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• Is there anything in the UK after Brexit that is similar to the GDPR? While it does little to protect EU citizens from the influence of corrupt politicians, it is at least a law on the books that stands in the way of the neo-fascists’ diabolical schemes. Is there anything comparable in the UK?

  on The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir in c/europe@feddit.org · 2d ago

• What’s needed here is one more panel after the first one in which an Israeli politician or one of their paid representatives abroad portrays the statement from the first panel as anti-Semitic - because that, in fact, greatly fuels the insidious, real anti-Semitism.

  on Nazis aren't invited to the anti-Zionist rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 Sep 2026

• It was never a secret: it’s still the Mechanical Turk, a historical model that, for example, the Amazon company of the same name is based on—and such services are part of its business.

  on Exploited Data Workers Are "the Secret Ingredient of 'AI' Itself" [Video/Transcript] in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• I’m not so sure whether the super-rich and powerful were really that different in the past. I just think that, at least in the West, they were much more tightly regulated back in the 1980s and even the 90s: It doesn’t seem like a coincidence to me that the rollback of government regulation coincides with the steady growth in the wealth of the richest one percent.

  So I think these people have always been degenerate and antisocial; it’s just that they—or rather, those who profit from their wealth—have managed to infiltrate the political system to such an extent that nothing can stand in their way today.

  To me, the best example of this development is, again, the U.S.: I find it inconceivable that a government as blatantly criminal as the current one would have been possible even in the 1990s. I mean, it’s very obvious that this is nothing but organized crime. The Epstein case, for example, leaves no doubt in my mind—and this is just one absurd scandal among many that, even twenty years ago, would have forced the government to resign, even in the U.S. Compared to these people, Nixon looks like an innocent schoolboy.

  I think this is possible only in a failed state—and the reason for its failure lies quite obviously in the actions of the richest one percent, because they have the greatest stake in it and now even openly advocate this goal, for example, with pseudo-intellectual concepts like “Dark Enlightenment,” which forms the “theoretical” basis of their politics —the goal is the abolition of democracy and a return to, or rather a pseudo-modernized interpretation of, the class-based society of the Dark Ages.

  So in short: I think there can be no doubt that the billionaires are completely degenerate, but I believe their kind has always existed in this way. Today, however, they have so much power that they believe they can get away with anything—which unfortunately is indeed the case—and that is why they no longer even bother to keep up appearances.

  on its the end of the rule as we know it in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 Aug 2026

• I think the most important thing would be for people to finally realize what and who is primarily responsible, namely, unbridled, unregulated U.S.-style predatory capitalism, which has been completely out of control since the 1980s and has thus produced this new ruling class of excessively greedy, utterly unscrupulous multi-billionaires who have now become so powerful that they can give free rein to their antisocial behavior without any consequences.

  These people are the enemies of humanity, and almost everywhere in the world their ploy is the same: mindless pseudo-nationalism that, with its false enemy stereotypes and wretched reactionary ideology, distracts attention from who the real culprits are. It is always these political factions that rail against foreigners and/or other minorities to hide who the real enemies are—the ones for whom they are actually making policy. The prime example of this is MAGA.

  Unfortunately, these far-right extremist movements are by no means popular only among older people. In Germany, for example, the AfD—essentially a carbon copy of MAGA—has had a great deal of success among young people, especially young men. This is, of course, also linked to the fact that they are supported by the same billionaires who control the major U.S. social media platforms, such as Musk, Zuckerberg, Ellison, and their ilk.

  It’s a mystery to me how anyone can fail to see that the idiotic hatred they spread serves, first and foremost, to mask the fact that these political movements exclusively pursue policies that benefit the super-rich. Nevertheless, these movements—which are often characterized by fascist and authoritarian tendencies—are, unfortunately, extremely successful. As long as they remain so, I have little hope that anything will change.

  on its the end of the rule as we know it in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 Aug 2026

• It’s almost a bit disappointing that no one has posted the famous CSS Cup yet

  

  on static/styles.css in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 16 Aug 2026