Nah, just a glitch in my memory

Memories rot over time. Apparently he’s not. Well, South Africans have Shuttleworth and de Raadt for this to not be a final nail.

I mean, he’s Danish

Well, about parts of the world which worry me the most (Armenia and Artsakh) the EC is the source of calling ethnic cleansing “voluntarily leaving” and the perpetrator “a reliable partner” sanctioning which “would be counterproductive yet”. So maybe addressing that is more important.

And if it’s not for somebody, then I’m sure that person understands the subjective weight of their opinion for me (about half a turd).

See those downvotes? Yes, that’s because those times were conditioned by the Internet being a niche thing. You can’t expect such adequacy today even here.

That aside, legally fighting “misinformation” is outright obvious censorship, not even trying to pretend to be something else.

AfD in Saxony-Anhalt

Yes, I’ve heard of that. I’ve also heard that they vary much in, eh, ideological climate in different states. So - it may be just a result of them being a populist party.

I would provide a source, but it’s in German

That’d be fine, I can’t write and speak in German, but a wee bit better at understanding texts.

They speak like Nazis,

Not really, I’ve actually took a lot of interest in how Nazis really spoke when I was 15 years old. It was a weird time in my life, so wanted to know more closely things surely known to be evil and good to recognize evil and good in my surroundings.

(Thinking of Klemperer’s book.)

“Antisemitic and xenophobic” statements are not limited to Nazis, while some specifically Nazi traits of speech I can see being more popular, but really not limited to AfD and the likes. Even here one can encounter such.

they act like Nazis.

I don’t think they’ve started killing their opponents on the streets yet, or forming paramilitary groups.

doesn’t mean they are harmless or that calling them out for what they are would “water down the term ‘Nazi’”

You may be right, but parties and entities more similar to Nazis in other parts of the world usually were pretty open about their intentions from the very beginning, while AfD doesn’t send the same signals.

Anything is worth differentiating from a thing which is, well, different from it.

Kemalists are not the same as Young Turks, for example (however, saying that Kemal and Kemalists are not a direct continuation of Young Turks for all intents and purposes is something only a clueless European would do, trying to whitewash them because Kemalist Turkey joined NATO early).

He can go to Afghanistan and offer his kids (if he has any) for bacha-bazi, right now.

Congrats, you are smarter than most people talking about regulations.

Nazis will also never come back. What, they soon are the biggest party in Germany, in other countries too?

Calling AfD Nazis is an exaggeration watering down the term.

I’m not saying actual honest-to-God Nazis are not coming back. In fact, I’m sure they are, no evil is ever defeated forever. Time to cast away stones and time to collect stones.

People obviously learn by doing real things, so competitive skilled labor won’t be more available than it is now. EDIT: … if they wait for it to be

They just have to get projects through one by one, then with time there’ll be more competent people.

But yes, some effort in schooling won’t hurt.

I’m too young, but I think I’ve read that we’ve already been there, when expert systems written in Lisp were all the rage, and you would write them questions. Of course, the percentage of humanity to ever see such a system was slim.

It could. In fact it will make that part of the Web yet another step closer to a bot-populated SEO-infested graveyard where a living human will find nothing useful.

If only my friends would stop using VK to communicate, and my family FB for the same.

I meant something with peerflix inside, to stream torrented stuff.

Not only pedos, in general sadistic people tend to try and get jobs which would give them the feeling of power over someone, and not all of them can be dictators, warlords, just politicians, even lowly prison guards or policemen, also cowardice is a factor. So - child-related jobs.

But, to be frank, I’m not sure background checks are going to do that much good. People of this kind tend to bunch together, help each other, and can either get past the radar rather easy or utilize these checks to discredit anybody who’d be a threat to them.

It’s a complex matter.

In my humble opinion until the producers of such appliances learn honesty through pain, it’s much better to have a pirate streambox (with something like torrentflix or Popcorn Time or whatever, I just download torrents and watch on my laptop, so don’t use these things).

No shit.

It’s what terrorists do.

This particular sentence is not entirely correct, as it implies that freedom fighters can’t use terror tactics and thus be terrorists.

Say, if some Armenian force (there are none that’d have the balls) would bomb the Mingechaur dam, the pipes and infrastructure going through Tovuz, other smaller hydroelectric objects etc in Azerbaijan, - these would be actions aimed at fighting for freedom, but very important part of their effect would be terror.

In some way any violent activity aimed at denying someone their feeling of safety is terrorism. Like, say, allied bombing campaign of Germany (its goals were even formulated like that).

I agree that Hamas are not freedom fighters, their ideology is pretty Nazi.

Search for Locutus, it’s very similar to what I’ve been imagining, only real (well, not yet, it’s a project).

so you don’t just change your beliefs in response to your wants

You do that anyway all the time. It’s just that crappy people want to believe in what you do.