u/Quacksalber

Brexit all over again.

This meme fits


But the truth is of course that they know their lies are just that. They just don't care. They are trying to create an alternative reality, just how Trump managed to with his supporters.

The image used here and in the NYT article shows a training ground, these are temporary tents for training troops.

The share price of Chengdu Aircraft Corporation, which makes the J-10Cs, soared on the news.

Wonderful.

Some 125 Indian and Pakistani fighter jets battled for over an hour in one of the biggest dogfights in recent history, according to a Pakistani security source quoted by CNN.

A total of 125 fighter jets engaged in an hour-long aerial battle, with both sides confined to their own airspace as long-range missiles were exchanged at distances surpassing 100 miles, CNN said.

So no dogfight at all. Thanks, Newsweek.

I share the sentiment that Ukraine has inflicted grave wounds upon Russia. But Trump is the latest in a long line of (wanna-be-)dictators that have shown how far you can push things, if you just don't care about the wounds your country is receiving. And Putin seems particularly uncaring.

The man thinks like a toddler.

I think it's really important to make the point that he thinks like he thought as a business man. With his thinking, he at least managed to stay rich. Which is a strong indication of how much bluster and how little intelligence it takes to make it when you're already rich.

What a good bootlicker he is.

As far as I understood Starmer, only when a peace deal is in effect will he send british troops to oversee it.

And now it starts. Programs specifically designed to be encrypted getting attacked.

Quite honestly, if you're that sick in the head that you'd kill two people to steal a baby, I question your right to live.

(Tl;dr at the bottom)

Is this AI generated slob? Because it reads like AI generated slob. And the 'picture' of that lady looks like it's AI generated as well.

Needless to say, what this lady is saying in regards to Germany has no basis in reality. She claims Germany's unstable energy prices are a result of Germany shutting down it's nuclear reactor. This is an oversimplification of the highest order.

For reference, the newest nuclear powerplant that went online in Germany, did so in 1989. The most recent plan to build even newer reactors was cancelled in 1999. 2002 a law was passed that prohibited the building of new nuclear reactors and limited the operational life of all nuclear reactors to at most 32 years. That would have meant that all reactors had to be shut down after 2021.

However in 2010, the operational life of a few select reactors was lengthened by 12 years.

2011 then, after Fukushima, the operational life was reduced to just two additional years; the last reactor was set to get shut down in April 2023. This all was decided by the conservative government led by the CDU.

In 2022, the Green minister for energy and the economy, Robert Habeck, passed an emergency resolution, allowing the at that time 3 remaining nuclear reactors, which in total provided at most 6% of Germany's energy needs, to run for half a year longer.

So let's tally up: The last nuclear reactor was built 1989. Since 2002, by law, no new nuclear reactors were allowed to be built. In 2022, the operational life of the last 3 reactors was extended by the Green minister for energy and the economy. Those 3 reactors provided at most 6% of the German energy mix.

What happened to the rest of the nuclear output that had to be replaced? The conservative, CDU-led government, in their infinite wisdom, killed the incentives to build up renewable energy, which Germany was a world leader in at the time (keyword: "Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz", "Solardeckel" if you're interested to read about that whole saga). They then allowed Putin to basically capture the German energy market with cheap russian gas. We all know how that worked out.

Compounding is the issue that southern, conservative-led states in Germany (mainly Bavaria) are blocking both the expansion of renewable energy (keyword: "Windrad Abstandsregel"), as well as the expansion of the energy grid, so cheap energy created in the north through renewable sources can't be transported to the south.

But surely we could just build new nuclear reactors, right? The conservative state-government in Bavaria certainly thinks so (after being in favor of the nuclear shutdown even as late as 2020). The simple answer is: No. Renewable energy is simply too cheap. Nuclear energy was always subsidized in Germany, both during construction and during operation. And the task of finding a suitable location for storing the nuclear waste also falls to the government. So unless you are ideologically captured, financing new reactors as the government doesn't make sense. It also doesn't make sense for the energy companies either, because nuclear power is way too long of a commitment for them, compared to simply throwing up more wind turbines or solar panels. "German efficiency" would complicate the matter of building new nuclear reactors further. Nuclear reactors going online in Europe in the past years did so with hefty delays, cost overruns and construction times ranging between 12 and 20 years. And if the BER airport is used as a comparison, it would be even worse in Germany.

