klingt eigentlich sehr vernünftig das über eine Formel statt absolute Zahl zu bestimmen, gibt es einen Haken daran?

You’re lying.

Russia had been directly involved in the war against Ukraine since 2014, it militarily invaded Ukraine when it occupied the Crimea, and russian soldiers have been fighting Ukraine in Donbass since day 1.

Russia did not use a “pretext” for invasion, it simply created the pretext itself. What you call protests in eastern Ukraine was the armed struggle of Girkin, a russian secret service member. Without this Russian interference, there is no donbas seperatism.

You’re right about one thing: The invasion had nothing to do with internal politics. It was however, about the antagonism of democracy and empire. Russian ultranationalists never accepted Ukraine, and 2014 was simply the first step towards its destruction.

When you talk of “spheres”, you parrot the ideological worldview of Putin. He has sung the praise of a “multipolar world” for years now. The issue is that humanism and democracy recognize no spheres. Instead, every country should be allowed to decide for itself what path it takes. That is the pretext for invasion, do deny Ukraine that right.

Fascism is aesthetics as politics

Wehe den Anfängen.

Werwolf :]

I have a fear of developing superstitions

Ngl that sounds like a good horror-comedy

Corporations supporting pride are canaries in the coalmine. When they stop chirping, you know something is wrong.

Besides, I don’t like cynicism. Yeah, most big corps don’t give a fuck. And this is what this meme is about. But regular gays work everywhere, and support does make a difference in those places

Yes, but Cognitive Behavioral Therapy specifically also a lot about working together to implement some small-scale changes. These are based on what you call common sense, but beyond it just being unable to retain your common sense sometimes, it’s really easy to accidentally not act according to common sense sometimes despite possessing it.

Yea

BMW didn’t exactly need to be forced, they were directly involved in the Holocaust.

that pun doesn’t work in german. it’s about good friday where catholics are only allowed to eat fish (look at the left)

I love love love GIMP!!!

But yeah it’s not a PS alternative, and tbh that’s not really what it’s supposed to be or what its developers want out of it. it’s different

are you saying it’s unreasonable to ask not to be called something you don’t want to be called?

In some countries it’s actually required for therapists to periodically see a therapist. To avoid getting retraumatized by their patients trauma and such

Wow. I got the 4 at launch and honestly never had any problems except calls get fucked up more frequently recently. Didn’t know they stopped selling parts, what’s the point?

Hate everything about this. Hate that the notorious “I’m fine with Nazis” JKR is getting new attention, hate that people are already making racist jokes about the cast like it’s 2016 and Ghostbusters just got released, hate that it’s going to be the sloppiest slop. Fuck

all i can say is i agree

please don’t call women “females”

You know that just because gender is a social construct, it doesn’t mean we should or even can just ignore it? You took step one on the awareness ladder but stopped before step two

In Germany there’s a word for the strategy you’re proposing: in der Regierung “entzaubern” - “demystifying” them in government.

As someone has said, the Nazis were lifted into a coalition government which was the last step before their takeover of the country. I agree that this was bad, but it’s a bit simple to compare this to the current situation.

A better comparison is Austria. Austria did exactly what you proposed - the establishment conservatives went into coalition with the extremist right, and after one election, they were able to ditch them. Cool. But the effect of this was permanently legitimizing the right. In the last election the FPÖ, a party founded by actual old nazis, won a plurality of votes. It took a grand coalition of three parties to keep them out of government.

What else is there to do? In Germany and Austria, the right is much more extreme than in Finland. Germany is also a lynchpin in european politics, which the right wants to destroy. In Finland, even the right is anti-russia. In Germany, it’s the conservatives who traditionally dominate. When they compete with the extremist right, they’re not on the other side of the political spectrum, just a little to the center. In Finland, when the social democrats point out the mistakes of the right, they’re more believable and persuasive, because they’re actually markedly different from the party they’re criticizing.

There is another way to combat the right. When the center holds, and is able to agree on certain principles, they can “quarantine” the right. If they don’t, they’ll be unable to compete with other democratic parties, and have to compete only with the right. If they do quarantine, they can ignore the right, while focusing on their actual bread-and-butter issues while avoiding being pulled into a bullshit spiral. This is the current strategy of the german democratic parties (CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens, Linke). It remains to be seen if the strategy will survive the next four years. If it doesn’t, I prophesy dark trouble for germany.

Same reason womens magazines are more popular than mens magazines and womens subreddits and websites are more popular than mens.

Maybe one day we’ll have full equality and it’ll be weird to think of “women’s spaces” as something that’s necessary. But it’s very much so today.