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And besides she was 12, not a real child!! It’s only human, anyone would do the same in this situation, it’s not like they are raping five-year-olds, besides Bill Clinton did much worse and it’s just a liberal hoax to distract us from Biden’s crimes and now there’s a communist running New York!

New York, can you believe it.

I’m always happy with my Devold socks, but it’s probably hard to go wrong with anything on the list. :)

The handful of people boycotting will change the handful of people boycotting. And each one of y’all being here makes it easier for the rest of us to do the same. Well, except the teolks and leninists, but you get my point.

Independent thought is an act of resistance at this point.

Think tanks are the worst. They are pretending to do research and are sometimes taken seriously by the media and those who don’t know better, but their research and findings are ordered by their funding bodies. None of that shit is worth the paper it’s written on. If research is not independent it’s not research at all.

You shouldn’t need a long analysis that picks apart public statements and interprets them in a specific context to conclude that they probably didn’t mean it the way it is obviously interpreted by anyone reading it.

It’s not hard to be outspoken against fascism. Proton likes to forward themselves as visionaries, yet they completely fail to. Maybe they privately think Trump is an idiot, but I don’t care. Resistance needs to be public in order to exist at all, especially when coming from actors like Proton.

Praising tweets by Trump wis sucking up to fascists. Had this tweet been contextualized with a long history of effective public opposition to the Trump regime I would have been willing to accept contextualization. It is not.

TLDR: my conclusion is that it is far more likely that Proton and its CEO are actually liberals.

Ugh.

I really do not care which ideological basis they use to suck up to fascists.

The lead developer celebrated Charlie Kirk and whined about how white men are discriminated against in tech. Comes in addition to some earlier comments indicating he has fragile white man views on gender as well.

The emphasis on “intimidate and coerce a civilian population” is interesting. Seems to imply billionaires are not considered part of the civilian population. As they shouldn’t be.

In case you’re genuinely out of the loop, here’s a quick recap:

1. UK ships supplies for the Israeli army
2. Group called Palestine Action decides protesting is not enough, commits to sabotage
3. UK declares Palestine Action to be a terrorist organization
4. Protesters voicing/showing support for Palestine Action get arrested on terrorism charges

So now, if you want to get arrested in the UK, you only need a piece of paper and four words: “I support Palestine Action”. It’s really that easy to become a terrorist these days. It used to be you needed to bomb a pub for that, or at least be somewhere in the relative proximity when somebody else did it.

What the billionaires don’t understand is that we don’t give a fuck about having them around if they’re not gonna pay taxes. Let them rot in some tax haven for all I care, but don’t touch our taxes.

Norwegians discuss tax with confidence, because they have access to all the right data. Almost uniquely among democratic nations, the tax returns of named individuals are public, in a database that all citizens can access. Likewise, information on companies is detailed and reliable.

If there is one thing other countries should learn from Norway, it’s this. Where I currently live my colleagues are deeply unhappy and they all suspect their colleagues earn more than themselves. In Norway, you can just check. If women systematically earn less than men in the workplace at least we’ll know. And when whiny entrepreneurs complain loudly in public that they are bankrupted by taxes, journalists can easily expose how they receive millions in state support while only paying a few thousand in tax.