Man, that table is wild. South Africa has a lower life expectancy than Afghanistan and in Russia women live 12 years longer than men? Bonkers.

Hey, that’s not fair! Most of them were not killed, but only mutilated too much to be ableish-bodied enough for the russian army!

(Serious note: this is the casuality number, that includes deaths, but also soldiers with wounds that put them out of service, like lost legs)

because that’s literally an argument Musk is pushing.

Just like children.

Also, most deaths are not immediate.

Malnutrition, HIV, even dirty water take a while to kill anyone. Arguing nobody died yet is like throwing 30 children off the roof and saying nobody’s hurt, since they’re still 5m above ground.

No.

Seriously, many soldering irons don’t have a switch. Fancy soldering stations have switches, temperature dials, etc. But basic ones are just a resistive load wired directly to the plug.

Es gibt 1000 Wähler pro Lokal. Steht ganz oben.

Hast du den Artikel überhaupt gelesen?

Es wurden insgesamt 2600 Stimmen neu für das BSW gefunden.

Bei 1000 Lokalen sind das 2,6 Stimmen pro Lokal.

Ich weiß nicht, was für Arroganzyoga du hier gerade versuchst, aber das ist wirklich eine sehr sehr einfache Rechnung.

Im Übrigen habe ich nie was davon erzählt, wie viele Stimmen das BSW bräuchte. Das wären aber so um die 12.000, es wurden jetzt 2600 neue Stimmen gefunden. Na, klingelts, Sören? 2600 sind weniger als 12.000.

Nein.

1000 Wähler sind einem Lokal zugeordnet.

Das BSW hat knapp 5% der Stimmen bekommen.

Das heißt, von den 1000 Wählern in einem Lokal haben ca. 50 BSW gewählt.

Vielleicht solltest du Textverständnis üben, bevor du dich aufregst.

Wirklich bedenklich finde ich, dass offenbar so schludrig gearbeitet wurde, dass die beiden Bündnisse verwechselt wurden.

Ein Wahllokal bedient knapp 1000 Wähler. Das heißt über den Daumen gepeilt im Schnitt 50 BSW Wähler. Bei 2600 Stimmen wurde falsch Bündnis Deutschland, nicht Wagenknecht gezählt. Also 2,6 pro Wahllokal. Das ist schon erheblich.

Die Stimmen werden doch mehrfach gezählt. Wenn das so eine Diskrepanz auftritt, in wahrscheinlich hunderten Lokalen, dann stimmt da doch was nicht.

Die Regeln sind tatsächlich schwammig. Der “Wählerwille muss erkennbar sein”. Was heißt das denn im Einzelfall? Was ist, wenn das Kreuz etwas zu weit oben gemacht wurde? Zählt der Mittelpunkt vom Kreuz? Was ist, wenn das Kreuz so groß ist, dass auch andere Parteien mit erwischt wurden?

Das sind alles Auslegungsfragen.

One might call me apologetic, but I personally feel like paying taxes is not exactly holocausty.

Then again, I don’t know any rich people, so maybe I’m just biased.

Trump used to be rather transactional, though.

It’s an evil logic, but there was an internal logic behind what he did in his first term. He bullied you into submission, and agreed to a deal if he thought it benefits him (him, not the USA).

Now, he’s just on full autodestruct. There’s zero logic behind it. Not even chaotic franticness like before, just erratic randomness.

Your comments strengthen my conviction that you read a philosophy book and now try to emulate what you think smart people sound like.

You might as well argue that healthy people are a drag since care in old age is so expensive.

See, I’m German. We have a solidarity based health insurance (mostly). I’m a young, reasonably healthy guy with a reasonably high income. All in all I pay 840€ every month (that’s the maximum amount), even though I cost next to nothing. And I’m okay with that.

Yes, smoking is bad and I don’t like smokers. But denying them healthcare is deeply deeply inhumane. And in Germany even unconstitutional.

I’m really confused about his statement.

I mean, let’s assume he’s right, and let’s assume that a vaccine only protects you for, say, 20 years. Just measles induced encephalitis alone has a lethality of 0.1%. How many cases of anything more than a mild fever did any vaccine ever cause? He’s not even claiming it’s causing autism or death or transformation into Space Godzilla. So why not just vaccinate? It’s stupid even in his own world.

That’s unfortunately an extremely slippery slope.

If vaccines (or lack thereof) are enough to refuse “service”, why treat lung cancer in smokers? What about type 2 diabetes?

With the amount of resources that are spent every year on anything from building schools to distributing clean water and vaccines, saying “we don’t give a shit” is a bit of a stretch.

Then look a bit closer.

Who do you think drills the holes? European contractors.

Who pays for the staff working in the schools? Not Europe.

There is a ton of money being poured into development aid, absolutely. But that money is mostly wasted on administration and vanity projects.

At the same time, Africans get hardly any working visa for Europe. It would help dramatically to have a few million Africans working legally and safely in Europe and sending back billions in remissions. Instead, poor bastards have to risk their lives on overcrowded dingies and get sunk by the Greek coastguard (not an exaggeration, there’s video evidence).

Another point: coffee. The real value add in coffee is roasting. But roasted coffee has very high tariffs, so african countries only export cheap, unroasted coffee. There’s no reason for that - except that this might lead to cheaper coffee and could undercut European roasters.

Of course it is true for the rest too.

You think I’m writing this from a US perspective? I’ve never been even on that continent. I’m in Germany and this is 100% what is happening here.

I think you still didn’t understand.

Yes, our lives are better, but the many Danish books are bought by (figuratively) having less arabic books. Denmark has next to nothing, just like Germany or Austria. But with cheap energy from the global south and cheap manufacturing in third countries they could get ahead quite a lot.

Yes, Spain got rid of its dictatorship, but that’s been 50 years ago and Franco’s grave is still a place of worship.

The EU is only inwardly inclusive. It doesn’t give a shit about Africa for example. Ukraine also only became relevant when the EU proper was threatened.

Actually, I think your reasoning is part of the problem.

For decades the “it gets better” and “best of bad systems” narratives kind of worked, but if we’re being honest, our wealth and freedom was always bought by oppression somewhere else.

We don’t have serfs or slaves domestically anymore, we have them abroad in Vietnam or import them semi-legally for a few months or so.

We uphold international law, but only if it suits us. Our wars are all justified.

This hypocrisy is what’s fueling the current downfall. The economic disaster alienated the population, it’s not getting better for them, they’re worse off. Liberal democracy didn’t deliver.

Every petty dictator can invade somewhere else and can (rightly!) claim that we didn’t do anything about Iraq, or Kosovo, or Israel, or Yemen.

Maybe we used to be somewhat free, but we’re not anymore. And we’re actively destroying freedom elsewhere.