Yeh, I see your point. But I think every app’s design also nudges us one way or another

By that definition, Wikipedia and Google Search are social media too

Totally agree! I’ve also caught myself rehearsing snarky retorts while scrolling microblogging apps. I feel like a heckler there.

I wonder if it includes EU and US sanctions, such as those imposed on ICC staff and journalists for their work on Israel/Palestine

Join a choir. Same connection.

Leaking this proposal to the media on the day when Auschwitz was liberated is a bit on the nose.

You’re right. It still feels more like a betrayal though when, say, a party which runs a campaign about peace and love turns out to be a psycho bloodsucking cheerleaders for genocide (eg the Greens).

True. But Merz could never disappoint me. He’s doing what’s expected of him. The last German gov — now THAT was a disappointment.

That’s rich coming from thus German gov. They enable the far right