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.

Thanks

I agree. Nevertheless, people here prefer arbitrary decisions based on rules that are so broad that they only encourage arbitrary decisions by the moderators. From this, I can only conclude that even the people here would rather be entertained than face the adversities of reality.

For me, that is unacceptable - so I’m moving on.

I’ve tried so many comms by now that I’ve lost interest. From now on, I’m just not going to post anything anymore. I’ve said this to myself many times before for the very same reason, but the downvotes on this post confirm it unequivocally. I obviously have no business being here.

Feel free to take a look at my profile to decide whether I really am such an unpleasant person that I shouldn’t be allowed to express my views in any community with some viewability.

This struggle is simply not worth it to me. I’ve also cancel my financial support - I’m sure you’ll manage well without me.

Here’s an example: I posted on /c/unpopularopinion that it can’t be right that even a well-known actor like James Van Der Beek is becoming impoverished because he can’t afford the cost of his cancer treatment. I posted there because I know from experience that this would not be allowed in other communities because it is supposedly a political post - even at unpopularopinion, the post was removed by the moderators.

Therefore, I believe that this arbitrary rule is completely absurd.

Go back to reddit please.

I’ve been here for more than two and a half years, trying to contribute something because I thought it was important. I’m starting to think more and more that it was a wasted effort. Thank you for pointing that out so clearly once again.

So get a decent block list…

You can already hide such posts without any problem by excluding the relevant terms. As this post here suggests, it should also not be too difficult technically to let users decide which content they want to hide using tags.

However, hiding posts in the most popular communities for everyone by moderators is nothing less than plain censorship - and you even like that, because you can’t be bothered with reality…

And so I’m supposed to leave it up to some random person to decide whether to allow me to speak?

How absurd is it that /c/unpopularopinion has “no politics” as its first community rule - as do most of the Lemmy communities with the widest reach? This achieves nothing but opening the floodgates to arbitrary censorship. And why is that? For the simple reason that people would rather be entertained…

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!

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Yes, exactly. That’s why I’m concerned about the system in my home country. However, I find it incomprehensible how anyone who is a US citizen can still believe in the illusion that the US is a democracy. It has been an oligarchy for at least thirty years and, to be honest, always has been - that is to say, a nation that is actually ruled by a few instead of by its people. This was the case long before the first term of the current, unusually criminal president. He has changed little in terms of the facts, but is simply particularly unscrupulous, thus making it obvious that the US system has long since ceased to have anything to do with democracy.

I’m sorry to have to say it so bluntly, but your comments suggests that, like many Americans, you are not really aware of what a democracy is. If there were such awareness in the US, it would not be possible, for example, for there to be no statutory health insurance, no protective rights for workers, and so on.

Is that really what democracy is about, or is that just what billionaires have made of it?

I ask because you are applying a monetary standard instead of what the citizens want. This leads me to suspect that you are a US citizen, as this system no longer has much to do with democracy at all since the fewer than twenty people who make up the Supreme Court, the highest judicial authority in the US system, ruled that there is no upper limit on “campaign donations,” that they do not have to be disclosed, and that “political consultants,” such as Musk, do not need confirmation by the people to be entrusted with powers that in any other democracy worthy of the name would naturally require the consent of the citizens.

Oh, and one more thing: the Supreme Court has also ruled that the US president is de facto above the law – which is also incompatible with any democratic constitution.

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.

Die haarsträubende Ausrede war, dass der Naturpark Schwarzwald um einige, wenige Kilometer erweitert werden soll - das habe man der CDU wacker abgerungen, hieß es … im Austausch dafür, dass grundlose und verfassungswidrige Massenüberwachung auch in Deutschland zur Realität wird und ebenso dafür, dass kein Ermittlungsverfahren gegen jene korrupten CDU-US-Assets eingeleitet wird, die bereits zuvor den besagten Palantir-Deal auf eigene Faust und unter Umgehung jedweder demokratischer Kontrollmechanismen ganz einfach abgeschlossen haben. So haben die Grünen - natürlich unter den allerschlimmsten Bauchschmerzen - die Sache ernsthaft noch als so etwas wie einen politischen Deal verkaufen wollen. Absurder könnte es wirklich nicht mehr sein, aber irgendwie mussten sie ja begründen, warum sie bereit sind, sogar noch die sensibelsten Daten direkt an offene Faschisten weiterzugeben - an den Demokratiefeind Peter Thiel ebenso wie an den organgenen Kinderschänder im weißen Haus.

In BaWü hat die Landesregierung entgegen eine Petition mit mehr als 13.000 Unterschriften (wurde frühzeitig beendet, weil unsere verehrten Politiker lieber schnell abgestimmt haben, bevor noch mehr Gegenstimmen zusammenkommen) sogar eigens das Polizeigesetz geändert, um dem bereits zuvor völlig widerrechtlich mit Palantir geschlossenen Vertrag rückwirkend noch irgendwie zumindest den Anschein von Legalität zu geben. Damit ist der Einsatz der Palantir-Massenüberwachungsanwendung “Gotham” hier beschlossene Sache, obwohl m.E. verfassungswidrig (s. Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung).

Hier findest du auf der Seite des Landtags eine PDF-Datei mit den Namen aller Abgeordneten, die dafür gestimmt und damit die Bürger verraten haben - neben den üblichen Verdächtigen wie CDU und AfD haben auch die Grünen so gut wie geschlossen dafür gestimmt, was zeigt, dass auch diese Partei trotz ihrer hehren Sprüche offensichtlich so sehr vom US-Lobbyismus unterwandert ist, dass sie eklatant entgegen die Interessen der Bürger handelt.

Es ist wirklich zum Kotzen.