Posting about pedophilia on social media gets you deboosted, shadowbanned, etc. Don't know if it's by design, however tech giants love governments that want to remove regulations.
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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Does anyone have the text of recently released Epstein files? I found the PDF scans but want to be able to Ctrl+F for "Trump"
Reading this post made me nauseous:
http://youtube.com/post/UgkxqhGSC3v2M7G6ynhUz88DXXcAtX3s2R3H?si=PAl0fAjjmi-NeOJX
Don't pdfs have the ability to parse text? I thought that was one of their strengths.
I could be wrong though.
Depends on the PDF, though it's the norm nowadays with how good modern OCR is
That's so weird. Maybe the party in charge should prosecute the elites for their sex trafficking crimes. Wonder why they don't do that. Who's in power right now? Oh right Joe Biden and the Democrats. Surely they don't hold any power to prosecute elites.
Remember Bill Clinton and other Democrats also being on that Epstein list... Oh we just ignore that. Wouldn't be convenient if it's both sides.
Left or right, everyone in those files need to be on the wall
Amen
It's almost like one of those things took place in public, on bloody TV no less, and the other took place literally on a secret island. Weird.
I absolutely don't understand why a TV debate of two people has any influence on who will be in the office for the most powerful political position in the world. Neither does the format fit the importance, nor should the public opinion be based on a few hours of a conversation with an opponent.
Let alone that one person/the executive branch should not hold that much power and a direct vote for the president seems like an awful way to try to get a qualified person into office.
that one person/the executive branch should not hold that much power and a direct vote for the president seems like an awful way to try to get a qualified person into office.
A significant portion of the right believe in a Unitary Executive and that is what they’ve been working towards for decades. They believe the president has the power to control the entire federal executive branch. They’ve taken SCOTUS through activist judges and regulatory capture and can now get the rulings they want.
Our current situation really is the culmination of almost 70 years of rightwing efforts. They've built pipelines to train and vet their bureaucrats and policy wonks. Their base is extremely mobilized and there are dozens of grassroots movements with varying interests. At the end of the day they all show up to vote for their guy(s) to push their party the direction they want. It’s worked and that party has mainstreamed extremism. If the nascent left is able to wake up and avert a crisis it'll take decades of work to undo the damage.
I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.
Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here
The fact that I know more about US politics than my own country's politics shows what's wrong with US politics and social media.
i think for me it's "just" that I mostly use English parts of the internet
ok nvm the problem's still there lol
I think it's just a side effect to Lemmy doom-scrolling.
It's not just Lemmy doom-scrolling though.
Here's an article about the upcoming US election in my native country's national publication. There are others, I literally just searched for Trump on the front page.
This is not a publication trying to sell you doom and gloom either, they're the least biased, most factual publication around these parts. Required by law to not hold a bias and also nationalized so there's no profit motive for ragebait.
The US election is just considered important in many parts of the world. And to be fair, with the US being extremely important to NATO and Trump wanting to be done with NATO, aaaand many eastern-european countries being very much dependent on NATO to continue existing... You can see how Trump being elected could potentially affect tens if not hundreds of millions of people outside the US too.
Honestly I feel like the U.S. being a bit more isolationist is something most Americans (and a lot of other countries) would be ok with.
America doesn't need to be the world police anymore, it needs to handle its own obvious internal issues and let NATO/UN have bigger teeth for a few decades. Maybe divert some of the the military budget to schools and healthcare or something.
edit: for clarity
America doesn’t need to be the world police anymore
America: ~~Fuck Yeah!~~ No thanks.
Honestly I feel like the U.S. being a bit more isolationist is something most Americans (and a lot of other countries) would be ok with.
Will they really be more isolationist?
The current President of Brazil (Lula) was intentionally delayed the ability to run as president against the far-right Bolsonaro, with the help of the CIA under Trump's years.[1] Another Coup attempt in 2020 partly by Silvercorp USA, which just happened to provide security for Trump a few years earlier while Trump put a $15 million bounty on the person (Maduro) who was targeted by the Coup.[2]
I'm not so sure we'll see less political interference in the rest world the world.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash#Leaked_conversations
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)
Will they really be more isolationist?
No of course not but the American public, and most of the the world would probably be ok with America not swinging its dick around.
To be clear backing coups is the kind of thing America shouldn't be doing when I say "more isolationist."
or its a logical result of US about to elect a pedophile rapist who has been open about disintegrating democracy. For the second time. You don’t need to doom scroll to follow such a horrific development
Totally.
"grab them by the pu**y"
- Donald Drumph
I like to keep it simple. Everything aside, this is what a large chunk of the population voted in. I don't care about policies. I don't care about politics. On a core "decent human being" level a large chunk of the population is ok with this man representing them.
Speaks volumes of every single person that supports him and the party that props him up.
"We aren't supporting Trump, we're voting against Biden! You can either feel good about yourself or you can hold your nose and make a vote that actually matters."
A weak excuse used by chicken shits.
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