It’s just a special military operation. Russia does it too. It’s okay
It’s just a special military operation. Russia does it too. It’s okay
Thanks for pointing out the “Persilscheine”. Despite the tremendous amount of “Nazis evil”-content in school, especially in history classes, this wasn’t a topic. An educational gap I’m eager to fill soon.
Persilscheine are barely scratching the surface. They’re honestly the “paradebeispiel” of failed German denazification. Germany had full on SA NSDAP members in government in its first government after WW2. I invite you to read more on Theodor Oberländer. Actually, I invite you to read more on everyone involved in German politics up until the 80s, especially German diplomats. Most of them have some very, very disturbing skeletons in their closets, the people we praise as the founders of German democracy nowadays.
You’ll probably notice as well that this was a rather minor phrasing. No, I don’t. I do watch most of the conferences, “generaldebatten”, and speeches given by members of our parliament, and especially members of our government. I also religiously watch all of our Regierungspressekonferenzen. For someone like me, that has had family members die in german concentration camps, that’s the last kind of rhetoric and wording I want to hear from a German. I couldn’t care less what her intentions are. Her right to go with that kind of wording has been lost 80 years ago.
Most progress was achieved in domestic affairs. I have issued way too many “freedom of information act” requests through Frag den Staat at this point and I’m still waiting for this government to enshrine LGBT protections in our constitution (https://fragdenstaat.de/koalitionstracker/ampelkoalition-2021/vorhaben/gleichbehandlungsartikel-im-grundgesetz-reformieren/). But our state is somehow more concerned with helping neonazis march under police protection behind pride parades to intimidate the queer community, the same community that has been historically ravaged and exterminated by the Nazis not even a few generations ago.
I have voted for the greens. I will never vote for them ever again. I’m tired of the bullshit they’ve been spewing, especially lately. I voted for a progressive agenda, not for our foreign minister to lie about Palestinian deaths, and her goons downplaying it. I’m tired of her virtue signalling and her “”“feminist”“” foreign policy on which she very, very selectively delivers. I’m tired of our minister of education and research trying to cut funding to scientists criticizing police violence on campuses, actively trying to suppress them. I’m tired of our chancellor talking about mass deportations. These are things a German should absolutely never do, let alone so called progressive ones. I haven’t voted for AfD light, and I surely haven’t voted for them to normalize far-right ideas.
The fire has started in 1948.
Oh no, they’ll probably just plant detonation devices™️ in areas where IDF servicemen usually are and hope that no collateral civilian casualties™️ happen. After all it’s a very genuine war tactic and definitely not a terrorist attack
And obviously it becomes a war only when we (the collective West) label it as such, otherwise it’s still just terrorists. They become soldiers only when it’s convenient for us.
Call it for what it is, a terrorist attack.
Then I guess Hezbollah attacking IDF servicemen wherever they might be, including civilian areas in Tel Aviv, is completely okay. Even if it comes to some civilian casualties.
Maybe they should stop their genocide in Palestine. Hesbollah has said on multiple occasions that they’ll stop any hostilities if a permanent ceasefire is implemented.
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Capitalism. They just bought the cheapest reliable enough option they could find and didn’t give two craps about infosec, because that’s too expensive to actually properly do. Minimize the financial losses of an upfront purchase. (I worked more than enough jobs in hardware design to know what management cares about and what it doesn’t)
Also, big yikes for the Israel flag in your username.
So which armed conflict in the middle of Beirut are you talking about now?
If iPhones had explosives planted in them straight out of the factory and would’ve went off in New York all at the same time, injuring thousands and endangering people around them, the 24/7 news cycle would’ve already called for total annihilation and what not.
Having them be appointed by politicians isn’t making much sense either. It’s not a secret that many judges have their own political affiliations since they often get appointed with support from different political factions (see the supreme court in the US). In theory, you’re right. In practice, it doesn’t always work that way.
Germany got fucked “in the ass” because of capitalist greed, not because of “people like me”. If it was up to me our industries would’ve never left the country in the first place, and most of the privatizations wouldn’t have gone through. Corporate greed would’ve been stopped, and foreign companies that don’t have the interest of the people would’ve been nationalized a long time ago. But that’s not the reality. Besides that, there’s plenty of nazi like rhetoric going around nowadays. Green politicians talking about “the poison of Islam” [1], which reminds me a lot of the antisemitic rhetoric from WW2 (see “Der Giftpilz” [2], talking about jewish people as “the poisonous mushroom”). Besides that, Germany didn’t denazify properly after WW2 anyway (“Persilscheine”, proper card carrying nazis in the first democratically elected government, and so on). The chancellor talking about “deportations in big style”. The CDU trying to ban refugees from going to any public events. And these are not even the nazis in the AfD. It might be 2024, but mentalities haven’t changed much, we’re just picking other out groups to stomp on, mostly because we’re not tackling the real issues at heart.
But again, to get back on China, Germany is very well conducting major business with a ton of authoritarian countries, stomping on workers’ rights all across the world just to enrich German companies, and thus I won’t take their virtue signalling for anything more than just virtue signalling. They can talk about “feminist foreign policy” as much as they like while increasing business with Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, and now even working with the Taliban. They can talk about green policy as much as they like, while funding lithium extraction mines against the will of the people in Serbia. They can talk as much as they like about democracy, while empowering cops to break limbs and beat the shit out of protesters at peaceful pro Palestinian demonstrations. They can talk about humanity as much as they like, while funding a genocide in Gaza and an illegal occupation in the West Bank. And I haven’t even voiced an opinion on these policies, I’m here just pointing out the hypocrisy. If they care so much about Taiwan, they should at least make it clear that it is due to geostrategic interests, not because they suddenly found their love for democracy and what not other nonsense.
[1] https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2024/gruenen-politikerin-warnt-vor-dem-gift-des-islams/
Bootlickers for what? I’m talking about Germany funding Israel to commit its genocides in the Middle East. You’re the one licking boots if you still have the zionist boot down your throat. Also, it’s quite telling that you see nazi germany getting “fucked in the ass” by Russia as something bad.
I’d rather my country not get involved in these superficial platitudes as long as they keep funding aggression in other parts of the globe. If they didn’t fund such aggressions, then I wouldn’t mind, but as of now, it only looks like pathetic virtue signalling to me.
I agree that they are doing a genocide against the Uyghurs and that should be stopped. I don’t agree with any “holy wars” or whatever you’re on there, and I’m not a fan of “liberal democracy” either, since I myself am a communist. I don’t see how the german navy crossing through the taiwan strait will change any of that, or if it has absolutely any value, since Germany very well funds an active genocide right now and they don’t seem to have a problem with that or the tyrannical Israeli government either. This is just more pathetic virtue signalling.
We’ve got bigger fish to fry at home. My government is actively fueling a genocide in Gaza and doing business with a shitton of other genocidal countries, so virtue signalling with our military by crossing some random strait in east Asia doesn’t make me feel any better about anything.
Yeah… as a german taxpayer this is exactly what we need now. Poke China for no real reason.
Maybe there was a Ukrainian commander in there or something using the other patients in the hospital as human shields.
This is sarcasm obviously. Civilians should always be protected