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While I wholeheartly agree with OP and believe Harris would have taken a different course than the self proclaimed zionist Biden and would've given voices like Mamdani, Omar, Sanders and AOC much more weight and I'm convinced that women have a much better potential to fundamentally change the world for good (there are micro loan programs only catered to women because they are so much more trustworthy), it's still a women named Marina Corina Machado who cheers for this and wants to sell out Venezuela to the US. And other women who I deeply trusted to do the right thing fail miserably all the sudden:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5ba3zjugf4kis434frdolgr3/post/3mbjb57n5uc2y

My favorite poster on Mastodon regarding the "Both Sides Bad" discussion always has excellent takes on topic of non- and protest-voting.

https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/115830646002048908

Multiple people in his vicinity including me tried to convince US citizens on Mastodon to vote for Harris to no avail. Some of them didn't even know about the Heritage Foundation and their plans and if they knew they said it wasn't in line with Trumps agenda.

Holland ist wie immer weiter als DE. Ab Jahreswechsel 26/27 ist dort Schluss mit dem Irrsinn. Also nicht Zeitumstellung sondern Privatfeuerwerk.

Bin kein Experte was die Spezifika von deutschem Knallgut angeht und in wieweit der TÜV für dessen Unbedenklichkeit sorgt aber in diversen Artikeln lässt sich nachlesen, dass ziemlich toxisches Zeug verkauft wird, dessen Schwermetalle und Mikroplastik in PM2,5 Form eine nachhaltige Verschmutzung der Umwelt mit sich bringen.

Ja und während Fiffi und Schnurri 1,2 Tage Vietnamflashbacks vom letzten Jahr durchleben müssen wird die Umwelt (und damit das Wildlebenden) nachhaltig gestört was alles auf uns zurückfallen wird. Sehr schön hier nachzulesen:

https://nachhaltige-produktion.de/wie-umweltschaedlich-sind-feuerwerke/

Ich kann nur annehmen, dass der Großteil der Bundesbürger keinen blassen Schimmer davon hat, wenn ich lese, dass dieses Jahr 62% mehr Feuerwerk nach DE importiert wurde als letztes Jahr. Die Nachfrage muss ja da sein.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Zahl-der-Woche/2025/PD25_48_p002.html

Dann noch die ganzen eh schon prävalenten Atemwegserkrankungen und ein sehr starkes Grippejahr mit H3N2. Sollen se machen. Ich lass schon mal den Luftreiniger vorglühen.

Thanks a lot. I appreciate this as I often have to double-check and look-up idioms. Still, even after decades of communication in English. I'll leave the error as is then, to not take the educational value from your post.

I hope the CDU and SPD are able to destroy them with arguments any day soon. Like in the US and many other countries. Franz von Papen had a brilliant plan. We should try that again. Party bans just don't cut it. It worked once with the Socialist Reich Party but we can't guarantee that will work again. Better don't ban people like Frohnmaier, openly stating he's a national socialists, from the Bundestag. That could anger the voters. Also please don't call them fascists. That seems to really anger some of them.

I love the DW TV channel. Solid documentaries. Nice special formats on all kind of topics. Competent journalists and interesting and prolific guests in interview formats. Broadcasts in HD without a Pay-TV subscription. My default TV channel. Highly recommended.

Markus Frohnmaier looks evil AF. According to his Wikipedia he is. Mind you he is not from the AfD infested ex-GDR but from the southern Germany state Baden-Württemberg. Let's dissect his Wikipedia entry a bit:

• Born in Romania (lol) and never got to know his natural parents. First he wasn't scheduled for adoption because of his weak constiution but was subsequently adopted by a german couple.

• Got an economy high school diploma but dropped out of college.

• Married to a Russian journalist previously working for the state affiliated Iswestija owned by Gazprom-Media.

• Member of the parliament since 2017. Chairman of the far-right AfD regional association in Baden-Württemberg.

• Employed multiple persons from the far-right-extremist spectrum. His own positions are openly far-right-extremist and xenophopic.

• Media investigations found out that the Russian Federation supported him to influence German election campaigns in the parliament elections 2017. In a strategy paper that was obtained by the SPIEGEL, ZDF, BBC and La Repubblica, Wladimir Putin called him a "member of parliament under absolut control".

• The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution concluded 2019 that Frohnmaier legitimizes "Attacks on the state monopoly on the use of force", has connections "to far-right-extremist publishers" and "to the anti-islam German Defence League" (which is also associated with the violent hooligan scene and is observed by Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution). Frohmaier demands after AfD's takeover of power that the Federal Constitutional Court will be stacked with judges loyal to the party.

• He was a chairman of the "Junge Alternative für Deutschland", the youth organisation of the AfD which was deemed safe far-right-extreme by German federal judges and dissolved 2025.

