Kanzler Merz geht auf die Deutschen los : „Wir sind ein bisschen zu bequem geworden“
Weißt Du, was bequem ist, Friedrich? Sich dreist, satt und selbstgefällig hinstellen, die Leute beschimpfen und gleichzeitig den Sozialstaat samt Gesundheitssystem und Rente schleifen, weil man weder den Mut noch den Willen hat, Vermögende zu besteuern. DAS ist bequem, Friedrich.
nothing weakens your war-fighting capabilities like *checks notes* not having the flu
What a shame ‐ but kind of fits with public behavior we've seen...
Would you mind summarizing for us non-Oberlin-types? (I can think of some reasons, but I don't know what the Oberlin angle is here)
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
And a great -great-great Granny is listed as having had 14 children born alive of which 8 were living. Modern medicine, man.
Going through Irish census records and in the 1911 census, my great-great grandmother is listed as having 12 children born alive and 9 living. Those are the times certain Republicans would like to have us return to, women constantly pregnant and their unvaccinated children dying
Found my family, great-great-granny only Irish speaking (and illiterate), then great-grandparents bilingual and literate. My grandmother was a native Irish speaker but didn't pass it on. A mix of happy developments (I have a PhD, 100 years after illiteracy) and rather sad – heritage language lost
This will sound ridiculous, given that the vice president is a Catholic convert, but there is a long history of anti-Catholic feeling in the US and I can't help seeing a lot of what's happened recently in that light
As someone born Catholic, I feel fine about disagreeing with papal infallibility. But he *chose* this! There were all kinds of Protestant denominations right there! Why become a Catholic if you aren't actually 100% on board?
(10 years ago I would have never expected to think about it that way)
Yes, I do understand that (Irish grandparents went to UK/US, so I'm a bit removed from the full Irish Catholic experience, but I got a decent dose all the same!). I'm not saying I'd go back to the Church – but I do appreciate the last two popes being a sort of counterweight to Trumpism/capitalism
...& although the Church very often does not live by its own supposed values, in the current age of extreme capitalism I find myself thinking more and more that it's meaningful to have an institution that at least proclaims the value of kindness to the poor, sick etc. So I'm increasingly muddled!
Someone skimped on their research there!
I'm also a (sometimes wobbly) atheist but since Francis and Leo have felt a bit milder towards the Church & also started to appreciate more the role it can play in creating community/allowing people to get to know others outside of their usual bubbles...
Ha! (Although none of that means you weren't qualified to talk on the subject!)
(Turns out there is more to Catholicism than fancy rituals and misogyny, which I'm guessing are the things that drew him in)
As someone who was born Catholic, I feel totally fine in saying that I think papal infallibility is nonsense, but I find it ridiculous for a convert to question the pope on theology. You chose this! You knew what you were getting into, get fully on board or don't get on board at all.
See, the thing is, and lot of important people still don't believe LC exists, because it hasn't hit them personally
For everyone concerned that "the Pope is WEAK on Crime", I have bad news about who Jesus chose to socialize with
But...what is likable?
(watching a movie where a character announces that he will destroy a city if they don't meet his specific demands by a certain deadline)
oh that's probably the good guy in this movie
Facebook recently asked me if I want more or less personalized ads, and I said less, OBVIOUSLY, and now I get compulsory "ad breaks" where a video plays and they are unironically great because they remind me to get off Facebook
Die Deutschen sollen mehr und länger für weniger (Geld) arbeiten, sie sollen höhere Lebenshaltungskosten hinnehmen, eine schlechtere Gesundheitsversorgung und dabei zuschauen, wie der Klimakollaps ihre Zukunft zerstört.
Aber dieses Opfer ist Lars Klingbeil bereit, zu erbringen.
I found this heartwarming and read it in Vanessa Redgrave's Call the Midwife narrator voice
NYT headline reads: "Trump’s Signature to Be Added to U.S. Dollars President Trump is set to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on America’s currency."
The year is 2030. I now own a home in every walkable US neighborhood, which I've paid for by selling rubber stamps that say "refused to release the Epstein files"
L'état, c'est moi
Merz arbeitet hart daran, immer mehr insb. jüngere Frauen gegen sich aufzubringen.
Eine relevante Frage dazu ist, ob andere Parteien dies zu nutzen, um Mitglieder zu gewinnen oder zumindest eine stärkere Bindung von Wähler*innen.
Angebote passend zu den Lebenswelten junger Frauen gibt es kaum.
»Ist der Sozialstaat noch finanzierbar?«
Ja, selbstverständlich. Was für eine bescheuerte Frage?
»Ist der Kapitalismus bei unermesslichem Reichtum einiger weniger Soziopathen noch funktionsfähig?«
Nein, selbstverständlich kann der Kapitalismus so nicht mehr funktionieren. Noch mehr dumme Fragen?
Ich warte auf die Partei, die endlich sagt, dass das Ziel nicht "Vollzeit für alle" sein sollte, sondern "Teilzeit für alle, gut bezahlt". Vor 40-50 Jahren reichte ein Einkommen für eine Familie, jetzt braucht es fast immer zwei. Wir sind verarscht worden und jetzt tun sie so als wären wir faul.
Ich lese sehr viel im Moment über Täter:innen in der NS Zeit. Und gestern dazu was kluges bei Angelika Ebbinghaus. Man muss aufhören, diese Täter:innen als Monster zu sehen. Als ganz besonders böse. Es sind Menschen, die zeigen, was möglich ist, wenn Gewalt Gewohnheit wird, toleriert, ja belohnt.