Saw a social media post that regarding this trope of "Disney has become a political agent" just posted some of the Anti-Nazi-propaganda videos they did back in the day and yeah, that essentially. They (and other big companies) have always been political agents, it is only the mode in which...

I do not follow US media enough to make a hard statement on that. All i know is that german media regularly shit on politicians of every color, even their own. Or put differently: a conservative german journalist or commentator is far from being guaranteed to agree with the CDU or a german conservat...

We all know that you prefer to listen to the voices in your head, you don't need to tell us

I get your sentiment, but you really can't just equate your and our media. They aren't the same, whatsoever. Our journalists factcheck, they don't adhere to some political will. The quality of work still is volatile depending on the individual and medium of course. There also have been witnesses tha...

You might want to consider other explanations for things besides "everyone but me is an US puppet"

The moment when the discussion is between what's worse: forced cultural reeducation camps or a full-control surveillance system that monitors every step of its citizens. I think that alone says a lot about the state of things in China. (and don't get me wrong the situation for the Uyghur population ...

It is really not only the US, not even first and foremost.

The reports from the areas where Russian troops are retreating are horrifying. We'll see how much of it proves to be factual when the fog is lifting, but if even only a fraction is true this war is even more atrocious and cruel than anticipated (e.g. mass rapes, targeted killing of male civilians fi...

R E A L A G G R E S S O R U S A HURDUR

The current aim is for Ukraine to win the war, not to end it at all costs. And it is not the EU's or the US's aim, it is the Ukrainians aim, and we have the responsibility to assist them as long as that is what they want.

Orwell would probably die of insanity these days

brb leveling myself up to a lvl 99 warlock

Each time i read this thread title in the timeline i think someone wants to do one of these movie-interventions where a group of friends gathers to talk another friend out of something stupid and i am starting to deliberate each time which ESOCian warrants an intervention.

It's good. If our politicians can't stop the shit themselves, then maybe Putin does it for us. The necessary result is that Russia is no longer financed by Germany. This is why i think it is actually a bad move by Putin to unilaterally stop exporting gas, if this impression solidifies. He once agai...

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28 Mar 2022, 17:52

yeah actually wouldn't be able to word it better than this

Isn't a kind of inconsistent and weird argument to reason that a little bit of violence is fine as there are also more impactful sources of violence around?

Post Bundestagswahl Honeymoon. It also does not really matter as it just is very small, although it is interesting because it used to be Christian Democrat "territory". Overall weak lead candidate of the CDU and the usual strength of newly elected governing parties. Speaking of which it is...

How is it not? Reacting to insults or "bad jokes" with physical violence seems like the DNA of archaic images of men, solving their problems by strength and physical prowess.

I don't see any major context there at all personally, i just find it generally weird to randomly punch people.

Some german Länder are starting to ban the usage of the Z sign.

Yeah true i misused correlation there. There of course is a statistical correlation. Being progressive and being economically left are correlated through a sense of empathy. Conservative/economically right are at its core a form of selfishness. What you are doing here is trying to theoretically expl...

I am disagreeing because the main point of interest of modern research on party ideology and party positioning is the creation of a new cleavage that is structuring party competition and the seismic changes of European party systems in the 90s and now. I totally understand your point about compressi...

With regards to the empty quadrants: its not impossible for an ideology or person or party to end up in that quadrant. But in practice it turns out that only a few people find themselves here. By simplifying matters, one loses information. In other words, there is a minority that is extremely poorl...

I am not saying THEY agreed with monarchists but that the monarchists and conservatives agreed with THEM, which seems unlikely had they considered them socialist forces.

I wasn't referring to Hitlers liking of monarchs though but the fact that without Hindenburg, the Zentrum and nationalistic and monarchist parties the Machtergreifung likely could not have taken place at least in the way it did.