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I mean, sure, the lip synch didn't work right, but this is not at all beyond the realms of credibility.
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If reports are accurate that pro Trump activists are circulating a draft executive order declaring Chinese interference in 2020 and proposing a national emergency to expand presidential control over voting, including banning mail ballots and voting machines, then Europe is not shocked. Europe has seen this movie before. Many times. In multiple languages. With different uniforms.
Across the continent there is a long institutional memory of how democracies erode. It rarely begins with tanks. It begins with narratives about stolen elections. It begins with emergency powers framed as temporary. It begins with claims that only one leader can restore legitimacy. Europeans recognize the choreography because their own history forced them to study it in painful detail. When someone proposes expanding executive authority over the electoral system itself, alarm bells are not subtle. They are deafening.
What is surprising to many Europeans is not the proposal. It is that large parts of the United States still experience this as unthinkable. For years, media ecosystems closely aligned with Trump have rehearsed the language of fraud, foreign interference, and illegitimacy. The groundwork has been laid methodically. Claims repeated. Institutions questioned. Courts framed as partisan. Election officials portrayed as enemies. From the outside, the escalation feels incremental rather than sudden.
Europe has warned about democratic backsliding for years. The pattern is familiar: delegitimize the vote, centralize authority, frame opposition as existential threat, invoke emergency powers. It is procedural before it is dramatic. Legal before it is violent. By the time the violence appears, the narrative architecture is already built.
And January 6 remains the hinge point. Many Americans still treat it as an aberration, a chaotic day that spiraled. Europeans tend to see it as a stress test that revealed how far rhetoric had already moved the boundary of acceptable behavior. It was shocking. It was chaotic. But it did not emerge from nowhere. Political ecosystems do not spontaneously combust without oxygen.
Speculation about foreign forces fighting to “get back” the United States may sound theatrical. In reality, democracies do not rescue each other with armies. They influence through pressure, alliances, trade, and legitimacy. If the United States drifts toward emergency rule over elections, the confrontation will be political, economic, and institutional long before it is military. NATO is built to defend territory, not adjudicate internal constitutional crises.
The real question is not whether this is shocking. The question is whether Americans now see the pattern as clearly as outsiders do. Democracies rarely collapse in a single dramatic act. They change incrementally, justified step by justified step, each one defended as necessary.
Europe recognizes the pattern because it paid for the lesson in the past. The uncertainty now is whether the United States believes it is exempt from history.
Exclusive: Pro-Trump activists are circulating a draft executive order alleging Chinese interference in the 2020 election, proposing a national emergency to expand presidential power over voting, like banning mail ballots and voting machines. wapo.st/3OBux9y
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The ECHR has intervened in 13 UK deportation cases in 45 years...
Either you just want to strip rights from 70,000,000 British people, or you're a useful idiot for those who do, which is it?
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In the whole of 2023, 2024, and 2025 to date, the ECHR has examined 4 cases involving the UK. Only one involved an issue around immigration and the migrant in question, lost.
So why do the extreme right hate this court?
researchbriefings.files.parl……
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Charlie Kirk was an unrepentant racist, transphobe, homophobe, and misogynist who often wrapped his bigotry in Bible verses because there was no other way to pretend that it was morally correct.
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From the U.S. Holocaust Museum:
"What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process."
Welp.
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Pretty sure the Fiorentina Tifo doesn't need an explainer.
#FiorentinaJuve
@footballitalia
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Mozilla just changed the Firefox TOS. If you're a privacy person, might be time to move off.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is now outdated. Mozilla updated the Terms of Use to be more clear:
It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content.
blog.mozilla.org/en/products/fi…
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Correct. This is the trap finally closing on anyone left who believed this was a real social media platform. It's just a propaganda instrument controlled by a fascist. None of the interactions occurring here are organic in their number or reach; they're engineered by an oligarch.
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"I consider myself a Senate man, more than I do a president."
Yeah... that was kind of the problem.
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A must read for people who think they have decided to loathe Meghan Markle as a free and independent thinker and not because they are subjected to a daily barrage of hate directed toward her by the tabs:
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Remembering parts of town no longer with us…Day 2
Dutch Pancake House
📸 | @MENnewsdesk
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If it was as easy as the bigot in this video says it was, y’all racist ancestors would’ve picked the cotton themselves.
Allow me to give you all a brief education about slavery that you want to ban from your children’s schools so they won’t know the truth, but will believe videos like this when it comes to the atrocities of American chattel slavery and what your ancestors put my ancestors through.
To the man in the video, you’ve got more work to do. An average an adult enslaved Black person was expected to pick 200 to 300 pounds of cotton per day. They worked from sun up to sundown for their entire lives. So pack a bag you’re gonna have to stay on that plantation until you die. After you die, several generations of your descendants will do the same thing.
In addition to picking cotton, enslaved Black people were forced to perform a wide range of tasks on plantations during American slavery. These tasks were brutal, dehumanizing, and involved backbreaking labor. Here are some of the other responsibilities they were forced to undertake:
Planting and Harvesting Crops like cotton, tobacco, sugar, rice, and indigo.
Plowing Fields: Preparing soil for planting using rudimentary tools or animal-drawn equipment.
Weeding and Maintaining Crops: Clearing fields of weeds and ensuring the crops grew properly.
Processing Harvests: Tasks such as ginning cotton, curing tobacco, or grinding sugarcane.
Irrigation and Drainage Work: Building and maintaining systems for watering fields, especially in rice plantations.
Cooking and Serving Meals: Preparing food for the enslaver’s family and plantation workers.
Cleaning and Laundry: Maintaining the cleanliness of the enslaver’s house and laundering clothes.
Childcare: Caring for the enslaver’s children, including nursing and supervising them.
Personal Attendants: Serving as maids, butlers, or valets for enslavers and their families.
Carpentry and Masonry: Building and repairing plantation structures, including homes, barns, and fences.
Blacksmithing: Creating and maintaining tools, horseshoes, and other metal equipment.
Tailoring and Sewing: Making clothing for the enslaver’s family, other enslaved people, or for sale.
Shoemaking: Crafting shoes for the plantation’s residents.
Milling and Grinding: Operating gristmills to grind grain or sugar mills to process sugarcane.
Shipbuilding and Dock Work: In coastal areas, enslaved people built ships, loaded cargo, and worked on docks.
Tending Animals: Feeding, herding, and caring for livestock such as cattle, pigs, sheep, and horses.
Breeding and Training Horses: Particularly on larger plantations.
Road Building: Constructing and maintaining roads on and around the plantation.
Clearing Land: Cutting down trees and removing stumps to create fields.
Repair Work: Maintaining tools, equipment, and buildings.
Mining: In some areas, enslaved people were forced to work in salt or gold mines.
Swamp Work: Draining swamps to create arable land.
Forced Breeding: Enslaved women were often forced to bear children to increase the plantation’s labor force.
Sexual Labor: Enslaved individuals were frequently subjected to sexual violence and exploitation.
Music and Entertainment: Providing entertainment for enslavers at parties or gatherings.
Religious Labor: Preaching or leading religious services tailored to maintain control over enslaved communities.
Leased Labor: Enslaved people were often rented out to other plantations, businesses, or infrastructure projects like railroads.
Urban Labor: Working as artisans, dockworkers, or domestic servants in towns and cities.
The workload was relentless and varied depending on the size of the plantation, the region, and the enslaver’s demands. This labor was enforced through physical violence, psychological manipulation, and systemic oppression.
So get your nonmelanated self back out there in the sun and pray you don’t get sunburn, you’ve got a lifetime of more work to do.
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