No, not really. Arrest is only allowed under certain circumstances, and acting violently has even higher burdens (in the law at least). The proportions have to be maintained, too. And acting this violently is not proportional to a minor insult.

Did they?

Yes, they’re still very popular despite being hosted by the OG Nazis in 1936.

It’s Spiegel, not Speigel.

That’s why the defenders of Tantive IV held out so long I guess?

Yeah… So?

Yeah, but sand people use slug throwers.

Though there’s no canonical information about the speed of blaster bolts, they are very slow on screen. You can follow them with your naked eye.
You can’t however see or follow the slug thrower’s bullet that might even travel at super sonic speeds.
Leading a target is much easier the less time a projectile needs to reach it.

However, sand people and stormtroopers train with different weapons on different targets for different situations. So it is very possible that sand people are generally better at shooting longer ranges with high speed projectiles, taking wind speed, gravitation, coriolis effect, etc into account while stormtroopers are superior (and more precise) in hectic, close quarters situations where you have to aim and shoot quickly.

That being said, nobody checked for continuity while making the prequels anyway. And Obi-Wan is famous for talking about things “from a certain perspective.”

I do use Voyager, too. Community name is at the bottom of a post, but in your feed the posts are shorter and the community name easier to spot.

Thanks, though that doesn’t help that much. I don’t think we have these kind of laws in Germany (or I have never heard of that, though a quick internet search only shows laws about when police is allowed to force something).

I’m german, never learned dutch and the only part I couldn’t make sense of is “mbt de dwangwet”.

That being said, Geert Wilders is a racist cunt and right wing populist.

Have you ever posted something in this community about China that wasn’t green or pink (or anycolor) washing China?

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It’s not only the sources’ reputation that matters, it’s also the individual articles one chooses to share.

Idk if I would give blame to the SPD for the actions of a joint coalition when they’re in the minority. Maybe I should?

I mean, at the very least they were enablers. The SPD at the very least voted for the bad ideas of the Union in parliament. But two things stick out: the SPD-Greens coalition 2002-2005 introduced Arbeitslosengeld II (commonly known as Hartz IV), a law that amplified impoverishment and precariousness of the lower classes, and the decision of the SPD after the 2013 election to enter a coalition with the Union instead of Greens and Left.

While they were leaders of their party, even despite the backstabbing FDP they passed several things that seemed good. For a moment it felt like Germany was moving in the right direction.

Yes, two of the three Traffic Light years were very hopeful. But the SPD also is not innocent of this coalition’s downfall. The FDP started that backstabbing and sabotage very early on and instead of showing them their place during a time the FDP would not risk losing their position of power, Chancellor Scholz faltered and caved in to tgeir demands, paving the way for FDP and Lindner’s later actions.

The SPD is spineless and rarely actually makes politics for worker’s benefits. Instead, the claw to power as much as they can.

All of that being said, my advice remains vote for Die Linke and Grüne first and foremost, and then if you have to the SPD

You don’t have to. Germany employs proportional representation for parties, meaning the parties get seats in relation to how many votes they get. The only exception might be the election of direct candidates, but that is a whole other discussion and not as attached to party elections as it might seem to superficially.

The SPD usually makes progressive promises but when in government (which they were 23 of the last 27 years) they rarely act on those promises and rather do the exact opposite. Right now, they are doing their very best (together with CDU/CSU) to dismantle social security. Bärbel Bas, minister of labour and social affairs from SPD, literally said they were to tighten penalties (for jobless people who don’t do what the Jobcenter tells them to do) to the limits of constitutional allowance. She denies a raise for social security the second year in a row despite the support rates still lagging behind inflation. High ranking SPD politicians engage in populist rhetoric against jobless people and refugees. Stuff like that.

The brief two-year period during the traffic light coalition were the exceptiom, not the rule.

Better not shut down when getting close to repair workshops.

Because they don’t want to lose out on EU market money and EU citizen data.

And yes, one of the reasons is that other places are even worse for minorities or queer people.

As a member of such groups, I am surely biased. But I cannot cheer for “Europe becoming a standard of living powerhose” when that is simply not true for so many of its population. And to add to that: the article argues with the average standard of living across Europe closing in on the average standard of living in the United States. Where a fascist wannabe dictator just took over, uses ICE like his SS and likely doesn’t need the ‘wannabe’ much longer. Where in many cities, more and more people become homeless despite working full time jobs. The article even states that some european countries have long surpassed the US in quality of life.
So maybe we should not compare to that (decreasing) standard to measure the poorer european countries against, but to set a more objective standard (like, how well do the weakest, most vulnerable fare in society) and measure ourselves against that. And then look how to improve things.
A big TV and a fast internet connection is worth nothing when I mostly get informed about how the C*U and SPD want to make my life harder and how much the AfD hates me.

And migrants are also not arrested by masked agents.

Uhm, that’s wrong. Refugees get arrested by masked agents, and around half of those arrestments are unlawful (and I’d argue that the other half shouldn’t be lawful either).

And while you might live a good life, that is all but true for everyone in germany, especially marginalized groups and minorities. There is an increase in violence against queers and migrant-looking people, an increase in hate speech against all kinds of marginalized people and minorities, our own government works to lower the standards of living of unemployed and unemployable, works on dismantling socieal security and public health sectors, which decreases the standard of living of disabled and chronically ill people.

Of course, many, if not most places are off worse. And I, as a queer, disabled person still consider myself lucky to not live in many other places. But the standard of living was better a few years ago.

You are very privileged, even compared to many other germans.

For whom though? Who’s quality of life is improving amidst an increase of right wing propaganda and populism, an increasing divide between citizens, an increase in wealth inequality, staggering amounts of dying refugees on Europe’s borders, etc pp?

Can we, like, advertise that? Like, here in Europe? Like, big ads? Can Trump offer some, idk, rewards or starting help?