Hm but that’s an interesting point. In Nazi Germany people’s excuse was that they didn’t know and if they knew they were against it but because of the Nazi dictatorship they didn’t say anything.

In 2025 Germany the cost of opposing Staatsräson is infinitely lower, it’s possible to speak out and it’s possible to protest even though German police is notorious for beating and locking up anti-Genocide protestors. Yet, the German media and politicians in 2025 are still ironclad in their support. If really the majority of Germans are against this and they are against colonialism, apartheid and genocide, then where are they?

They all know and they don’t have to fear for their lives, yet they are mostly apathetic. Following Occam’s razor the simplest explanation is that they honestly just don’t care.

I have the freedom to exactly follow the rules of the French government or in this case some random regional government, got it.

I think it’s mostly a time issue. Used to be much easier but with recession, inflation, housing crisis, constant layoffs at least I am much busier than I was e.g. 10 years ago.

The little time I have for going to the gym I kinda don’t feel like talking to people I’ll probably never see again. Because I’m also in one of those subscription things where you actually don’t have to be member of a specific gym anymore, you can just go anywhere they partner with. And I think lots of people are doing that nowadays, plus with all the layoffs people move around even more than they used to.

I think phones do play a role but they aren’t the only thing that keeps us from socializing.

It also loves asserting as any in typescript, thanks ChatGPT that really helped

So will it really cost someone’s job? Will there be any consequences? Are we anywhere near banning Palantir which is arguably magnitudes worse than Huawei could be by running cell phone towers? Are there any consequences for anyone using Palantir or Pegasus?

Again, I don’t think the Chinese are any better than the Americans and I don’t live in China nor do I speak the language so I don’t care what they tell their people, I care that now a scandal is being manufactured against one of the last left leaning countries because China bad while we allow the same and even worse stuff because European politicians and media are transatlantic bootlickers.

Don’t understand them. Too naked isn’t good, because that’s disrespectful, covering your hair also isn’t good because that’s Islamism, freedom is complicated.

I recommend reading "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine“ by Israeli historian Ilan Pappe. Most Jewish Arabs had no desire to move to the settler colony until religious violence was facilitated by western countries and Zionists after the fall of the Ottoman Empire.

Examples are the Baghdad bombings that aimed at frightening Iraqi Jews or even doing payments per head to the Moroccan king because Jews didn’t want to leave home. They successfully managed to escalate tensions so far that people eventually did move, but European politicians try to frame the Arab world as antisemites when Europeans have committed the worst possible atrocities against Jews including, but also long before the holocaust, whereas the Muslim world was a refuge for Jews. Very sad development.

Let’s hope that people don’t fall for the Zionist propaganda that conflates Judaism with Zionism, although I’m not having too much trust in humanity at this point.

Not talking about the general sentiment in lemmy but rather the hypocrisy of right wing media (so a lot of main stream media as well unfortunately) and right wing politicians (so most politicians nowadays unfortunately)

It’s kind of ridiculous that Huawei is being singled out as the one evil perpetrator while we happily cooperate with US big tech. It’s less of a scandal that European governments are using Palantir and Pegasus against their own citizens than that a Chinese company allegedly also spies on us. Whereas chat control and Meta/Google on us are okay because Trump is our friend?

Not at all saying we should trust the Chinese, pretty sure Huawei isn’t even an inch better than e.g. Google but to be honest we actually don’t know and it just seems like there’s a scandal being manufactured against one of the last left leaning governments in Europe.

Europeanconservative, really?

I was there too! Witnessed police brutality although that’s sadly not surprising or shocking anymore but rather expected. Once I was filming and suddenly there was a bunch of cops blocking my way and kinda locking me in when I actually wanted to go out of the crowd. It was a very intimidating moment, people very mostly very peaceful but the cops made me feel really unsafe.

Honestly, as a foreigner I have a different view. Politics are incredibly right wing, there’s basically just Die Linke which is center left everything else is at least center right.

The current government can be considered right wing extremist in that they have one of the toughest anti-immigration stances in Europe and they actively ignore court orders on stopping border controls or the arrest warrant against Netanyahu, and they are having corruption scandals en masse.

Islamophobia is widely accepted, and there is a significant part of rural Germany where AFD (the neo-Nazis) are the strongest party. And if not then, it’s often CDU with similar levels of racism, etc. just not openly neo-Nazi. There’s a growing issue with neo-Nazi teenagers planning terror attacks, disrupting pride protests and just generally attacking and intimidating people of color.

The government doesn’t address this issue enough and rather tries to blame immigrants for homophobia or antisemitism. Anti-genocide protests are being framed as antisemitic by politicians and media and the Gaza genocide is being framed as a humanitarian catastrophe and they generally feel that Gazans had it coming. Police violence happens literally at almost every protest and rhe police had impunity when beating up and sending unarmed protesters, including kids to the hospital or to jail. Germans are staunch Zionists with their Staatsräson and even after almost 2 years are nowhere near coming around.

Germans will generally deny most if not all of this and say that things are fine (see the downvotes), but they really aren’t. Currently, Germany is still a fine place to live in tbh, that is if you live in big cities and especially not in eastern Germany, but the direction the county is going is very wrong and people are afraid that there might a government coalition including AFD in the next 4-8 years

Weil yeah because being a gay man just means you like to fuck other men, I don’t know why anyone would think or if anyone even thinks that you can’t be racist just because of that

I read your post and you can do any mental gymnastics you want, you are a genocide apologist. Genocide denial is btw illegal in your country, so be careful what you say once the ICJ trial is over.

Zionism is irredeemable the same way Nazism, being anti-abolitionist or being pro-Apartheid (wherever it happens) is. History will not be kind to the likes of you.

And if you compare Gaza to Auschwitz, well, you’ll notice that one is a land strip occupied by a islamist militia that is currently a war zone and the other was an industrial factory for murdering people on a larger scale.

You should really stop talking at this point. What the fuck

So should we wait until every single Gazan is dead and our grandkids are learning about this in school and everyone is wondering how this could happen and swearing that it will never happen again?

What is the threshold of being able to compare this to the holocaust? How many people have to die exactly? All 7 million Palestinians, would that be enough for you?

What if more Palestinians would die, what if 20 million Arabs would become victims of Israel‘s genocide? Would I then be allowed to make a comparison? Or are you saying the Holocaust is "special“ in any way which implies that it’s a higher priority genocide than other genocides?

Was a concentration camp any more special because it was in Europe and not in Namibia? Is a Ghetto more special if it’s in Warsaw than in Gaza? Is a starved kid in one death camp more starved than that in another?

I am genuinely curious of how you’re going to justify that one genocide is worse than another. This was a long message, yet I’m speechless that you’re trying to "rank“ or more like gatekeep what’s considered a "bad enough“ genocide just because of your Staatsräson and your guilt.

Go back to r/incels or something

Germany is the second largest arms supplier to Israel after the US, period.

If you delivered only a little bit of gas or a little bit of fence to Auschwitz or just a little bit of ammunition to be used in the Warsaw Ghetto to suppress the uprising, it doesn’t matter. Even if you claim the gas or the fence or the bullets were used for self defense only. You chose your side and you are now complicit in genocide.

It’s very easy, either you are complicit in genocide or you aren’t. And Germany is.

They should call for an end of genocide and apartheid, a ceasefire is meaningless because this isn’t a war this an extinction campaign supported by the West and Germany at the forefront along with the US.

Edit: ok OP is a Zionist

Epstein didn’t kill himself. Epstein island was a Mossad honey trap. Does that one count?