The Red Count

Nope, these kinds of "separate funds" are necessary if the UK wants a real welfare state. It is necessary to fool people into paying for it, otherwise people will vote for politicians who will abolish it.

I’m 81 and suspected I am Jewish so I did genealogical research and found out that my dad (!!) was in the waffen SS is peak erinnerungskultur go home

Centre-left parties and organisations are full of social climbers who instinctively learn how to to appease the powers that be. People with less conflict aversion (self-)select out.

There is a quite substantial German speaking (meme?) subreddit hating on horses... Make of that what you will.

An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ Patrick Gelsinger, executive chairman of Gloo, has made it his mission to advance Christian principles in Silicon Valley

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

but does Cem Özdemir use a bicycle to carry water for rightwing demagogues

Are the rules such that enough members can overrule the speaker if he doesn't allow any vote(s)?

Why will a vote eventually happen? There is no need or way to force it.

It's actually really impressive how much of where we got to right now stems from the top legal and political scholars in our media just declaring "well if that's true then the left is right, and we know they're not, so that isn't true" for like, thirty years

Ahlers (Unternehmen) – Wikipedia

There are few examples were the business were handed back. Since it is was so rare,it does stick out. One of the rare occasions from the region I grew up in:
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahlers_...
(Even then,it doesn't account for profits made during the war,here made by producing Wehrmacht uniforms).

Just had time to read it: What is missing with regard to i) importers, especially if they are the former global hegemon: They frequently find ways to devalue/reduce their liabilities to the exporters.

Their is no distinction between new investment by exporters and just bidding up existing assets.

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Pretty much. See his Stanford lectures/seminars in the 2010s or now his more "public" lectures:
luma.com/antichrist

Same in Germany. So many "von" and "zu".

The underrated factor is that a lot more actors in Germany are idealists w.r.t. the WallStreetConsensus, i.e. they believe in it, in contrast to say, the Americans, who just think/thought that it was in their interest.

You severely underestimate the group that has always been insane (but knew that they had to hide it). Current twitter is just the permission structure to come clean.

scrolling through 500 posts *documenting* how the Right don't *really* care about free speech, will we ever get out of the self-defeating loop of accusing them of hypocrisy or will we just continue to careen into the abyss, the background noise of helpless outrage ringing in our ears

But due to vote splitting among various splinter "Christian" factions and lower rightwing support in general the election is a complete flop for the AfD (2/2).

One of the more interesting races in the NRW elections is the municipality of Augustdorf. It is THE AfD stronghold in NRW (mainly due to very close knit religious communities of Russia Germans and partly due to it being the location of a large Bundeswehr barracks).
(1/2)

The way bluesky is designed makes it trivial to scrape.

Increasing confidence in my thought that the reason this will be in the news for a while and feels "different" is that it's a member of the media and there's nothing the media cares about more than itself.

The German public is often much closer to the French position than German elites.

Going for inflation and full employment doesn't make sense politically in Europe given the median voting age. Add in that a significant percentage of (potential) employees have no voting rights due to not being citizens.

The consequence is that the current malaise and stagnation continues.

And: stop fretting about ‘independence’ and ‘fiscal dominance’, but the following dynamic: gov surrenders fiscal policy discretion to CB, while CB follows the lead of the out of control drunk that is the market-based financial system—financial dominance all the way down. Basically the UK.

The big issue is that the way current public procurement works that it is incredibly hard to discriminate against American companies.

And a lot of centre-right politicians prefer being lapdogs to US corporations to the risk of an empowered European public sector.

I have always accepted that this was the only way central bank independence would be broken (which is a good thing).

I think it's time to give up the idea that Capital only thrives under liberal institutions.

There were no negative consequences for the vast majority of people.

Ich finde das sehr großartig, was die Autor*innen hier machen. Das mindeste was wir tun können, ist teilen & das ein oder andere Buch kaufen.

You could even use targeted tariffs to keep competition out. But all of this is outside of the imagination of current decision makers, except as something that just happens to the EU and Germany unfairly enacted by others.

It is interesting that media institutions like the Economist or the FT, who have been quite sympathetic to this vassalization (in softer form) for the last 30 years, are changing course this quickly.

Political leaders are slower in changing their perspective and lots of business leaders even slower