Treffendes Zitat zu Katy Perrys Ausflug ins All in Jeff Bezos Phallusrakete und die anschließende deutungsschwangere Inszenierung, dass dies „Frauen inspirieren“ soll…
Es ist viel mehr eine Zurechtweisung der Frauen auf ihre Rolle "Nur zum Vergnügen". Die ARBEIT machen auch im All die Männers. Wie kann man so doof sein, sich für sowas vor den Karren spannen zu lassen - ach ja: Geld.
I see on their website they sell powerbanks? And I know for sure they don’t produce them in Europe.
I asked a lot of European companies if they produce their powerbanks in Europe and all of them say to me that their powerbanks are produced in China.
So to answer your question. No I don’t know, I am in fact quite sure nobody produce powerbanks in Europe. But if you find a company that does so, please let me know. 😀
"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world"
They so deeply hate the images of Ukrainians storming the amusement park estate of their thief-puppet president before Zelenskyy and that's as much a part of Putin, and the USA, wanting to squash them no matter the co$ts.
They'll bulldoze the headstones and turn Arlington into a hunting preserve for the brothers Trump to kill the last of animals they bring back on the regular, empty deportation planes.
We all know corruption has always existed, but at least put in enough effort to cover it up. Don't be so god damn lazy and incompetent that you openly do corrupt shit in plain sight. Then again current administration in USA is corrupt and incompetent at the same time.
You know what’s very open in transparent? Not buying shit from these people.
They are seeking to crush us with an economic shutdown, and since they intend to destroy the economy, anyway we need to seize the Initiative with a general strike in with a general boycott of every corporation.
Tell their feedback sites we won’t buy anything from them until this is stopped because if it’s not, we won’t have any money anyway
@jpmens "Only voters can stop them." - Yes, they could have even prevented them. But they didn't. It doesn't work anymore. These people seem to have found a way to perfectly manipulate the majority of voters
Trump is only interested in one thing and that is Trump, the foundation of his presidency is staying out of jail and that worked and emboldened him to do more…
they never report who lost the 415 MILLION HE GAINED , it was American 401K account holders. Trump is robbing the poor to pay all those criminal fines? Or is he just pocketing it, after all no one checks up on him😂
'It was a classic Depression-era smash and grab bank job, done with tariffs instead of Tommy guns and the office of the president as getaway car,' said bank employee Fallon Bondmarket, who witnessed the robbery.
'Now they say the tariff retreat was to 'reassure investors' instead of enabling a major financial crime,' Bondmarket added. 'Truth is, they only fled after I managed to activate the silent alarm.'
No charges are expected, owing to presidential #scotus
Your moment of Zen: Rachel Maddow hat sich im Laufe ihrer Begleitung der ersten 100 Tage der neuen Regierung mittlerweile auf den Widerstand der Bevölkerung fokussiert. Natürlich ist ihr Segment zu #handsoff Balsam für die Seele. youtube.com/watch?v=pr4YwdXtnn…
Great to read this. Sounds like a huge step forward. When will the „Open Web Index“ be available for selection in #metager? As far as I remember from my daily use, there is no need for you to create a search application upfront? 🤔
Well, between Cory Booker kicking off stronger Dem resistance on the Hill and Wisconsin handing Elon his ass, I'd say April 2nd is starting to look like Liberation Day after all, just maybe not the way Trump wanted. 🎉
Former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra announced Wednesday that he is running for governor, joining a crowded field of Democrats hoping to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom. #California
@Piousunyn Nobody went from hero to zero so quickly in my mind as Newsom. I'm simply NOT interested in anyone who engages with Steve Bannon, Kirk, and other wankers I detest. Lie down with dogs....
As the country makes our healthcare system even more predatory than it already is, wouldn't it be great if California enacted a Canadian style healthcare system? Better yet would be if Canada adopted CA, OR, and WA, but short of that, we can certainly emulate the good stuff.
From the New York Times, "Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk's Millions"
"Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court."
Im Hamburger Stadtteil Veddel ist medizinische Versorgung gleichzeitig eine politische Angelegenheit. Hausarzt Philipp Dickel kooperiert mit vielen anderen Diensten, weil „alles mit allem zusammen hängt“.
Ich höre von den Kolleg*innen im Hamburg: weil es nur einen Zulassungsbezirk gibt, gibt es Stadtteile, die extrem unterversorgt sind. Auch daher sind das so unglaublich wichtige Angebote, die unbedingt mehr Beachtung und Förderung brauchen!
Da musste ich mir kurz die Augen reiben, weil das nie der Realität entspricht, sondern nur der Idealvorstellung von Gesundheit und Prävention.
Genau so einem Projekt, so einem deutschlandweiten Gesundheitssystem würde ich meine Patientendaten anvertrauen. Das würde ich ausbauen und den EHDS anvertrauen. Niemandem sonst. Das Modell sollte überall Anwendung finden.
@teacher_rick @markdevries I was at the airport Schipol yesterday and even there they dim the light if no person is present. Once you walk there the light goes up again. Clever and this should be done especially on the streets
@Church of Jeff I'm quite not sure if a motion sensor is best in every case, even when this maximizes energy saving.
But for reasons of overview, seeing moveless things, someone lurking there, some person unconscious after accident or heart attack, we should consider optimization and recognize it in far distance.
That is the same reason why you have full beam in a car.
the city of #Tübingen implemented and continues to do so motion-sensor based streetlights. They dim up to full brightness ahead of the moving person, so it's never fully dark and the light doesn't simply turn on/off. There are more details in this blog article by @stadtwerketuebingen: swtue.de/netze/strassenbeleuch…
@eliasp @european That is a very cool implementation of motion detection, but it also shows the effort that is needed to do so. If we want to have it in widespread use we really should not need to use wireless receivers in every streetlight and a centralized management platform. That are a lot of semiconductors and attack vectors. The problem is that other solution will probably need new cables underground. Although I do remember the idea to power them through a dedicated DC grid.
@IchMeine @eliasp @european I'd consider the threat vector negligible. It my youth, we used to kick out sodium vapour lamps, too.
