Well I don’t know about that. Maybe if this current outrage gets enough people to engage in internal party politics the DNC can be reformed? I’m honestly not too knowledgeable about that area of US politics, but my understanding as a layperson was that there isn’t really anything (except for party-internal conflict obviously) preventing registered democrats from trying to reform or even replace the DNC.

But even if that is possible not sure if it would be fast enough. There are probably a host of different internal elections involved to gain the required influence, and the next national midterms elections are probably way beyond Trumps deadline for going completely mask off “I’m your dictator now”-fascist.

As the link in the post body explains you may direct your complaints to https://old.reddit.com/user/HEPS_08 of the r/stalker subreddit, although I’m sure they have heard about it in these past four years.

Do you happen to have a link about public data?

Not really, although I’m quite sure people have wrote about if you care to search. The “Fediverse” communities on many instances would be a place to ask. The underlying protocol is called ActivityPub, which would already give an insight into what is available to the broader network (which includes Mastodon and other services), but if you want to get down to it you can spin up a Lemmy instance and see what you get.

Votes specifically are even publicly visible on some Lemmy frontends, like Piefed and Mbin I think.

I’m just saying consider anything you post on Lemmy specifically or on the broader Fediverse in general part of the public record, for better or for worse.

P.S.: including DMs, they aren’t encrypted.

I’m not sure how to link directly to a subsection of Wikipedia.

Mouse over the link to the subsection in the sidebar, right-click, copy link location.

Not sure if there is a way to link to a specific paragraph though. Since you seem to be new to Lemmy you may want to take a look at this for formatting your posts: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

And since it seems you already had a post deleted, there is a modlog. You can reach it from the sidebar of any instance or community. So if you go to [email protected] then click the modlog link in the sidebar, and scroll down a bit you will see the reason your post was removed. You can then appeal that action to either the mods of that Europe community or the admins of the feddit.org instance.

As you seem to be American and inclined to research, here are a few keywords you may want to look up: Operational Security, Signal Intelligence, End-to-end-encryption. Be advised that up/downvotes as well as a lot of other metadata is essentially public on Lemmy, because it is available to every instance (you can host one yourself if you want to). Your government may be blind on four eyes right now, but there is still one remaining.

Also don’t get drawn in too deep into the reasons why any of these people do what they do. It’s interesting to the point of being too good to be true, I’ll admit that, but it is a distraction. Focus on organising yourself and the people around you. Good luck.

My account is too new to upload screenshots

Guessing you wanted to show something like this? Otherwise you might be able to post links at least, not sure what your instance does in terms of restrictions.

And yeah, it’s interesting that Trumps territorial threats seem to pretty much match this “vision” so far, with the exception of Gaza I guess.

This isn’t exactly fascism, this is the first technocracy in the works.

Could still go either way I think. But good point, the Night of the Long Knives is certainly going to be interesting. I kind of see Trump as having the edge though, with large parts of the cult being loyal to him as a person.

Feels like decades though…

The other reply you already got pretty much sums up how I feel about Merkel, not a fan exactly. But I’d like to add one specific thing she has my respect for.

During the refugee crisis of 2015 there was a point where her side of the political aisle was approaching hysteria. There were hundreds of thousands of people streaming into the EU from all over the middle east and north Africa, crowds at every major train station and border crossing, normal refugee infrastructure way beyond the point of collapse. So conservatives were starting to seriously argue for the suspension of asylum rights, closing borders, etc. And Merkel was usually one to wait stuff like this out, see what possible consensus forms and then adopt it as if it was her idea all along. But not this time. She saw it starting to gain traction, just came out publicly and said “We will manage this”, and that was that for her. Discussion died immediately.

I may not respect much of what she did before or after, but taking that stance at that moment as clearly as she did, that I respect her for.

Are they serious, like showing images of Musk doing this is unlawful?

Potentially, which I guess might have been the entire point. The ZPS is no stranger to provoking law suites, and since Musk did this in the US this might be their attempt at baiting the German jurisdiction to take a stance on it.

That said the article you linked says the police talks about having an “Anfangsverdacht” (initial suspicion), which basically means “we have heard about it and will look into it”.