(And Russian)

AfD in Saxony-Anhalt

Yes, I’ve heard of that. I’ve also heard that they vary much in, eh, ideological climate in different states. So - it may be just a result of them being a populist party.

I would provide a source, but it’s in German

That’d be fine, I can’t write and speak in German, but a wee bit better at understanding texts.

They speak like Nazis,

Not really, I’ve actually took a lot of interest in how Nazis really spoke when I was 15 years old. It was a weird time in my life, so wanted to know more closely things surely known to be evil and good to recognize evil and good in my surroundings.

(Thinking of Klemperer’s book.)

“Antisemitic and xenophobic” statements are not limited to Nazis, while some specifically Nazi traits of speech I can see being more popular, but really not limited to AfD and the likes. Even here one can encounter such.

they act like Nazis.

I don’t think they’ve started killing their opponents on the streets yet, or forming paramilitary groups.

doesn’t mean they are harmless or that calling them out for what they are would “water down the term ‘Nazi’”

You may be right, but parties and entities more similar to Nazis in other parts of the world usually were pretty open about their intentions from the very beginning, while AfD doesn’t send the same signals.

Congrats, you are smarter than most people talking about regulations.

Nazis will also never come back. What, they soon are the biggest party in Germany, in other countries too?

Calling AfD Nazis is an exaggeration watering down the term.

I’m not saying actual honest-to-God Nazis are not coming back. In fact, I’m sure they are, no evil is ever defeated forever. Time to cast away stones and time to collect stones.

Imagine a girl you like putting a hand on your shoulder, looking into your eyes, saying some gentle word I don’t quite remember due to being mesmerized by those eyes, and you know what I did? I just looked back uneasily for a few seconds, then nervously took her hand off my shoulder, shook it a bit, released it and awkwardly smiled. (That even wasn’t her last attempt to make me happy against my best efforts ; ended bad anyway.)

There are many things further down the road to go wrong with attractive popular girls. 2 most catastrophic cases in my life are with those such as them.

Admittedly I’m the one who mainly failed them due to misunderstandings and passiveness, but when a girl (being all that popular) is used to boys being rather active and competitive and social, and then you are here just cause she happened to like your looks, this may end painfully, for you more than for her.

There are also cases from the post, only I may have noticed, just wouldn’t risk losing an existing good friendship for possible romance.

Exactly.

Yes, the thing is - it’s a choice.

I’d be using Gentoo if not for installing software being something you have to plan for.

In some sense this would even seem an advantage of Windows. (I know it’s the fundamental reason for many hangs and freezes, but the idea that a file is a lockable resource doesn’t seem that bad.)

Some even Paradox ones. One can waste many-many hours in CK:DV with Mappa Regnorum mod, for example. Though CK2 is more complex, it lacks the relative simplicity and clarity.

Yeah, but that’s because of building upon open systems, not because of consciously following something.

Empathy is not universal. You persuade yourself that somebody is miserable, annoying, weak, unpleasant, and you are not empathetic to them anymore.

Well, at least I feel myself to be weird for not doing that and preventing myself from doing that.

things that might seem like obvious choices now

Not anymore.

I mean, it beats moderate intensity artillery shelling…

Even for alpha testing TBF.

What about footage from every war in the last decade or so?..

They (those who wrote the article and those making such warnings) are just trying to stay in trend.

Further you just imagined something and heroically defeated the fruit of your imagination, I’ll leave you to it.

Just go on.

Now when I think about it, the chronologically last Blizzard games I’ve enjoyed were WarCraft III TFT and old WoW on pirate servers. (My favorite is Tides of Darkness, obviously)

So - I don’t know in which direction would things be turning around, what is there left even since those times?

I’m not talking about mobilization, FFS.

In the words of the IRA Israel only needs to miss once for Hamas to get an attack off

What happened is not “missing once”.

Further you just imagined something and heroically defeated the fruit of your imagination, I’ll leave you to it.