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11·2 months agoArticle shows :
Correction 14 September 2024: An earlier version of this article put a figure on how many Kenyan workers would be allowed into Germany under the deal. The German interior ministry corrected this to state that the deal did not specify a figure.
6·2 months agoIt is not about high time to get Ellen Musk behind bars and give all their belongings to the poor ?
107·3 months agoThe cat sitter told Knight that Ted had just walked through the catflap. “I didn’t believe it at first,” Knight said. “I had to get her to FaceTime me live so that I could see that Ted was actually alive.”
Knight soon realised she had paid £130 to cremate someone else’s cat. When she later went to collect the ashes, she saw the urn had been labelled “Not Dead Ted”.
101·3 months agoYou’re not paying enough attention if you think Trump winning means “too bad the rest of the world will feel the consequences.” Germany just elected their first far right government since WWII,
There were elections in two states in the east of Germany last weekend. In one of them the far right party AfD gained most votes compared to others. In the other state they finished second largest. There is nothing decisive however. Other parties have been called to set up a firewall “Brandmauer” to prevent the AfD to govern.
France had a massive right wing that is now in the EU council, Austria… well they keep making shitty right wing choices, down into South America Argentina shifted right, and other countries continue to do so as well. We’re not special or alone in this.
Exactly. In the last few decades Austria , Turkey and Hungary were among the first to shift to far right party based governments in Europe. An interesting read is this book by Turkish journalist Ece Temelkuran (Who fled the country) which is about Turkey going downhill from democracy to dictatorship. This book also reflects on Trump winning in 2016. At some point also Poland had a far-right government but the damage from that is slowly being repaired by a new government. By now among others Slovakia, Italy and the Netherlands have far-right government coalitions. Outside Europe there was Bolsonaro in Brazil. Still, Trump winning (legally or not) would be bad for the rest of the world, especially for Ukraine.
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Aren’t all billionaires conservative? I don’t think about them for my own sanity’s sake, but I cannot imagine a progressive billionaire.
Maybe there’s at least one progressive billionaire. :
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/23/austrian-heiress-marlene-engelhorn-who-is-giving-away-90-per-cent-of-her-wealth-im-creating-the-tax-i-would-want-to-payWhile we’re at it, please sign the Tax The Rich petition for the EU :
https://www.tax-the-rich.eu/ Same petition but in Italian for Italians : https://tax-the-rich.it/For US citizens : https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/action-alert-tax-the-rich/
For US citizens there is another petition which you can sign : https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/action-alert-tax-the-rich/
American billionaires are 33% richer than they were at the start of the pandemic, all while inequality has worsened and inflation has soared. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos pay a “true tax rate" of just 3% or less while working people around the globe pay far more.
Enough is enough. It’s time for the ultra-rich to pay their fair share of taxes.
Just a modest tax of up to 5 percent on the world’s richest individuals could bring in $1.7 trillion in a year, enough to lift 2 billion people out of poverty.
Sign your name and demand that President Biden, Congress, and world leaders address the inequality crisis globally and here at home by making multi-millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.
86·4 months agoWhy the down votes ?
The deep-pocketed tech industry of Silicon Valley has historically voted for Democrats. But in the last month, a cadre of tech executives has risen up for Donald Trump, both on the grounds that he will be friendlier to the industry and that President Joe Biden was unfit to serve a second term.
A clear copy of an article from The Onion right ? Right ?
Glad to see at least some media in Europe highlighting this.
I could be wrong and that could be the most legit photo in the world. It just feels very unlikely to me.
Papers in my country reported that a sports photographer said about the photo : “Chance of 1 in a million. Almost impossible”. Other articles mentioned the possibility of a small animal flying instead of a bullet.
Right. Not just that, USA is allowed to invade the Netherlands, where The Hague is located, to protect American officials and military personnel from prosecution or rescue them from custody.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Protection_Act
21·4 months agoThe example you are giving about fighting back turned out to be in your favor.
But things could have gone wrong, especially when a whole group would have backed the other guy.
And by that you are sort of advocating a survival of the fittest which is maybe not a good idea
when you are small and timid versus some strong guy.
I believe it is not wrong to involve school personnel when bullying happens.In Europe anti bullying policies were implemented years ago. I remember reading that in newspapers.
Here is an example of a school which has anti-bullying policy :
https://www.eeb3.eu/app/uploads/2022/03/B3-Anti-bullying-Policy-EN.pdf- Our Anti-Bullying Policy is based on the principles that:
- Each individual must be treated with respect
- Bullying is never an individual problem, as it degrades the atmosphere at school.
- Bullying is a problem that can be addressed.
- All members of the school community (school staff, parents and pupils) are called upon to prevent and
react against all forms of bullying. - All members of the school community must have the opportunity to be listened to, respected and
supported.
The US should improve treatment of mental health issues.
The US should recover public confidence in its political system.The things you have suggested are just distractions away from these two points and won’t fix anything.
Your point about mental health issues is about the victim being bullied or being avoided by others I guess ?
If I refuse to buy Nike shoes like all others, and if I decide to wear all black clothes with heavy metal shirts and I prefer to read books rather than talk loud and the rest of my class mates avoid me for reasons, does that mean I need to get therapy ?
1·4 months agoHell, no. Don’t put the responsibility on victims to help their bullies/abusers.
I see. In Europe things are different.
Here is an example of a school which has anti-bullying policy :
https://www.eeb3.eu/app/uploads/2022/03/B3-Anti-bullying-Policy-EN.pdf- Our Anti-Bullying Policy is based on the principles that:
- Each individual must be treated with respect
- Bullying is never an individual problem, as it degrades the atmosphere at school.
- Bullying is a problem that can be addressed.
- All members of the school community (school staff, parents and pupils) are called upon to prevent and
react against all forms of bullying. - All members of the school community must have the opportunity to be listened to, respected and
supported.
Also, it’s not always a clear cut bully/victim dynamic. My school had a loner gun-loving asocial student. He probably thought he was bullied. In reality he made people, especially the girls, super uncomfortable and he was avoided. No one really made fun of him, never physically attacked him, never pulled pranks on him, just avoided him. Not inviting his friendship is not bullying. He needed professional help.
Forcing me, for example, to talk to him and pretend to be his friend would have been bad for both of us. He needed counseling/therapy, which I was not and still am not qualified to provide, and I needed safe friends I could trust.
Okay. That is a lone wolf example, it is not about active bullying.
I consider bullying to be violent in general.
Even words can be damaging for some people.
The whole “boys don’t cry” is a tragedy in my opinion and has done a lot of emotional damage already.And reading this today https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_L._Trump#Personal_life I would not be at all
surprised if Donald Trump would benefit from long time therapy.
In the Netherlands, since 2023, there have been quite a lot of road blockades by XR (with hundreds to thousands of demonstrators) with no such penalties at all. From what I’ve read the activists in the UK were (rightfully so) determined to have their say in the court room while the judge sounded like a climate crisis denial person and got impatient. If I were a lawyer I would have made an attempt to get this judge dismissed on the case for not being objective and before they were ready for their verdict.