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

The U.S. is presumably in the process of fabricating a bogus case against these two despicable rapists so that it has a pretext for not extraditing them to a country where they would, in all likelihood, actually be convicted.

I don’t think Russia plays much of a role here, but yes, absolutely: Trump and his henchmen are, in my opinion, merely accelerating the decline of the U.S.

This former superpower is clearly on its last legs, as too many resources have been embezzled—as is typical in oligarchies. Therefore, aggression is all that remains for it, since its bloated military apparatus is the only thing left, alongside the IT sector, which is currently dismantling itself for the very same reasons that led to this situation.

China is also a misanthropic autocracy, but the policies of its leaders are nonetheless far-sighted, forward-looking, and skillful, which is why China is already the superpower that the U.S. once was (albeit it’s glory was bought on credit after WWII).

Europe’s future, in my view, depends on whether it will be possible to shake off the influence of the U.S. and its disastrous turbo-capitalism. Unfortunately, it does not look that way, because in the strongest European countries, neo-capitalist forces are still at work, whose maxim is now turning into fascism precisely because their approach is no longer competitive in today’s world.

Either way, dark times are ahead for science—and, consequently, for humanity as well.

Yes, that’s right. I recently spoke with five friends of mine who are chief physicians and senior physicians in Spain, Switzerland, and Germany: They all agreed—the U.S. is no longer conducting scientific research; the CDC, which used to be a globally important institution because many countries followed its guidelines, no longer exists, since all competent staff who refused to go along with this absurdity were fired.

They are appalled at how quickly this decline was orchestrated by the Trump regime, especially since it took decades to reach an international consensus. All of them have lost all trust in U.S. institutions and believe that these inhumane policies will cost hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide.

But the U.S. will immediately declare war on football, invade Switzerland, and rename the sport “soccer” once and for all…

The cheese will end up tasting bland and insipid, too…

/s, of course—fuck that orange pedo and his despicable minions anyway.

No, I don’t think so at all, but depending on whether the Democrats field a reasonably progressive candidate, there’s at least a slim chance. If not, and it comes down to the usual corporate Democrats—who, contrary to the will of the voters, clearly call the shots at the DNC—there’s no chance from the get-go.

For the Conservatives, however, this chance does not even exist in the first place.

So the Democrats are still the lesser evil, because the conservatives are not only many times more corrupt, they’re also completely unscrupulous in their inhumane actions.

With a Democratic president, at least, it would still be possible to engage in dialogue on the international stage. A conservative, on the other hand, represents exclusively the interests of organized crime, as the current regime demonstrates day in and day out: It commits horrific war crimes, does nothing but enrich itself and its billionaire financiers, openly threatens even the U.S.’s former allies with armed force, and is doing everything in its power to replace international law with the law of the jungle.

These people are the scum of humanity. The conformist, greedy opportunists among the Democrats are certainly despicable as well, but even they are no match for the absolute monsters currently ruling the country.

Look up the term “Dark Enlightenment” —this far-right, inhuman “theory” is the foundation of what conservatives stand for and what they are working exclusively to bring about, since it benefits the billionaires and would give them absolute power without any restrictions. Should they continue to succeed in this, it would have enormous, negative consequences for other, still somewhat functioning democracies around the world.

In short: A democratic president would definitely be the lesser evil—for the world as well as for the U.S. Anything that weakens the current regime is absolutely desirable.

That’s because he doesn’t want to go to prison.

Tell him he’s not welcome here. We have zero tolerance for intolerance and mindless hatred!

I recently passed through Braunau, Hitler’s birthplace, on my way to a wedding in Hungary.

There’s absolutely nothing to see there.

If this is supposed to become an international gathering place for all those megalomaniacal Nazis, Musk, Trump, and their ilk will have to shell out a lot of money to make their pathetic ideas seem less pathetic than they already are.

I think even they lack the money for that, since their attempts across all of today’s media are already costing them a fortune, and they only succeed with people who are already so useless that humanity would be much better off without them.

There’s no problem here, since we’re all on the same page. It just looks that way because of the downvote train that you’re still continuing many hours after the fact, instead of explaining how this misunderstanding might have arisen. The comment we’re talking about here doesn’t say anything like what you’re making out to be a given. I have no idea how you came to that conclusion, but no one seems willing to bother explaining it. Instead, there are just downvotes and “sufficient” answers that have absolutely nothing to do with the matter at hand. But hey, that’s just how social media is, and that’s exactly why the pedophile billionaires are winning…

Their tactic is to get like-minded people to tear each other apart: This is a good example of that on a very small scale.

