The gangs are backed by Israel according to an UN memo obtained by the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/11/18/gaza-looting-aid-convoys-israel-famine/

So the implication of this meme is to starting shooting minorities, so they get back in line with voting for the party.

If that is the kind of “jokes” the “progressive” center makes, it is no wonder, that the fascists win the election. Seems like it does not matter, whether there is a D or an R next to the presidents name. The US will build concentration camps either way.

Did the looters have a Hebrew accent by any chance?

Yeah no. We already see various forms of direct government censorship and indirect censorship through private entities holding key social media platforms.

The last thing we need is a full embracement of shutting down and censoring. Also it is entirely impractical, as you have overlaps as two nations at odds with each other might both be on good terms with a third nation.

Finally, what happens when you go on holiday? Do you want special government approved agents to be the only ones eligble to purchase a plane ticket from and book a hotel with? Prepare to pay triple and end up with a system even more ripened with corruption than the current economy.

Finally it is naive to think that this would stop competing disinformation. Just have a satelite interface and maybe some private network as bridge and voilá.

All this does is fuck over the people more, while the elites get to continue their shit.

Meanwhile the German chancellor had his position of not delivering long ranging weapons to Ukraine reconfirmed in a press conference today. The strikes on Ukraines energy grid came shortly after Scholz had a phone call with Putin and Zelensky criticised it. Oh and during the weekend Scholz also reasserted sending more weapons to Israel. German politics is already preparing for their new American lord Trump, after Biden leaves officed.

Again nowhere did i say that. The precondition is always that therapy is available and working. But therapy is expensive and requires individual therapists. Making and selling psychiatric drugs can be done as an efficient business. And the companies doing so are such great benevolent entities that they have paid record sums in compensations for victims of them pushing the drugs. This includes often families where the drugs lead to psychosis, suicide, homicide, adverse health problems…

The very fact that psychiatric drugs can be advertised on TV in the US is complete madness. But i guess if you are a dealer or addict, nuance is easy to ignore.

It is different because there is no alternative to reliably prevent psychosis afaik.

Why the hell do you get offended by the idea to minimize use of psychatric drugs where possible and to continue use where necessary?

I really wonder why you get offended by “We should try to minimize the use of psychatric drugs, where therapy is a viable alternative”?

Do you prefer taking drugs with potentially severe side effects for the rest of your life? Do you want people to die, because some life event outside their control prevents them from accessing drugs like SSRIs or Benzodiazepines that can be deadly if quit cold turkey?

Nothing of that has to do with maga nutjobs. On the contrary it should be basic human decency to find and provide the least harmful treatment.

I agree with the principal sentiment. Except for schizophrenia and other illnesses involving acute psychosis, drugs shouldnt be the permanent solution.

But this requires access to proper psychotherapy, which needs to be part of a consistent concept of slowly reducing the drugs as the condition gets better.

Also this requires a society, where people have enough agency to remove the causes of psychological distress from their life. People getting anxieties is perfectly normal, if they are in constant fear to not be able to pay their bills. People getting depressed is perfectly normal, if they are expected to work a dead end job for the rest of their lifes, etc.

I see none of that coming from the direction of any politician.

EDIT: Wow. People get offended by the idea not to pump people full of drugs for the rest of their lifes, when therapy is a viable alternative. Seriously why do you want people to suffer instead of providing proper healthcare including proper access to therapy and creating life conditions that aren’t designed to make people sick? I never thought this to be controversial.

The one does not contradict the other. God uses the extreme weather to punish the destruction of his creation by humans.

He just forgot that before the call. That happens often with Scholz.

Because the “perks” of living in Geremany are racism, poor internet and extremely inefficient and slow bureaucracy. If you are brown doctors will not take you seriously most of the time, unless you are in a very bad shape.

The dutch article that AA refers to:

https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/zorgen-bij-ministeries-over-ongewenste-inmenging-israel-in-nederlands-debat~baa860e8/

Depends on the losses on both sides.

I strongly recommend the UK focus on the US as a trading partner. It is obviously more sensible to ship your imports and exports to and from a market some 5000 km away, than to the market just 50 km away. Clearly your population will love fruits being either 2 weeks old at least or flown in. That fits the english taste best anyways.

I wonder if China and Russia think they are at the point that the global power balance has shifted so much away from the US and Europe, that they dont need to care anymore, as this would harm the EU more than China.

So who thinks what and what is the actual situation? At this rate i have no idea anymore, how the actual power balance is.

At this rate the Lebanese army needs to actively fight back. There is no way that the Israelis will stop deliberately attacking civillian infrastructure.

Depends.

Are you white and preferrably blond? If your ancestry traces back to Italy, the Balkans, southern France or Spain, you should expect racism.

What you say is true, but so is an ageing population.

An ageing population does result in more demand and less workers.

You realize that it takes money and workers to upkeep, repair, rebuild plants? Staying with nuclear costs money that instead is better invested in renewables. And you realize that maintaining that share against newly build renewables requires new plants right?

You understand that 20% of 100 are 20 and 20% of 200 are 40 right? Like when you look at the charts, you see that the total production capacity doubled, because of the exponential growth of renewables. So it would need new plants to maintain the share.

So unless the plants you demanded were already in planning in 1990, there is no way they would have been there in 2010. Seriously, with how bad at math and physics the proponents of nuclear power are it is all the more important to keep them away from such a dangerous technology.