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The original Nazis were like that too, though -- massive dorks.

No worries, I didn't explain myself very well. If you're in the US, take care today.

I guess Zuck's wife didn't leave him after all, despite rumours.

I'm just saying it only lasted 2000 years if you could the republic, in which case it lasted 1000 years in the west (traditionally until Augustulus was deposed in 476) not 500 years. I realize this has nothing to do with the topic at hand and I'm just being a pedant.

Ackshually it's only 2000 years in the east (up until 1453) if you count the kingdom and republic (which would make it 1000 years in the west, up to the traditional date of 476) assuming the traditional ab urbe condita date of 753 BC.

On Twitter, no less — a sycophant whose opinion is a net negative.

Is that on Twitter?

Congrats to all the "both sides are the same" folks who stayed home and handed this election to Trump.

JFC, this is terrifying:

The view of young people and TikTok users is particularly frightening at fundamental scientific findings.

For example, only 71 percent of those under 29 years old agree that vaccines have helped save millions of lives. Among TikTok users, the approval is even lower with 69 percent. More than 20 percent of young people, and around a quarter of all TikTok users, even openly doubt this decades-long insight.

Young people and the population as a whole seem to be shockingly agreed on the issue of climate change alone: only 64 percent of respondents and 67 percent of young people agree that climate change is caused by human activities. Among TikTok users, it is only a little more than half.

And the corona pandemic also remains a source of conspiracy theories. A quarter of the total population agrees with the statement that the pandemic was deliberately created by governments or elites in order to be able to control the population more. This dangerous narrative seems to be particularly widespread on TikTok: there, almost 44 percent of users agree with it.

I don't owe you anything, and your sophistry is embarrassing. Why would Trump refer to his people's blood being poisoned by immigrants if he didn't consider immigrants inherently inferior? Do you consider labeling other ethnicities as being poisonous to be a neutral statement?

Give me a fucking break. This is from the preamble to the Nuremberg Laws:

purity of German blood is the essential condition for the continued existence of the German people

And Trump:

They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country. [...] They’re coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world.”

As far as I can tell Trump can only be deemed a Nazi by association - he’s not been going around spouting stuff about people’s races making them superior or inferior to others like an ethno-Fascist

Trump says immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trump-says-immigrants-are-poisoning-blood-country-biden-campaign-liken-rcna130141

He also said Democrats are corrupt and that the GOP is the party that represents the little guy. At worst, he's MAGA. At best, he's a credulous buffoon who shouldn't be running a company that vulnerable people use to protect themselves.

It feels like it would be a bit like IBM working with Hitler and saying “well he’s right on this one specific policy issue.”

"As the owner of an asphalt company, I think this new Reichskanzler's autobahn-building initiative is fantastic!"

I use Filen, and unlike Proton they have a Linux app.

Ed continues to bat 1000.

Meloni certainly has a whiff of fascism to her but in a chaotic, haphazard way — sort of a Muskian case-by-case fascism rather than anything coherent.

I know this was a throwaway comment:

a country that still hasn’t managed to shed all the fascism it obtained during the World War II years.

But it shows the author doesn't know much about Italy, and may be surprised to learn they nearly elected a communist government in the 70s.

Norway is the only one where that applies, and I specifically mentioned Sweden.

Edit: with that said, Norway's example only proves my point — they nationalized a natural resource and have been using the funds for the public good. Norway's sovereign wealth fund is 50% bigger than China's despite Norway having 1/280th (!!!) of China's population.

It's a shame, too. It's quite shocking, if you spend some time there, to see how un-communist the country really is. Maybe things are a bit better in the countryside, but the cities (even smaller ones) are far less for the average person than an equivalent city in, say, the Nordics. I've only been to Sweden once but it seemed to me far closer to what that idealized society might look like.