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  #3442654 11-Dec-2025 11:53
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EU fines Twitter €120 million for transparency breaches:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934

Ironically if Twitter had better search functionality it would be a non-issue. Twitter's relatively recent walled garden approach is just losing customers imo.


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  #3442655 11-Dec-2025 11:55
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Trump started out as a clown. He may end up actually starting World War III.

 

 





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  #3442663 11-Dec-2025 12:22
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quickymart: President Donald Trump gave himself an “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus” grade on the economy...


Trump is like the child from the Twilight Zone “It’s a Good Life” (S03, E08, 1961).

The Dark Truth Behind This Classic Twilight Zone Episode

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  #3442679 11-Dec-2025 13:00
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quickymart:

 

President Donald Trump gave himself an “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus” grade on the economy...

 

What the hell. If how he sees things now as "A+++++" Christ only knows what he'd say during a recession!

 

 

'A' stands for ass.hole.

 

No, gotta take that back. Anuses are useful; something that Pumpkinhead will never be.





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  #3442680 11-Dec-2025 13:03
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Interesting article from a Canadian at a big NATO-sponsored government/military conference. I'll have to munge the URL a bit because it has a bad word in it but it is well worth a read: https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-we-will-never-f***ing 

 

 

 

 

But before I could worry about it too much, a senior military officer from a major (non-American) allied nation drove a stake right through the heart of the matter.

 

America has blown 80 years of accumulated goodwill and trust among its allies, our American moderator was told. A rock-steady assumption of allied defence and security planning for literally generations has been that America would act in its own interests, sure, but that those interests would be rational, and would still generally value the institutions that America itself worked so hard to build after the Second World War. America’s recent actions have destroyed the ability of any ally to continue to have faith in America to act even within its own strategic self-interest, let alone that of any ally.

 

The officer then said that even a swift return of America to its former role won’t matter.

 

Because “we will never f***ing trust you again.”

 

The Americans at the table seemed somewhat startled by the heat of that pronouncement. I agreed with it entirely. So, it seemed to me, did most of the non-Americans. 

 





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  #3442681 11-Dec-2025 13:03
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quickymart: President Donald Trump gave himself an “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus” grade on the economy.... What the hell. If how he sees things now as "A+++++" Christ only knows what he'd say during a recession!

The Trump family has never done so well. Everything else is fake news.

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  #3442693 11-Dec-2025 13:33
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"Most biggest and beautiful recession the world has ever seen! Everyone loves me and loves everything I do!" 🙄


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  #3442701 11-Dec-2025 14:05
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Trump confirms he did say the thing he lied about in 2018, and says it again on camera. Also libels Somali people yet again:


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  #3442715 11-Dec-2025 15:26
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The USA is only realising the dystopian crises and situations that Hollywood brought to the cinema in numerous films, in which the protagonists saved the world. That's why Donald sees himself as a kind of ‘Superman.’ Fortunately, I have already travelled to many different regions, because the USA will probably never see me again (but also because there are still other countries to visit).





     

  • Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet.
  • Firewalls do NOT stop dragons.
  • In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who someone is.

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  #3442766 11-Dec-2025 16:09
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Every time I see yet another article beginning with the T-word its rapidly followed by the thought - whats the idiot done now...





“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” -John Kenneth Galbraith

 

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  #3442814 11-Dec-2025 16:25
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gzt: EU fines Twitter €120 million for transparency breaches

"The European Union is not democracy - rule of the people - but rather bureaucracy - rule of the unelected bureaucrat!"
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"The EU should be abolished, and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better better represent their people."


This might be more appropriate in the Elon Musk thread, but Trump uses the same playbook.

Elon [and Trump] benefit from fragmentation, not unity

A unified political/economic bloc like the EU makes it easier to regulate companies across borders. For a broligarchy, it globally imposes its own around privacy, content moderation, transparency policies.

Musk desires to turn a united bloc into many smaller jurisdictions. He wants to play countries against each other, exploit regulatory arbitrage, or tailor his approach to whichever country is weakeste.

Musk pushing for “sovereignty returned to individual countries” wants a fractured regulatory environment, more leverage. That undermines his public justification of wanting democracy, representation.

Which bring us to “rule of bureaucrats” vs whole-company decisions of Musk

Musk criticizes the EU for being controlled by “unelected bureaucrats.” But at the same time, major decisions at X are being made by him. He is a billionaire CEO with enormous power, also unelected.

He criticizes unelected power over people’s digital lives, while in practice his own power over X is exactly that.

It is a pretty gift box promising democracy rhetoric but only containing corporate interest.

Musk’s claims individual national governments better “represent their people.” His call for abolishing the EU aligns more with corporate convenience than populist or democratic empowerment.

He decries “bureaucratic monopoly.” At the same time centralizes power to himself.

Musk is framing the fine as a blow to “freedom” or “democracy.,” It is disingenuous. The underlying issues are about basic consumer protection and information authenticity.

When regulation must be navigated country by country, Musk's large multinational can pick and choose jurisdictions, lobby selectively, and push for the most favorable rules. This gives outsized power to a small elite. Ironically it replaces “bureaucratic monsters” with “billion-dollar monopolists.”

So Musk’s populist rhetoric about returning sovereignty to “the people” stands in direct conflict with what his corporate interests actually favor: a fragmented regulatory landscape he can exploit.

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  #3442827 11-Dec-2025 18:08
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quickymart: US President Donald Trump's administration is planning to order visa-exempt foreign tourists, including Australians [and Kiwis], to disclose their social media histories from the past five years before entering the country.


The list of countries is basically a list of America's allies.

Yeah, so f_ck the USA, and the horse you rode in on.

Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Qatar, Romania


Trump To Force Tourists To Give Social Media History At The Border

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  #3442839 11-Dec-2025 19:02
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Jerome Powell the head of the Federal Reserve, his term ends in May. The hot favourite is Trump's chief economic advisor who is a staunch MAGA ally. So... the FED who is independent, and Powell has shown that, will now see Trump as the defacto Fed Reserve head. Interest rates will drop to his desires on any given day. Inflation will rise.

 

China who has a large trade surplus with the US was hit by tariffs to reduce that. But, China's exports to the US are at record highs. Not working, but the US will garner millions in tariffs, partly paid by China exporters (as they manufacture/produce cheaper so can wear some of that) and US residents. Another loss

 

 


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  #3442840 11-Dec-2025 19:02
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gzt:
Applicants would also have to submit other "high-value data fields" including phone numbers from the last five years, email addresses from the past decade, personal details of family members and biometric information.

With that level of information it's likely there will be many false positives and holidays ruined at the point of entry. Many tourists will choose to go elsewhere, almost anywhere else.

 

Further to this:

 


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  #3442841 11-Dec-2025 19:08
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quickymart:

 

gzt:
Applicants would also have to submit other "high-value data fields" including phone numbers from the last five years, email addresses from the past decade, personal details of family members and biometric information.

With that level of information it's likely there will be many false positives and holidays ruined at the point of entry. Many tourists will choose to go elsewhere, almost anywhere else.

 

Further to this:

 

 

 

As gzt said, they will go elsewhere. Tourism revenue drops, as will employment in that sector. Friendly countries will benefit. As Rachel Hunter once said, it wont happen overnight but it will happen. Add the preference to not buy US goods, it will go on and on. And when we have another POTUS, GOP or Democrat, the trust is gone, so the greater world will avoid the US as and where it can, as I recall I stated a good while back here

 

Friends hang out with friends. Or in the global sphere where there are always issues, they hang out where the resistance is less 


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