napoleonsdumbcousin

At least at the moment they seem to get it. We will have to see how it evolves.

Well yes, but I don't see data retention of IP adresses and real-time scanning of the content of private chats as necessarily the same topic. Obviously they are both bad, but they are different things, which is also reflected by the parties having very different views on both.

Resistance to mandatory chat control seems to be the one thing that every current german party agrees on. Even the literal Nazis of the AfD voted against it. The point of discussion in Germany was always if there should be a voluntary chat control, not if there should be a mandatory chat control.

A shift away from that position across party lines would be very hard to orchestrate and I can't see that happening anytime soon.

I don't follow your argument. They repeatedly tried to use the expiration to generate pressure to come to a fast agreement. The pressure is gone now and so is a big reason why this topic was discussed so often in the first place. It will be harder for the advocates now to explain to the rest of the member states why it should be put back on the agenda. Countries like Germany are still against mandatory scanning and have no reason to engage in a discussion about it now.

The only thing that is lost now is the chance for all of this to expire, but that was always very unlikely.

Sorry, but that is completely false.

This is about extending the temporary regulations that are already in effect right now. The current proposal is basically an indefinite extension of this temporary regulation from 2021 that would have expired in April 2026 otherwise:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R1232

Services are currently allowed to scan you if they want to. It is clearly stated that no service is required to scan. It is shit, but it is also literally just the status quo. Nothing changes.

Edit: Here the current proposal. It (after criticism by member states) explicitly states the following:

Nothing in this Regulation should be understood as imposing any detection obligations on providers.

page 12 https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2025/11/2025-11-13_Council_Presidency_COREPER_CSA-R_Partial-mandate_15318.pdf

Whatsapp already legally scanned for years, because the proposal is just an indefinite extension of this temporary regulation from 2021 that would have expired in April 2026 otherwise:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX%3A32021R1232

Services are currently allowed to scan you if they want to. It is shit, but it is also literally just the status quo. Nothing changes.

After they finally got back the subjects would get together every few years to relive the good old days without him.

The linked article in the post claims that the crew never met again until the person filming the documentary tracked some of them down.

They had not met since the Peace Project docked in Mexico 43 years earlier, so the reunion was poignant.

For the record if anyone here wants to find them easier: they are sold as Stacked Chips / Stapelchips under the "Snack Day" label. They are produced by "Europe Snacks", a French company.

Edit: Another possible alternative are "Surf Chips" by Fritoper, a Spanish company. (Sold in a Netto near me). Although personally I don't like their taste.

Apparently Aldi also has their own brand, but I have no experience with those.

But it would be a very showing sign if you started listing the steps Trump is taking to do so! Oh you can’t because he isn’t? Oh

Oh I can. Everybody with eyes and ears can. And you are lucky I have nothing to do for a moment.

Let's take your own list.

Fascism is characterized by a dictatorial leader (kinda one tick, he wants to be but isn’t ), centralized autocracy(nope, he holds no absolute authority),

You said it yourself, he openly wants to be a dictator. He directly said that he wants to stay president in at least a third term. And that elections will not be needed in the future. And we know he is obsessed with personal loyalty. And from a german perspective I can tell you that the powers that a regular US president has are already borderline dictatorial at best. Executive orders, ordering military actions without oversight, full legal immunity, pardons, most of the "checks and balances" can just be ignored as Trump does, etc. Those things are insane and it is a wonder that no US president ever transformed the USA into a full dictatorship. He does not have to take any steps towards becoming a dictator, because the only necessary step is declaring that there are no term limits. The rest of his powers are already at a level that wannabe-dictators in other countries dream of. And here you have a guy that openly tells you what he wants to do with those.

militarism(no, wants to conquer but can’t),

when he came to power he immediately ordered a military parade and tried to pressure other countries to join the USA (Greenland, Canada). Do you think Hitler just decided to invade a neighbour one morning? No, it was preceded by a lot of pressuring those same neighbours and internal propaganda to prepare the populace for war.

forcible suppression of opposition(nope),

he deployed the national guard in cities that had large protests against him. He encouraged censoring people that spoke against him on television. Yesterday he threatened to specifically hurt democratic states if the democrats do not agree to his budget plan.

belief in a natural social hierarchy(nupe),

His racism and misogyny are not enough for you? You need super-racism?

subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race(nope, only his interest),

do you know what the word "perceived" means? The "interest of the nation" is just a pretext to rally support for personal interest and it has been the same in the 1930s

and strong regimentation of society and the economy(hahaha, no)

Historians and other scholars disagree on the question of whether a specifically fascist type of economic policy can be said to exist. David Baker argues that there is an identifiable economic system in fascism that is distinct from those advocated by other ideologies, comprising essential characteristics that fascist nations shared.[302] Payne, Paxton, Sternhell et al. argue that while fascist economies share some similarities, there is no distinctive form of fascist economic organization.[303][304][305] Gerald Feldman and Timothy Mason argue that fascism is distinguished by an absence of coherent economic ideology and a lack of serious economic thinking. They state that the decisions taken by fascist leaders cannot be explained within a logical economic framework.[306] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism

So according to your logic Hitler only became a fascist once he completed restructuring the state to fit his ideology. Before that he was not a fascist?

I'll stay far away from management. :)