It is far from solved. They don't round up all the instigators, but all they don't like. At https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/de/service/laender/elsalvado... (travel warnings from the german ministry of foreign affairs) Germans with tattoos are advised to cover them. Because the El Salvador police forces will persecute them. They don't need a court or evidence, for them anyone with a tattoo is a criminal.

If that is your definition of "solving", then I don't know.

IMHO such a thing can be a first step of a solution. Social reforms, resocialization etc are mandatory follow up steps to reach a stable, non-violent society.

Also: whole schools went to the demonstrations. Pupils and teachers (because they don't like to work in marode buildings either). And we cannot claim that all the pupils and all of the teachers of a school are communist.

But yes, the communist party in France has about 43000 members. But we nation has 66.7 million people. So we shouldn't give this few radicals more influence than they deserve. If anything, the populist right is way more influential and numerous.

Somehow in France the demonstrations have a way higher likelihood to get violent than e.g. in Germany. Just think of the yellow vest demonstrations. Also, the french police is known to be violent, too. Perhaps they don't follow the de-escalation strategies the german police often (not always!) follow? In France, demonstrators lost a hand, teeth, an eye due to police force. That's certainly not as bad as the 9220 people killed by US police in 2024. But for Europe, it's a quite stark expression of government violence.

We must also understand that the majority of journalists are like the Demonstrators from the Harry Potter universe. They life of emotions. Often they artificially create them. I mean, why show a picture of 20000 people just holding up posters --- in a language you won't often be able to read --- if I can show a picture of 4 people torching down a car?

There are simply too many conflicts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...

And your claim "when Americans are attacked by Israelis" is IMHO also misleading. As if "attacking americans" is anything special.

I mean, your (and mine!) government did nothing when "americans" attacked ...

* Iraq based one fabricated lies? (Actually my government told the USA that their single witness talking about WMDs is a lunatic and should not be believed). Around 500000 people died directly or indirectly due to this war. That's a number of the University of Washington, so not some propaganda number. And yet, due to the killings of the 9/11 --- which was "only" 2996 deaths --- many countries went into mass hysteresis. But for the 500000 people died in Iraq we only have a shoulder movement? I'd even go so far and say that the rise of the ISIS was only possible because the USA created a might vacuum in Iraq.

* Now, the 9/11 attack by criminals made the USA call article 5 of the NATO statutes. As if a nation did attack them (it was a bunch of criminals). And they use that to bully others to attack Afghanistan. Now, no people of Afghanistan took part in the 9/11 attack. And the leader of that attack, bin Laden, wasn't even there. He was in Pakistan. And no full scale war was needed to get him, a commando ops was all it needed.

* If the WMDs in Iraq as a lie to make war wasn't the only one the USA did to have a reason to attack. They also fabricated the tonkin incident. Do you know that even today babies get born with gene defects in Vietnam due to Agent Orange? What does your government do about that?

* Iraq wasn't the only regional conflict with USA participation where the people were in a worse state then even under a cruel dictator. The other that comes to mind is Libya. Till today, the power vacuum created by the USA fuels a civil war, making life of people there miserable.

If governments were just and would act on all of this, then they would have made boycotts towards the USA like we now do this (rightfully!) with Russia.

It's just that humans aren't just and good. And so human government aren't good and just either.

Here is just one of them: https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/westjordanland-palaestinenser...

If you don't know german and translate the article, you'll learn that they speak about "at least 30 murdered by settlers". So even if you didn't notice the sequence of articles over the years, you can see from this one article that we don't talk about isolated singularities.

The topic is even covered by jewish outlets (and not favorable for the settlers!), e.g. https://www.juedische-allgemeine.de/meinung/siedlergewalt-ei...

The thing is that in Israel the central government is in a coalition with Nazis. Not german nazis, but jewish nationalist that have similar mind setting (e.g. valuing jewish live way higher than non-jewish life. Or having the idea that one needs "room to settle", this time not in east europe, but instead in the West Bank and Gaza strip.

And anther thing is similar: the german police was "Gleichgeschaltet" and didn't really persecute crimes. E.g. if one was so bold and to notice the police about crimes in the "Reichspogromnacht", then the police didn't follow up the e.g. arsonist crime, but instead the one reporting this to the police. And now in Israel, the minister of the interior (and thus boss of Police) is Moshe Arbel. Known for support of the settler movement. Or for declaring that the israel health sector mustn't treat palestinians anymore.

