Send me bad puns. Good puns welcome too.
then wash hands with “Israel is the only safe place for American jews. If they face problems in America, they should immigrate here.”
That is literally their pitch. Zionists want Israel to be the only safe place for Jews. Why do you think Israel is so chummy with the Western far right?
Yeah… smells like bigotry. Here’s Reuters on the subject: https://www.reuters.com/world/germany-bans-muslim-interaktiv-association-searches-properties-2025-11-05/. Notably,
In a position paper shared on the YouTube channel of the face of Muslim Interaktiv, Raheem Boateng, the group affirmed its support for the German constitution but rejected any state interference in its understanding of Islam. “We recognise the validity of the Basic Law (constitution) as the normative order of the Federal Republic. It is precisely this regulatory framework that guarantees us, as Muslims, the right to exist in Germany,” according to the position paper.
Now I have literally no idea what these guys do (though calling for a caliphate in Germany is weird as fuck), but DW is pushing a narrative here.
“We will respond with the full force of the law to anyone who aggressively calls for a caliphate on our streets, incites hatred against the state of Israel and Jews in an intolerable manner, and despises the rights of women and minorities,”
Holding demonstrations is aggressive now? Also he just had to suck Israel’s dick here. Also obligatory ban AfD first.
it’s indistinguishable from a lawless oligarchy.
It’s definitely an oligarchy, but “lawless” hasn’t been my impression of China, at least not any more than any capitalist country.
ACAB strikes again.
Obviously it’s hard to complain when this stuff is being used to protect Ukrainian independence, but man this shit is terrifying. I am not looking forward to Americans or Chinese getting their hands on this tech.
I don’t have one either, but price level would probably be a good place to start.
People are stubborn and will survive most anything you throw at them, but it won’t be pretty. Optimistically you’re looking at something similar to Argentina.
Most people on earth go day-to-day on about $10 per day per person. America, while definitely worse for the bottom quarter of the population than ever before, is relatively far from this.
Cost of living is an important factor here. There are places where $10 would be closer to $50 in purchasing power, so while America does have relatively low poverty rate dollars per day numbers shouldn’t be taken at face value.
The fundamental philosophical error here is assuming that all forms of simulation are computational or mathematical.
Uh… that’s literally what a simulation is.
Counterexample: your dreams are a form of simulation (probably). So I can literally disprove this take in my sleep
But dreams aren’t simulating reality as we observe it; they just kinda do their own thing. Your brain isn’t consistently simulating quantum mechanics (or, hell, even simple things like clocks) while you’re dreaming so this is a moot point.
I think the housing crisis, crushing capitalism and rising cost of living are having more impact than ML propaganda here. Not that a Chinese takeover would necessarily fix these things, but there’s plenty of reason to be disillusioned with liberal democracy other than propaganda.
You got it right; losing your memories is essentially death. However, all humans die, so it’s an all roads lead to Rome kind of thing. You could get a concussion and forget everything, or you could get run over by a car and die. There’s no reason to give memory loss special treatment over other terrible things that could also happen to you.
Free markets are a myth. Every country on Earth regularly interferes in the market to align it with its interests; China just does it more. That’s still not communism, because you can’t have billionaires (or private property in general) under communism. China under Mao was communist, but under Xi? No way. The Chinese government exerts significant control over its economy, but the primary driver of economic growth is still the private sector. China isn’t doing anything fundamentally different from what any Western capitalist state could do if they got their act together for five minutes.
First, what’s a “communism?” Second, China is capitalist as hell; it’s just capitalism under an authoritarian regime rather than under a democracy.
Bill, stop trying to make nuclear happen.
Why tho?
Renewables are here to stay and solar is as close as we will get to ‘free’ energy.
Why not both?
I did, still not sure why this is supposed to be a problem beyond a general money in politics thing. “Nuclear companies do PR” isn’t really a surprising statement.
Lmao what the heck is a nuclear propaganda lobby?
Also, by stopping nuclear power Germany had to increase their carbon emissions by ~400% while also spending more than half a trillion euros so… uh… yeah.
Imperialism does tend to boil down to just murdering people.
Keyword here is “accused.” Neoliberal media likes to accuse leftists of Bad Things™.
From what I’ve heard Canada doesn’t even have an EV industry to protect.
Then your president managed to be worse than narco terrorists. How does that feel?