Honestly. Nobody remembering Spahn going to visit with maga and heritage foundation, obviously building networks and learning strategy… Yeah it’s not great that the afd is doing it but the press needs to do a better job showing similarities between these actions

Me and you, we get that there is a difference. I am not convinced a majority of politicians, especially not German ones, get that.

The AfD is, for all their faults, relatively libertarian when it comes to privacy rights. That might be because they have a lot to hide, but that’s besides the point. It is definitely not because that’s “too right wing” for them.

We have had a push for “Vorratsdatenspeicherung” basically every legislature period which is kind of in the same category of “wtf stop doing that”. Ironically it was the FDP that saved us when the SPD in the last coalition tried to implement that. Not sure the CDU is going to stop Dobrint when he has his go at it.

I don’t see it as a grand departure from current party lines, except for the AfD while the Greens are very ambivalent between their fundi and realo party wings.

It will be harder for the advocates now to explain to the rest of the member states why it should be put back on the agenda.

All it takes is some form of crime that remotely looks like it could have been prevented by client side scanning. Be it child porn, be it terrorism, be it some big drug case. Now that scanning isn’t an exception anymore but generally allowed, the step to “just” forcing everyone to do what the big companies are doing anyways, won’t be as big.

In short: Assuming that they won’t have reasons and pressure to put this topic back on the table seems unlikely to me, considering the amount of resources they have continually put into this already. Especially since Germany seems to shift more and more towards more autoritarian tendencies itself, a few repetitions might be enough to finally topple their resistance

Something changes: we won’t be having this kind of engagement with the topic every time this exception needs to be renewed. Which means they have resources to allocate towards other goals, like finally making the scanning mandatory.

Wouldn’t this be reflected in the pyramid I posted above?

Afaict migration helps to stabilize the ratio, but is seemingly not enough improve it. To do that we would need to have more migration than we currently do.

Hm. That doesn’t seem to match this graphic. I heard that on the last “Lage der Nation” Podcast they did. I’ll see if I can find the source the references there

Edit: found a german source here: https://www.bpb.de/themen/soziale-lage/demografischer-wandel/196643/auswirkungen-des-demografischen-wandels-auf-die-sozialsysteme/

Weil die Geburtenquote hierzulande aber gut vier Jahrzehnte bei rund 1,4 Geburten pro Frau stagnierte, ist inzwischen jede Generation ein Drittel kleiner als noch ihre Elterngeneration.

This says every generation is about 33% smaller than the one before it, which would make the ratio stay pretty unbalanced

However the ration will start to improve in a decade or so

I don’t think that’s true. Each generation after the boomers has been smaller by about the same factor meaning the ratio between working age and non-working age will stay mostly the same

That account is roaming German communities and spreads rightwing bullshit

Du bist so widerlich.

Oh my god people. This is just a tongue in cheek joke about the ridiculousness of the two comments above me. The first one is either completely made up or pretty much unverifiable if true. The second one is an unreasonable request if the first comment was true because it would obviously endanger the source. It was meant as a test for whether the first comment was telling the truth but it’s completely failing at doing that.

I didn’t post anything besides a snarky comment below yours

I need names and addresses! For… Reasons unrelated to any lethal plans

Because lemmings that try doing it would be pulled in front of a judge if they went public about it afterwards. It would a) just be a single person that would b) face consequences for that action.

Israel on the other hand is a state level actor killing civilians in another jurisdiction. I know it’s just another war crime between many others at this point, but it bears noticing just how little the consequences have become

And the world just watches. Or, more accurately, stopped watching. The conflict apparently passed our collective attention span. It’s now just part of the dystopian background imagery of the world we are living in

Maybe they are playing for gazans to finally ask for Gaza to be absorbed by Israel so they can claim it wasn’t genocide?

Now that’s something I’m gonna save. And pray that you’re not an agent trying to spread misinformation