Taking control of the legislative, executive or judicative, for example.

Mostly classical imperialism was taking the sovereignty of governance away from inhabitants of the country, i.e. taking over the legislative, executive and judicative powers.

You could argue that coercion is a kind of governance, but I’m not convinced.

If you argue that this is imperialism, is what China is doing with the west – asserting dominance through soft power projection and outbidding/underbidding local production efforts – imperialism aswell?

Is China imperialist?

Understood, but I disagree and maintain that this form of globalised exploitation and unequal exchange is not the same as imperialism. It can be argued that it’s economic imperialism but I think that’s also not quite the right term if the other criteria of economic imperialism aren’t met.

Thank you for your explanation. I’m not trying to minimise imperialism, I’m just not of the opinion that the bad things we see here are plain imperialism. Maybe cultural imperialism, exploitation or supporting bad and inhumane global policies, but I really can’t wrap my head around why I should call it imperialism when it isn’t.

Ah, I see. I wouldn’t count supporting/enabling/allowing war and famine instead of actively pursuing war and famine in other parts of the world and doing Euro-centric policy with exploiting the other countries plain imperialism per se. It may be cultural imperialism which I’d separate from the “traditional” imperialism by hard power.

I see where you’re coming from and I think how Europe treats other countries often lacks any kind of empathy, consideration or equality, but again, wouldn’t call it imperialism to not mud the waters.

Ah, I see. Sure, international policy and the strengthening of the military industrial complex are shit. That’s mainly an issue if you don’t live in Germany, though.

Depends on what they mean by “equal and just”. I doubt you’ll find any country where society is completely equal and just. Germany isn’t that bad in terms of gender equality, disability rights etc, but its imperialist past and support of war and famine (and leaders which shit on gender equality, disability rights etc) are obviously not equal and just in the sense of global justice.

Thank you for your clarification. Did you downvote my comment? If so, why?

Nah didn’t you see Marvel? They have some schedule and a multiverse and make all the money. They wouldn’t make money if they delivered ugly CGI slop would they now? 🙃

You can be equal and just within a country and imperialist outside of the country. I’d say there’s a huge difference between inner and outer politics and policies.

The amount of crime also depends on what the country sees as a crime. Since Germany likes to not prosecute tax evaders if they do it with millions of Euros, and lots of Germans are victims of scams and fraud, I’d say crime there is bad in terms of monetary crime.

In contrast to that, physical harm is more rare than financial harm in German crime, so I’d say if you value not being financially sucked dry by the rich go somewhere else, but if you mostly value your physical safety and health and don’t care if you’re fleeced by the super rich Germany is pretty good.

In which way is Germany declining? Which country is better than or equal to Germany in regards to the criteria posted above, and improving?

small city/village in southern Germany.

Depends on where, as there’s quite a few weird cities in southern Germany where I wouldn’t want to live as an Ausländer. Keep in mind not only BW but also BY count as southern.

Which imperialist things do they do nowadays? Being founded on imperialism isn’t the same as doing the imperialism, mind.

Many people also need to flee their countries, e.g. trans and foreign born people in the USA which are being hunted and incarcerated in awful prisons right now, or Palestinians which are being bombed and raided by Israel right now. Or Israelis and US-Americans who don’t like their genocidal government.

That said, the grass is always greener on the other side of the barbed wire fence. I often think about leaving Germany but the alternatives might not be ideal for me.

Got it, thank you.

I don’t have any device, I specifically own a Steam deck and if that’s the main benefit, I probably don’t want it on my other devices (I use Arch, btw).

Should’ve added “on the Steam Deck” in the first place, sorry 😅

What does it do better than SteamOS on the Steam Deck itself?

Genuinely asking as I didn’t really see any need to switch even as the compulsive tinkerer that I am…

Weird way of spelling “Donald Trump”, was it autocorrect?

dey/deren gibt es auch noch.

Ah, so lots of pedos started using Linux? That’ll bring some donation money, I guess.

I push them to Git, secrets are masked with Mozilla SOPS.

That monitor would be so nice, but why the heck didn’t they include Display Port, when they market it as a work monitor? It’s not even expensive to add!

I swear harfware manufacturers just don’t think much about anything.

Vi is unintuitive and annoying to me. Others can use whatever they want but I can’t stand people who tell others they’re wrong for not preferring vi.

I use micro in my console, or rather terminal. Why wouldn’t it work over telnet when it works via SSH?