Following the headlines logic: Germany is angry at this post right now for overgeneralising in a topic where there are a lot of fake news and and propaganda spreading actors. Germany will now go and make itself tea.

Insect farming is still worse in terms of Greenhouse gases than just eating the plants directly. While it is more efficient than traditional farming it also isn’t necessary for a healthy diet. I haven’t found a reliable study that examines how many tons of greenhouse gases could be saved by switching to an insect diet but I think it’s best to just directly switch to a plant based diet. Just as a remain reminder: 14 % of global greenhouse gases are produced by meat production according to a UN study.

Yeah I don’t use it but other vayagers have said the same

I find it easier to follow a thread if I can quickly tell who is saying what. I usually don’t remember the usernames so a picture helps there. It’s not a necessity of course

Yeah. You can get a lil picture next to your name

Half-life 3 Mario 69 Pokemon Asbestos Super Smash Bros Bawl (if you ban Metaknight)

Congrats!

0.01 g. That’s just beach sand.

29 g!

Has Trump already tweeted something disrespectful about this?

If you say that banning a party because it plans to destroy democracy itself destroys democracy then you are talking of democracy as am absolute. So after banning the party democracy vanishes and we live in a not democratic state anymore. That’s not the case though. It would still be a democracy. Banning a party is a dilemma, either you let the people have their say which is more democratic and then after you have let them then you don’t have a democracy anymore or you don’t and then you have less of a democracy in the sense that one position of planning to completely destroy democracy is not allowed but it still is a democracy on all the other issues at least.

As for whether the party will use loopholes to destroy democracy: that’s a complex issue and difficult to determine. We may not agree on that. That’s why we leave it to a court to settle.

Banning parties isn’t always anti-democratic. The reason why is a bit unituitive so I explained it quite detailed but I believe that’s necessary. Take for example a hypothetical party X. Party X will use legal loopholes to effectively destroy democracy when it gets into power (restrict free speech, manipulate ballots, lock up the opposition, etc.) . Now party X gets the majority. That creates a situation where Party X stays in Power indefinitely. Now at some point the majority of people people change their mind and now they wouldn’t vote for the party anymore so the government isn’t representative of the people anymore. But it doesn’t matter anymore because democracy is dead in the country now. So now the people have to go through the whole establishing democracy process again which costs many lives and many years of living under oppression. That could have been skipped if party X had been banned. Now the problem remains that a majority of people weren’t represented in a election. That’s obviously bad. However keep in mind that the only thing we need to ban to skip all those years of oppression is to ban a single thing that party’s just aren’t allowed to do. And that thing is being antidemocratic. So banning that one single thing allows us to keep all the other nice thing that democracy has to offer.

No it’s not anti-democratic. The parties can’t ban the AFD only initiate the process. Whether the AFD is antidemocratic and a has the ability to undermine democracy is decided by the highest court. Precisely so they can’t just ban the opposition.

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A cool screenshot I took

I listen to a lot of classical Music and Handel’s Messiah is my favourite concert. You just have to ignore the lyrics. Their pretty propagana-y Best rendition of it IMHO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR0cEOTpYSk&t=0

It’s difficult to describe since for me it just happens but here’s my best shot. I think I experience it by imitatiting someones facial expression and other body language. Not completely but just a bit. And then I somehow feel a mix of emotions that I assume is similar to the other persons emotional state. Sometimes people don’t show their real emotions though. Another way I experience it is when I know a bit of the persons background I think back to times when I was in a position that was similar. Not exactly the same scenario but more like when I also had a lot of stressors or when I was sourounded by friends or felt bored. Both ‘techniques’ I do unconsciously though. It lets me better understand others on a non rational level. it can be stressful though. Especially if the other person Isn’t being genuine with their emotions. My mother e.g. is constantly puttung on false emotions like an actor. It feels manipulative and gave me trust issues. I still feel a bond to her and care about her though.