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  • Trump has a plan to steal the midterms. It will probably fail. The nightmare scenario for American democracy is no longer unthinkable.

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  • The bigger the blowout is, the less marginal risk that any given precinct being fucked with can alter the outcome in his favor. Even greater reason to mobilize the vote as much as possible.

    The electoral college also has nothing to do with the midterms.

    It's important to identify threats, but it's also critical not to aggrandize their power and make them appear invincible. They are desperate to instill defeatism into the ranks of their opposition. But their bravado betrays their weakness.

    They absolutely rely on the obedience of various pillars of support throughout society to retain their power and legitimacy. Those pillars can be convinced and/or forced to cease their obedience and in some cases to actively provide support to the opposition. None of this is new or unique to America. Tyrannical regimes have been removed from power many time through nonviolent mass movements. We can learn from them if we choose to.

  • New photos from Epstein’s personal collection show Trump, Clinton and much more

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  • Capitalism is an economic system that literally incentivizes and rewards sociopathic traits and behaviors.

    This kind of shit is simply inevitable under capitalism.

  • [ProPublica] Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

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  • politics @lemmy.world
    marx @piefed.social
    ProPublica

    Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

    www.propublica.org /article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences

  • [The New Republic] Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment: Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor t

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  • I would say that's irrelevant for the crimes committed.

    Irrelevant to the crimes themselves, but very relevant to the political pressure that can be applied to force action.

    We all know the law doesn't just get applied because it should be. Especially not against the rich. It gets applied, or at least has a chance to be, when enough people are paying attention and demanding justice.

    Also, section 230 doesn't apply to criminal prosecution (it may not even apply to the ongoing civil case), and there is strong evidence from the civil case that it was the executives themselves that explicitly chose not to implement safeguards that Meta employees were calling for.

    We need new laws, more regulation, and fines that make Wall Street worried.

    Absolutely. We need all of that plus way stronger antitrust. And we need the current law applied to bad actors, regardless of their riches.

  • [The New Republic] Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment: Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor t

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  • Americans, as a general population, don't give a shit about Myanmar, may not know it even exists. They don't really care or know about video view controversies and the like.

    One thing they do care A LOT about, is their kids. And the evidence is strong that Mark Zuckerberg and Meta executives knew children, on a mass scale, were being endangered by their products and deliberately, purposely allowed it to continue. They need to be prosecuted. If nobody even tries, then we've already lost.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    marx @piefed.social
    The New Republic

    Arrest Mark Zuckerberg for Child Endangerment: Shocking new revelations about Instagram in a lawsuit against social media companies should pave the way for an ambitious prosecutor t

    newrepublic.com /article/203610/instagram-child-endangerment-arrest-mark-zuckerberg