Given recent events, all cloud-based LLMs should have been included here. In the history of humanity, there has never been a more profitable piracy operation.

I think it’s out of the question that there’s an anti-Semitic conspiracy going on here, as you suspect. The reason: Religion is always just a means to an end for power-hungry politicians. The best example is that orange pedo in the White House—he pretends to be a fundamentalist Christian, but that’s very obviously just a cover to achieve his goals, which are to enrich himself and his cronies as much as possible.

The same applies to Netanyahu, against whom a case involving billions in corruption has been pending for years, a case that has never been prosecuted due to the ongoing state of war.

The two have one thing in common: their absolute ruthlessness—and that is precisely what characterizes their ilk. These people will literally walk over dead bodies. In my opinion, this has not the slightest thing to do with religion.

Edit: The UK is likely the US’s closest ally, and the modern German state was largely established under US occupation (East Germany was under Russian control but collapsed before the Soviet Union did). Both countries therefore have historically particularly close ties to the US. Furthermore, if we’re honest, European criticism of Israel’s crimes comes exclusively from Spain.

I think the much simpler explanation is that corrupt and unscrupulous politicians are lining their own pockets or profiting in other ways.

Germany supplies weapons to Israel, which is a multi-billion-dollar business. Furthermore, Israel is particularly influential in the U.S., which is why a good relationship with Israel is, so to speak, a prerequisite for relations with the U.S.—it is no coincidence that it is precisely those countries that are closely linked to the U.S. that also support Israel.

The fact that Germany doesn’t even shy away from targeting Jewish organizations that call Israel’s actions what they are is simply the same tactic that is always used to silence legitimate criticism. Germany, incidentally in a Bundestag vote that coincidentally took place on the day of a popular soccer match, adopted a definition of anti-Semitism that, for example, brands any comparison of Israeli crimes with those of Nazi Germany as anti-Semitism. Of course, this is absurd, but it is a tool that can also be used against Jewish critics.

This, in turn, is fully in line with Israel’s strategy, which has always used this argument to silence critics. For Jewish critics, Zionism has even developed the completely absurd construct of Jewish self-hatred.

In short: Germany’s support can plausibly be explained by greed and political opportunism. It is simply about money and power.

Yes, that’s true, but Lemmy isn’t a central platform like reddit.

That seems like the best option to me.

There’s a very simple solution to this: don’t use Reddit.

In Germany, this is indeed still (ostensibly) justified by citing the historical responsibility Germany bears toward the victims of the Holocaust. However, this line of reasoning is obviously completely nonsensical, since Germany’s responsibility naturally does not pertain to the State of Israel, but rather to doing everything in its power to prevent genocide—a goal that is, unfortunately, being thwarted by our politicians.

The fact that the political establishment and the powerful elites continue to support Israel despite its undeniable crimes and inhuman atrocities can, in my view, only be explained by corruption and skillful intelligence work on the part of the Mossad. I can no longer think of any other explanation.

In my opinion, the Epstein documents provide a fairly clear picture of how this works.

As a German, I can say that, unfortunately, nearly every major political party in Germany defends Israel and thereby actively supports its genocide. In my view, this is completely at odds with the general will of the people, as the majority of citizens firmly and decisively reject this criminal policy. They want Israel to finally be held accountable for its crimes, but this is being prevented by the political establishment.

Therefore, in my view, it would only be right to boycott German products as well, so that the pressure on our wretched politicians increases.

I do the same, and as a European, I also boycott all U.S. products, because this country not only participates in Israel’s atrocities but even makes them possible in the first place.

Well, people presumably don’t want to be arbitrarily arrested and dragged off to a concentration camp … or they just can’t stand fascists. Both are good reasons to boycott this criminal state. It’s about time, anyway, since FIFA is a plague too.

Thanks, I was too lazy to look up this example, especially since there are so many of them.

What are you getting at? This country was designed to be an oligarchy, and it still is one. That’s hardly surprising.

You do realize that the U.S. Constitution was written for a country where slavery was constitutionally permissible, right? And you’re also aware that the U.S. Constitution is the hardest of all democratic constitutions to amend, aren’t you? Likewise, that it has in fact been amended only very marginally, which makes this Constitution the only one that appoints constitutional judges for life and does not take into account to any significant degree that some states have far fewer residents than others, right?

In short: You are already aware that it is the U.S. Constitution itself that made today’s conditions—which no longer have the slightest connection to a democratic constitutional state—possible in the first place?

Edit: If not, I would strongly encourage everyone to fact-check this comment, because this is an issue that affects every U.S. citizen.

Yes, unfortunately that’s absolutely true. What really bothers me is that centralization is inherent to the nature of the internet, which isn’t a bad thing in and of itself. Unfortunately, however, billionaires have recognized this and have now created yet another advancement in the form of LLMs, which allows them to tighten their stranglehold even further.

I am convinced that the global resurgence of fascism is a direct consequence of this.

But yes, that’s unfortunately how it is: The internet has turned from a hopeful utopia into a dystopia that now makes even the bleak visions of the future by Orwell, Huxley, and others seem almost harmless by comparison.

The saddest part of it all is that it didn’t have to be this way if people were just a little less self-centered. After all, no one is forcing anyone to shop on Amazon or use Twitter, but millions upon millions of people do it anyway, thereby enabling what one might almost call a new—this time, however, global—monarchy of the absurdly rich; even nations are not able to defend its citizens against this centralized power.

But of course you’re absolutely right: we should probably just make the most of the freedoms we still have and use them while they still exist.

Apparently, the world’s billionaires now see themselves as a kind of global monarchy. Well, unfortunately, this is where unbridled hyper-capitalism has led us.

Yes, and the reason for that is lobbying, aka corruption.

This clearly illustrates the extent to which our politicians are selling out the interests of citizens for their own gain. Right now would be the ideal time to finally promote digital sovereignty, especially since products that don’t come from China or the U.S. could use that trust as a selling point. Unfortunately, however, everything remains the same because our politicians allow themselves to be bribed by criminals in the U.S.

It isn’t just big, it’s magnificent…

Yes, that is highly likely. That’s why I’m always surprised that it’s almost exclusively Chinese products that come under suspicion in public debate. Not that we shouldn’t have safety concerns here as well, but it’s exactly as you say: With U.S. products, it’s at least just as appropriate to fundamentally distrust the manufacturers, especially since the country is obviously ruled by a criminal regime that has absolutely no scruples and blackmails other countries with everything at its disposal.

Shouldn’t we ask the same question about products from the U.S.?

What else is there to say? This statement is correct: religion has always been misused for political purposes - that’s what the sentence says, not that religion itself is always misused; that’s your interpretation.

Besides, if you’d read a little further, you probably would have figured out what I’m trying to say.