Plot twist: They’re gonna double down on vibe coding it.

Good.

That said my point still stands that the “support” for the Jewish People in Germany was never a visible element of a move away from the way of thinking which was the foundation of NAZIsm, it was only a façade whilst the Racism remained unabatted and the authoritarian tendencies were only mildly suppressed, as demonstrated by the totally different treatment extended to other victims of the Holocaust such as the Roma People, by the continuation of Race-centric treatment of people when supposedly moving away from the NAZI years into the “making of amends” to the victims (rather than a race-agnostic victim-centric view) and by the repeated use of Force in Germany to suppress political dissent such as llustrated by this law (and the countless videos of the politzei’s treatment of anti-Genocide demonstrators).

At least at the level of the political elites Germany is not a modern liberal nation, it’s a Racist nation with a very limited and mainly performative bit of “liberalism” (in such a fertile field of Race-centric and Authoritarian thinking, no wonder the growth of the AfD)

Germany (and the rest of the West, but Germany is significantly worse than most, IMHO) needs to move away from from the Normalized Racism of using people’s ethnicity as a determinant of their worth and deserved treatment and towards Humanist views, as well as away from creeping Authoritarianism like this.

It was and is so easy for the Zionists in Israel to manipulate Germany exactly because the latter country doesn’t really follow Humanist values (it just puts on a show of being a “modern” “liberal” country) hence the reaction to the Zionist Genocide was not the Humanist reaction (your actions define your worth and thus our support, and those who mass murder civilians don’t get our support), it was the extreme Racist reaction (the Kanzelier proclaiming “we unwaveringly support the Jewish Nation” at a point when the list of murdered babies 1 year old or younger in Gaza was already 17 pages long) and the Racism and Authoritarianism have carried on since, hence the continued forcefull suppression of anti-Genocide views, including this law.

And this shit wasn’t just the CDU and SDP, even the Greens had a Race-centric take rather than a Humanist one, holding a position which can only be derived from the belief that Race is more important than even Human Life.

All this to say that the change that has to happen for Germany to enter the XXI century is a lot deeper and fundamental than the miniscule step of stopping the “unwavering support for Jewish Nation”.

Same reason why somebody won’t tell somebody else “you should use that specific bathroom stall” but they will “don’t use that specific bathroom stall”.

A plane can still fall on your head.

Even further: the biggest problem with AI and thus the biggest decider on its suitability or not for something is that its distribution of failure in terms of consequence is uniform rather than it being more likely to err in ways with few or less grevious consequences than in ways with more or worse consequences.

In other words, unlike humans who activelly try and avoid making the nastiest and deadly mistakes, when AI fails, it can fail just as easilly in the most horrible and deadly ways as it can in the most minor of ways.

That’s why you have lots of instances of LLMs giving what for humans are obviously dangerous advice like telling people to put glue on pizza to make it look good or those with suicidal thoughts to kill themselves - unlike humans AI has no mechanism to detect “obviously dangerous” on an output it’s about to produce and generate a different output instead.

This is why using AI to generate fluff filling for e-mails is fine but it’s not fine in systems were errors can easilly cost lives.

So even flying over America without landing there is going to become dangerous.

Best choose flights with Polar routes, going the other way around or which fly over South America instead.

ONE MILLION Roma were murdered by the NAZIs during the Holocaust, alongside 3 million Jews.

Notice how German politicians don’t “unwaveringly support” the Roma. In fact, they don’t even talk about them.

The “change” in Germany after NAZIsm wasn’t the end of the idea that ethnicity defines how somebody should be treated or that some ethnicities are “good” and others are “bad”, it was merelly moving the Jewish People from the “bad” ethnicity to the “good” ethnicity column.

A consistent and non-racist “correction” for Germany’s past would see all of the actual victims of NAZIsm and their descendants being compensated for it, be they Roma, Jews, Handicaped, Homosexuals, Communists or from any other group, and ONLY the victims, not this Racist bullshit of claiming that all individuals of an entire and very specific ethnicity are all deserving of support even though the vast majority of them are in no way form or shape related to the victims of the NAZIs except for being born in the same ethnicity, whilst not doing it for those from other equally targetted groups (something I emphasize because it really shows how even the supposed “making of amends” is done in a Racist way).

This shit we see in Germany is not a genuine change from the way of thinking of the past, it’s just in the face of defeat doing the minimum required adjustment to the defeated political ideology to please the victors, which was moving a specific ethnicity which is influential in the main winner country of the war from untermenschen to ubermenschen, without doing it for any other targetted ethnicity, much less actually reforming the way of thinking about and acting towards people as “ethnics” that underpinned NAZIsm or even, as we see in this law, refuse to use force to silence dissenting opinions.

