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USA/UK/Germany. A doctor, but the bookish kind, not the medical kind.
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(That should obviously read "it might be too late sooner than we think")
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...and I worry it is because they intend to make sure there will BE no consequences. They're tearing the state apart while consolidating their own power and it might be too later sooner than we think.
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Did he actually preside over it? From what I can see he attended it, and was weirdly standing rather than sitting...but did not actually preside?
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And who can blame them when politicians so often treat university degrees the same way (thinking here of Sunak threatening cuts to 'low-value' degrees, e.g. ones in the humanities and creative subjects)
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I definitely thought, "my kid won't be picky because I'll serve a variety of foods from a young age and won't cater to pickiness" and...well...then I learned that there are kids that will truly not eat rather than eat something they don't want. Now I cherish multivitamins and wait for better times
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I prefer to read it as an acknowledgement that we currently have two presidents, although we're pretending we only have one
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Geht nicht darum, sie aufzugeben, sondern darum, wen man zentriert. Es sind die Männer, die nach rechts gerückt sind. Dann würde ich, hätte ich eine Partei, endlich mal die Bedürfnisse der Frauen zentrieren (inkl. der von Ihnen angesprochenen Arbeiterinnen, denen Gendern egal ist).
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Wenn man sich anschaut, wie junge Frauen und junge Männer gewählt haben, müsste man denken: als linke (oder sozialdemokratische) Partei sollte man auf Frauen setzen. Mit (männlichen) Arbeitern als Zielgruppe gewinnen sie keine Wahlen mehr.
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Yes, rising right-wing politics are a problem all across Europe & 20% for the AfD is very worrying. But with 82.5% turnout, 80% didn't vote for them. And as we are seeing in the US, it makes a *huge* difference if they are able to get their hands on the levers of government or not.
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And although Merz recently pushed a resolution through parliament that depended on their votes (a first crack in the firewall), he probably did worse at the polls as a result. He has distanced himself more strongly from them since so one can hope that that sort of thing won't be repeated.
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I live in Germany and am dismayed that they got so many votes – but I think it's really important to note that they will not actually have more *power* than they already do, because the rest of the political parties are so far committed to not allowing them into government. That's huge.
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DM
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And an article on the current round of firings, which include a woman and the Black CJC (probably assumed to be DEI hires, because women and Black people can't actually be competent in these people's eyes): edition.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...
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"Few have come to Milley's defense and even the military, to which the four-star general had given decades of service, was unwilling to offer any pushback.
One recently retired general noted to Military.com that Milley is 'as radioactive as it gets.'"
Full article: www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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Ok I've just watched more and I take it back, he has not completely Americanized his accent, but it is completely inconsistent within the space of minutes which is not the way accents usually shift! Vowels will usually stay consistent from word to word. It's odd.
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(And in my defense, I grew up "bilingual" – American and Scottish – but was never once taken for English in all my years in England)
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Is there a transcript of the video available?
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13. Is this what the capitalist utopia looks like? For billionaires, perhaps (though even they cannot indefinitely escape the environmental crisis). For the rest of us it looks like a path to hell.