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  • "A strong signal to China": Model of the "Pillar of Shame," a memorial to the victims of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, was unveiled outside the European Parliament in Brussels

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  • The students at Tianmenn protested for China becoming democratic and gainst China becoming capitalist. So it is quite strongly linked to Western commercial and colonial interests.

    China developed just as the West wanted, by adopting capitalist economics without democratic systems or worse democratic ownership of the means of production.

    Just that China then outplayed the West at their own game.

  • Tesla Strikers vs Elon Musk

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  • He is just projecting. Unions and historically trade and craft guilds have been organized bodies to protect the interests of their members in a hierachical system. Where before the craftsmen were their own businessmen but subjected to feudal order, now the workers are employed to a capitalist.

    There is an entire political movement of Neufeudalism, that wants to use Neoliberal ideas of deregulation, dismantling of central governments and contracted slavery to reestablish feudal systems. Just that then the authority would not stem from title inheritance but from wealth inheritance. Subsequently many former feudal families in European countries try to reestablish themselves this way, for instance through political activities in fascist and far-right political movements.

  • Swiss Move Towards Vote On Reinforcing Neutrality

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  • It isn't bullshit. Imagine the US had made a free and open vote before invading Iraq. Or Russias held a free and open vote before invading Ukraine (one can dream right?). We might have avoided both those invasions.

    If the Swiss choose to constitutionalize this, it is beneficial for everyone. The non neutral countries know that they cannot do business with Switzerland regarding any weapons or military equipment. They know that Switzerland might still give warring enemies access to funds, so Switzerland can be blocked from international currencies and the borders can be controlled extensively by the EU, if the need arises.

    If we manage to get past the rich tax evaders lobbies we can finally start to treat Switzerland properly and make it more difficult for criminals to hide their money in Switzerland.

  • EU to crack down on unpaid internships ‘exploiting despair of young people’

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  • Unpaid internships are a barrier system to keep lower social classes out of academic jobs. Turns out that gatekeeping those jobs was a bad idea in the long run.

  • Europe’s soldiers keep quitting, just when NATO needs them

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  • I mean also why would someone go to the military when the same education can get them a better paying job?

    In Germany an officer makes about 4k before taxes after his education finished (increasing over time and with benefits adding up). So that is 48k in a year or a bit more than the median income. For someone with a masters degree. With an engineering or IT degree you can find better paying jobs in the private sector.

    The main advantage is that you already get paid while studying, but this is offset by the difficulty later moving from a military to a civillian career, where others have a ten year headstart on you.

    On the other hand it is difficult to find a partner and start a family if you are living in a military camp.

  • Europol: Israel-Gaza galvanising Jihadist recruitment in Europe

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  • Who wants peace needs to bring justice. This result, while unfortunate was entirely predictable.

    And by illegaly cracking down on demonstrations and other forms of democratic discourse, western governments knowingly galvanise further.

  • Far-right Austrian nationalist banned from Germany after neo-Nazi meeting

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  • Doublethink is strong in these people.

    The leader of the PEGIDA movement that did many far right anti refugee demos in 2015 and 2016 had fled to South Africa in the 90s to avoid a prison sentence for multiple break ins. He then was convicted for robberies, drug dealing, scams, the whole ordeal.

    Of course their main "argument" was that all refugees would be criminals and increase the crime rate in Germany.

  • Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable

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  • It was also absurd at the time. The way he talks about REACH is insane. He thinks the chemical industry in the EU wasnt powerful enough to lobby against unessescary legislation?

    REACH is the minimum we agreed on to not have everyone and their dog be exposed to harmful chemicals and work towards using somewhat less harmful chemicals.

    What he was demanding there is deregulating in the style of putting lead back into gasoline.

  • Brexit’s Lasting Damage Is Looking Inescapable

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  • The UK thought it was getting a poor deal, when it had the most exceptions in the EU. It will still need another generation or two for the UK to realise that it is not the old empire anymore.

  • Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy.

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  • Isnt the federations key idea to avoid collapse if any single instance it failing? This sounds like the system has become too centralized around lemmy.world

  • Round 2 🚢

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  • You fill a barrel full of Ammonium-Nitrate fertilizer and put a 30-120 seconds delay fuze depending on expected depth. You start the fuze and drop it into the water. Voila Depth-Charge.

  • Round 2 🚢

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  • For non military or explorative purposes there is absolutely no reason to go that deep. The "submarine experience" at 50m is the same as at 250m. And it smells terribly, because recycling sweaty air only goes that far.

  • France to offer four-day week to parents sharing custody of children

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  • I think there should be no limits to immigration, but we also need to avoid deliberately robbing other countries of their skilled work force. Germany for instance has installed programs to get nurses from countries like Romania, which then are lacking there. Meanwhile they are faced with strong racism here, the notion being that they should feel grateful and accept being subjected to shitty (and often illegal) working conditions.

    When you look at the people "invited" for working in agriculture or slaughterhouses you often find conditions that fulfill many criteria of forced labor.

    And telling people they shouldn't have children is one step towards enforcing them not having children. And this will be done along ethnical lines and it will be genocide. That is why we need to reject this notion, before the idea becomes normalised and then the fascists say "obviously population control is needed for the other people, not us"

  • France to offer four-day week to parents sharing custody of children

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  • It seems though that our pension system is failing, as you pointed out yourself. So maybe having a stable number of children is the better pension system?

    Given the productivity rate that we have in industrialized countries, we don't need 5 children per mother, but 2 seem reasonable. And there isn't "more than enough" people. Any number of "enough" is arbitrary, until the planetary limits are exceeded from the number of people. But we could easily sustain another 2-4 billion more people with a good life, if we would get rid of capitalism.

  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Israel: cannot stand by as Palestinians risk starvation

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  • This is wrong. Germany is not calling for a ceasefire since december. Germany is calling for "humanitarian fire pauses". When asked by journalists in the governmental press conference about three times a week the goverment keeps speaking about a "humantarian fire pause" "humanitäre Feuerpause" and is explicitly rejecting the word "ceasefire" "Waffenstillstand". The goal of the German government remains set on Israel being able to continueing attacking Gaza militarily.

    Dont let some english analysis tell you otherwise when the primary source, the german government itself is openly rejecting the word ceasefire. Even after the massacre on the 29th February, the German government remains to reject the word ceasefire.

    Government Press conference 01.03.24

    In the press conference on 12.03.2024 the German government again repeated that they believe Israel to be fully abiding by international law. Only in this press conference they are not talking about a "Feuerpause" but "Waffenpause" which could be understood as a ceasefire, but leaves wiggle room continue fighting after the "pause". This is distinctly different from a "Waffenstillstand", where "stillstand" translates more to a full halt.

  • A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day

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  • You'll be shocked to find that electric cars have been invented 50 years before Benz came around with what today is considered the "invention of the automobile" by slapping an internal combustion engine on it.

  • A cargo ship’s ‘WindWing’ sails saved it up to 12 tons of fuel per day

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  • Why wouldn't it? Those sails are 37m tall. I found stacked containes to be at max stacked up to 25m.

  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Israel: cannot stand by as Palestinians risk starvation

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  • As the ICJ accepted the charge and will hold hearings on 8th of april and 9th of april, your notion of "everyone" seems to not include the ICJ, who is the final authority on this case.

  • EU pledges €7.4 billion in aid to Egypt as it seeks to curb migration

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  • Meanwhile the German economy needs a migration of an extra 400.000 working age people to maintain its workforce and not have the economy shrink because of lacking workers. The effect is even more severe for the health insurance and pension insurance as their costs grow while income shrinks from people retiring.

    EDIT: The 400.000 extra immigrants need to be there every year. So 4.000.000 people over the next decade.