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thomas.escritt.eu

Reuters correspondent in Berlin. You should all be on mastodon

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On 22 February 1943, three young Germans, members of the White Rose Society -- Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst -- were guillotined by the Nazis for distributing leaflets speaking out against the crimes of the Third Reich. Their bravery, and their cause, will not be forgotten.

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I see this and I think @vonbladet.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHqd...

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I’ll admit it: I am a pearlclutcher who really dislikes it when people use this dehumanising phrase to talk about people, and who cannot understand why people don’t immediately grasp why it is distasteful.

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Realistically if the USA security guarantee is gone, Europe (including the UK) is looking at something like 3-3.5% or so of GDP as regular defence spending. And very probably another 1-1.5% or so as additional defence capital spending for a good 5-10 years on top of that.

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#Germany: final #btw25 #Politbarometer poll. #Lefr party looks poised for a spectacular comeback after years on life support. Liberals and BSW too close to the threshold to call. So we could end up with a 7-party parliament, which would probably mean another 3-party coalition

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48% of Brits believe it is more important for the UK government to support Ukraine than to maintain good relations with the US

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Heute vor fünf Jahren wurden sie in #Hanau ermordet: Ferhat Unvar Gökhan Gültekin Hamza Kurtović Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Sedat Gürbüz Kaloyan Velkov Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Wir gedenken ihrer und erinnern: Rassismus tötet. #KeinVergessen #SayTheirNames

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Really this is the theme of our age: Trump, Musk, Yoon, Putin - all staring fixedly at the flickering shadows on the wall of their cave

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Listening to a very nice Bach cantata while writing something and suddenly it dawned on me: I too am German now! Thus was a nationalist born!

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Part of this is people have forgotten quite how enormous the British Army of the Rhine was, cos only the US nowadays does military deployment on that scale. But that's what a serious Ukraine commitment will look like.

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Politics correspondents flexing that they don't vote cos of muh precious neutrality is really the dumbest thing. It's meant to sound professorial and yet the message is pure "I don't understand my beat or its significance! It means nothing to me!"

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Just picture a German newspaper writing: "Poland as the 17th Bundesland? Friedrich Merz thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to the SPD who would gain a lot more voters."

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Always read Riham. Riham, thank you for your voice. If you haven't read Riham you haven't lived.

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A snippet from the “proposal” where US gets the 50% of Ukraine’s minerals JDV presented Zelenskyy in Munich with Are DJT lawyers too stupid to spell “peace” or did they want a “lasting piece” of Ukraine?

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This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

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You do sort of have to laugh, a bit, at the US government going 'it says here "funding to secure a second American century" - we can cut that, right? Sounds pretty woke, right?'

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So much for the “deep state”

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This, from a GC who was first banned from Twitter and restored in the X era is inadvertently very revealing: offence or no, consistently and aggressively addressing people in a way they don't like is .... bullying, and good employers don't like bullying

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I know he was long-lived, and perhaps I’m old (no really!), but Foot was an important political figure in my own lifetime and a living legend well into my adult life. Seeing him at the forefront of political debates in the 1930s - almost a century ago! - is so gobsmacking

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Major, Brown, even May - contrast so sharply with how Blair and Cameron have behaved since

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Great review:“A volume by two Slovenia-based authors breaks free from the stereotype of a Russocentric narrative of Slavdom, but the uncomfortable reality remains that the very concept of Slavdom and of a Slavic world itself remains entangled with the spectre of Panslavism”(@alexdrace.bsky.social)

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Long article and some of it a bit over my head but that LLM style AI are not, by their very nature, trustworthy. This means one can still use them for stuff like scientific grant applications where it doesn't matter but not when trustworthiness is important

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trims beard adjusts tie mounts podium clears throat “distinguished 4channers, allow me to tell some home truths”

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Any good German discord servers? I’m looking for, erm, discourse

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