I appreciate the insight. So if I’m understanding you correctly, the AfD while they’re picking up fringe support, hasn’t really been able to broaden its coalition and lacks the capacity to hijack the government, even from a position of plurality.

I’m curious how the overall public perception of immigration will be for Germans going forward, considering the assimilation of the Syrian refugees Merkel took in, Germany’s aging workforce, as well as the existing need to fill jobs like medicine. Are there polling data trends available on this?

Only thing I can think of is air and noise pollution impacting quality of sleep and benefits from walking. No idea about the water though lol.

Hmm…

Germany was one of a couple nations we’ve been considering immigrating to. My wife is an experienced RN, too.

My main concern is whether Germany will be able to brunt the far-right movement there or if it’s as inevitable as it was here in the US.

Haha it took you this long to come up with this shit take?

Better give yourself a month next time.

I’m told given its architecture, bluesky still forces all private servers to operate through their servers as a choke point, kind of defeating the purpose of true decentralization. Like hosting your own local server but still needing to go through the ISP gateway.

Still, I agree. And supposedly Bluesky claims they’ll decouple this eventually.

One of the rare instances of the Shock Doctrine leading to a positive outcome.

Any way you can bring some of those critical-thinking skills over here to the US, by chance?

In all sincerity, great comment.

… And Kremlin parrot.

Biden doesn’t even know wtf is going on. If he does, the last thing he’s doing is trying to salvage his legacy. He’s got no fight in him.

He truly fucked us. Not saying Harris would’ve won necessarily, but having only 3 months to run a campaign against someone who’s been running for 8 years is tricky. You can see why given the number of people googling if Biden dropped out…

Brings to mind the whole pagers thing.

This just reminds me. I need to stock up on popcorn.

I don’t know if I personally buy that analogy.

Xitter and Truth Social already exist and thus they already have the market cornered on being a right-wing cesspool of bigotry; from a corporate perspective, there is little point in appealing to an over-saturated market niche. Instead, it is entirely in Bluesky’s interest that they don’t in order to distinguish themselves. Now will they truly decentralize? I don’t know, but it’s the best we’ve got that is gaining momentum for a reason. Beggars can’t be choosers.

Some added context: people were duped by a massive amount of propaganda both foreign & domestic into wanting Trump.

This will only worsen as our institutions are further dismantled from within. High chance we are Russia in 4 years.

I wish there were better book trailers. Part of it is we get more picky about our time and know what we do and don’t like. But sometimes this leads to a certain prejudice that doesn’t let us explore something we otherwise would’ve stumbled onto.

For me with young kids, work, and generally limited time audiobooks are a compromise that allows me to combine with another activity, like cleaning or running.

Funny I’m seeing this post, though, as I placed aside 2 books that were gifted to me in hopes to read a physical book (but how.)

Fair. Looks like it was 26 million on Youtube alone in the first 24 hours, not counting Apple, Spotify, and others.

No shit! Say it with me:

Conservatives control the media. Conservatives control the narrative. Reality does not reflect what people see.

When overnight the Joe Rogan interview with Trump had over 40 million views, the issue becomes clear.

Bernie may have, but also fuck The Intercept and we dodged a bullet not letting Tulsi Gabbard anywhere near the White House (I mean, until now anyway).

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In before Newsom or Shapiro nominee in 2028. (that is, in the far-fetched scenario we still have real elections).

When a trust fund child with more money than he knows what to do with thinks he’s a genius lol.