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Ja, das ist die übertriebene, polemisierte Version dessen, was ich tatsächlich gesagt habe, die genau das Problem ist.

Mehr Menschenwürde, mehr sozialer Ausgleich, viel mehr Klimaschutz, mehr Asyl... das prügel ich entweder alles mit nur 10-15% der Stimmen und bei gleichzeitiger Erhaltung der Wirtschaft und des Lebensstandards gegen die übgrigen 90% durch (wo auch immer der Feenstaub dafür herkommt), oder ich hab es nicht verdient weiter gewählt zu werden und bin selber Schuld, dass ich nicht über diese 15% hinaus komme.

Da ist die Zusammenfassung Linker Ideen in Deutschland. Linke wählen keine Linken, weil die ja nicht die perfekte linke Politik machen. Während Rechte Rechte wählen, weil die mehr rechte Politik machen als andere. Das Ergebnis und wer uns die meiste Zeit regiert sieht jeder. Nur beim Verstehen hapert es dann.

Kurze Antwort: Ja!

Lange Antwort: Ja, Poltitik machen, bei der man einzelne Themen, die einem wichtig sind, durchbringt und im Gegenzug auch mit anderen Themen leben kann, die Koalitionspartnern wichtig sind, ist besser als keine Politik zu machen.

Noch längere Antwort: Wähler sollten in der Lage sein, Parteien für ihre Ziele zu wählen und dann akzeptieren und verstehen können, dass abhängig von Stimmverhältnissen, nur einige dieser Ziele durchgesetzt werden und andere nicht. Wenn man mehr der Ziele einer bestimmten Partei umgesetzt sehen will, müssen die halt mehr Stimmen sammeln. So funktioniert Demokratie nunmal. Nur so ziemlich jedem verkopften Idealisten links der Mitte ist das zu kompliziert. Für die gibt es nur entweder wenig Stimmen haben und nichts erreichen oder genug Stimmen haben, um mitzuregieren, aber dann verrät man ja seine Ideale durch Kompromisse und ist nicht mehr wählbar. Ergebnis: Unser Land wird primär von Rechts regiert. Weil die linken Wähler zu dumm sind. Für die sind "ihre" Parteien niemals die bessere Alternative zu Rechten in der Regierung, sondern immer Verräter, weil sie nicht magischerweise mit 10-15% der Stimmen 100% der Politik machen.

That's correct. And that's the reason you don't ban lobbyism. You make it transparent instead, so you can clearly see which interests a person is presenting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJJtnto-cI (english only available as auto translate but accurate here)

To be fair here, you can't compare statistics well internationally. What nowadays already counts as and SUV (or even as a specially created mini SUV) in some countries is rediculous.

Interesting question here:

This is obviously worthless against radar detection or thermal vision, but useful against low tech visual shooting (that probably has a very low share of successful interception anyway).

So what's the actual prevalence in night vision tech? Does (usually digitally based nowadays) low-light amplification make up a big enough share that this is not just another coping mechanism?

maybe they just revive you and kill you again to reset the timer

The Gentle Repose industry will object...

"Pro-Kremlin" is the wrong way of categorizing it. BILD is right-wing and populistic first, low standards and always loving to rile up people second (or as a popular German song once said it: BILD only ever produced "fear, hatred, tits and weather reports"... and the latter two are nowadays sadly missing). And their most important purpose right now is attacking the German government to get their beloved conservatives back. (PS: Oh, and BILD's ex-editor in chief is nowadays leading the creation of a mostly internet and social media based fake news network (fittingly for such a shitshow named NIUS - as misspelling things is probably their least serious flaw)).

It's entirely irrelvant if what they say is matching Kremlin propaganda right now or telling the story of how German government idiots are blindly supporting the US to our own detriment or stupidly trying to build renewables while destroying the whole country with that nonesense. If it's reflecting badly (for some of their readers) on the German government, then it's a story BILD will push. Military support for Ukraine is widely supported by the population, so telling the story of how the government is secretly trying to undermine Ukraine supports fits their agenda.

