Brain-dead PR catastrophe for PC. They could instead have make him the public face of their rewards program. Now they are in the news as the bad guys.

I’m not saying it’s not a valid issue. I’m saying it’s not an important issue. Different things.

To make it a bit more clear: every technology embodies values, and accepts different kinds of inconveniences or efficiencies as acceptable. For example, the GDPR accepts the nuisance of making everyone accept cookies on every website as acceptable, because data privacy is ranked as more important than that particular nuisance. The ADA makes engineers put ramps everywhere. Annoying to some, useful to others, but the value of accessibility trumps whatever nuisance is cased by the ramps.

Rank your values. What is more important: safety and inclusivity or pee lines? And if you accept the former as a priority, then you can ask, how to best minimize the nuisance of the pee lines without compromising the other more important value. If you value small pee lines as more important than safety and inclusivity, you do the opposite. So there. That’s what I mean about “important”.

I’m sure there are civil engineers out there who can figure this out. Not worth sacrificing anyone’s rights or safety for it.

However, the known record of German institutions cracking down on dissident Jewish voices(*) is a very good indicator of what’s going on here. Now, I’m not saying that any of these people are little saints, or that they did nothing questionable, but that there is a systemic bias in Germany against pro-Palestinian activism. Which is the more burning point than counting pennies of the particularities of each individual legal case.

(*) such as Masha Gessen, Nancy Fraser, Yuval Abraham, Omri Boehm and others.

Shame on you.

That’s not the logistical nightmare you make it out to be.

I don’t want people being attacked in bathrooms period. Men’s bathrooms are not supposed to be lawless dens of brutal violence, just places to fucking pee, poop and wash hands.

This is just vandalism.

How do we protect the welfare state from these vandals? It’s like terrorism at this point, we need to be beating them every time but just need to win once to cause catastrophic damage.

Surely there is a way to moderate the capacity of any one government to massively undo the work of decades of building up.

Are you asking me to play the role of a search engine for you? 😏

Imagine if the NYT treated Palestinian lives with as much concern.

#notallmen vibes

Can’t read German. Is the article about how the group they were allegedly with did things? Because the article I linked to says they were targeted by association.

It really blows my mind. Masha Gessen, Nancy Fraser, Yuval Abraham, Omri Boehm, and also others not mentioned in the article. Who the fuck gave Germany the right to decide who is a good pro-Israel Jew and who is a bad anti-Israel Jew? Germany of all countries, being in the business of labelling Jewish people as acceptable and unacceptable. The fucking nerve on these people.

The author of the article links to their own earlier article in the Intercept that goes in detail: https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-deport/

The only event that tied the four cases together was the allegation that the protesters participated in the university occupation, which involved property damage, and alleged obstruction of an arrest — a so-called de-arrest aimed at blocking a fellow protesters’ detention. None of the protesters are accused of any particular acts of vandalism or the de-arrest at the university. Instead, the deportation order cites the suspicion that they took part in a coordinated group action. (The Free University told The Intercept it had no knowledge of the deportation orders.)

Some of the allegations are minor. Two, for example, are accused of calling a police officer “fascist” — insulting an officer, which is a crime. Three are accused of demonstrating with groups chanting slogans like “From the river to the sea, Palestine Will be Free” — which was outlawed last year in Germany — and “free Palestine.” Authorities also claim all four shouted antisemitic or anti-Israel slogans, though none are specified.

Two are accused of grabbing an officers’ or another protesters’ arm in an attempt to stop arrests at the train station sit-in.

O’Brien, one of the Irish citizens, is the only one of the four whose deportation order included a charge – the accusation that he called a police officer a “fascist” – that has been brought before a criminal court in Berlin, where he was acquitted.

All four are accused, without evidence, of supporting Hamas, a group Germany has designated as a terrorist organization.

It’s really really cute to see Germans/Europeans/Westerners pretending that antisemitism is an imported problem.

Netanyahu, the wanted by the ICC, is visiting Orban, who for his favour is ripping up Hungary’s participation to the treaty of Rome. Israel is aligned with the USA, and now with Hungary and therefore Russia. Even if we ignored that it is itself an apartheid state, accused of genocide at the Hague, Canada has no business with the friends of our enemies.

Vlad Vexler makes the point that the point of is not at all economics but that it does have a basis in logic: it is about asserting that he can do this, that his political power is above economic rationality. It is a political move, not an economic play.

It’s not that obvious to most people. I only came to realize it recently, from Gary Stevenson’s explanations.

You know what, let’s not let patriotism get in the way of common sense politics. We shouldn’t be targeting them just because they back Trump.

We should be targeting them because they are billionaires. That’s enough, regardless of who they support.

To quote Bill Burr: ‘These fucking billionaires. They need to be put down. You know, like fucking rabid dogs. They’re rabid with fucking greed and just going out and just dividing everybody.’

Make billionaires millionnaires again.

I approve the weakening of the US armed forces. That way when you fuck heads start invading Greenland, Panama, Mexico or Canada at least some of your morale and effectiveness will have been sucked away.