It must have been a spontaneous case of diarrhea when he realized that he might even be held responsible for the murder he had just committed. Perhaps in his panic, he briefly imagined that the US was a constitutional state and that his employers, with their plan to establish a dictatorship, were not yet far enough along to protect him – or that he was just a dispensable accomplice to his masters.

Why was Trump’s former personal lawyer and a top Justice Department official meeting with a sex offender whom the US government had previously assailed for her “willingness to lie brazenly under oath about her conduct”?

This question answers itself.

Training an LLM is extremely expensive and, for this reason alone, simply not feasible for private individuals. However, this is not necessary. You can also build your own bots and use what is already available. This does not even require fine-tuning with your own data.

It is unfortunate, however, that this seems necessary in order to be able to offer any resistance to the goddamn Nazis.

You mean tyranny, not anarchy. But I agree with you: the US is beyond saving. However, this is not a decline, but nothin than the logical consequence of the apathy of the population.

The US is (still, but for not much longer) the richest country in the world. Violence against the population as practiced in dictatorships has yet to be established here, which is what is happening at the moment, and yet the population remains largely paralyzed. One only has to consider the events in Iran these days to realize how utterly short-sighted this actually is.

We should not forget that Drump was a member of the Democratic Party for eight years.

As a European, I can only observe how absurd the US system is, how ruthlessly it exploits its citizens, compared to what we take for granted here.

I also notice the people who insist that the Democrats are the solution, even though they so obviously are not. I am aware of the despair of US citizens, their powerlessness in the face of institutional exploitation. For a long time, it looked as if this absurd misery would spread to us in Europe without any need - and it still does. But we here in Europe can almost be grateful that the US has now completely fallen into the clutches of fascism, because this makes it clear even to some the brainwashed people how inhumane the US system really is, that there is nothing desirable about it, but that it is synonymous with nothing but oppression and tyranny - at last, the narrative of freedom, which is actually nothing but bondage, has been demystified, at last people can wake up and see the American dream for what it is: a nightmare with no awakening.

This is proven by the fact that “woke” is used in the US as a battle cry against anyone who refuses to accept that they are disadvantaged, that they are aware of the slavery that is US ideology.

Anyone who thinks otherwise is contradicted by the fact that the head of state of the US is an orange-colored child molester. Even the heavily redacted documents that are public leave no doubt about this - on the contrary, they show how absurdly corrupt this system is and how blatantly it tramples on what any halfway decent person would call justice.

Nevertheless, just to be on the safe side: go vote and vote for the Democrats in the midterms - not voting and not voting for the Democrats would be the stupidest thing you could do, even in this system. Not voting for the Democrats despite the corruption will surely lead to dictatorship - and the current regime is illustrating what that means with its repressive measures, which are still harmless on comparison.

The only other option would be for the population to rise up en masse, but the US does not seem capable of this, as evidenced by the fact that things are the way they are.

Of course, I am fully aware of that. Ministerial posts are usually filled by politicians from the respective party who, incidentally, have been elected to one political office or another. Or by experts in their respective fields, which is more of an exception. Of course there are lots and lots of unqualified people in these positions elsewhere in the world.

But this clown show???

There isn’t a single minister in the US administration who is even remotely qualified for their office - most of them aren’t even politicians in the broadest sense, but merely friends of the orange child molester.

Are you trying to tell me that there’s anything normal about that?

Well, that’s true, but it’s also strange. Ministers are usually elected politicians or experts in their field. I can’t say who the craziest choice in this administration is: the talk show host as defense secretary, the right wing podcaster FBI director, or perhaps the wrestling promoter who is education secretary, or even the washed-up B-list celebrity, second-rate TV personality president himself…it’s a pretty tough choice.

The US president would want to use such a social media platform…and he does so very frequently.

Isn’t it strange that the Twitter Nazi is somehow always portrayed as a member of the government as a matter of course? I mean, he was never elected by anyone, was he?

As a European, that alone strikes me as rather strange, but given everything else the regime gets away with, it’s probably a minor detail - still, I find it quite telling what absurd access rights were granted to an unofficial “advisor”…

This is bad news for the Republicans, because all this hatred is intended to distract attention from how shamelessly the elite is enriching itself at the expense of the country - and also from other crimes, such as those documented in the Epstein files.

If their voters also realize that hatred of foreigners and the wars waged by the regime are one and the same thing, they will really have a lot to explain…

Unfortunately, there is no party in Germany that would pursue a different policy on Israel, which is why I am talking about the political caste as a whole. I’m not entirely sure whether the AfD, a sadly popular neo-Nazi party, would perhaps take a different approach in this matter, but they are the personification of evil and therefore unelectable for even halfway decent people.

Unfortunately, voters have little to no choice at the ballot box, because there is consensus on this issue across the political spectrum among all major parties. In Germany, there is even a term for this, “Staaträson,” which refers to unconditional support for Israel.

However, this should not be confused with the opinion of the population, which, in my view, overwhelmingly rejects Israel’s inhuman atrocities and in no way wants to support the genocide of the Palestinians. This is happening against the will of the people for the most part.

However, you are right in saying that the people are not doing enough to force politicians to stop their despicable support for the criminal regime in Israel. There are protests against it, but unfortunately not on a scale that would enable a bitterly necessary change.

Indeed. It clearly shows the moral depravity of the political caste in Germany. It also shows the unbearable hypocrisy, especially since arrest warrants have long been issued by the International Criminal Court against the Israeli prime minister and several members of the Israeli regime. Unlike the US, which has never recognized this institution, the decisions of the ICC are legally binding for Germany. And yet, the German government is not just standing idly by, but continues to cooperate with this regime and thus actively supports the genocide of the Palestinians. It is far more than a declaration of moral bankruptcy - it is a crime against humanity in itself.

I cannot see what strategic reasons these might be, or why they would justify the massive costs of invading a NATO and EU member state.

I am, of course, aware that the US president is a megalomaniac. But I think you are thinking too much from a political perspective: the US has been a plutocracy for decades. Therefore, the economy pulls the strings, and I cannot see what the massive losses that an invasion of Greenland would entail would justify - there really is no economic gain and that is all the US is about.

You want a short answer: it would cost the US economy billions to attack Europe, and that is why they will not do it.

No, I am definitely not one of those who believe that anyone who belongs to the elite or their minions in the US could be prosecuted for any offense - quite the contrary: I consider this completely out of the question, since the US is not a constitutional state but a plutocracy on the verge to dictatorship.

I am not a US citizen, but from Europe.

I still think that the US is bluffing, and I think that it may be the hubris of a nation whose citizens still believe that they are the only power in the world that makes this bluff possible. In fact, in my opinion, the US will soon be replaced by China as a superpower, if that is not already the case. However, this is not in terms of military power, but in terms of economic significance - and here, apart from the IT sector and the arms industry, the US no longer has much to offer. Europe is still important for both industries though, which is why I believe this is a bluff. The reason: due to the behavior of the US, the EU is already in the process of becoming more independent, which is a direct consequence of the irresponsible foreign policy of the first year of the current US regime. Attacking EU countries now would accelerate this process many times over, which the US cannot afford.

In short: I am a realist, and I’m pretty certain that the reality is that the US is already isolated due to its current foreign policy and is also heavily indebted. For this reason, I consider it impossible that the current administration would risk a complete break with the EU (and NATO), as this would not only hit Europe hard, but also the US. The winner would be China, the country that will overtake the US in the foreseeable future anyway.

In short, I consider the US regime’s policy not only irresponsible from a European perspective, but also absolutely disastrous from the US perspective. It is a policy of excessive self-overestimation that completely ignores reality.

Any EU country is by no means equivalent to any other country in the world for the US. What you say only confirms my opinion as an EU citizen that nothing but hostility can be expected from the US. The hubris is truly unbearable, and it seems that it is not just the pedophile head of state. It is remarkable how much self-importance a dying superpower can muster in its final death throes. The US is at an end, and this is not just due to decades of mismanagement…

I’m sorry for being so salty, but I no longer have any sympathy for US citizens trying to cover up for their criminal government with slogans from the 1980s. The world is different today, and there will be a rude awakening in the US when the intoxication of self-adulation wears off.

Please don’t get me wrong: I’m up for a laugh, but not for most of the stuff that 4chan finds funny because it’s at the expense of others (exceptions are, of course, those people who are quite rightly targeted, such as Nazis or TV priests who only enrich themselves at the expense of their clientele).

Sure, it’s just fun, and good fun at that. But I’m more concerned about people who are destructive. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with a little teasing - quite the contrary, in fact. Harmless fun in particular should be monetizable because it is so entertaining for all involved.

Yes, yes, please don’t misunderstand: a certain amount of trolling seems perfectly appropriate to me. I even believe that there are people who can hardly be dealt with in any other way. But I’m talking about trolling on this platform, where, in my opinion, there are relatively few absurd opinions that cannot be countered with arguments. Of course, there are also views here that run counter to rational thinking, but after more than two years here, it seems to me that most users, despite perhaps destructive views, are still somewhat reasonably willing to accept arguments (if not, in my opinion, it’s best to simply ignore them).

I mean, fortunately, we’re still quite a long way from reddit or even X or Truth Social here. So it seems to me that there is at least a willingness to discuss things here, which is why I can’t really understand why anyone would want to undermine that. I’m not referring to you at all, of course, and I very much appreciate your answer - I completely agree.

I’m just trying to understand why even here there are apparently people who are bent on pointless confrontation. I just don’t get that.

But a response doesn’t mean they’ve won in any way…

It just means that someone has responded, nothing more. How can that be considered a victory?

Edit: Not me with the downvote btw - I don’t get why ppl feel the need for that either, but that is a different topic.

So 4chan is ubiquitous? I had thought it was a self-reinforcing effect caused by completely degenerate people gathering on the same platform.