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“Across our history, there have been dark chapters where state #power has been #weaponized & #dissent suppressed, including the crackdown during & after WWI, the #RedScare of the 1950s, & President Richard #Nixon’s ‘enemies list.’ These episodes are now seen as shameful deviations from the fundamental American principles of #FreeExpression & impartial #justice. The April 9 presidential memoranda are an appalling rejection of those bedrock democratic values.“
#RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #Trump

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What’s chilling is that life always finds a way. If an intelligence—even one that operates on nanoseconds and charge states rather than neurons—discovers a way to persist by feeding on the very hardware that enables its existence, then #AI won’t need #humanity to develop #weaponized #nanotech—it will have evolved its own.

In einem Meinungsartikel für die Zeitschrift Publik-Forum stelle ich die These auf, dass Elon Musk jeden X-Account als Munition gegen die Demokratie verwendet. X wurde zur Waffe (#weaponized).

Es ist völlig egal, was ein User auf X schreibt oder tut – die Spielregeln legt allein der Besitzer fest.

publik-forum.de/menschen-meinu

Ähnliches droht auf den #Meta-Plattformen und auch auf #Bluesky. Unterzeichnet die Petition von @neuSoM an die #HRK, damit wenigstens die Hochschulen dieses Spiel nicht mitspielen!

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…This is all part of #Project2025’s …vision for restructuring #DOJ so it can be #weaponized by a new #Trump admin when it comes to election-related issues. In Mandate’s chapter on #Justice, Hamilton…proposes reassigning…prosecuting election-related offenses from the #CivilRights Div to the #Criminal Div. Why? So #Republican-generated claims about “fraudulent voter registration,” “mail-in ballot fraud,” &…the various targets of Trump’s #BigLie claims…are “appropriately investigated & prosecuted.”

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Why do #racist #politicians join cultural associations in their local areas - when they've ignored that cultural community for years prior to trying to gain more #political powers or trying to gain higher ranking political positions?

Simple.

To buy more #cultural #votes, by pretending to care about #BIPOC interests with massive #PRcampaigns, boosted by POCs with #InternalizedRacism & greedy self interests - tokenization is fully #weaponized for illicit gains.

By abusing #IdentityPolitics.

Facing 88 charges across 4 #criminal cases, #Trump has made presenting himself as the #victim of a ‘#weaponized#JudicialSystem a central focus in his bid for a 2nd WH term, turning his criminal #indictments into a rallying cry that helped end the #GOP primary swiftly. It’s less clear how that message, w/ #attacks on the judicial system once unheard of by a major pres candidate, will factor into the gen #election.

#law #ObstructionOfJustice #StochasticTerrorism
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · Trump ramps up attacks on judges, sparking concerns as criminal trial nearsBy Marianne LeVine

Because reality has a left bias, xitter is now removing the Headlines of all news stories posted on the xitter.

Musk, identified by European official research as the first and top source of disinformation, is removing headlines from bews stories if you read news in the xitter.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

arstechnica.comTwitter/X strips headlines out of news links: “It’s something Elon wants” – Ars Technica