@rogerc2738@social.vivaldi.net
B...b...b...but that's SOSHALISM!
Aren't these the very people who mostly support tRump and cry about handouts and "free stuff" when OTHER people are the recipients?
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HarryMutt
@HarryMutt@social.vivaldi.net
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Joined February 04, 2025
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@chrisstoecker
Sie arbeitet jedenfalls nicht für uns, sondern gegen uns. Sie beraubt mit ihrer unverblümten Lobbypolitik das Land der energiepolitischen Unabhängigkeit, die ihm NUR die errneuerbaren Energien liefern können, wie wir gerade am Beispiel der wirren Weltpolitik sehen können. Fossile Brennstoffe sind eine Falle. Uran wird zum großen Teil von Russland, ansonsten auf jeden Fall größtenteils von anderen Despotien und systemischen Konkurrenten wie der Vereinigten Oligarchie von Amerika kontrolliert. NUR regenerative Energie im europäischen Verbund kann uns davon unabhängig machen.
Man müsste die ganze Republik mit Plakaten pflastern.
ROBERT HATTE RECHT!
DER hat uns ja auch in der bislang größten Energiekrise seit den 70ern den Rücken frei gehalten und dafür gesorgt, dass die Lichter nicht ausgehen. Reiche dagegen verkauft uns an den höchstbietenden und versagt auf ganzer Linie, wenn es darum geht in diesem Land Energiesicherheit herzustellen.
Im übrigen kapiert Fritze Merz wieder mal nicht, was er sich mit der ans Bein gebunden hat. Jeder kann ihre korrupte Inkompetenz sehen. Und das fällt auf IHN zurück. Aber hey, der Blackrock Lobbyist hackt doch keiner anderen Krähe ein Auge aus...
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@iFixit@mastodon.social
Yep, buy a good laptop that is easy to repair, not glued together, install the only OS that guarantees your freedom, and laugh at those ignorant people who believe promises made by US tech gangsters. THAT's how to protect your digital souvereignty.
Same with phones. Buy a Fairphone, install an OS like /e/OS on it (or buy it pre-installed) and enjoy the freedom from those megalomaniac tech giants who use your data to manipulate and oppress you.
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@Natasha_Jay
Interestingly, as a German, I can understand quite a lot of the very old texts. But my mother had a PHD in English and French and knew a lot about old Germanic sagas and medieval German literature. So, that is nothing foreign to me.
If you read anything from Walther von der Vogelweide, you will clearly see the similarities to the oldest texts. Words and grammar are recognizable, and if you can read one, you can read the other.
But even in Shakespeare's time, you will find a lot of those common roots of our languages, and if you get used to the different spelling, the sound of it rings familiar. And as late as in Jane Austen's times, even the number format was still the same as in German, for instance, four-and-twenty and not twenty-four.
After all, with all the lost grammar and words, modern English is just a watered-down version of old German.
;-)
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@vampirdaddy@chaos.social @jensclasen@mastodon.social
Bitte ja! Ausserdem ist sie in den meisten Ländern ja wohl mittlerweile als verfassungsfeindliches Symbol einzuordnen. Weg damit!
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@merill@infosec.exchange
Hmm, I would never in my life install any M$ crap on my /e/OS ungoogled Fairphone. It's not rooted, but I guess it's also among the undesirables...
For authentication to our goddamn work accounts on M$, I use AEGIS. Or the standard authenticator on Linux Mint. Export/Import between the two works like a charm.
And it could well be that we are moving away from microslob in the not so far future. Unthinkable not so long ago. Halleluja!
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@KanaMauna @davidaugust
Have a look here. This is for Germany, but of course, you can draw the same conclusions for other countries from it.
It's fairly accurate, although there are even minor errors in her German calculations in favor to the American outcome.
https://youtu.be/DWJja2U7oCw
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@jensclasen@mastodon.social
Unfassbar. Als dürfte man als Deutscher die Landesflagge von Schleswig-Holstein nicht zeigen, oder meinetwegen die bayerische. Das sind REGULÄRE Flaggen und kein politisches Statement.
