I don’t see the problem. You are not trying to convince CDU voters to vote for Die Linke, you are trying to reach your own base and energise voters that may agree with you but see no point in voting. If anything, having Merz say that about you is positive. If Merz has no problem with you, you are on the wrong side of politics.

I mean “the left” as in left parties, specifically the faces of those parties. And the BILD will call everything left of CDU unhinged.

What the left needs to learn, in my mind, is being angrier. The AFD has successfully whipped their supporters into a frenzy with the constant fear-mongering. And there are enough topics to be legitimately angry about. You need to mobilize your own and disillusioned voters by being passionate.

Luckily it has gotten a lot better once moat weirdos left with the formation of the BSW. But yes, the Greens are still better when it comes to foreign policy.

He did indeed. And now he is trying to pressure the Ukrainians into repairing the gas pipeline russia bombed (a second time, Ukraine already repaired the pipeline once during the war). Returning the money in exchange for continued floe of russian oil and gas to Hungary.

I can’t verify the following, but it makes too much sense not to be true. Allegedly, the EU worked to provide oil and gas to Hungary at even lower prices than Russia is demanding. But because Hungary is the most corrupt country in thr EU, Orban’s benefactors would lose lucrative deals with the Russians, so Hungary stuck with importing oil and gas from Russia.

He should be threatened ^{with time behind bars}

I swear, ideally the entire admin needs to be charged with high treason, but if the Democrats refuse to punish them at all once in power, the US deserves to fall.

The need for the technology is so great that Trump’s sons announced a new business venture Monday to supply the Pentagon with Ukrainian drone technology.

Hah. Never not grifting, they are.

The vanity fair photos are still the best worst photos of the current admin.

While I can understand not wanting to trust corporations and Mozilla has definitely become more corporate over the years, if they ever start to collect data without the ability to opt out, by (european) law, they need to inform the user about the data collection. So for now, I don’t see much reason to be alarmed.

For them to sell your data, they need to collect it first. And as of now, all data collection can still be opted out of.

Wasn’t that the universal “vaccine” that puts your own body’s immune system on alert? I still think that it’s probably a bad idea to permanently have the immune system on alert, otherwise that’d have been a significant evolutionary advantage and become dominant. The fact that it isn’t tells me that there is a downside to always having your immune system on alert.

That’d work too, although I’d implement it the other way around. Define a new http header that indicates what type of content the site you’re visiting is hosting and handle the content blocking client-side based on those headers.

I get the feeling that privacy advocates like the German CCC or the EFF in the US need to get ahead of this chat control and age verification bullshit by implementing a privacy-first age verification system prototype. Something where you can identify yourself as adult that is both trustworthy and anonymous.

Because if they don’t, palantir will implement your age verification and harvest all your data.

Why in Germany and Austria far-right (AfD, CDU, OVP) are against

I guess a combination of contrarianism and the control not going far enough.

They aren’t taking apart assembled products, but orders and items that can easily be disassembled. They also under-value alot of their imports to get below the threshold.

They have taken apart and reclassified a lot of stuff that was above the threshold, to get it illegally below it.

The frech have a fucked up police state, being trailblazers when it comes to surveilance in the EU and somehow every second protest ends in a riot, but when it comes to their european foreign policy, they are really solid.

And of course french political discourse, just like most european political discourse, downplays far-right violence, while overstating left-wing political violence. Like when recently a far-right provocateur died after starting a fight at a left-wing protest, and somehow a leftist party in France has to answer for his death?

Forbidden West doesn’t require a PSN account as far as I’m aware. At least I didn’t have to create one.

I don’t know what is so draconian about it. The exception was for parcels below 150€ of value and it was axed, because Temu and the other trash shops were abusing it.