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• On the post: Speak Its Name: Yes, This Is Naziism

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2026 @ 04:38am

  I'm not surprised but I'm still saddened other countries are doing almost nothing to contain the 4th Reich. Part of this inaction stems from how the US has entrenched itself deeply into the global economy with the dollar. There are various countries divesting from US debt titles and dollar reserves, swapping them for gold but it's too little and too slow. And the prices of gold have gone insane. This should be a lesson for the future. There shouldn't be a dominating currency nor should a single country concentrate that much power. We should be giving the UN more power over many things with a healthy rotation of management among countries and no veto power. Important stuff like ICANN, international trade and a common currency should be under the responsibility of such multilateral bodies and so on. It's a good time to strengthen the UN and make it more democratic while respecting nations sovereignty as much as possible. Sure there will be a few dozen countries with nasty dictators around. But alone they can't do shit because there's no other country with that much power. And some countries out there, north and south, east and west will have to dial back their colonizing impetus and let go of their veto power and possibly their colonies. But it's better than what we have now.

• On the post: Stop Killing Games Gets Over 1 Million Petition Signatures Verified By EU

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 30 Jan, 2026 @ 04:06am

  If you exchange games for cars, home appliances an virtually anything else with internet connections it would have positive and lasting impacts. This is very simple and useful. But I'd add that efforts to reverse engineer stuff to make it compatible with latest hardware OR emulate it as possible should be included as exempt from copyright prosecution shifting the burden to the end user. If they have acquired the thing they can do whatever they want including downloading to emulate it in other hardware.

• On the post: ACIP Chair Wonders Aloud If We Should Really Be Vaccinating For Polio These Days

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2026 @ 05:50am

  Let the iron lung production lines get that nice cleaning and maintenance, they'll be needed soon. Maybe after reviving the horrors of polio people will become less inclined to question vaccines?

• On the post: Brendan Carr Pretends To Care About Competition, Helps Larry Ellison Undermine Netflix Warner Brothers Merger

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2026 @ 06:33am

  This is one of those moments you actually root for the fight itself or for mutual destruction.

• On the post: CDC Dep. Director On Measles Going Kazoo: It’s Just ‘The Cost Of Doing Business’

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2026 @ 06:27am

  The stupid mindset in question is basically that of an employee who thinks, “Right now I’m getting along really well with my boss. That clearly means that I can stop putting any effort into my work now!”

  You see, a more apt comparison would be "Right now I’m getting along really well with my boss. That clearly means that labor and anti-slavery laws are not needed and I can negotiate terms directly with my employer because they are so nice and benevolent!"

• On the post: CDC Dep. Director On Measles Going Kazoo: It’s Just ‘The Cost Of Doing Business’

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2026 @ 06:22am

  I wonder how long till countries start erecting sanitary barriers against US travelers. The loss of trust has already resulted in a massive divest from the dollar going on which made gold prices soar past the stratosphere, dollar value against many currencies falling to 20-month lows and still falling. I personally love it because the US has been wielding the dollar hegemony as a weapon for decades now. US dominant position and presence in the world was never viable in the long term but I honestly thought the decline would be much like an airplane landing and they would remain relevant. The orange emperor turned it into a catastrophic nose dive.

• On the post: How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2026 @ 04:18am

  It warms the heart that there are plenty of efforts to fight back the nazi plutocracy that ensnared the world and is bringing it to destruction by many ways such as environmental collapse, humanitarian crisis or biological apocalypse. Oh and let's not forget the nukes. The cynic in me doesn't believe this is enough to stop our extinction and the death of billions of innocent people. But I keep contributing with those efforts the way I can for some reason. I do hope this cynic in me is pleasantly surprised in the future.

• On the post: The Trump Administration Is Losing The Support Of Local Law Enforcement

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 28 Jan, 2026 @ 03:41am

  Just a small reminder: ICE murdered more than 2 people. The two mentioned happen to be white and born in the US. Persecuting and killing minorities was the highlight of the 3rd Reich.

• On the post: Microsoft CEO Laments Criticism Of “AI Slop,” Causing The Whole Internet To Double Down On Criticism Of “Microslop”

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2026 @ 02:26am

  Not using what I can avoid from these people. Which is very little considering I can't avoid AWS, Azure, Google and the likes. It's also very difficult to avoid physical stuff from huge corporations and otherwise asshole owners. Suzano, a Brazilian company owned by assholes has the monopoly in cellulose production and market, did you know? I can't avoid stuff that needs cellulose. I'm also voting for people that actually want to tackle wealth concentration and attending protests and gatherings to pressure politicians to do the right thing. Have you ever inhaled tear gas? I have and it's not fun. But that's the limit of what I can do both in terms of possibilities and in terms of my own mental health. Also, don't be the person that says "what are you doing instead of complaining in the internet". It's obnoxious.

• On the post: Microsoft CEO Laments Criticism Of “AI Slop,” Causing The Whole Internet To Double Down On Criticism Of “Microslop”

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2026 @ 08:03am

  One thing AI was very useful for was to show how wealth concentration generated a completely out of touch with reality, complete assholes that think they are above the law and everyone cast of billionaires that are just rushing humanity into misery, climate catastrophe and generally very bad things. Often associated with fascism/nazism, human trafficking, sexual abuse and pedophilia. One of the worst of them is president of the strongest military force in the world. We are going extinct sooner or later, guided (or forced) by a class of people that should not exist. There's no winning, no improving in sight.

• On the post: Judge Tears Into ICE Over Its Inhumane Facilities, Insane Amount Of Lying

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 12 Jan, 2026 @ 03:53am

  It's about time people started treating the ICE as what they really are: the 4th Reich Gestapo. This is precisely the time the 2nd Amendment was written for. The Institutions that should provide the checks and balances to this kind of government have already failed hard. Or are being ignored because of such failures by higher instances.

• On the post: RFK Jr., CDC Alter Childhood Vaccine Schedule To Mimic Denmark’s

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2026 @ 09:37am

  Pro-plague is a very apt adjective. And I agree with you. It has probably already started.

• On the post: ‘Trump Phone’ Delayed Again, Lazy Grifters Falsely Blame Government Shutdown

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2026 @ 09:33am

  They know the cattle (MAGA USians) will believe in anything they say and will gladly syphon money to whatever half-baked stupidity they throw around. An idiot and their money are easily separated.

• On the post: RFK Jr., CDC Alter Childhood Vaccine Schedule To Mimic Denmark’s

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 07 Jan, 2026 @ 06:16am

  I'm sure this change will be accompanied by Danish healthcare standards, no? US citizens will have free and almost personalized healthcare to the point any disease outbreaks will be readily identified and contained, right? The next pandemic will start in the US.

• On the post: They Came To The U.S. Legally. Then Trump Stripped Their Status Away.

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2026 @ 03:47am

  It's truly sad that many people that are now in danger of forced deportation to concentration camps abroad actually supported Trump. And the orange goon didn't even hide this was his goal. Trump didn't hit Venezuela to help Venezuelans or for democracy. He's stating in a very clear and unambiguous way that he only cares about the resources. And there are other, much worse dictators the US treat as allies. As much as Maduro was in the wrong, it's not by utterly disregarding and destroying international law and ignoring nations sovereignty that things will be fixed. I'm very afraid to see many good people supporting this because Maduro is bad. Last time a country displayed such blatant behavior it was 1939. With a few sprinkles of 1914. We should all be terrified and the world should be fiercely condemning what the US did. Just like when Russia invaded Ukraine. We are staring a very dangerous abyss.

• On the post: AZ State Senator Proposes Law To Spend State Resources Studying ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2026 @ 03:35am

  Trump Derangement Syndrome is just a fancy term for nazism.

• On the post: Mexican Government To Tax Violent Video Games It Says Make Kids Violent

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 29 Oct, 2025 @ 04:33am

  Well, Claudia is a good president overall but everybody has their tinfoil hats. What strikes me is that there are plenty of violent content out there in many formats but it's always video games that get singled out as causes of violence...

• On the post: Warner Brothers Is For Sale (Again): Prepare For More Pointless, Disastrous Media Mergers

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2025 @ 11:56am

  No group or single person should have that much power or concentrate that much wealth. That's where the problems come from, sadly.

• On the post: Warner Brothers Is For Sale (Again): Prepare For More Pointless, Disastrous Media Mergers

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2025 @ 11:11am

  So HBO-Max-MAx-Super-Duper-HBO-Max-Again-Whatever-The-Name-Is-Now is going to get even worse?

• On the post: Student Journalists At Indiana University And Purdue Show More Integrity, Solidarity And Backbone Than Many In The Mainstream Press

  

  Ninja ( profile ), 23 Oct, 2025 @ 11:08am

  I've decided to start supporting news outfits that are doing their job well. I'm including those in my financial spreadsheet. Specially the smaller ones. That's where the future is.

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