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Prima wär halt, wenn sich die UN zumindest darauf verständigen könnte, dass das Land, das einen völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg anzettelt, zumindest die Kosten fürs Minen räumen übernimmt…
EuropeWell, I’d welcome having the UK back, because we’re a geographical and cultural community.
It’s great that the fascists in the US, with their narcissistic delusions of grandeur, are now making it so clear that this messed-up country will never be even a halfway reliable partner.
It’s just a shame that this detour into an imaginary history, in which the UK is still a world-dominating power all on its own, was of course nothing but the same mindless illusion that is now hastening the end of the US as a superpower. That could easily have been predicted.
But hey, at least it’s clear now that the Brexit was a very bad idea. Seriously, just think about the cost of this unnecessary escapade. So much good could have been done with those resources.
I’m afraid the UK hasn’t done itself any favors with this, especially since all the special terms that were available within the EU at the time will likely never be offered again in that form.
Not The OnionDoes it even matter what these people say? Apparently not, because none of them has ever said anything even remotely intelligent, let alone productive. Nothing but hate and lies for years - this latest embarrassment hardly seems worth reporting, given all the crimes the U.S. regime is committing.
But hey, politics works through entertainment, which the clever people behind these people naturally know. That’s why they’ve chosen a cabinet of clowns as straw men - because they’re so embarrassing that the relevant news doesn’t stand a chance against their entertainment factor.
That’s unfortunately how our world works, and that’s why the worst of them all always get off scot-free: their crimes are simply too complicated to generate any interest.
NewsWhat’s with these headlines? This is already the third article pretending that something has changed: Live Nation still has a monopoly and, of course, isn’t going to change its business practices.
This ruling doesn’t change a thing.
The bottom line is this:
… it could cost Live Nation hundreds of millions of dollars and perhaps force the company to sell some of its concert venues when the judge hands out penalties later.
In a country like the U.S., where the legal system is rotten to the core, that will never happen. The behemoth won’t be taken down; instead, there will be a ridiculously small fine that bears no relation to the profits Live Nation makes by having no competition whatsoever.
Even if the judge were brave enough to order the breakup of this cartel, a small “donation” to the criminals in the White House would be enough to sweep the matter under the rug.
Headlines like these suggest that there is a chance for justice in the U.S. system - but that is simply not the case. It is always and exclusively the billionaires who win. That’s as sure as death and taxes.
They ran a monopoly? They’re still doing that, aren’t they?
Hey, what a valuable initiative. I mean, it’s not like there are any real problems in the world…
…if there really were, that would just be a distraction…
…and that can’t possibly be the case…
/s
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml
My point is that US citizens could remove their criminal president, but they don’t do so despite all his criminal machinations and despite the most serious war crimes.
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Unfortunately, I don’t see it that way. I’ve found time and again that even US citizens in the Fediverse tend to display a massive amount of completely misplaced, naive national pride.
It seems to me that even those here, due to the oligarchy in the US that controls the media, are massively misinformed or uninformed despite their flirtation with free media.
Added to this is decades of propaganda that Americans apparently cannot overcome even here.
The best example is this post: Instead of the all-too-necessary self-criticism, there are only excuses - even though the U.S. president is a pedophile and a serious criminal. Nevertheless, U.S. citizens act as if that were not the reality.
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml
Thank you very much. That’s basically what I’m getting at: there’s hardly any difference left between the US and Russia - both countries are controlled by oligarchs. But somehow, on the international stage, it’s portrayed as if only Russia were controlled by greedy autocrats.
However, since the mechanisms of control in the US are still far less pronounced than in Russia, I thought it would be a good idea to remind US citizens that they don’t yet live in a dictatorship, that they could still turn things around for the better if they would only give up their apathy and finally take action.
In Russia, it’s completely different. And in the US, it will soon be the same if citizens don’t fight back.
World NewsThe “destruction of civilization” is what the US regime is pursuing: Not only is it doing everything in its power to reverse all civilizational progress in its own country, but it is led by an organge-colored rapist whose only ambition is to enrich himself and protect himself and his degenerate co-conspirators from prosecution for the most repulsive crimes imaginable.
A transatlantic alliance with such monsters, who are even openly threatening a war of aggression against Greenland because they can’t think of anything better than such an idiotic bluff?