And while there's a legitimate concern about the amount of electronics used, the lamps use around 10% of the energy of sodium vapour. That's very significant, and could well be worth the increased pollution, as it decreases CO2 emissions and light pollution. Besides, while the article doesn't mention specific numbers, it mentions LEDs have a significantly longer service life. So even the materials cost may be more comparable than you suggest.
@aleks @eliasp @european I do think that LEDs should be used almost everywhere. The motion detection and coordination is what I meant with "uses way more semiconductors". I do see some threat vectors too, although they are not that dangerous. Suddenly disabling or flickering the lights could result in accidents. In low traffic scenarios the motion detection can be used for tracking.
And for Christ's sake: forbid buildings or trees or whatever being illiminated from the bottom (perhaps, but just perhaps with the exception of few(!) monuments). And while we're at it: illuminated advertising should only be allowed as long as any store is opened.
I've constantly argued for less lighting but was always treated as a madman.
Where I used to live and where I currently live, have both dimmed lights and reduced their hours as a result of rising electricity costs... After objecting to exactly that when asked earlier on...
Deutsche Kampfjets haben laut Bundeswehr ein russisches Aufklärungsflugzeug nahe Rügen abgefangen und in Richtung Kaliningrad eskortiert. Die Maschine war demnach ohne Transpondersignal im NATO-nahen Luftraum unterwegs.
Ein russisches Aufklärungsflugzeug drang ohne Transpondersignal in den Nato-nahen Luftraum ein. Deutsche Eurofighter aus Laage eskortierten es, bis es nach Kaliningrad abdrehte. Solche Einsätze sind nicht ungewöhnlich.
@Duckhammer Ja, aber die aktuelle Lage ist alles andere als Standard. Es hat also einen gewissen Beigeschmack, gerade angesichts der polternden Drohungen aus Russland.
Viele Jahre haben wir keine Kampfjets mehr über Ostfriesland gesehen und gehört - im März waren auf einmal wieder die charakteristischen Knalls beim Durchbrechen der Schallmauer zu hören. Niemals hätte ich gedacht, dass mich dieses Geräusch einmal positiv stimmen könnte...war erschrocken über mich selbst. Was für eine furchtbare Entwicklung.
BSI and Google start a cooperation now instead of liberating from big tech silo. BSI is Germany's Federal Office for Information Security. heise.de/en/news/Google-and-BS…
Germany thinks about reducing the federal office of data protection to data usage.
Germanys States and polices are buying and cooperating with Peter Thiels Palantir. You don't need to fear threats form foreign powers, it's your own country and neighbour. heise.de/en/news/Federal-Counc…
When moving from US products you can directly avoid German HOSTED products too? When your EU country is pissed off of this, please forward it.
So dear Europeans. What is your ranking on best countries for protection and preservation of data, no matter if it's your tax doc, baby pics or hot chatting with your date or your chat about if vulcans or klingons have the best food?
Yes, that's my opinion too. In the Netherlands farmacy employees wages go up by 20% in the next 2 years due to union action and negotiation with employees.
Apotheekmedewerkers krijgen de komende twee jaar zeker20 procent loonsverhoging. Dat staat in een hoofdlijnenakkoord dat werkgevers en vakbonden vrijdag sloten. Het akkoord volgt na maandenlange stakingen door apotheekpersoneel.
@Harm Botjes Good to know, that they are even strong in the Netherlands. I can't rate the 20% which ate humungous. Does it mean it was such underrated before or to componse higher rents and food costs (inflation)?
Another example is currently Tesla giga factory Grünheide next to Berlin.
In the US unbelievable, Germans get paid when they are ill and recover at home, even while Musks CEO legions tries to block EU law. thelocal.de/20250317/unaccepta…
That's why tomorrow are German wide Tesla demonstrations by the free people. t-den-hahn-abdrehen.org/
the 20% is an increase because of the lower salary compared to that the pharmacy employees should have. It is a complex matter of an agreement with the Government and non payment of insurance companies. Also there are sectoral diverences in pharmacy wages.
no clue if these screenshots and quotes that are shared are real, bit if - I’d call if a surface level status report for someone who has no idea what’s happening. Not sure what’s worse: bad OPSEC or level of intellect
he just kept letting out line.... letting out line and then BAM! 🤣🤣🤣 trump regime people have their heads buried so far up each other's asses they can't believe they can be caught! The entire world is laughing at them.
Der sächsische #AfD-Abgeordnete Alexander #Wiesner ist heute als Vorsitzender des Ausschusses für Verfassung und Recht abberufen worden. Zwei Mitglieder der mutmaßlich terroristischen Vereinigung „Sächsische Separatisten“ standen auf seiner Gehaltsliste:
Und der Bürger auf der Straße: "Lieber bezahle ich solchen Faschisten mit 25 eine Pension auf Lebenszeit, bevor ich meiner freundlichen 56. jährigen Nachbarin das Bürgergeld zahle, weil die nicht mehr richtig arbeiten kann und keiner ihr auch nur eine Chance gibt"
sure but in 2003 we got "freedom fries" because france opposed invading iraq
right wing media filled with "surrender monkeys" hate and memes on the french
the resulting deluge of stupidity represents the average content of "french history" knowledge in the average american chud's cranial cavity, and any previous knowledge has been replaced with that crap
@josuex @roknrol Lots of young people join the military for employment, travel opportunities, educational opportunities, to get out of their small towns...there is a reason why they like to recruit 19-yr-olds. Most don't expect to actually have to fight.
My father joined the Canadian Armed Forces for most of those reasons. He was lucky that he never did have to be deployed into a war zone. I have an uncle that was part of a peace-keeping trip, got shot, ended up with lifelong pain.
Today, Senator Chuck Schumer agreed to allow a huge wooden horse into Troy. He explained, "Yes, there is a risk involved in letting the horse in. But if we don't, there is the danger that we might corrupt the gift-giving process."
@jm101 @xs4me2 Elmo messed with our votes!! That and Russian interference aren't helping. However I agree wholeheartedly that people need to fucking vote!!!!!!!!!
@otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2 We have a big election here in District 6 Florida on April 1st. Many more Reps than Dems because they gerrymandered it that way. If all the Dems and a good amount of Independents VOTE, we could pull it off. If they stay home again, we will lose.
at least hateful pieces of shit maga show the fuck up. they're evil but they *act*
acting is the only way you ever change this world
what can one say about this large lazy indifferent mass of americans who see what the fuck is going on and voting is too difficult for their precious feelings?
@otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2 It’s as if the people who don’t vote are intending to do self harm in order to hurt others. I don’t think it is a case of misunderstanding or lack of intelligence. They really don’t care if they get hurt as long as they make other people suffer as well. Find the cause of this mindset and maybe we can figure out how to change it.
@otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2 I have long rued how appalling the low voter turnout in the US is. (And also why it isn't a holiday so more people vote - I understand why that's the case tho)
@georgetakei@universeodon.com It's really hard to grip how low voter turnout (generally) is in the US! I guess people take things (and the "good life") for granted.
"To change the dragon's heart, you will have to spend four years climbing this mountain. This gives you a 10% chance of changing the dragon's heart. Oh, and in addition, pushing this button gives you an additional 1% chance."
"Got it, thanks." starts scrabbling up the mountain anddoesn't bother to also push the Goddamn button.
With respect (because I'm a poll worker and take this stuff seriously): I wish fewer people would joke about this stuff.
Elmo didn't do shit. I sat behind the table and looked at people coming in, then saw the returns that night. Even with anonymous votes, at the level of an individual polling station you can gauge the vibe of the room by the familiar faces you see and the familiar faces you don't.
People just didn't show up to vote for Harris. Period. I thought lefties had learned their lesson in 2016, but apparently I gave them too much credit and they needed to be told twice.
@mark > People just didn't show up to vote for Harris. Period. I thought lefties had learned their lesson in 2016, but apparently I gave them too much credit and they needed to be told twice
Funny, I was thinking exactly the same thing about the Democrat leadership and their candidates choices. The left didn't turn up, because they didn't have a candidate on the ballot. Period.
> as an american i got really angry because they have ranked choice
With you on this one. If the US gets a second go at creating a democracy, a proportional representation system for major elections is a must-have. Having voted in both MMP and ranked choice elections, I definitely recommend the latter.
> and we get that change. BY SHOWING THE FUCK UP AND VOTING
No, you don't. What get by voting is Clinton and Obama. To get electoral reform you have to make a credible threat to tear capitalism a new one, so radical changes to the electoral system seem like the lesser evil. The idea that voting in effectively rigged elections changes anything is magical thinking.
That's a lot of piss and vinegar there buddy. Hold into that, you're going to need it. But if your strategy consists entirely of voting more you don't even have the first clue about electoral politics. Let alone the revolutionary politics that is clearly required in your current circumstances.
The one that made the US the envy of the world, and which the Chinese emulated to lift millions of their people out of poverty. Clinton II was a neocon war criminal;
As Donald Trump assumes office today, he inherits a targeted killing program that has been the cornerstone of U.S. counterterrorism strategy over the past eight years. On January 23, 2009, just three…
Has Hillary Clinton been accused of war crimes by any body with the authority to level such an accusation? If not, why not, given that the ECCHR has a criminal complaint filed against George W. Bush?
"Widely loathed, for this she had a snowball's chance in hell of beating Drumpf. "
simply isn't true, is it.
That election was not quite as close as the one that could usefully - for the world - have returned Al Gore, but it was so close that only the oddity of the electoral college system failed to deliver the candidate with the majority to office.
She didn't win it by a wide-enough margin to overcome the state-based bias against raw popular vote, but any assertion she wasn't popular is objectively, as-measured false. She wasn't popular enough.
@midgephoto @strypey @mark @roknrol @otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2 We have proportional representation in Ireland too and feel about it the way the NRA do about guns (cold dead hands). Benefits include every vote counting and more consensual politics - because everyone wants a preference vote. Demonizing a rival is a sure way to lose votes.
Also
No gerrymandering (boundaries decided by independent body)
&
Strict limits on political donations & public funding for parties w 2%+ of votes
> you don't get your candidate, and then you show up
So in a parallel universe where the candidate choices were reversed, you'd be dressing down the left for not turning up for Drumpf, and blaming them for Harris and her techbro mates demolishing the federal government? Spare me.
> lazy entitlement is the problem
Sure is. The Democrats think they're entitled to the left's votes, however right wing their candidates. Turns out they're not 🤷♂️
Sorry, I don't think I follow your hypothetical. Parallel universe where the candidate choices were reversed in what sense? Where Trump was running as the Dem candidate and Harris as the GOP?
Seems you're fundamentally incapable of understanding how right wing neocon candidates like Clinton and Harris look to most of the left. Just like the Democrats. Which is why they keep losing, and blaming literally *anything* but their unelectable candidates 🤷♂️
Concur that the party has a problem where it thinks that continuing to front centrists as the center runs to the right will maximize their odds of winning.
However... If the voters respond to that by not voting, they get the country they deserve. All of them. And the Left's flavor of "The country they deserve" is they knew things were bad and they did not step up to do the easiest thing about it.
Same statement regarding Russian elections as China's elections, friend. We're talking about the US. Different country, radically different system and history.
@strypey @roknrol @otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2 False premise along several axes. You're pretending voters (and the parties) are spherical cows.
Trump switched to the GOP because he was unelectable in the Democratic party process. The GOP is more populist than the Democratic party by its constitution.
You can shoot the messenger all you want. But the hard truth is that nobody was excited enough about voting for Harris to get their friends out to vote for her. That's on the muppets who thought anointing an heir was a better idea than holding a primary 🤷♂️
Also, Orange Stalin wouldn't have even got a first term if Dem plutocrats hadn't screwed Bernie out of a nomination he arguably won. So there's that.
@strypey "That's on the muppets who thought anointing an heir was a better idea than holding a primary " That's some Russian troll talk right there. 😀 @benroyce @mark @roknrol @otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2
@mfennvt > That's some Russian troll talk right there
Please explain the logic underlying that conclusion. Lots of people argued for a primary after Biden stepped down, even in the liberal centre. In hindsight, I think it's pretty obvious wr were right. How does pointing this out make me a Russian or a troll?
There was no chance for a primary after Biden stepped down. "That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works."
Elections actually cost money, volunteered space, and sub-minimum-wage-paid time of under-compensated volunteers (hello!) and when they are held is encoded into state law. There is no state with a contingency plan for "If the candidate chosen by the primary process drops out of the race."