The “change” in Germany is mainly changing the façade, not at all the foundations - i.e. image management, not reform - hence how right now the open racism of “unwaveringly supporting” a genocidal nation with no other reason than the dominant ethnicity there and the choice of using force against those who disagree such as this law are right alongside:

Everything related to the two world wars and the role they played in it is subject to censorship and oversight, to a degree that’s almost comical if it weren’t real.

People who are now Israelis have a right to exist, just like everybody else.

The nation of Israel has no right to exist, same as all other nations.

Funny how racialized politics, autoritarianist tendencies and even a certain view of nation states as more important than people, did not stop when NAZI Germany was defeated and are still very much alive and acted on in Germany - the symbols such as swasticas and goose-stepping aren’t displayed anymore but the fundational aspects of the NAZI view of the world, of the value of people and of the validity of the use of force to suppress ideas the powerful dislike, are still alive and well in Germany.

By doubling down on ICE and ultra expensive penis replacement “trucks” the Auto Industry and it’s paid up politicians there are basically committing suicide, so sooner or later there will be plenty of room in that market for auto makers with friendly priced electric cars.

In Spain these guys will actually kill the bull in the Arena (hence the name “matador” - literally “killer”), so this is only fair.

PS: Mind you, not that “just” the part of torturing of the bull (the only part done in Portugal) is much better.

/me *Smugly looks on after having boycotted Sony for over 2 decades*

Good for you.

My point still stands though: from the point of view of somebody living in the EU, having the UK back isn’t all that much of a gain, especially anybody who looks at how the UK voted back when they were members and even more so if the UK and its people upon returning had more rights than other EU countries and citizens (i.e. if they go their exceptions back).

IMHO, it would be literally impossible to get governments in all 27 member countries to accept that Britons should get into the EU with more rights than the citizens of those countries and you need all 27 to approve a new member since it requires an unanimous vote.

(Frankly, you as an EU citizen not knowing this shit is surprising: for me as an EU citizen living in Britain during the Leave Referendum and subsequent shit show of the Leave negotiations was highly educational about the details of how the EU operates. Were you one of those people who “would be alright either way” because of having both citizenships and voted Leave?!).

But even more simple than that: bringing Britain into the EU without it changing enough Politically and as a Society that the chances of another Brexit were very low, would be the EU setting itself for yet another such event when, say, Reform UK got enough power that a section of the Tory Party felt that anti-Europeanism would get them into power.

The Political reality of present day Britain is the rise of the complete total nutter Far-Right in the form of Reform UK and Far-right ideas so normalized that even the Labour Party is spewing anti-immigrant and transphobic rhetoric.

Even with the EU sliding rightwards, very few countries in it have an Overtoon Window so far to the right.

Aside from the joke element of your post, Fascist is not the same as ethno-Fascist, so somebody who is a Fascist isn’t necessarily a Nazi-style one: they can simply be a traditional Fascist like the kind that for a while ruled Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece.

You can easily tell the difference between the two because ethno-Fascists are all about how they represent an ethnicity which is somehow a superior ethnicity and use claims that they’re protecting themselves from another ethnicity who are describe as “violent” and even “vermin” to justify extreme violence against that other ethnicity. Traditional Fascist are all about The Nation and the superiority of it and it’s people, which probably explains why for example unlike the ethno-Fascists they seldom engage casually in the most horrendous of violent acts, such as murdering children just for being of the wrong ethnicity.

The only present day ethno-Fascists I know are Zionists (who claim to represent the Jewish People, who are “God’s chosen people” and have been stealing from, raping and murdering Palestinians and any other Muslims they can read whilst claiming they’re only “defending themselves”.

Mind you, conflating accusations of Fascism with accusations of Nazism and other similar purposeful absurdist misportrayals of the critique of others is in my experience (of living in Britain) a pretty common technique from the British Far-Right.

Who needs catnip when there’s thick sliced almost raw beef?!

The entire thing is absolutely logical if you think of them as having a pure “what’s in it for me” and “I’m alright Jack, screw everybody else” mindset.

I was living in Britain at the time of the Leave Referendum and a great majority of Britons were convinced that Britain is a superior country with superior people (the Press there pushes relentlessly a spin of “Look how much great and wiser Great Britain is” on international news as well as lot of soft-nationalism, hence the putting the flag in everything and, more generally, the high levels of “flag shagging”).

Whilst many of these Britons still concluded that even then, Britain was better off in the EU (one of the main pitches from the Remain campaign was literally “Britain should remain in the EU and reform it from the inside” - in other words, that Britons knew better than the other 470 million people and hence the EU should change to be what Britons thought it should be), more than enough still believed the whole bollocks anchored on the view of Britain and Britons as superior that “Free from the ‘chains’ of the EU” Britain would prosper more than as an EU member.

