As Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepressrsf.org/en/index
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There is no better way of proving that there are no threats to free speech in Europe than to read all the comments about JD Vance today. Europeans are very freely speaking about him.
Nobody is stopping us from calling out that Nazi Couch Fucker.
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JD Vance.
Visited Dachau concentration camp on Thursday.
Sided with the Nazis on Friday.
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Elon's DOGE has fired a whole raft of nuclear experts as part of his clean up. Only toi find that it was these guys who were looking after the US's nuclear deterrent.
Apparently the employees had 15 minute interviews with a couple of pre-pubescent Muskrats in order to justify their jobs. The nerds didn't understand, and the experts were fired. Then rehired. Then fired again.
The US nuclear deterrent is currently being looked after by Betty from HR.
Source: The Independent
In other news, J D Vance (Secret service call sign 'couchfucker') tried to school the EU on democracy and freedom of speech. He then shuns the German Chancellor and went to have a one on one with the head of the German Nazi party (sorry AfD).
Source: Euro News
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How can I put alternative, explanatory text onto an image (as I can in Mastodon)?
Any ideas?
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"Musk’s stake in Tesla comprises the lion’s share of his wealth. He can laugh off a few protesters, but if consumers launch a sustained boycott, both Musk and his car company could find themselves in dire straits. Tesla was already in a precarious position before Musk’s flirtation with the far right turned into an all-out embrace. Nosediving sales would be an incapacitating blow."
slate.com/business/2025/02/elo…
Elon Musk’s car company is in a precarious spot.David Zipper (Slate)
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Denmark have countered Trump's claim to Greenland with a counter-claim to California.
Yes, this is serious. It's so serious they are sending the cast of Borgen to negotiate! That's how very serious it is.
Buy it from Trump, the bigliest crowdsourcing everdenmarkification.com
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"Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool."
- Marko Elez
Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer, was working inside the Treasury Department to cut costs and root out fraud, as part of Musk's DOGE effort.
Elez was one of two temporary appointees at Treasury connected to DOGE who have been granted access to a highly sensitive Treasury system that processes trillions of dollars in payments annually.
#AureFreePress #Musk #socialmedia #BreakingNews
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The link is to a Bayeux tapestry generator. A school professor gave it to her students to generate their own pieces of history.
Is a dictatorship good for business?
“You may have noticed that wealthy international businessmen—the jet set class with the means to be anywhere—do not typically choose to live and headquarter their businesses in Russia. Nor do they choose to base themselves in Hungary, or El Salvador, or North Korea.”
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In 1947 after the genocide in WW2 Jews left Europe and were granted a homeland on land that was already populated.
In 2025 after the Genocide in Gaza, Palestinians are being told to move out of their land and they need a new homeland. Probably on land that that is already populated. My best guess would be to give them Alabama.
Trump to Musk: Canada is mining and selling too many minerals.
Musk: What are you going to do?
Trump: Order tariffs to make them mine less.
Musk: *Mine fewer.
Trump: Shhh, don't call me that yet.
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The first song that I tried to learn on guitar
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
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Today, in the UK, on Radio 4, the announcer mentioned that today was Holocaust Memorial Day and that up to 50 survivors were meeting at Auschwitz in a ceremony attended by the King. She mentioned the murder of 1.1m prisoners at the camp.
Later in the program, they pause for "Thought for the day" which today was being read by the Chief Rabbi. In his address he mentioned the almost 1m Jews that had been killed in Auschwitz.
The difference between the two numbers? They were non-Jews.
This is to remember the 150,000 Soviets, Poles, Communists, homosexuals, etc., that were killed in Auschwitz but who are not included in the Chief Rabbi's remembrance.
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Sorry. This is well meaning but incorrect. There are 5.7m minutes in 11 years, so this picture should read "If you held a minutes' silence for every Jew killed in the holocaust..."
Many other people were killed in the Holocaust. In fact 17 million, so you would be silent for 32 years not 11 if you included all of the Soviets, Poles, communists, gypsies, homosexuals, disabled, etc.
But as we know, this day has been taken over by the Jews and the other people who died are an afterthought. I am deeply sorry about the Jews, but I am equally sorry about the others - who most of the media choose to forget.
I was born in Germany and lived in Singapore, Hong Kong, Yorkshire, Eastbourne, London, Dayton OH, and Suffolk.
As I moved a lot with work, I started but never completed an education until I was 40. I have
- 1/2 degree on Computer Science
- 1/2 degree in Theatre, Acting and Stage Mgt
- 1/2 MBA
- and a BSc in Osteopathy
I spent 40 years in the computer industry, initially for NCR Ltd and for the last 20 years for my own company, eventricity Ltd.
I am now retired. My interests are in climate change, ecology, MotoGP, reading, etc.
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in reply to ProjectFearlessness • • •I agree with your message. But please add a hyphen to clarify the relationship between JD #Vance and couches. JD Vance is a "Nazi couch-fucker", because, as far as I know, there are no #nazi couches. Only couches that are oppressed and abused by nazis.
#couch #grammar #hyphenation
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I take your grammar point. Also, while there are no Nazi couches, there are plenty of couches belonging to Nazis. There is actually a section of the couch Hitler killed himself on in the Gettysburg History Museum. Just don't tell that Nazi Couch-Fucker.
gettysburgmuseumofhistory.com/…
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It's quite a simple point. Despite JD Vance saying otherwise, we have free speech in Europe. We all proved it by calling out JD Vance. And the comments were everywhere.
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
JD Vance decried as extremist over attack on UK abortion clinic safe zones
Alexandra Topping (The Guardian)