Traditionally, the contingency plan is... That candidate nominates someone else they support to run in their stead. Everything was done correctly, and if American voters don't know how their own system works, that's on them.
Ben's right about heart... Leftists really didn't demonstrate anything approximating a high intelligence or comprehension of the government they propose to provide answers for in this election.
And if they don't even understand what's already here enough to be effective, why the fuck should anyone trust them to provide a better alternative?
Right? As if these are mutually exclusive or one isn't a years-long commitment and the other is literally an hour-ish twice a year.
They aren't competing objectives.
But on the plus side, he did get a chance to lecture a poll-worker on the interface between parties and states regarding the state-taxpayer-funded election machinery and how we could just run that multi-million-dollar process one more time, illegally, with money that just poofed into existence from fairyland.
no man, we can wear cool revolutionary cosplay and spout college sophomore cringe sophistry and look cool flexing, accelerationism is totally cool man!
@strypey If you don't get how that makes you a Russian troll, you haven't been paying attention. Take your sealioning bullshit somewhere else. @benroyce @mark @roknrol @otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2
Does this guy really think shouting at people and calling them names is how you convince them to change their mind about political strategy? His rudeness is matched only by his total inability to defend his position with logic or evidence.
This is why the Democrats keep losing. Anyone who questions their obviously failed centrist bullshit is a Russian troll, or whatever other story they can tell themselves to justify sticking their fingers in their ears and chanting ya ya ya.
LOLOLOL We’ve still got Bernie bros who think voting for anybody but Bernie is sacrilege, and that Bernie would win everything except he was CHEATED out of it???
Gee, isn’t there another candidate whose brainless followers insisted the same thing when he lost an election? Anybody who is Bernie-or-nobody is de facto MAGA.
right but describing how codependency on an abuser works just supports the opposite of your assertion
if people are abused until they don't fight, they still need to fight. nothing escapes that need. so you can't validate the assholes who don't vote, because voting is literally the tiniest easiest fucking thing
in other words i agree with your asseessment, but i will not therefore think of learned helplessness as authentic
Not validating. Observing. It's looking out the window and seeing it's raining.
Have you ever struggled to help the abused? Common sense assertions have limited value. They'll do a lot for a fix though. As addictions go stable housing, work, healthcare, transportation, market and safety are not bad things to offer. The line goes up people will mostly choose fascism over less power and income growth to offer any of this though.
Yes. Even a long standing alternative may not be an option. In Canada the federal NDP can partner with another but are unlikely to win. They did manage to bargain with the liberal party to get things that wouldn't have been done if Libs had a majority. They also provide promises the people like for liberals to promise during elections but only deliver if forced by lack of majority.
> because the usa is fptp another party will divide the left
The election result makes it pretty obvious that most of the US left now see the Dems being controlled by the neocon right. They only look left wing by comparison to an openly fascist GoP. The two would split the right vote if there was a genuine left option. Especially in ranked choice elections.
But that's fairytale logic. Ranked choice elections require a constitutional amendment, friend.
The left gets none of these things if they won't even show up to vote enough to get Congress and the Executive on their side, how does one imagine we get to either two-thirds agreeement in both houses of Congress or a 3/4ths-of-all-states ratification?
(If the answer is "tear it down," that's not an answer; that's rolling the dice and hoping what comes along after isn't "The KKK is explicitly and Constitutionally in charge of 340 million people and one of the largest nuclear arsenals on the planet").
So is expecting the left to keep turning out for increasingly right wing candidates. Also, I note that you've commented at length on my ambitious afterthought, perhaps to avoid responding to the main argument I made there? Which is about a strategy that only needs determined grassroots organising outside the dead end of Dem BaU, not constitutional amendments.
@strypey @kneworldodor @roknrol @otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2 I mean, I'd be in favor of determined grassroots organizing from the left. That's not what I see; I see people who can't even organize enough to show up one day of the year, let alone often enough to enact long-strategy policy change.
"THIS WILL BE THE LAST ELECTION UNDER FIRST PAST THE POST!"
Last regime is a decade in the past. 8 year olds then are voters now with little connection to that parties abuses. Time allowed nostalgia to soften memories of shit Harper did. Years of coordinated international anti LPC propaganda twisted the worldview. Now we're playing chicken with Handmaids Tale partnered with Incorporated.
@kneworldodor > With politics so dependant on money a better option requires a benevolent benefactor
Or maybe a grassroots campaign to expose the bought and paid for candidates on both sides of the aisle, and enact constitutional changes to prevent Big Money from buying elections.
That'd be cool, but what'd be the point if people don't show up to vote anyway? It's just wasted time and effort if the Left responds to what's learned by staying home.
@mark I'm not sure how to parse this. It doesn't seem to take into account anything else I've said in this conversation. Because my point all along has been that people will vote when there are candidates they are excited to support. No amount of hectoring and badgering will convince them to show up otherwise.
I'm not arguing this is how it "should" be. I'm observing that this is how it is.
What a dark money investigation will reveal is that every candidate is getting dark money. How do you imagine that will spur the voters who already don't show up?
"Oh, good. It's exactly as bad as I thought. Well, my Netflix queue isn't empty, so..."
And there's no hope of any group who already won't show up to vote for President enacting Constitutional change. That's fairyland thinking. If they can't even find common ground with enough voters to elect a President, in what Marvel Comics Alternate Universe do they find enough common ground to alter the Constitution itself?
Since they don't, there's a harm-reduction choice and a harm choice, and I thought that after living the harm-choice from 2016 to 2020 the left got that when they voted for Biden and then we had four relatively-peaceful years.
Tax the rich and shut down Citizens United. Take care of our vets, children, seniors and disabled. Expand Social Security. Save our National Parks and the Post Office. Stop demonizing entire groups of people. Codify an enforceable codes of ethics, for all branches. No felons on Capitol Hill. Stop weaponizing government departments.
> plutocrat controlled media: "sounds like woke communism"
Let's not pretend the whole mediasphere is on Orange Stalin's side. That's what his mob do ("liberal media"), they're equally wrong.
