https://www.heise.de/en/news/Blocking-minority-in-the-EU-Council-Netherlands-reaffirms-no-to-chat-control-9959836.html

In Germany, political parties have been banned successfully, both the far-right Socialist Reich Party and the far-left Communist Party. While successor parties were formed, these were less extreme, at least in public, and less successful.

While the AfD is bigger than either of these parties, it still doesn’t poll any higher than 20%. Furthermore, polls indicate that the vast majority of those who don’t support the AfD, believe it shouldn’t be anywhere near power. No other party in Germany receives that level of rejection from those who don’t support it.

If you tried to ban a party with wider appeal, it would probably fail, but with the AfD it may succeed.

There will always be a subsection og the population that adheres to fascist ideas. For a liberal democracy to function, these ideas have to be ostracized to make sure that no fascist party can establish itself in a major way. Some far-right voters will vote for minor far-right parties, some will vote for more moderate conservative parties and some won’t vote at all. The key is to keep them from uniting while appearing moderate enough to win over some more moderate voters.

she repeatedly passed information to Jian Guo — a German national who was an aide to far-right European Parliament lawmaker Maximilian Krah

Why is it always the far-right AfD that’s involved in such cases of foreign espionage?

Telephone sanitizers

Meanwhile in Austria

That’s why support for anti immigration parties is so concentrated in regions with few immigrants

1:√2 wouldn’t be the worst aspect ratio for a phone screen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

A new entry to https://killedbygoogle.com/?

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Austerity for the win /s

Clarence Thomas: “Invoking the heavenly powers to win an election violates freedom of religion according to the first amendment and therefore renders Kamala Harris ineligible to run for president.”

I’m not sure if you could call Russian occupation ‘peace’ in Ukraine

All non-Eu members are shaded in grey as far as I can see, except for the Faroe Islands I suppose.

How did you come up with such a ****ingly stupid syntax?!

It uses XML-like syntax:

<fun>
  <name>sum</name>
  <in>
    <int>foo</int>
    <int>bar=0</int>
  </in>
  <out><int>foo+bar</int></out>
</fun>

Why NSFW?

Being concerned about “unchecked immigration” in Brandenburg an der Havel of all places. This town has lost more than a quarter of its population since 1990. It has no immigration problem but an emigration problem.

It’s too easy to blame Brussels/the EU. Many national governments back these chat control proposals or have done so in the past. They’re just using the EU as a scapegoat to hide their own intentions.