So it made absolute sense back then for a Briton with a pure “what’s in it for me” mindset who totally believed in the superiority of Britain and Britons to think that Britain would be far more successful outside the EU doing their own Trade deals with others and not having to make compromises with other EU nations than inside the EU having to obey common rules which were the result of compromises between all EU countries - after all, it should be easy for such a great nation with its superior people to achieve more than it did when having to compromise with other European countries.

After Brexit and a couple of years to see the effects of it, all of that turned out to not actually be the case.

So it makes absolute sense that NOW, the very same pure “what’s in it for me” person would think that Britain should be in the EU.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if their vision for Britain in the EU is some kind of “we’ll get back what we had before” (i.e. the exceptions) and "after we’re in we’ll change the EU from the inside"or that the the kind of “logic” put forward by Brexiters during the Leave Referendum for why Britain would leave and still have “the same level of Single Market access as an EU member, without the same obligations” is now used to claim that “we’ll get EU membership with the same conditions as we had when we left” (i.e. have the same exceptions as before).

IMHO, Britain hasn’t really evolved Politically or as a Society since then, so the exact same mindset that caused Brexit is alive and well there, only now after Brexit has become a fact it’s informed by the consequences of it hence the smartest of them now have a different Make Britain Great Again plan which this time involved being inside the EU rather than outside.

EU citizen who lived in the UK and chose to leave the UK with Brexit, here.

I totally disagree.

In the EU Britain mainly blackmailed the rest with its veto - hence all the exceptions - mainly pushed for American levels of Capitalism and often even for American interests, and by the time of the Leave Vote it was basically a posh version of Orban’s Hungary. Worse, in meanwhile it has only managed to become more right-wing that back then: the Brexit Tories weren’t Far-Right enough for a significant proportion of Britons, so the extreme far-right ultra-nationalist Reform appeared and got more than 14% of the vote.

As for the rest, the main export of Britain was Financial Services, an almost purely rentierist business domain and were one of the most notable offers from Britain is International Tax Evasion services.

I can see why YOU as an EU citizen who chose to live there after Brexit would want to have Britain back in the EU: it would give you back in Britain a level of rights very close to those that native Britons have, making you way better than before.

What I don’t see is what most people living in the EU right now would gain from Britain being an EU member, especially an EU member with privileges other countries do not have (i.e. the exceptions).

Personally, I think the only acceptable thing is more integration of the UK in the Single Market, NEVER Britain having a vote on the affairs of the 470 million people in the EU, much less a veto (which is what you get with EU membership), and even the Single Market integration has to be limited since even back when it was an EU member Britain was known for willingly (in that it’s authorities couldn’t care less as long as those products did not end up in the British market) being a massive backdoor for illegally bringing non-compliant products into the Single Market.

Fortunately, when Britain swerved towards Fascism, it actually left the EU so the harm it could do to the other 470 million EU citizens was limited, but as Hungary showed, if such a country slipping towards Fascism does not chose to leave the EU, it’s almost impossible to deal with, so it would be an incredibly bad idea to make an EU member of a country which is now even more far-right than at the time of Brexit, even if with the most basic, zero exceptions, membership.

A decade ago a young an gifted software developer acquaintance of mine was going to work for Palantir and already back then I warned him of the kind of company he was joining.

After the Snowden Revelations it was already pretty obvious that Palantir specialized in data analytics of and overview interfaces for mass surveillance data - they made their money from helping authoritarian activities, including those in supposed Democracies.

It’s pretty obvious that a company doing that is built on the principled of having no Ethics or Morals.

Go to bed with the dogs, wake up with fleas.

I’m certain they will be called anti-semites.

Bet they’re going to be accused of being terrorist supporters.

I think it’s way simpler than that: this is the first generation since at least WWII whose prospect in life is to be poorer and with worse quality of life than their parents.

So of course they would rather the clock wound back to the time when people their age still lived with the expectation that things would just keep on getting better.

The Tech angle in this article is just a bit of cherry picking to avoid talking about the broader systemic issues of the collapse in social mobility, explosion in inequality and real economic growth (i.e. that calculate by real inflation numbers rather than the la-la-land official “inflation”) having pretty much ground to a halt in 2008 and whatever there is of it being entirely captured by the top 1%.

It’s never been this good to be a billionaire, but for the rest minus technological evolution things are the worse they’ve been since WWII.

Framework computers aren’t really targeted at the average consumer.

It makes sense that the kind of people who value hardware which they can easily and freely maintain and upgrade also value software which they can easily and freely maintain and upgrade.

For sure Linux being a free option vs Windows being a paid for one also helps.