You're right that media is a key battleground though. We have tools now for parties to build their own media and communicate directly with members and supporters, yet they're still doing it via platforms that have a dog in the race. Why?
traditional media is dying. so plutocrats move in via vulture capital and take over the managing editor positions
all top legacy tv and newspapers are now outright maga or controlled opposition going "well gee trump has some good points, and the left needs to calm down", etc
and of course social media is edgelord bigots and tech bro algorithms
@Darkphoenix > I read those same oligarchs are buying up Canadian media
They're trying to do the same here in Aotearoa, presumably in preparation for next year's election. See the recent news about NZME, one of our biggest media companies;
> all top legacy tv and newspapers are now outright maga or controlled opposition
Maybe now. But not the case before the election.
> are you in new zealand?
Yes.
> you really have no clue how bad it is over here
Maybe not. But given that NZ has basically been a vassal state of the US since Britain got smashed by WW2, I don't think the differences between there and here are as great as you imagine.
We know these are good things. What we don’t seem to know is how to get them implemented.
I had what I thought was a decent idea for getting some of these, but not enough people wanted to do my idea so it didn’t work. This was back in November.
You're kidding yourself. Harris had no intention of taxing her rich SillyCon Valley mates, and had no plan for overturning Citizens United and ending decades of structural corruption benefiting individuals on both sides of the aisle, at the expense of the public good. I'm not sure she could have delivered anything in that policy shopping list, even if she wanted to.
oh ok, so now we're onto "well harris isn't perfect, so don't vote. so can we get trump. who is 100,000x worse on the concerns i just stated about harris" level genius
Please point me to the post where I argued this. If you bothered to check, I actively encouraged voting for Harris once she was confirmed as the candidate. By talking about the ways Orange Stalin would can the few good things the Biden administration had done for internet and media regulation.
But they didn't, and unlike some, I'm not deluding myself as to why.
@strypey If you are interested in structural corruption, consider if, instead of exhausting everybody's attention by wrecking the stuff that sometimes used to work, they could have followed up on this, which was actually on the Democrats agenda to do: iaccseries.org/the-21st-iacc-v…
In June 2024, over 2000 people from more than 140 countries, working across a wide range of sectors, convened in person in Lithuania to participate in the 21st International Anti-Corruption Conference.
@hakona @strypey @CStamp @mark @roknrol @otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2 A lot of GQP are going to be aging out, and the younger ones are a bunch of sloppy, ignorant bullies, who, for the most part, rode in on the 🤡 coattails, and have no idea how to work within the system, are completely unwilling to actually do the job they were elected to do, and have absolutely no international reputation for anything except unreliability. Without the 🤡, most would never have been elected.
Action points: I don't know. Why you did not hear about it: US does not want to hear about UN, or international treaties. Commitment to first steps was there, gone now. @CStamp @Darkphoenix @mark @roknrol @otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2
@Darkphoenix @mark @strypey @roknrol @otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2 I have to admit being shocked by the election results. I have an ex-American friend who was really worried and I kept reassuring him that folk wouldn't actually vote for a doddering, rambling old felon and sex offender who talked about sharks, electric boats, and Hannibal Lecter and retribution.
So much empathy for those of you who did fight for what's right.
@mark @strypey @roknrol @otownKim @jm101 @xs4me2 I forgot one really big one. Honor our treaties and obligations, regardless of who signed it, to our allies, our friends and our Indigenous peoples. And treat them with respect. Ukraine gave up their nukes because WE swore that WE would protect them. It doesn't matter whether others break their word, OUR word should, and one time did, mean something.
> so people need to show up in the primaries in 2026
... and the Dem leadership need to be restrained from interfering in the primary process if it doesn't look to be producing the results they want. The Democratic party needs constitutional reform, just as much as the country and the GoP do.
> then you argue against what you most do to get that power: vote!
Is this really the limit of your political imagination. When I lived in China I observed the elections they hold there every year. Would you tell dissidents there that the way to achieve democracy begins and ends with voting? In order for voting to make any difference whatsoever, there needs to be a policy platform worth voting for.
> If you're going to make serious comparisons between the US and Chinese party or electoral process
My point is that voting is only significant when there are candidates you want to support. As I said to Ben, before he threw his toys out of the cot and blocked me, I argued for a strategic vote for Harris. You can literally go back to my late 2024 timeline and see for yourself. But she wasn't a candidate the US left wanted to support 🤷♂️
My point is that voting is only significant when there are candidates you want to support
Yes, it is. And my point is that's not how it works in a two-party system, never has been, and if American leftists keep pretending it is in spite of all evidence to the contrary, they will lose their rights in their own country.
Do you think fundamentalist Christians actually love billionaire hedonists? They don't. Somehow, they found enough common cause to build consensus in a party. But the Left is so good at finding reasons not to work together that they are, right now, likely to lose everything they want to hold dear.
Well, seeing that dark cloud in the (near) future is what I meant with “not going to end well and normal”… something needs to happen and it will not come for free.
Hope the constitution still means something to SCOTUS, judges and the military so the wont side with the current evil bunch. This needs to end, and I hope soon. Preferably by ousting the whole bunch for high treason. And a full reform of the political system.
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@xs4me2 I am a Danish citizen somewhat at a somewhat safe distance in Denmark, but since the threats from the USA towards Greenland (and thus the rest of Denmark) my patience and sympathy with the USA has ended.
I think it is morally right for US citizens to stop the Trump regime with violence.
Just as it would have been for Germans to kill Hitler before he committed all his crimes against humanity.
i'm just keeping my mouth shut because i can say things that will get me in trouble
as an american all i can say to you is i deeply apologize. denmark was always a friend, and this orange shitstain pisses on your good will, a vile betrayal
I've been trying to work up the guts to wear my pro-EU lapel-pin in my staunchly anti-EU neighbourhood, *far* away from the action in the US or Turkey. In Spain they're still excavating mass-graves. Norway too (WWII) , for that matter, but that seems different. @xs4me2
Spain is NOT a good example, tho. their dictatorship only ended because Franco died and they restored the monarchy right after, having been a Republic before.
