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Also "terrorists make money off aid" only works if aid is scarce. The entire "argument" is circular logic.

Because the company being complicit in serious crimes against humanity and war crimes is a work related issue. You know like your boss demanding you to be an accomplice in a crime is a work related issue and most likely you have signed somewhere that you would report any suspected criminal activity to HR or your higher ups. Problem is if these are part of the crime too.

If we lived in a world where there would be a rule of law thousands of Microsoft Employees would face life imprisonment for being accomplices to serious crimes.

Calling this out is definitely work related.

Ich kannte Klippenstein bisher nicht. Aus seinem Wikipediaartikel schließe ich, dass es plausibel sein kann.

On December 10, 2024, Klippenstein published an alleged full text manifesto of Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In an interview with Democracy Now!, Klippenstein blamed paternalistic attitudes in corporate media and the possibility of alienating law enforcement sources for the reluctance to publish the alleged manifesto's full text.

Bisher habe ich nur israelische Medien und die ADL bei einer online Suche gesehen, die das angebliche "Manifest" des mutmaßlichen Angreifers in Washington aufgreifen.
Ich rate daher zur Vorsicht und werden morgen gucken, ob weitere Medien das Thema aufgreifen, würde das aber erstmal stehen lassen.

Gewalt gegen Zivilisten ist niemals akzeptabel und schon garnicht auf der vermuteten Zugehörigkeit von Menschen zu einer Gruppe. Darüber hinaus bietet der Anschlag eine willkommene Ablenkung von den Verbrechen in Gaza für die israelische Regierung und einen Vorwand für Trump, weitere autoritäre Maßnahmen umzusetzen.

You claimed China would want to "destroy Europe". Why would it want to destroy Europe? China is profiting of the war. War profiting is pretty common and extensively done by the US, EU and other global actors too. Doesn't mean they want to destroy each other.

Also don't you think it a bit weird to work towards economic cooperation if you would want to bomb the same place? Do you think China wants its hundreds of billions of assets in the EU being blown up?

EU makes full sanctions -> bans all ships carrying military and dual use goods from entering ports -> Option A Israel stops. Option B, EU countries agree on a military mission to force an aid corridor into Gaza by Sea. If Israel attacks, Nato article 5.

The idea that Israel would hold back and the US willing to double down and ramp up support and Israel somehow listening to the EU while doing the exact opposite of what is demanded is absurd. If the EU would get its shit together, the US and Israel would stand alone. The EU could get access to the surrounding countries and exert pressure to block US influence. Then the US would have to decide to go to WW3 against the EU to protect Israel? This wont happen.

This is appeasement nonsense. And it is in no way representing "adult" politics. Appeasement didnt work with South Africa. Appeasement didnt work before. Appeasement doesn't work with Russia. Appeasement never works with fascists. The only thing that stops them is to take away any support they have.

And time is running out. We are looking at hundreds of thousands if not millions of people being genocided by starvation this year. There is nothing "adult" about watching a crime and not doing anything to stop it.

but as long as Germany stays a good cop the Israeli left still has an ally, is able to exert political pressure.

The Israeli left, who is persecuted in Germany, for instance by forcing Omri Boehm out of the Buchenwald liberation commemoration. Also "good cops" dont hand weapons to mass murder suspects.

Germany has demanded a pledge from Israel to only use it for actions compatible with international law. I know how that sounds, I know what you think about it: “Oh, interesting, they’re setting a trap”. (That is what you thought, didn’t you?).

It is more like "give me a pinky promise and i trust you. Just let me out of responsibility". Also that radar is used to facilitate bomb and drone strikes. It doesn't matter if it is not the explosive part of a weapon system that is delivered. Any military or dual use good is complicity.

It’s not like Israel wouldn’t be able to produce all the weapons they need to turn the whole of Palestine into mulch on their own, btw.

Except they didn't because they couldn't and mostly relied on foreign military aid. but even if they had the production capacities, they would need the raw materials. These again facilitate complicity.

Germany basically does this out of the recognition that Hezbollah etc. exist and would exploit Israeli weakness.

The Hezbollah that was pressured into a ceasefire through a heavy bombing campaign on Lebanon killing thousands of people at the time these new shipments were announced?

Also pick one. Either Israel can make all the stuff themselves or they need help. Both at the same time isnt possible.

Anniversary of 60 years of diplomatic relations, it had to be done.

No. Shaking hands with a wanted war criminal never has to be done. See Putin not being visited for the 80 years end of WW2. Unless you want Putin to be visited and his hands shook?

And btw can you explain what practical impact the “delay” has. The warrants are still out, they’re still not in custody.

Every month of earlier pressure means earlier sanctions means earlier end to the atrocities, means hundreds if not thousands or tens of thousands of people killed.

