You are looking at this from the wrong perspective…

It’s “causing brain damage to get more voters”.

Yeah, he and his party have steadily talked about delivering Taurus, to then initiated votes in parliament that did get much less yes votes in total then just Merz’ party alone had. He talked loudly about how he would totally send Taurus if he had to decide. Now he has to decide so he moved to goalposts to “Europeans need to decide it”. And he will continue like this.

He was also very steady on the absolute non-negotiability of Germany’s debt brake for years and through the last election campaign… until he negotiated the biggest debt package in Germany’s history days after the election, then pushed it through with the still existing old parliament (and with the exact same parties he refused to even discuss this for years) as he doesn’t have the majority in the new parliament.

Speaking of the new parliament… with right-wing morons now the second biggest party because Merz spend years parroting their talking points. All while steadily rejecting the idea to ever work with them. Until he tried to push an anti-immigration package through with their votes just two weeks before the election. Then he turned around and pretended that he did not cooperate with them as he would obviously never do this… oh and the 100 thousands of protesters spontaneously taking to the streets all over the country because of that massive breach of his word and the historical precedence of voting through legislation with the far right were called insane lefties and paid actors (also insinuating that they should not ahve their consitutional right to protest).

In short: Merz lies when he opens his mouth. He’s basically what you get when you order Trump on Wish (not coincidently his inner circle spend a lot of time in the last years forging good connections to MAGA morons, learning from them how to campaign on culture war bullshit and lies… also in a similar vein those same people are -now that speaking too favorable about Trump would cost them votes for now- already advocating a normalisation of that other group of Putin puppets, the far-right AfD).

And the media keeps pretending that Merz is not rotating through the exact same couple of lies again and again and again… 🤣

Das mag die vorherrschende Logik sein, aber bestätigt nur meinen Punkt. Das Problem liegt bei dem, was dieser Typ Wähler für Logik oder Fakt hält.

Nee, ignorieren und stattdessen vernünftige Politik machen, wäre auch ein Option.

Nur leider will die C*U im Kern ja die selbe menschenfeindliche, rechtsfeindliche und verfassungsfeindliche Scheiße wie die AfD. Sie hätten das Ganze nur gern ohne den radikalen Ton und das schlechte Image.

Also bleibt ihnen nur die Wahl, durch generelles Blockieren und Verhindern in der Opposition, sowie durch Durchssetzen von AfD “light” Politik in der Regierung der AfD zur Herrschaft zu verhelfen. Geht leider nunmal nicht anders, wenn die Alternative wäre, nicht an der Macht zu sein und zusehen zu müssen, wie sich tatsächlich etwas für Menschen statt nur für den eigenen Geldbeutel verbessert.

Fairerweise versteh ich, dass sich C*U-Milglieder über Politikverdrossenheit wundern.

Wenn ich Wähler immer und immer wieder offen anlüge und sie mich trotzdem weiterhin wählen, würde ich auch nicht damit rechnen, dass die plötzlich doch Verstand entwickeln. Und würde ich doch damit rechnen, wäre “Ich kann ja nur den selben Lügner immer wieder oder politikverdrossen gar nicht mehr (oder radikal) wählen” immer noch nicht die Reaktion, die ich erwarten würde.

Sorry… die C*U ist (und das nicht erst seit gestern) der letzte Dreck.

Aber was haben die mit der Politikverdrossenheit derer zu tun, die sich weigern, ihr Hirn zu benutzen und immer nur wie die Idioten gegen ihre eigenen Interessen wählen, um dann überrascht zu sein, dass gegen ihre Interessen gehandelt wird?

Reducing EU citizens with the priviledge of studying in Germany for free and involved in well documented illegal behavior to “simple suspicion should be enough to deport anyone” is a perfect example of reductio ad absurdum.

Also I did in no way hide behind the law but talked about the fact that we SHOULD discuss the actual laws, while those people instead chose to just lie and spread a narrative.