I'm merely looking at this from the point of view of "was civil war and fascism... but now stable and democracy"
That is, I'm merely using the example of Spain as an antidote to mindless pessimism and cynicism, and thus preemptive capitulation, to the USA currently going down the toilet
@cairobraga @xs4me2 I'm interested in learning lessons from Spain during the civil war, too. Imagine the world if Western democracies had supported the Republic despite its socialism, and if the dominant center-left party (at the time, weirdly, the Communists) had cooperated with/ taken the lead from the more leftist parties instead of suppressing them!
@cairobraga @xs4me2 I mentioned Franco and the Spanish Civil War as an example shortly after the election to some friends, who all thought that was very depressing, among other horrible things, because it took almost 40 years from the end of the Civil War until the post-Franco constitution and elections in 1978.
oh, you got me. Pointing out that typo clearly invalidates my entire point. And the name calling...anything but name calling!
My post...didn't attack this man at all. It attacked the knowledge of global history that most Americans seem to possess. I even elaborated on why i think that's the case.
Tell you what, I'll agree to work on my spelling if you promise to work on your reading comprehension.
i do agree though if someone spends all of their time dividing and conquering for the right, by attacking dems only and ignorinng maga, they're not even on the left, they're fake left, they're agent provocateur from the right
but that's not the guy in the video
anger at schumer is acceptable: he's completely out of touch
@oliverboehme Do not forget the main architect who gave the shitbag the keys to everything with his 'immunity' and 'official duties' bullshit: #JohnRoberts is the primary villain. He and his cohort of rancid cunts #Alito #Gorsuch #Thomas and #Kavanaugh
@kristen_d @oliverboehme I agree. Just like I don't blame Biden for being unwilling to be a monster I don't forget who the real monsters are.
But when someone asks you if you're a god, you say yes. And when the chief judge in your country says you are not a president, you are a king, you have a choice. I like to think I would have made a different choice than Biden did.
You can be frustrated at the Dems as much as you want. (I can be pissed at Biden for not using his royal powers as much as I want.) But if you start and end at shitting on the Dems... You're part of Trump's team.
Don't give me that shit about Trump's team. He's been elected twice over there. I went to London (100 miles away by train) to oppose his first visit here. You've got Schumer, for Christ's sake. You're better off with independents.
@linuxgnome @Amoshias @kristen_d @oliverboehme hate what they stand for, but Maga/TeaParty tactics were bloody brilliant. they achieved everything they wanted, all the impossible things.
... after years of primarying the GOP candidates who wouldn't ban abortion (but voting GOP in generals regardless), they got the ones that would, and then it happened. For instance.
@linuxgnome @Amoshias @kristen_d @oliverboehme i wonder if one day we'll discover what we probably only suspect for now: That those pushing the "it's not worth voting" lines were active agents for the far right. Hm. agents devocateurs? can that be a word, for agents that promulgate apathy in their targets?
plenty of maga trolls, russian trolls, trolls from all sorts of domestic and geopolitical forces put up their fake leftist bonafides and preach not voting
right here on mastodon
then the troll in the cubicle next to them puts up their fake american flag and preach voting to MAGA turds on twitter
it's psyop
it's not *all* a psyop
because unfortunately spineless toxic idealism on the left is a real thing. that's why they do it
@StrangeNoises @linuxgnome @Amoshias @kristen_d @oliverboehme I hope that people realize now the consequences of those actions and change course. I blame the corporate media 100% for being part of team MAGA with relentless attacks on both Biden and Harris. Even Biden's economy didn't get credit. I can't think of one positive article they wrote in the last year of Biden's presidency. I'm talking CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, MSNBC except for a few shows. Their owners wanted MAGA.
@StrangeNoises @linuxgnome @Amoshias @kristen_d @oliverboehme This is what my original post was about. Billionaire owned corporate media. People were propagandized but regardless of that I agree with your statement about voting. You must vote for the candidate most aligned with your beliefs. If you voted for a felon or didn't vote at all because Dems didn't do this or that, don't complain about the current situation. We knew what kind of a nightmare it would be if #DonTheCon won.
@lin11c @StrangeNoises @linuxgnome @kristen_d @oliverboehme you realize biden's economy - which did well for the top tiers, but left millions feeling like they were completely drowning economically - is a big part of the problem here?
I HATE when Dems tout "biden's economy." It shows that they don't understand what happened and haven't learned anything.
so on the left there is a huge schism, rightfully so
and on the right you have poor and middle class chuds licking the boots of the oligarchy shitting on them, as long as trans people and immigrants are abused
time to take over the democratic party from the corporatist shit
@Amoshias @lin11c @StrangeNoises @linuxgnome @kristen_d @oliverboehme I think the problem is partially that the Democrats would rather lose every election forever, including the most important elections they can conceive of, if it means the corporatist shit gets to flow from the sewers of capitalism right into their wallets.
It's just that those of us in other countries watch our leaders try to be more like the American ones.
@Amoshias @StrangeNoises @linuxgnome @kristen_d @oliverboehme I disagree. He brought inflation way down after the covid pandeminc. There were so many infrastructure programs that brought unprecedented job growth. He was a big supporter of unions. Now inflation is much worse and is only going to increase. The MSM never gave him any credit. MAGAs are claiming infrastructure money for themselves. Bullshit.
Your statistics say the economy was doing great. People said differently. And you're saying "these dummies just didn't understand what great shape they were in" as people couldn't afford housing.
You can tell people spending 60% of their income on housing they're doing great. Or you can listen to them and try to fix their problems. Which do you think is more likely to win an election?
@Amoshias @StrangeNoises @linuxgnome @kristen_d @oliverboehme It was an amazing recovery after the pandemic. Somehow Biden was supposed to make everything immediately better? Ridiculous. He was supposed restructure the entire housing market? He was dealing with stopping the pandemic for the first year. When FOX tells you daily how high prices are you forget prices were high during #DonTheCon's first term. Are egg prices higher now? I rest my case.
@lin11c @StrangeNoises @linuxgnome @kristen_d @oliverboehme right. And if your indicators say the economy is great, and the top.01% are capturing the majority of that economic recovery, you are using the wrong indicators.