Dann erwarte ich verdammt noch mal auch, dass die Amis ihren elenden Scheiẞlappen auch nicht jedem ständig ins Gesicht hauen dürfen. NIEMAND ist so nervig damit wie die Amis, die sonst nicht zu wissen scheinen, was und wer sie sind...
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@captainfutura@mastodon.social
Man muss Dump ja fast schon wieder dankbar sein, dass er unseren Dünnbrettbohrern beweist wie unnütz und schädlich ihr Lobbyismus ist.
Nicht, dass ich glaube, dass Reiche und Co lernfähig wären, aber vielleicht sind es andere ja doch...
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@zed@mstdn.party @davidaugust@mastodon.online
Same for Germany as compared to the US. But hey, you can't mention "progressive" to Americans. They think it's a "librul" conspiracy. ;-)
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@DieFurie@mastodon.social
Die fremdgesteuerten Volksverräter mit ihren Kontakten und Geldströmen in die beiden schlimmsten Oligarchien des Planeten. Marionetten der Milliardäre und KGB-Mafia. Billige und willige Werkzeuge für den gelenkten Angriff auf Demokratie und Rechtstaat. Was müssen die stolz sein in Ihrer völkischen Dummheit...
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@huntingdon@mstdn.social @KanaMauna@sauropods.win @davidaugust@mastodon.online
But then, aside from the problem of an overvalued currency, if all that wasted activity was not added to the GDP, how could the rednecks brag about Tennessee having a higher GDP per capita than Germany or France? For people without imagination, that is the only measurable parameter for their "success". As if they could eat their banknotes, overvalued or not.
Imagine US healthcare was suddenly organized and financed like in other industrialized countries. So, basically around half the costs with much better outcome. That alone would mean that the total GDP would fall by 5-10%. If you grow up in a place where only money counts, and where the value of a human existence is also only calculated in nominal monetary units, aka dollars, then would this not mean a total downfall of your world?
As Robert Kennedy once said, garbage collecting adds to the GDP. Even wildfire adds to the GDP, because rebuilding costs money, money that is added to the GDP. However wasted it is. It adds up to the GDP. And now try to sell to such people the idea of having the GDP fall by several percent.
Oligarchs would tell their workslaves, "It will ruin the economy, you will lose your jobs, it will destroy your pension. Birds will fall out of the sky. Jesus won't love you anymore."
What would happen?
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@MrLovenstein
Yes, who hasn't had that American nightmare when they hear talking bribed conservatives about privatizing our healthcare services here in Europe.
Luckily, other than in the American oligarchy, in real democracies, flawed as they are, representation cannot just ignore the people to serve corporations. And other than in the two party system from hell, politicians have to fear voters' choices. Let's keep it that way!
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@randahl
Yes, Donnie Demento has done SOOO much for the EU, he MUST continue doing the good work. Without him, the same shit of American oligarchy trying to rule the world would just go on and all the lazy people would still keep their eyes and ears shut as to ignore it because it's sooo "convenient" to have THEM decide over our freedoms and who gets our money.
Luckily, Donnie has opened a lot of eyes at least a bit.
Boycott America, buy European.
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@georgetakei
$75 BILLION?! No wonder they run around like occupation forces in a foreign country, equipped like an army and brutal like the mercenaries they are. $75 bilion, that's more than most countries spend for their whole military.
But hey, the USA spend even more than that on locking away the LARGEST prison population on earth, actually 25% of all the world. Kind of logical you need to fund the stormtroopers to fill these prisons with the same kind of money...
@LaNaehForaday@universeodon.com @Free_Press@mstdn.social
ehhhhhhhhhh......OH YES
What a funny world view you have. On one hand, it drips of entitled US exceptionalism based on nothing but the usual ignorance of international law and international relations. Guess what, the exact same views dominated the German view back in 1945/46/47. They throughly believed that their own justice system should have dealt with their own citizens, and not a foreign tribunal. Obviously, that view has changed over time because Germans later understood that their own justice system would not have been able to do that.