As an example of how they then even manipulate news:

Do you remember the discussion about Lithuania blocking rail transports to Kaliningrad last year? While that discussion happened several politicians were asked about their stance on a EU summit back then. They basically all answered the same: That this needs to be analysed based on international rules and also in regards to the fact that it's about transit between two Russian territories. And that this is a EU discussion, not something Lithuania should decide alone.

That was very obviously an EU line everyone was just repeating. Yet BILD first reported on it, citing the German chancellor and the Polish PM (amopng others) first with full context, then repeated it with only Olaf Scholz as the sole source and less context on POLITICO (also belonging to the same German publisher as BILD) (Title: "Germany’s Scholz urges free transit for Russian goods to Kaliningrad - German chancellor said that ‘we are dealing here with traffic between two parts of Russia,’ suggesting that EU sanctions should not apply") and then within less than 12 hours they reduced the original article to about 15% of its original content (and by that time several international news linked to that report as their source)... now also with Scholz as the sole opposition to the Lithuania's ban and with all context removed so their own invention that "EU sanctions should not apply" was now magically a fact.

And that fake story of how "Germany is trying to support Russia and to undermine sanctions" was then the discussion internationally for days.

Or as another shorter example: Has anybody ever found those 100+ Marder IFVs in ready-to-deliver condition that Rheinmetall was trying to deliver in April 2022? Blocked by the evil German government via lies about their existance... That was also a BILD story. Soldiers in the Bundeswehr are probably still questioning why they had to find spares to actually deliver vehicles to Ukraine nearly a year later and workers at Rheinmetall wonder why they have to refurbish old stocks for 1 1/2 years now, when there is a magical batch of vehicles somewhere bigger than everything they produced in that year.

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And here we go: That other piece of waste paper picked up the story, also adding more fairy tale details of how Olaf Scholz is fighting the Minister of Defense he actually appointed on Ukraine support as "It becomes ever more clear that the chancellor does not believe in a Ukrainian victory and does not want one at all!"... Let's see how long it takes for US sensationalists to pick it up now (the title at least refers to US and Germany, even if they then totally forget that the US exists...), get it debunked by the US government to leave us with another week of "why is the German government so stupid and still supporting Russia?"

With a bit of luck you can even see the BILD source adapt in real time this time as the fairy tale is spun further and fleshed out...

Sadly that's nothing new for years. Others pick up BILD as their source treating BILD as serious journalism for news out of Germany because of their size, completely disregarding their low journalistic quality.

Basically 90% about the rage-inducing clickbait internationally about Germany for nearly half a year of Russia's war in Ukraine was purely based on BILD as sources, worse even based on BILD sources that BILD then quickly deleted or edited once the message was picked up.

So you aren't wrong to look elsewhere for confirmation... but that only works when you check their sources, too. And sadly a lot of news nowadays are really lacking in ragards to transparently showing sources.

Jetzt kommt halt Plab B: Jahrelang wurde es mit abwarten und hoffen, dass beim nächsten Versuch ein paar Jahre später der Widerstand nicht so groß ist, versucht. Das hat nicht funktioniert, also wird jetzt auf Ermüdung gesetzt.

Es sind nicht die Abtreibungsgegner, denen es schwer fällt, sich von Rechtsradikalen abzugrenzen.

Es sind Organisationen von Abteibungsgegern, die sich nicht von rechtsradikalen Gruppierungen abgrenzen können. Das ist keine Schnittmenge bei einigen der ideologischen Ideen wie hier behauptet, sondern schlicht eine Schnittmenge bei den Mitgliedern.

Es ist aber ein Thema, bei dem man aufpassen muss, weil leider viele Menschen echten Antisemitismus als Israelkritik verstecken.

Und das können diese Menschen tun, gerade weil das Narrativ, dass alles antisemitisch ist, eine sinnvolle Diskussion um Differenzierungen nahezu unmöglich macht. Könnte man jetzt für einen unglücklichen Zufall halten... wenn dann nicht als nächstes Narrativ der linke Antisemitismus dazu käme. Ab da muss man sich fragen, ob das nicht Absicht ist, um mal wieder die widerlichen Rechten zu verharmlosen.