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Yes. That's what they are doing. They are not even acknowledging that there is a credible case that Israel is comiting genocide and that Germany has tried to defend Israel in the ICC. Namibia another country that has suffered a genocide at the hands of Germans in the past has come out publicly shaming them, but for some stupid reason Germans are not as deferential to Namibians as they are to Israelis. Must be the colour of the Namibians' toenails or something.

Trump’s weird ass plans should be taken “into consideration"

Bro, these weird ass plans are plans for ethnic cleansing. Here is a litmus test for you: take those "weird ass plans" and just replace the words "Gaza" with "Israel", and "Palestinian" with "Israeli". Are you outraged at how fucking nazi the plans sound now? Do you now understand why what Felix Klein said is just unacceptable?

The people who downvoted the above comment: "NO I DON'T WANT TO KNOW", or some shit.

The persecution of DIEM25 by German authorities is becoming pretty systematic at this point. All for legitimate Palestine solidarity work. There is a pattern here.

One thing many Europeans tend to forget is that Islam is pretty much a European cultural tradition too. Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Albania are European countries. If Cyprus were reunited it would also count as one of the countries with a significant Muslim population. And there are traditional non-immigrant Muslim minorities in other places, like Greece, Bulgaria and North Macedonia.

EU/Canadian dual citizen here: fill membership doesn't make sense. Deeper integration to the point of having a customs union would probably be quite reasonable. I'm not sure about free movement of people however because the two parties have different attitudes to immigration. Canada cherishes immigration and cultural diversity, and considers it to be a defining national characteristic. Multiculturalism is quite literally baked in our constitution. European attitudes on the other hand, let's just say, I don't miss them.

In the West Bank there is no Hamas. So why is then Israel killing people, expanding colonies, destroying olive trees, stealing land, sheltering, aiding and abetting extremist settlers?

So long as Turkey isn't part of it, is a good idea.

Someone else posted this Jacobin article that explains it: https://jacobin.com/2020/01/franc-zone-french-neocolonialism-africa

Don't take Meloni for granted.

The West African Franc and the Central African Franc and how France is using them to hold the economic keys to huge parts of its former colonial empire.

Not sure if that's what the previous poster referred to, but that's what I'd guess.

And the Republicans in the audience chuckled when he said it.

Come on, you know better than that. Winter isn't over until May-two-four.

I'm Canadian and I don't think we should be doing this in the middle of winter. Plus it's going to affect blue states, which will only make the MAGA fuckface idiots glad that the libs are being owned.

We should repeal US IP protection laws instead and cut out their potash. Make technofeudalists and rural conservatives scream.

The current incarnation of the USA is not the usual USA, it's MAGA USA, just like we characterize Fascist Italy, Peronist Argentina or Frankoist Spain. The NYT is in opposition but it's still a newspaper from the MAGA USA.

Ok so hear me out: fuck the New York Times. I don't even bother to read the article and I happen to think the CDU is a bunch of yahoos. But an ...American newspaper, telling a European democracy what it does or what it doesn't need? Get the fuck out of here.

Sure, the essayist is probably German and probably makes some good points. But, honestly fuck MAGA USA and their newspapers.

Signed, a dual EU/Canada citizen.

If the media did their jobs, they would be discussing how the amount of drugs available is not the reason for the drug epidemic, that addiction and mental health are linked more deeply to socio-economic problems, including structural economic problems, issues of social mobility, the destruction of the social fabric etc.

The value of this case is to make exactly your point: "if they're doing this to German tourists just imagine what they do to people from other less privileged nationalities". It shows the depth of the depravity.

(That there are hypocrites who would be content so long as this only happens to "those" people and not to white women is of course a given.)

Good idea. We should invite Netanyahu next.

Inspired by Ian Bremmer's stark analysis: https://youtu.be/NXoreH_5coA

Stand up Europe, it's time.