I don’t see how engaging in malicious compliance is being a useful idiot. Implementing the entire surveillance mechanism free of charge, that I would call being a useful idiot.
Purposefully implementing a broken feature to satisfy the letter of the law, while preserving the user’s ability to avoid the surveillance mechanism is certainly not that.
Uhhh yeah that’s already been known about for a while. It targets the blog of a guy who documented the identity of the owner of archive today.
He listened as Mr. Trump criticized Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain — “this is not Winston Churchill that we’re dealing with” — and threatened to cut off all trade ties with Spain as a punitive measure.
Mr. Trump complained at length that Spanish leaders were not spending enough on their military, and that they had not allowed American forces to use their bases to launch attacks on Iran. A reporter asked Mr. Merz his reaction.
“The answer on that is quite simple,” Mr. Merz said. He said Spain needed to increase military spending, in keeping with commitments by Germany, France and other NATO allies to shoulder a larger financial burden for their own defense. (The chancellor did not say whether or not he approved of Mr. Trump’s idea of cutting off trade as punishment)
It was clearly a topic of the discussion. Merz’ lack of disapproval and avoidance of answering that question says enough. He’s fine with it.
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Just a tiny, insignificant problematic aspect like widespread support for fascism. No biggie. Btw, why are all our governments turning towards fascism? Where could this be coming from?
Moreover, present day Russia is a creation by the West itself. It was your governments that wanted the USSR to collapse, your goverments that elevated individuals like Putin post-collapse. Now you get a brutal, capitalist, Anti-LGBT hellpit, that the people of the West somehow pretend just materialized out of nothing, and wasn’t a result of their own negligence, their own unwillingness to prevent mass suffering in Eastern Europe and Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
You are constantly in conflict with your own self-made monsters.
Jul 2024: “Genocide is okay if Israel is doing it. Vote Democrat btw.”
Sep 2025: “Israel is allowed to torture Western activists. Israel is our greatest ally.”
Jan 2026: “Jews were the only victims of the Holocaust, everyone else doesn’t matter.”
The cyanide comic is shit, but that isn’t the point. What makes the “I love science” crowd annoying is that they aren’t trying to engage with the topic at all. You can’t gatekeep when nobody is attempting to pass the gate.
It’s like people who claim they love books, when all they do is stack them in their shelves to appear intelligent.
If Trump is working with Putin, then what’s the angle behind seizing a ship painted with the Russian flag?
Only this time you won’t have a Soviet Union to stop him.
Key difference is a factor of 4.
I thought this was a Republican initially – but nope, introduced by a Democrat.
Welp, wave goodbye to the free internet.
The EU true believers I know are incapable of comprehending this. They are steadfast in their conviction that this is all just temporary.
cool & good
On a similar note, the UFO sightings from yesteryear are the drone sightings of today.
It was Aliens Putin
Except there is no such asteroid and techbros have driven themselves into a frenzy over a phantom.
The real threat to humanity is runaway climate change, which techbros conveniently don’t give a single fuck about, since they use gigawatts of power to train bigger and bigger models with further and further diminishing returns.
No, it makes you a doormat to fascists.
The response is: “Please, and thank you!”
Block-chain!
Yeah, if he did, it might be necessary to hold elections even. And that would just be terrible!
Only thing you get out of this compared to the alternative of malicious compliance is opening yourself up to attack. You can still fight this without painting a big target on your back.