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Okay, i had thought the relations to have been frosty long before the war.

So was it common for people to travel as tourists to Russia or from Russia to Finland?

No it is not. For starters when the Greens were in government just a few weeks back they did fck all about Israel starving Gaza. They also passed two resolutions together with AfD, CDU, CSU, FDP and SPD demanding to restrict academic freedom, freedom of expression, have scientists and artists surveilled by the interior intelligence and embed the IHRA definition of antisemitism as the legal standard, despite even its originators saying it must not be used for legal proceedings as it is unsuitable for that.

This is crocodiles shedding crocodile tears until proving by legal actions that they changed their position. However changing their position would also require to demand criminal investigations against parts of their current and former leadership i.e. the former foreign minister Baerbock for enabling Israel with weapons and doing business aiding the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.

Same could be said about Greece and the other balkan countries.

As the map shows being restrictive to LGBT rights is not something unique to Russia and the opposite is not unique to Finland.

I am also quite sure that long before Russias full scale invasion of Ukraine the cross border exchange of Finland and Russia was less than Greece and the other balkan countries or Italy and its northern neighbors have.

Does the arrest need to be legitimate or is it enough for police to want to arrest someone for no reason and then beat down everyone who isnt jumping to the side right away? I am asking because often many more arrests are made than people being charged after. And then charges often get thrown out in court.

How did shoving that women from the back relate to any arrest when she was clearly away from other protestors? If the goal was to arrest her, there were plenty of cops arround who could have surrounded her and arrested her without violence. Or beating the shit out of the teenage boy who tried to defuse between the men and the cop?

Where do you see protestors initiating violence?

Because when the police starts storming in, you either can try to fight back or get run over and beaten up.

As i explained police seeks to rscalate violence to discredit protests. Also leaving can be difficult when you are surrounded by police and leaving by yourself makes you easy prey for police. This is why at every demo there is a reminder to arrive and leave in groups.

Compels them to smack women to the ground? Compels them to beat people square in the face with heavy gloves?

Obligatory reminder that the CSU, the CDUs bavarian sister party had many meetings with Trump Republicans to learn from the strategically and align their political positions.

Merz is calling for the EU to become the lapdog of Trumps Republicans.

The article only represents the official narrative by the police, who are known to lie and misrepresent events. Police violence against demonstrations in Berlin especially demonstrations for the rights of Palestinians, but also climate protests is a daily occurence. Police is deliberately escalating violence to suppress protests. See two german languaged articles, one for thursday and one for the larger problem:

https://taz.de/Nakba-Tag-in-Berlin/!6088163/
https://taz.de/Polizeigewalt-auf-Palaestina-Demos/!6029454/

If police violence would be reported on accurately and not only when the videos and outrage became too large in a few incidents, the “bürgerliche Mitte” would be shocked to see how democratic their “centrists” parties actually are. So the center and right media tries to avoid reporting on things or well just parrots the police.

Just look for “police violence palestine protests berlin” and you will find countless of videos of cops beating up people for no reason, using excessive force, beating up people already on the ground and in custody, choking people unconcious. There was a small outcry about a year ago when videos emerged of cops randomly shoving a women outside any group of people to the fround and another video of a cop throwing a women around by her neck, a move that could have easily broke her neck and killed her.

Also the police is notorious for lying about attacks on officers, so the claim he would have been “dragged into the crowd” should be taken with a big grain of salt, unless there is video evidence of it. I think it is more probable that he fell over when the police stormed in and his colleagues retreated. And well when you keep punching, kicking, body slamming and choking people, there could come a point when they loose their cool.

For demonstrations in Berlin police has been looking to escalate violence to discredit protests at every possibility over the past years. Human rights and civil rights organizations are criticising increasing repressions against demonstrations especially increasing police violence. Aside from protests for the rights of Palestinians climate protests are particular targets. Berlins police uses violence against women and minors in particular because they know it is a reliable way to escalate violence.

On thursday Berlins police already banned the demonstration from moving at all. Police came with two water throwers and 600 officers to begin with. They were out for blood.

Some scences from thursday and other prtests over the past year and a half. Note that his is not even the tip of the iceberg.

https://youtube.com/shorts/h_gjZdx4MqU
https://youtube.com/shorts/wDFKlXoqeXg
https://youtube.com/watch?v=c6Jlj8shfVM
https://youtube.com/shorts/s0q0zd8t5fo
https://youtube.com/watch?v=exRIsj73QUQ

The issue is that both Zionist lobby groups/political activists and authoritarian politicians and law enforcement (or well police, bc. often things later get thrown out in court) like to misinterpret it, if it is not said specifically. Do you remember how shortly after October 7 2023 Pierce Morgan and similiar did the whole “Do you condemn Hamas?” thing over and over again, no matter how displaced it was to the matter at hand? Well imagine that but with the police enforcing it and you get the state of public discourse in Germany for the past two years.

When it comes to speech about Palestine and Israel the executive in Germany will go on the basis of guilty until proven innocent. This leads to arbitrary and often violent arrests, searches of peoples homes, confiscations of devices… Even if all of that is later thrown out in court or the prosecutors don’t even bother to make a charge it has tremendous negative effects for the people targeted.

For instance in Berlin almost no demonstration for the rights of Palestinians go without police violence. Francesca Albanese the UN special rapporteur had multiple events in Germany cancelled or spaces denied last minute because of pressure from the government and reported that she was threatened with arrest. Finally take this example of the radically Zionist Axel-Springer Media specifically targeting activists in Berlin with Names and Pictures. Note how two out of the 6 people they attack are anti-zionist Jews.

There is no rational reasoning with German authorities or Zionist groups in Germany.

You are the first person i came across referring to them as “Middle East religions”. This also seems quite strange, as Western Christian dominated countries do not refer to the Abrahamic religions as such. Then again what became of Christian in various places of the world has little to do with the region.

Or do you consider modern beer to be Iraqi? Your computer as Babylonian text editor? Do you call the cash in your wallet Chinese money? Are the British just Saxons to you and the Germans, Czech, Polish and other Slavic people are just Indians anyways?

AFAIK they would remain tied to your old account. The instances copy everything off each other. So if reddthat.com would go down, your comment would still show as EndlessNightmare@reddthath.com If you were to make a new account on a different instance it would not have your posts and comments “attached” to it.

This could be an issue if you rely on reputation for something that is tied to your account. In that sense having some mechanism to proof the old account to be owned by you would be good.

You can transfer all your subscriptions and blocks. What you cannot transfer is your imaginary internet points that aren’t summed up by default in lemmy anyways.

Loans for consumer products should be outlawed. Nothing good ever comes out of them.

Sweden is one of the main exporters of Neoliberalism outside of its own borders.

Also changing axes at the border takes a bit of time but isn’t that complicated. trains have been operated between the Russian system and other countries in the former warsaw pact with that switch in track width for a long time.

every larger ship sinking is an environmental disaster if for nothing else just the fuel it has stored.

Mayo

For France i think it is ever increasing pressure on domestic issues. Macron also allowed Netanyahu to travel through French airspace to visit the US not to long ago. So Macron on the one hand uses foreign policy to distract from his domestic issues and on the other hand French Muslims and Leftists are very pissed at France lack of action so far.

As Melchior pointed out there is the whole disenfranchisement from the US and then there is also Israels ambigious relationship with Russia, wanting Russia to maintain its military hold in Syria to prevent a Turkish military presence from establishing among other things.