It is also completely insufficient, yes.

As has been all responses to German demands for the past two years. Remaining on the side of just making demands without exerting real pressure means to remain apathic to the atrocities committed at best, but very often complicit.

Why would China care more about Russia than good ties with the EU? Trump is alienating the EU, so the former western block is getting weaker. China has been successfully building the BRICS up to become more and more of an economic challenger to the NAFTA+EU+UK markets (broad category, i know). Right now China is in a trade war with the US. The more the countries attacked by the US band together, the stronger they can oppose the US.

China has strong incentives to strengthen economic ties with Europe. For that Europe needs to be wealthy enough to buy from China. At the same time the EU is not a military threat to China. With the recent escalation between India and Pakistan showing Chinese military jets to be competitive to supposedly modern french jets, China's only military competitor in the world is the US. And the US is currently dismantling itself.

Finally China is getting payed quite well by Russia for its support. If Russia cannot deliver more, i am skeptical if China would continue that.

A lot of that is shitty for Europe, but i don't see the intent of China to be to "destroy Europe".

Komplett sachfremd für die Diskussion.

Wenn man über die Regulierung von Sexarbeit redet, muss mann auch über Zwangsprostitution reden. Die Frage, wie Menschen vor dieser Ausbeutung geschützt werden können, ist essentiell und muss bei allen Formen von Sexarbeit mitbetrachtet werden. Dabei gibt es gute Argumente, warum das schwedische Modell im analogen Raum nicht sinnvoll ist. Diese kann man aber nicht pauschal auf den Digitalen Raum übernehmen.

Also, das Sexarbeity hat ja immernoch die Möglichkeit, zu bestimmen, was für es “zumunbar” ist, oder eben nicht. Die Putzkraft wird auch dafür bezahlt, vollgekackte Klos zu putzen. Ist für viele auch nicht “zumutbar”, ebenso wie für viele vermeintlich sexuelle Leistungen nicht zumutbar sind.

Laut dem Artikel nicht unbedingt, da der finanzielle Zwang dort auch thematisiert wird. In Fällen von Zwangsprostitution sowieso nicht.

Germany kept sending arms to Israel. Among other things outgoing chancellor Scholz and his coalition had approved another 100 million € of weapons to Israel as late as October 2024.

The current chancellor announced that he wants Netanyahu to come to Germany and that he would find a way around the ICC arrest warrant, aka defy the rules based international order to host a suspected war criminal.

Just last week Germanies president was shaking hands with Netanyah in Israel. Germany is the only country siding with Israel in the genocide case at the ICJ. Germany delayed the ICC proceedings against Netanyahu, Gallant, Sinwar and Deif and Hanye with ridiculous arguments in their notes to the court. Just yesterday the German government in their press conference said that it was an "important and good step" that Israel allowed 9 trucks into Gaza. 9 trucks as the minimum to end starvation are 500 trucks a day.

Germany continues to support Israel financially, diplomatically and with weapons. The lip services are worthless, as the actions speak continued support.

Israel claims "warning shots". Israel has been lying about countless attacks. For instance having brutally massacred 15 medics including executions at short range, where all of the claims later fell apart thanks to video evidence.

However this brutal murder apparently neither moved European countries seriously, nor did it move any relevant part of Israels society to stop this kind of acts.

How do the people being murdered by bombs and starvation and the announcements to ethnically cleanse Gaza or annihilate the population by the Israeli government fit into this?

Because you are insinuating that demanding to talk about and end the mass murder and ethnical cleansing of two million people means "being useful idiots" for Putin.

Also "Hamas started this war" is ignoring some 75 years of what happened before as well as the fact that Israel killed more than 200 Palestinians in 2023 before October. This ignores the ongoing ethnical cleansing and settlement occupation of the Westbank.

Finally Hezbollah for the longest time did not want go to full blown war with Israel, instead it only made token efforts and that front was ultimately escalated by Israel in September 2024 to distract from Gaza. If there would have been an actual coordination between Hezbollah, Hamas and Houthis, they would have all struck together and Oct. 7 and things would have looked very differently.

Your theory is wrong and your suggestion that opposing crimes against humanity would make one "useful idiots" is morally deeply wrong.

European countries, especially Germany and the UK are mayor supporters of Israel and the support went on as the genocidal intent was made louder and louder by the Israeli government.

The UN says that within the next days 14,000 babies will be killed by starvation through the total aid blockade and hundreds of thousands of people are on the brink of starvation.

Again European countries support this or remain inactive about it. Suggesting now to "pause content" is quite unhinged. People are being subjected to the most heinous crimes and the only thing that can achieve a change is to keep up pressure, which starts by keeping to talk about it.

Instead demanding silence is morally wrong.