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Does knowingly causing an ecological catastrophe qualify as an act of war? To me, that seems worse than blockading these specific ships.

Doing a thorough job risks the sensational headlines though.

Let me prefix this with saying that I’m sympathetic towards Varoufakis. I’ve been following him somewhat since his time at Valve.

He claims he is now subject to a “Betätigungsverbot” which is very different from being “banned from the country”. I tried to find any sort of official confirmation that he actually has “Betätigungsverbot” but I couldn’t, feel free to post a link if you can find it. I personally believe that what he wrote in this post doesn’t even come close to warranting a Betätigungsverbot - however, even assuming the Verbot is actually in place, claiming this means “Germany is going full fascism” is dishonest, exaggerated, and void of any nuance, which is my original point.

Reading the first sentence of the definition of fascism on Wikipedia should show you how ridiculous that statement is. Words have a meaning, and throwing around the word “fascism” for any measure you (potentially rightfully) don’t agree with just hurts your credibility and devalues the meaning of the word when it’s actually appropriate.

I’m fine with you attributing actions like this to historically motivated, misguided sense of “loyalty” (or however you want to call it) to Israel, or the Israeli government. Just keep the word fascist for actual fascists please.

Nuance exists, the world isn’t just black and white.

That can go both ways through. To some people, criticizing Hamas or saying that their attack warranted a reaction (which doesn’t mean I’m condoning what’s happening now in any way) means you’re actively calling for genocide.

Nuance is hard, people tend to prefer simple categorization into black and white, good and evil. The statement “Germany is going full fascist” is a perfect example of this.

Hyperbole much?

It features the flag of the German empire that nowadays is only used by Nazis and “sovereign citizens”.

I dare you to say that to the face of Ukrainian women and children being kidnapped and raped by Russian soldiers.

They liberated it from fascism, and now they’re fighting imperialist wars to bring it back!

Quite ironic, if you ask me.

That’s a meaningless comparison.

They’re way ahead of us in many areas, such as suppressing their citizens, forced labour camps, nationalism, and bullying their neighbors.

Idk, upgrading to Plasma 6 + Wayland was as simple as waiting for yay to do its thing and rebooting. 10 minutes and it just works. No configuration.

Nuclear is much more expensive than renewables, and it’s so stable and reliable that France has been importing a significant amount of power from Germany in the past two years because they couldn’t properly cool their nuclear reactors.

Not to mention how most new nuclear projects go significantly above budget and take much longer to finish than originally planned.

What’s so good about VDL? As a German, I think she’s terrible.

AFD certainly isn’t. German communists are politically irrelevant.

I suspect it is dust mite allergy anyway and recommend getting tested for it. The test is quick and harmless, and once you have a proper diagnosis, you can take measures to reduce the allergic load in your place or start therapy.

Source: Am allergic to dust mites and was living with the symptoms for years before I got a diagnosis.

I’m basically making fun of you for equating correlation with causation.

Obviously. But Trump was president so he was in charge.

So you want COVID back? Because that was clearly Trump’s fault.