When authoritarian governments get coup’d and there is external influence seeking to further destabilize. Also every authoritarian dictator needs a class of people loyal to the regime, who fall into the category of people wanting power but also staying alive.
We also see many dictators that got more paranoid over time as they ruled too long, because there was no opposition to keep them in check until things exploded fully.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kontron
The corporate group was originally headquartered in Augsburg and consisted of the Kontron Europe GmbH, with its main sites in Ismaning, Augsburg, Deggendorf, and Saarbrücken (other locations included San Diego, Fremont, California, Montreal, Plzeň, Toulon, Bangalore, Taipei, Tokyo and Beijing). Kontron acquired Dolch in 2005.
In August 2017, Kontron was merged into Austrian-based S&T,[7] and was renamed Kontron Group on 1 June 2022, with its corporate headquarters in Linz
I think it is legitimate to refer to it as a German company, with most of its production still in Germany. You are right that the group is legally headquartered in Austria.
Well, someone said this was knowledge important to have in general education, so people learned it in school.
Now people are told what they learned in school is either wrong, or not important, so they shouldn’t concern themselves with it.
This raises some important implications about education and its purposes, how things are taught, how “dissent” is handled during eductation and the role of schooling in manufacturing consent in Democracies, the question of how much an individual should trust the state and so on.
If you cannot express or understand these properly or if they contradict other core ideological believes of you, ending up with arguing about Pluto rather than these issues, is normal.
People who seek power being more scared that being exploitative has consequences, so they limit exploitation.
It took hundreds of years of revolts to get from absolute monarchies to representative systems in most European countries. You could argue the French revolution failed because it was succeeded by Napoleon. You could also understand it as an important step forward.
Take another example in Europe. Initial plans were to create an US style capitalism in Western Germany after WW2. However it was understood this would create a large class of disenfranchised and poor people. This would have given communism a chance to become the dominating ideology in Europe. So instead capitalism had to be coated with social security, access to opportunities by education, access to home ownership… Structures that were subsequently damaged and destroyed after the collapse of the Soviet Union as now the ruling class thought themselves to be able to exploit people with impunity. Something that will fail eventually, but get much worse until then.
It is like brushing your teeth. Yes they will get dirty again. But not having the perfect solution to keep them clean forever cannot dissuade you from brushing them regularly. On the contrary it makes it all the more important to keep brushing them.
Imagine if Somalia became a functional state again. It could use its location like the Houthis in Yemen to decide who can pass through the Red Sea and by extension Suez channel.
Can’t have countries leverage their location like that. Look what became out of Singapore. Just bomb them all for eternity…
Or progressives do have viable alternative parties but the “moderates” keep sabotaging them. For instance by constant gaslighting with claiming that voting for a progressive party would be treachery.
But then there is also progressives who try to reform the Democratic party from the inside and get progressive politics to the forefront. But wait, you said above we shouldn’t talk about these either.
Trump is the current president of the US. Incidentally after the same DNC ghouls that made sure he would win in 2016 made sure he would win in 2024.
Maybe it is good to talk about who and how brought Trump into power, so that we can stop these people from bringing the next worse in line after Trump into power.
Yeah. Can’t expect a politician to know what it means to vote for or against a law, or candidate. That is just a level of incompetency. Totally isn’t complicity to vote alongside Trump…
Who was president from 2009 to 2017 and could have passed a different law? Who was president from 2021 to 2025?
Yeah, years of pandering to fascists by elevating their topics, repeating their lies unchallenged and also blaming everything on “the foreigners” shifts politics to the right and far right. Doesn’t mean that it shifts what is left and what is right.
You can have countries full of fascists. Doesn’t mean the “moderate fascists” now get to define what is “left”.
This “logic” of course is peddled by the US Democrats and amplified by the Oligarchy. Also the US Democrats dont want to tax the rich. Over the past Decades they have shifted the taxes from capital to income. There never was a proper healthcare system in the US and Obama defended not creating a proper one when he had the power because “muuh Jobs”.
You joke, but western governments regularly pull the “our surveillance is good because we aren’t an authoritarian regime” trope.
Often IDF troops live in the settlements themselves. Often off duty IDF troops are part of the mobs that murder Palestinians and steal their land. They share intelligence and coordinate attacks. Their is no real distinctions between IDF and settlers. It is just created on paper so that countries like Germany can claim some deniability when they supply arms to Israel.
Continue as always. Germany wont let ethics or even their own military interests get in the way of their business interests.
Krupp supplied weapons to Poland before the Nazis invaded.
Hamas still exists. They constantly injure or kill IDF soldiers that move too close to the rubble in Gaza. In particular they keep existing i places that Israel claims to have under control and where they claimto have “eliminated” Hamas.
This shows a few things:
Wildfires and floods support each other.
As the green burns down it can help less with water retention and slowing down the surface runoff or stabilizing slopes through the roots.
As the floodings uproot trees or kill them in stagnant areas with prolonged suffocation of the roots, the dead trees dry quicker and become more susceptible to fire.
Climate catastrophe is fun.
We could increase the training requirements and oversight. We could design road-networks in a way that makes speeding more difficult and enact stricter speed limits.
Whenever these measures are taking in an area they greatly reduce the number of people killed or seriously injured.
Since we are pedantic, what you say isn’t true.
The tanker weights exactly as much as the weight of the water that it displaces. They are in balance. You describe it yourself. The tanker sinks deeper if it becomes heavier and swims more up as it becomes lighter.
The measure of “boat swims” is not the weight of the displaced water. It is wether there is some boat wall left sticking out of the water to keep more water from entering and displacing the air that keeps the submerged volume in weight balance with the water.
There is no legitimate reason why trains or cars should be more dangerous modes of transport than flights. It is just that the lobbies for cars and capitalist train operations successfully desensitized everyone to it, so “deadly car crash” is just shrugged away. In the US we see similar attempts to make planes less safe and just accept the numbers of people killed in preventable events.
Is that aspect taught in school properly?
Because i mostly remember the teachers telling me to shut up (at best) if i questioned the veracity of what they were teaching. I also got thrown out of math class for saying the method of the teacher is more complicated than what is needed.
Exams are designed so that you regurgitate mostly what you have been told. Maybe you get lucky to have a good teacher in the humanities who is open to individual thoughts and teaches how to think about things critically. Most of the time it is “here is the official and only correct interpretation of event X, place Y, article Z…”
School for the largest part leaves no space to teach about ambiguity and evolving knowledge. Even if the curriculum allows for it, the class size usually doesn’t.
Which brings me back to my hypothesis. People criticizing the changed status of Pluto are feeling betrayed by school.