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De_Minimis 9h ago

Missing The Point 17h ago

The only thing quieter than President Trump’s birthday military parade is Elon Musk’s phone on Father’s Day.

De_Minimis 15h ago

Private Justice: How Corporations Are Suing Nations for Billions | English

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Justice parallèle : Quand le profit passe avant l'intérêt général - Documentaire Géopolitique - Y2

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De_Minimis 1d ago

Ned Resnikoff 1d ago

If you take one thing away from today, let it be that we outnumber them.

De_Minimis 2d ago

Hacker News 2d ago

For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones
L: https://jacobin.com/2025/06/ban-smartphones-tech-society/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44274090
posted on 2025.06.13 at 23:58:38 (c=0, p=4)

For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones

Smartphones are making us unhealthy, miserable, antisocial, and less free. If we can’t yet nationalize the attention economy, maybe it’s time to abolish its primary tool — before it finishes abolishing us.

De_Minimis 2d ago

CBC News 2d ago

Canada to join major European rearmament deal as early as June 23: sources
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-signing-onto-european-rearment-deal-eu-canada-summit-1.7560891?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Canada to join major European rearmament deal as early as June 23: sources | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney plans on joining a sweeping European plan in Belgium this month to rearm the continent and provide more military aid to Ukraine, CBC News has learned.

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Nowhere Girl 2d ago

But if you'll notice, all the people who actually know and study history are freaking out right now.

De_Minimis 2d ago

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Iran news on live map in English - Conflict in the Gulf- iran.liveuamap.com

Explore Iran local news alerts & today's headlines geolocated on live map on website or application. Focus on Iran protests, politics, military news and security alerts

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De_Minimis 3d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcfbniNUjWY

Charlie Angus - Indictment of Donald Trump

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Chu 朱 3d ago

NRA, this is your moment. You've told Americans for 3+ decades that the price of Freedom is children getting shot up in school so any Tom, Dick, and Harry can buy a gun at a Walmart and defend the nation from tyranny.

This is it. Go do your thing.

Greenpeace International 3d ago

Across the world, right now, billionaires, oligarchs, and corporations are using their wealth to silence dissent, undo decades of social and environmental progress, and manipulate the game in their favour.

It's #TimeToResist the billionaire takeover.

Join us! 👉 https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/time-to-resist/

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grob 🇺🇦3d ago

@greenpeace you can find a nice visualization of how much billions are here https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ basically it let's you scroll through wealth going up, stating in between what you could buy/do with the money you scrolled so far.

Wealth, shown to scale

Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.

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Trifolium 3d ago

@greenpeace

Maybe we should go back about 2400 years and recall Plato’s Laws, especially Book V thereof.

https://c.im/@Trifolium/114244947655701605

Trifolium (@Trifolium@c.im)

@randahl@mastodon.social Maybe we should go back about 2400 years and recall Plato’s Laws, especially Book V thereof (744d–e, 745a–b): “– – there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty, nor, again, excess of wealth, for both are productive of both these evils. Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or wealth. Let the limit of poverty be the value of the lot; this ought to be preserved, and no ruler, nor any one else who aspires after a reputation for virtue, will allow the lot to be impaired in any case. This the legislator gives as a measure, and he will permit a man to acquire double or triple, or as much as four times the amount of this [– –]. But if a person have yet greater riches, whether he has found them, or they have been given to him, or he has made them in business, or has acquired by any stroke of fortune that which is in excess of the measure, if he give back the surplus to the state, and to the Gods who are the patrons of the state, he shall suffer no penalty or loss of reputation; but if he disobeys this our law, any one who likes may inform against him and receive half the value of the excess, and the delinquent shall pay a sum equal to the excess out of his own property, and the other half of the excess shall belong to the Gods. And let every possession of every man, with the exception of the lot, be publicly registered before the magistrates whom the law appoints, so that all suits about money may be easy and quite simple.” https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1750/1750-h/1750-h.htm#link2H_4_0008 In other words: economical inequality is bad, and such differences should be limited to be no more than fourfold.

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3d ago

@Trifolium @greenpeace Plato's literal political theories are not often good or democratic, but this is some exception from this🤌🏻

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xs4me2 3d ago

@greenpeace

Exactly, fully unethical and a result or end game of neoliberal capitalism…

#timetoresist

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stux⚡3d ago

@greenpeace There should be no billionaires on this planet

Peroid

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Steve 3d ago

@greenpeace just a matter of time now until someone figures out the nutritional value of dollar bills

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Tody Motmot 3d ago

@greenpeace Unless you're in the process of getting rid of your money by helping others, being a #billionaire is engaging in #genocide against the global working class.

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Olson 3d ago

@greenpeace You forgot mortgages, food, etc.

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Saverio 3d ago

@greenpeace This is a crazy world and humans still act with instinct... nevertheless there's the science, think, ethics we behave like in stone age. Naked monkeys

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Marc Geffen 3d ago

@greenpeace Not to mention these guys are not worth just 1 or 2 billion, but HUNDREDS of billions of dollars 💵

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Ian Ellis 3d ago

@greenpeace When I was at uni, aged 18 to 21, one of our physics lecturers pointed out that we students hadn’t yet lived a billion seconds — that’s about 31 years! (Sadly, 24 years ago for me now…)

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Mochi 3d ago

@greenpeace When it comes to psychiatric hold, we consider it reasonable to hold someone against their will when they're posing a risk of harming themselves or others. Billionaires are hoarding their wealth as a result of an addiction, and this addiction harms a lot of people and creates a lot of suffering, maybe we should put them on involuntary hold.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell 2d ago

@greenpeace

I think the more effective way they, the wealth of a billionaire is to understand that Elon Musk bought the position in government for pocket change.

He spent a quarter of $1 billion out-of-pocket and that would be enough to give every American a few thousand dollars, but I think it would be enough to get everyone in America a few thousand dollars.
That’s pocket change