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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
Twitter announced today that it removed a new batch of state-backed accounts from its platform. During this latest round of purges, the social network removed accounts operated from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Ecuador, and China.
These new removals come as Twitter also took down state-backed accounts part of extensive information operations back in January (Bangladesh, Iran, Russia, Venezuela), June (Iran, Spain, Venezuela), and August (China).
Just like it did before, Twitter has made the information about these accounts and their tweets public and downloadable for research and academic purposes.
The breakdown by country is:
United Arab Emirates & Egypt - 267 accounts
United Arab Emirates - 4,258 accounts
Saudi Arabia - 6 accounts
Spain - 259 accounts
Ecuador - 1,019 accounts
China - 4,302 accounts
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 23 2019, @05:01PM (2 children)
You left the country? Which country and for what reason? Are you saying, you're a US Citizen, who left the country, because you felt things were too bad to fix? What country did you immigrate to? What did you state as your reason for entering said country? Do you have a job there? How is the place that you are, any better than the USA? Is it actually better? Or are you just ignorant of the history of said country? Yes, the USA has it's failings, but I'd be hard pressed to find a country that doesn't.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday September 23 2019, @06:39PM (1 child)
As stated on my static homepage, I now live in saarbrucken germany. And yes it is better, it was the right decisions, for a lot of reasons.
I was having daily encounters with undercover law enforcement for months, it was/is scary as fuck.
Here, I just have semi-regular encounters with what I believe are the 'Jewish Defense League' which is basically the Irgun, which is what Epstein is. Because I am a BDS supporter, I am essentially a military target for them as they see no difference between civiilan and soldier, words and weapons, etc. It is manageable and I have reported it to the authorities and i have quite a few pictures of it, which I can't post online without breaking the law however.
Yes, in the IT field I found a job and quickly. I was also able to teach english part time. It was not easy, I started with 2 backpacks and now I have an apartment for the same amount as my Kansas City apartment but which is in every way nicer and in a nicer neigborhood and I don't have to drive a car.
I already spoke german though because I went on a mormon mission when I was younger and came here on a mission, which was otherwise kindof a waste of time because I gave up on the LDS thing after 3 years because it got wierd.
If I did not however have this advantage there is no way I could have done this.
I do not have to drive or own a car and it is actually quite awesome. There are more holidays, the water doesn't taste bad, there is a central culture to the city that no american city has and I can travel to 20 different countries with ease, my neighborhood is nice and there are 500/month apartment next to really expensive real estate. Heck, I feel like reverse Toqueville. I kindof get anxiety to think I'd have to go back to an american city with the packed interstates and blank culture. I spent 3 years in kansas city trying to make friends, start projects, there's some kind of sickness there and many places I call 'donothingism' where people are just dedicated to being specators, the idea of starting a band or company or anything, is not even considered.
Either that or all of my social media was silo'd, I can't really tell, probably a mixture. I met far, far too many mean, empty people over my years in the united states, and yeah, the political repression is invisible to most people because they at the moment are essentially cows especially in the midwest, but for me it is very real and insane, I don't know what they are planning to accomplish. Did you watch the soprano's? The way the fbi got close to adriana(which eventually got her brutally killed btw) is what they have done to me, over and over again, and I can promise you I am not a mob boss, or boss of anything.
Getting mugged in kansas city sucked, my jobs sucked, first they made me bend over backwards and when I wouldn't bend over the other way, I was just fired without explanation. Over and over. 60 hours for 40k, treated like a machine, no benefits, no culture, no vacation. Original independent thought is treated as a disease in the united states, I can not describe it any other way. There are some bright spots, but the mind of the place is closed. It's sad and scary, whoever is pulling the strings is into some monstrous/demonic shit.
Epstein really does explain it though, if you're not helping israel or are perceived as not pro-zion enough, you are ipso facto an enemy of the state. Anti-war people are treated as bad as terrorists, which is sickening. If you are helping israel, you can rape til your lizardbrain's content.
So yeah, I left. And it is better. I started with nothing and now I have some nice things. I don't know any americans who could do what I did though, personally, but they are out there.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday September 23 2019, @07:25PM
We'll not look at and compare history of the country then, since Germany's tumultuous past is quite well documented. I can't say I have a lot of personal experience with Germany, other than the quick layover on the way to another country.
If you're looking for demilitarized police, you'd do better than to look at Germany's police force, though. The officers at the airport carried what looked to be fully automatic sub-machine guns. They also, definitely have their own problems with white supremacy. How many people of color do you typically see in an average day? Strictly out of curiosity.
From the demographics that I've been able to dig up, it's somewhere between 80% to 90% white, german. https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-ethnic-groups-in-germany.html [worldatlas.com] With 1% African German, which I'm assuming would correlate with African American in the USA.
So, you're pasty white, male, can speak German, and decided to move to Germany. I'm quite glad you were able to find a place that offers you a good salary, etc. Condemning the USA over Germany, yeah, I'm not convinced that you didn't just change devils.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"