Saleh

Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

France is heavily centralized, has deep rooted corruption, favors the rich with tax exemptions and loopholes while dismantling social security and basic opportunities for the lower and middle class, believes itself to be a global power and maintains a military accordingly, but fails to secure its post-colonial resource exploitation more and more. Add to that a catastrophic strategic blunder in focusing on more nuclear power as the primary energy source, instead of developing much cheaper renewables, which will probably cost the country hundreds of billions if not trillions over the next century.

While Macron was hailed as some sort of "center alternative" to Le Pen in many media outlets outside of France, he actually is a hardcore neoliberal that set out to pillage the country in favor of the rich even more and blame it on the immigrants, further helping the Fascists gain momentum.

For reference how bad the corruption in France is. Former president Sarkozy and his crownies are currently under investigation as they have been bankrolled by the former Libyan dictator Gaddafi.

So it is basically what we see in many countries around the world right now, but the decline is more advanced. France used to be able to mask its internal economic decline with its resource exploitation.

Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

"Protesten mit 19 Toten" -> Durch die Sicherheitskräfte getötete Protestierende

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Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

The BBC is omitting a crucial point here. There aren't only videos of spokespeople saying they were attacked. There is multiple videos from different angles, all showing the matching scene of something burning being dropped onto the ship, where it explodes.

It is literally on video and beyond any reasonable doubt, that the ship was attacked by an incendiary device being dropped onto it.

https://aje.io/e4f7v5?update=3934620 https://aje.io/e4f7v5?update=3934641 https://aje.io/e4f7v5?update=3934496 https://aje.io/e4f7v5?update=3934417

The videos are consistent with each other. The videos of the attack itself have matching time-stamps.

Either an update of the Tunisian government hasn't reached the western press yet, or the Tunisian government is doubling down on a lie in order to safe face in the wake of a direct attack on their sovereignty and their failure to identify and prevent the threat.

Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

And the most obvious way to move a ship is by sea. Ships are made to move on water. There is no more logical way to move a ship and its content across the Mediterranean Sea than by sailing it.

Despite existing land-routes shipping remains the backbone of global transportation and you would be shocked to find the amount of ships transporting goods and people across the Mediterranean Sea, or the Baltic Sea, or any other route that has land-routes available. But it goes even further! Rivers and channels remain crucial shipping lanes inside Europe despite streets and train-tracks being right next to them. Almost as if ships are great means of transportation!

EDIT: I am sorry, i got cocky with that comment.

Despite existing land-routes shipping remains the backbone of global transportation and ships usually are preferential to land-routes in particular in the Mediterranean Sea or the Baltic Sea. There also are many shipping routes based on rivers and channels, which have streets and train-tracks right next to it, but maintain shipping as the preferred method of transport for many goods. Shipping is a great mean of transportation and in many cases it is the best option.

Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

Children and parents shouldn't be "best friends". When the children are adults, and especially after having moved out of the house, they have their own social life, their own partners, their own friends, they should stand on their own feet economically and with their households.

Of course i can understand the moving back in temporarily and needing some "familiarity" in the form of family after the break-up. However that cannot go on indefinitely as it risks falling back into being too dependent and recreating relationship patterns that befit parents and non-adult children, but not adults.

I might be a bit biased though as i moved out at the youngest age of all my siblings and i had an older sibling stay very long with my parents. Towards the end of that everyone was just getting on each others nerves but seemed unable to break out of that relationship pattern. For my parents it was the last child to move out, so they felt scared of having to deal with the fact that this phase of their live is now over and a new phase begins. In the same wake for that sibling it kept them back from finally standing on their own feet, making their own decisions and finding their own solutions. After moving out at last, everybody involved got much better for themselves.

Spending time with your parents, or adult children can be great and in our time probably happens way to little. But if it is the center of each others life, that is not good for adults imo. And well, as parent or child the rights and duties you have upon each other are different from the rights and duties you have with your best friend. Your best friend most likely didn't wipe your butt when you were little. Your best friend is most likely not expected to do so, when you grow too old to do it yourself. Your best friend can give you great life advise, but it isn't their responsibility to steer you towards choosing a solid path in life. And best friends should not come with the baggage of having made mistakes, that parents inadvertently make in doing so.

Finally in regards to old patterns, when i moved out, my parents "got off my back" at last. It took the physical separation to really acknowledge that i am a self responsible person now and vice versa for me not to lean into the inclination to have my parents help me sort my things out, when they are within my ability. So in regards to OPs question i see the risk of them living out a time they had, or wished that they had, when the son was just a boy. But that time is not coming back. Trying to hang onto it, will cause more harm in the long run.

As a bad metaphor: No matter how much you loved that one hoodie you had as a teenager, eventually you grew out of it. There is no fitting you back into it, no matter how hard you try. You would only make yourself suffer as it constricts your body and eventually it would tear. It is better to cherish the memory of that hoodie, but wear things that fit you now.

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Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

Since he is your husbands son, i take it that you are not the mother.

Could it be that your husband harbors bad feelings about whatever happened between the mother of his son, his son and him or that he felt, he couldn't be there as a father back then?Could it be that they didn't went through the process of the adult child emancipating itself from the parents, which always is difficult?You have described their relationship as "more like best friends". Is your husband having good friends and social contacts aside from you and his son?Also being best friends doesn't necessarily work well with living together. I have seen some close friendships die out as living together removed the aspect of choice from them.

