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  • And this is why good people who got rich don’t stay rich and people who do are usually selfish assholes. Elon Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion, he could have literally built hundreds of amusement parks for disabled people with the same money. Or do literally a thousand other things to make life for other people better. Instead he bought a toxic social media platform to make it even more toxic.















  • CitizenKong@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldCasual reminder
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    3 months ago

    Also, Hitler had to declare a state if emergency to gain the absolute power the Supreme Court has just handed to the US president.

    Suffice it to say, something lile this is impossible now in Germany. The justices of our highest court, the Bindesverfassungsgericht, can only hold the job for 12 years and can be no older than 68. They are also always equally voted in by two different branches of the government and need a two thirds majority for any decision.

    Our democracy isn’t without faults, but this is probably our strongest bulwark against another descent into facsism.