trompete

This (and SteamOS also) basically snapshot arch and then ship this potentially weeks-out-of-date arch snapshot to users.

This doesn't strike me as especially responsible security-wise.

That party never had any theoretical framework to make sense of anything, it's just moralizing. Add to this that they're mostly academics, many more-or-less successful or at least secure (highest average income of all the parties actually), the sort of people that read bourgeoise newspapers. This makes it easy to just point their holier-than-thou asses at the stupid and savage poors, the unenlightened sexist Muslims and the authoritarian foreign enemies.

I mean that happens to reformers in general but having no working class base and no theory lets you speedrun this.

Allegedly, the Greens, in private, voiced reservations about the weapons deliveries to Israel. Scholz overruled them and I think they were placated by Israel promising not to use them for anything illegal (lol). In any fair trial they would still get the of course. Definitely just ass covering, though the other parties don't even do that.

On the other hand, Habeck did the most widely disseminated and lauded post-October-7th speech, theatrically on the steps of some building at night. I don't remember exactly what he said but it was really bad. Something like: This is the worst thing since the Holocaust. This is what Germany has been preparing for, our raison ~~d'être~~ détat, finally a chance to prove our love for The Jew. Muslims need to come out RIGHT NOW and condemn this, they're NOT DOING THAT ENOUGH! We stand behind Israel no matter what!

The leader of the Green party deciding to put himself at the head of the lynch mob and give the wartime speech definitely put the Greens in front of the other warmongers then.

It's actually the process node (size of the transistors their process can fabricate). They're way behind TSMC. The last CEO tried to get back on top by spending and investing, but they're now suddenly doing the opposite: try to cut costs literally everywhere as fast as possible and suspend investments.

They're just a bunch of liberals.

Install some window manager (i3/sway, openbox, ...) and try to use that.

Why? Mearsheimer is an imperialist and agrees with Tucker that the US is doing imperialism wrong by not focusing on China. There's probably some "let's avoid WW3" opinion that Mearsheimer would champion, but that's also what any half reasonable person would think, so you don't have to hand it to him over that.

No way. Fascists want some Führer that is unshackled by democratic checks and balances to do what they imagine needs to be done to deal with the enemies of the nation. There is no European nation except in the minds of a couple of weirdos, so they'll just identify each other as the enemy.

The deal also includes $600 billion US of EU investments in the United States and significant EU purchases of U.S. energy and military equipment.

That's funny. Is the EU actually this materially dependent or are EU politicians bred in some secret CIA lab to be the perfect lapdogs?

In 2014, Merkel, and whoever the French president was at the time, made some compromise with Yanukovych and Putin, where they removed the parts of the EU association agreement that Russians objected to the most. One day later someone started shooting up the place and Yanukovych had to flee.

She, and again the French, later also did beg Putin to sign Minsk II.

Merkel gave an interview in 2022, where she was questioned why she did all this compromising, wasn't that like a mistake? Basically being accused (this happened lots at the time) of having been soft on the Russians. To which she replied (paraphrasing), it's always worth trying for peace and those Minsk agreements did buy Ukraine time now didn't they?

This isn't gleeful boasting, and more like a post-hoc defense of her actions. I mean why would she do the Nordstream if the plan was to go to war with Russia?

I do agree though the establishment is politically captured, some more than others, and many are true believers in US exceptionalism. I mean Merkel could have tried to stand up to the Americans and never did. They do their own little deals with the Russians, the US and Brits ignore and sabotage that, and they just go along with that without saying a peep.

Translation of relevant part of the interview (archive):

Why would they be trying to oust Zelensky, seems like a stupid time to do that. What exactly is he doing that pisses them off so much?

This seems like major hole in that theory tbh. Maybe he's just consolidating power and some in the West are complaining a bit because he's sacking their lapdogs.

be to be sass