And so, the israel police no longer treat crimes against palestinians in the illegally occupied zones. Even when the wrong-doers enter Israel (so that the police becomes responsible again).

And, since these zones are occupied, not even the occupation force (the IDF) prosecute the settlers crimes. Most settlers are part of the IDF, they often use IDF weapons to do their crimes.

And therefore, the original people living there are now in a rightless position. If someone wants to study if anarchy is a nice government system, then one should look there.

The people holding power there (and that includes e.g. Hamas leaders, PLO leaders, various Israel leaders like from Shas party, or leaders of the settlers) hold part of their power BECAUSE of this conflict. Would the conflict go away, and the area become as boring as e.g. Austria, then their importance would have been reduced.

A powerful group there benefit from the ongoing drama.

One can be a christian believer and not like what the last absolutist monarch of the monarch (the Pope, monarch of the "Holy Chair" in the Vatikan) does. One can even be roman catholic and not like what the catholic church does, e.g. when they shushed sexual abuse of kids.

And so one can be a jew (religious) and not like what the Israel (secular) government does.

Actually, there are LOTS of sects in the jewish religion. One of them, the ultra-orthodox (actual: charedic) living in Israel, are now in the news. They are now supposed to also go to the military. But some subgroups (Neturei Karta and Edah HaChareidis) of them actually deny the existence right of Israel. Jews not liking the state of Israel, if you so will. They claim that Israel can only exist once the Messiah comes back.

So, one can say that these two subgroups "question" the israelic identity. But that is only a minority of them. The majority, e.g. all the millions that demonstrated against "Bibi" Netanjahu know quite well that a national identity and a religious stance / believe are two different things.

In Germany, in the DLF radio program, they have each friday a short news block made by jewish people. And they all the time conflate these two. They claim that people speaking against the Israel government are against jew, or even anti-semitic. Which is nonsense, see the millions of jewish people in Israel that demonstrated against "Bibi" ...

"Ah yes the nice EU experiment" is in a similar vein. I mean, the opposite is true, the EU parliament made it EASIER to shot wolfs:

* https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/woelfe-abschuss-eu-.... * https://www.bmleh.de/SharedDocs/Meldungen/DE/Presse/2025/250...

The first link is about the EU commission AFAIK the council of EU (not sure about the english term. I mean the gremium where representatives of the EU governments meet and decide on matters).

And the 2nd about the EU parliament.

So we have 3 different EU bodies work against the natural spread of wolfs.

They usually think in projects. Some project manager, some funds and some workers are assigned to a specific project. And than this project is followed through. Eventually the project is done (finished or dismissed). And all the allocation shifts to the next project.

This is e.g. the reason why most of the Android phones have so bad security. Even Qualcomm does the Android stuff on their chips only project wise. Is the project done, then you'll get an Linux kernel from 2021 with this specific device. There will never be an update, even if this outdated Linux kernel has 20 known CVEs. The reason is simple: no PM allocated, no funds allocated, no workers allocated.

And such project-thinking also exists for other hardware chips, e.g. network or WIFI chips. Lots of development to get the thing "ready to market" --- which isn't necessarily to get it good --- and then almost nothing.

And this is the hardware the industry automation uses. Except that there some intermediaries in between, e.g. Kontron that make industry-grade boards. But even at that level you have the project structure. These boards are then used by the manufacturers of the industry automation which, who would have thought it, also mostly think in projects.

And this is the reason why the S in IoT stands for security.

People at various levels would need to switch to a process mode, away from project mode. And people at various management levels need find a way on how to sustain this financially.

I know one German retailer from their storage warehouse point of view (not from the actual stores!). I made the operating system of fork lift terminals and visited quite a lot of their warehouses. And inside their warehouse there is zero connection possible to the internet, they are completely shielded. Their firewall ONLY allows connection to their (locally running) warehouse software.

A warehouse usually have LOTS of outdated equipment, security wise. Barcode label printers 15+ years without any firmware update. Voice dictation systems based on Windows XP. Things like that ... but as they closed down any contact to and from these systems to the outside, this is of little interest to them.

I'm living in europe and listen to many political news, both domesstic and abroad. And I never heard anyone saying that they actually want to invade "europe", at least not as a hole.

