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Even I, personally, would be very upset that the president of the United States was assassinated. But, that the particular president of the United States that was assassinated was Donald Trump, I would, personally, celebrate, probably, for several months.

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin

👉 Remark: The article is about the U.S. and Europe, despite the title.

The Circus that is the current US Administration.

can be found at cs.cmu.edu/~ph/nyit/

This thought came to me in the shower today. Open source checks most of the boxes. It is a collaborative, worker owned (develloper-owned) project, that tries to flatten hierarchy. Especially if you look at something like Debian ), which really tries to have a bottom-up structure.
Of course, there are exceptions, considering there are a lot of corporate open-source projects, that are not democratically maintained and clearly only serve the interest of the company, who created it (like chromium for example).
So I am mainly talking about community-oriented FOSS projects here.
And if you were to agree with my statement, would you say that developing FOSS software is advancing the goals of the anarchist / communist project, because it is laying the groundwork infrastructure needed for a new kind of economy and society?
Thought this could be an interesting discussion!

Rick O'Shea!

Happy St Patty's Day!

Keep up > Post by cannedtuna which was a continuation of this - post by @negativenull@piefed.world which was a continuation of this post by @MattW03@lemmy.ca - Also the Post by @Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk

I would like to take a moment to separate the truth from the lies regarding Charlie Kirk. There is much misinformation surrounding his life as well as his unfortunate death.

Charlie Kirk was an outspoken champion of equality, tolerance and unity. He spent many years in his teens, twenties, and right up until his death at 31 years old at protests and rallies, leading the charge for civil rights, gay/trans rights, and many other causes that he felt strongly about.

When he was 28, he met Syreeta Jenkins (26) at one of the many events that he sponsored and participated in. The two of them could not have been any more opposite. Charlie, a white cis male from Arlington Heights, Illinois, and Syreeta, a black trans woman from Virginia Beach, Virginia. The differences didn't matter though. They bonded over their shared passion for justice and equality, They quickly fell in love and together, for the next three years they were a very powerful force for radical positive change.

On the morning of September 10th 2025, Charlie awoke with purpose in his soul and heart. That day, his schedule had him giving a lecture at a highly regarded medical school on the benefits of vaccines, another topic which he was passionate about. Then, after the lecture, he quickly hit the streets to preach his message of equality, unity, tolerance and acceptance at a local protest.

After he was done with the protest, he and Syreeta met back at her house. They decided to have some drinks, and eventually made the mutual and misguided decision to use drugs, fentanyl to be specific. They had done this hundreds of times before without issue, but this time was different.

They both lost consciousness around 1015pm, according to Syreeta. She claims to have woken up shortly afterward at around 1030, to find Charlie on the floor, unresponsive. She immediately dialed 911, told the dispatcher what was going on, and proceeded to begin CPR in hopes of saving his life. Unfortunately, this didn't work, and Charlie was pronounced dead at 1147pm on September 10th, just moments before the beginning of his favorite holiday.

The conservative disinformation machine was working overtime in the moments following his death. Through the use of generative AI and mass media, a narrative that he was assassinated because he was a conservative podcaster was constructed, and they placed the blame on a nonexistent man named Tyler Robinson. Over the next few days, the entirety of the right wing (who had never even heard of him until after his unfortunate overdose) bought into this lie, and rallied around the false belief that Charlie was assassinated for having and speaking controversial and conservative beliefs at a college in Utah. This is a complete and blatant fabrication.

Over the next few weeks, Charlie became a martyr for MAGA. After his death and the great lie surrounding it, people began changing their social media profile pictures to images of him. People began getting tattoos of his face and false quotes that were misattributed to him. People began getting fired for being critical of him or the fabricated story that had been built up around him.

Most people still do not know the truth, which is why I am making this post. The US government have done an extraordinary job of burying this young man's entire past, propping up a false one, and selling the lie of his life and death to MAGA as a christ-like martyrdom tale. I hope that you will share this story with your friends. It's time that America be told the truth.

“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,” Kent said in a statement posted on social media...

“They’re not smart people, or they’re not savvy people,” Trump said.

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“It speaks to our hubris,” Kent told reporters while campaigning for Congress. “For us not to have learned from all this just shows that there are people making money and making their careers at the other end of it. They’ve been doing it on the backs and dead bodies of U.S. soldiers.”

During his 2022 congressional campaign, Kent paid Graham Jorgensen, a member of the far-right military group the Proud Boys, for consulting work. He also worked closely with Joey Gibson, the founder of the Christian nationalist group Patriot Prayer, and attracted support from a variety of far-right figures.

Early during his first campaign, Kent acknowledged that a political consultant set up a call that was joined by Nick Fuentes, a popular right-wing influencer who has said that Jews are holding the U.S. “hostage” and once proclaimed that “Hitler was awesome, Hitler was right.”

Replacing the turbines on existing wind farms with newer, more powerful and efficient models could double the amount of electricity produced by onshore wind energy in the United States – without increasing its footprint.

The paper is here

The spring steam sale is March 19th. Are there any games that you've been waiting to purchase that you might get then? Me personally I have been looking at Routine and Outer Worlds 2.

Micheal DeAdder site

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Brian [McGinnis] is facing four counts, three counts of assault on police officers. There are three individuals named, that are law enforcement. The fourth and final count is resisting arrest. He’s being charged by the United States government in Washington, D.C., Superior Court. And we’re looking forward to having our day in court regarding these matters.

Having watched the video, It'd be hard to call anything he did 'assault'. Resisting, sure. Resisting tyrrany and genocide especially.