And so I will simply ignore you, as you obviously have no interest in arguing in good faith.

Aber das wäre ja direkte Konkurrenz für die von ihm produzierte heiße Luft.

By law they can be deported for severe enough infractions without going through the whole chain and several legal instances until finally convicted. We could discuss if that makes sense… but that’s not the point here.

The point is that they are accused of illegal occupation of university facilities (inclusing property damage), obstruction of arrests, insulting police officers as fascists, chanting “From the river to the sea”-slogans (illegal in Germany)… all well documented.

And yet they don’t even try to argue about the law or the circumstances. They just straight out lie telling everyone that they did nothing and are deported because they are pro-Palestine. And they rant about unlawful intimidation tactics by the government when in fact it is legal.

Seriously I’m impressed that none of those “reports” has started to talk about “thought crimes” and similiar bullshit yet just to divert from what they actually did and tell the fairy tale of the evil fascist Germans that supress any deviating opinion.

But they won’t as they actually love their dependence.

Not long ago they terminated their years long test run of hosting their own fediverse instances with what condensed down to basically “it was very successful and really worked well; but we don’t care, so we can’t be bothered to operate them any longer”.

In simplified terms:

You are allowed to modify stuff but it is not actually changing the install as is.

This is achieved by different techniques like file system overlays, containerisation, btrfs snapshots and so on.

The idea is to replicate the classical behavior you know from embedded devices that have their core functionality in ROM with even firmware updates only overlayed or modern smartphones: You can modify your system but in the end there’s always the possibilty to “reset to factory settings” as in: the last known working configuration.

You mean the ban defined by the International* (Norwegian) Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

No, I don’t mean any absurd definition by a zionist lobbying organisation with the primary goal of shielding Israel’s right-wing zealots from any criticism, but simple common sense.

So when I hear people chant “From the river to the sea” - I (and solidarity scholars) don’t see that as a call to violence against Jewish people

You don’t see that “From the river to the sea” used by people that -exactly like Israel’s insane government- vehemently deny a two state solution makes a very clear statement about the continued existence of Israel, or more precisely the non-existence? You don’t see how morons in Germany cheering for the attacks of October 7 2023 and offereing food and candy to passersby in celebration on the streets were very well understood to have used that slogan in exactly one way? That’s interesting… if only in a sense that I now know that reality is lost on you.

This is just a theory but maybe worth a thought:

Could it be possible that acceptance in a certain community up to the point where it’s just a non-issue that is totally separated from what the community does, bring a lot of people to the public view that exist everywhere else, too, just not that openly?

There was in fact some minor friction on IT events some years ago where people objected to stuff partly looking more like a pride event. Yet the majority didn’t care and there was barely any active pushback. And so it normalised very quickly and now it is just how it is. In my personal view at least for the benefit of all involved.

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You are obviously not doing enough work with a full screen terminal being open… 😜

Compatibilty of Windows games in Linux have gone a long way, partly but also independently from Steam’s work on it.

In fact Linux nowadays supports more Windows games than Windows, as especially older games still work there but not on modern Windows anymore.

I will not pretend that there aren’t games with issues, but in the vast majority of cases that’s new games and for the simple reason that some publishers actively go out their way to prevent them from working on Linux (highlights being anti-cheat tech that Linux worked hard to make it compatible, yet with certain publishers intentionally not setting a simple flag needed to run, often with totally made-up “reasons” about Linux’ insecurity…).

I guess I’ll look for some guys on the street to invite them to trash my place and then sue my landlord for providing an defective door… 🤣

Actually lots of areas in Europe tested fluoride in water locally at some point. But they never found convincing evidence of this being preferably to getting fluoride the “classic way” (personalized in small doses already included in toothpaste).

Are USians not brushing their teeth? Or have they changed the toothpaste formulas to exclude fluoride, too, now?

Wouldn’t it be great if just one company per 10 articles about European companies “looking for alternatives” was actually ditching US services for European alternatives?