It’s someone having fun at the beach.

I do acknowledge that, but a society is made up of individuals. And none of those individuals is responsible for the crimes committed by their ancestors. Guilt is not passed down through generations. I do not believe that people living in former colonies are entitled to reparations because my ancestors committed crimes against their ancestors, even if those crimes still have repercussions in the current day.

Reparations for what? At least here in Germany there’s virtually (and I’m covering my bases here, I’m fairly sure that it’s literally nobody) nobody left who could be held even partially responsible for colonialism, and I am not willing to pay for crimes that I did not commit. Very few people are, I’d imagine.

Even as someone who supports Israel, I’m not sure that emboldening wannabe dictator Bibi and his even more insane coalition partners further is good for Israel. Israel should be allowed to destroy the rapist horde that is Hamas. Israel should not be allowed to expand their illegal settlements (quite the opposite in fact) or to annex Gaza/the West Bank, but that’s exactly what Trump’s administration is gonna encourage.

More, and that’s assuming you can ever build momentum. I wasn’t defending the choice.

Because fixing something from the inside takes work and time. And it’s not like it wasn’t happening (as much as I’m not a fan of it because I actually am one of the evil liberals people here love to complain about), people like AOC or Tlaib would never have been prominent voices ~20 years ago. But generational change happens over a timespan of, and I feel that it’s very odd that I need to point this out, generations.

What a load of bullshit.

First off, the communists split from the SPD, not the other way around. Second, the communists completely refused to work with the (according to them) “social fascist” SPD. Third, the one alternative to Hindenburg in that election was literally Hitler and the other was Thälmann who, again, was as explicitly anti-democratic as Hitler. Fourth, Hindenburg did not immediately appoint Hitler, he did so only after Hitler had secured a majority in parliament (courtesy of the DNVP). Fifth, no, the alleged liberals (social democrats) did not cooperate with the communists because the communists were too busy trying to turn Germany into a second Soviet Union and were the only ones to vote against the enabling act (the communists having already been purged from parliament). The communists only made token efforts at reconciliation after Hitler had already succeeded.

Really? I find spelling out “national socialist” much more impactful than using “Nazi” simply because it isn’t generally used as casually (like in “grammar nazi” etc).

Germany, zero minutes. Postal voting ftw!

Nazi is just shorthand for national socialist. It means the exact same thing. The article did call them what they are.

Rats are smart.

Worth noting that the German system is horrifically inefficient due to being half-privatised and having dozens of layers of bureaucracy doing the exact same thing in dozens of insurance companies.

And it still has holes that people can fall through and end up uncovered. Germany is not a good example for universal healthcare. We’ve basically coasted on “eh, good enough” since Bismarck and only made minor adjustments instead of creating something like a Federal Health Service.

Was für eine beeindruckend dumme Aussage. Gut, ich hatte sowieso nicht vor die SPD zu wählen, aber mit solcher Scheiße halt erst Recht nicht. Wie wollen die so Stimmen zurückgewinnen? Die pro-Russland Fraktion wählt eh BSW oder AfD und alle anderen sind von der Putinarschkriecherei einfach nur angewidert.

Um ein theoretisches deutsches Atomwaffenprogramm glaubwürdig zu machen braucht es definitiv eine sichere Quelle für waffenfähiges Material.

Hast du den Artikel gelesen? Das Uran kommt aus Russland.

Ich bin prinzipiell nicht Mal gegen die Idee einer deutschen Variante der Japan-Option um im Fall eines amerikanischen NATO-Austritts die deutsche und europäische Sicherheit gewährleisten zu können, aber dieser Reaktor trägt nicht wirklich dazu bei.

Gerhard Schröder is a strong contender for that title as well.

There is a difference between keeping diplomatic channels open and actively legitimising Putin’s régime by visiting Russia to attend a summit.

You can’t blame people for needing a job. They probably don’t exactly have a choice other than to keep working.

The entire eastern block adopted Lysenkoism.

The USSR also abused medical science to imprison dissidents in mental institutions based on false diagnoses.

War für mich tatsächlich in der Grundschule verpflichtend. Allerdings geschlechterunabhängig für alle und damit durchaus sinnvoll imo. Zumindest einen Knopf sollte wirklich jede/r wieder annähen können.