They cannot block a decision of the federal constitutional court

Given the concentration of AfD in the Eastern Block, you’d be inviting the region to pull a Catalonia and threaten to break away.

Germany has measures in place exactly for this scenario

Riot police, sure.

Read the article. It’s already happening.

Place your bets. Place your bets.

And it’s nonsensical to claim we cannot ban them

Who is going to pull the trigger? Point to the opposition leader willing and able to try and dismantle a party with this many active supporters.

We have laws against undemocratic parties

Which are used to target unpopular fringe groups not regional majorities. The UK would have more luck banning the SNP.

That’s like a core mechanism of our democracy.

The core mechanism of democracy is to abolish political organizations wholesale?

That rather speaks for banning the AfD though.

Belling the Cat.

We have a law for banning fascist parties

You have laws for banning use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organizations. These have been deployed most aggressively against Communists, Socialists, Islamists, and - post USSR - against Russian Nationalists. Currently, it is pro-Palestinian Jews who suffer the most from application of these laws.

The AfD is that its being fueled by a ton of right-wing media. It isn’t just a party springing from the soil ex nihilio. It is a consequence of right wing press flooding German society. And as the press builds support for the AfD, the AfD helps shield these press organs from censorship by the state. Its a self-replicating trend.

Can you ban a party that’s got a plurality of seats in the Parliament? Or will they be the ones banning you?

I mean, by all means, feel free to give it a shot. But it seems like you’re asking an elected government to do a thing it isn’t designed to do. MPs aren’t going to vote against themselves.

How can it do nothing?

If you pass a law but never enforce it, the law does nothing. That’s assuming the Parliament could even pass it in a government that’s thick with AfD MPs.

Ban them now

They won’t, in no small part because the AfD has enough seats to block the attempt. Also, doesn’t help that lots of the enforcement wing of the German government (particularly in the national security services) are AfD or AfD sympathetic.

We’re well past the point at which Germans can do to the fascists what they did to the communists back in the 1990s - ban the party outright and seize their assets. Now they’ve actually got to make this a political fight, rather than a legalistic one, because they turned their backs on the AfD for far too long.

They’re calling it Greater Germany, folks. It’s their land. The illegal Poles stole it from them. Very bad. Gotta get them OUT!

I’m not saying Romani, Slavs, and Czhechs are subhuman folks. But I’ve been hearing a lot of good Teutons saying it. They’re excited about what we’re bring to Eastern Europe. They’re tired of the belly dancing. They’re tired of the stealing. They’re tired of the Communism. What even is a kolache? I hear its made from HOT DOGS!

Time to for a German for Germans, ladies and gentlemen. I think we all know what that means. Maybe its time we finally find a solution to this problem. I’ve got one. I’m not going to tell it to you, yet. But I assure you its going to Make Europe Great Again.

If German Nazis were running the government today, you can guarantee we’d be getting the rankest shit out of Auschwitz while some CEO at IBM insists Germany has a right to exist.

It’s interesting how much technology has slowed down.

We haven’t slowed down. We simply aren’t noticing the degrees of progress, because they’re increasingly below our scale of discernment. Going from 8-bit to 64-bit is more visually arresting than 1024-bit to 4096-bit. Moving the rendered horizon back another inch is less noticeable each time you do it, while requiring r^2 more processing power to process all those extra assets.

No we’re getting close to some 20 year old games still looking pretty decent.

The classic games look good because the art is polished and the direction is skilled. Go back and watch the original Star Wars movie and its going to be more visually acute than the latest Zack Snyder film. Not because movie graphics haven’t improved in 40 years, but because Lucas was very good at his job while Synder isn’t.

But then compare Avatar: The Way of Water to Tron. Huge improvements, in large part because Tron was trying to get outside the bounds of what was technically possible long before it was practical, while Avatar is taking computer generated graphics to their limit at a much later stage in their development.

And they kill women.

More artists are coming up through tik tok now than the radio.

The radio isn’t a thousand independent stations looking to fill air time with local talent, it’s a handful of mega-monoliths looking to maximize advertising revenue with the Most Popular Thing (that fits the corporate agenda).

This relationship shows that being attractive will improve a persons odds of being successful in music.

Blandly conventionally attractive, to boot. Could we even do Amy Winehouse in the modern moment? Could we see Eminem or Maryl Manson or Buddy Holly or Ray Charles or Billie Holiday topping the charts? Idfk anymore. Seems like it’s easier than ever to blacklist anyone who is even remotely controversial. Plenty of attractive people who will do the Brittany Spears thing for fear of being the next Dixie Chicks.

Maybe if personality can shine through in those videos it can overtake appearance.

Unfortunately, the personality that shines brightest seems to be the kind that singles you’re an asshole.

Just ask P Diddy and Kanye.

Oh yeah, I love people who stick SQL lookups in a For Loop. Even better, the coder who puts conditional if (but no then/else) clauses around a dozen raw text execution commands that fire in sequence. So you’re making six distinct lookups per iteration rather than answering your question in a single query and referencing the results from memory.

Internal screaming

Double taps are bad no matter who does it.

Glad someone else is brave enough to acknowledge this.

Given the Israeli position on military rape, it’s just a different flavor of attrocity.

But a 20 year old male? It’s easy to argue they could have been an enemy combatan

The age old problem of “excess males” solved by declaring open season on anyone with facial hair.

Well, you don’t want to waste space by adding the same file path twice

Do you think music nowadays puts more emphasis on the appearance of the artist than before?

I think the question is backwards. What we have isn’t a prioritization of appearance but a reduction of advertised talent combined with a professionalization of cosmetics. When you’ve consecrated your industry around a bare handful of performers, you can pick out the fist full of people that check every box.

Beyonce, Swift, Usher, and Bieber cover all the bases.

But once you get outside that rarified niche of promoted talent? Do you really think Post Malone is famous for his good looks? Is Kishi Bashi just coasting on his pretty face?

I don’t really think so.

Young Mic Jagger was a snacc.

Whataboutism

Are you arguing the double taps are bad because they’re war crimes or because they’re Russian?

When Russia loses, their war crimes will be prosecuted.

America is on the cusp of pulling out of the ICJ entirely

double tap is in fact a strategy Russia is using

Hardly unique to the Russians. The “Collateral Murder” video of US war crimes in Iraq was from a helicopter employing a double-tap strategy on a group of civilians fleeing the area.

Also popular in Gaza and Lebanon, as employed by the Israelis. And in the Philippines, by the government against insurgents. And in India during the invasion of Kashmir. And by the Syrian and Turks in their war on ISIS. And, and, and…

Russia is a terrorist state, that must be stopped.

War is the act of committing crimes unimpeded. All states engaged in war are in the act of committing terrorism. When you hear people talk about “necessary evil”, this is the evil their necessitating.