Just like the invasion of Ukraine would have remained bloodless if Ukraine allowed it to be… i.e. victim blaming.

I dunno, there’s dead Roman bones in it.

He maybe should’ve known that it wouldn’t work, but does he ‘deserve’ to be in a mental hospital? Absolutely not.

The more famous someone gets, the more power over people they have. And some people, once they have the opportunity, really like to abuse power.

That would make more sense than whatever this is.

Watch out, the 61 year old chess grandmaster is going to commit terrorism.

The office versions are so confusing and frustrating. I just wanna use the goddamn desktop program and not some web app.

Also it forwards your SMPT/IMAP data to Microsoft without your consent.

Clearly because the pope’s too woke.

Yeah. Obviously people of any gender can commit rape, and though the statistics may be dominated by male perpetrators, that fact is enough to not make the legislation gender-specific.

How would it even occur to you to compare climate science to child molestation? Unless you just think that everything you don’t like is child molestation.

I suppose it’s all geopolitics.

Russia is allied with Iran, which means they have to support their ally Hamas.

Ukraine is dependent on Israel’s closest ally - the US - for their weapons, so they won’t condemn it either.

I doubt either of them really do this out of conviction.

Olvid is French and Signal isn’t, which seems to be très important.

That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. The parliament would effectively be useless when it is dependent on the prime minister, you could just elect a king and skip it altogether.

State party funding is actually a thing in some countries like Germany, Sweden or Australia. In Germany, each party with a significant result in any election (regional or local) starts receiving it, and it becomes more for better election results.

I don’t see the problem with small supporter donations, and that is how many parties stay afloat. What I personally find problematic are big donations from single individuals or organizations, these should be regulated in some way. Again using Germany as an example, they at least have to be declared publicly, though through some trickery, this doesn’t always work. There’s more potential for action here.

As a German, I have absolutely no fucking idea why the AfD is gaining traction right now of all times. Its platform is anti-immigration and also anti-progressivism, which the new government has been doing a bit of, but not much. Maybe it is because there’s been a lot of hostility between the coalition’s parties, but that doesn’t really explain it either.

According to the subtitle, this map shows total employment rates irrespective of any other factors.

Yes.

No, sadly refugees are already treated quite badly here. Germany took in a respectable amount but then left it to the EU border countries to either deal with them with little to no help or just shut themselves off completely. :( What would really be needed is a program to redistribute resources from the wealthy profiting from neocolonialism/climate change to those affected by it, but it’s generally framed as if the general population would need to pay for that which turns them against the refugees.

Nazism is still a shunned no-go, and the AfD knows that (and regularly accuses others of being Nazis). The way I see it, its officials are still Nazis though, but they get around acknowledging that by just positioning themselves as counter-culture opposition to progressive movements, which is great at mobilizing a united front of anyone who feels attacked by any part of progressivism. Meanwhile, they also covertly appease other Nazis and the extreme right through dogwhistles and the like. The anti-progressive voters just ignore or tolerate this. This combination sadly proves successful. When they start building the camps, of course everyone should’ve known they’re Nazis, but no one thinks that far even though it’s their policies’ logical conclusion.