GTFO!
The man owes his entire career to cronyism with the business world, especially his close ties to US corporations. Since he is much more of a US business lobbyist than a politician, his neo-capitalist drivel is self-explanatory.
Friedrich Merz (born November 11, 1955, in Brilon), the tenth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany since May 6, 2025, has been the federal chairman of the CDU since 2022. A former business lawyer and long-time top lobbyist, he has held leading positions in a number of companies and business-related interest groups and networks. [1] Until the end of 2021, Merz was vice president of the CDU’s business lobby group, the Economic Council, and a guest member of the presidium of the Small and Medium-Sized Business and Economic Union (MIT). In 2022, the MIT welcomed Merz’s election as CDU chairman and stated that he was the first chairman to be a member of the MIT.[4] Armin Peter, most recently deputy press spokesman for the Economic Council and press spokesman for the then Economic Council Vice President Merz, has been deputy spokesman for the CDU and personal press spokesman for Merz since February 2022.[5] [6] Merz continues to be a member of the following organizations: Founding member of the New York section of the CDU Economic Council,[7] lobby organization Society for the Study of Structural Policy Issues,[8] Ludwig Erhard Foundation network, which brings together lobbyists and top politicians. Merz worked as senior counsel for the law firm Mayer Brown LLP until the end of 2021; prior to that, he was a partner for nine years.[9] During his time at Mayer Brown, he advised clients on corporate law, M&A transactions, compliance, and banking and finance law. According to research by CORRECTIV, he represented BASF as a lawyer on several occasions in 2010 and 2011. [10] He was a member of the board of directors at BASF Antwerp for almost a decade, where he headed the “Paints & Pigments” division of the BASF Group. From 2009 to 2019, Merz was chairman of Atlantik-Brücke [11] and from 2016 to 2020, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the German branch of asset manager BlackRock, for which he mediated relationships with important clients, authorities, and government agencies in Germany. [12] He was active in the Market Economy Foundation as a member of the Political Advisory Board of the Tax Code Commission. [13] In connection with his candidacy for the CDU party chairmanship, Merz ended his role as chairman of the supervisory board of Blackrock at the end of the first quarter of 2020.[14][15] At the 2021 CDU party conference, he lost a digital runoff election to his rival Armin Laschet. At the party conference on January 22, 2022, he was elected chairman of the CDU with 94.62% of the delegates’ votes. [16] On September 23, 2024, Merz was officially nominated as the CDU and CSU’s candidate for chancellor in the next federal election. [17]
Translated from German | Source with references
politicsAs 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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
Yes, absolutely. The astronomical budget of this “agency” led to the conclusion, from the moment it was approved, that it would serve to establish a secret police force loyal exclusively to the regime. Why else would funds equivalent to the military budget of a medium-sized country be needed?
newsLike most conservatives and some Democrats, presumably, since child abuse is apparently the equivalent of what the Mafia demands in order to become part of it - you know, the condition for getting involved in organized crime, so that the godfather always has something to hold over his soldiers if they decide to defect.
… and some members of Congress will greatly appreciate her lies.
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Immer gern. Ich bin inzwischen allerdings leider schon soweit, dass ich mir diese Vorgänge nicht mehr mit Inkompetenz erklären kann. Vielleicht ist es etwas verschwörungstheoretisch, aber das bitte ich zu entschuldigen - ich fürchte, ich habe inzwischen jeden Glauben an die Politik verloren.
Edit: Die Ansage der Grünen lautete allerdings tatsächlich so - das ist keine Verschwörungstheorie, sondern auch hierzulande die Realität.
Prima wär halt, wenn sich die UN zumindest darauf verständigen könnte, dass das Land, das einen völkerrechtswidrigen Angriffskrieg anzettelt, zumindest die Kosten fürs Minen räumen übernimmt…
Merz bekräftigt Deutschlands Bereitschaft zu Militäreinsatz in Straße von Hormus (spiegel.de)
Die Bundeswehr könnte sich an einer internationalen Mission in der Straße von Hormus beteiligen – etwa bei der Minenräumung und Seeaufklärung. Das hat Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz nach einem Treffen in Paris signalisiert.
Well, I’d welcome having the UK back, because we’re a geographical and cultural community.
