Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Who is the dictator?

#Trump: "I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president."

#Zelenskyy: "I do not want my picture in your offices. Hang your kids' photos instead, and look at them each time you make a decision."

Who truly serves the people, who serves themselves?

So we cancelled our US vacation and will instead visit Canada. Any user group in Toronto looking for a speaker during spring break?

How Hitler seized power:

1. Create a crisis.
2. Demonize opponents.
3. Declare a state of emergency.
4. Undermine elections.
5. Make the rule of law irrelevant.
6. Rule by decree.

If America falls it will be because of the people who didn’t pay attention.

I wonder if engaging Trump on his false claims about Zelensky's approval rating is missing the point. Trump doesn't actually care if Zelensky is popular or legitimate. What he's saying is that he wants Zelensky replaced. That's Washington's new position, not that Zelensky has an xyz rating.

#Ukrainians: share your views on the US-Russia "peace talks" about the war in #Ukraine

The Guardian is "keen to hear how Ukrainians feel about the Trump administration-led peace negotiations with Russia, as well as the prospect of elections in Ukraine"

Please share. 🇺🇦📢

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/ukrainians-share-your-views-on-the-ukraine-russia-war-peace-talks

🙏 "There are no Patriot missiles near one of the Ukrainian cities. This is wrong," — Zelensky

🇪🇺🇬🇧 "I have started negotiations with European leaders, and I believe that they will be ready to finance the Armed Forces of Ukraine if the US does not do so."

The free world’s choice now will shape more than just #Ukraine—it will define the future

#Trump and putin are working toward the same goal—undermining democracy. One wages war, the other enables chaos. Words won’t stop them—only action will

The #EU must lead. The free world’s next move is critical

⚡️🇫🇷 France convenes second urgent meeting of EU leaders in three days to discuss Ukraine and security in Europe, — Reuters

The summit is expected on February 19. Among the invited countries: Norway, Canada, the Baltic states, the Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, Romania, Sweden and Belgium.

Our current geopolitical situation suddenly makes a lot more sense when you stop considering the US as a country which has just accidentally elected a fascist, and instead consider it as a country where tech oligarchs and Russia have collaborated to successfully game the elections, and are now dismantling checks and balances.

The US is now well on the way to becoming an oligarchic puppet state of Russia... #USpol

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Interesting discussion in the EU parliament right now: while @EUCommission and #MEP Andreas #Schwab celebrate the #DigitalMarketsAct as a success, #Google competitor #Ecosia slashes it as "utter failure" and calls for a revision #DMA 2.0 to "step up the game".

Their argument: one year in the law has led to zero change on the market.

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.

We don't want to be on any list.

And now the US Gov and Musk are trying to get access to all data they have about every person and put them into a big fat DB and run AI over it.

I am afraid what they will do with that.

The "Trolley Problem" is like the Kobayahi Maru: It isn't actually a legitimate moral paradox, it is a contrivance designed to teach us learned helplessness.

In real life, whenever I see what is presented as a trolley problem, I see someone carefully arranging the propaganda so that there appear to be only two options, both bad for me and good for them.

If I have to pull a lever, it will be on a guillotine for whomever set up the trolley.