@Ben Royce 🇺🇦 They don't have a spine since most (not all) of the Democratic politicians have been lying to you for years. They never really supported women, LBTQIA+, immigrants, and minorities. Those were just the voting blocks they thought they could manipulate into voting for them using identity politics and victimhood. Just look at their past bills in Congress and their voting history. They are not the allies they claim they are, and as soon as they figure out which voting blocks will win them elections, they will drop the ones that don't fit their strategy. I hate to say it, but unless we replace the corrupt politicians with people who really care, we will be in a whole world of hurt.
@Ben Royce 🇺🇦 Note that I said "not all." There are good Democrat politicians out there too. But if you go back to some of their older speeches and older voting record in Congress, especially for the career politicians, you will notice that it changes based on who they think will vote for them. Until people realize that at least some of them are screwing everyone over, there is no hope. Get rid of the corrupt ones with no backbone, and elect some good ones who will stand up for people. That will solve the problem.
@Ben Royce 🇺🇦 My priorities are electing politicians that really care about women, LBTQIA+, immigrants, and minorities, rather than reelecting the ones who say they care about you but don't. So that means voting out both racist Republicans and corrupt Democrats, and getting some good people in there.
@Ben Royce 🇺🇦 Right now we are in a conversation with Democrats and those on the left. I am not talking to swing voters here. So you have to consider the context. I would tell a swing voter something else, like to pick the better of two evils.
But Democrats can vote in primaries, which is something that swing voters cannot do. That means that Democrats have the power to get better Democrats on the ballots.
So what I say to Democrats is different than what I say to swing voters.
the result of your attacks on the dems is to suppress the left vote, thus helping MAGA win
Not true. I am telling Democrats to get their butts out to the polls during primaries so they can select better leaders who have a better chance of winning. If you select better candidates, then MAGA loses. If you put your collective heads in the sand and keep picking the same corrupt leaders, MAGA wins.
I am encouraging people to vote, especially in primaries.
Except that, unlike certain politicians that have no backbone, I stand up for women, LBTQIA+, immigrants, and minorities. No one should be abused. Period. End of story.
and i'm glad you stand up for women, L>G<BTQIA+, immigrants, and minorities
and MAGA on that topic?
the problem i have with you is these endless rigged lying stultifying purity tests. you attack your side, and ignore genuine radioactive malice. it's deeply dysfunctional and it's also a psyop used by agent provocateurs at the left to defeat us
i don't think you're psyop
unfortunately this self-destructive toxic idealism is real
@Ben Royce 🇺🇦 I am not a idealist. Both parties have major problems. You complain about Democrats that have no backbones, and then you attack me for saying we need to get rid of the Democrats with no backbones. WTF. I was agreeing with you. Yet you attack me.
We need people who stand up for women, LBTQIA+, immigrants, and minorities. MAGA is attacking. If your elected leaders are not protecting women, LBTQIA+, immigrants, and minorities, then get new ones.
I disagree it's bullshit what you said but "democrats aren't perfect so i don't have to vote" is bullshit. Which isn't what you said. But what you said is the gateway to that kind of thinking
It doesn't matter how much the democrats suck. You still vote
@Amoshias @kristen_d @oliverboehme Yes, he could have jailed Trump, jailed the Supreme Court. Or assassinated them. But he didn't want to the one to end America by making himself king. And sure, that only gave us a couple more months of America before Trump ended it, but I understand Biden wanting to go out still the leader of a democratic nation.
biden was banking on the american people showing the fuck up and voting
biden didn't abandon america because he didn't bring a machine gun to the supreme court
americans abandoned america because "well biden should have done this and that and blah blah blah and that's my rationale for not doing shit, even the easiest fucking thing"
@cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme I'm going to diverge from you here. (Not the last line though, we're in lockstep there.)
Simply sitting around and expecting Americans to vote for responsible kings until the end of time is not a rational plan. Biden needed to take action to make himself NOT A KING. That would have required him to do horrifying things, and he's not the man to have met that challenge.
We also need to recognize that to date, there is no personal financial incentive for Democrats in Congress to BE the opposition. They’ll keep doing what they’re doing, as long as the cash continues flowing into their pockets.
The only exceptions are people like Bernie Sanders and AOC, who don’t take corporate payouts. And that group is a truly minimal slice of the Congress pie.
@chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme I get that, but knowing Trump/MAGA was a bombshell that coopted the conservative cause creating an Orange Rhino, something similar needs to take place on the Dem level to compete. Everyone seems to be jockeying for the Presidency rather than changing from within. If people like Pete Buttigieg are willing to sit out, who's stepping up? The squad can't go it alone.
@chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme it's all so complicated in a nation of immigrants, a nation of diversity. Something I don't see a whole lot of in any other country I've visited. Getting more people to vote is imperative. Absolutely. Too many don't care, or have just given up because no candidate has ever vibed with their ideals. Centrist Dems are what peel centrist Pubs away from Maga. Hard left energizes the progressives, sure, but also incentivises conservatives to lock arms in their higher cause. Some kind of biblical purity.
I keep thinking 'What IF people indeed had been voting but the elections have really been rigged this time?' And now Trump wants to end voting via mail. It's all so bad.
@cmthiede @chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme Yes. Take over the Dems, & start by ousting Schumer. Universal public Healthcare. Taxes on billionaires. There are a whole quiver full of good progressive positions.
The discussion about getting non-voters to vote is worth the ether it is written on. Paid time off, election day holiday + compulsory voting might get more to the polls. Abolish Citizens United. Get pacs, high dollar donors & corporations out of politics.
@cmthiede @chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme I've knocked on tens of thousands of doors for my own campaigns, and for other candidates. I did not knock on doors where registered voters had not voted in the past 4 presidential elections, and had never voted in local elections. With a universe of 18k out of 27k, I only talked to those likely voters. Overcoming non-voter inertia is a big problem. I can enumerate the excuses I've heard, if you like.
@CStamp @cmthiede @chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme I think overcoming non-voter inertia is a Party problem. Individual candidates don't have the resources to persuade people to vote. Precinct Party level outreach can work - repeated encouragement from a known neighbor. Debunking myths like "voting doesn't matter" or "...but I don't want to be called for jury duty", or "I don't have time".
@CStamp @cmthiede @chessert @Amoshias @cherold @kristen_d @oliverboehme Yes, talking at the door can work. Phone outreach can work. GOTV (Get Out The Vote) workers need to be persistent. I started precinct walking & GOTV about 35 years ago.
