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NB2 IIRC, Munich is the richest major urban area in europe, unless your definition for "major" is low enough to include Luxembourg.

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NB1 I think people probably won't actually get driven away, unless the stupidest tendencies inside Linke somehow end up dominating the coalition.

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Munich wages are also the highest in the country, but sure let's say Stuttgart or Frankfurt or as you said Köln (I suspect Hamburg doesn't pay well enough). That doesn't change the core point of "you probably don't want to drive away the people who are your economic engine" 1/3?

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Ok, but there are tons of people who are not true berliners, but phisically mobile trained professionals, or recent immigrants etc. who moved to Berlin for economic reasons, and will absolutely move out of it for economic reasons. And imho you should want those people.

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Are you sure the left-NIMBY stuff actually breaks through to most voters and you aren't just projecting the thing we online folk care about to other people? (This is a mostly good faith question)

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I'm not sure I have a point, I just needed to I guess confess my misgivings about everything that happened in the rest of the world since. The fear that one day the question will be if the evils of 10/7 and everything since *should* have been avoided.

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It makes one wonder if the we live in a terrible world, where the blood of 2000 victims and later tens of thousands martyred agains their will is the only way for injustice to even be recognized.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And I occasionally wonder if Hamas did succeed in the sense that international support for the palestinian cause haven't been this in decades. That does not make the support wrong, but it makes one wonder.

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What is there to say on the third anniversary of October 7th, except that it did not have to be this way?

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And again, of course, Israel should have done many things differently, before and after 2023/10/07. It could have been avoided 20 or 30 years ago. But the Gazans ended up as pieces to be thrown away in geopolitics instead of the people they deserve to be considered.

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Naturally, the most cynical take would be that they did know, and chose to sacrifice their people for this.

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm occasionally a bit ashamed that my first reaction on october 7 was "Hamas just got soooo many Gazans killed" instead of empathy for the direct victims, but Hamas got more Gazans killed than I believed possible. Of course Israel had a lot of agency, but Hamas should have known the consequences

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Have we entered a phase of Montenegro denial or something?

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Contesting framing is often important, but I think terrorism is one of those cases where the frame is so deeply burned into everyone that they are likely to dismiss you out of hand if you use it in an unexpected context. Proving that it's fucked up should be easier than proving it terrorism.

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Also because I think the way terrorism or for that matter genocide is defined in public discussion more as equivocating to a certain set of events than any academic or dictionary or even legal definition, and thus certain terminology could be correct and still politically counterproductive.

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I don't think you're wrong, but will if it is a major political achievement of your movement is getting half of the political spectrum to grudgingly acknowledge that this is a problem they should do something about. I don't think the fight for a more correct framing is important enough yet to start

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone should tell Britain they have been part of continental Europe for like 40 years, that should be a crowd pleaser.

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A penitent who is loud @loudpenitent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hot take: if "the Jews took down Platner," good, because it is right and proper when American Jews wield our political power to defeat men with Nazi indicators

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

..........Why, pray tell, is ~seattle hungarian?

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.

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Juraj Medzihorsky @medzihorsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yeah, for the record, all we know is that bombs were dropped on Kosice. The theories are essentially that the soviets/germans/slovaks/hungarians did it accidentally/as a false flag. Pick all that applies, and you may find some speculation fodder from historical conferences to far-right pubs.

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As the Habsburg empire fell apart in 1918, Mariková, a remote village today's Slovakia, is said to have declared a independent republic. It seems this was in the context of its inhabitants engaging in antisemitic rioting and looting, and was inspired by the soviet republics of Budapest and Prešov.

historia-marikovej.blogspot.com

Marikovská Republika

Častým terčom vtipov mnohých Slovákov je vyhlásenie Marikovskej republiky. Tento mimoriadne významný čin našich marikovských predkov sa za...

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(And I apologize that I'm not a very literary person, and thus can't properly engage with you on that content meaningfully.

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After all, Hungary's cassus belli against the Soviets was the bombing of Kosice

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Yeah, I know hungary wanted to go further into slovakia; it reaquired zakarpatia because it was pointedly not stopped there. I kind of understand why the allure of slovak "independence" was irresistible for many; at least I can't judge given how dominant the siren song of revisionism was here.

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That canon is dominated by the dualist period here, which means that it does contain a fair amount of rural realist and naturalist, who are often critical of rural life. I also just realized that the only non-hungarians from the regions in it are Kafka and Hasek; no, by language, slovak etc. works.

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Poetry is also prioritized here, albeit hungarian schooling also sets an explicit canon in world with the mandatory over-the-summer readings almost nobody does (back in ye olde pre-internet days, there were books sold which were just short summaries of all the books students didn't read.)

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A certain strain of Hungarian nationalist uses this to draw a clean break between good patriotic anticommunist Hungary and evil nazi Hungary, ignoring that the hungarian state has already participated in for example the Holocaust before that.

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That said, interwar Hungary had a high degree of baseline nationalist insanity, as I'm sure our neighbours have realized. However, hungary was only taken under direct nazi control in march 44, which meant that "nazi collaborant" is a more selective group here. cont.

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One of the strengts of fascism is that it can appeal to people with more idiosyncratic views; after all, it was initially formalized by idiosyncratic communists. That said, I think these examples demonstrate the baseline level of antisemitism in Europe and the time and how tolerated it was by others

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(they are all better writers than the nationalist) (Orbán still wanted to rehabilitate the nationalist)

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After two regimes changes to canon from that era moved towards c. -Old dualism peasant realist, died of TBC age 68 -Extremely insane man, died of ??? Age 29 -Modestly less insane communist, died of suicide age 33 -Jewish-born catholic, died of the holocaust age 35

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I must admit almost total unfamiliarity with slovak literature. Here in to your south the regime-favored writers of the interwar were mostly arch-conservative, with a focus of nationalist works related to revising Trianon. A few even ended up in the Nazi parliament of late 1944.

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think people should internalize that the politics of an average austro-hungarian village were Like That and adjust their takes accordingly

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I don't think that's what they write on their flags tho...

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

These climate activists are getting out of hand, first those russian refineries, now this!

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If there are any liberal billionaires left, someone needs to build Madison at the foot of the mountains.

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xerti.bsky.social @xerti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

An understated component of vote power discrepanties is that reapproportionment only happens every decade, always making Texas and Florida more underrepresented than California. And the US redraws far more often than most other democraties!

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I continue to think the optimal compromise on policymaking around social media is that we should ban it for kids but also ban it for adults.

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Why is America like...that? Farm subsidies are handled poorly everywhere, but every factoid about America's sounds like the prelude of being struck down by the gods for their hubris.

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I have no idea what "we" burn in oil lamps, but jet fuel is simply referred to as kerosene where I'm from, so I knew that one. I know that gasoline and diesel were seen as waste products, but wasn't the desired product very "heavy" machine oils?

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Yeah, thanks for the answer, that if it's created from normal refining processes or if you need something else was that part of the question. (As I'm sure you gathered, I'm not a hydrocarbon expert, to say it lightly)

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Huh, while that is an eminently sensible supply concept, and I know you could put that into like an Abrams gas turbine, can you really just put that into trucks and stuff? Where do they even refine that much jet fuel?

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