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?

It’s just sad.

Thanks for doing that!

Maybe also [email protected] and [email protected]

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…

But Stormy has

Isn’t it so telling that this is a confirmed fact? I mean, who better to assess this than Stormy Daniels, who this orange moron undeniably paid for her services. And then, in a completely absurd attempt to cover it up, he also committed a crime for which he was convicted and sentenced. Ergo: The incumbent US president not only has a mirco-penis, which of course says nothing about his suitability for office. But he even managed to make it a crime - and that says it all. It’s by no means his most serious offense.

What bothers me is that it looks as if Trump could somehow effectively fend off what is being thrown at him.

That’s not the case at all.

Anyone who has heard him answer this question or anything even halfway close to it knows that Trump doesn’t have the rhetorical talent to refute the accusations against him.

All he does is point the finger at some imaginary other - foreigners, the EU, China, whoever - but that says nothing about the crimes he and his party are quite rightly accused of.

There simply are no obscure agents he could hold liable - these are his crimes and those of his cronies, which is why no one else is responsible but him and his criminal regime.

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).

I’m not from the US, but I still think it should have been Bernie. If he had become president, we wouldn’t all be in trouble now.

Should have been Bernie.

Yes, that’s true. I just find it funny that Amazon named this line of business after a fraudulent device. For some of the things you can do with it, it’s probably quite the fitting name.

A perfectly legitimate question, especially since this misleading approach is precisely why Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is named like that.

The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine built by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770. It appeared to play chess autonomously but was actually operated by a skilled human chess player hidden inside. (Source)

I don’t know the answer, but I assume that it probably has something to do with money and power…

The guy is a psychopath without any empathy. I don’t think there’s much difference between media persona and reality here. Someone who acts so immorally can only be a bad person. There can be no excuses for this.

I mean, is anyone interested in who Hitler actually was? Does it matter at all? Maybe for pathological psychology, but little else really.

In any case, anything but a pleasant conversation partner, I would say. Especially because his hatred and his excessive stupidity are definitely not an act.

I think you give him too much credit.

Yes, that’s true. I’m more concerned with whether US citizens, whose past administrations more or less invented the term, can now recognize for themselves that they are no longer on the side of the “good guys” with this administration at all, but are now the “terrorists” themselves - the very thing that past US administrations denounced (at the time, of course, already completely speciously).

Edit: Trump himself has even brought the term back to a certain extent - and he is not only the personification of evil for the governments of other countries. I just want to make it clear that it’s the same here as with almost everything he does: it’s projection - whatever he accuses others of, he and his corrupt gang are the ones doing it.

Edit 2: Please don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying this because I believe that Europe, for example, would be much better - I’m saying it because I’m from Germany and we have the history that you all know. It’s not too late to put a stop to Trump and his Nazi colleagues, but it will take civil resistance. If there is no vehement resistance, I fear that history will repeat itself. Nobody in their right mind can want that.

Probably not unimportant even for you: the fact that women’s right to self-determination regarding abortions has been effectively abolished in the US. This of course contradicts any civilizational progress and cannot be interpreted as anything other than a severe violation of human rights - I would never have thought that this would be possible in any Western country, but what do I know.

It doesn’t stop there - not by a long shot. I don’t even want to go into the illegal circumstances under which the USA operates a barbaric torture prison in Guantanamo Bay, or the numerous crimes against humanity that the USA has committed over the years. For the moment, let’s stick to the things your fascist government is up to.

The Trump administration’s policies have raised significant concerns regarding human rights both domestically and internationally. Key areas of restriction include:

• Immigration and Asylum Rights: Policies have dismantled protections for asylum seekers, expanded immigration detention, and criminalized immigrant communities. Refugees have been blocked from entry, and asylum applications by undocumented migrants have been banned, violating federal law[1][2][4].

• LGBTQ+ Rights: Executive orders prohibit transgender individuals from serving in the military and deny federal recognition of transgender identities, mandating recognition only of binary sexes[1].

• Birthright Citizenship: Efforts to end birthright citizenship for children of undocumented parents could render many children stateless, affecting access to healthcare, education, and identity documents[1][5].

• Policing and Civil Rights: The administration reinstated “no-knock” warrants and choke holds, increasing risks of police violence disproportionately affecting marginalized communities[2].

• International Human Rights Engagement: Withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council, defunding UN refugee agencies, and sanctions on the International Criminal Court undermine global human rights frameworks[3][7].

• Humanitarian Aid: Suspension of development aid and humanitarian assistance worldwide impacts vulnerable populations dependent on U.S. support[1][5].

These actions collectively erode protections for marginalized groups and weaken international human rights systems.

And that’s just a glimpse. If you think the US does not suppress human rights you are plain wrong.

Sources: [1] Trump’s Executive Orders Threaten Broad Range of Human Rights https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/22/trumps-executive-orders-threaten-broad-range-human-rights [2] What Trump’s First Moves Mean for Health and Human Rights - PHR https://phr.org/our-work/resources/what-trumps-first-moves-mean-for-health-and-human-rights/ [3] The Targeted Chaos of Trump’s Attacks Against International Human … https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/the-targeted-chaos-of-trumps-attacks-against-international-human-rights-law-and-justice [4] The Trump Administration Human Rights Tracker | Helping … https://trumphumanrightstracker.law.columbia.edu/ [5] Ten Harmful Trump Administration Immigration and Refugee Policies https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/20/ten-harmful-trump-administration-immigration-and-refugee-policies [6] Trump Administration Civil and Human Rights Rollbacks https://civilrights.org/trump-rollbacks/ [7] What do the Trump administration’s sanctions on the ICC mean for … https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2025/03/what-do-the-trump-administrations-sanctions-on-the-icc-mean-for-justice-and-human-rights/ [8] President Trump’s Alarming Human Rights Agenda at Home and … https://www.americanprogress.org/article/president-trumps-alarming-human-rights-agenda-home-abroad/