Yeah, and we didn’t start the fire.

It’s Springsteen, not Billy Joel.

Hört der Mann sich eigentlich selber zu oder schaut der nur ab und zu mal rein wie es gerade so läuft?

Ich meine, der FC Bayern steht für Erfolg, Reichtum, Klasse, Substanz

Das ist genau der Punkt lieber Maggus.

TLDR: Hard disagree on almost anything you just said

Well historically it is not a terrible system, it is very stable and tends to not self implode regularly like democracy does.

Yeah if you ignore for example wars of succession, because of incestuous family ties, arbitrary rule, repression and exploitation of its citizens, one could call it stable… Although the escalation and tyranny unfortunately are baked into the system.

if you look at monarchies historically they tried very very hard to avoid having rebellions in their hands and usually worked in the interest of the nation, as the interest of the nation was the interest of the monarch.

Have you ever read history books? Sure some rulers may have had that kind of view but theres also plenty of megalomaniacal, terribly violent and unjust rulers in those big ol books of history. And since it is an imposed rule of tyranny there’s really only violence to get rid of an unjust ruler, you know a neat thing about democracy? Violence is the last resort to getting rid of rulers because we can vote! Crazy right?

So if a democratic nation seems headed towards anti democratic rule, it would seem to me that a better goal would be to install a monarchy instead of a fascist.

In that case- what’s the fucking difference? Oh, to avoid an autocracy let’s install an autocracy with cherry flavor… Great?

Interessant wird das ganze dann im Zusammenhang mit Art 20 Absatz 4 des GG

(4) Gegen jeden, der es unternimmt, diese Ordnung zu beseitigen, haben alle Deutschen das Recht zum Widerstand, wenn andere Abhilfe nicht möglich ist.

Nach gängiger Rechtsauffassung greift dieses Widerstandsrecht dann, wenn strukturelle Angriffe auf das GG stattfinden und “wenn andere Abhilfe nicht möglich ist.”

Wenn also Grundrechte strukturell angegriffen und unwirksam gemacht werden und demokratische mittel ausgeschöpft wurden, könnte eine solche Anerkennung der Geheimdienste und Gerichte durchaus einer zivilen Widerstandskultur den Rücken stärken, solange die Gerichte bis dahin nicht ihre Unabhängigkeit verloren haben.

Und da das Gericht in köln schon bei der Einstufung als Verdachtsfall relativ zügig (für deutsche Bürokratie) eine positive Entscheidung gefällt hatte bin ich da auch relativ hoffnungsvoll.

In Schleswig Holstein auch bekannt als der Heide Mörder.

Ah, okay the only time I saw that movie I was high as a kite, that explains why I don’t recall.

ESPN 8, “The Ocho.”

Those are words… I think. I think it never made it quite to Europe, I only know the meme.

That’s the first time I noticed that this is Jason Bateman on the right… How could I miss that all those years?

saying ‘nobody was close to us in terms of bravery

Yeah tell that to the 13 million dead Sowjet soldiers.

For perspective that is more than the current inhabitants of Belgium or Bolivia.

Adding 14 million dead Soviet citizens - 27 million dead, that’s more people than currently living in Australia.

Its quite odd that Ukranians were being handled differently in the first place.
Its as if they were deemed to have more value than those pesky normal refugees.

Here in Germany during the “refugee crisis” 2015 I noticed a heavy uptick in ticket controls in the public transport, while as with Ukrainians during 20222 the public transports advertised on billboards that Ukrainian refugees can drive for free. Biggest difference between the two groups? The skin color…

I know it is only anecdotal but to me it was noticeable.

I was there with KSP from the early days

Same, I am still so mad about the whole ksp2 fiasco that I block all of take twos games on steam, they ain’t getting any money from me. I am so glad I didn’t buy it in EA although it looked promising.