Trump has captured half of the US legislature and has a huge group of people who are willing to die for him in battle (and have done so when trying to take over the Capitol, only increasing their fervour).

Of course this is something totalitarians strive for.

That’s why the EU is starting to raise tolls on Chinese PV systems.

how conflicts between ministers and prime ministers from coalitions are resolved?

Usually by ending the coalition (or threatening the move). This leads to expedited elections, which happens a lot in Austria, although usually due to different circumstances like corruption scandals. Alternatively, a different government can be formed, but that is usually very unlikely (though it happened in 2019 when the president appointed a party-neutral interim government that was accepted by the parliament).

The problem Nehammer (the current head of government) is now facing is that regular elections are coming up in September anyways, so it doesn’t really matter whether he quits the coalition. Quitting is actually a bad idea, because then he wouldn’t go into the election as the government party, which can lead to a worse outcome.

She consulted some constitutional experts before doing it.

They have the same rules as all the other democratic countries. The only difference is that they had someone take over the democratic process.

Unlike totalitarian regimes, democracy does not have strong protections against disbanding itself, just look at Hungary, Russia or Turkey. So, in the long run democracy is just a temporary fad that will fade away eventually.

No, buy from Turkey, which gets Russian oil and rebadges it as Turkish.

There was a passenger airliner that was shot out of the sky by the USSR because the pilots failed at navigating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007

Is there anybody left on X except far-right loners and Russian bots?

Its owner is part of the misinformation network.

Ja, das hat eine von ihm bestellte Richterin sicher gestellt. So eine Bananenrepublik, dass seine eigene Richterin überhaupt so einen Fall bekommen kann.

IIRC the complaint was that he wasn’t harsh enough on his colleagues who said some things that could be interpreted as anti-semitic.

Only if they have a 100% tax rate, which I doubt.

Apple used to be that way, but they too got caught in the enshittification cycle.

It’s just too easy to build up a brand and then sell cheap shit for big money.

Ist das klug? Damit würde die AfD noch mehr von Russland abhängig werden.

Im Gegensatz zur deutschen Regierung sehe ich mehr Staatsschulden als nicht so ein Problem an. Das ganze Konzept ist ja so gestaltet, dass es von alleine weniger wird (durch die Inflation).

Geld ist genug da, soziale Infrastruktur wird nur unter der neoliberalen Politik gezielt kaputtgespart.

Would be interesting what would happen when the EU regulates that browsers aren’t allowed to render non-standards compliant pages at all in order to allow new engine development just based on the spec, rather than having to implement all error fallbacks as well.

The EU is just bureaucratic enough that they could do that without realizing what a tornado of poo that would cause.

Austria has that (with the catchy name Verein zur Selbstkontrolle der österreichischen Presse – Österreichischer Presserat), doesn’t help one bit, except in extreme cases.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Österreichischer_Presserat (no English version available, unfortunately)

Der Fehler entsteht schon dadurch, dass die Europäische Industrie vor allem auf Erdölprodukte setzt. Da müsste es einen massiven Ruck Richtung erneuerbarer Energien geben.