When he wrote ‘Mein Kampf’ while serving out a prison sentence at Landsberg, Hitler wrote “whoever has the youth has the future”. In Hitler’s Germany, education would be the key that ensured that he had “the youth” of Germany.

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/nazi-germany/adolf-hitler-and-education/

It sounds from my POV that you’re going to go home and brush your tooth. Given the content of this post, it kind of struck me as funny. OTOH, we do use a tooth brush, so Idk.

Shouldn’t that say “teeth brushing lessons,” or is that an American thing.

There’s no professor to study it and take it either.

Are there nuances to the word Zionist? I don’t know enough about the culture in the Levant. If you call someone that, you’re assuming other people know what you’re talking about. I strongly suggest you stay away from labels, but call out what they’re actually doing.

Not to be rude, but please don’t normalize this.

Trump’s wide-ranging effort to bring independent agencies firmly under his control provoked a dramatic confrontation this week at the DC office of the U.S African Development Foundation. The White House Presidential Personnel Office and elements of Elon Musk’s DOGE team moved to oust the board of USADF and purported to install a new acting chairman of the board, a step that legal experts tell TPM is unlawful.

The full extent of the confrontation at USADF became public when the president of the independent agency filed a lawsuit Thursday trying to block the White House’s assault on its independence. The lawsuit refers to a Feb. 28 missive to USADF management from the White House Presidential Personnel Office claiming to appoint Pete Marocco – a Trump official known for helping strangle USAID from within – as “acting chair” of USADF’s board

In it (the memo), Trent Morse, deputy assistant to the President and deputy director of presidential personnel at the White House, stakes out a legal position that would undercut the Senate’s power to confirm new officers at agencies like USADF, experts say. Trump, Morse asserted, would have the “inherent authority under Article II” to appoint acting officials without going through the Senate’s process of advice and consent.

My bold.

Hey oligarchs, do you think you’re safe? You’re no^oooooot.

Edit: I should say, they’re not safe from Trump. He’s following the Russian oligarch playbook. You’re going to look back on last year as the good ol’ days of freedom.

Please do, we need more competition. Come on over to Lemmy, the water is nice.

Kohinoor said she had been criticised for creating the movement’s group on Facebook, which is owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

“We have no better alternative,” the group’s creator said. “This is about getting people together and creating a movement. I think you have to gradually change as the alternatives come.”

What was the cause? I thought it was just a smurf party.

You’re a better person than I am if you can. There is a firehose of bullshit coming at us right now.

Him “thinking about” or “threatening” doing shit is a distraction until it gets to the next step. Him “moving” to do shit is him actually having started the process.

I remember just a few years ago that it was a proud moment to own a tesla. That is a thing of the past. I hope the owners can all afford to dump it if they so choose.

How can he unilaterally do this? How has he been given or taken this much power?

Wow, the democrats didn’t do enough, Al Green did too much, it’s because he’s a democrat, etc. It’s a wonder why we’re not talking about what he was saying.

Thanks, but also report this kind of thing. I’ll look into it or one of the admins will. It’s banned.

When I first got to the bad place, the russians were much more lax about admitting they were russian. That was right around when this was written. We would even joke about it and they talk about it being just a job and such. It was kind of hilarious and sort of innocent when you look back on it.

I can confidently say it was definitely not US who was targeting me. It might have been paid for by US citizens, but it wasn’t US people. Chinese and russians have different vibes too.

It’s from 2015, second paragraph for the first part and a little more down on the second part. A russian, I’m assuming, propagandist admitting to what and how they’re doing it.

I knew on the bad place that they were targeting me for just argument’s sake, but I could never quite put my finger on the how or why. This explains it. They also didn’t seem to care if it was a small subreddit or a large one, they went after me relentlessly. I was the one who followed influential people btw, not the influencer.

I think this is a good place to drop this:

“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”

The goal is to keep opinions we don’t want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,…

https://archive.is/PoUMo

You’ve got your first cult follower.

Here is what our American oligarchs have to look forward to. That is, if it hasn’t already happened. Is it worth it? You are not special and it won’t be different for you.

Putin offered the oligarchs a deal: bend to my authority, stay out of my way, and you can keep your mansions, superyachts, private jets, and multibillion-dollar corporations (corporations that, just a few years before, had been owned by the Russian government).

In the coming years, the oligarchs who reneged on this deal and undermined Putin would be thrown into a Siberian prison or be forced into exile or die in suspicious circumstances. The loyalists who remained — and the new ones who got filthy rich during Putin’s long reign — became like ATM machines for the president and his allies.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how-putin-conquered-russias-oligarchy

Their names* aren’t mentioned in the article, but that doesn’t mean they didn’t take a stand. They were holding signs. Bernie, AOC, etc., have also taken a stand.

Edit 2: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-silent-protest-trump-speech-overshadowed-one-outburst-rcna194822