And seriously, YOUR law system, a second tier politicized justice system firmly rooted in the 19th century, is definitely inadequate to deal with YOUR war criminals, unless they are the very small fish like that trailer park barbie who was stupid enough to be photographed while humiliating naked Iraqui prisoners. The big fish like Bush and Bolton have never had to fear anything like that. That's because the rule of law quite objectively sucks in your country. The rich and powerful go mostly unpunished, the rest is not so lucky.
On the other hand, you are delusional to think that your government had ever cared for common citizens. The only US citizens they care for are themselves. And THAT is the ENTIRE REASON for that opposition against the ICC...
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Funny how two can do the same and mean something completely different. Here in Germany and much of Europe, showing your ID and proving you are a citizen is completely normal in the poll station.
But this only works because registration at the place of residence is mandatory, resulting in everybody having an ID. Voting here is SOOO easy because you automatically get a notice in your mail 6 weeks before the next election telling you the exact location and the date of the vote. Nobody tries to take away that right, nobody tries to intimidate voters, nobody tries to make voting harder. Quite the opposite, there are significantly more poll stations per capita than in the states, and you never have to wait for more than a few minutes to cast your vote. Name changes like when marrying is no problem at all. Why should it be?
Now, when the orange gangsters want to introduce the voting part of that system without implementing the registration part, it's very clear, they don't want to make voting easy. Only they can take a good system and use it to introduce more obstacles into the voting process. How disgusting these people are...
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@dejaeghere@mastodon.social @katemorley@hachyderm.io
Yes, imagine they had a system where nobody can win a "landslide" majority in parliament with a voter share that is LOWER than that of the parties in the OPPOSITION, as it happened with BloJo Johnson's majority. 42% versus 47% but 80+ seats over the seat majority.
It could well be that Farage becomes PM with less than 30% of the national votes.
I always find it VERY ironic that it was a BRITISH official of the post-war occupational administration who conceived the Mixed Member Proportional Representation election system that has served Germany so well over the past almost 8 decades. So well, that New Zealanders adopted it in the 90s when they were looking for a system to replace their antiquated English FPTP system with something to improve democratic participation. Seems like that was a BIG success.
But hey, 2 or 2 1/2 party systems are SOO great. Like the ones that enabled Johnson or Trump to ruin their countries...
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@dejaeghere@mastodon.social @katemorley@hachyderm.io
You mean like it is used in France or Canada, afaik?
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@dejaeghere@mastodon.social @katemorley@hachyderm.io
Ah, ok. A "panacher" system is the one used for communal elections in some federal states here in Germany. You can give more weight to single candidates or strike out others, or just mark a party list which then gets all your votes distributed down their candidates.
Every system has its ups and downs. In a FPTP system, forming a stable government is easier. In a proportional system, there can be many parties, and forming a coalition can be slow and difficult. But it represents the will of the people much better imho.
This reminds me of what I heard in a BBC podcast series about German history from 2014, I think. Neil MacGregor, former head of the British Museum, said something very interesting about how differently the UK and Germany dealt with the multinational politics in the EU. According to him, Britain always had problems with that because coalition-building and compromises were never seen positively in a country with centralized power structure. Germany, on the other hand, throughout its history, except for the 12-year-millenium of the nazis, has always been structured federally, with often long and tiresome negotiations to find compromises. The same is probably true for regular politics. That one time Britain had a coalition government seems not to be remembered positively. ;-)
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@derpostillon@mastodon.social
Bisher die einzig zutreffende Darstellung des Vorfalls, die ich gesehen habe. 1A Jornalismus!
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@kottke@mastodon.social
Last time I checked something about my home country Germany a few years ago, the data was outdated by a decade or so, and much of the information was rather of questionable quality anyway. If that's the general level of accuracy, then it's utterly useless, and you could just read a 19th century travel guide. The idea that government decisions could be based on such an inaccurate source of information is rather troubling, I should say...
Anyway, there are much better sources available, so there is hardly any reason to keep this inadequate thing online or even printed.