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People from the U.S. (and even parts of Europe) do not understand how corrupt, stupid, and unstable majority of the world is. It is genuinely unfathomable.

This does not excuse the fascism of the current admin, nor the war-crimes of the U.S. as a whole, but they are nowhere even remotely close to the likes of Moldova.

There is a reason I said this was consistent.

I checked on four different servers (feddit.nl, lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, and sh.itjust.works) and all of them reproduced the automatic download for only this post. Of course, this can be due to an error with lemmy's source itself - which is why I said it isn't necessarily malware.

Secondly, I did a non-trivial check of my network for MITM when the error first occurred - and there was no evidence of MITM. I also highly doubt that the browser itself is compromised, as it is up-to-date and is focused on both privacy and security.

I posted it as a warning for those to check their machines if the browser (or other mechanisms) didn't catch it. I am also not above reproach; it is okay to criticize my claims - but they were not made without reasonable cause.

P.S. The files were blocked from downloading (and I will not be downloading them) so I am unaware of their contents. If it is just PHP, then lemmy itself likely has a edge-case bug triggered by this post (which is bad). But I do doubt it is PHP, considering all other posts do not display this behavior.

Is America the only country on the planet?

You seem to forget that the EU and China are starting to mingle; and that China is heavily involved in Africa et al via the Belt&Road Initiative.

Obviously everyone gets hurt in it a trade war, that's why it's called a war. But the the long term outlook for China is significantly better than America's - they will win a war of attrition.

China is also doing their due diligence. Tit-for-tat is the most effective negotiation strategy, you will not beat physics, and they understand this.

The craziest part is that both America and China were benefiting immensely off of the status quo, considering they were the #1 and #2 richest countries on the planet. But since the least qualified person on the planet to handle money (Trump) has unregulated power, it has all gone to shit.

This is the most effective form of protest, that every single American should be doing.

It also happens to be extremely efficient where it needs to be.

Does it matter who does it though? Killing innocent people is bad in all circumstances, including this one.

It is bad in Russia, it is bad in China, it is bad in Israel, and it is bad in Yemen.

We should've been calling them this since the 1950s. And even this is too kind - they are terrorists. Their policy platform is (and has been) to oppress, kill, and exploit.

I've noticed that many of these cruel and reactionary ideologies are not based in any historical data nor science. This is used to be called hysteria.

They still haven't answered either; so I can only assume they did not realize the contradiction between accelerationism and paying more taxes. Sad times we live in.

The appropriate sequence of events would be:

Trump starts tariffs > People switch to FOSS > Trump cuts funding to FOSS

This really isn't double-speak and, if anything, clearly shows the hostility of the admin. They are just incompetent, short-sighted, and overall an enemy of the people.

It's not about "hating". It is because you (and the current administration) have no idea what you are talking about and are trying to pass it off as fact.

People really do not like imposters, larpers, and pretenders - and when in positions of power they get people killed. This is not a video game, nor a simulation, educate yourself before you speak.

There are many many expert peer-reviewed studies that show tariffs do not work - especially in the way Trump is using them. Also the U.S. had no "economic failure", they've been the richest country to ever exist. BlackRock and Vanguard also manage a significant amount of U.S. property assets and they are American companies.

The problem was the wealth-gap and no amount of tariffs is going to fix this; people need to pay their taxes. Companies need to be paying the 91% rate they paid in the past, and people need the minimum wage to rise with inflation.

There is more than enough money to do this, but you vote for Trump who actively makes the situation worse. This is not to say Dems would've made it better - but Republicans will always make the problem worse, since that is their whole policy platform.

You're okay with more taxes, but you're an accelerationist...

What does accelerationism mean to you? And what benefits do you believe society gains from this?

P.S. For the sake of transparency, I'm not liberal; but you can call me whatever you like.

You're okay with 50 years of widespread suffering to maybe have any society. But not okay with paying increased monthly taxes to guarantee a stable society.

The Greek were right, democracy doesn't work.