Every Bond villain worthy of the title should have a diabolical plot worthy of respect.

In Die Another Day, Gustav Graves ingratiates himself with the West, constructing a satellite named Icarus without the authorities realising that he is actually developing a space-based superweapon. Ostensibly, Graves has developed the satellite as a means of ensuring that crops can be grown year-round, bringing an end to starvation, but the truth is far more sinister: the purpose of the satellite is to provide North Korea with the clout to become a superpower, if not to actually dominate the world.

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In other words: Now that he’s no longer getting any money from Google, he’s suddenly upset that no one is visiting his site anymore, because most of his former visitors now find the answers to their questions directly on Google—the very company to which he sold all of his website’s content.

Well, he could have figured that out sooner. What a moron—but hey, he’s already pocketed the money for all the content he stole from his own users.

It’s a good thing Aaron Swartz doesn’t have to witness all this, especially since the greediest of all corporations are now raking in money with complete impunity for the very thing he was supposed to go to prison for years—even though he had no intention of enriching himself at all.

But the U.S. will immediately declare war on football, invade Switzerland, and rename the sport “soccer” once and for all…

The cheese will end up tasting bland and insipid, too…

/s, of course—fuck that orange pedo and his despicable minions anyway.

Yeah, and you can finally play some Super Nintendo as if you were sitting in a cheap furniture store.

Nope, not at all - looks soulless.

They left the CRT TV in the wall? Even though they’re obviously not retro fans?

There isn’t much luxury in a car that annoys you with ads, is there?

But hey, maybe there’s an extra-super-luxury subscription that lets you turn off the ads. You know, like YouTube Premium or something, except that the free version already costs several tens of thousands of dollars.

It’s a win-win: insecure rich guys can feel superior again and BMW gets $.

That reads exactly like this absurd video message from a power trippin reddit mod after he was removed for promoting a scam.

It’s just as completely out of touch with reality that you almost have to feel sorry for guys like that, because it’s obviously pathological.

On the other hand, though, people like that are a threat to others—in this case an immediate threat for freedom of expression and open discourse, the cornerstones of the Fediverse.

I recently passed through Braunau, Hitler’s birthplace, on my way to a wedding in Hungary.

There’s absolutely nothing to see there.

If this is supposed to become an international gathering place for all those megalomaniacal Nazis, Musk, Trump, and their ilk will have to shell out a lot of money to make their pathetic ideas seem less pathetic than they already are.

I think even they lack the money for that, since their attempts across all of today’s media are already costing them a fortune, and they only succeed with people who are already so useless that humanity would be much better off without them.

You’re right—thanks for pointing that out.

Because of their shady tactics, I had naturally assumed that Axel Springer must be involved, but in fact, Springer Verlag was founded by Julius Springer, who apparently has nothing to do with Axel Springer.

Edit: I’m removing the part about Springer Verlag from my comment so that other people don’t get confused.

No wonder. Axel Springer is an utterly malicious corporation.

It’s only fitting that they take a liking to Thiel, who is, after all, also an unscrupulous monster.

Edit: Removed a statement about Springer Verlag; thanks to schnurrito for pointing out that this company is not affiliated with Axel Springer.

There’s no problem here, since we’re all on the same page. It just looks that way because of the downvote train that you’re still continuing many hours after the fact, instead of explaining how this misunderstanding might have arisen. The comment we’re talking about here doesn’t say anything like what you’re making out to be a given. I have no idea how you came to that conclusion, but no one seems willing to bother explaining it. Instead, there are just downvotes and “sufficient” answers that have absolutely nothing to do with the matter at hand. But hey, that’s just how social media is, and that’s exactly why the pedophile billionaires are winning…

Their tactic is to get like-minded people to tear each other apart: This is a good example of that on a very small scale.

Where does all this hatred and mindless conformity come from, which makes social media platforms so hostile?

Presumably because you have an interest in ensuring that there can be no civilized exchange…

I think that’s precisely where the central problem of our time lies: in the imbalance between the value created and the social significance of jobs, on the one hand, and the compensation paid for those jobs compared to administrative and management positions, on the other.

The best example of this, in all its absurdity, is that billionaires are getting richer and richer—or rather, that they exist at all.

I completely agree. I fear that this global trend is linked to the combined power of mentally ill individuals who have amassed so much power that they are now using their pernicious influence to establish a kind of new, transnational monarchy of billionaires.

I can’t think of any other explanation for the resurgence of inhuman fascism in so many countries at the same time.

In this case, it seems like the user has a whole bunch of smurf accounts to make their point … just look at the downvotes. If you’re not sure what a comment means, you wouldn’t just downvote it right away, would you? Anyway, that’s how I see it, but yeah, maybe after all these years I’m still misunderstanding this metric.

Isn’t that exactly what the comment you’re responding to is getting at? The discrepancy between the headline and the facts? So, the fact that a few U.S. troops lost their lives while their bombs blew many, many more Iranians—most of them civilians—to pieces?

Am I completely misreading this?

Edit: By the way, this is likely a news agency report that the BBC reprinted largely unchanged from a U.S. agency. That also explains why the BBC isn’t at all critical in this article. However, I can only vaguely discern that this outlet would generally be critical, which has to do with the “special” relationship between the UK and the U.S. You’ll never hear the BBC state with sufficient clarity that this war violates international law, nor that the U.S. is committing war crimes.

This is not meant to be an attack on this long-established organization. In my home country, Germany, the situation is no different, as our politicians also continue to cling to the U.S. as well.

What’s the point of this comment? The U.S. is waging a war of aggression in violation of international law, deliberately bombing schools and drinking water facilities, and thereby committing the worst war crimes imaginable. And it’s doing all this in collaboration with the butchers in Israel, whom it protects from prosecution.

That doesn’t seem to matter to you in the slightest, since you still feel you have to stand up for the “proud troop” as an “upstanding American supporter.”

This makes me sick—the U.S. president is a serious criminal and a pedophile, this awful country is ruled by organized crime.

GTFO

Thanks for the tip—I’ll check it out.

It’s a shame that even here in the Fediverse, people downvote you just for stating the obvious.

The ideological blindness in the U.S. is apparently so strong that many simply fail to realize that they are the bad guys, that their regime is pure evil.

Even under a degenerate monster like the current U.S. president, many Americans simply cannot see through all the lies being drummed into them by those who have been exploiting them for years on end.

It really seems hopeless…