In other words, a company, acting on behalf of its own shareholders, tells a government, which represents 100% of the citizens in a given territory, to shove its legislation where the sun doesn’t shine. And not only is this not inherently absurd, but it also stands a significant chance of succeeding in getting the government to comply.

And this is the reason why the democratic party does not respond to the interests of the working class. The words of a super rich person have more influence than thousands or millions of people saying the same thing in surveys. This time those voices are aligned, but if next time they are not, the voice of the super rich will be the one they hear instead of yours.

Anyone still looking for news on Twitter at this point is actively seeking to be misinformed.

Not specifically for this news, it's been obvious for a while now.

He then posted it on Twitter. Instead of opening an official instance on Mastodon for official government accounts continues to generate content to enrich those it criticizes.

Yesterday I read on mastodon that leaving Twitter to go to Bluesky is like quitting smoking to start vaping. Changing a centralized place that lives off your data for another one. Right now Bluesky does not have hate speech like Twitter just because it does not suit the current accounts of its shareholders

I believe this is the issue: if there were a way for Ukraine to genuinely believe that Russia would not attack them again, they might accept certain territorial losses—in fact, they might have accepted them long ago. But no one believes that a Russia that wins in Donbas would stop there and not feel emboldened to push for more. Only a Russia that perceives this as a painful defeat might refrain from coming back for more.

How much of an idiot do you have to be to attack Wikipedia?

Okay, stay calm. Getting anxious has never helped anyone, and trying to think things through with a clear mind usually does. Take another test before talking to anyone about it to be 100% sure, but keep in mind that the chances of it being a false positive are very low. Start thinking and planning with that in mind.

I don’t know your personal situation or the decisions you’ll make about this, but I’m sure you’ll find support from the people around you and you’ll get through it.

Oh, what cute, they think that the technobro who made his employees pee in bottles so they wouldn't waste time in the bathroom bought a newspaper to satisfy his readers and not to spread propaganda

I wonder what would happen if a Brazilian company failed to comply with a US court order.

I'm sure the US will protest this time with real energy and will then send another billion in military equipment.

I agree with what you say before editing, what you say after qualifies you as an asshole

It has an owner who can do with it whatever he wants. When you participate in that, you give value to another's property. Matodon, lemmy and the rest of the fediverse are collective, they do not have a single owner, giving value to the platform only gives value to its users.

I don't know about the rest, but for me that is an insurmountable problem.

Wait, are you thinking about Trump in rational terms? I think you're in the wrong man if you're looking for a rational person.

I don't think it's a bad plan, but I believe a good first step would be to close all government accounts on Twitter and open them on Mastodon instead. I'm talking about all levels of administration within the EU27. The impact on journalists, the press, reporters, and others would be massive.

As a European, my feeling from the outside is that the United States is sliding more and more towards a repressive dictatorship. All the justification of violence, the indifference towards the physical damage of the rival, the accusations crossed, not on one side, generalized. It is possible that in these elections you will avoid catastrophe, but the social climate, the opinions, are not going to disappear. Democracy in the USA is dying without anyone caring

Facebook said the same thing a few years ago and here I am, waiting for them to go away

It's funny how they don't consider raising the minimum wage for those who don't receive tips, but rather lowering it for those who do. Make clear the type of people who propose this

First Spanish astronaut

As a company, they've always been incredibly conservative, so for maybe the last decade or so, they've tried to fix it by creating characters that are an absurd progressive stereotype as a stupid by product of a committee with no connection to what they wanted to stand for, so they didn't lose their reputation as conservatives among progressives, they pissed off conservatives by adapting to the woke agenda and along the way making some absolutely infamous products, yes Star Wars I'm looking at you