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      It’s not Trump. He’s far too stupid.

      It’s most of the oligarchs — of every economy — who own the controlling share of most multinationals and major domestic corporations, religious fundamentalists, as well as foreign adversaries like China and Russia; plus all of the lobbyists and analytics corps who are happy to subvert democracy for profit (all of them).

      This is why surveillance capitalism, social media, big data, and analytics are so dangerous to human civilization. They provide authoritarians — the most corrupt, psychopathic, and narcissistic criminals — with the capability to coerce and manipulate the entire human population en mass.

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        I mean when there are articles about Apple fighting against the EU, it gets obvious that the US is a failed state. I mean one is a company with assets worth 300 billion, the other is an alliance with assets worth 150 trillion.

        Why is a random corp at the same table even? Why are we dealing with random corps instead of the US?

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        Which is why it would be oh such a shame if everyone had an AI educator and smart glasses to match them.

        Imagine people who knew what they were doing!

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    I mean it is always good to have a report one can point to but i think it was pretty blatantly obvious when JD Vance and Elon Musk openly promoted the AfD in Germany.

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    TLDR: American christian billionaire nazi spreading nazism in Europe.

    They’re trying ot make Germany nazis again. They’re trying to make all of Europe nazis again. With the money that you would have gotten in your retirement, or for your healthcare, or your paycheck from the job you lost.

    It’s going to European rich nazis now, to spread their christian hate.

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    The money for Cambridge Analitica which amongst other things used Facebook to spread support for Leave in the Brexit Referendum came from America.

    America has been manipulating European politics since forever.

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    But don’t attribute it to Trump. Project 2025 wasn’t organised by Trump. Trump is a figure head. The article is a limited hangout as long as the people behind Trump and their motivations and goals are not named and analysed.

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      Yep. The christains don’t like knowing that their head christian is a nazi.

      "But I’m not one of those christains!!!*

      Yes. Yes, you are.

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    Sometimes research and studies lead to completely expected results and seem like someone playing captain obvious. Nonetheless it’s important to have a solid basis to support one’s own argument, that democracy, freedom and European self determination are being attacked, than to simply assert it.

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      The problem is that we’re running out of time and are facing an adversary who doesn’t listen to rational arguments. We can’t wait for all sorts of research to prove that obvious fascist scum is indeed fascist scum, because by then, they’ll already have taken power.

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        They have, and that is what all this mucking about is…about. They rule us, this is all theater as they roll out increasingly cruel laws against humanity, until we are functionally extinct, and the rest are just forever tormented zoo animals, with no upsides to their lives.

        I’m not exaggerating. These people are like the human version of AM. If they can keep you alive forever to torture you, they WILL.

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        I’m of the opinion that we can do both, counter the threat that this modern breed of fascism poses to freedom and democracy while at the same time building a firm basis of factual information that this threat is indeed real and taking place right now. Both aren’t mutually exclusive. While the general population of Russia or the United States is not susceptible to factual information at this point, there are still significant chunks of the European population that are.

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          Europe is the best.

          I mean you just have to ignore all of its imperialist history including its most recent and globally impactful genocide machines ie. the British Empire and Nazi Germany but otherwise super cool place.

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            What’s better? Africa? Cmon, at least the EU had the right ideals on paper. The northern countries seem to be one of the best places to live, which they won’t be for long, considering how small and weak they are. The authoritarians will just conquer them, not wanting to be joy or happiness anywhere in the world.

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              In terms of bloodthirsty global suffering amplification engines / empires, in recent history, yes Africa is undoubtedly better.

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      We cheered for them when they were used in color revolutions.

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    Why would anyone want anything tainted by his fecal fingers…?

    I see that name I automatically decline any and everything related. Gross.