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  • What she did is what everyone in her situation should do - not just if your visa is revoked, but if you are one of the target minorities.

    It’s hard to get your life turned upside down and leave your comfort overnight, and very unfair. But you don’t want to let them make the first move on you.

    As hard as leaving everything behind feels, the chance of being imprisoned and being powerless in case democracy falls and tyranny begins is far, far worse.

    Many people who chose not to flee newly-formed totalitarian regimes lived to regret that choice dearly. As did those who didn’t have the choice to begin with.

    Escape to safety, then denounce and seek justice and restitution. Safety first, always.


  • Sadly, yes. I mean, Trump knows he’s ‘close’ to his grave and needs to leave some kind of legacy - even if it’s the Hitler kind of one - his narcissistic self just wants to enter them history books as one of the big humans instead of ‘another rich guy’ as a footnote.

    Pretty sure either Elon or Vance are already lined up for when the time comes. When Trump leaves the world, and when there’s no longer actual rules preventing them from taking over and ‘fixing’ under martial law what big bad orange wrecked. At least according to them, that is.

    No matter how bad what they’re doing seems this is just the preparation stage. Things can become so, so much worse, and the more we let them consolidate power the tougher it’ll be to fight it later.


  • And some will defend them as hardworking people who worked day in and day out for their wealth.

    I’m sorry, no intention to depreciate your effort or success, but if you are building a super-yatch and your employees still have to pee in bottles you are greedy scum who doesn’t deserve success. There’s more than enough success to distribute part of it into happy employees who like to work for you, while still leaving you nasty rich.

    No one needs untold amounts of wealth, and frankly there should be a cap at “fuck you money” level. Once you can spend “fuck you money” you know damn well you don’t need any more, you just need to maintain yourself there.














  • Not a twitter/x or bluesky user, never really my type of preferred social media. So I wouldn’t miss it.

    However we must realize the most crucial factor about X in Europe, the fact that it’s a clearly compromised and biased network, highly subject to corruption, division and disinformation.

    Would the average person participate and support X if it was owned by a russian oligarch? And that russian propaganda was quite obvious within the social platform?

    Some would, sure, but the majority would mistrust it and be far more critical about potentially false information.

    So yeah, it should be categorically banned from EU nations. Not because I hate it, but because of the dangers of division it represents to our society. Specially when for those who like X-style platforms there’s already “non-regime” alternatives.


  • As portuguese I’m proud of my country for doing that. I hope this is the start of a more active role within EU, especially because we’ve been sitting too comfortably as a nation. Also because we’re the closest ones to the US and the west EU entry point.

    Needless to be said, before the “acshually” movement starts saying “they didn’t have an F-35 order”, they did have the intention to buy them, just like the old F-16’s.

    Regardless, Trump is an immature toddler who puts up tariffs against other nations and as soon as they counter him he immediately removes them and starts crying about unfairness.

    In his case “not buying the planned F-35’s” pretty much = “Blowing up purchased and delivered F-35’s to send a message”.