Brandenburg election: Welcome Culture sours to Auf Wiedersehen
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Migrants who arrived since 2015 say they feel unwelcome in Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany is gaining support.

Migrants who arrived since 2015 say they feel unwelcome in Germany, where the far-right Alternative for Germany is gaining support.

    • CyberEggEnglish
      101·
      2 months ago

      Manufactured conflicts like Syria and Ukraine

      Who manufactured these conflicts?

      • sznowicki@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, tell us who started the war in Ukraine in 2014 with little green men without badges and shooting down a civilian plane. Go on!

        • CyberEggEnglish
          31·
          2 months ago

          You’re not trying to tell me it’s not a war of russian aggression, are you?

          • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            I guess they’re referring to this,

            the aircraft had been downed by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory in Ukraine.

            • CyberEggEnglish
              11·
              2 months ago

              That’s not an answer to my question.

        • CyberEggEnglish
          61·
          2 months ago

          Russia invaded and annexed Donbass and Krim in 2014, then launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Do you want to tell us Russia could not have simply not done this? Do you want to tell us this is anything else than russian aggression?

            • CyberEggEnglish
              61·
              2 months ago

              Of course the illegal invasion by Russia was aggression, like Iraq and Afghanistan and all wars are aggression. But it was foreseeable and preventable through diplomacy.

              You do realize that deplomacy and negotiations were tried before the war, in the beginning of the war and continue ever since, right? It doesn’t work because Putin doesn’t want to actually negotiate. Putin is not interested in a diplomatic resolution. Putin wands to expand his empire and eradicate Ukraine as a people, it’s culture, identity, language, everything. It’s a genocide. Putin is literally Hitler (and as a German, I’m not pulling this comparison lightly).

              Ukraine proxy war

              Don’t drink paint.

              • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
                21·
                2 months ago

                He’s a Tankie who, in the past, had a Castro profile picture. I already tagged him from when he defended Venezuela.

    • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      This is not really the community for doomer sci-fi. And I don’t think it’s particularly healthy to consume it. It just demotivates people who are (or would be) fighting for a better future.

      we have failed to stop climate change

      So far. But there is no definitive end point. We know the future is going to be rougher than the present but that is all.

      This is the horrifying and inevitable future because of neoliberalism

      And neoliberalism can’t be beat?

        • federal reverse@feddit.orgMEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          instead we hide and censor the truth and terrible consequences

          Not at all the point. Your wording was that it’s “inevitable” and that is the issue for me.

          In the face of all that’s injust in the world, do you have nothing better to do than sow despair?

          But the numbers don’t lie: 1.2 billion climate refugees by 2050.

          This is a projection. It’s good that we have it but whether it is true can only be known in the future.

          We’re still tracking very near the worst case GHG emission pathway.

          Again, based on a projection — there’s always a worse case. E.g. if we didn’t widely use solar/wind power, our GHG emissions would be vastly higher still.

          There is no way voters will accept another wave of refugees.

          This is nonsense. Voters have accepted previous refugees, they may as well accept future refugees. The main thing that’s changed since is that mass media went from supporting humane ideas to supporting more or less openly racist ideas.

          (You may want to think about the dehumanizing effect of the term “wave” here btw.)

          For many, fascism is the answer.

          It’s not everyone’s answer & minds can be changed over time.

          The things we would have to do are impossible.

          They’re extremely possible. They’re just really improbable given current power structures.

          Who exactly has this program “to fight for a better future”?

          I am sure you will find an organization that, while not perfect, is working on things you care about.

          Instead we’re rearming for war

          Pro tip: The Russian government started a war in Europe. The Russian government is claiming the territory of one sovereign nation in Europe and in fact looking for more.

          Being able to defend against that means we can continue looking at other societal objectives too — such as fighting climate change.

          There’s no climate movement under Putin.

          and started a new cold war with bad China.

          No, China isn’t “bad”. But like the Russian government, the Chinese government is spreading authoritarianism and making the world dependent on Chinese products.

          Talking about peace gets you branded a traitor.

          Is that so?