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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.

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?

It would be a reasonable ask in a world where no or only few non-political games exist. However, in our world, there are plenty of non-political games, and this criticism is usually directed at specific games that contain elements that don’t fit the critic’s political leanings. “I don’t want games featuring diverse characters or progressive messages” would in most cases be the more honest statement.

I don’t need to be from the US in order to understand US politics / political system better than the average US citizen.

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.

That’s the charitable explanation. The less charitable one is astroturfing in an effort to demobilize Democrat-leaning voters.

Voting for a sandwich without peanut butter will result in other people deciding what sandwich you get, and the only realistic options are those with peanut butter.

Also, you’ll have to eat the sandwich.

That’s a meaningless comparison.

Und deine Lösung gegen Mangel an Arbeitskräften ist es, verbesserte Arbeitsbedingungen zu verhindern und den Beruf noch weniger attraktiv zu machen?

You wouldn’t feed a bird.

Dann heißt er auch noch Magyar, das hat Potenzial.

“Europäisches Ungarn” klingt auch gut, aber Ex-Mann einer Fidesz-Politikerin hat einen unangenehmen Beigeschmack.

I believe he’s into humiliation.

Rust ist cool, aber was hat das mit dem Post zu tun?