But… but… what about infinite growth??

I’m not saying I agree with Germany’s reasoning, just wanted to explain it.

Alle Muslime und Araber werden zur Befreiung von Palästina und zur Unterstützung der Hamas im Kampf gegen eine postulierte „zionistische Invasion“ aufgerufen. Dabei wird auf ein traditionelles Hadith hingewiesen, das zum Töten aller Juden aufruft

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas-Charta

Paraphrasing: All Muslims and Arabs are called for the liberation of Palestine and the support of Hamas in the fight against the “Zionist Invasion”. A traditional Hadith is being referred to that calls for killing all Jews.

It’s not a “could be shot” it’s a “will be shot” at the front or “will be put in a KZ” when being against the regime at home. Only very few people dared to unite in underground organisations to do something against the regime, without success. That’s how fascism works: Rule through fear.

Fleeing needs money and a friendly country (for example people, especially Jews, who fled to Switzerland were sent right back, typically directly to a KZ or to the front).

Hurting yourself has a high probability of getting you killed 1. because you aren’t worth much anymore to the fascist regime and 2. to prevent others from doing the same.

Defecting when the own side is winning is suicide (after losing the battle with the other site your previous allies won’t be happy to see you). Defecting when the own side is losing has a high chance of getting you killed by the other side for revenge.

Yes, the people who did it all voluntarily are fascists.

If someone was brought to Vietnam against his own will and only is fighting there to survive himself I really wouldn’t call him a criminal. More like a victim of the system, but there’s not much else he could do in that situation. And by that logic every soldier in every war unless they’re defending their own country is a criminal, including the Allies when they invaded Germany at the end of WW2 which obviously isn’t the case.

Name me one country that spends more effort than Germany on critically reviewing its history. Austria doesn’t count since it’s basically the same in that context.

I won’t get into an Israel discussion now, not enough time. I’ll just say both sides are doing horrible things (I’m not defending Israel but I’m absolutely not supporting the Hamas either - the IDF declared their goal as wiping out the Hamas while the Hamas declared their goal as wiping out all Jews on earth - do you see why Germany has a hard time not condemning that? By no longer supporting Israel they’d basically be saying “sure, go ahead, wipe out the Jews”).

About the Wehrmacht: There were enough people who didn’t want to fight but knew they’d be shot if they refused. Who tried to stay ethical, to avoid civilians etc. There also were enough people who were so radicalised that they really thought killing civilians in foreign countries was fine. Usually massacres were done by the SS though, and even there you could be forcefully drafted near the end of the war (I think 1944?). And yet many people joined voluntarily because they somehow believed it was the right thing to do.

Now of course when you go to Germany many people’s grandfather or grandgrandfather will have fought in the second world war. The ones who knew or at least assume that theirs was in the group I mentioned first (forcefully drafted, choosing between fighting and dying) are vocal about it when this matter is being discussed, while the ones who knew or assume that theirs was in the latter group obviously aren’t as vocal about it. That’s how the clean Wehrmacht myth appeared, but of course all schools in Germany make sure to tell everyone that it absolutely wasn’t clean, so apart from some far far right groups you won’t meet anyone who says that the Wehrmacht did nothing wrong (but you will find people who - rightfully - say that not everyone in it was a war criminal and Nazi).

Germany is one of the few countries that actually very critically review their own history and spend a lot of effort on teaching younger generations the horrors of war (and of national socialism obviously).

(Meanwhile Japan just recently wanted Germany to remove a memorial statue for the women in Japanese prostitution camps, and made a contract with China to remove one there)

„Nie wieder“ - “never again”

What happened?

Is that real

A religion of hoarding money. It doesn’t get any more American than that.

Where do you see a W?

What happened?

That’s just crazy… When I’m sick I’m getting paid leave - when coming to work and they notice I’m sick they’ll send me home. This even makes sense from a 100% capitalist perspective, because it costs less to pay one person to stay at home and recover as quickly as possible than to have them spread their infection, making everyone less productive, but at the same time keeping everyone at work, greatly slowing down the recovery.

Vacation also is known to be net positive since even just one week or just a few days off every ~2 months greatly increases productivity and prevents burnouts. It’s like weekends but more extreme. You wouldn’t want someone who probably already is stressed because they have to catch up after being sick to also lose their vacation.

Those US-american laws don’t even make sense from the USA’s system’s 100% money focused view.

You don’t have mandatory paid sick leave but have to use your vacation instead?

Good that they didn’t change their mind. If they had, you’d have been in trouble because your sources said otherwise.

Well that’s about the system in the USA or some third world countries. Locking higher education behind a paywall only helps to keep the population uneducated, combine that with no focus on critical thinking in school and you get a population that’s easy to control and to polarise.

Of course politicians like Trump (or pseudo-democracies or straight up autocratic regimes in third world countries) really benefit from an easily-convinced population that’s not questioning them too much, so, given how strong the republicans currently are, that sadly probably won’t change anytime soon.

At some point they’ll realise that they need free or at least very affordable education to stay internationally competitive…

While you’d generally believe that to be true it can be hard for people with no knowledge who aren’t the brightest to see through statements like “doctors just are part of the wealthy smart people society who aim to keep us down”.

Never underestimate human stupidity.

But learning to critically question statements and judging them yourself (which requires some knowledge, for example you can’t question anti-vaxxers when you don’t know anything about how vaccines work) instead of simply believing them is extremely important in a democracy.

In Austria and Germany at least we’re extremely critically viewing our history. It’s not “look at how good we are” but “look at what we have to prevent from happening again” - and that’s for most topics, not only national socialism.

Most non native speakers just use whatever form they get to know first

Depends on in which part of the world this happened

Can’t wait for Xx_MinecraftPvPer_xX_AI

Ty. So the question for its rightful name simply depends on whether you give it to the one who discovered it or the one who isolated it, interesting.

I’ll skip that discussion and just say Natrium sounds better