Yes

In addition to breaking up monopolies, this should also be one of the focal points of Europe’s efforts to strengthen its defense capabilities. In this context, it seems to me that digital sovereignty is not being given the importance it deserves, given the significance of “cyber warfare” in modern warfare.

Instead, Germany, for example, wants to introduce Palantir across the board. I cannot understand how politicians who are pushing this forward do not even recognize the security risk associated with passing on highly sensitive information to a US company, not to mention the violation of applicable EU and national law. This is not only negligent, but simply criminal.

Here is a link to an ongoing Campact petition that has already collected more than 430,000 signatures against the introduction of Palantir in Germany: Trump-Software Palantir: Über­wa­chungs­pläne stoppen

The decisions of the Supreme Court really have less and less to do with the constitution—now apparently only in the sense that they contradict it in a grotesque manner.

Trump has made crime a major focus of his administration

Yes, for the more informed among them, you could call it that, or:

“Strategic ignorance (also called deliberate ignorance or wilful blindness) is the intentional avoidance of information because possessing it would impose costs, obligations, or constraints that reduce expected utility.”

Somewhat sloppyly adapted from Sweeny et al. (2010) and Sims (2003).

There is a word for it, but these people would never think of applying it to their peers because they themselves are the epitome of its meaning, which is in turn evidenced by their inability to recognize this fact: ignorance.

I never liked him with his canned laughter sitcom and his conformist suburban humor—a bit like a pop song that hasn’t aged well, the kind that was successful in its day but is so unoriginal, boring, and unimaginative that no one wants to hear it anymore.

The far right will take credit for this, even though it has probably little to do with it—if anything, only indirectly.

But let them: it will then be even easier to identify their hate speech against foreigners as a key factor in the shortage of skilled workers.

In Germany, for example, there are approximately 68,000 doctors from abroad, a significant proportion of whom (approximately 6,500) come from Syria and entered the country as asylum seekers (source).

So it would be great if we could finally shift the migration debate away from mindless racism and toward meaningful politics—not only because racism is repugnant, but also for purely practical reasons: with dull-witted Nazis, the future cannot be secured; that much is certain.

Thanks, I’ve added that. I think it’s still highly likely that Theo Müller is close to right-wing ideology, but this cannot be proven beyond doubt.

Müller was already one of the biggest patrons of the NPD, a now-banned Nazi party whose members have almost all found a new home in the AfD. He is a Nazi with a long history in these circles.

For this very reason I haven’t bought any Müller products for years. The company’s brands include:

• Müller
• Weihenstephan
• Sachsenmilch
• Almhof
• Landliebe
• Südmilch

The company operates many other brands and is also active internationally, particularly in the UK and Ireland, but also in the US.

Find out more if you don’t want to support fascists.

Edit: As Fesselwurm correctly points out, despite several attempts to ban it, the NPD has never been banned.

The rumor that Theo Müller supported the NDP is unfounded.

Apologies for the misinformation in this regard.

Only if you want to buy regulations, laws, or any other favors. However, I assume that’s not exactly cheap.

Good. Don’t buy anything from Nazis!

I think it’s pretty obvious what’s going on here: the government is arbitrarily arresting people because the regime’s private partners earn a lot of money from every person they intern.

IMO this is organized crime in its most ruthless form—indifferent to the suffering inflicted on individuals and the damage caused to society.

And worst of all, this seems to be only the secondary function of ICE for this regime. Its primary function is to build up a secret police force that can be used against dissidents and serve as a safeguard against possible resistance from within the military – why else would ICE need such an astronomical budget?

That may be a bit of a generalization.

But what is extremely ironic is the fact that there is a massive shortage of skilled workers in the east, which has to do with the fact that people from abroad don’t want to go there because they are treated with hostility by all the goddamn Nazis.

And so we have the most ironic situation: in rural areas of eastern Germany in particular, there are actually very few foreigners – and yet the AfD scores particularly well there with the completely false claim that foreigners would take away jobs from Germans.

I think it’s exactly the same in the US and elsewhere: people prefer to blame someone else rather than looking for the real culprits – such as the AfD, whose hate speech is causing massive damage to Germany and which is also a neoliberal party that does not stand up for “the little people” at all.

Just to be clear: This is about the state of Saxony-Anhalt, not Germany as a whole. In eastern Germany, which includes Saxony-Anhalt, the Nazis have traditionally been strong.

Unfortunately, the situation at the federal level also looks pretty bleak: overall, the AfD currently has around 25% support in Germany, which is of course an absolute disgrace.

The “/s” refers to the fact that it is anything but irrelevant when government officials threaten people, and minors at that, for no reason. That is wrong and, of course, an abuse of power. The rest of the statement is simply a fact: ICE has an inexhaustible budget, and I am convinced that it is being used to build a secret police force.

Nevertheless, I have no intention of ever traveling to the US again as long as the fascists are in power—not because I’m afraid of them, but because I just don’t like Nazis.

I wish there were more Canadian products available from our retailers in Europe. Especially atm, I would stock up on them to show my support for the country in its trade war with the US. Unfortunately, I can’t remember ever consciously buying a product from Canada—except for maple syrup, which of course has to come from Canada.

It doesn’t matter with the astronomical budget that ICE now has. Despite all these completely justified lawsuits, there is still enough left over to build a well-equipped secret police force and sufficient concentration camps for all the political dissidents who need to disappear.

/s, obviously.

I would try it if it weren’t also a US company.

Well, I certainly won’t notice if they change the flavor again, because I won’t buy any US products as long as the fascists are in charge in America—and it looks like that will be the case for an indefinite period of time.

Sorry Heinz, but you can fuck right off.