Und warum hast du eine Maske auf?

Stuttgart 1 hat in BW auch irgendwie geschafft die Grünen mit der Erststimme zu wählen. Aber verdammt knapp:

16 Stimmen Unterschied

Da könnten sie auf vereinzelte Neuwahlen klagen, z.B. wurden in Trier 15 Stimmen für ungültig erklärt wegen falscher Wahlzettel.

The Linke is an Eastern German party.

After reunification, the Eastern German ruling party SED evolved into PDS. In 2005, PDS and the left-wing of the SPD formed Die Linke.

Because of this, Die Linke is more popular in the East. They are seen as anti-establishment and have regularly brought attention to issues Eastern Germany faced, so they are more popular there.

Vice versa, they aren’t nearly as established in the West as the other parties.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-troops-raped-tortured-children-ukraine-un-panel-says-rcna49168

The report:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2022/09/update-chair-independent-international-commission-inquiry-ukraine-51st-session

In the cases we have investigated, the age of victims of sexual and gendered-based violence ranged from four to 82 years. The Commission has documented cases in which children have been raped, tortured, and unlawfully confined. Children have also been killed and injured in indiscriminate attacks with explosive weapons.

Google doesn’t sell your information. That would be the quickest way to create competition.

What Google sells are targeted ad slots.

Not at all.

Hardly any Lemmy instance is hosted in the US and other countries never had this section to begin with.

Most Lemmy instances already need to comply with laws making them responsible for keeping illegal content up.

Burn it

Ein Billighandy ohne SIM für den digitalen Führerschein ist eine Möglichkeit.

Sind halt leider so 100€ an Kosten, das wäre mir aber die Sicherheit wert.

She lost her shit

There’s the BSW which has the social policy of the left, the economic policy of neoliberals and the reactionary policies of the nazis.

They are hardly better than full blown nazis and vote in lockstep with them on topics concerning minorities.

Next pope will probably be significantly worse.

This one was remarkably progressive and has infuriated nearly the entirety of conservative/reactionary Christianity. They will do everything to ensure one of them will become the next pope.

At least the German Catholic church may decide to split away from the Vatican. Their relationship is already hanging on by a thread and a reactionary pope may push it over the edge.

Communism as Marx intended:

State-capitalism is as close to communism as laissez-faire capitalism.

Russian disinformation is still more effective as of now. Trump himself is literally just repeating Russian disinformation and not making up lies on his own. The US has not yet become as proficient with the firehose of falsehood as the Russian state due to lack of experience for the most part.

You just cannot build up a Telegram channel network with hundreds of thousands of subscribers posting about how the EU harvests Adrenochrome from babies over night.

It’s source available, not open source.

It severely limits what can legally be done by restricting modifications and prohibiting “commercial” distribution:

You may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.

You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.

Non-commercial purposes is extremely vague by the way. Depending on the country - or even the court in a country - nearly everything distributed on the internet is for commercial purposes.

For example, in Germany, only commercial websites have to put up a legal disclosure consisting of address, full name, phone number and email. Yet courts have ruled that every single website that is available to the public is “commercial” - only private webpages available to a handful of people are non-commercial. If anyone redistributed the software in Germany this license would be grounds for a successful lawsuit.

How about the burning dog in the burning café?

The AfD won’t sweep but they will likely become the 2nd strongest party, after the conservative CDU whose right wing loves the Republicans:

Among others in this image: Former traffic minister Andreas Scheuer, a prominent CDU member (CSU to be more precise but it’s basically the same party).

If AfD + CDU achieve a majority it’s not unlikely that they will form a coalition - or at the very least vote for the same bills.

Fascism is on a global rise. The fascist Reform UK is surging in British polls, Italy has a fascist government, the fascist ÖVP FPÖ has gotten the most votes in the recent Austrian election etc etc

Fascism is on a global rise and actively supported by Russia, China and the US. I doubt that democracy can survive efficient Russian disinformation + the full resources of China and the US.

I’d say it will only get worse from here.

I was moreso referring to people who either plan to be able to flee the country or who plan on doing some “legal-if-jury-nullification” actions themselves.

After all, none of the small German resistance during the nazi era would’ve been able to do anything had their identities been known to the regime. The same applies to guerilla warfare against far more powerful enemies. Remaining low profile allows for dealing the most damage possible.

Being loud and public only works for democracies, not for fascist dictatorships.

Honestly? I’m just continuing to survive for the most part. While not everything you wrote applies to me, a lot does. For me life is approximately a 3/10 - a passing grade for a difficult exam (Analysis 1 & 2, my behated. I got a 43% though 😎).

Plus I’ve got a lot of plausible deniability left since I haven’t actually started seeking help which provides a lot of hope actually. I’d actually prefer keeping it over trying and failing to find help which isn’t really a great incentive for reaching out.

I also realize that there’s not a lot that can be worse than it is right now. Maybe drug addiction? Still, the only real paths I see ahead are further stagnation or improvement. And while the though of remaining alone forever hurts (badly), I’ve got plenty of time left alive and therefore an incomprehensible amount of chances as well.

Finally, as stupid as it sounds, what gets me through my day is a comfortable bed. I genuinely know no pleasure greater than snuggling up under a warm blanket on a cold night. Bonus points if you’ve got plushies to keep you company. Hell, I’m even typing this on my phone while buried under a layer (or two) of plushies an hour after waking up. It does make getting up more of a challenge though.

Tl;dr Plushies and hope. At least the first one is reasonably easy to obtain.

Just in case any Americans need to hear it:

You may not necessarily want to donate to this fundraiser, depending on your future plans. You will almost certainly face increased monitoring after donating and you may want to remain low-profile in a fascist US.