I think in addressing the situation it is important to find out what your husband sees in spending so much time with his son, but also how the son feels. From your description it does not sound like their current relation is a "healthy" father-son relationship for two adults. Of course it is good if the relationship between adult parents and children become more like friendships, but they are not the same and they should not fill that role in either sides life.

I think if you can carefully disentangle some of these aspects in talking with your husband, you could help them move on in a way that is sustainable.

Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

Fascism thrives on fear as a means to control. It fosters it. It kindles it. It works hard to keep reasons up for people to feel fear, so that they turn off their thinking and let the fascists control their fear.

While in Western Europe the past 70 years were mostly working on the notion that your wealth and well being would increase, we now are at a point, where the future will have mostly loss of wealth and well being relative to the parents generation. In that climate, Fascists can easily foster, exploit and twist those fears.

"Climate change? It isn't real and it is just a hoax to take your car away! Global instability and mass expulsion of people? It is just the brown people wanting to steal your social security! Don't look at the countries and corporations running the globe into the ground and being in bed with the Fascists! Look at the people struggling as a result of it. Hate them, look down on them and fear them. And fear becoming like them, as we dismantle the very same systems that gave you a stable livelihood!"

Fascism is a self fulfilling prophecy of fear, anger and decline for the people falling into it and a brief mania of total control and superiority for the Fascist leaders, until the whole system comes crashing down, as it inevitably does.

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Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

So what vehicle would drop an object directly from above from a short distance?

The only explanation is a drone. The next bigger thing would be a helicopter. A plane is not possible as it cannot drop objects vertically due to its forward momentum. And a helicopter attack would certainly be even more severe than a drone attack.

Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

I recommend the Al-Jazeera live updates on the flotilla. There is video evidence from cameras from multiple boats showing the attack from different angles.

The claim of the Tunisian government that there would have been no drone and the fire would have been the result of carelessness are clearly lies aimed at saving face and downplaying the violation of Tunisia’s national sovereignty.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/9/2/live-geta-thunberg-once-more-on-board-sumud-flotilla-sailing-for-gaza

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Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

There is more videos from different angles in the Aljazeera live-post.

In one you can clearly see a bright-burning object being dropped onto the boat and then exploding.

https://aje.io/e4f7v5?update=3934620

Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

That is more than a 10% loss of that customer base in 2 month.

For any industry that is huge.

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Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

Maybe France should just make a betting rack on how long their prime ministers last and use that money to reduce their debt?

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Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

Da gibt es schon seit 10-15 Jahren oder so die Diskussion um Andreas Gabalier.

Die Übergänge scheinen fließend zu sein und rechtspopulistische und rechtsextreme Positionen mindestens anschlussfähig zu sein.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Gabalier

Der geschäftsführende Direktor des Zentrums für Populäre Kultur und Musik der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Michael Fischer, analysierte für das Magazin Bento einzelne Liedtexte von Gabalier. Sein Fazit: „In den Liedern von Andreas Gabalier geht es vordergründig um ‚Heimatkitsch‘, religiöse Gefühle und überholte Rollenbilder. Das findet man so zwar auch bei anderen Schlagerliedern, aber im Politischen geht Gabalier deutlich weiter als andere“. Die Textpassage „eisernes Kreuz, das am höchsten Berggipfel steht“ (aus Mein Bergkamerad) ist laut Fischer aufgrund ihrer Anlehnung an die alte Kriegsauszeichnung Eisernes Kreuz eine gewollte Provokation, so etwas könne kein Zufall sein. Ein solches „Spiel mit Begriffen“ kenne man auch von rechtspopulistischen Politikern.

Sebastian Gloser von nordbayern.de bezeichnet Gabalier als „Brückenbauer zur Neuen Rechten“. Auch Gloser verweist auf die Textpassage mit dem „eisernen Kreuz“ und erwähnt Gabaliers Aufzählung von Deutschen, Italienern und Japanern – den Achsenmächten im Zweiten Weltkrieg – im Song Biker sowie Gabaliers Hakenkreuz-Pose auf dem Albumcover von Volks-Rock’n’Roller. Weiterhin kritisiert Gloser das Gesellschaftsbild Gabaliers, das eher zu den 1950er Jahren passe.[46] Auf die Hakenkreuz-Pose verweisen auch andere Journalisten.

Im März 2020 warf der Kulturforscher Jens Wietschorke Gabalier vor, eine „Echokammer für Rechtspopulismus“ zu schaffen, „ohne sich darauf festlegen zu lassen“. Er wende sich wie viele Populisten „tendenziell an eine schweigende Mehrheit“ und bediene sich „einer Geste des heimlichen Einverständnisses“. Wietschorke zitiert die Zeile „Irgendwann kommt dann der Punkt, wo’s einem reicht, dann wird’s zuviel“ aus dem Song A Meinung haben und merkt an, wer „so etwas vor dem Hintergrund der Flüchtlingsdebatten 2015/16 auf einer Stadionbühne“ singe, der werde „ganz genau verstanden, auch wenn er nicht sagt, worum es ihm da konkret geht“.

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Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

I used to run SuSE and i appreciate their 100% open-source philosophy. But when i can't run videos on websites because the codec isn't open source, it is not suitable as a daily driver.

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Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

I'd be happy for you to provide sources for your claim then.

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Saleh @feddit.org 5mo ago

Even the Media Bias Fact Checking considers Middle East Eye "high credibility", despite the MBFC having a pro US pro Israel bias.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/middle-east-eye/