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  • Fellow German here.
    Want to point out that I had to attend a minute of silence during school after the terror-attacks of 11.09.2001 (“9/11”). And that was ok. I even remember how a teacher got into Trouble for not wanting to do it because we dont do shit like that when “others then westerners” die.

    To me, the official reaction of state and media is and was always a question of who dies.
    3000 US citizens - gotta have a minute of silence. Same number of dead people world wide due to landmines? C’mon, thats boring and uninteresting!
    1200 Israel citizens- jupp, gotta be all down and sad, flags need to be half-masted. 100k Palestinians, c’mon, they had it coming, deserve it, where hiding terrorists…
    To me, everything is bad and sad.
    But politicians and media here and elsewhere in the west have it nicely separated. All double-standard bs.















  • Sometimes I am completely at awe how bad politicians are in playing chess. Look at Merz, for example.

    He could have said “yeah, you know, we are in a coalition with the SPD, they were always against sending Taurus. So, we benched the topic until a later time, as we need to solve issues at hand, getting the government startet and all.”
    People would have been fine. That would be believable.
    But then, he could have send a few dozend of the Taurus anyhow. Let the Ukraine plan a one time big attack on multiple important targets. Have them do it.
    And then, when it becomes clear that it had been Taurus the were used, and Merz got asked why he “lied” or didn’t say, he could have gone like “oh swell, Putin is fucking lying every day. Grow up, guys, this is a war and i wont explain my plans to you beforehand. Next question?”

    But nu-uh. Everything gets spoilered months before anything might happen. Russia knows, prepares accordingly.

    Loosers.