Reusable glass bottles have their own issues, especially emissions from logistics if they are transported for longer distances.

Cleaning reusable bottles is energy intensive and uses a lot of water and chemicals. Melting and recycling glass is certainly more resource intensive than doing the same with plastics.

The best solutions to reduce resource intensity is local production and consumers bringing their own containers, going for dried instead of canned when it comes to fruits, beans and the like…

Well, Belgium has three official languages, it just happens to share them with its neighbors. Ireland also has two, Luxembourg three, Malta two…

Also Catalan is spoken as a first language by about 4 million people. That is more than the population of the smallest 8 EU countries.

If costs are a concern one could argue that all these countries shouldn’t have things translated into their national languages either. Especially when another official language could do the job. While we are at it, might as well tell the Scandinavian EU members to just learn German. The Baltic countries could just agree on one language. What is up with Slovakia, Slovenia and Czech Republic anyways. Just merge and agree on one language duuh…

Political factors are also a major consideration. France, for instance, has a national policy against the recognition of domestic minority languages like Basque, Breton and Corsican.

I think this is more of the real concern here.

While Belgium, Cyprus, Portugal, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia supported granting EU recognition to the Spain’s additional official languages, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany and Sweden backed Italy’s demands for “further clarity on the costs and legal implications of the move.”

Belgium needs to balance Flanders and Wallonia. Cyprus has its Greek-Turkish situation with Armenians and Maronites in the mix. I think there is some Slovakia vs. Czech Republic beef from the separation of Czechoslovakia involved…

Imagine if Somalia became a functional state again. It could use its location like the Houthis in Yemen to decide who can pass through the Red Sea and by extension Suez channel.

Can’t have countries leverage their location like that. Look what became out of Singapore. Just bomb them all for eternity…

Das Problem liegt nicht im Strafantrag, sondern darin, dass die Strafverfolgung unverhältnismäßig war, da sie zu stark in Grundrechte eingegriffen hat, und dass gleichzeitig die Strafverfolgung anderer Internetdelikte, wie zum Beispiel Mobbing, sexuelle Belästigung oder Morddrohungen, viel zu kurz kommt. Polizei und Justiz scheinen unzureichende Vorstellungen darüber zu haben, was in der Strafverfolgung zu priorisieren ist.

Regeln für jene, nicht für diese…

Ansonsten galt bei Renate Künast 2019/2020 noch:

“Drecks Fotze” oder “Schlampe”, so wurde die Grünen-Politikerin Renate Künast von Nutzern auf Facebook heftig beschimpft: Alles zulässige Meinungsäußerungen, die sich eine Politikerin gefallen lassen muss, so hatte das Landgericht (LG) Berlin im September 2019 entschieden.

Die Entscheidung wurde dann Anfang 2020 revidiert, wie im weiteren Artikel ausgeführt wird, inkl. der Frage, wo eine “Formalbeleidigung” von einer Beleidigung mit Sachzusammenhang abgegrenzt werden muss.

In dem Artikel von netzpolitik wird die Verschärfung des Paragraphen zur Politikerbeleidigung durch die CDU mit dem Mord an Walter Lübke begründet. Das ist angesichts dessen, wie die CDU/CSU das Andenken an Lübke mit ihrer rechtspopulistischen und rechtsextremen Politik seitdem beschmutzt haben, auch nur zynischer Hohn.

Falls jemand das verpasst hatte:

https://www.n-tv.de/ticker/Bundesregierung-distanziert-sich-von-Worten-ihres-Antisemitismusbeauftragten-article25608590.html

Ansonsten meint Klein auch, dass es antisemitisch sei Israel einen Apartheidstaats zu nennen, weil das Israel delgitimieren würde. [Aug. 2023]

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Klein_(Diplomat)#Apartheid-Vorwurf_gegenüber_Israel

Da der IGH im Juli 2024 festgesetellt hat, dass Israel gegen das Verbot von Apartheid und rassischer Segregation verstößt. Dies bezieht sich auf die illeglae Besatzung der palästinensischen Gebiete und diskriminierende Gesetze in Israel insgesamt, war also bereits der Zustand vor dem 07. Oktober 2023 und Klein hat als studierter Völkerrechtler hinreichend Kompetenzen, um das zu erkennen.

Or progressives do have viable alternative parties but the “moderates” keep sabotaging them. For instance by constant gaslighting with claiming that voting for a progressive party would be treachery.

But then there is also progressives who try to reform the Democratic party from the inside and get progressive politics to the forefront. But wait, you said above we shouldn’t talk about these either.

