What we are seeing with those “palestine protestors” is the rise of a militant, extremist group that is commiting serious crimes. Today they were trying to occupy another Berlin university. Did massive property damage, showed Hamas symbols, showed antisemitic banners, sprayed antisemitic graffiti and so on. This is not the first act like this

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/erneute-besetzung-an-der-berliner-hu-polizei-raumt-horsaal--dutzende-anzeigen-gegen-palastina-aktivisten-13553092.html

There are attacks on cafés:

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/auseinandersetzungen-mit-nahost-bezug-frau-beschimpft-mitarbeiter-der-kneipe-bajszel-in-neukolln-13504810.html

They are seriously threatening journalists. In this case they put posters up with his picture, a Hamas symbol and are threatening to murder him.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/morddrohung-gegen-taz-journalisten-sie-glauben-keiner-wurde-sie-zur-rechenschaft-ziehen-13554487.html

Those are only the news from today. If you search on local news sites, you will find more serious crimes and terrorism. Nothing of that will help anybody in Gaza.

I personally do not believe anything they are saying. They have lied about their case before in their Guardian article and there really is a big legal difference between protesting and showing support for a terrorist organisation like Hamas.

I really would like to try those glasses. They sound cool. But at $500 they are too expensive for an impulse and there is no place around where one can try those offline

It looks really goofy, but I like the concept. That gives your carpal tunnel hands a pause. Or it might free your hand so that you can type with two hands and still use the mouse. It also might help people who lost a hand or arm.

I really do not want anything innovative in my phone TBH. Android works ok and the heavy lifting is done with apps. I really don’t want Google to move more crappy features into the OS and I really do not need stuff like those LIDAR sensors modern iPhones have. Just give me a smartphone with several years of security updates, enough speed to run my programs without issues, give me a good camera and I’m fine.

I’m sure that the Trump administration won’t report correct inflation data, but that will be a wild ride for Americans

Ok, let me explain how the german system works:

• After the vandalism, some “protestors” were arrested and some protestors tried to stop the police from arresting them. Those four were part of that and that is a crime.
• If you take a look at the relevant news about this, officials of course said that they will be charged
• Police will investigate the crime and they also might show up at your doorstep and search your room or take your phone and computers.
• Prosecutors will build a case from this evidence. That will take some time as all evidence has to be collected and so on
• If prosecutors are deciding to charge you after reviewing the evidence, you will get a letter in the mail with those charges
• You will also get a date for your trial. That date will be in most cases several months or years after the crime itself. Courts are kind of overloaded, but the state is also giving you time to search for a lawyer and time to prepare a defense
• Then the trial will happen

There is due to privacy concern no communication about the charges to the public. I know that the US works differently, but we do not have a public list that says “Hans Müller charged for driving drunk” , “Peter Meier charged for beating his wife” or “Claudia Maschmeyer charged for bank robbery”.

So where are we:

• They have commited crimes for political reasons
• There might be a charge being prepared or they even might have it. We don’t know - officials are not allowed to talk about it and the protestors are obviously not telling the truth. So we do know nothing.
• They keeping to commit crimes for political reasons
• The State is using a law to kick out foreigners who are commiting crimes

And there is due process: They had their time to follow the order (as you can read in the article) and they are able to sue against that order.

“pro-genocide germans”? Seriously?

We’ve discussed the same topic in several threads already. And this one is really a new low. The issue at hand is that they are suspected of being involved in a violent occupation attempt of a university building that caused 100.000€ in damages and during which employees were threatened. Everything they say in their long article about this is “due to allegations around my involvement in the pro-Palestine movement”.

That, my friends, is called a lie.

Subcontracting is a way to skip around labor laws. It should be banned or regulated more heavily.

It is something to fight against the constant distraction of modern tech. It’s hard to write a novel when social media is just a click away, your friends are chatting in your group, you’re getting news alerts from everywhere and you even might fall into a wikipedia hole while researching about mongol tribes. So there really is a use case for devices who are only able to do one thing.

(it’s kind of the same with phones: Get a dedicated camera and go on a walk and you won’t be distracted be someone whatsapping you)

Yeah. I run Wordpress on my personal blog, but after this I won’t use it for future projects. A community fork without all that stupid Jetpack shit would be great

It still is their choice that they willingly started that violence. And let’s be honest: If you want to protest against the war or even maybe try to find a way to find a way for peace in the middle east, violent destruction of a german university building is not the way

I think the issue is not a peaceful occupation. Those are happening quite frequently, but the massive destruction they did. I participated in some occupations during my studies and that went without any damage. People did occupy a lecture hall or some university building, but left it without doing six-figure damages or threatening employees. That was quite a different thing here and therefore is handled differently.

Exactly this. We knew that everything would get shaky after he fired all those people and a data leak is the consequence

Hey Saleh, you’re modding /c/nahost and therefore know about the FU attack, which is the real issue here. This is not about someone shouting “From the river to the sea”, this is about a violent group of Hamas supporters causing 100.000€ of property damage. There is no country in the world that wouldn’t kick out foreigners doing that.

https://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/informationen/fup/2024/fup_24_206-versuchte-besetzung/index.html

https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/bildung/fu-berlin-uni-beschaeftigte-schildern-attacken-durch-pro-palaestina-aktivisten-a-39d1d797-b2c5-47cf-8b5b-9914cfdd7408

I’m not really sure that we Germans have decided that.

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Just a question for people here who do not have 72 hours of food stored in their homes? Do you go to the supermarket every day? Or do you cook at all? What are you doing on the weekend? What happens when you’re sick and can’t go shopping?

I really would like that everybody who is proposing a german nuclear bomb would also explain where Germany should test its new bomb. Bavaria? Mecklenburg? Erzgebirge?

That is so wrong, dude. Come on!