trompete

Any way to get around the paywall?

I feel like contributing to this megathread by updating you all on frankly inconsequential and stupid internal German politics, and it makes me feel dirty. But here it goes anyway.

The FDP (liberal party) blew up the socdem-green-liberal coalition (Ampel, meaning traffic-light) and the media got hold of their internal powerpoints of how they planned this for months and referred to it as "d-day" and the final stage as an "open field battle" and now they're outraged because of civility and bad faith or something.

So this might backfire on the FDP which I hope it does, but also none of this makes a lick of difference since all involved are neoliberal freaks and genocidal maniacs. It's just lib infighting.

A spokesperson for the German regime said they will only definitely decide whether or not they would arrest Netanyahu or Gallant if/when they plan on coming to Germany, but he said arresting them would be "hard to imagine". ^tagesschau^

So they have definitely decided they will not arrest Netanyahu but don't want come right out and say that.

I like them both.

The newer one (being wider and more symmetrical at the bottom) has a pleasing sort of triangle going on, like an arrow pointing towards the star. The old one just kinda has a star above it.

I kinda like the wider sickle thing on the old one on its own though.

Also it looks like the new one is a bit brighter. The darker tone makes it seem more badass somehow, but badassery is not really the main point you'd want to convey.

Wouldn't the Sandy Hook families get (most) of the money from the Infowars auction? So they're effectively paying themselves I think. Would be interesting who's paying what amount of money and what the ownership structure is now.

Looks okay, I just saw Kamala defeat Pork Officer on the way up Trump tower by giving him funding.

Mmmh Quarkstrudel

Libs telling us how they really feel. And what they feel is morally superior and genocidal hate against the poors, Muslims, Latinos, etc. Many of the comments don't even pretend about making a distinction between Trump voters and all these groups. They all apparently deserve what's coming to them, for being part of some group that maybe voted for Trump more than previously, but less than the (white) middle class a number of these assholes admit to being part of.

From what I have heard, they want people to sign up and not quit, because they're desperate for career soldiers.

Owen Jones made a good video about this shit. (CW: some uncalled for Russia brainworms)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/world/americas/no-a-remote-amazon-tribe-did-not-get-addicted-to-porn.html

Only the chancellor can initiate reelection (via a vote of no-confidence in parliament), so they'd need to replace Scholz first, which means the opposition (CDU/CSU, AfD and the just kicked out FDP) would need to all get behind the same candidate for chancellor.

Scholz says he will do the no-confidence vote in January, followed by elections in March. The CDU probably wouldn't want the headache of making deals with the AfD just so reelection is two months earlier.