Trump is the current president of the US. Incidentally after the same DNC ghouls that made sure he would win in 2016 made sure he would win in 2024.

Maybe it is good to talk about who and how brought Trump into power, so that we can stop these people from bringing the next worse in line after Trump into power.

Yeah. Can’t expect a politician to know what it means to vote for or against a law, or candidate. That is just a level of incompetency. Totally isn’t complicity to vote alongside Trump…

Who was president from 2009 to 2017 and could have passed a different law? Who was president from 2021 to 2025?

Yeah, years of pandering to fascists by elevating their topics, repeating their lies unchallenged and also blaming everything on “the foreigners” shifts politics to the right and far right. Doesn’t mean that it shifts what is left and what is right.

You can have countries full of fascists. Doesn’t mean the “moderate fascists” now get to define what is “left”.

This “logic” of course is peddled by the US Democrats and amplified by the Oligarchy. Also the US Democrats dont want to tax the rich. Over the past Decades they have shifted the taxes from capital to income. There never was a proper healthcare system in the US and Obama defended not creating a proper one when he had the power because “muuh Jobs”.

You joke, but western governments regularly pull the “our surveillance is good because we aren’t an authoritarian regime” trope.

“I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer, when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you’re on the wrong side of justice.”

I absolutely agree Bibi. This is why they are finally starting to stop kissing your behind.

Germany, the country most loyal to Israel for historical reasons, said the amount of aid entering Gaza was “too little too late”. Germany voted against the EU’s plan to review its trade agreement with Israel to see if it is compliant with the EU’s human rights obligations.

Meanwhile Germany wants to double down and ensure it is always on the wrong side of justice.

An umbrella network of Palestinian aid groups said that so far only 119 aid trucks had entered Gaza since Israel eased its blockade on Monday. But distribution has been hampered by looting by groups of men, some of them armed, near the city of Khan Younis, the network said.

“They stole food meant for children and families suffering from severe hunger,” the network said in a statement, which also condemned Israeli airstrikes on security teams protecting the trucks.

This is the same shit like before. Israel backs armed groups in Gaza to rob food while attacking security forces that could protect the aid. The goal is to annihilate any functioning structures to then weaponize the aid, either by denying it completely or by using it to lure people from their homes as part of the ethnic cleansing.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5ypjd7gepmo https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/22/gaza-aid-deliveries-looting-police-hamas/

Often IDF troops live in the settlements themselves. Often off duty IDF troops are part of the mobs that murder Palestinians and steal their land. They share intelligence and coordinate attacks. Their is no real distinctions between IDF and settlers. It is just created on paper so that countries like Germany can claim some deniability when they supply arms to Israel.

Continue as always. Germany wont let ethics or even their own military interests get in the way of their business interests.

Krupp supplied weapons to Poland before the Nazis invaded.

I hope it serves as a good reminder why all the anti privacy anti encryption lobbyists all over Europe should be scrutinized for being potential traitors, as their policies aim to make EU countries less secure.

The workers making the products in China, Bangladesh and the like or the crocodile farmers in Australia?

I am fairly certain that if you had faced legal consequences for each and every violation of the laws of your country that you committed, your own logic would justify putting you behind bars forever.

Programs that are usually underfunded and overcrowded or people being kept in long waiting times, or people being kept from working legally so they cannot get the dignity of standing on their own feet while being forced to live in overcrowded and underfunded accommodations…

I cant speak for all of these countries, but Poland for instance is notoriously bad. I know similar issues from Germany where also the crowd that wants to be “tough on migrant crime” wants to do nothing to improve the social economic conditions so people dont fall into crime.

Almost as if crime isn’t the real issue there and they just look for an excuse to justify their racism.

Hamas still exists. They constantly injure or kill IDF soldiers that move too close to the rubble in Gaza. In particular they keep existing i places that Israel claims to have under control and where they claimto have “eliminated” Hamas.

This shows a few things:

1. Israel is only good at mass murdering Civillians with indirect fire. When it comes to fight people on the ground, they are lackluster.
2. The proclaimed goals of freeing the hostages and eliminating Hamas cannot be achieved by the incompetent Israeli military.
3. Israel is lying about its military goals. It is clear that their goals are the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Something for which you dont need a military, just goons with guns.

Capitalism. Someone has to make the money for the Malfoys to bribe the ministry.

What is the point in using abundant resources and productivity to make everyone get a decent life, when instead you can enslave “lower” creatures and create a wealth based hierarchy? This is Britain after all!