You are completely wrong: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/stgb/__188.html

And this from the guy that “challenged” the UN to offer a plan on ending world hunger, which they already had prepared but somehow he didn’t follow through with it

By being corrupt of course.

TBH it feels like the rich have so many politicians in their pockets that now they focus on election meddling to show the policies of authoritarianism are validated by the voter base.

I just stayed in the east for a few days. Nazis are openly wearing their identifiers there. Saw a couple and instantly knew they were Nazis: Both in the same Lo-NS-dale jackets, boots, the guy with the classic short hair trim plus to make it obvious for even the dumbest person he had a belt striped horizontically in black white red.

“I kinda see the positive side to humanity maybe finally getting their shit together to avoid dying out completely”

I’m usually not an optimist, but I kinda see the positive side: It shows that dependence on fossil fuels for energy is a huge security risk for the whole world, as single actors can cause huge price hikes to EVERYTHING, not just the fuel itself. Now even the dumbest get that we must invest in diversifying the energy sector, ergo invest in green energy.

Humanity really sucks. It should never take a war for people to start realizing that the old ways don’t work forever, but here we are and to me it seems like this has always been the case.

Plus, finally there is a major price hike that can’t be blamed on the green parties.

That’s the thing I was wondering about the TACO meme. Is it good to mock him on chickening out when it is best for everybody that he does chicken out?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c785n9pexjpo

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/20/explainer-chinas-covert-overseas-police-stations

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/beijing-s-long-arm-china-s-secret-police-stations-in-europe-a-d6732094-ca32-4c0a-8e6f-58b395b946aa

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/04/world/china-overseas-police-stations-intl-cmd

• Build huge spy army including secret police stations in other countries tasked to even spy on chinese people living abroad

• Get your people treated as potential spies

• Use a tragic suicide to complain that your people are being treated as potential spies

• ???

• profit

Yeah of course, now the big importing companies get billions of dollars… oh you meant to the consumer, tough luck.

Of course that’s bad. That’s exactly why it is important to know how the system can be exploited. From the headline it sounds like the failure is on the delivery system to the military.

Deeply misleading headline. Just the manufactorer also produces for the military aand are also allowed to sell to private entities, who then smuggled the ammunition to Mexiko.

Don’t feed the troll. Just look at the username andrewta(te)

I think it’s a sign of good character to not be able to fathom doing this. Unfortunately however, we have to keep in mind that humans can be manipulated to anything, given the according circumstances.

It seems to me the whole world has always been about assholes supporting each other - until their interests don’t allign anymore - while they all keep the common idiots fighting each other.

That’s a good point, as having russian-only units sorts out some of the issues I guess. That wasn’t really ehat I was thinking about though. I get that there are lots of russians opposing the government strongly enough to be willing to fight against them. I was wondering about military age draft dodgers, but I guess they have civilian service for any people unwilling to fight.

Now I’m curious as how Ukraine handles asylum seekers from Russia. Do they consider them too much of a risk to draft them? I mean, obviously going from one country at war to another doesn’t solve many of the issues, but I’m curious as to how this would affect their risk of bbeing drafted.

“Bring out your dead!”…

We could argue which of the two is the bigger asshole, but I would definitely say Trump is the bigger idiot. Maybe I’m a bit too influenced in this decision by his incoherent speeches though, which is currently more an Alzheimer thing, but I have never heard any old recordings that were much better. Merz can speak and cover his lies much better.