Which is just another reason why the aversion to immigration on display by such large parts of EU society at the moment is just so freaking dumb and counterproductive.
In the post shared by Musk, the account lamented the presence of humanitarian groups in the Mediterranean Sea that rescue migrants from distressed vessels....
Because it rarely really solves the actual problem while creating a lot of spill on damage and possibly furthering violence. See the US war on drugs or Duterte’s mass executions in the Philippines for very drastic examples.
Okay, and what would “incredibly enforcing it” look like in your opinion?
You could establish longer criminal sentences. But longer sentences generally don’t have a higher deterent effect and you just end up with people who have been isolated from society longer or are harder to integrate.
You could make it easier to arrest people/have criminal proceedings, but that will also mean more innocent people will be subjected to harsh measures and grow disdainful of the police.
You could increase police presence in general. But that is also likely to harbour mistrust and have more people subject to unfair scrutiny and would probably to little to prevent the crimes we are talking about here.
And mind you, all these measures will be much more likely to target migrants who already might have a not too rosy view of law enforcement and general society, so you’re always risking exacerbating the same societal issues that are also contributing to the crimes.
And if you look at societies in general, those with the harshest most authoritarian rules don’t really tend to be the most peaceful, crime free ones, but rather harsher rules and a harsher society tend to go in lockstep. Because violence and harshness tend to breed more violence and harshness and the fact that one of the sides enacting the violence is the state and the supposed “good guys” doesn’t magically change that.
Of course that doesn’t mean that there’s no place for harsher laws or tougher measures in certain situations ever. But it definitely means that the harder you hit, the more precise you have to be, if you don’t want things to fire back on you. Which is a lot easier said than done.
Longer sentences very generally don’t do much to deter crime. No criminal thinks things through with a calculator and goes “oh well, if doing this might get me into jail for three years, that’s a risk I’m willing to take. But ten years? Ouwie wowie, I better not do this then!” Most people don’t even think, care or know about the possible repercussions or think they will actually get caught.
Well that kinda depends on whether longer sentences are more or less likely to make someone recommit crimes. If it’s the former you might just end up with more people committing crimes.
Nur weil generative KI größtenteils Buzzword-Müll ist, sollte man mMn vorsichtig sein, dass jetzt rückwirkend auf alle KI-Technologien anzuwenden. Ich kann mir schon vorstellen, dass so eine eher klassische Muster erkennendr KI hier schon was bringen kann.
Yeah, it still seems a weird place to complain about it when this is actually a measure of moving the goalposts closer (2030 is certainly less than 10-20 years,) while other industrial nations like the UK and Germany are even backsliding.
I think it’s totally fair to criticize that it isn’t enough, because it isn’t. I just don’t see how engaging in hyperbolic scenarios and defeatism is supposed to help anything. I think it’s also okay to acknowledge when something is at least moving in a slightly less shit direction and use that as a source of encouragment to turn things around further, instead of just saying “well, this is shit”.
Ich denke, eine kohärente Desktoperfahrung zu haben, bei der alles die gleiche Designsprache hat, gut aussieht und auch leserlich ist ist was, was jeder will, oder?
Klar, nur das andere Leute halt andere Vorstellungen davon haben, was gut aussieht, ein kohärente und gut konzipierte Desktoperfahrung ausmacht etc.
Aber unabhängig davon, ob das jetzt gut ist oder nicht, ist das für ein Softwareökosystem, das stark auf freiwilliger Hobbyarbeit beruht und nicht unter der Herrschaft einer oder weniger Riesenfirmen steht schlicht und einfach nicht realistisch. Da macht halt im Zweifel jede Person das, was sie am liebsten mag und wenn sich jetzt du oder irgendeine andere Entität aufschwingt, zu bestimmen, was jetzt wie sein soll, vergrauelst du im Zweifelsfall halt einfach nur die Entwickler, die neben der teils ziemlich stressigen Arbeit, die sie in ihrer Freizeit erbringen, nicht noch zusätzlich von zig uninvolvierten Personen reinreden lassen möchten.
