Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen!

Liebe es

Leuchtet mir ein. Das maimai bezog sich auf diese Meldung, wo Merz als Bundespolitiker um mehr Geld für seinen Wahlkreis gebeten hat: https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/innenpolitik/id_100298294/fredrich-merz-cdu-chef-richtet-bittbrief-an-robert-habeck.html

Kardamumma!

Wie unterscheiden sie sich, also in ihrer Wirkung?

Richtig und diese Überwachung ist krass, wenn man überlegt was die Autos heutzutage alles für Sensorik an Bord haben. Das wird alles nach Hause gefunkt, garantiert weiter verkauft. Denn reguliert hat die Politik da natürlich nix und so ist niemand mit einem modernen Auto auch Admin über die IT des Autos. Eigentlich ein unhaltbarer Zustand.

And it's 100% in accordance with international law.

That sounds about right.

Und diese ganze absurde Debatte vor dem Hintergrund dass ca 20% des Bundeshaushaltes als Zuschuss in die Rentenkasse fließen. Das sind ca 50% (113 Mrd. €) der Ausgaben für soziales im Bundeshaushalt verglichen mit ca 23% (43 Mrd. €) ALG2 Leistungen (Zahlen 2022). Dazu kommen die Ausgaben der Kommunen für Miete, Kita, etc. für ALG2 Empfänger. Wobei der Bund inzwischen einen Großteil der kommunalen Kosten für KdU übernimmt, das also schon im Bundeshaushalt zu großen Teilen enthalten ist.

Die Erhöhung des Bürgergelds ist ein winziger Bruchteil davon. Es sind peanuts mit denen sich niemals auch nur annähernd die Milliardenlöcher der ausbleibenden Verschuldung gestopft werden können und jede Debatte darüber verbietet sich, ist ehrlos, populistisch, appelliert an niederste Instinkte und ist volkswirtschaftlich blödsinnig. Die Abschaffung perverser Subventionen muss oberste Priorität haben. Das ist auch keine "versteckte Steuererhöhung", wenn man eine Subvention auslaufen lässt...

Ganz schön butthurt sind manche. Also von mir aus musst du nicht zu hexbear :D

Warte schon seit dem Abgasbetrug darauf, dass die dt. Autoindustrie endlich mal aufs Maul fliegt.

It's not about hoarding cash. It's about privacy and surveillance. Cash is the only truly anonymous means of payment.

Would be nice to be able to pick out individual source polluters for a range of substances

We can already do that today with inverse modeling of atmospheric substance transport and the satellites you mentioned. Heard a talk about the topic on a conference 4 years ago. That's how scientists could pinpoint the emission source for some illegally emmitted CFCs in China (and afaik the Chinese govt acted accordingly). With high resolution data you can also use these methods to detect methane leaks in gas pipelines etc.

+1 for such an extensive, well-founded rant

Interesting read. The statements by SJP are really disgusting and the Maoist revolutionary rethoric is repulsive to say the least.

Thanks for pointing that link out. Disgusting to say the least...

Kann das mal jemand einordnen? Was bedeutet das konkret?

That might be the case in the US where capitalists have much more influence over election outcomes and politicians themselves are often part of dynasties that accumulated enormous wealth. This is however not comparable to many European countries. Sure, you have capitalists in all capitalist societies. But their direct influence on election results is much smaller and politicians are very often ordinary people and not obscenely rich or privileged by their ancestry.

A whole different aspect is that these ordinary people, once they came into power, lend their ears way too much to capitalist interests and the likes of lobbyists, often ignoring the problems and needs of ordinary people and focussing instead on catering to the industry.

The people could however not vote for these politicians if they realized that their policies thwart their own interests. If they fail to do so, it's their own fault that the conditions for the majority are not improving. How can you fix the stupidity?

It's not contradictory but thanks for repeating my sentence with different wording.

Sovereign countries can choose their alliances freely. Of course it's Russian paranoia to be fearful of the NATO expansion. NATO would not start WW3 by invading Russia. And NATO expansion is the direct consequence of Russian imperialism. Russia's neighbors are afraid of Russia which has proven time and time again that it can and will use military force to subjugate it's neighbors. We've seen it under the reign of the Tsar. We've seen it during soviet times and we've seen it in modern Russia with Chechenia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine... You have to be willingly blind to overlook all these cases of military aggression out of paranoia and megalomania. Do you think the largest country on earth was created by peaceful negotiations and hugs? It's absolutely ridiculous.

Your "ample evidence" is fabricated by the spin doctors in Moscow. Congratulations for drinking up that propaganda so willingly.

Nevertheless Ukraine had physical control over these nuclear weapons although it couldn't have launched them. Ukraine also had claims to the black sea fleet and gave up on both in the years before the Budapest memorandum in which the above-mentioned security guarantees where given. In hindsight that was probably a mistake and the west should have used Russia's weakness to break Crimea and the black sea fleet out of Russia's hands for good to avoid future conflict and cripple Russia's geopolitical ambitions which where always fueled by paranoia. But you can't be that paranoid about losing sth. that you don't have anymore.

Russia can't be trusted to adhere to the contracts they sign. They will even invade and terrorise a country they themselves called "brothers" for a long time. It's utterly shameful and all you have to say about this is "bUt nAtO DiD bAd tHiNgS!!1".