demi7en 🎗🇪🇺
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<p>Interests: Authoritarian regimes and their victims. Principles that should never be for sale.</p><p>Latin adage “Si vis pacem, para bellum” (updated 2023)</p><p>“If you want peace, try disempowering dictators; when others *empower* them nevertheless, prepare for war”</p><p>ℹ️ The account icon is an ambigram which, when flipped, means either "police" or "violence". Ever since the 2019 protests when the previously respected police helped the 🇨🇳☭ CCP crush Hongkong's pro-democracy civil society those things are synonymous.</p>
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Could it be considered ironic that... an internet search for "Cisco china theft" doesn't show any results of the Chinese dictatorship stealing Cisco's hardware designs which gave the CCP regime a leg up to control the "cyberspace" and helped it develop its repressive "Great firewall of China" (and also aided CCP's foreign intrusive "intelligence" gathering...) and instead the search now brings up only lawsuits claiming Cisco aided the dictat...
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A fault line that could redefine Democrats in the US | DW News "Four months from now US voters will go to the polls in crucial mid-term elections that could reshape the final two years of the Trump presidency. In Congress, the Democratic Party is hoping to take control of the House of Representatives, but the topic of Israel and its war in Gaza is becoming one of the Democratic Party's biggest fault lines." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsk03iWZ3Xg ---- Remember the October 7...
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Last note before a much-needed sanity vacation. [Ignorable long post so... TL;DR: Boycott *all* dictators and their enablers like morality-free corporations] I&#39;ve tried living by the &quot;Be the change you want to see in the world&quot; advice since my teens. For all my civil and human rights advocacy and e.g. campaigning for Tibetans&#39; freedom from colonial repression virtually everyone around me has been flippantly funding their oppressors, the Chinese Party-state r...
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I fully get all the derision the once-pioneering #Fender guitar conglomerate gets from players for starting to sue makers of Stratocaster-looking instruments. If it was about *exact copies* I&#39;d get their argument but now they&#39;re just committing corporate suicide. And that&#39;s fine by me; they haven&#39;t really innovated anything since the founder Leo Fender left for greener pastures. (NB. Fender&#39;s current copyright actions were predicated by Leo&#39;s f...