There are analyzers --- but not at EU "establishment" level, whatever that might be --- that claim that Russia, after 4+ year long regeneration phase after the Ukraine war might invade parts of Estonia. Already they started with some hybrid stuff there, with some new "people's republic Narva" drawn out of a magic hat.

Also, there is no need to "reboot" EU manufacturing. For example, Germany had the highest export numbers it ever had in June, 139 billion euro in just one month.

Other than that: Russia is estimated to have lost 1.5 million people already in this "3 day special military operation". No one in his right mind assumes that they can start another thing like now.

They however have gained LOTS of skills on what works and works not, military. E.g. the trickle-in strategies, glide bombs, drone warfare works. A navy without support, tanks and even airspace superiority attempts don't work.

What e.g. german military generals say is: Russia is already in a hybrid conflict (they didn't use "war" as word) with Germany. One can see this by attempts to destabilize the society, by very high level of espionage (said to be higher than during cold war times), to drone reconnaissance jobs over military AND civil infrastructures (logistics, power, railway etc). And by the odd attack on things here, like people or weapon manufacturers.

Each summer now the atomic plants in France have to shut down (or at least reduce their power) since the rivers don't have enough cooling water anymore. The same happened to a lesser extend in Germany --- lesser extend because we made the wise decision not use bet one atomic plants anymore.

In Germany, the river "Rhein" is in the summer so low on water that tanker ships with oil and diesel can't have to reduce what they carry. As a result, even with out the USA creating yet-again-trouble (this time in the Straits of Hormuz) gas prices at the filling stations are a higher.

The last time I made holiday in upper italy they had warnings that the area 20 km north of these seas (Lago maggiore, Lago di Como, Lago Di Lugano) have too little water and tourists were discouraged to go there.

People know that it won't snow as reliably anymore in the Alps as it used to do. But they see this only as a problem with skying. But it also rains less. The glaciers are reducing each year. Once they are completely gone, the european rivers fed by them will have even less water.

Areas like the Spree from that article aren't however influenced by the Alps. But there you also have less rain. In the center of Germany is the "Edersee". It provides electric power is a nice tourist destination ... and each summer it is intentionally emptied (almost). Because the main job of the sea is to provide enough water for the Weser (a river going to Bremen) so that commercial ships can operate there.

That said, the Lake of Constance (shared by Switzerland, Germany and a bit of Austria) is at the deepest location 251 m deep. There is however nothing terrifying about that. And it's about twice as deep as your Portsmouth Mine.

Over here, the seas that are public for swimming are usually checked. Not just for acidic things from a mine. But in summer, when it's hot, for cyanobacters. And then they warn (e.g. on radio, in local TV news like "Hessenschau", on the web. And if there are organized beaches, then even with posters.

We have few actually dangerous ones. After a search, I only found the "Silbersee" in Bayern. That one has sulfuric fumes. And that reminded me that some vulcanic "Maar" sees in the Eifel (area next to Belgium) might be dangerous to to sulfur and CO2 since they are still a bit vulcanic active.

Ex-seas from mining companies that are still toxic are fenced off and not accessible.

Maybe if you're a US reader you don't know about the "fencing culture" difference between USA and Europe. In the USA, basically everything is behind a fence. I drove e.g. in Texas, New Mexico, Maryland: even the corn fields were behind barbed wire or other fences. This is totally not the case in Germany. Here by default things are accessible. Fields, Meadows, Forests ... by default no fences. Even if e.g. the forrest is private property. So if you, as a german, come to an area where the lake is actually fenced around, then this speaks loudly to you and your complications sensor.

Fichtel & Sachs (actually Ernst Sachs) invented the "Rücktritt" (is that back pedalling brake in english?), bike freewheeling and the combination of this, the "Torpedo Freilaufnabe". That one was so good that it was one of the first things the chinese copy-cats replicated. Copying as the highest form of attribution ...

However, the company diversified quite early, e.g. they made "Wankel" motors, one cylinder motors, hitches, shock absorbers etc. By 1980 the bike parts were just a rounding error in their accounting --- partially also due to the high amount of the car industry in Germany, where they were a supplier. And still, they bought other bike part suppliers.

To educate: socialism has nothing to with how influence the execute or legislative has. Nor has it anything to do with health insurance.

