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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Once this has been implemented, something worse can be implemented.

    I don’t like these slippery slope arguments. You might as well reduce it to any legislation.
    Once people are allowed to make laws, bad people can make bad laws.
    Which is why we must continue to vote in the right people, not abandon the concept of laws.

    In this case, I don’t doubt that copyright infringement and general censorship are on some people’s agenda.
    But this current proposal is bad enough itself and should be opposed because of that and not because someone might make other, even worse proposals in the future.


  • This principle is called Richtlinienkompetenz (directive competence). He or she can basically order members of his cabinet what to do.

    It should be noted, that this doesn’t allow the Chancellor to micromanage the Ministers.
    The Chancellor can set the political agenda and make high level decisions but Ministers have some degree of constitutionally ensured independence in how exactly they implement policies.


  • Tbf, it sounds like neither side did a stellar job here.

    Poland not reacting “for several hours” makes it sound almost deliberate.
    Then again, I wonder how German police “informed” Poland for there to be no reaction. Did they fax?
    If they think the situation requires an immediate reply, why not call them? Surely a dedicated border patrol unit would have a contact number.
    Also, despite Schengen I don’t think police can just cross the border to another state unless in pursuit of some fleeing criminal.
    And just dumping these people in some random location without any involvement of local authorities doesn’t seem like proper protocol.




  • Inflation “going down” doesn’t mean there is no more inflation. It only means that there is less inflation than before

    Keep in mind that “inflation going down” is usually shorthand for the year-on-year inflation rate going down.
    If the yoy inflation rate goes down from one month to the next, then prices are still higher than previous year but may very well have fallen since last month.