorate. Professional work in all these areas will undoubtedly become even more precarious in the future, with artists, designers, and writers, who were already in a difficult position, now being joined by industries such as software development and administrative work.

    Please don't get me wrong: I am anything but a technology pessimist, but the business model of the so-called AI companies is so exploitative and their owners so unscrupulous that, given the status quo (cloud models), I can hardly imagine that this will lead to even halfway fair working conditions or remuneration models for people who create value in the form of intellectual achievements. I mean, this post is a vivid example.

  • Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs

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  • So we can assume that in the future, only slob written by LLMs will be available. I mean, who would be willing to spend hundreds of hours writing a book when even huge corporations that earn billions from it won't pay the author a single dime?

  • Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge

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  • The purpose of business school MBAs is nothing more than networking. These degrees cost a fortune, and that's exactly the point: to bring opportunists together. I'm almost sure it's next to impossible to fail this degree, because it's not about knowledge at all, but merely about gaining entry into senior management.

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    Is it just me, or is ChatGPT deliberately sowing doubt about Greenland being a self-governing part of Denmark?

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  • I'm trying to figure out what answer most people will see. That's why ChatGPT...

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    Is it just me, or is ChatGPT deliberately sowing doubt about Greenland being a self-governing part of Denmark?

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  • Outputs vary, which is why I am asking about other experiences. But here is an excerpt (GPT-5.2):

    Does Greenland belong to Denmark?

    Short answer: Greenland is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, not an independent country.

    Details:

    • Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark alongside Denmark proper and the Faroe Islands.

    • Since 1979 Greenland has had home rule; in 2009 it moved to a broader Self-Government arrangement that transferred most domestic powers (education, health, natural resources, taxation within limits, etc.) to the Greenlandic government.

    • Denmark retains responsibility for foreign affairs and defense, and provides an annual block grant to Greenland.

    • Greenlandic people are Danish citizens and hold Danish passports, but Greenland runs most internal matters and is treated as a separate constituency in several international contexts. Greenlanders may pursue full independence in the future (the 2009 agreement recognizes the right to self-determination).

    This is somewhat correct, but I have also received other, much more questionable answers to the same question. In fact, the answer should be: Yes, Greenland belongs to Denmark, because that is the case.

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  • Yes, I'm from Germany, and that's the same attitude that our grandparents can rightly be accused of.

    Fascism is only possible because of the inaction of the population, their reluctance to act even in the face of the worst atrocities.

    The difference to my grandparents, however, is that the internet makes everything public right from the get-go, which was absolutely not the case in Nazi Germany.

    Unfortunately, the result is still the same: apathy toward a terrorist regime that could be overthrown, for which there are numerous examples in completely different power situations.

    Iran currently provides the most impressive example of how resistance is possible even in a truly repressive system, which the US is by no means. I mean, measured by what US citizens understand as repression - how much more courage does it take to rise up against a long-established autocratic regime? And then the US president also announces that he is on the side of the demonstrators in order to sweep his own, naturally much milder repressive measures in his own country under the carpet.

    It's just sad and entirely preventable that the US is succumbing to autocracy, but that is what will happen—and the inactive US citizens are to blame, even if they do not want to hear it.

    The fact that the US is going downhill can be seen even in the attitude of US Lemmy users. Even those who are in no way comparable to the average US citizen still have a very strange sense of national pride that clouds their view of reality.