• In a speech in Erfurt he said: "To those left ideological terrorists, that party cronyism: When we take over we'll clean up and throw out the manure. Then politics will be made for the people and only for the people - because we are the people, dear friends".

• He welcomed the Annexation of the Krim by Russia.

• He met with the spokesperson Martin Sellner of the austrian Identitarian movement who's got an entry ban to multiple countries and was the initiator of a meeting of AfD, CDU and entrepreneurs in 2024, notably in the vicinity of the first Wannseekonference, in which the massdeportation after an AfD takeover was discussed.

• After Joe Biden was elected he wrote "No gratulations for the globalistic election fraudster Joe Biden."

• He met with Alexander Dugin and published on his rightwing-intellectual site Katechon

• He met with pro-russian separatists in Donezk in 2016.

• He founded the "German center for Eurasian Studies" together with a polish citizen who was deemed a chinese and russian agent by the state prosecutors office.

• In 2019 he became a member of the "Yalta International Economic Forum" controlled by the FSB.

He suffered a heart attack at the age of 27.

I don't eat plant based cheese also I ate quite a lot of the real deal in the past. Maybe when I'm making Pizza or plant based circular shaped pellets within some buns but that's very seldom. I just looked up what's in violife and it's got an equally short ingredient list:

Water, coconut oil (23%), modified starch, starch, sea salt, cheddar flavor, olive extract, colorings (paprika extract, beta-carotene), vitamin B12.

But yeah apart from the ominous cheddar flavor it seems very basic, too. Coconut oil should be consumed sparsely because it is "92% saturated fat and therefore raises cholesterol levels similar to animal fats (butter, lard). However, it contains a unique type of medium chain saturated fat called lauric acid that research shows raises HDL or 'good' cholesterol levels, which may lower overall heart disease risk."

Yeah I mostly cook whole food but I just need those convenience meat replacements with my dinners. TVP, tofu- or seitan based burgers or sausages, chickpea-, lentil- and buckwheat-noodles and protein powders make it so much easier to get loads of protein than just lentils, peas and rice and keep me way more satiated. Oh sorry I called them burgers and sausages. I didn't want to confuse the reader. I meant plant based protein sticks and circular shaped pellets ofc.

Don't know about the place you're living but in Germany the ingredient lists of most vegan convenience products don't need much research to understand. Some examples:

Seitan Wild West Burger

1 cup (227 g)

Protein 60 g, Calories 553 kcal

• 54% seitan
• 26% wheat protein texturate
• sunflower oil
• onions
• soysauce
• yeast extract
• spices
• rocksalt
• riceflour
• carob bean gum

Cordon Bleu

This products naming seems already proactively adjusted to the EU policy as it once was called "Schnitzel Cordon Bleu"

1 cup (227 g)

Calories 526 kcal, Protein 20 g

• Drinking water
• canola oil
• wheat flour
• soy protein
• wheat gluten
• starch
• oat straw fibers
• iodized table salt [table salt, potassium iodate (in very small amounts in iodized salt, it is considered safe and beneficial)]
• thickener: methylcellulose (natural fiber from plants), corn flour, natural flavoring, wheat starch, spirit vinegar, spices, sugar, herbs, potato protein, psyllium husks, tomato powder, yeast, table salt
• coloring foods: concentrates of radish, carrot

Planted Steak

1 cup (227 g)

Calories 413 kcal, Protein 38 g

• water
• soyprotein
• canola oil
• rice- and beanflour
• beetroot concentrate
• yeast extract
• cultures (?!)
• cane sugar
• salt
• vitamin B12

Seitan Sausage Chorizo

1 cup (227 g)

Calories 560 kcal, Protein 65 g

• seitan 64%
• bell pepper
• coconut fat
• onions
• yeast extract
• spices
• rocksalt
• carob bean gum
• beech wood smoke

Oh you probably meant the Orwellian undertone, right?

I have quite some faith in them keeping their word regarding the ethical side considering their track-record on their FOSS stance. The Nextcloud "CEO" Frank Karlitschek has a very hard stance regarding privacy and also spares no words regarding the situation in the US. Don't even know if this specific AI thing will go upstream as it's very domain specific. I consider the government of the state of SH as one of better ones in Germany though I live in another state. I haven't lost all faith in the Green party and their minister president seems a bit more progressive than most other CDU politicians.

Don't know about the monetary side but I read in an interview with someone from the Green-party who's in charge in SH (ironically with the conservative CDU) that they'll operate under a "upstream-only" strategy which means they won't create forks of projects but contribute their changes directly into the original repos, e.g. they're working on AI solutions with Nextcloud to accelerate buerocratic processes within the public sector (with a focus on the ethical aspect).