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If you trust Kurzgesagt, I’m sorry: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2015/11/inv-006792

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So basically “the US said so”, okay.

“People do evil things while at war”. The Russians do it, the Ukrainians do it.

You mean people with opinions that don’t align with your own?

In a better world I’d appreciate this. In our current capitalist hell scape, stuff like this will land in the wrong hands.

Nope, thanks.

Definitely, I didn’t mean to sound too defeatist.

It’s because they’re corrupt and young people are just as susceptible to lobbyists bribes, unfortunately. The gerontocracy doesn’t make things better though, that’s for sure.

With AfD polling at the same popularity as the SPD, that could get ugly. And everyone is still aware of the disgrace that came to light when they tried to ban the way less popular NPD. I guess some secret services would hate to lose their assets in the AfD.

What a stupid move by the Russian state. If they’re so convinced that Putin will remain in power, they’d hold elections. Navalny is in jail and the opposition will probably try to mount an attack, but unless their domestic security services know something they’re not telling, it’s quite baffling why they’d openly admit to such weakness.

I mean, they’ve embedded Zelensky’s move to postpone elections in their own propanda.

Imperialism breeds stupidity.

Fuck paywalls.

Revenge of the sea people.

Let’s hope they’re at least as sexy as in the MCEU and not the bland DCEU villains.

The problem isn’t that they’re spending money on political causes and I wouldn’t even expect them to do some false balance bs where they’d spend money on left and right wing politics, but spending money on political causes with almost zero transparency (like what do orgs do with the money, how effective are they, are they actually aligned with certain values, who is involved in these orgs, etc) seems fishy as fuck.

From the looks of it, they’d rather have no democracy than a Western one?

What’s creepy and disgusting now can quickly turn absolutely dystopian soon. Image states pairing up these systems with social/climate credits and possibly AI. I don’t get why this is mainly debated in loony right-wing circles when it’s clearly something that’s technically feasible, and if not yet, then it’s just a matter of time.

Research Central Bank-issued Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and specifically the so called “programmable money” parts of them. Central Banks and states are creating stuff like money that has an expiration date or that can only be spent on certain approved products and services.

Cash is privacy and no one can estimate your “climate footprint” based on its use while their class keeps on riding their private jets to World Economic Forum and other oligarch conferences.

This is not some futuristic stuff. All big countries are heavily invested in CBDCs, have pilot programs and some are already using them.

Didn’t Russia just integrate Wagner into their military and left only those who went to Belarus to keep on fighting for Prighozin/Wagner?

I always have Tor installed and I often use it instead of incognito browser sessions when researching stuff. It’s sometimes slow and Cloudflare made it a lot more annoying to use than ~5-10 years ago, but I’m glad it exists.

I’m sure it’s still more useful to US interests though, or it wouldn’t be funded anymore.

I think the current discussion is a good example showing that it’s not as black and white, and definitely not easy, as you make it out to be.