Ist Motorhaube 90 cm statt 80 cm hoch, so erhöht sich das Risiko tödlicher Verletzungen in einer Kollision für Fußgänger:innen um 27%. Im Vergleich zu Kollision mit herkömmlichem Pkw ist bei Kindern das tödliche Unfallrisiko um 82% höher, wenn sie von großem SUV oder Pick-up angefahren werden 1/2

However, the problem with these images is not just their genericness. It's the deeply populist idea that politics can be reduced to its immediately visible effects: politics is not judged by how it affects people's concrete daily lives, but rather by its aesthetics—by what image it produces
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„…and who uses the awesome might of the US government to remake society and the world. A man who funds the companies that harness your data and determine who gets doxed, deported, drone struck. Who funds far-right movements that seek to remake the very face of liberal democracy.“

„“You realize,” he tells his audience when interpreting a particular Japanese manga, “in my interpretation … who runs the world is something like the antichrist.” Here’s a man who, together with a couple of fellow Silicon Valley freaks, helped return a sundowning caudillo to a presidency…“

er hat halt alles mögliche gesagt, für klicks, auch "love your neighbor" und "jesus saved me". er war ein radikalisierungs und attentionsunternehmer von rechtsaußen, seine normie-strategie geht jetzt gerade super auf.

I assume the idea is to mock Trump's AI slopaganda by imitating it. But I doubt that'll work. Trump has turned himself into a meme that is beyond parody, and copying the MAGA aesthetic and rhetoric merely accepts their dominance, which means surrendering before the fight has even begun
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