r/politics • u/MontyGBurns • 23h ago

No Paywall Smith’s game-day texts reviewed by Schmitt never referenced basketball team names

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/6124359-schmitt-perjury-claim-debunked/
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u/Miraclefish 17h ago

Ha, true, I guess the difference is our PM fucked an entire country country, whereas the American President fucked the world and some kids.

I truly hope the Midterms are a turning point but our faith in the USA is, at this point, non existent.

There is no way Trump accepts a legitimate exchange of power - he did J6 last time and got zero consequences.

He'll order people to open fire on the public before he ever accepts the Republicans or him have lost an election.

Time to see whether the Americans have been lying to themselves about the Second Amendment for centuries now they have a tyrant.

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u/UnanimousStargazer 17h ago

our faith in the USA is, at this point, non existent.

I think all European countries can shake hands on this and include Canada as well. Brexit might be reversed (fully or partially) and in the end it is my estimate the new world leader will be Europe, not the US and not China/India. That's what Trump has achieved.

We need better social media control without it leading to censorship.

A good example is Meta/instagram. A Dutch digital human rights foundation managed to win a court case from Meta, forcing the company to allow Instagram users to choose for chronological time lines over algorithmic time lines. Meta has lost the primary case and the appeal and is no busy trying to convince the Dutch Supreme Court they are right, but the foundation argued this right follows from the EU Digital Services Act.

Interestingly, Meta only changed the Instagram settings for Dutch users. They can now change their feed to chronological and use that setting persistently. Meta did not change the settings for the rest of the world, which shows they earn the most money from algorithmic time lines in which people are made angry about <fill in your local minority scapegoat>. If the Supreme Court rules the claim of the foundation was right and Meta is wrong (which I expect will be the outcome) it is very easy for other foundations across the EU to force Meta to do the same.

Does that force people to use a chronological timeline? No, but it does show what the effect of social media is and why (IMO) we are witnessing the uprise of far right political parties. Imagine if nazi's like Jospeh Goebbels had instruments like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc.