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tearsofrefugees · 7 months ago
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munaeem · 4 months ago
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Rise of Die Linke: Young Voters’ Shift in Germany
Hey there. Grab your coffee—or your beer, no judgment. Let’s unpack what’s been shaking up Germany’s federal election scene as of February 25, 2025. The headlines are buzzing about young Germans sprinting to the political fringes, leaving the center in the dust. It’s a wild twist, and honestly, it’s got me hooked. So, let’s dive in—why are they doing this, what’s driving the split, and what could…
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townpostin · 1 year ago
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Assam CM Raises Alarm Over Demographic Shifts in Northeast and Jharkhand
Himanta Biswa Sarma Calls for Action Against Alleged Infiltration, Proposes New Laws BJP leader highlights concerns about changing population dynamics and their impact on tribal communities during Jharkhand visit. RANCHI – Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has sparked controversy with his recent statements on demographic changes in Assam and alleged infiltration in Jharkhand. During a…
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rodaportal · 2 years ago
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European Immigration Policies: A Complex Quandary
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ss-bullseye · 5 months ago
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Working main job + side gig on contract. Locked in and ready to crash and burn baby. But the pay is good.
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luvmesumus · 6 months ago
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bopinion · 10 months ago
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2024 / 37 - Belated vacation edition
Aperçu of the week
“Never start to stop and never stop to start!”
(Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman scholar, writer, philosopher and politician)
Bad News of the Week
Poverty and a lack of prospects as well as climate change and a lack of livelihoods are the most common reasons for migration. This is an understandable consideration: those who see no future for themselves (any more) can either resign themselves or set off in search of one somewhere else. Leaving your home country is never easy, so such a move can also be seen as the willpower of someone who won't give up.
Now there are many developed countries that even have a need for immigration. Germany, for example, has a shrinking population due to low birth rates. At the same time, many baby boomers will soon be retiring - so there is less working population and more to care for. A delta that could be closed with immigration. So it's actually a win-win situation that benefits everyone.
Germany does not exactly have the image of a classic immigration country. So anyone who is not a persecuted asylum seeker, but perhaps even a sought-after skilled worker, will think about where to build their future. Potential migrants cite the difficult language, complex bureaucracy and lack of a welcoming culture as the main reasons for not choosing Germany. We cannot change the language, but a reduction in formalities and more openness to the world would also do us good as a society.
I therefore react with incomprehension to the current behavior of the conservative CDU/CSU. They are adopting the pejorative rhetoric of the right and are raging without sense or reason against a supposed emergency situation at the borders caused by an increasing flow of irregular migration - which does not exist to this extent in Germany any more than it does in the USA. An ultimatum from this largest opposition party to the ruling coalition, which it was even prepared to take up constructively, was finally declared a failure just in time for the general debate in the German parliament Bundestag. In this debate, CDU/CSU parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz insists on the rejection of refugees at the border. Despite all legal concerns and criticism from neighboring countries.
Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz argues against this: “There is no country in the world with a shrinking working population that has economic growth. That is the truth with which we are confronted”. And “We are a country that offers protection to those who are politically persecuted and that is in our constitution and we are not putting that up for debate”. However, he also concedes that openness to the world does not mean that anyone who wants to can come: “We must be able to choose who comes to Germany.”
So the door to talks is still open. Even if only with vague hints instead of a concrete plan on how immigration could be managed for the benefit of all. However, as long as the conservatives bask in good poll ratings and believe it cannot leave populism to the extreme parties, they will refuse to cooperate out of self-interest until at least the next general election. And we will once again fail to come up with a constructive, forward-looking concept for migration. Which we actually urgently need.
Good News of the Week
Taylor Swift and I agree. Elon Musk and I do not. So it should be clear what I'm talking about: the upcoming presidential elections in the USA. Or rather, the televised debate between the two candidates last week. Because it clearly went to the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, as even the otherwise barely objective right-wing populist broadcaster Fox News admits. The corresponding polls can be averaged out at two thirds to one third.
On the one hand, Donald Trump delivered his usual ghost train of doom-mongering, brazen lies, self-praise and bad humor. If he were to lose, there would be a third world war. The one between Russia and Ukraine, on the other hand, would never have happened in the first place. Thanks to him, NATO would be strong again, the pandemic would have been overcome superbly, the economy would be running smoothly and the whole world would take the USA seriously. The Democrats, on the other hand, if not their current vice president personally, would bring millions of migrants from Latin American mental institutions into the country to change gun laws, abort fracking even after birth, eat the cats off African-Americans and tax jobs. Or something like that - at times it was difficult to follow what he was saying.
On the other hand, Kamala Harris gave a solid performance. She came across as factual, credible, confident and self-assured. Yes, at some points one would have wished for more factual content than pathos, but that was not the point. In the run-up to the event, a majority of Americans had explicitly wished to learn more about the candidate. Who ultimately remained rather pale as Vice President. And who had to manage the tightrope act of simultaneously selling her previous performance well and embodying a new beginning. She has managed this reasonably well. And my hopes have risen that we could once again scrape past the abyss on November 5 instead of falling into it. I'm curious to see how the vice-presidential candidates' debate goes the week after next - I'm assuming that it could be entertaining instead of just weird.
Personal happy moment of the week
I had another great time with great people in Québec this week. Thank you!
I couldn't care less...
...that Google has been fined billions in the European Union. We simply have legislation that attempts to control dominant market positions and enable healthy competition in the interests of consumers. I think that's fine in principle.
It's fine with me...
...that BioNTech is now also launching an mRNA vaccine against lung cancer. After all, it was the German company's aim from the outset to use messenger ribonucleic acid to combat this cruel disease, which is the second most common cause of death in humans. This could be nothing less than a medical breakthrough.
As I write this...
...Germany is approaching the last state election of the year. This time it's Brandenburg's turn. Where the ruling Social Democrats could succeed in the last few meters to deprive the far-right AfD (Alternative für Deutschland / Alternative for Germany) of what they thought was a certain victory. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for that.
Post Scriptum
After 28 years, the original German internet search engine MetaGer is shutting down. This makes it older than Google, but it has never been able to compete with it. As Yahoo is ending its involvement as an advertising partner without official justification, one of the longest-lived German Internet projects is now being discontinued. However, I have to admit that I have never used it.
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gar-a-ash · 1 year ago
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Yesterday's training session was a comedy of errors but I figured out some stuff!
-First, if the flirt pole is involved Tassie doesn't care who's on the other end of the leash. Buddy and I swapped back and forth and it didn't matter, Tassie wanted that cotton rope
-Second, if I'm going to do this maybe don't do it when it's insanely hot out and let my husband know NOT to play Frisbee with her twenty minutes before I'm supposed to do a highly physical training session
-Third, I forgot that Tassie has never really liked the wedge, and somehow the thought never crossed my mind that going from super-high-value flirt pole to incredibly-low-value bite wedge would be a bad fucking idea lmao
In the end the training session was NOT very productive but I'm glad I recorded it because I'm seeing a bunch of mistakes I'm making. For one, Tassie is insanely strong for her size and was absolutely dragging my buddy around no problem so I need to let her anchor herself better. I did want Tassie to drag forward a little bit to fight for that flirt pole but not quite that much. Also, when she does "win" it I am not letting her have it for long enough and that combined with the heat was a bit demotivating for her. We'll do a makeup session when it cools down later this week. Also, if I am going to work her in this kind of heat I need to hose her down beforehand, not wait until she's gasping for air.
For the bite wedge, I'm either going to have to try to figure out a way to make it more valuable for her or just use the sleeve instead. It's been long enough that I forgot she's never liked the wedge and has always half-assed bit it. She was doing full mouth bites but would immediately release either partially to breathe or entirely because she just hates holding it. Might have to see about getting a different kind of bite pillow. Also, I should have stopped the session a lot earlier instead of trying to tease her into being more invested: she just wasn't feeling it yesterday and I knew it but coordinating with other people is super difficult and I didn't want to waste my buddy's time. Next time I'll pay more attention to her body language about certain stuff. Also flirt pole last. She was fixating on that even when it WAS well out of her sight.
Oh well, learned some things and the things I fucked up aren't major! I'll have to see if next time I can do better.
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sadsongsandwaltzes · 1 year ago
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This does bring forth a question about the worth of remaining connected to the mother country or land of origin, as we understand it.
Does it matter to care about the country (as a nation) your ancestors came from when you have no stake in the game? And really, does a specific chunk of land and the governing forces on that land really matter, considering throughout history borders have shifted, governments have changed, people have migrated?
Do you believe you can uphold the legacy and culture of your ancestors regardless of the piece of land on which you stand?
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meezer · 2 years ago
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"calling ben shapiro gay is homophobic" he is ACTIVELY spouting racist, homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic rhetoric, day in an day out, and you're worried about being a good person to him.
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tearsofrefugees · 10 months ago
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aktualitet-al · 9 days ago
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Edi Rama Responds Sharply to Nigel Farage’s Claims About Albanian Prisoners in the UK
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has publicly rebutted British MP Nigel Farage following the latter’s assertion that “1 in 50 Albanians in the UK are in prison.” In a lengthy and sharp post on the platform “X,” Rama denied the figures and challenged Farage to a public fact-check duel. “Oops… Mr. Nigel Farage himself challenged me with facts!” — Rama wrote ironically, before calling Farage a…
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rodaportal · 8 months ago
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easterneyenews · 1 year ago
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Sunak and Starmer launch ‘personal attacks’ in final debate
PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Keir Starmer went head-to-head on Wednesday (26) in their last debate before an election next week, with both launching highly personal attacks over their and their parties’ credibility.With Sunak’s Tories trailing Labour by around 20 points in the polls, the prime minister went on the attack, accusing Starmer of not being straight with the country on migration, tax and women’s rights, and urging voters not to “surrender” to the Labour.Starmer responded that Sunak was too rich to understand the concerns of most ordinary Britons. A snap YouGov poll said the debate had been a tie, with both on 50%.
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headspace-hotel · 6 months ago
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really disheartening to see how much eco-fascist and eugenicist bullshit has embedded itself into writings about human relationship with nature. I was looking at a copy of a book in the library a while back called Humans Vs. Nature and found this (Discussing early human migrations in the Paleolithic)
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To my great dismay, I did not record the source for this claim, But I found these pictures again, and of course I think...How do we know that?
How could we know that Paleolithic hunter-gatherers deliberately controlled their populations by periods of abstaining from sex? That would be incredibly hard to support using archaeological evidence. It seems easier to support infanticide using the archaeological record, so I was not initially troubled by that.
The author is also stating that Paleolithic humans killed their disabled. I have been searching high and low for evidence to support this claim and the closest I've come to any evidence regarding disability in the Paleolithic is this book chapter discussing whether or not it makes sense to assume compassion existed in pre-history. This book chapter gives the impression that the research has been...really dismal.
The two sides of the debate are essentially, "humans probably cared for their disabled in prehistory, because pathologies and injuries are common and they would have needed some kind of care" and "well maybe those people could survive just fine on their own and that's why they lived. We can't prove they were actually disabled."
Not an anthropologist, but I think it's pretty stupid to position a compassionless society as the "null hypothesis," especially based upon chimpanzees. Why would Paleolithic humans be more behaviorally similar to a relative separated by 5 to 13 million years of evolutionary divergence, than to their own descendants a mere few thousand years later????????
But the claim in Humans Vs. Nature isn't just that disabled people weren't cared for, it's that they were deliberately "eliminated," which is a statement with a much higher burden of proof. You would have to find the remains of disabled humans from that time period with clear evidence that they were killed because they were disabled, and you would have to observe this consistently in many sites, to come to the conclusion that it was a cultural norm.
We have many examples of elaborate, seemingly honorable burials for people that were apparently disabled and would have lived a long time with their disabilities. Nothing I've read has mentioned an archaeological record of killing people for being disabled, which would be a glaring oversight, unless it didn't exist, which I'm pretty sure it doesn't.
How did we get to the point where this kind of fucking bullshit sounds so plausible and correct that it makes it into a best selling book without anyone looking it up to see if it's true.
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lawfuljude · 2 years ago
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Ben Shapiro is a total fucking loser. He spends his days in college aulas debating impressionable teenagers, and then going home to jerk off to YouTube videos from said debates with the caption “Ben Shapiro DESTROYS Woke Teen”. The only time where he vaguely debated someone that did not just graduate high school was when he did an interview with the conservative journalist, Andrew Neil. Neil embarrassed him soo much that he called Neil a “leftist” before walking out on the interview all pissy and pouty. Fucking hilarious
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