Libadwaita finde ich tatsächlich sehr cool. Sieht hübsch aus und selbst ich als jemand, der kaum programmieren kann, hab’s damit hingekriegt eine einfache App zu bauen.
Generell finde ich, dass Gnome viel richtig macht im Moment und in manchen Sachen selbst kommerziellen selbst Windows und Mac voraus ist.
Persönlich stört’s mich aber auch nicht, dass ich ein paar Programme mit ganz anderem Design auf dem Desktop habe.
Die CDU-Fraktion im thüringischen Landtag sorgt innerparteilich erneut für Kritik. Nachdem sie Mitte September zusammen mit AfD und FDP eine Senkung der Grunderwerbsteuer durchgesetzt hat, will sie nun Gender-Schreibweisen verbieten lassen. Sehr zum Ärger der Bundes-CDU. Denn es ist wieder mit Unterstützung der AfD zu...
The premise of your argument is that all people living in Catalonia consider themselves exclusively Catalonian. In reality some of them don’t even consider themselves Catalonian, let alone exclusively Catalonian. What’s your answer to them?
What kinda weird point is that and how is that the premise of my argument? This is exactly why you hold a referendum to find out whether enough people actually support it. I’m arguing for the ability of people to choose their own fate in a democratic manner. Not pro or contra independence.
Also, “If people vote on something, some people will also vote against it and have choices enacted they don’t like” isn’t a sign of something being anti-democratic. It’s how democracy works. So I’m pretty sure that my point is consistent here.
An independence vote should maybe not just be a simple majority, I think at least more than 2/3 like what is usually required for a change in consitution would make sense. But other than that, you’re just describing how democracy works. Just about no western country is a homogenous group. There are always people of wildly different background and with wildly different views and they often get rules imposed on them they don’t like. This is already happening right now. So are you against current countries running democratically as well? You’re arguing that a presumed minority of non-independence voting Catalonians will feel disenfranchised, but you’re at the same time perfectly fine with the presumed majority of Catalonians feeling disenfranchised right now? How does that make sense? If you’re arguing for minimizing disenfranchisement, your point is clearly inconsistent.
The only way to minimize those frictions for a society that can only function in organized groups is to make the units of self-determination relatively small. So yes, I absolutely think that every geographical region that wants to hold an independence referendum should do so. Why not? There’s nothing speaking against that. If your concern is that many people might have rules voted on them they don’t like than you should be for each individual’s votes counting as much as possible.
Also, there’s nothing saying that if a country goes independent, there can’t be some transitional rulesets, where people can potentially switch nationality, lived by mixed rules for a while etc. I absolutely think that in such cases there should be some rulesets in place to ease the transition and give people some choice. But all that only makes sense if we have some consensus about where the majority of a region wants to go. Which Catalonia isn’t even allowed to officially find out where they stand and start negotiating about that.
Maybe it could be gerrymandered to shut up the whining minorities?
How do you gerrymander a region deciding about its independence? If the regional borders for a referendum are “arbitrarily” drawn (all borders are) in a way that 95%+ or whatever support independence, that just means that you just minimized the amount of people who would feel disenfranchised by that decision, which is what you made your main point of concern. Gerrymandering only can be done (maliciously) when te seats/votes for a plurality of administrative units is determined in a first past the post voting system. None of that has any relevance for or applies to an independence referendum.
So basically any time a group of politicians decide they don’t like the laws then they don’t have to follow them and can do whatever they want? Big Trump supporter huh?
I didn’t say anything like that and I don’t think it’s that hard to get my point. There’s a difference between any random law and laws that obstruct democratic self-determination or violate human rights. I’ll engage with the rest of your comment if you take back your dumb strawmanning and calling me a Trump supporter for no good reason. I think any discussion should be based on a basic commitment to sincerity.
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