In its justification, it commits itself to the principles of the #Fediverse and #OpenScience:
"Freie Universität Berlin has been present on Mastodon since December 2022. #Mastodon is part of the decentralized Fediverse network. Compared to large commercial social networks, Mastodon relies on chronological feeds and reduces the algorithmic sorting of posts. This ensures that information is always openly available and reduces the likelihood of so-called filter bubbles forming."
#France 's main #FarRight party said it will no longer sit in the #EU parliament with the #AfD faction, indicating it had lost patience with the controversies surrounding its German allies. The head of the AfD's list in the polls, Maximilian Krah, had said in a weekend interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica that someone who had been a member of the SS was "not automatically a criminal". Pierre Benazet reports from Brussels. #Germany https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNnQcLVch6s #FarRight#Germany#France
Yesterday's Russian attack on the #Kharkiv region, which killed and injured people, destroyed a printing press and burned 50,000 books, shows that Russia is at war with humanity and all aspects of normal life.
Russian terrorists kill adults and children, destroy cities and villages, leaving scorched spots where normal life once was. Another day of Putin's genocide... 8 killed and dozens wounded in this atrack. Please, speak up for Ukrainians. They need our help. 🙏
Yesterday's Russian attack on the #Kharkiv region, which killed and injured people, destroyed a printing press and burned 50,000 books, shows that Russia is at war with humanity and all aspects of normal life. Russian terrorists kill adults and children, destroy cities and villages, leaving scorched spots where normal life once was. Another day 8 killed and dozens wounded in this atrack. Please, speak up for Ukrainians. They need our help. 🙏
Crazy if you think about it. Afd , extreme right party in second place , in Germany. The country that experienced the NSDAP, Hitler etcetera #exitpoll#afd#germany
American historian Timothy Snyder compares the current situation in #Ukraine with the year 1938 in #Czechoslovakia. "If the #Czechs had resisted Nazi #Germany then, there would have been no World War II. When Ukraine surrenders, we move to 1939. Ukraine helps us extend 1938,"
Ich trinke ausschliesslich Leitungswasser, es wird in Deutschland strenger kontrolliert als Flaschenwasser. Viele wissen das leider nicht und kaufen deshalb schlechteres Flaschenwasser.
"The southern states of #Bavaria and #BadenWürttemberg have been inundated, causing #DamBursts and prompting dramatic rescues. States of emergency have been declared in several areas with more heavy rain expected."
German Chancellor Scholz and French President Macron showed their joint support for Ukraine during a Franco-German defence and security council in Meseberg on Tuesday.
French President Macron outlined that French weapons sent to Ukraine, including long-range missiles, were permitted to target bases inside Russia.
#ClimateDiary Germany floods: Firefighter dies during rescue in Bavaria
A firefighter was killed when the rubber dinghy he was riding on capsized during severe flooding and at least two people are missing in south Germany as the region braces for more rainstorms. DW has the latest.#Floods#Germany
1/ Okay, while the Trump verdict has been very riveting, I'd like to talk about failure states in democracies for a bit.
Any stable democracy needs peaceful transfers of power. If a ruling government loses in an election and thus loses power, they are free to moan about it - but in the end, they should leave office without violence because (unless they screwed up bigly) they realize that they will likely return to power one day. They are invested in the system, and do not want to overthrow the basic democratic order of their country - because it works for them.
Thus, a country needs multiple parties with an investment in democracy, who are willing to form a government - but who are also willing to leave peacefully. If this is not the case, then the democracy in question is in a failure state.
An good (or rather, very very bad) example of a "proportional representation" democracy in a failure state was the late Weimar Republic. Starting in 1932, the NSDAP (Nazis) and the KDP (Communists) received a majority of the vote and thus representatives. Both wanted to overthrow the Republic and its democracy in its own way, and thus it became impossible to form a democratic government - let alone switch between different ones. But the Weimar Republic had problems in this regard even earlier, since there were numerous miniscule parties with only a very small number of candidates. They only cared about a small number of issues, had no motivation to compromise, and thus were not willing to join a working government.
The self-styled prince at the heart of an alleged conspiracy-fuelled plot to attack #Germany 's parliament and topple the government rejected the accusations made against him as his trial opened. The group of alleged conspirators, which includes a former politician and ex-army officers, is accused of preparing a "treasonous undertaking" to storm the Bundestag and take MPs hostage. Nick Holdsworth reports from Berlin. #coup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J5N3gzAHMo