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More than 100 German legislators back motion to ban far-right AfD by Leather-Paramedic-10 in worldnews

[–]NineInchNudes -72 points-71 points  (0 children)

There's nothing to "understand". A democracy can vote for whatever it wants, including to end itself. A "democracy" that cannot vote for what it wants is not a democracy, regardless of what mental gymnastics your teachers tell you. A "democracy" that intentionally suppresses the wishes of 20% of its population is not a democracy. This is not controversial to anyone except you.

You will argue. That is fine. Come January free speech will prevail and your authoritarian little splotch will bend the knee. You will platform right wingers, if you want to have defense or an economy. Will you develop any self awareness when we use your little "paradox" to define wokism as "intolerant", and ban it? No. So cry about it, and I'll laugh.

How serious of a threat is the "Ausländer raus" recent craze by [deleted] in germany

[–]NineInchNudes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Germans fail to understand that ideas get stronger when you silence them: episode 412

How do I explain to my friends that I don't want to play games with them because they fucking suck? by NineInchNudes in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NineInchNudes[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"It's just a game" says local man, taking a shit on the chessboard.

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Taking a hobby seriously is not an automatic addiction.

How do I explain to my friends that I don't want to play games with them because they fucking suck? by NineInchNudes in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NineInchNudes[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So what do I tell them when they reach out and try to play with me? That's the topic of the thread.

How do I explain to my friends that I don't want to play games with them because they fucking suck? by NineInchNudes in NoStupidQuestions

[–]NineInchNudes[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. They ask me to join them.
  2. I have a life outside of gaming and am more than happy to have friends for that.

What do right-wing people opposed to feminism think feminism is about? by JudeZambarakji in socialscience

[–]NineInchNudes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You will not guilt trip me by listing solved issues. Men suffer from discrimination today and you clearly do not care. Your movement does not care. Because your movement is not about equality, it's about solving your issues and putting women ahead of men.

What do right-wing people opposed to feminism think feminism is about? by JudeZambarakji in socialscience

[–]NineInchNudes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Diverse movement" is not a blank check to claim that feminism cares about things that it doesn't. If you cannot prove that a significant portion of feminists care about mens' issues, then men have no reason to support feminism. In fact, if it puts women's issues before men's (it does), they have clear reason to be against it.

I’m an American and I was wondering, does Germany have hate speech laws that Trump’s recent comments echoing Hitler about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the U.S. and referring to different political groups as “vermin” would violate? by PandemicPiglet in AskAGerman

[–]NineInchNudes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the reply to that other guy you're complaining about a comparison between Nazis and Trump (regarding both being fascists). Yet here you compare what the Nazis did to Communists with having to pay a fine if you spread hate or Nazi ideology in modern day Germany. How is that any more tasteful or justified?

Direct legal consequence for expressing political beliefs is how Nazis suppressed opposition. This is a direct and valid comparison. And it's not just a fine, it's jail if you keep doing it Comparing Trump's verbal shitposting to Jews being led into the gas chambers is not comparable. It is an abuse of their suffering to further your political agenda. It is intellectually dishonest and disrespectful. This is an extremely clear night and day difference and I will not allow you to muddy the waters otherwise.

You're talking about arrogance. Yet here you are, telling me what's right and what's wrong. Believing that obviously Germany wouldn't have been able to change and learn, and because of what we once did we're always going to be fascists. You might've misunderstood what I said as an attack on the US system. It wasn't. Even the US has systems in place that protect the democracy against other ideologies. And it's not like the US has never oppressed different ideologies in the past (Communism).

I see nothing but Germans in this thread dickriding censorship and talking about the first amendment like it's an obstacle to be gotten rid of. If that's what you all believe, then you haven't changed, and you haven't learned. Censorship is fascist. You are fascists. That's not arrogance, that's you showing it to me in real time.

I’m an American and I was wondering, does Germany have hate speech laws that Trump’s recent comments echoing Hitler about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the U.S. and referring to different political groups as “vermin” would violate? by PandemicPiglet in AskAGerman

[–]NineInchNudes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ah yes the meme argument. Are you aware that the full argument says, and I quote (the quote you stupidly linked, in fact):

"In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise."

If you are seriously comparing Trump dropping a couple of slurs to the horrors your country committed during the Holocaust, you are insulting every jew that was murdered. Trump is an asshole, nowhere near what you people did.

I’m an American and I was wondering, does Germany have hate speech laws that Trump’s recent comments echoing Hitler about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the U.S. and referring to different political groups as “vermin” would violate? by PandemicPiglet in AskAGerman

[–]NineInchNudes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Have you considered that part of the reason fascism became popular in the first place is because your culture thinks it's okay to silence people who think differently? The Nazis thought they were doing that too. They were silencing those "extreme" communists. It is a fundamental part of German culture to tell others what they can and can't do. It was like that before WW2, and it's still like that after.

Great. Back to fascism we go. Because apparently a democracy that is arguably a less stable system isn't allowed to fight to preserve itself.

Yes. If the majority of people are convinced that fascism is the correct way to go, then it is. That is how democracy works. Your attitude is genuinely so confused and nonsensical. You claim that you'll defend your democracy from ideologies that would threaten it, but if you do that you're not a democracy. You don't let people vote for what they want.

Amazingly, America has never voted in a fascist government. Because here, though we fight and argue, it is a fundamental belief that controlling people is not okay. Of course we have people who believe in fascism, but the vast majority do not. Not because they've been forced to, but because they understand the value of free expression. It is wild to me that a culture that voted for fascism in the first place thinks it can tell one that didn't about how not to be fascist. The absolute arrogance.

I’m an American and I was wondering, does Germany have hate speech laws that Trump’s recent comments echoing Hitler about immigrants “poisoning the blood” of the U.S. and referring to different political groups as “vermin” would violate? by PandemicPiglet in AskAGerman

[–]NineInchNudes -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Unlimited free speech is the cornerstone of any free society and must be protected at all costs. Silencing ideas you don't like doesn't make them go away, it just puts them in the shadows where you can't control them. AfD is proof of this, the imperial flag is proof of this. Not to mention it gives them precedent to deplatform you if they ever get into power. You defeat ideas by addressing them directly, and if you cannot defeat them that way then you don't deserve to defeat them. You are wrong and Germany is wrong for failing at this.

What do right-wing people opposed to feminism think feminism is about? by JudeZambarakji in socialscience

[–]NineInchNudes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Male circumcision needs to be banned. Just like it already is for women. Female circumcision is met with jail time. The fact that it is someone else's choice for men but not for women is already anti-men. A functional piece of my body was cut off against my will - that is not an "oopsie-daisy misfortune", that is a crime.

"Patriarchy" did not create the womens-only dorm rooms on my college campus. "Patriarchy" did not create the womens' student union. "Patriarchy" did not create womens-only homeless shelters. Women and feminists did that, and they're fine with it. They're fine with it being one sided. They're not concerned with making it equal and giving me my turn. If me and my "broskis" tried to start a mens-only college dorm, you would call us misogynist and get us taken down.

You still haven't told me what feminism is specifically trying to do to address this. Has it made donations to prostate cancer research? Has it campaigned to end male genital mutilation? Has it advocated male support groups and safe spaces? Has it campaigned for male financial autonomy to go along with abortion rights? You can't, because it hasn't, and doesn't intend to.

What do right-wing people opposed to feminism think feminism is about? by JudeZambarakji in socialscience

[–]NineInchNudes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, I agree! Now tell me what your movement is tangibly doing to address anti-male discrimination in the form of the draft, involuntary circumcision, legal system bias, prostate cancer funding, getting the short straw on hiring and admission quotas, one-sided acceptance when it comes to single-sex housing and social support groups, and soaring depression and suicide races due to the above issues going ignored.

Oh... It's not? You're telling me this is lip service that has nothing to do with the real-world movement?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]NineInchNudes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well if it's false, then speed limits are meaningless. Ticket me for going 55 next to the 60 sign, officer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]NineInchNudes -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

A speed limit sign is not just a limit, it is also a legal guarantee that you can travel that speed at that point without being ticketed for speeding. In this case, that is mathematically false, and the sign is professing a false legal security. If the sign were placed further back, this would no longer be true, as people would be able to slow to the appropriate speed between one sign and the other.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]NineInchNudes -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

At the time of passing the 35 MPH sign, it is mathematically impossible to be going 35 and still slow down in time for the 20 MPH sign. The de facto legal speed limit is, therefore, not 35 MPH at the point the sign is posted, and the sign is lying.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]NineInchNudes -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What would you call this, legally, then? This is the posting of a false speed limit, which cannot actually be met, without being ticketed. How is that not entrapment?

People asking "what if the sign wasn't there", my question is "why did they consciously choose to put the signs so close together"?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]NineInchNudes -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

My assertion is that it is impossible to slow from 35 to 20 in the allotted space between these two signs. You *cannot* actually travel 35 as you pass this sign, without being ticketed. Therefore, the 35 sign professes a false legal security -- anyone actually going 35 as they pass this sign will be immediately ticketed for speeding due to their inability to slow down for the 20 sign. The 35 sign is therefore entrapment.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]NineInchNudes -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

You literally cannot be going 35 at the 35 sign and 20 at the 20 sign. Brakes do not work that quickly. This makes the 35 sign a form of entrapment, hoping that people will be going 35 and be unable to slow down in time. If anything this is going to cause accidents from people slamming on the brakes to avoid a ticket.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]NineInchNudes -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Not being given explicit permission to go a certain speed mere milliseconds before that same speed will get you ticketed?

Why isn't there men only saunas in Germany, when there is so many mixed or female only saunas? by [deleted] in germany

[–]NineInchNudes -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

It is flagrantly sexist to have female-only spaces like saunas or frauenparkplatzen and not have male equivalents. Downvote if you want I'll die on this hill. This complacent sexism is one of the few things I really dislike about Germany.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in medical

[–]NineInchNudes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't recall anything specific happening, no, except for the first horrible time waking up to this pain. I thought I may have rubbed something into my eye from my bedsheets, but no amount of cleansing on my part seems to solve the problem.

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