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I think you can block the entire instance, not community by community or user by user.

You can block it for yourself if that works for you. You don’t have to limit other people’s options.

I’m not against professional politicians—there are things they handle and defend better than “amateurs.” What I’m against is dishonest politicians, and he’s shown himself to be one, by far.

You can agree with his policies, measures, and ideas—whatever they may be—but if a politician is dishonest, they’ll always end up betraying you for their own interests.

Until now, it was mandatory to spend 2%, and almost no country met that goal. Now it’s going up to 5%, and it’ll be followed just as strictly as before. On top of that, the deadline is set for 2029—by then, Trump will either be out of office in the U.S., or he’ll have damaged their democracy so badly that it’ll be impossible not to call him a dictator. In any case, by then the game will have changed enough that a renegotiation will be inevitable.

As a Spaniard, I can tell you that our president’s tantrum has more to do with trying to project strength at home—at a time of serious corruption scandals—than with any confrontation that might actually achieve something.

The rest of the world: oh my god

I think any European politician who said anything remotely close to this would see their careers instantly over. How is it possible that saying something like this doesn’t cost them votes in the US?

Again, I’m European so I can’t be sure about this, but I think some of those issues are worse because of the scale, not the thing itself. The entire healthcare system is private—if all prisons were too, I think that would be much worse than the healthcare situation.

As for politicians, up until this election cycle, they at least had the decency to pretend. From now on, we’ll see what happens.

In the Southeast of America a judge was fairly recently convicted of sending underage boys to a private prison in exchange for kickbacks from that prison. He had been doing it for over a decade. And that’s just one that made the news.

It is obvious that something like this would happen. You cannot create a system with perverse incentives and expect the good faith of those who participate to keep it clean. It is exactly the opposite of the spirit of the American revolution (and the rest of democratic revolutions)

As a European, I wonder what kind of dystopia the concept of a “private prison” fits into. I don’t understand how anyone could have imagined that this would end well.

Not always. I’m from Spain, and you can read about how our dictator Francisco Franco ended his life (spoiler alert: his regime lasted from 1939 to 1977).

Unfortunately, the real world is not like a movie where wars are always won by those who defend the most just cause.

I would like to leave this here as a warning, because it seems relevant to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

By overcompensating for the past, Germany is siding with the genocidaires. And the problem is that it’s dragging the Union down, preventing a joint response.

The fascist is the one who contains people in arrest fields. The hyper capitalist who closes food programs for the poorest

From essentially always. The Eastern Indies Company may be the first clear example. Ultra capitalists squeeze the State whenever they can preach that others should prevent the smallest subsidy

This could lead us to a complex discussion about ideology but I believe that Musk is rather an ultra capitalist (what we call ultra liberal in Europe) the repression of the State cares for shit, it only wants tax reduction and disappearance of regulations to the maximum. Trump is a more classic fascist, he wants repression and total control by the State (as long as he is the one who controls the State, obviously). The clash was inevitable, as I said before, reviewing the story will give you the answer

A fascist betraying the hyper-capitalist who supported him to defeat the left. If Musk knew more about history, he could have seen it coming.