Yesterday, I finally talked my parents into canceling MS356 and switching to LibreOffice and Thunderbird.

Now, the excessive subscription fees for MS365 goes to them instead.

If Microsoft keeps this up, I might even manage to persuade them to switch to Linux at some point.

Yes, sry, he has a lot of MAGA talent. I’m sure he’ll even “write” a song soon, inspired by the Tetris tune, praising Drump in all his incomprehensible greatness.

I find all these people disgusting — but Kid Rock… I can’t even express how much I despise this talentless moron.

It has become abundantly clear that the US is now run by organized crime. How else can one describe all this?

The word you are looking for is probably “Niemandsvorbild,” which means “nobody’s role model”.

It is a made-up word that is apparently sometimes attributed to Kurt Vonnegut, but it probably wasn’t coined by him. It doesn’t actually exist in the German language, but it is still easy to understand.

More common would be “Negativ-Vorbild” (“negativ role model”) or “Antiheld” (“antihero”), although the latter describes a likable but imperfect protagonist in a work of fiction.

I think it is fundamentally good to use this opportunity as a chance to break up existing monopolies (especially with regard to software products). Trump merely provides a motivation for this - with his impossible behavior, he has created some awareness for this long-standing problem.

But yes, since the problem stems in fact from multinational corporations, the country in which these corporations have their headquarters does not necessarily play the decisive role - it should rather be about no longer buying products from these unscrupulous corporations.

Yes, that is absolutely right. Active support for genocide is also a crime against humanity and must be prosecuted.

To finally do this at all levels is also absolutely in the interest of the voters, because the majority of them are of the opinion that Israel must of course be held accountable for all its terrible misdeeds. Despite all the one-sided reporting by the obviously partisan media, it is absolutely clear that Israel commits mass murder, completely disregards international law and constantly commits the worst war crimes. Yet these disgusting opportunists who are supposed to be our representatives simply disregard the will of the people - they must also be held personally accountable.

I am truly ashamed of the behavior of the German government. It is outrageous and simply inexplicable to me how almost all parties in Germany still cling to their unconditional support for the criminal regime in Israel.

It is simply absurd to even supply weapons to a government against some of whose highest representatives arrest warrants have long been issued by the International Criminal Court. Unlike the USA, which has never recognized this institution for obvious reasons, decisions of the International Criminal Court are binding for Germany. And yet: not a word of criticism of Israel, instead even active support for genocide. I can only explain this with massive corruption at the highest levels.

Germany’s historical responsibility is not to Israel, but to all persecuted groups. In this sense, it is precisely Germany’s responsibility to resolutely oppose Israel’s crimes. But no, our politicians continue to stand by the side of the most horrible monsters and even take the liberty of justifying this with the very historical responsibility they are mocking. It is disgusting.

As I said, as a German I am ashamed of Germany’s actions.

That sounds pretty reasonable, may I ask which country you live in? Or in which region of the world?

So you would say that the law usually corresponds to what you perceive as justice?

Are you satisfied overall with the decisions made by your courts?

Thanks for doing that!

Maybe also !world@lemmy.world and !usa@midwest.social

Yes, he probably just couldn’t cope with all this hypocrisy.

Do you have a very good print regional newspaper or are you saying that these protests are not worth real-time coverage?

Do you think reddit is immune to the oligarchs? I don’t think so at all.

Edit: What I’m saying is: post here rather than on reddit. There are no current updates in the Lemmy community. And I’m assuming that the discussion is taking place on reddit because everyone is somehow still there. Why is that? Why is everyone still there when it’s clear as day that reddit is so rotten that Aaron Swartz would roll over in his grave if he had to witness that.

That helps me a lot. Thank you very much.

Thousands of demonstrators rallied at hundreds of events on Saturday (…)

Thousands? Were there just 100 protestors at 100 events? That would be already 10,000…WTF…

Edit: If this is true (thousands in Portland alone) - and why wouldn’t it be - it’s a massive understatement by the New York Times…and this is prolly one of the few more or less independent/somewhat objective outlets left. C’mon…

Well, many Germans also thought at the time that they might be able to get rid of Hitler in the usual way - unfortunately we all know how that turned out.

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Where I come from (Germany), Sanders would be a moderate left-wing politician. What scares me most is that Trump & Co. are using political pressure and economic sanctions to extend the inhumane conditions in the USA to democratic countries where there is still a halfway fair welfare state (this is a competitive disadvantage in hard-core capitalism that no longer cares about people).

Well, looks like the US says it’s OK to purchase a Von der Leyen from the EU…