What did you imagine?

This is a very happy looking cat

Moin

Guy in the reflection is teeefing back

Why does the government get to decide what they can believe and what not? Fucking totalitarian bullshit.

So you’re saying the people being systematically oppressed and marginalized are turning radical in their helplessness? How rude of them. They should just shut up and go into the gas.

Thats the French one.

German is Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit, found in the national hymn, on old German mark coins and now German minted euro coins.

Translates to Unity, (rule of) Law and freedom.

True, though I somewhat doubt the wisdom of expanding the already controversial dual citizenship at this time, when immigration is a currently hot topic that is largely responsible for their gains.

Either way, this is an absolute farce. Dual citizenship is the most ridiculously undemocratic practice that somehow flies under the radar.

The biggest issue is getting to vote in two societies, we see very well with Russian and Turkish immigrants what the result of that is: Reactionaries who live in a liberal society voting for authoritarians in their countries of origin; or otherwise furthering their agenda because they get to completely avoid any consequences of their policies.

Just to clarify: I’m against dual citizenships, not immigration.

Why is literally gang raping women and murdering a little girl by smashing her head on a rock something Hindu-nationalists would rally behind? What the fuck. This seems wayyyyy more extreme than the “usual” conservatism people like to rally around, like wanting women to do woman things and be subservient to men.

Im not saying we should ban it, I’m saying we should find a way so not rich people have access too. Perhaps introduce some restrictions to that effect, but ultimately it is individual choice.

Also, I am from one of the myriad of places outside the United States that has socialized healthcare.

For the most part we don’t have medicine or treatments that people need to be able to afford. Insurance will cover anything.

I can kind of see the angle with turning kids into a commodity that only well situated people can afford (if they can’t or don’t want to have one themselves), as it is now.

On the other hand, banning the practice is impractical, intruding on personal choices, and most of all, cruel to couples who can’t conceive a child themselves, be it because of infertility or because they are a non-heterosexual couple.

But then there is also the argument to be made that people should adopt already existing kids instead. Any child that has to grow up in foster care or generally without a loving home is one too many.

Not sure where i stand on this myself actually. People should be allowed free choice of course, but that inevitably leads to this bias towards the rich.

No normal or even poor couple, no matter how good parents they would be, could afford or convince a surrogate mother to bear their child. And allowing this to be a privilege for the rich seems mega fucked.

Why?

Just looked them up, that sounds about right. Maybe a bit less weird because they just want the government to leave them alone whereas the ours are often more hostile towards it.

Don’t discount them. The fringe right is, as everywhere else on the world, on the rise here in Germany.

Think qanon levels of delusional, and prone to antidemocratic extremism. The core belief of being a Reichsbürger is that the modern German state is an imperialist construct imposed by the western winners of ww2, and has thus no legitimacy. They consider themselves citizens (Bürger) of the previous german Reich.

Think of the January insurrection attempt in the u.s., those people weren’t taken seriously before either. Until they marched on the government, one of them prominently wearing a self made shaman outfit.

I meant more like math on monday, Korean(?) on tuesday, foreign language on wed and so on. That way the students would have just one or maybe two subjects each day, without anyone being disadvantaged, and they would still have a lot less stress and more opportunity to prepare them properly for the next subject.

There is no mathematical way for his work to be worth 5 billion, not even if he had magical powers and turned the whole garden into pure gold in the process. Not if he worked for 500 years straight, every day, without a break.

A billion is such a fantastically large number people can’t relate to how much more it is than any normal job pays in wages.

Because they are not 5 years old and bursting into tears when someone does it. Get a grip dude, the world isn’t full of nice people dancing around the campfire, someone bitching at you for whatever reason out of your control is a normal day in the life of any customer service worker.

You are not harmed by mean words.

Is there an actual reason they don’t stagger the exams over a week or so instead of this all or nothing, life changing death grind?

Just look at the change that already happened. Just a good decade ago the official catholic position was that non heterosexuals are living in sin and will go to hell, they are not welcome in churches and they won’t be blessed.

Now it’s gods love shows in many ways, he should judge and not the church, and everyone who seeks to be blessed can get officially garried by them in holy gatrimony.

Is it really so bad they try to loophole to stay in line with the scripture?

For this to work you have to take on a catholic perspective. For them a marriage isn’t just a legal affirmation of partnership with tax advantages, it is a clearly defined sacrament that is explicitly for a man and a woman. They can’t just change that, it’s a defined fundamental element of the religion.

This radical change in doctrine (from a catholic perspective) is basically them trying to work around the fixed framework that has no room for interpretation, while still wanting to be more accepting. So they create a second marriage for non heterosexual couples.

As an atheist I must say this seems like a significant step. The church still has numerous flaws and isn’t for me, but I definitely commend this olive branch.