This anti-AfD op-ed depressed me immensely, especially this bit:
Wenn man fiskalisch konservativ ist, kann man auch die FDP wählen.
Wenn diffuse Abstiegsängste einen quälen, wenn man das Gefühl hat, die
CDU mache nur Politik für Besserverdiener und Gebildete, dann sollte man
überlegen, ob die SPD oder die Linke die eigenen Anliegen nicht besser
vertritt.
My (bad) translation: If you are fiscally conservative, you can also vote FDP. If you are tormented by fears of being replaced, and you feel that the CDU only represents the wealthy and well-educated, then you should consider whether the SPD or Die Linke better addresses your concerns.
Faced with the meteoric rise of Alternative für Deutschland, German liberals are pulling out the only tool they have: a rational appeal to individual utility-maximization. Part of this is desperation, and part is wishful thinking. Höhne’s operating assumption in the article is that most AfD voters are drawn to the party for rational policy reasons despite its express fascism. The reality is, of course, precisely the opposite.
Separation of young children, in fact any children, from their carer is
child abuse, and I would love to see those who initiated and implemented
this policy charged with this offence.
We were never supposed to know about this. The Trump administration pretended there was no “child separation policy” until NYT reporters broke the story (after weeks of denial on many levels of the government, and high-up officials completely denying the # of children taken).
Children were taken from motel rooms without the parents knowing why or what was going on. Children and parents were asked by ICE/border agents to take pictures together, and were then asked to stand several feet apart for separate photographs, and then the children were taken with no explanation. There was no reason given during these separations because there was no official policy and nothing documented.
The reason many families will never be reunited is because the unique ID # of each family, given as they first crossed into the border, was deleted and changed after the children were taken. Those children were reassigned ID #s as unaccompanied children after they were forcibly separated from their families. As in, the system shows that all of these children crossed into the border alone, and there is no official record of who their families are. Again, this was done without any official policy in place.
After all of this came to light: that’s when the Trump administration announced their “zero tolerance policy” at the border. For them, if everything had gone according to plan, nobody would know about this. Many families will never be reunited because that was never supposed to be an option to begin with, this was supposed to happen with no official evidence.
(For more info check out the New York Times Daily podcast special, “Divided” Pt. 1 and 2)
idk if i’m here for good again but i just wanted to tell @kellyannecontent that the acrobat kidnapper, the best member of Penguin’s Red Triangle Gang in Batman Returns, is Mac’s dad in Always Sunny.
On this day, 28 April 1969, students and workers took to the streets of Tokyo, engaging in running battles with police and erecting barricades, creating an 800-metre area which they dubbed the ‘Ginza Liberated Area’. This is a great history of Japan’s radical movement at that time: https://ift.tt/2n20cTPhttps://ift.tt/2vRujCh
there’s some incredible video footage of a subsequent struggle (carried out by a student-worker-peasant coalition including a descendant faction of the Zengakuren councilist movement of the Japanese left,
Chūkaku-ha) against the construction of the Narita airport, where you can see the (highly organized) rioters deploy battering rams - like the ones visible in the image above - against a police shield wall.