Where does all this hatred and mindless conformity come from, which makes social media platforms so hostile?

Presumably because you have an interest in ensuring that there can be no civilized exchange…

Toto - Africa (metal cover by Leo Moracchioli feat. Rabea & Hannah)

This cover should meet just about all of your criteria, but it’s already a few years old.

I completely agree. I fear that this global trend is linked to the combined power of mentally ill individuals who have amassed so much power that they are now using their pernicious influence to establish a kind of new, transnational monarchy of billionaires.

I can’t think of any other explanation for the resurgence of inhuman fascism in so many countries at the same time.

In this case, it seems like the user has a whole bunch of smurf accounts to make their point … just look at the downvotes. If you’re not sure what a comment means, you wouldn’t just downvote it right away, would you? Anyway, that’s how I see it, but yeah, maybe after all these years I’m still misunderstanding this metric.

Isn’t that exactly what the comment you’re responding to is getting at? The discrepancy between the headline and the facts? So, the fact that a few U.S. troops lost their lives while their bombs blew many, many more Iranians—most of them civilians—to pieces?

Am I completely misreading this?

Edit: By the way, this is likely a news agency report that the BBC reprinted largely unchanged from a U.S. agency. That also explains why the BBC isn’t at all critical in this article. However, I can only vaguely discern that this outlet would generally be critical, which has to do with the “special” relationship between the UK and the U.S. You’ll never hear the BBC state with sufficient clarity that this war violates international law, nor that the U.S. is committing war crimes.

This is not meant to be an attack on this long-established organization. In my home country, Germany, the situation is no different, as our politicians also continue to cling to the U.S. as well.

What’s the point of this comment? The U.S. is waging a war of aggression in violation of international law, deliberately bombing schools and drinking water facilities, and thereby committing the worst war crimes imaginable. And it’s doing all this in collaboration with the butchers in Israel, whom it protects from prosecution.

That doesn’t seem to matter to you in the slightest, since you still feel you have to stand up for the “proud troop” as an “upstanding American supporter.”

This makes me sick—the U.S. president is a serious criminal and a pedophile, this awful country is ruled by organized crime.

GTFO

Thanks for the tip—I’ll check it out.

It’s a shame that even here in the Fediverse, people downvote you just for stating the obvious.

The ideological blindness in the U.S. is apparently so strong that many simply fail to realize that they are the bad guys, that their regime is pure evil.

Even under a degenerate monster like the current U.S. president, many Americans simply cannot see through all the lies being drummed into them by those who have been exploiting them for years on end.

It really seems hopeless…

Unfortunately, one sees such articles far too rarely in Western media.

Usually, all the atrocities are glossed over in order to somehow give the impression that Israel is a civilized state—even though the ICC has had arrest warrants out for Netanyahu and some of his cronies for ages, and UN bodies have determined that Israel is committing genocide long ago.

All this is still possible solely because the U.S. shields Israel from international condemnation, with many other Western countries aiding and abetting this—including Germany, where I’m from; especially given our history, I am ashamed of our unscrupulous politicians.

This also explains why these unspeakable crimes are not being adequately reported, why they are portrayed as a military conflict when they are, in fact, a barbaric slaughter of defenseless people.

The only positive thing I can see in this coverage is that the atrocity is so obvious that this article even made it into the NYT. That is certainly to the author’s credit, and the concessions he had to make in order for it to be published at all are completely understandable.

No official Israeli response yet.

What’s the point of their comment anyway?

It’s all well and good to follow standard journalistic practices and let both sides have their say—but then it would only be appropriate to actually do that as a matter of course, which is unfortunately not the case at all in the NYT’s coverage of Israel’s crimes, because, objectively speaking, there can be no doubt whatsoever that Israel is committing genocide and is guilty of the most egregious crimes against humanity. An article like this is the absolute exception in U.S. reporting.

To believe that Israeli officials would have anything to contribute on this matter other than the usual lies and threats is pure mockery. You could might as well ask Donald Trump about Epstein…