So let me get this straight.
Iranians who lived Iran have gotten it all wrong.
Venezuelans who lived Venezuela have gotten it all wrong.
Cubans who lived Cuba have gotten it all wrong.
But you—who have never left the four corners of your own sublime comfort—are the bearers of truth?
Si no sabes quien es Bassil Alejandro no te quiero ver opinando sobre mi país.
Habiendo dicho eso, FELIZ 2026. La justicia tarda, pero llega. Y cuando llega es implacable.
🇪🇺 Telegram sent this message to all its users in France regarding Chat Control. People must know the names of those who try to steal their freedoms:
Today, the European Union nearly banned your right to privacy. It was set to vote on a law that would force apps to scan every private message, turning everyone’s phone into a spying tool.
France led the push for this authoritarian law. Both former and current Interior Ministers, Bruno Retailleau and Laurent Nuñez, supported it. Last March, they declared that police should see French citizens’ private messages. The Republicans and Macron’s Renaissance group voted for it.
Such measures are supposed to “fight crime”, but their real target is regular people. It wouldn’t stop criminals — they could just use VPNs or special websites to hide. Officials’ and police messages wouldn’t be scanned either, since the law conveniently exempts them from surveillance. Only YOU — ordinary citizens — would face the danger of your private messages and photos being compromised.
Today, we defended privacy: Germany’s sudden stand saved our rights. But freedoms are still threatened. While French leaders push for total access to private messages, the basic rights of French people — and all Europeans — remain in danger.
🇺🇸 Of course, after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, social media on both sides of the U.S. political spectrum exploded.
The United States is walking down a very dangerous path.
Our team doesn’t usually pay much attention to the U.S. political “influencer scene”—it isn’t something that particularly interests us. But we cannot ignore the public assassination of a political commentator, nor withhold expressing concern. Whatever one thinks of Kirk’s views, the murder of an activist cannot be justified, no matter how it is spun. It also sets a dangerous precedent: tomorrow, it could be someone you agree with who gets shot.
Several of our team members and journalist/analyst colleagues are very public and outspoken with their opinions. Some live in the West, others elsewhere. In our line of work, we saw attacks on people for speaking their minds intensify in 2022. At first, these were online—lives were ruined, jobs were destroyed. Now, as yesterday’s case shows, people are losing their lives for their opinions.
Undoubtedly, this event pours more fuel onto the fire of America’s deepening divide. And as @RWApodcast noted yesterday: when pro-Russian locals were burned alive in Odessa in 2014, the act itself horrified many. But what truly cemented the path to full-scale civil war was the way Ukrainian nationalists openly mocked the tragedy, joking about an “Odessan barbecue.”
The way U.S. "left" is mocking Charlie Kirk’s shooting carries an unsettling resemblance.