The central point of the ideology called "socialism" is that control of the state (not of private owners) over the "means of production". Like capital, land, workforce. To gain this control, socialism is keen to use force. They call it e.g. "dictatorship of the proletariat". Usually this leads to heavy oppression of the people, to some sort of police state. If you look at any real socialist country (like GDR, USSR, Yugoslavia, Cuba, North Korea) you'll always find it to some sort. Even in today's China the banks are still under government control, so "the party" has the ultimate say in everything.

You usage of "socialism" doesn't fit that at all. Perhaps you meant something that isn't fully libertarian?

My guess is the US people are badly educated these days. And thus easily influenced with false factoids coming from libertarian oligarchs like the Koch brothers.

And also it seems like they never heard about "social market economy" ... I mean, there is a spectrum between a fully socialist country like e.g. North Korea and a fully capitalist like ... actually we don't have one that is purely capitalist. Not even in the USA does the "market regulates everything".

And also I think that quite a few people never pondered about the idea that there are two words ("social" and "socialism") for a reason.

* "SBZ" -> Sowjetisch besetzte Zone -> sowjet occupied zone

* "Ost-Zone"

* "DDR"

* "Ost-Deutschland"

Almost no one spelled out "DDR" with "Deutsche Demokratische Republik", since that was a lie. There was little democracy there.

People that fled from east-germany early (e.g. before the wall) usually used "SBZ "or "Zone". And it was usually meant in a derogatory sense. "DDR" was more neutral, although few people in west-germany had a neutral view on the eastern regime.

Look at radio stations. We have SWR: Süd-West Rundfunk (south west) in Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Pfalz. We have WDR: Westdeutscher Rundfunk (west) in Nordrhein-Westfalen. We have NDR: Norddeutscher Rundfunk (north). In Niedersachsen, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Hamburg (not Bremen).

... and then we have Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (middle) in Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen.

And no one is in the east ...

The first sentence is true, and is what I know. The second economical leg of this sentence is new to me.

Basically, Hallstein Doctrine was what "One China" politics is. The BRD assume that is is the sole legitimate (since democratically elected) government. For example, someone from east germany fleeing to west german already had the (west) germanship citizenship, no paperwork needed to get it.

However, Hallstein doctrine had --- to the best knowledge ... very unspecified reactions. Germany e.g. stop diplomatic relationships with Cuba. But not economical ties, I know that my father continued to smoke Havanna cigars (eeeek!). They stopped diplomatic ties with Yugoslavia ... but all the Winnetou Films were recorded there, and it even became a holiday destination for west germans. Also all payments continued, it was not an economical embargo.

In the case of Egypt it could be seen like that. When Egypt accepted the state-hood of east-germany, then West-Germany broke it's diplomatic ties AND stopped its economical aid. I'm not aware of it stopping buying oil from Egypt, thought.

Fan fact: there is also two inverses of the Hallstein doctrine. The first one is the Ulbricht Doctrine. That doctrine mandated that socialist countries mustn't normalize their diplimatic ties to west-germany until it recognized east-germany.

And the second inverse is that other countries only saw west-germany as the legal succession of the 3rd Reich and even the german empire. So it was West-Germany had hat to fulfill contracts of that time. Except for the reparations. The USSR took (or stole) more stuff from East Germany than the western allied forces took from West Germany. About 30% of the industrial infrastructure was removed, e.g. 11800 km of railway tracks. And even after they stopped removing the infrastructure itself, they still demanded a percentage of the production.

Socialism is a political ideology centered (it's really at it's core!) the idea of "means of production must be in the hands of the people". In reality the "means of production" (capital, land, workforce) was in the hands of a small undemocratic elected ruling caste. But the core idea still prevails. In socialism banks were seized (capital), land was seized from the farmers and Kolchoses or LPGs (agricultural production cooperatives) were formed by force. Companies were seized and Kombinate" were formed. The underlying idea of all of this force is the "dictatorship of the proletariat", their way to tell themselves that cruelty and excessive physical and psychological force is okay, almost a must.

Right to repair has nothing to do with seizing capital, land, or pressing the workforce into mismanaged cooperatives.

Another central idea of socialism is the thinking of castes, err classes. Most notably the worker classes. That describes the situation in GB around the industrial revolution. But today? Won't fit in most countries.

Right to repair has nothing to do with working class. A professor (the "intelectual class") would also be able to repair his stuff.