The problem is, that the AfD slowly drifted from very conservative to far right, and for a pretty long time, they managed to seem sufficiently “bürgerlich” not to be legally extremist. It was perfectly clear that they were nazis, even years ago, but not provable.

Add to that the two unsuccessful attempts to ban the even more right and NPD. They were afraid to fail again.

Regarding the current 19%, Germany’s political, economic, and media system somehow paint itself into a corner. The politicians are largely out of ideas, they’re all fighting about petty conflicts, there’s hardly anything being done. Not that bad laws are enacted, nothing happens. The country runs on autopilot into a very obvious wall, and the politicians fight who can sit in the pilot’s seat. It’s a simulacrum.

The economic system is eroding away. The old German model doesn’t work anymore, and the old conglomerates just switched to subsidies and rent seeking, no investment, no changes. Volkswagen wants to scale back EVs in favor of ICEs.

The media are dominated by public access outlets, who are largely afraid to be critical, because someone could call them biased, and private media spreading hate for clicks.

So, Germany is currently in a pretty bad situation and many many people see that, but don’t see anyone actually doing anything about it. But because they are bombarded with hate, they choose AfD. Absolutely stupid decision, but these people just lost every bit of trust in the system. And honestly, I blame the system.

Yes, which is exactly what I wrote above.

That’s absurd, 1km/h is not the correct unit for acceleration.

Simple answer: the local police.

It would be kind of funny if two “once in a century” pandemic happened right during both of Trump’s terms.

Realistically, it’s not gonna happen. There’s too much cowardice in our political system for that.

Have you seen him talking on a stage?

He has the charisma and eloquence of a tub of lard.

Sure, but can you prove that they were not just incompetent?

You can blame the captain personally for negligence, sure, but unless he has instructions from an intelligence agency open on his desk, you can’t prove anything political.

Considering the cable was likely cut by just dragging the anchor over the seafloor, there’s not much to find. It’s perfectly plausible that the crew consists of a bunch of idiots.

No matter what the truth actually is, it’s impossible to prove.

I recently learned that mastodon (the animal) literally means breast tooth, because some thought their teeth (or tusks?) looked, well, breasty?

What I find surprising is that so many people (i.e. you) still claim to fact check everything. You don’t. I guarantee it.

Most people don’t read news for a living. You can’t fact check everything you read online. That’s physically impossible. And if you’d be honest to yourself, 95% of headlines you read are just noise and you don’t read any further. Not because you’re too stupid, but because you’re not that interested in Trump’s latest shenanigans or Italy’s economic outlook.

The type of question where you don’t even know what you don’t know.

Some folks over there have been totally unwilling to learn.

Russian history in a nutshell.

I think this kind of reasoning just desperately tries to find reason in insanity.

You’re basically implying that the coordinated uncertainty is so incredibly good at being covert, that it’s absolutely indistinguishable from underpaid incompetence and power tripping pettiness.

Maybe I’m not giving enough credit to government agencies, but actual incompetence and artisanal pettiness seem to be more likely to me than a planned behavior.

All this gate keeping is bullshit, but I do have to agree that we are really bad at actually engineering.

If you don’t need actually public DNS, something like Tailscale might be an option.

“Suicide”

I’m completely out of the loop here, what’s the point of testing in the first place? Maybe I’m too European for that, but this seems extremely intrusive for no reason.

Even bigger question: what then?

Say you deport a citizen of Mexican origin to Mexico. Can’t they just, you know, go back? They’re citizens, with a passport/id.

The only alternative is to strip them (at least de facto) of their citizenship, which is literally a Hitler move (https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_über_den_Widerruf_von_Einbürgerungen_und_die_Aberkennung_der_deutschen_Staatsangehörigkeit, only a German source, unfortunately).

Wait, so some people just have a dangling piece of colon attached to nothing but their anus?