I disagree.

The German narrative revolves heavily around creating some idea of a shared “Judeo-Christian” cultural history in opposition to the “Islamization” by evil Arabs. It goes as far as trying to shif the blame for the holocaust and German antisemitism onto Arabs, ignoring the millenia of christian antisemitism in Europe and the prosperity and safety of Jews under muslim rule during the same time.

One of the core narratives of Israel is the claim they are coming back to land supposedly theirs and stolen from them by the Palestinians. But the reality is that the people never left. They became Christian and later Muslim, some stayed Jews.

So who gets to decide what was “outside propaganda” grave enough to not recognise an election result? Will this be a general criteria or just a convienent selectively enforced one?

Because if this is a general criteria, next time Russia just needs to make propaganda for the strongest party and have the court annule the result and redo the election infinitely.

If it is only selectively enforced, it is just undemocratic and a measure by the current rulers to abolish democracy. Think about people like Orban just claiming there was too much foreign propaganda for the opposition.

Finally from a democratic theory point of view it doesnt work. Either every vote has the same value and you have a democracy. Or there is arbitrary decisions on whose vote is worthless because they were too dumb to fall for foreign propaganda, effectively removing the fairness and freedom of the vote.

Also these measures dont address the route cause. If the propaganda can get people to elect someone it can get them to do other things, like revolting, sabotage, violent crime… You need to address the propaganda channels and psychological attack angles.

I am not so sure about this.

The people who made their opinion based on tiktok will be pissed off. The article mentions no proof of rigging or other direct interference with the voting process itself. This is a huge problem for democracy, if the image is that only the candidates approved by the court are allowed to be elected and unfavorable election results get annulled. And Russia will play this angle heavily.

Unless there is specific evidence of the voting process itself being rigged, this sounds like a recipe for disaster. Then Russia could even get a civil war in an EU country out of it rather than just a pro-Russian candidate winning.

it is also a genius strategy for a country that relies heavily on trade, having two of the largest ports of Europe, to close itself off from the rest of Europe.

While Russia “helps” with destabilization, the failure of Neoliberal politics all across the world is the inevitable outcome of Neoliberal politics themselves. Problem is as they go out the Neoliberals make sure, that the can is kicked down the road to their fascist friends, rather than making space for progressive politics

They have been brainwashed to believe the entire world is antisemitic and out to get them. Evidence to the contrary, like the insane amount of support they received from the US, UK, Germany and others is conveniently ignored.

Noticed how immediately after October 7 they ramped up claims of antisemitism supposedly being a huge problem on college campuses? Evidence to the contrary is ignored. Jews partaking in protest against Israels genocide are ousted and declared to be traitors or “not really jewish” while being beaten up by the police and far right thugs. So actual attacks on Jews are ignored, while imagined attacks on Jews are peddled as narrative.

The goal is to tie all Jews in the world in with Israel and to make all Jews outside of Israel unsafe, so Israel can claim its right to existence as “only safe place for Jews in the world.” Jews outside Israel evidently being far more safe, both from non Jewish attacks and from Jewish fascists, is a danger to Israels core narrative.

350m is definetely going to make a strong impact.

The Tunguska Asteroid was expected to be 50-60m in width https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event

And that released 3 - 50 Megatons of energy. For reference the nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki had about 20 kilotons. So about a one thousands of that. The greatest man made explosion, the sowjet Tsar bomb had about 50 Megatons of energy.

A 350m asteroid has about 7 times that length and probably at least three times the diameter. So we are looking at an impact with the mass of at least 50x that, so 150 - 2500 Megatons. If that hits central Europe the immediate blast would probably kill a few hundred million people.

There is a deep sea and creatures living deeply underground. Chance is even if an even wiped out everything on the surface of the earth after some few million years the surface is populated again.

I used to be against the death penalty. Problem is that obscenely rich and well connected people can just hire assassins to execute people they don’t like with impunity. Case in point the Boeing engineer that supposedly committed suicide briefly before his hearing on Boeings deliberate security violations leading to hundreds of people slaughtered in preventable plane accidents.

Executing the rich and powerful is necessary to level the playing field.

0.01-0.1 % net wealth to the nations GDP seems a good cutoff imo. For the US that would be 2.9-29 billion. For Vietnam that would be 47 million - 470 million.

Bankman Fried didnt steal just from the people. He stole from other billionaires.

There would be no instability if Macron had given the government to the majority winning left coalition instead of forcing a center coalition on the basis of never supporting a left coalition.

Macron would literally burn France down, before accepting the peoples choice. So much for “liberalism”

You have to differentiate between “gifted” and “sold”. Not all of these weapons are gifted and in total it is a small amount relative t Germans budget.

The main damage is that Germany is actively working to destroy the rule based international order it helped to build, which will also backfire on trade, climate protection and other areas requiring upholding international rules.

Aside from that it is a complete moral and historical failure that Germany involves itself in another genocide, proving it had learned nothing from its history.

There is no refugee for Americans. The basis for refugee is an existing imminent threat, not a looming threat.

Your only chance might be places like Russia or China that would be happy to declare the US to be so dangerous they had to take you in as refugee for political gains.

Coups are always gambles

I suggest using your political powers to move relevant things. Biden and the Dems dont do that. Instead they abuse it for nepotism

Well, the community’s rule is specifically not to make political jokes in the https://lemmy.ml/c/nonpolitical_memes subreddit.

So removing the comment seems acceptable. Banning like this is certainly ridiculous. On the other hand the modlog shows this user “Dasus” to be a serial troll, who got himself banned on many communities.

The guy is from an immigrant family, and his parents until recently worked minimum wage. It is just that the cost of living in Washington D.C. got this outrageous.

Oh you think the Democrats going low will benefit the people?

The Democrats going low will just mean that they’ll fully fuck over the people for their billionaire donors together with the Reps and then they’ll remind you that this is exactly what you asked for. And now back to work for minimum wage. The GDP isnt making itself.

The other day a guy i met from the D.C. area told me that low quality coffee costs 20$ a bag. Fucking pregrinded coffee for the filter machine. You can get the luxury beans for that money in Europe.