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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

YES! That was one of my favourite subs back on Reddit, glad to see it reborn.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

7,5k€ for one of those toys?! Hell I might get one myself. Even just the anti drone system would be so funny. What? You are flying your little shitty quadcopter at the park and taking pictures of the people jogging? No you are not! Hehehe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That is a fair point. I tried looking up some charts to check that flow over the years but as it turns out I'm not familiar enough with the bureaucratic jungle of the US Highway Administration, so I couldn't find anything. The wording of the article does make it seem like a trend over the years, rather than an isolated drop in 2020, but without any further data I can only speculate about its magnitude.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (6 children)

LMAO abbastanza ridicolo.

Articolo a parte, il solo titolo già fa ridere:

Ho scoperto di non essere il papà di mia figlia (9 anni). Non voglio più vederla e non mi interessa se dovrà vivere per strada

"Giornalismo" di questo genere potrebbe tranquillamente essere roba generata - no, rigurgitata - da IA, mi viene quasi da sperare che nessun giornalista abbia sprecato tempo traducendo una roba del genere.

Domanda. Perché hai censurato l'url?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Ok hear an European federalist's (me) take on this:

Yes, ID and ECR are set to gain a pretty substantial amount of seats, especially compared to the results of the previous election, as the Guardian's infographic clearly highlights:

However, their conclusion:

As a result, the far-right ID group is projected to gain up to 40 more seats, for a total of 98, potentially making it the third political force and opening up the possibility of a “populist right” coalition (EPP, ECR, and ID) with 49% of MEPs in the new parliament

seems a bit of a stretch. While ID is firmly eurosceptic and ECR is... undecisive, EPP is firmly pro Europe. EPP has been the largest party in the European Parliament for over 20 years, and they are the ones who elected names like von der Leyen and Metsola. I wouldn't call either "Anti-European".

As the POLITICO "Poll of Polls" clearly highlights, the top groups aren't set to change all that much. The most notable changes are Renew losing quite a lot of seats and ID replacing it as the 3rd political force, but EPP and S&D mantain a significant lead.

If ECR and ID ever came to building a "populist right coalition", I doubt EPP would be on their side. I think it's way more likely that they'd side with other forces like S&D or RE and try to stop them.

In conclusion: yeah it sucks that Renew has lost so many seats, and it also sucks that far right voters seem to prefer the way more extreme ID to the comparatively more sane ECR, but things aren't nearly as tragic as the media is portraying them to be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If it did exist (and it doesn't), it would be an excessive cause of government spending. Money that could otherwise be used to pay for other services like health or pension spending, or subsidize (read as: "cut taxes on") necessary stuff like food or petrol.

I think their argument per se does make sense, it's just the initial assumption that is flawed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Hi, thanks for the lenghty explanation. Sorry, I should have been clearer in my reply, I am aware of what the confederacy was, historically. My concern was more about what they meant when saying that the GOP might have wanted to return to that. I do know a thing or two about American politics, but I just don't recall ever hearing about them having similar stances.

Make no mistake, I am not defending the Republicans here. From my point of view they are definitely the worst of the two parties and some of their policies are downright evil (including but not limited to: privatizations, opposing welfare, opposing national healthcare, opposing public transport...).

My entire point in this was just saying: I don't think they are as bad, evil, dangerous or even criminal as the neo nazi parties currently running in Germany, in particular the topic of discussion, NPD.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Pretty ironic, lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate on the "the GOP wants to return to the confederacy" thing? As you can probably tell I am not American, don't really follow your politics that much. Referencing anything in particular? I don't think I've ever heard of it.

Anyway, I feel like you have kinda overlooked my last point, where NPD is openly claiming areas in the borders of their neighbours. That's a pretty big deal, coming from a neo nazi party in the country that started WW2. And I don't recall reading about the GOP having similar policies.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't actually bothered looking at what AfD stands for (obvious disclaimer: I'm not German, I'm allowed to not care lol)

Just wanted to make it even more clear that this party wasn't the one causing the people in Berlin to storm the streets.

EDIT: I tried opening your article, and aside from the language barrier, which my browser extensions were able to overcome, it looks paywalled.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Props to OP for making it clear in the post body, but the headline made it a bit more clickbate-y than it should have been. That article is about NPD, a very minor and actual neo nazi party. The anti-right protests that have been happening recently, instead, are about the AfD (alternative for Germany) party, which is set to gain a sizeable 23% of the votes for its far right coalition ID during the next European elections.

In other words yeah they are cutting funds from a far right party, but not from the far right party.

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