Me, old enough to remember Helmut Kohl: tough choice. He botched the probably biggest project in post-war Germany, and was really stupid to boot.

Scholz: just incompetent, not incompetent and fascist.

Nobody said Scholz is a good politician, but at least he isn’t actively fascist.

Well, the article is right about Merz. He’s a shitty little Hitler. Many of us already knew he’s incompetent before he got elected, but he made some statements, and his admin some decisions, over the past year that definitely justify invoking Godwin’s law on all of them.

I just hope we get a more leftish coalition next election. Die Linke is doing well afaics. The SPD could learn from them.

I don’t see this article specifically as positive news - maybe for China, but not for the rest of us.

Asking “which is better, PRC or USA?”

yeah, no shit fewer and fewer people choose the USA.

Fucking idiotic poll.

But that doesn’t mean that I don’t see what China is doing - spreading propaganda & money & influence everywhere.

Preference for China strongly correlates with age: the younger the respondent, the more likely they are to welcome Chinese leadership

This was my impression too, esp. right here in the Lemmyverse.

It being alien to me does not mean I am above it.

I wish I could be above it all like you

dafuq?

I have seen you around and I usually like your contributions but you really seem to misinterprete what I said here.

I’m not highroading anything; that sort of human behavior is just alien to me, which is why I did not get the point, which is what OP was asking about.

The bird comparison should be obvious I hope.

Tinnitus? Yes, if you listen to very loud music a lot for years and years. Deaf? No.

Yep, me too. I had a type of headphones way back when, one they don’t build anymore because it brings the speaker membrane too close to your inner ear. That, the kind of music I liked to listen to, and many loud live concerts…

So it’s executive orders on top of executive orders now? Truly democratic.

I was the same, until I learned the term microblogging - the point of platforms like twitter is to present yourself to an audience. A tweet is like a small blog article. Of course interaction is desired, but the real point is to follow. It’s a form of self-presentation that is completely alien to me, esp. if it all happens on the same platform, it’s so competitive. Like one million birds just chittering away “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!”

*xheet (just my opinion)

overhaul

That’s a euphemism

I find that wall of words passive aggressive. Like “I dare you to read all that otherwise I can dismiss your critique”. Oh and “the video must be watched til the end” lol. Fuck that shit. I still reported it.

“You people” lol.

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I don’t think he’s mild at all.

milder

I’m guessing you don’t remember his constant presence until he got fired from Fox, of all places, for being too much of a shit-stirrer. He is putting on different clothes these days but he’s still the worst of the worst.

The groups argued that KlammereFyr removed the artistic context and immorally sexualized actors, sometimes by cropping scenes or “changing the lighting to accentuate certain features,” TorrentFreak reported.

To groups, it seemed clear that KlammereFyr was violating a rarely tested part of copyright law that protects artists’ “integrity” by shielding their “moral rights.”

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Following his confession, the Court of Frederiksberg convicted the Redditor, sentencing him to a seven-month conditional prison sentence, followed by 120 hours of community service. Next, the Reddit mod will face a separate civil lawsuit to determine damages, which could be substantial. Rightsholders are seeking between $2,300–$4,600 per nude clip, TorrentFreak reported, putting the maximum possible award above $1.5 million.

I don’t think he is genuine in anything. He somehow got “milder” in recent years but i still remember the hatemongering asshole on Fox, and the idiot who got got verbally raped by Putin for 2h straight. His shtick might have changed, but he hasn’t.