He’s a cartoon villain and an amateur. Have you seen the villa he got (in his dad’s name I think?). Junior bankers have bigger homes.

Bearbock meanwhile ran on a ticket of anti-militarism and feminist leadership. Ended up defending and arming a genocide. Next level.

Well Baerbock, former Green Party politician and foreign minister of Germany, became president of the UNGA. Orbán is a saint compared to that warmongering ghoul

Is that the bar? Finnish politicians have to just do better than Putin?

Horrendous waste of money

“By labelling the true Western narrative…” how can anyone seriously write stuff like this?

Signed!

Exactly. NATO states are funding the development of weapons systems which are incompatible with the Geneva Conventions.

What’s the likelihood that Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano can tell effectively if someone is surrendering or is an innocent bystander?

Bundling socialists with the far-right under the “populists” banner is silly. I don’t know why far-right politicians do what they do. To understand a left perspective, I recommend this article https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2025/8/6/the-real-reason-the-west-is-warmongering-against-china

Shocking. Within our lifetime Germany could have a national government again which facilitates the commission of genocide. Like the current one and the last one.

It’s capitalism. Both German export reliance and Chinese overcapacity stem from the fundamental capitalist crisis of overaccumulation and overproduction. If I had to pick a side, as a European, I would strongly hope the Chinese automakers beat the Germans.

To their credit, the Germans aren’t hiding what happens if they win: extended reliance on fossil fuels, protectionism, imperialist competition, etc

RIP

Where “the international security situation” means US’s monopoly on violence??

That’s part of it, yes. The leadership of the Green Party appears to be more bellicose, and less inclined to peace and diplomacy, than any other mainstream party.

The German Green/brown party is so disappointing

Interesting article about him here — https://www.dangerousspeech.org/counter-speech-case-studies/hasnain-kazim

He’s doing Mastodon a favour. He can always return to anywhere on the fediverse. Complaining that one moderator on one Mastodon instance was mean isn’t news, but maybe it is if it’s a journalist. Good for him.

Yeh—and apparently it justifies Microsoft’s share price somehow

No, Meta AI (like OpenAI and others) relies on sweatshop labour mostly in Africa and Latin America to review and classify images mostly

Good for her!

Meanwhile in Europe… the European Union passed a law recently banning national governments from disclosing to the public a list of environmental data about data centers. Europeans can access aggregate info, but specifics about the environmental impact of any datacentre in particular is now secret.

I thought the 5-year ban was a dangerous, desperate idea. Political rights like who can vote or stand for election should be defended no matter who’s being targeted.

Le Pen and her colleagues were found guilty of misappropriation of European funds by paying the salaries of some of their party officials in France with money that should only be spent on salaries of European Parliament assistants. European Parliament assistants can be party officials, and the official seat of the European Parliament is in France (Strasbourg), so the crime they committed wasn’t far from the EU’s rules.

A fine and criminal record makes sense. But custodial sentences? And suspending political rights for 5 years??