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Does knowingly causing an ecological catastrophe qualify as an act of war? To me, that seems worse than blockading these specific ships.

Nun war Scholz aber in China, und deswegen geht’s in diesem Post eben auch um China. Das China sich als Hegemonialmacht etablieren möchte und mehr und mehr auf Konfrontation mit seinen Nachbarn geht, ist schwer zu leugnen.

“China verfolgt […] eine hegemoniale Strategie.” ist für dich keine Kritik an China? Für mich ist “hegemonial” eindeutig negativ konnotiert.

I don’t think you’re missing anything. Just maybe you’re taking his tweet more serious or literal than he intended. To me, it’s just an interesting perspective to consider tweets that are meant to influence your opinion as malware. Sure, somebody aware of the types of “bad input” in the form of misinformation campaigns, propaganda or advertisement might not be (as) susceptible to that - but considering the average Twitter user, comparing this type of content to malware seems appropriate to me.

No, that is 100% whataboutism. It’s an attempt to deflect the discussion from the topic at hand. If you want to have a discussion about THING_THAT_YOU_CONSIDER_BAD_AND_ALSO_TRUE, you can make a new post just for that.

Indeed.

I see where you’re coming from, but if you look up Karpathy, you’ll probably come to a different conclusion.

Can you tankies find some new strategy?

Whataboutism and deflection is getting really boring.

Doing a thorough job risks the sensational headlines though.

Let me prefix this with saying that I’m sympathetic towards Varoufakis. I’ve been following him somewhat since his time at Valve.

He claims he is now subject to a “Betätigungsverbot” which is very different from being “banned from the country”. I tried to find any sort of official confirmation that he actually has “Betätigungsverbot” but I couldn’t, feel free to post a link if you can find it. I personally believe that what he wrote in this post doesn’t even come close to warranting a Betätigungsverbot - however, even assuming the Verbot is actually in place, claiming this means “Germany is going full fascism” is dishonest, exaggerated, and void of any nuance, which is my original point.

Reading the first sentence of the definition of fascism on Wikipedia should show you how ridiculous that statement is. Words have a meaning, and throwing around the word “fascism” for any measure you (potentially rightfully) don’t agree with just hurts your credibility and devalues the meaning of the word when it’s actually appropriate.

I’m fine with you attributing actions like this to historically motivated, misguided sense of “loyalty” (or however you want to call it) to Israel, or the Israeli government. Just keep the word fascist for actual fascists please.

Nuance exists, the world isn’t just black and white.

That can go both ways through. To some people, criticizing Hamas or saying that their attack warranted a reaction (which doesn’t mean I’m condoning what’s happening now in any way) means you’re actively calling for genocide.

Nuance is hard, people tend to prefer simple categorization into black and white, good and evil. The statement “Germany is going full fascist” is a perfect example of this.

Hyperbole much?

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So just state outright that your intention is to hand the election to Trump.

I don’t see how those statements are contradicting each other within the context of US presidential elections.

It features the flag of the German empire that nowadays is only used by Nazis and “sovereign citizens”.

I dare you to say that to the face of Ukrainian women and children being kidnapped and raped by Russian soldiers.

They liberated it from fascism, and now they’re fighting imperialist wars to bring it back!

Quite ironic, if you ask me.

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