I completely agree. I fear that this global trend is linked to the combined power of mentally ill individuals who have amassed so much power that they are now using their pernicious influence to establish a kind of new, transnational monarchy of billionaires.

I can’t think of any other explanation for the resurgence of inhuman fascism in so many countries at the same time.

In this case, it seems like the user has a whole bunch of smurf accounts to make their point … just look at the downvotes. If you’re not sure what a comment means, you wouldn’t just downvote it right away, would you? Anyway, that’s how I see it, but yeah, maybe after all these years I’m still misunderstanding this metric.

Isn’t that exactly what the comment you’re responding to is getting at? The discrepancy between the headline and the facts? So, the fact that a few U.S. troops lost their lives while their bombs blew many, many more Iranians—most of them civilians—to pieces?

Am I completely misreading this?

Edit: By the way, this is likely a news agency report that the BBC reprinted largely unchanged from a U.S. agency. That also explains why the BBC isn’t at all critical in this article. However, I can only vaguely discern that this outlet would generally be critical, which has to do with the “special” relationship between the UK and the U.S. You’ll never hear the BBC state with sufficient clarity that this war violates international law, nor that the U.S. is committing war crimes.

This is not meant to be an attack on this long-established organization. In my home country, Germany, the situation is no different, as our politicians also continue to cling to the U.S. as well.

What’s the point of this comment? The U.S. is waging a war of aggression in violation of international law, deliberately bombing schools and drinking water facilities, and thereby committing the worst war crimes imaginable. And it’s doing all this in collaboration with the butchers in Israel, whom it protects from prosecution.

That doesn’t seem to matter to you in the slightest, since you still feel you have to stand up for the “proud troop” as an “upstanding American supporter.”

This makes me sick—the U.S. president is a serious criminal and a pedophile, this awful country is ruled by organized crime.

GTFO

Thanks for the tip—I’ll check it out.

It’s a shame that even here in the Fediverse, people downvote you just for stating the obvious.

The ideological blindness in the U.S. is apparently so strong that many simply fail to realize that they are the bad guys, that their regime is pure evil.

Even under a degenerate monster like the current U.S. president, many Americans simply cannot see through all the lies being drummed into them by those who have been exploiting them for years on end.

It really seems hopeless…

Unfortunately, one sees such articles far too rarely in Western media.

Usually, all the atrocities are glossed over in order to somehow give the impression that Israel is a civilized state—even though the ICC has had arrest warrants out for Netanyahu and some of his cronies for ages, and UN bodies have determined that Israel is committing genocide long ago.

All this is still possible solely because the U.S. shields Israel from international condemnation, with many other Western countries aiding and abetting this—including Germany, where I’m from; especially given our history, I am ashamed of our unscrupulous politicians.

This also explains why these unspeakable crimes are not being adequately reported, why they are portrayed as a military conflict when they are, in fact, a barbaric slaughter of defenseless people.

The only positive thing I can see in this coverage is that the atrocity is so obvious that this article even made it into the NYT. That is certainly to the author’s credit, and the concessions he had to make in order for it to be published at all are completely understandable.

No official Israeli response yet.

What’s the point of their comment anyway?

It’s all well and good to follow standard journalistic practices and let both sides have their say—but then it would only be appropriate to actually do that as a matter of course, which is unfortunately not the case at all in the NYT’s coverage of Israel’s crimes, because, objectively speaking, there can be no doubt whatsoever that Israel is committing genocide and is guilty of the most egregious crimes against humanity. An article like this is the absolute exception in U.S. reporting.

To believe that Israeli officials would have anything to contribute on this matter other than the usual lies and threats is pure mockery. You could might as well ask Donald Trump about Epstein…

That seems like a good yardstick for how corrupt our politicians are.

I know two people who bought a Tesla a long time ago. Both of them sold theirs because they didn’t want to drive around in a car made by an out-and-out fascist. I also don’t know anyone who would ever buy a Tesla. Just one person who works there, but he’s completely out of his mind.

Once again, this seems to me to be a decision based on “lobbying” by an unscrupulous military figure.

“Hmmm, what kind of lackluster movie is this supposed to be…”

That makes it pretty clear that most executives are the worst possible people to run a company. Well, that’s just how it is when ruthlessness and greed are the only criteria used to select top executives.

But hey, even if they were to lose their jobs because they’re burning through so much money, things will go on as usual: Anyone who’s ever held a top management position will always be hired for the same role somewhere else, because competence is definitely not the deciding factor here. Never was, never will be.

Well, I think it’s more important to tune out the noise this regime is constantly making and pay attention to the things they keep quiet about.

Besides, what is Europe supposed to do? Station nuclear warheads in Greenland?

Yes, that’s true. But instigating a military conflict with its own allies would be quite self-destructive, even for this criminal regime, which is, after all, well known for making empty threats as well.

I can’t for the life of me imagine what the benefit would be for the billionaires who control the U.S.

Trump and his henchmen may be utterly unscrupulous and obviously not the brightest, but there is one constant: every decision they make serves to line their own pockets.

I simply cannot fathom what benefit this gang would gain from invading Greenland. What is absolutely certain, however, is that this would have disastrous consequences for trade between Europe and the U.S.

Europe would undoubtedly have to respond, and that would cost all parties involved billions uppon billions.

It may well be that Trump himself would accept that in his narcissistic self-interest or in an attempt to completely ruin the U.S. However, I consider it much more likely that this is just the usual bullshit, because that’s definitely part of his communication strategy: one scandal after another to distract from his actual, sinister schemes. He’s been quite successful at that so far.

Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty states that an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members, and triggers an obligation for each member to come to its assistance.

Source

If there were no straight up declaration of war by all NATO member states, the U.S. would lose its closest allies, and sanctions would be imposed that would cost everyone involved a great deal of money.

“Because he can” won’t be enough for the people who put Trump in the position he’s in.

An attack on Greenland is an attack on a founding member of NATO, since the island belongs to Denmark despite its autonomy. The U.S. won’t attack NATO. Why would it? Not even that orange pedo would be that unbelievably stupid.

This nonsense was already ridiculous the last time around. I don’t understand how anyone can take this seriously.

The Department of Justice is refusing to hand over redacted information from investigative files connected to Jeffrey Epstein, despite an order from a federal judge to either release the documents or explain why they were withheld.

US-Regime: Time to throw up the smokescreen again! Muhahaha, no one will ever see through this!

Rest of the World: C’mon, again? Why even bother? It’s not like there are any consequences to worry about for your deranged billionaires. So…

Epstein-related services, I guess…

Wow, the billionaires seem completely convinced that U.S. citizens will go along with anything… well, hmmm… who’s going to argue with them… it’s true, after all, that they do…

Thanks for the theoretical digression that makes this possible.

I think you already realize what I mean -that this isn’t about a term, but rather about what a technology promises, namely that a relatively inexpensive application could replace a human being.

Or to put it another way: The financial sector is misusing terms from computer science to carry out a fraud on an unprecedented scale—one so absurd that it will presumably lead to the collapse of the global economic system sooner or later.

You’re the best! Unfortunately, the Rhineland isn’t in reach for me, but I’ll look around (nothing listed for my zip there atm). I had no idea that they were actually looking for volunteers here, too.

Thank you so much for the info. I’ll check those links regularly now and get involved if something pops up that’s even somewhat close to where I am. If I come across any other sites during my research that might be interesting, I’ll let you know.