If you listen to this, it will explain why voter turnout is so low in America. But it should also anger you so much that you NEVER skip an election ever again. I think it’s a must-listen.
@Remittancegirl Does he need my praise? He seems to be doing fine on his own.
And honestly, if my words were capable of shutting down his fire, he wouldn't be worth listening to. How weak-willed you must believe him to be; shameful.
From you? Some random internet user whom I've probably never engaged with and probably won't again? Not really. You probably would have had better luck addressing my point if that's what you disagree with.
He's right about Trump. I told my friend in Detroit, if you want to make something fail, collapse or go bankrupt, Trump is the man you want in charge. Elon Musk chose his sock puppets well.
@roknrol @josuex we also remember the Nazi party filling up Madison square garden for rallies in the 30’s and early 40’s. We remember that a good part of the US wanted Hitler to win. We didn’t “forget” history, it was ripped out of our social subconscious by long planning racists.
you have to admit "americans don't know history" under the top post can seem to be an attack on the subject of the post you were responding to, even though because i know you i saw "{he's spitting fire but it will fall on deaf ears because} americans don't know history"
but if someone doesn't know you, you can see how there is an honest misperception of your words
@Itchy Agreed. Democrats in Congress have proven themselves short on spine.
Signing petitions and going to protests are fine and all, but to this regime, that means nothing. They don't care about paper and people in the streets.
They are all important questions And we could discuss its implications for days but to make it short envy, the needs to bring back order, and the arrival of a populist figure who backed by the army removed 'the breath' from the revolutionary anarchy,
@chiamaluca I find that among my American countrymen, there's a deep lack of understanding of the French Revolution that is disquieting as people on this side of the pond begin considering their options for their own deeply-divided national and class interests.
We teach it as "France had a revolution, and then they had liberty." And that is a mistake. It's really important to confront that belief with "The king was executed... And then what happened?"
There's a reason the UK is still a monarchy, and it's not because they never tried anything else. And there's a reason America isn't a monarchy, and it isn't because we were smarter, braver, or more egalitarian than the French or the British.
@taschenorakel ... But as they don't know much about 1776, the Declaration of Independence, and deny the separation of church and state in the US constitution, it's probably not that much of a surprise... @josuex @CStamp @benroyce @roknrol
@BackFromTheDud Actually, I wonder weither this veteran is talking about the storming of the Bastille or about the Jacobins' Great Terror in 1793/1794.
@BackFromTheDud Not necessarily. Before that terror the French were on a good way to convert their absolutist monarchy into a constitutional monarchy. The 1791 constitution was strongly inspired by the U.S. constitution.
If the people around Marie Antoinette wouldn't have been that eager to launch a counter revolution probably nothing of the terror would have happened.
Eh, there's a dude from New Zealand below who I had to block because they kept digging into "don't vote, then enact massive constitutional change by {waves hands}" bullshit. Then got angry because I'm apparently chasing away leftists because I hurt their feelings.
You and I are in agreement: the fastest way to enact real change and obliterate Nazis here in America is for the majority of eligible voters to get out and do their civic duty EVERY SINGLE TIME.
I'm not willing to cede my kids/grandkids to the current status.
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@Matteo Zenatti tra gli informatici sono un bel po' di anni che ci si raccomanda di andare negli stati uniti senza i propri dispositivi (telefono, portatile) veri, ma comprandone da viaggio apposta, ma prima era più una questione di proteggere eventuali dati sensibili che si hanno sugli stessi.
e guarda a caso, una legge che sotto un'amministrazione, boh, vabbé, nella media, era già problematica ma gestibile, sotto un'amministrazione fascista diventa N volte più pericolosa.
"On the same day that the researcher was denied entry to the US, Baptiste published a letter calling on American researchers to relocate to France. “Many well-known researchers are already questioning their future in the United States,” he wrote. “We would naturally wish to welcome a certain number of them.”
The next day, Baptiste posted a photograph of himself in a virtual meeting with a researcher at the University of Maryland School of Medicine who had decided to take up an invitation from Aix-Marseille University to welcome researchers who wish to leave the United States."
@bbacc sì certo che lo è ma insomma la tendenza era già presente, ora sperimentano con le nuove tecnologie e sui grandi numeri… però i cattivoni dittatori sono sempre gli altri e loro hanno venduto per decenni la favola della democrazia liberale e della superiorità morale derivante
Come raccontavo stanotte — mastodon.cisti.org/@GustavinoB… — a inizio anni '50 mia mamma dovette andare a Vienna a una conferenza sindacale internazionale come delegata FIOM, ma all'epoca Vienna era ancora divisa tra gli occupanti alleati¹ e per attraversare il settore americano dovette fare il giro dalla Svizzera (in treno).
I remember when members of the Italian Communist Party (I guess it was the same for all the other countries) weren't allowed to access the USA, and that was asked on the visa form.
In early 1950 my mom had to go to an international trade union conference in Vienna, still occupied by allies until 1955, and she had to travel there through Swiss (by train) to avoid stricter controls.
@GustavinoBevilacqua @bbacc che mamma tosta, massimo rispetto! che poi a quel tempo fare delegato/a sindacale non era uno scherzo, rischiavi il reparto confino!
Mia mamma riuscì a tirare uno schiaffo a Gianni Agnelli (nel 1934, perché le toccò il culo quando faceva consegne per una sartoria di Torino¹) e a Giulio Andreotti, perché a fine anni '40, in birreria, le tolse la sedia di sotto mentre si stava sedendo.
Sono soddisfazioni…
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¹ e la titolare della sartoria telefonò alla moglie del sen. Agnelli dicendo che se non insegnava le buone maniere al nipote non l'avrebbe più voluta come cliente.
If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: eff.org/document/eff-border-se…
The Kyiv Independent's Alisa Yurchenko went undercover as a representative of a Russian defense manufacturer to try buying American chips through Russian suppliers.
💥 “Tax our wealth” – that’s the message from millionaires across the UK whose campaign is hitting the road ahead of the government’s spring statement...
“Apparently, seven out of ten millionaires agree that taxing wealth is the way forward – and not surprisingly, three quarters of the British public support this too”
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