“Yeah, the affluent people can come on over, climate be damned, oh and also please take in our refugees while you’re at it.”

Absolutely despicable ghouls.

The “official state news outlet of Germany” would be something like the Bundespresseamt I guess. DW and other public broadcasters are state funded but operate independent of it.

It’s always the religious fanatics who seem to understand the source text of what the claim to base their religious convictions on the least. Same with fundamentalist Christians basically being the most un-Jesus-like people out there.

Why is it always the poor frogs? 😭

Not criminalizing people who had a big ol’ vote, the bedrock of any democracy. Truly horrifying!

No, that’s not my argument. Reread my post.

The NED has been funding some NGOs for decades, so these groups, which prior to the sunflower movement mostly didn’t even exist and didn’t have an organizational structure to direct funds to in the first place surely were funded by them as well. Some absolutely impeccable and waterproof logic there.

The DPP wasn’t even a very instrumental actor in the sunflower movement. It was largely student led and of those people that participated in it that went into politics, most went to different smaller parties. I lived in the country during the time that happened and to claim that foreign interference played any meaningful role is just absurd on its face. Maybe don’t try patronizing entire populaces from afar as if they somehow weren’t able to make their own decisions and come to their own conclusions.

Sure, buddy…

“Next few decades” seems way off. I think most analysts have it more at like within in a decade.

Edit: https://news.usni.org/2021/06/23/milley-china-wants-capability-to-take-taiwan-by-2027-sees-no-near-term-intent-to-invade

Well they basically tried that already. They tried to strike up a trade agreement with the then ruling conservative power that would give China significant economic and thus political influence. But the Taiwanese people were smart enough to see through that. There was a popular uprising, the legislative building got occupied by student protestors, the agreement was retracted and the then president lost the next election in a landslide.

Democracy is built on compromise and consensus. Even within a single party, members and representatives must negotiate a consensus about what positions and policies they want to pursue. To say that consensus building within a party is acceptable but between parties is not (which is effectively what you are doing here) is completely arbitrary and doesn’t make sense.

Yeah, it’s not a big deal in itself. I think what many are more worried about is how obstructionist Duda will be in general. As I understand it he does have some veto powers. Had he given the tasl to form a government directly to the majority coalition it would probably be a positive sign he wouldn’t try to interfere much. Now it’s still kinda up in the air.

Rebelling against a blockade by slaughtering civilians is still awful and terribly misguided though. It’s hard to see how someone who exclusively wants to fight for freedom and fair conditions would ever consider that an acceptable idea.

So what?

Because it can only be one or the other? Why not both?

Now that’s a fun conspiracy theory to completely ignore the kind of people who protest against Israel.

Like leftist Jews for example? There definitely a lot lf awful people protesting for Palestine at the moment. But to imply that it’s only one group or another and generally isn’t a super diverse group isn’t helpful either. The US just had the biggest anti-war protest since the Bush era.

you can’t just blame other countries problems on us

You can, if they happened to be caused by us. Which they are. From propping up authoritarian leaders for cheap resources to being main contributers to the climate crisis

Also how is Germany not deporting undesireable people already? There are processes for this in play already. What part of it exactly do you think is lacking? Most people who are for more deportations have no idea how the process works, what the criteria or problems with it are at all. All they know is that they want more. Doesn’t matter if it actually solves any problems or not.

(Turns out you can’t really deport more people faster without undermining basic principles of the rule of law or because the states to deport to are not willing to cooperate in the first place (and why would they?))

When you need a doubly-linked list in Python, you can use the deque data structure, which is in the collections module

When do I need a doubly-linked list in Python? Whenever I have something where I can often expect to interact with the first and last element of it? Always, because it’s more efficient than shifting the entire list around? Something else entirely?

Which is just another reason why the aversion to immigration on display by such large parts of EU society at the moment is just so freaking dumb and counterproductive.