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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • There is a pretty good reasons why shopping local is better in the long run:

    The money you put in stays local in large parts or entirely and keeps the comminuty alive, paying peoples jobs, who in turn pay other people once they buy local.

    Large companies siphon the communities wealth away until there is nothing left, before closing shop and running of to the next victim, leaving empoverisht people behind.

    The effect is compounding. The more local shops close, the more other jobs dissappear and the less people have. Then they are forced to move away or buy less in general. Other firms cant hold their workers and have to cut down wages, or let people go due to reduced business operstion because no one can afford their services, continuing the spiral.

    At the end of that process, all you will find are dollar-stores and junkfood-chains in your area. It happened a few times already and the effect is well understood.

    TLDR: Shopping local is good for the community, buying everything online is siphoning money away from it instead.








  • Just in case, I assume this opion is brought forth in good faith.

    While you could might be correct on paper, the reality is that between “Helping prevent Genocide” and “Anything else” is much clearer.

    Does that make you a russian bot? I would say yes, it does. Because there is no middle ground here, no “enlightend centrist”, towering over us plebs who care for human lives not being devastet.

    Maybe the Ukrain Goverment has a problem with corruption, hell I agree it probably does. Every Government has to deal with this.

    What not every Goverment has is an active Genocide waged against its people.

    Having corruption does not excuse to allow Genocide. And stading idly by is doing just that!


  • Personal Comment on the matter and living through it all in Germany

    This whole thing was a long ass nightmare…

    A lot of conservative politicians and our far-right parties wantes this to be canned and instead asked for a more restrictive policy.

    The CSU (Bavarias special version of the CDU) already founded a dedicated new ministery for “extremly restrictive interpretation of the new laws”. Thats how bad the f***ing right-wingers are about this progreasive approach! Im to tired to search for the source on that right now, if someone else could to that, I would greatly appreciate it.

    Its still hard to believe. Even now it feels very surreal that, within a few days, the technically still existent damocles-sword of illegallity will be gone. This whole law was passed around, rewritten, ammended and changed so often, many thought it would never even pass within our lifetimes, if at all.

    Even today, there was so much interest and tension in this thing, the streaming-server broadcasting the vote just cracked under the storm of viewers wanting to see how this would go down.

    Thanks to all the people who tirelessly pushed for this. Your work made this happen and you deserve all the praise in the world for it. I hope we can archive more things like this in the comming future.

    Usually we Germans are very hesitant to be proud of our country, for very obvious hystorical reasons. But I feel we can make an exception for this one.

    Because Im proud of my country for once! Good job!



  • All the evidence we have definitivly proofs, that gender affirming care for minors is reliable, safe and effective.

    If anyone tells you otherwise, they just lie. And at this point, not knowing this basic fact is just an admission of ignorance at best. Because I can google that in 5 minutes and drown in research-findings, that are easy enough to read. Also this “issue” is so present in general media, not having heard of it is practically impossible.

    I just wish news-outlets would start mentioning that fact in the headlines. This is not a debate, and never has been.

    Its one side having the truth, while the other side is, again, full of lies and harmfull intent.

    Like every time with conservatives: The cruelty is the point. They just hate you. They want you dead.