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Europe's strength begins when it stops applying double standards to human rights and international law.
Europe needs to stop enabling the genocide and Israel's decades of crimes.
Europe needs to apply the same sanctions to Israel as it does on Iran.
Europe needs to demand the end of Israel's nuclear threat.
Addressing the embarrassing lack of diversity on Mastodon should also be a goal.
And no, asking white Europeans to attend lavish conferences in Germany to discuss isn't the solution.
We need better processes to hold biased admins/mods to account. Eg
* Mandatory transparency on account limiting, suspension and post removal
* GDPR compliance especially subject access requests
* Public statistics on compliance with the above, including timelinesss
* Referral to independent user-nominated moderators for adjudication with binding decisions
* Code of conduct which codifies the Jerusalem Declaration on #antisemitism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem_Declaration_on_Antisemitism
when there is a choice of verification options, and they choose Peter Theil ... that is not an accident.
As part of the EU I hope you would veto or vote against Israel's participation in European cultural events.
I hope you would work to remove them from preferential trade agreements.
I hope they don't get European tax payer money as part of Horizon.
In fact I hope you would push for sanctions and boycotts - just as the EU does for Russia, and how we did years ago for apartheid South Africa.
And I hope you would work to undo the irrational EU sanctions on Iran.
If you do want to be part of the EU please don't be part of their racist double standards supporting the genocide and that apartheid war criminal state known as Israel.
The EU has shamed itself.
From vond er Leyen spreading known lies about "making the dessert bloom", eradicating the pre-existence of Palestinians.
To Germany's violent brutality against pro-peace activists, and their irrational "staatsrason" law.
To Amsertams proven lies and gaslighting about Maccabi thugs.
Alfred is right.
Germany should be allowed to send weapons to Israel.
How Israel uses them is not Germany's responsibility.
This is how international law works.
Even if Israel was executing a genocide, operates apartheid, uses banned chemical weapons, bombs 7 countries in 12 months, starves a population, lets babies in incubators die, shoots children's gonads, murders journalists, uses human shields, rapes captives to death, steals organs .. operated Epstein..
.. that's fair.
@axnxcamr @rzeta0 @patriksvensson @anderseknert
AI has been used extensively in the genocide of Palestine.
AI is increasingly being used in the US by ICE.
In the UK and EU governments have exempted the military and law enforcement from any AI regulation that might apply to normal civilian use.
As you say - things will get very very bad before normal citizens wake up to the tyranny and injustice of pervasive surveillance and automation.