It’s great that the fascists in the US, with their narcissistic delusions of grandeur, are now making it so clear that this messed-up country will never be even a halfway reliable partner.
It’s just a shame that this detour into an imaginary history, in which the UK is still a world-dominating power all on its own, was of course nothing but the same mindless illusion that is now hastening the end of the US as a superpower. That could easily have been predicted.
But hey, at least it’s clear now that the Brexit was a very bad idea. Seriously, just think about the cost of this unnecessary escapade. So much good could have been done with those resources.
I’m afraid the UK hasn’t done itself any favors with this, especially since all the special terms that were available within the EU at the time will likely never be offered again in that form.
Does it even matter what these people say? Apparently not, because none of them has ever said anything even remotely intelligent, let alone productive. Nothing but hate and lies for years - this latest embarrassment hardly seems worth reporting, given all the crimes the U.S. regime is committing.
But hey, politics works through entertainment, which the clever people behind these people naturally know. That’s why they’ve chosen a cabinet of clowns as straw men - because they’re so embarrassing that the relevant news doesn’t stand a chance against their entertainment factor.
That’s unfortunately how our world works, and that’s why the worst of them all always get off scot-free: their crimes are simply too complicated to generate any interest.
What’s with these headlines? This is already the third article pretending that something has changed: Live Nation still has a monopoly and, of course, isn’t going to change its business practices.
This ruling doesn’t change a thing.
The bottom line is this:
In a country like the U.S., where the legal system is rotten to the core, that will never happen. The behemoth won’t be taken down; instead, there will be a ridiculously small fine that bears no relation to the profits Live Nation makes by having no competition whatsoever.
Even if the judge were brave enough to order the breakup of this cartel, a small “donation” to the criminals in the White House would be enough to sweep the matter under the rug.
Headlines like these suggest that there is a chance for justice in the U.S. system - but that is simply not the case. It is always and exclusively the billionaires who win. That’s as sure as death and taxes.
They ran a monopoly? They’re still doing that, aren’t they?
Hey, what a valuable initiative. I mean, it’s not like there are any real problems in the world…
…if there really were, that would just be a distraction…
…and that can’t possibly be the case…
/s
My point is that US citizens could remove their criminal president, but they don’t do so despite all his criminal machinations and despite the most serious war crimes.
Unfortunately, I don’t see it that way. I’ve found time and again that even US citizens in the Fediverse tend to display a massive amount of completely misplaced, naive national pride.
It seems to me that even those here, due to the oligarchy in the US that controls the media, are massively misinformed or uninformed despite their flirtation with free media.
Added to this is decades of propaganda that Americans apparently cannot overcome even here.
The best example is this post: Instead of the all-too-necessary self-criticism, there are only excuses - even though the U.S. president is a pedophile and a serious criminal. Nevertheless, U.S. citizens act as if that were not the reality.
Thank you very much. That’s basically what I’m getting at: there’s hardly any difference left between the US and Russia - both countries are controlled by oligarchs. But somehow, on the international stage, it’s portrayed as if only Russia were controlled by greedy autocrats.
However, since the mechanisms of control in the US are still far less pronounced than in Russia, I thought it would be a good idea to remind US citizens that they don’t yet live in a dictatorship, that they could still turn things around for the better if they would only give up their apathy and finally take action.
In Russia, it’s completely different. And in the US, it will soon be the same if citizens don’t fight back.
Where should I post this?
The citizens of the United States are responsible for their country’s actions - even if they themselves ignore the atrocities committed by their government.
Is there currently an influx of bots in the Fediverse, or is it just that the usual patriotism is kicking in?
Is there currently an influx of bots in the Fediverse, or is it just that the usual patriotism is kicking in?
The “destruction of civilization” is what the US regime is pursuing: Not only is it doing everything in its power to reverse all civilizational progress in its own country, but it is led by an organge-colored rapist whose only ambition is to enrich himself and protect himself and his degenerate co-conspirators from prosecution for the most repulsive crimes imaginable.
A transatlantic alliance with such monsters, who are even openly threatening a war of aggression against Greenland because they can’t think of anything better than such an idiotic bluff?
GTFO!
The man owes his entire career to cronyism with the business world, especially his close ties to US corporations. Since he is much more of a US business lobbyist than a politician, his neo-capitalist drivel is self-explanatory.
Translated from German | Source with references
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?