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where in Europe do they do that? I live in Europe and that doesn’t sound familiar

naturally given that the Torah is part of the Bible

Carlos Latuff was right

https://mronline.org/2006/07/16/a-lesson-of-lidice/

I meant not all criminal offenses necessarily cause an exclusion from voting rights. If I recall correctly there is a list of specific ones for which people can be sentenced to loss of voting rights.

Can exclude, not all of them do, I think it has to be a specific part of the sentence (ie not automatic) because some high court ruled that some years ago.

As a European I have always been confused when Americans talk about “voter registration”. The way it works in my country is you are legally required to register your residence with the government and that registration is automatically used to determine a voter registry (just filtering by age, citizenship and exclusion due to criminal convictions all of which is information already known to the government). I always just get a letter a few weeks before elections informing me where my polling place is.

there are many people in German-speaking countries with the last name “Deutsch” too

Is this really such an obscure term in English? I definitely remember hearing it in school here in Austria, perhaps in the context of the November pogroms of 1938, but may have been from other contexts too; I don’t remember the details.

How do you want to do that “through some third world country” if the registration documents are in the US and only anonymously published anymore? Not following your logic there.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan

This is a problem that’s been around about as long as the WWW itself and has not really been solved yet at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo!

Also further reading relevant here again: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

Why not? Illnesses can be cured.

Ivan is just the Slavic form of John, a very common name in English speaking countries too.

I think those are only different spellings because of transliteration and are spelled the same in Arabic script.

How many “far-right” parties are about waging wars of aggression and conquest nowadays?

The article is behind a paywall so I can’t read it, but the answer to the question is that they are about as dangerous as all other parties. Yes, we should watch out for “far-right” parties eroding democracy and civil liberties. We should also watch out for center-right, center-left and far-left and literally all other parties doing the same. Authoritarian tendencies are bad no matter what ideology is the current excuse.

I frequently think this too, but then remember that progress towards less authoritarianism does occasionally actually happen. For example the USA PATRIOT Act used to be everyone’s example of authoritarianism in the US, but that has by now expired. For another example, the Snowden revelations actually led to everyone’s devices and communications getting encrypted. When is the last time you heard about random small people being sued for copyright infringement by the RIAA or MPAA or something?

For less recent examples, consider the 1989-1991 fall of communism in Eastern Europe, making those countries a lot less authoritarian.

When the world gets better, we tend not to notice as much as when it gets worse.

While this is broadly right for legislation, the question above was about admission of new member states.

Admission of new member states requires unanimity among existing member states. That is because EU membership is based on international treaties. For every member state there is a treaty like this one that regulates their entry into the EU; you can see that it’s a treaty between literally all (existing and new) member states which had to agree to it.

It is supposed to believe that climate change is a … scam?!

You can believe that climate change is not real, but a “scam”, how does that even work?