I compare them to germans who aren’t nazis living passively in nazi germany. If your family isn’t actively against what Israel is doing they are passively supporting it.

I’m sure not every single German during ww2 was a nazi. Your family might not actively support what’s happening but they are passively complicit and beneficiaries of what is happening by remaining in the country.

Call it anarcho capitalism then. Semantics

I’m not arguing they should throw all sense in the wind and do whatever, but obviously this radical type of neoliberalism is an utter failure in caring for the citizens. And I would argue the first and foremost responsibility of any government is to care for its people, not to make the country an attractive investment.

I mostly meant that in the sense that a country doesn’t need to be “profitable” or economical. They are the only actor on the market that can pursue other objectives than profit, like the welfare of the population or ecosystem, and also the only actor who can essentially ignore the rules because they make the rules.

Dude has destroyed the social system completely, caused food prices to explode and many other things with brutal consequences for the average citizen. Unhinged neoliberalism is definitely not the solution. A country isn’t a corporation.

If you hope to keep your german up to date, I strongly advise you to stay away from ich_iel. The sub is essentially all about literal and deliberately wrong translation memes.

Try dach@feddit.de, it’s a general news and conversational community, without the forced translation nonsense

The link is virtually unreadable, it formats really strangely on mobile. The text is in a 1cm wide column on the right side, allowing only ~3 letters per row.

Supreme Court ruling: guns are people now and they all vote republican

I’m german, we don’t do so well with humor.

Might be an audiophile thing? I’ve been debating getting one myself simply because the onboard one is really limited in its abilities

More specifically, Reddit notes in its S-1 that, as an emerging growth company, it will:

• present only two years of audited financial statements in the S-1,
• not be required to obtain an auditor’s attestation report on the company’s internal controls over financial reporting requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,
• provide less extensive disclosure about executive compensation arrangements, and
• will not require stockholder non-binding advisory votes on executive compensation or golden parachute arrangements,

That sure sounds like a solid investment

Also, the two classes of shares (new shares get 1 vote per share, existing shareholders get 10 per share)… what the fuck. Why would anyone buy that shit

Lmao. As a firm supporter of Ukraine in this conflict, the sentiment is nice but giving them a permanent seat on the world security council is ridiculous. Neither their economic nor military power warrants that, many much more powerful and influential countries don’t get a permanent seat.

Im worried that China isn’t content with that. Their stated goal is to become the next global hegemon, and we can see that they desire to establish their domestic rules abroad as well.

Around the world they establish secret police stations to monitor their citizens living abroad, and to ensure their narrative is dominant in western media (most recent examples: China bitching about unfavorable reporting in Canada, and the completely insane agreement Hungary made to give Chinese police actual law enforcement powers in the country.

Also, two competing spheres in the past developed into the Cold War. I’m not really keen on another super polarized world flirting with nuclear war.

I don’t necessarily believe the United States will collapse, but we can already see that it is becoming an increasingly unreliable partner that basically flip flops on all positions depending which party is in control. They are also seemingly weary of their role as global hegemon, adapting a more isolationist and inwards oriented position.

This doesn’t mean that the u.s. will break down completely, but I could see some secessionist nonsense happening in the near future, or the looming slip into religious fascism. The country has massive internal problems that hamper its ability to maintain its role as global player, aside from their direct interests.

I don’t understand how this is news to anyone. China is playing a long con game ever since the modern world order had settled. They instrumentalize capitalism against the west, keeping their corporations tightly aligned with the government and its objectives.

The first step was to appropriate the western technological advantage by providing cheap labor, but always in a partnership construct which allows them access to the actual know-how. This works/worked out perfectly for them, knowing the uncontrolled, solely motivated by greed, western corporations would be unable to resist the short term gains.

The next step was to create western economic dependence on the now largely outsourced manufacturing, giving them increasing leverage to buy into strategic assets all around the world, particularly in former third world regions.

Obviously the next step is to throw out the westerners now that they served their purpose and their economies depend on China. This allows them to build upon the acquired technological know-how and the secured assets, giving them eventual technological dominance over the rest of the world.

With the United States slowly collapsing in on itself the only hope left for the west is for Europe to get their shit together and truly integrate into an actual global player.

Because it doesn’t matter if Russia admits it or not.

If "unknown“ saboteurs are doing things aligned with Russian interests in areas of Russian interest it won’t take long until western intelligence determines that Russia is sending military and covert ops into a nato country‘s territory. That is a clear act of aggression.

Simply denying that they are doing it isn’t worth shit behind the scenes.

If Russia tries to deploy covert forces to destabilize any nato country I’m fairly sure that triggers article 5.

In this case it is very valid though. The water supply is in danger, and the locals have held a referendum against the expansion. All they are asking is that this referendum be honored.