Anti-privacy by default, pushing AI slop that takes all your data, more than one improperly checked update rolled out that bricked many computers, shoving Ads everywhere…
Of course you could say these to not be strictly new, but it is a new level of enshittification way beyond what we used to know.
“The far-right party AfD and some conservatives have partly succeeded in making anti-Semitism an issue for others,” he said. “When you blur the line between criticism of Israel and anti-Semitism, you avoid talking about far-right anti-Semitism, which is, in my opinion, the crux of the problem, if one believes the incidents reported by the Central Council of Jews in Germany.” He acknowledged the existence of anti-Semitism in certain Muslim circles in Germany, “but no one dares to talk about it for fear of being instrumentalized.” The polarization is such that the conflict in Israel is “actually a projection of the question of immigrant integration.”
This raises a key aspect of the insanity of it. pro-Israeli lobby groups have been pushing this narrative of “imported antisemitism” together with the far right. Netanyahu recently invited many Fascists from Europe and the German AfD is one of the loudest supporter for Israel in Germany with the other parties often following the AfD. This mounted to two recent resolutions to “combat antisemitism” by the federal parliament that was jointly passed by AfD, CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and Greens. The first resolution gave an example of “Antisemitism” in the Berlinale 2024 where the Israeli and Palestinian Directors of the documentary “No other Land” criticised Israel as an Apartheid regime. The resolution however did not mention the terror attack in Halle where a German neonazi tried to storm a synagogue and murder Jews. Instead the nazi went to a nearby kebab place and murdered two people after he failed to enter the synagogue. This example shows that Jews and Muslims are interchangeable as opportunistic targets of nazi terror.
The AfD fascists are instrumentalizing the alleged fight against Antisemitism for racist and authoritarian policies while also sporting the main source of Antisemitism in Germany in the shape of neonazis. Most of the other parties in parliament play this game instead of challenging it and pro-Israeli lobby groups are joining in on it.
At the end of this everybody looses including Jewish Germans and other Jewish people living in Germany.
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Halle synagogue shooting
Jewish Currents - Strange logic of Germanies Antisemitism bureaucrats
2019 anti-BDS resolution
2024 resolution to combat antisemitism
GER - Press conference of scientists and artists criticizing the 2024 resolution
GER - Press conference of scientists and artists criticizing the 2025 resolution
Germany will alienate itself more and more from the rest of the EU. I am optimistic that there is a slow awakening as more and more people get tired of the dominant political forces lying to their face.
I suggest Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Gallant travel to the court and make their case in person.
All systems based on bribery and intimidation are incredible fragile once questioned in the open. If the DNC would decide to take a stance it would break the back of AIPAC and other lobby groups overnight. And there is no question this moment will come. AIPAC had to spend absurd amounts of money to campaign against local Democrats that challenged the support for genocide in the last year.
There is no political excuse for the DNC. They do this from ideological conviction and these convictions are against the American people and humanity at large just like the convictions of most Republicans are.
The EU kept sending money to Russia through buying energy resources (still does to some extent) and the UAE continue to be one of the “strategic allies” of many EU countries in the region, while the UAE are a mayor supporter of the RSF in Sudan. And the trade with China is well known.
Obviously the EU should stop all of these practices or use their levers to push for improvements. While this would be most challenging with China the EU has the means to stop Russias shadow fleet in the baltic and push for sanctions against the UAE, which would also help Palestinians as the UAE is a mayor supporter and facilitator of trade and normalization for Israel.
I hope that this helps the forces inside the EU that want to end the EUs and its member states support as the clear double standard is pointed out.
He added that it would “undermine US confidence in the UK and Nato at a critical juncture in our collective history and set back relations”, and could cause “adversaries” to “take advantage of any perceived weakness”.
Parts of the minister’s evidence on behalf the defence ministry was provided in public, but defence ministry officials have claimed any decision to restrict supply of F-35 parts is a matter for the F-35 executive steering board, a body that only acts by consensus. It added more than 1,000 F-35s currently operate with a high proportion undertaking either UK or Nato operations.
Making such judgments about national security, the government has argued, is primarily to be a matter for the executive.
In other words the UK government says it has no control over its own security and instead sees itself at the mercy of the US and following their whims. As Russia is the most serious adversary currently threatening the UK and there is extensive ties between the Trump administration and Russia, this argument is self contradictory at best and treacherous at worst.
