Because most people don’t care and even enjoy being manipulated. Mark Fuckerberg and other elites know this. But for people who do complain, Mark is like “Yeah but what are you going to do about it?”

That said, when Americans start to complain about the 300B payout, I’m curious what is the next distraction that Trump will pull.

Are there Kurds in Japan? That’s news to me.

Unfortunately, xenophobia is rising in many parts of the world, even in countries with negligible number of immigrants like Japan. I’m even surprised that in Chile, anti-migrant is a sticking point on their recent elections, even though they barely have any immigrants and many Chileans are even leaving.

I am blaming social media for amplifying polarisation. The elites are doing what they can to divide the population while they steal from our pockets because we’re too distracted.

I’m please to hear of the results. I didn’t think the “No” side would have won by more points because the pre-referendum polls showed neck and neck.

Anyway, it’s a silly initiative to begin with. I was thinking even if the “Yes” side won, in my mind I’m thinking “let the leopards eat their faces”. Never mind the arguments on culture and so on, the economic damage to capping the population is insurmountable because it means fewer workers to migrate. And also, how is capping 10 million even logistically possible? Are they going to deport people? Who decides who to deport if a person is either long term resident or born and raised there? Are they going to do sterilisation if by some miracle there is a baby boom (which by the way, Switzerland like the rest of the world right now is having fewer fertility rate) and the population is reaching 10 million? Far right policies are moronic because they are purely based on emotions. Leopards eventually do eat their faces.

It seems like Bibi has a more urgent existential anxiety by prolonging the war than Trump, who joined the war to distract the people from the Epstein files. Netanyahu was already summoned to court for corruption but he has been dragging the war to delay the trial.

Precisely what the advocates of universal basic income had been saying.

They will be used in World War III.

He defrauded the wealthy that’s why he’s not getting away with it easily.

I don’t know what you are whining. I’m not even American, but Lemmy is American dominated whether you like it or not and there is nothing you and I can do about it no matter how much either of us whine. Go to your country’s community website if you don’t like it. That’s like complaining Nairaland is full of Nigerian posts.

You know the expression: when America sneezes, everyone catches the cold.

The American tech giants, which are tied to the government because of military and surveillance contracts, despise EU regulations. The US Department of Defense strategy already deemed Europe to be a bigger threat than China and Russia. The American tech companies are also lobbying the EU to loosen the digital privacy laws and regulations. So it helps to keep tab once in a while of American politics.

I have a news for you, this isn’t just American internal politics. Surveillance capitalism is happening across the world. There are those pushing for chat control in the EU and UK is starting to do the same and contracted Palantir to manage the NHS data.

They have a very short life span though.

Google improves their search results, then they won’t need AI to do the searching?

Unfortunately the far-right want to undo everything. The PBS has been defunded by Trump but PragerU will take their place instead. The crucial life lessons from Sesame Street will be accused as being “woke” these days, whether from genuine bad faith actors or bots online.

I have to vehemently disagree because the Nazis are fucking overrated and don’t deserve too much credit. Very little known fact that most people don’t realise is that Nazi Germany was on a brink of another economic collapse before invading Poland. In spite of warning from his economic minister at the time, Hitler let government spending balloon because of rearmament and increased public spending including pageantries to distract and awe the public. Hitler did not want to hear any contrarian opinions and sidelined his economic minister. Hitler had to absolutely invade countries to plunder and fund his government. If there was no war, Nazi Germany would have just collapsed on its own.

And lastly, if the Nazis were forward thinking, then why were they shocked when the Allies declared war on them? Hitler was deluded enough to think he could even convince the British to side with him to fight against communism.

So many Brexiteers despise EU’s regulations. They were not even hiding it when they released a book stating they will make London the “Singapore on Thames”. They tried to implement a libertarian economics under Liz Truss but it proved to be unpopular.

There are interest groups in the EU who are pushing for more digital surveillance, but they kept losing (for now). With the UK no longer in the EU, such interest groups find it easier to impose their desire in the UK because the country is no longer subject to EU laws and regulations.

This is why the UK left the EU.

US doing whatever the fuck right now is a massive PR win for China.

It makes so much sense!

Most bullies don’t.