German president Paul von Hindenburg thought that he could “control” Hitler, and that he wouldn’t do the extreme things he promised in his election speeches, and thus brokered his move into the Chancellor’s position in a minority govt. I think we all know how that turned out.

Almost a century later the barons of Wall Street have just had the same “oh shit” moment the German conservatives had in 1933

The Scots wiki had the same problem. A teenage American who didn’t speak Scots edited and created 10s of thousands of entries

For those not aware Scots is a Germanic language that split from Old English back about 700-800 years ago - closely related to modern english like frisian is, but also retaining many words lost to english (some of which are retained in Swedish / Dutch etc). It is distinct from standard scottish english.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

Edit

Articles on the fiasco

https://inews.co.uk/news/scotland/scots-wikipedia-language-articles-native-speaker-mistakes-610689

https://www.engadget.com/scots-wikipedia-230210674.html?_fsig=8ckIe_eK7juchNpKgsYQww--~A

https://www.thenational.scot/news/18679711.scots-wikipedia-us-teen-wrote-swathes-articles-devastated-reactions/

My dude ! That is from a decade and a half ago before the Tories slashed the hell out of everything and prices soared. AND it rates UK as most expensive AND had the highest % increase 2000 to 2010.

That paper is not making your point for you.

Landmann is German company and decent quality. Not sure if they’re made in EU or China though

I’d be curious to see a reference or link. That sounds very counter intuitive

Oh lord, what now ?

That’s weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don’t have a bluesky account.

Ahh hang on, this one doesn’t work but all the rest do

https://bsky.app/profile/megzavala.bsky.social/post/3lmdz2tu6xk2x

Ahh here we go: it’s a user made setting not a bluesky one

“Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author.”

I look forward to the day Trump, Thiel Musk and Vance get the same treatment

Well said that man ! I certainly agree with all your points and have said similar things but reading between the lines I suspect I was a little less, umm, forceful about it 😁 I’ve been banned from a few subreddits but not an outright ban yet

Yeah, those dirty snowflakes can’t stand it when someone talks about them the way they talk about everyone else.

Absolutely true

There was another guy that said “Comrades, go back quietly to your places”…we shot him days later.

Who was that guy btw ? I’ve just done a search and nothing is coming up on ddg

Surprisingly I didnt get banned (I have a similar post history), what did you do ? Any idea ?

He doesn’t need to. A false flag incident can be arranged

I think you have comprehensively missed the point of this post.

This post: “people under threat here’s some things you can do to lower your profile, mitigate risk a little” (positive actions)

Your comment (initial & reply): " how did the US let this happen & why didn’t you fight it, why aren’t you fighting it now"

That assumes a) the people most under threat are the same people who should be/can be fighting it b) that they didnt before the election and c) that the actions you prescribe will be effective.

So. Are your assumptions valid and do they actually add anything by voicing them ?

I know many in the US queer community worked tirelessly to prevent Trump being elected (assumption b) but now they really do need to get as low profile as possible, because there is a pogrom coming. Straight white people can afford to protest, the numbers are there. Minorities in small numbers not so much. Easy pickings.

How was Errol Musk aware of the book (in 1970 something) if it was unpublished until 2006 ? (According to the wiki link below) ?

Were they doing nazi catch ups with Von Braun in the 60s or something ?

I’m increasingly annoyed at all these posts going "here’s how to lock down your comms from all the people coming after you for all the protesting you’re not doing.

People aren’t going to be coming after LGBTQ+ people “for the protesting” they are or are not doing.

They’ll be coming for them because they’re queer.

If you’ve even been paying a little bit of attention the magats have made it clear the two main minorities in their sights for the first round are immigrants and trans ppl.

They’ve already sent a US citizen to an El Salvadorian camp and shrugged and said sorry, can’t reverse that now.

If you think the rest of the queer minority are not in their sights you’re kidding yourself (and us)

Check your privilege.

globally. They got nothing at all to worry about

What’s that supposed to mean ? You think we’re not pissed off at the Tangerine Palpatine and Poundshop Goebbels in Europe ? Or do you think Europeans don’t protest ?

If it’s the latter I suggest a little googling try “French protest gilet jaunes” for a starter. Or you could just google the protest Tesla has already been experiencing for the last month

That’s a shame, I rather like bauh

It’s demographics. Linux contributors & maintainers skew heavily to the older end of the spectrum (and, although not relevant to this point, also skew heavily male).

People who can contribute time to a project for free tend to be older because they are financially and career settled by the time they hit 50s. Raising a family tends not to leave a lot of spare time.