If this was about national security the UK government would take urgent steps to limit its dependence on a foreign government that is evidently influenced by the main military adversary of the UK.
Just gift him a bigger jet than the Qataris did.
That is not true. People kept petitioning the Democratic party to stop the genocide. They kept raising the issue at Democratic events. Biden and then Harris shut them out. At the DNC congress in September Harris forbade a group of people from speaking about Palestine that tried to convince people to vote for Democrats despite supporting the genocide in Gaza as the group tried to take the “work from within” angle to change the parties position. The DNC chose that it is better to lose to Trump than risk anyone questioning the genocide to have a platform. The DNC did everything they can to alienate the voters and now they are running more racist gaslighting blaming the loss on “dumb minorities”.
Blinken tried to get support for ethnically cleansing Gaza in November 2023.
Whenever Biden set an ultimatum for Israel to let in aid, he never followed through or only haphazardly, never actually requiring Israel to provide enough aid to not starve people.
Harris reiterated that she will follow the policy of Biden.
The Democrats in power are behind ethnically cleansing and starving the Palestinians.
A 90 day truce while China accepts 30% US tariffs for that time.
While this is an aspect we should not forget that the AfD is homegrown in Germany exploiting long held racist and bigoted views that were kept quiet but present in society. It is well known that rising inequality makes it easy for fascists to gain power and the growing inequality in Germany hasn’t been seriously addressed by any governing coalition in many years.
Also many of the AfD elites have a history in Germanys neonazi scene of the 90s and early 00s. The neoliberal and neofeudal side (Weidel, von Storch and the like) have been deeply embedded in their respective circles.
Finally we saw the German media failing again and again to find a proper way of dealing with the AfD without working for them. Instead over the past year they disproportionately followed AfD topics like migration and now even started making far right populist propaganda programs in public broadcast television.
Foreign desinformation campaigns are the fertilizer to boost growth, but the soil, water and light are present in Germany and so far the supposed democrats did a terrible job at keeping them from the growing fascist threat.
Props to the band. Not only did they stand by their values but also communicated them in a clear and concise way.
You joke with the kebab but a catholic priest got charged two days ago with the claim that he smuggled hash into a prison in Germany inside a kebab.
A Catholic prison chaplain allegedly tried to smuggle drug sachets wrapped in kebabs into Heinsberg Prison in 2022.
From August, the Catholic prison chaplain will have to answer to the Geilenkirchen district court. The case concerns over 140 grams of hashish that was hidden in several kebabs by unknown persons in a fast food restaurant. He wanted to bring them to a group lesson with the prisoners. Not the first smuggling operation
The man had already attracted attention twice before because he had tried to smuggle in cell phones and charging cables, for example. The drugs alone - according to the public prosecutor’s office - had a black market price of 2,000 euros. The former Catholic priest is facing a prison sentence of at least one year.
He was “irrevocably released” by the Aachen diocese after the incident.
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If corporate enshittification is the reason for you to skip on the switch, giving any more money to Microsoft doesn’t make sense either.
I am always baffled when people hype up Macron for the next big thing he says. France is failing politically and economically thanks to him. All he does is make big statements and never follow up to distract from his utter incompetence.
Historically the EU could set many quality standards that would later be adapted in other markets too. This gave European companies an edge.
But even without other markets. If the EU wants to compete on price rather than quality inside the EU market the only option is to massively lower the wages and standard of living and erase all the purchasing power advantage that was built over the past century. The next step will be to revert to child labor and forced labor as even a cheap EU cannot compete with forcing people to work for free.
By enforcing supply chain transparency European companies are protected from outside competitors who aren’t subject to the same labor standards inside their countries and in their supply chain.
Finally by abolishing the supply chain transparency Germany is helping Russia circumvent sanctions both in import and export and the coalition agreement of the new government already says that they don’t want to surveil the rules but rather trust companies and just do random probes every now and then. This will be a massive boost to Russia and cement the defeat of Ukraine. Merz talks about how he wants to help Ukraine have been empty posturing during opposition times.
Werner von Braun in Disneyland (yes this is real)
Israel already starved Palestinians to death during the presidency of Biden. When his “ultimatum” in autumn last year wasn’t met. He did… nothing. There is no indication that Biden or Harris, who has reiterated that she is following Biden on this, would bring any pressure for Israel to commit less grave crimes.