V.L.
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V.L.
@liki777.bsky.social
Your most boring liberal Code Nerd MSc.
A Finn living in Finland, posts in English and Finnish. Potentially also in Swedish.
I mostly follow back - Eventually.
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My take on the Western economy in a nutshell.

Much of manufacturing is outsourced in such fashion that jeans are imported for a aten and sold for a hundred. This takes most of the value in the chain for white collar jobs in sales and marketing, and profits for the owner. ...
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A little tip:

When your employer ask you to do something that is illegal, you've already lost your job.
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?

HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Did you ask him if his job was under threat if he failed to follow an illegal order? Did you ask him if he knows killing the shipwrecked is an illegal order? Did you ask him if he was promised clemency if he took the fall? What did he say? TELL US. Stop dancing around these questions.
BRENNAN: Do you have confidence in Admiral Bradley?

HIMES: What it raises is what happens when an apparently good man like Admiral Bradley is placed in a context where he knows that if he countermands an order he's uncomfortable with it's very likely he'll be fired
December 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Okay but WHY are the Kennedy Center Honors not being given out at the Kennedy Center? Did they cancel and move it to the Oval because ticket sales were non-existent?
December 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Trump divided the country, extorted Zelenskyy, tried to steal an election, incited an insurrection, stole confidential documents and banged a porn star. That’s his legacy. He knows he’s incapable of achieving anything good. He’s hoping his ballroom will remind people of him.
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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🔥🔥
December 7, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Persujen fasistinen "kuria ja rotia"-politiikka käytännössä: myös lapset voitaisiin sulkea varmuusvankeuteen määräämättömäksi ajaksi!

Kyseessä ei ole vakavan väkivallan ehkäisy, vaan pikemmin katteen saaminen sloganille, että ”vaaralliset rikoksentekijät eivät vapaudu”.
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Asiantuntijoilta tyrmäys lakihankkeelle, joka voisi sulkea alaikäiset rikoksentekijät vankilaan määräämättömäksi ajaksi
Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin laitos (THL) sanoo, että ehdotuksen taustalla oleva ”yhteiskunnallinen arvovalinta” on huolestuttava.
yle.fi
December 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I think it’s gonna just be the California map and the Texas map allowed in the midterms. I think SCOTUS will say it’s too late for Indiana or Virginia.
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Usassa sanotaa kaunistelematta eikä kiemurrella tekopyhästi arvopohjien kanssa

"Strategia esittelee Trumpin ulkopoliittista linjaa ”joustavana realismina”.

Putin on tyytyväinen

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Kreml kiittelee Trumpin turvallisuusstrategian lievennettyjä sanamuotoja Venäjästä
Trumpin hallinnon perjantaina julkaisemassa strategiassa Yhdysvaltain linjaus Venäjää kohtaan on aiempaa pehmeämpi ja korostaa rajoitettua yhteistyötä.
yle.fi
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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UBS may cut further 10,000 jobs by 2027, SonntagsBlick reports reut.rs/4pnRZV3
UBS may cut further 10,000 jobs by 2027, SonntagsBlick reports
UBS may cut an additional 10,000 jobs by 2027, Swiss paper SonntagsBlick reported on Sunday, not citing where it obtained the information.
reut.rs
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Make it make sense.
December 7, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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December 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Don't ever call this THING a president!
December 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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It would seem that those US lawmakers reminding their military that they have a duty to refuse illegal orders wasn't seditious at all, but rather timely and apposite.

Mayhap they were onto something?
December 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Can you ignore the ICE police?
If an officer stops you, you may ask if you are free to leave. If they say yes, walk away calmy. If they say no, stay where you are and do not attempt to leave. You do not have to speak to ICE, answer any questions, or show any documents.
December 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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BREAKING: Admiral Bradley told Lawmakers this about the Caribbean boat attacks. They did the unthinkable!

krassencast.com/p/breaking-a...
BREAKING: Admiral Bradley told Lawmakers this about the Caribbean boat attacks. They did the unthinkable!
CNN is reporting that the boat the U.S.
krassencast.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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CORRECTION: Earlier in a reply (deleted), I said that we *can* commit war crimes while not at war. That is incorrect. My thought was surely it’s *both* a war crime *and* murder. I thought about the war crimes we committed during Vietnam (not a war), but that IS an armed conflict and that counts. 1/
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Don’t forget sleeping his way through the presidency. 😜
December 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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December 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Minneapolis stands up to ICE

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job

Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now/news/minneap...
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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We The People still don’t quite get it. But WE—not some “powerful” authority or politician will save us.

WE will use noncooperation, culminating in tax resistance and strikes to remove the fascists, along with plutocracy and elitism itself.

We will enforce justice and create a better society.
December 5, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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BREAKING: Federal grand jury REFUSES TO INDICT New York Attorney General Letitia James again
December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM