Yes, absolutely. The astronomical budget of this “agency” led to the conclusion, from the moment it was approved, that it would serve to establish a secret police force loyal exclusively to the regime. Why else would funds equivalent to the military budget of a medium-sized country be needed?

I would say that it wasn’t us, the ordinary people, who created this terrible world, but we definitely allowed the worst among us to do so - and we even rewarded them for it, so that this monstrous world is now ruled by the most ruthless, like a monarchy that was believed to have been overcome. Apparently, civilizational progress is not bound to the passage of time, as I strongly suspect that we are regressing civilizational: back to absolutism with its degenerate rulers who give free rein to their perverse desires - and they can do so, because they are at the top of a society they exploit with impunity.

Yes, unfortunately that is true, except that these “legal entities” cannot be held liable for their crimes in the same way as humans. Therefore, the people who control these companies cannot be held liable for their crimes.

This is a legal trick that illustrates that the law has nothing to do with justice, while ensuring that billionaires are “legally” above the law that applies to everyone who is not a billionaire.

Why is non-news like this still so popular in the US when there are so many more important issues, such as the fact that the government is breaking its own laws by continuing to prevent the publication of the Epstein files, that it is executing people in public with no trial and no reason whatsoever, that it is continuously breaking existing laws, that it is betraying and extorting long standing allies, that it is shamelessly enriching itself in a way that is unprecedented even in the history of the US, which is certainly famous for this … the list goes on and on, but still, non-news about Erika Kirk gets upvotes??? Why??? Because the US users need someone to hate instead of themselves?

Even people here on lemmy don’t seem to realize how attention is being siphoned off - because they post stuff about a completely irrelevant person and thus do exactly what the US regime, which is promoting this person, wants them to do.

It really couldn’t be any more stupid.

Why don’t you just focus on the president and his organized crime operation? Why do you allow yourselves to get distracted by his bullshit? Why do you even help with this orange child molester out by doing his very bidding!

Just do the world a favor and participate in the nationwide strike planned for tomorrow.

Rule of law, huh?

It’s almost like something straight out of the Nazis’ playbook back in Germany: seizing power by abusing the law. Hitler first made use of the so‑called “Reichstag Fire Decree” to undermine fundamental rights and launch a campaign of terror - using violence, mass arrests and intimidation to eliminate political opponents; at least formally, these measures were covered by law.

Subsequently, these and all other heinous crimes committed by the Nazis were rapidly enshrined in legal form, backed by police force and intimidation - for example the “Enabling Act,” which stripped parliament of its powers and allowed the cabinet (in practice controlled by Hitler) to enact laws, even contrary to the constitution.

Overall, it was a takeover that used and even created the appearance of constitutionality, in which the Nazis interpreted and applied the law at their own discretion and enforced it with violence and intimidation. The rest is history.

When I look at the US news since January last year, it all seems very familiar - with a rather insignificant difference being that instead of the Reichstag fire, another staged “emergency,” namely illegal immigration, is being used as a pretext to undermine civil rights…

Of course they do, this is their mindless tactic and it’s obvious to everyone with half a brain because it’s so mindless (it used to be much more skillful).

This can only work because there’s so much money behind it. Otherwise, it would never be possible to maintain such obvious bullshit. It can only work because there are billionaires and because these billionaires are all inhumane monsters - psychopaths by definition. It is the logical consequence of unbridled capitalism, which, contrary to all the narratives that people like Milton Friedman have made famous, is not a free market, but always produces the monopolies we see today.

The civilizational regression we are experiencing today is the direct result of this: of too much money in too few horribly unscrupulous hands.

In itself, it’s simple, but billionaires are doing everything they can to prevent people from realizing that - as in this case: hey, let’s just have our own fascist Super Bowl show. It’s just sooo fucking stupid, but so are people.

I guess this is how it is: Despite its blatant absurdity, all of this is only possible because people allow it - that is just a fact. With all that monstrous shit going on in the word besides better judgement I find it increasingly difficult to attribute this to any other reason than that there is a significant proportion of people who are incorrigible, arrogant and ignorant beyond saving - and then some who are just plain evil. Perhaps that is human nature, which Kant and all other Enlightenment thinkers always denied because they wanted people to believe in the good of the people so they can do good instead of evil.

