2/ Pile on? Sure, why not.

“New ethics inquiry details more trips by Clarence Thomas paid for by wealthy benefactors

Investigation by Senate Democrats found that Thomas accepted gifts and travel worth more than $4.75m since 1991” theguardian.com/us-news/2024/d…

So the Senate releases the report on the Saturday before Christmas, ensuring it will be buried in the news and no one beyond the few of us interested in politics will ever know.

Brilliant. Classic Democratic strategy.

Bra vo.

The fact this got released at the very end of the Dems term shows they weren't interested in SCOTUS reform at all.

Just wow! If there is one thing that is going to bite Americans in the *ss for years, it's going to be the totally corrupt #SCOTUS

I really like #Biden , but this was perhaps the biggest mistake of his term

A fan of Elon Musk and Alex Jones.

Of course.

I didn’t know he supported AfD. I guess I am not surprised sadly.

Rekated or not: they claim that they are not Nazis but if so why did they wear cornflower blue? And why does that even matter? Well: before the Anschluß in 1938 and in particular when the NSDAP was illegal in Austria (or Österreich) Nazis wore cornflower blue to let others know their association.

Anyway I don’t really know if a lone person having sympathy matters. What matters is the loss of life.

And (un)surpriringly, this is not at all what news outlet put forwards in their titles...

"Europe’s far right seizes on Magdeburg attack to hammer migration, Islam " -Politico
"Education alone can't prevent radicalisation, security expert says " - Euronews
"Taleb A. sentenced in 2013 for threatening of criminal offences – even before asylum application" -Der Spiegel

Reading that you would think the guy is a radical islamist migrant, not a right wing doctor arrived in germany 20y ago

And an interesting fact: He was also a clear Islamophobe (But for some reason the media talks about him as a Muslim... Although there is probably one reason... Spreading aversion to Islam)

It is also interesting that Saudi Arabia warned Germany about the man (which they clearly ignored and now they want Europe to give the opportunity to deport immigrants...)

From Ha'aretz:

Saudi Refugee, Fan of Elon Musk and the anti-Muslim Far-right: What We Know About Germany's Christmas Market Car-ramming Suspect

Fifty year-old Taleb al-Abdulmohsen killed five people and critically injured dozens more at a Magdeburg market. According to his social media posts, he identified as an ex-Muslim, supported the far-right AfD and expressed sympathy with 'Greater Israel'

haaretz.com/world-news/europe/…

Saudi refugee, fan of Elon Musk and the anti-Muslim far-right: What we know about Germany's Christmas market

^{David Issacharoff (Haaretz)}

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Look at how many boost this bad news gets and often so distant from us personally - 114 boosts so far

People talking about #Trump #Musk #Bezos the bad etc - So much time on that while I wonder how much time they also actually invest in people ? Like making friends with the others in the world or even just on the Fediverse as there might be better quality of person here or worth risking with (risk happens whichever way).

Something to come out of stereotypes or hate loops from distance.
Yes not even looking at the bad as much or just learning out of what they are literally feeding us as the same crap since much of it is the same happening over and over as if we never saw it before....

Is that too hard to focus on making #friends on #Fediverse?
More than talking about Alex Jones or some pure speculation (or not) encouraging / triggering people do the same instead almost like a knee-jerk?

I'd like to ask all to get some priorities right and reassess usage if they don't build something else meantime. Somethign that is less $tate New$ and $ystem. It's borderline falling for it since even the links are adverts and tracking and just encouraging people's racism too in reply for what nobody know truth for and overlooks the more reliable truth that there is economic and time warfare happening and occupying y/our feed time in that way too...

(Not all comments were like this or even the worse but I chose this one to say something - so I do still appreciate we reply on stuff but just too much spreading what bad people do or plan - because that's part of their plan too as people boost it)

@hfinyow
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@Lazarou
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@StephaneHuart
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...... I know the picture is a bit extreme for #love but somewhere towards investing more personally in people ?