You know, if we made individual cars larger so they could hold more people or cargo, this idea could get really efficient!

Innuendo Studios summarized it rather well with:

“We’re not like those other fascists. We’re young, hip, and successful. Come back, baby. It’ll be different this time.”

https://youtu.be/5Luu1Beb8ng?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&t=1179

His whole series on White Fascism and the current Alt-Right is a phenomenal summary of today’s right wing “conservative” (fascist / nazi) landscape in an internet-connected age. Nothing has truly changed for them: they’re still a suicide cult based around attacking “the other” (whatever they pick to attack) and then narrowing who is allowed to be at the top until everyone is dead.

That’s an impressive display of marketing prowess. You’ll never forget it, regardless of how stupid it was.

South Korea is one of the leaders, last I heard. They’ve had a massive shift towards childless couples.

You can do the same thing with an optical mouse.

https://images6.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED3/515b47490eeda.jpeg

It would be very hard to start a show like Sesame Street because of the fascist right. Swings and roundabouts.

He knows, but does he care? Does it actually matter to him? I have been watching and meeting all too many people who have no idea just how dangerous the world can be when there’s no rule of law and institutions protecting us. They want through life focusing on little personal gains and never truly understand how bad the world gets once Conservatives start showing their fascist foundations and the mask comes off.

There goes yet another pillar of our layered defense of the US. Stripping every bit from soft power, economic power, political relations, geopolitical position, and now outright military defense of our allies doesn’t seem like a trajectory to protect the nation, but more like a “how can we get Russia to love us like our father never did” kind of move.

Genau! Having had to very slowly translate documents from the government, consulates, and Deutsche Bahn, I am acutely aware of how much not knowing the language is a hurdle.

We’re working on learning German fast. While I’ll be in the Berlin area, so daily life can be mostly in English for a while, we need to integrate and the language is a huge part of that.

Yes. It all boils down to getting a job offer, but those are fields and qualifications with possibilities.

Thank you!

Every field has some green grass and some brown grass. No place is perfect.

Our plan is to move and never come back, but who knows what the future holds?

There’s plenty of story behind it. The key parts are that I’ve been visiting Germany off and on for 30 years now, ever since high school. I like the feel of the cities and the culture. Their engineering schools have room for people with my skills and interests (I’m more engineer than academic).

I didn’t limit myself to Germany. I’ve applied and interviewed across Europe, though it mostly centered around Germany. I had a good offer in Finland last year that I couldn’t get the ex wife to let me take the kids to.

Was it difficult? Plenty of work to keep applying, but there’s work to be had.

Germany may have real concerns about immigration, but the country needs skilled people, and just plain and hard workers, to fill roles. The alternative is to have major economic collapse, so the government is opening doors even if the populace isn’t always totally on board.

I’ll be in a German Consulate soon to submit the last paperwork for my immigration paperwork. Our family is taking 2x STEM Phds, and kids going into engineering, computer science, healthcare, and education with us. This is a generational loss, but I’m doing it to protect my children, as well as myself.

I’m performing a short fuse wedding next weekend for a prior student so they can seek asylum in Canada as a couple soon. The number of students/prior students who have been reaching out about how to emigrate to anywhere else is very high.

It’s classic whataboutism and trying to draw false equivalencies to muddy the waters. They want to put everyone else on defense about the decision to ban Nazis by making you waste time explaining why someone else isn’t a Nazi.

To sum up: fuck them. Nazis are bad. Please continue punching them, both metaphorically, legally, and physically as needed to keep them in their hidey holes.

Conservatism consists of one core value: there should be laws that protect, but do not bind, the in group while the same laws bind, but do not protect, the out group.

Danke!

I’ve been visiting Germany since 1995. I’ve been to many countries around the world, but there’s something about how Germany feels that’s just right to me. I’m very excited to really give it a try as a new home.

I’ve been dreaming about having a döner. It’s time.

I’m either too early or too late… I’ve already got a slot to make the US -> EU move for a faculty position. Ever since Jan 6th’s complete lack of response by the US government to arrest and prosecute the coup leaders I knew it was time to give another country a try and it’s finally coming to fruition.

The faculty and students heading to grad school from my engineering school are asking about my documentation and guides to getting work, handling immigration, and getting to grad programs in Europe. The US is going to see record breaking brain drain.

Last weekend I used a scrubber to delete every post and comment from my 15 year old Reddit account, then deleted the account, so I’ve finally burned the boats on the move. Lemmy is perfectly fine as it is. It’ll ebb and flow for users, but I’ve been happy for a year here now.

The US administration did disband/downsize (who can tell anymore since they’re being illegally secret about government doings) the agency who develops the annual GDP numbers. In the future it will all be made up numbers to suit their immediate goals.

1984 here we go.

I’m glad the people of Germany had a last minute swing to Die Linke. That got Die Linke solidly over the 5% and into Der Bundestag as a party. The next few years will hopefully have that momentum continue.

The leadership also needs to figure out how to address issues on the far right and undermine the AfD momentum. Letting a new Nazi party into a position of control is a possible nation ender for Germany.