And still I'm told to be afraid of China.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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Hey guys, don’t let them do that.
I mean, the five eyes have been a thing for a long time. Not sure that this is really news aside from the publicity
What the fuck.
I’m so fucking sick of this fascist shit.
It feels like no one in any meaningful position of power has any morality.
Capitalism has morally bankrupted just about everyone in a position of power.
Shout out to the ones that are genuinely trying to improve our lives.
Shout out to the ones that are genuinely trying to improve our lives.
Like who?
Chloe Swarbrick for an NZ specific example
Chloe all the way
AOC, Mamdani, Talarico, Sanders, Buttigieg, Brandon Scott off the top of my head.
Brandon Scott, mayor of Baltimore, MD, USA?
Yeah, I saw him on the Lemonade Stand podcast and man sounds like a stand up guy.
Baltimoron here - he's definitely not the worst mayor we've had in recent history, and he probably gets some credit for supporting the violence reduction programs that have led to our truly historic drop in homicides over the last couple years.
Also, he has good taste in music
Wassup "human"... Feel like connecting to be a beer supplier?
I'm looking for a hook up to Crooked Crab Brewing.
Linos Torvalds
I’m so mad that the world saw Linus’ gift and said “cool, let’s build all the torment nexuses out of this because it’s cheaper”
So before capitalism you don't know of any rulers being unjust?
It's not a feature of capitalism to corrupt, it's a feature of power structures to be corruptible.
It’s not just rulers being unjust.
The issue is the rich and powerful are manipulating every aspect of our lives and our political system to gain more money and power for themselves and never face accountability for their wrongdoings.
These people are genuinely evil
Still comes down to the rulers imo, as they enable such behavior from the rich. The longer this goes on, the more blatant it becomes. And they've been at it for a looong time.
Of course the rulers enable this behaviour. Who do you think made them the "rulers" to begin with? You think our broke asses pay to get these people elected?
Elites will always be troublesome, but of no importance when they cannot corrupt anyone to do their bidding. That's why I focus on rulers.
The problem is that people still seem to think that the next politician will change this, which is exactly what the elites want.
Elites will always be troublesome, but of no importance when they cannot corrupt anyone to do their bidding.
Given enough time and enough resources, anyone is corruptible. The most corrupt are usually those who believe they can't be corrupted. You just have to get them to honestly believe something that isn't true. Once you figure out what cognitive fallacies they're vulnerable to, you'll have just turned a bulwark against you into your most loyal zealot. That's why the wealthy usually win. With enough money, one person can command more time, and resources than 50% of the country combined.
Totally agree. Everyone is corruptible.
Chomsky being in the Epstein files is the perfect example.
None of this is a capitalism issue.
How is it not?
The rich and powerful are using their essentially bottomless pit of resources and money to influence political systems to give them even more money or resources.
Billionaires own everything and it's wreaking havoc on our lives.
Capitalism gives them the tools to create the wealth disparity. Wealth = power. They have used their capital to create more, and this have gained a outsized leverage over our entire society.
You’re not a capitalist, you’re a worker who can’t see past the ruling class’ propaganda that socialism requires totalitarianism. It ain’t true.
Handing your own citizens data to fascists - what could possibly go wrong?
Hmm, I can recall one particular instance around the 1930s that lead to some very horrible atrocities by a one piece of shit.
Yes, yes, let's give our biometric data to nazi Germany in 1938, what could possibly go wrong?
The logistics of the Holocaust was enabled by IBM tabulation machines; this comparison isn't that much of a stretch.
Y'all better demand your government to backtrack on giving our fascist government your information.
Sadly, somewhere along the line New Zealand became a very conservative country that’s hard to rouse to action.
Oh i will be.
90 day travel no visa is pretty good though. If info is already shared through the five eyes agreement then this is a no brainer. Ice isnt going to come to NZ to arrest people and Trump's going to be out in a few years.
Do you think America just snaps out of this in 3 years? Or do you think Trump starts to round up people who didn’t vote R in the midterms and then appoints his successor, President Elect Steven Miller?
And the fact that you thought about it for a second means you should be scared.
They don't even have a border. Just a shared interest in crushing the proles.
how fun.