MrMakabar

joined 1 year ago
[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hollywood accounting is insane. Offically all movies loose money.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The SPD initially prefered to work with further left forces. They worked together on the Reich Congress of Workers' and Soldiers' Councils however the SPD wanted a parliamentary democracy and the USPD wanted a council republic, so when they realized the most of the councils were not in fact communist and actually supported the SPD, that caused uprisings against the interim SPD lead government, which the USPD left. The USPD was also unwilling to work with the SPD in the national assembly, which was the parliament they set up and they were sitting in. Intresstingly the Weimar constituion has a few points which could have been easily turned to accomadate workers councils. Hence the more centrist forces worked with them and the consitution was born.

I really think the word you’re looking for here is “liberal”

No it is democratic, which the KPD at this point was no longer. They were working on setting up a Stalinist dictatorship and no longer a council democracy.

You’re making significant assumptions, such as any of the liberals actually being willing to work the with the Communists,

I am looking at what we might want to learn from what happened back for the US election and other struggles against the far right. So pointing out that this was an option is imho extremely important. Obviously they did not do it, but that does not mean it is impossible to do it at least partly today, with different left wing groups considering different centrist groups not radical enough.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hitler and Thälmann lost to the center right Hindenburg who was backed by the social democrats. Hindenburg was already president since 1925, so he was seen as no direct threat to democracy. Then Germany had parliamentary elections in July 1932. Those had a Nazi + Communist majority, so they repeated the election in November as they did not have a majority to form a government as both the Communist and the Nazis were against democracy. That however although slightly better did not solve that problem. So Hindenburg used decrees to work with the Nazis so they could form a government.

So if the Communists and social democrats would have worked together and elected a left president. That might have been somebody from the social democrats or indeed Thälmann, then a minority centrist or left wing or a majority centrist and communist government would have been possible. The Communists however never tried to work with the democratic forces. The Nazis actually did exactly that, which they were able to use to gain total power.

Point should be obvious.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

That was going back much further. The Communists had tried to overthrow the Weimar Republic in the Hamburg Uprising a decade earlier. So the social democrats, who were a key supporter and really the creators of the Republic, saw them as an enemy. Thälmann was especially outspoken against the social democrats. Hence they saw supporting Thälmann as supporting an enemy of the Weimar Republic.

However Jill Stein and co policies are mostly about as radical as the German social democrats back then. All of it could be done by reforming the US political system. At least near term.Also the German communists were much better organized then the US left. They were sitting in most parliaments of German states and cities. The US Green Party has no officeholders on a federal or even state level right now. Of the 8 state level officeholders they did have only 3 have run on a Green Party ticket, the rest was elected Democrat and switched to the Greens. That has to be changed first, before running for president. Seriously if you can not take state seats, then you can not win the presidency.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 40 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Shutting down oil refineries seems like a very effective form of protest to me.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Just as a bit of context:

  • Willy Wimmer is a German former Bundestag member, who is massivly into conspiracy theories and at this point far right
  • Michael Flynn was one of the contacts between Trump and the Russian government. He plead guilty to that
  • Cyril Svoboda was one of the guys who gave Voices of Europe an interview in which he supported Russias position on Ukraine. Voices of Europes interviews were paid and used as a way to finance the far right in Europe using Russian money. It is currently under EU sanctions. His former party has distanced themself from him, due to his ties to Russia.
  • Emir Kusturica is a Serbia film director, who makes propaganda films and has far right pro Russian positions. His wife is well his wife.

The rest are obviously all Russian politcal figures and well Jill Stein. The photo was also taken at a Russia Today celebration. Just saying.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

This is really the part, that shows how insanely bad the rich are for the planet:

country bottom 50% top 10% top 1% country average
Denmark 6.0 tCO2-eq. 29.7 tCO2-eq. 93.1 tCO2-eq. 10.9 tCO2-eq.
India 1.0 tCO2-eq. 8.8 tCO2-eq. 32.4 tCO2-eq. 2.2 tCO2-eq.
Nigeria 0.9 tCO2-eq. 4.4 tCO2-eq. 9.2 tCO2-eq. 1.6 tCO2-eq.
USA 9.7 tCO2-eq. 74.7 tCO2-eq. 269.3 tCO2-eq. 21.1 tCO2-eq.
[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not just Russia and Saudi, but also Iran and Venezuela.

Oh and hurting those producers helps the US economy as it is an oil and gas exporter.

At the same time lowering the US oil and gas consumption can solve that problem too.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The pathways between the floating houses and the houseboat need to float as well and need a connection to the land, which is variable in height. Something like this would be normal. Also some railing to prevent folks from falling into the water. At least for those more permanent structures.

Also some greenery in the city part would be nice. Maybe turn one of the dolphins into a cypress tree.

[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 21 points 2 months ago

And this is actually a problem in Italy, where a lot of villages have very narrow streets, which make it impossible to fit through it with a wide car.

view more: ‹ prev next ›