If east Germany loves Putin so much, let Russia rule them once more.

I’m not fighting Russia for them. No matter how hopeless the economic situation, they made their bed and can now lie in it.

And to be honest CDU politicians aren’t much better. In the 6 months they have shown once more that their only loyalties are to the party and the stock market, not the country or the people.

I don’t fully agree that Israel is violating international law. When a country’s existence is being questioned by Iran or Hamas, it’s not so easy to respond strictly within the framework of international law,

So if you read international law strictly, it is a violation of it she just disagrees with? She was imo better than our current ICC-ignoring Merz, but come on.

People should reflect how they reacted to this article of Germany’s options to develop nukes from 3 months ago. While seen as “scummy”, I doubt anyone would accept a preemptive strike on countries doing what the article calls “nuclear hedging”.

This moment is when I realised the great loss of the closure of lemee, as we no longer can look at how c/Europe reacted to the article “Nuclear bomb for Germany” 3 months ago.

If I remember correctly, like the article claims, “nuclear hedging” was seen as scummy way around the NPT, not a direct violation of it.

Please don’t see me as arguing “He didn’t, and if he did it wasn’t that bad”- I’m simply a different person from the one you argued before.

The most charitable interpretation: “These strikes are the only thing preventing the development of Iranian nukes”

You know, ignoring the facts that the only thing saying those are coming very soon is Israel, that there was a meeting planned that was actively sabotaged, and that if Merz is such a big fan of the non proliferation treaty is so necessary for peace in the region he should insist Israel go sign it first before worrying about its enforcement in Iran.

I know, I meant more so if they want to promote other Italian heritage in the future.

Germany can’t stop winning on the cost of Italy’s economy! /s

Looks like they now gotta promote their heritage with more recent painters. Idk, Carcupino would probably resonate with those people idolising the 50s? But maybe they specifically chose Renaissance painters to not have to share any money with relatives.

In any case, right decision. No matter how culturally relevant, if it’s been more than a century you gotta let people use it in any way they want, be it ever so disrespectful. Can’t wait for the Vetruvian man budget horror flick.

The reason there are fewer child births in the US since the 90s is mainly the reduction of pregnancies in the demographic “25 and younger”. They didn’t made a conscious choice, looking at their abacus and evaluating the state of the world. They slipped into it and were forced to make it work. Interestingly, they then still had children later in life as well, for more complex and personal reasons.

It seems to me, that if you give woman the choice, they choose not be pregnant at the cost of their career.

Car companies are pathetically clinging to the past, who would have known? Unfortunately, that fits with our conservative “we wanna stay car centric” government that people somehow still voted for.

The best way out for them is to delay any switch to EV’s. As far as I know, their current plan is to sell “hybrid” motors, which are said to burn both gasoline and hydrogen.

Hydrogen is a fuel with a future - maybe in shipping with the fixed routes and general incompatibility with batteries - but in the context of cars it’s not economical (at scale) and they know that. So 99% of the time, those hybrid motors will drive on gasoline, because who would pay 10 times the amount for something only available at a select few stations.

But if they sell those hybrid motors as a 0 emission alternative, they can keep selling something that’s basically a combustion engine as long as the gas station network still exists, while blaming the rising emissions on consumer preference and bleeding the government dry with hydrogen subsidies in the wrong sector.

If we mention the new version was edited to match speeds by that channel, then we should probably also mention the old version was, of course, originally in black and white and needed to be upscaled for this 1 to 1 comparison by the channel Denis Shiryaev. The original 1902 film was taken from the museum of modern art (moma watermark)'s channel.

Still, amazing how we’re able to have a pretty good guess what a place looked like to people 100 years ago, before our hubris and malice led us to the most destructive wars ever seen.

What exactly is misleading?

You can just say “Germany is doing X” to refer to actions of the government, you do that in German as well btw. If that weren’t the case, why do you call this action of the Netanyahu regime “Israels war”, when that guy only has a 30% approval rating?

And in any case, the German people are still to blame for voting Merz’s CDU into office last year, supporting Israel was a thing he did say he and his party would do. Him now saying that these actions can no longer be justified is unexpected, but I won’t hold my breath for anything to come from this.

For the record, unlike the United states, Hungary is a state party to the ICC. They are legally required to cooperate with the ICC, but if Orban says nothing will be done… I don’t know the consequences. Probably nothing.

A quick glance at Wikipedia says the ICC can prosecute cases where individual states are unable or unwilling to prosecute. “Therefore, many states parties have implemented national legislation to provide for the investigation and prosecution of crimes that fall under the jurisdiction of the Court.” Hungary is not such a state, their laws are still in the drafting part. I assume Hungary can promise nothing will be done because while the ICC can prosecute, they still need an executive branch to do the arrest, which would be Hungarian?

If we somehow do that I will be more upset, considering how long it takes to seize the property of Russian oligarchs here.

No, German way is to take this to court.

I can barely imagine the shitty world that makes us need the French nukes in our country, what world would there even be that requires a German one instead? If things are that bad, what good would our own nuke do at that point?

Can’t wait until the conservative politicians quote this statistic to raise the retirement age… again.

Unless I vote for a winning independent local candidate, then my second vote is annulled.

But this isn’t about the exact mechanism of German elections. I say colloquially I have 1 vote to cast/2 crosses to set.

I would, but it’s 16 hours early.

Do I have any hope for a progressive government? Do I have hope that anyone but Merz becomes chancellor?

No, too many old men in this country for that.

But damn it, I have 1 vote to cast and cast it I will, giving it 100% to a party I tolerate. Not voting is voting for the end result, and the AFD doesn’t deserve 1% of my vote, let alone what percentage they end up at.

I also “liberated” a 32 inch TV out of Walmart the other day, which is now my assistant gunner when I boot up tf2.