Bonus: A timeline (in german) highlighting steps towards the shutdown of nuclear power in Germany: https://www.base.bund.de/de/nukleare-sicherheit/atomausstieg/ausstieg-atomkraft/ausstieg-atomkraft_inhalt.html#a449768

Tl;dr: So no, dear AI generated swedish person, nuclear energy is no viable path for Germany, and also no, neither the shutdown, nor the ban on new nuclear reactors is the fault of Robert Habeck.

Personal opinion: Robert Habeck is the closest we get in Germany to a politician that is both 'electable' in the eyes of the broad public and genuinely for the people. Smears like that AI lady's have been all too common in an effort to discredit him, most of those have been lies or deliberate misconstructions. So a heartfelt "fuck you!" goes out from me to her.

So is Zelensky responsible for Russian deaths too?

So in your mind Zelensky is killing those people. Not the invading army? And you did not provide sources to claim that Zelensky is a "sadistic mass murderer" You provided two separate incidents that are being investigated.

Why doesn't it make sense? For the same reason the normal person doesn't enjoy torturing pets.

You sure are a "potential victim" of Ukrainian drafting. That's why you spend your hours browsing the tankie instance of Lemmy. Yep. Yep.

If you really believe that Zelensky is committing "atrocities", then surely you are in favor of removing the one reason why Zelensky is committing those "atrocities". And also the reson he uses to "cheekily" stay in office by the by.

Ah, so if he’s not doing the atrocities personally then it’s all ok? Gotcha :)

Still dense, gotcha (:

I hope you aren’t implying that Zelensky is a victim? For him this war is literally the best thing that could ever happen to him - he gets to rule the xountry for as long as he wish, reveives billions from the west, travels around thr world telling stories about how hr protects the democracy, etc. The victims are Ukrainians whom he (well, his rehime if you want to differentiate those things for some reason…) confines, kidnaps, tortures and murders.

Yes comrade, I too beg my neighbouring country to invade me, so I can stay in power. I thank them every time I'm attending a funeral of one of my soldiers.

So?

I just love how at the start of your meaningless ramble you were "concerned" for Ukrainian victims. But as soon as it gets pointed out who really has the power to stop this invasion you feign ignorance... Or you're really just that dense, that's a possibility too of course.

Yes comrade, I too envision Zelensky personally pressimg a gun to the temple of every Ukrainian that refuses to get drafted.

What a despicable behavior, to make out the victim of an invasion to be the perpetrator.

There is exactly one person that can end the invasion with the snap of a finger, and that person is Putin.

How about enough for a UN report on torture like for Russia you clown?

Woah… Holy shit, you actually said that… “kidnapping, torturing, killing” - literally what Zelensky’s regime is doing.

So you want to sell me one incident that is acknowledged and is being investigated as a gotcha to discredit the systematic and widespread torture the Russian state is employing? You really are dense.

Woah, other regimes are also gasing people and trying to set their cars on fire? They must be good ones.

And again, you want to sell me one incident that is being investigated as a gotcha to the illegal and widespread use of tear gas by Russia in this war? Not beating my accusation there, you are.

"Save lives" are you dense? Russia is kidnapping, torturing, killing and deporting Ukrainians in the occupied regions on an industrial scale. Every time Russia retreated, mass graves and torture cbambers were found.

Ukraine is conscripting Ukrainians like any other country that has been attacked before it has done. The west could have equipped those poeple. The west could have trained those people. In fact, most Ukrainians that are currently dodging the draft are saying that they would let themselves get drafted, if they were properly equipped and trained. It's in the west's power to do that. They just don't want to. Also, you just conveniently ignore the absolutely horrific losses the Russians are having with theirmeat wave assaults. But I guess in your world view, Zelensky is responsible for that too.