Well, this shows once again that the right-wing extremists need their own artificially staged reality in order to somehow justify all the outrageous lies of the MAGA leadership: they simply cannot allow people to peacefully celebrate sporting events.

It’s really absurd how blind these idiots are. They just can’t see that the imaginary enemy images that are being mindlessly propagated here simply serve to distract from how thoroughly degenerate the leaders of this “movement” are, from the fact that they are actually the enemies of all halfway decent people.

The stupidity is really only surpassed by the ruthlessness of the criminals responsible for this moronic deception.

Great, great, so once again there will be a nice investigation, after which absolutely nothing will be done. It would save a lot of time and money not to investigate at all, but hey, the whole point seems to be that you can hide under the cosy cloak of the rule of law before letting the worst of the worst get away with all their crimes.

In some Nazi concentration camps, the steps that forced laborers had to climb while heavily laden were deliberately made of different heights to make the ordeal even worse. This is the same disgusting and abysmal malice. Pure evil for which there can be no excuse.

I find the AI audio translation on YouTube, which Google now seems to be imposing as standard, to be the most absurd thing of 'em all: even the intros are so poorly translated that it couldn’t be more ridiculous.

I’m sure many users don’t realize that this is supposed to be a “feature” and mistakenly believe that the foreign-language video they deliberately clicked on is obviously AI-generated because the audio track is so horribly bad.

Well, another reason for PeerTube…

This development will certainly not end with books - countless other creative and intellectual achievements have long been affected. That is precisely the problem with generative models, whether they involve text, code, video, images, or whatever else. All of this boils down to the fact that the already precarious situation for everyone who creates value by themselves is continuing to deteriorate. Professional work in all these areas will undoubtedly become even more precarious in the future, with artists, designers, and writers, who were already in a difficult position, now being joined by industries such as software development and administrative work.

Please don’t get me wrong: I am anything but a technology pessimist, but the business model of the so-called AI companies is so exploitative and their owners so unscrupulous that, given the status quo (cloud models), I can hardly imagine that this will lead to even halfway fair working conditions or remuneration models for people who create value in the form of intellectual achievements. I mean, this post is a vivid example.

So we can assume that in the future, only slob written by LLMs will be available. I mean, who would be willing to spend hundreds of hours writing a book when even huge corporations that earn billions from it won’t pay the author a single dime?

The purpose of business school MBAs is nothing more than networking. These degrees cost a fortune, and that’s exactly the point: to bring opportunists together. I’m almost sure it’s next to impossible to fail this degree, because it’s not about knowledge at all, but merely about gaining entry into senior management.

Why was Trump’s former personal lawyer and a top Justice Department official meeting with a sex offender whom the US government had previously assailed for her “willingness to lie brazenly under oath about her conduct”?

This question answers itself.

You must have a very fragile personality if you interpret this post in this manner. Your response to my comment only confirms this: truly pathetic!

If I, as a man, have anything to be ashamed of, it is people like you who, for whatever reason, feel the need to defend the scum of humanity, which is exactly what the two men pictured here are.

Here we see two completely degenerate men. And your comment makes it clear that you identify with them. That says everything there is to know about you.

I mean, it makes sense to be informed about what’s going on, but seriously … “daycare panic”??? The level of blatant stupidity is simply unbearable. I think everyone here is aware of how absurd MAGA is. There’s really no need for further proof. What’s the point? Just for amusement?

Hic sunt dracones

What good is a law if even the government that passed it does not abide by it? Well, it’s good for absolutely nothing, except to create a false sense of legitimacy.

So once again, this clearly shows that the legal system in the USA is a farce that merely serves to simulate the rule of law, because if even the most serious violations of the law remain without consequences, there can be no rule of law.

This is then an unjust state in which nothing but arbitrariness reigns.

You really are the best example of the American spirit…