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[Sheb]

(Lesen Sie hier die ganze Geschichte im neuen SPIEGEL.)

This link lead to a paywall. My German is a bit rough, so I might have missed a couple part, but this article doesn't really describe what that center would do, right?

[TempAcc]

:U, oh, the thing.

Do we have any Der Spiegel subscribers on board that could read it and give us a more detailed idea on the matter?

[smjjames]

Angling / angler is english as well. But yeah, angeln in German, and hengelen in Dutch. Fishing is a general term, angling is fishing with a line and fish hook (angle).
It's an old germanic word. Basically angel = pointy (curved) pin. We call an insect stinger an 'angel' as well for example.

What's your Dutch/German word for the English word for angels (that is, winged minor deities)? Just wondering out of curiosity.

:U, oh, the thing.

Do we have any Der Spiegel subscribers on board that could read it and give us a more detailed idea on the matter?

Not a Der Spiegel subscriber, but opening in new private window got around the paywall (ditto for NYT and WaPo). Fed the link to Google Translate. As Sheb said, it doesn't really explain what it would do, other than combat misinformation, but doesn't go into detail how. It also mentions that Russian-Germans and Turks/Turkish-Germans (well, it says Turkish speaking peoples) are vulnerable groups. While I can get how they might be vulnerable to propoganda, I don't see the point of targeting them when it's the whole of Germany that is at risk. Nobody here in the US AFAIK (outside of certain far-right wing circles perhaps) ever talked about targeting ethnic minorities for combating 'fake news'.

[martinuzz]

What's your Dutch/German word for the English word for angels (that is, winged minor deities)? Just wondering out of curiosity.

Engel in dutch, and in german as well. Different word root though (Classic Greek, ἄγγελος, messenger).

[Sheb]

Angling / angler is english as well. But yeah, angeln in German, and hengelen in Dutch. Fishing is a general term, angling is fishing with a line and fish hook (angle).
It's an old germanic word. Basically angel = pointy (curved) pin. We call an insect stinger an 'angel' as well for example.

What's your Dutch/German word for the English word for angels (that is, winged minor deities)? Just wondering out of curiosity.

:U, oh, the thing.

Do we have any Der Spiegel subscribers on board that could read it and give us a more detailed idea on the matter?

Not a Der Spiegel subscriber, but opening in new private window got around the paywall (ditto for NYT and WaPo). Fed the link to Google Translate. As Sheb said, it doesn't really explain what it would do, other than combat misinformation, but doesn't go into detail how. It also mentions that Russian-Germans and Turks/Turkish-Germans (well, it says Turkish speaking peoples) are vulnerable groups. While I can get how they might be vulnerable to propoganda, I don't see the point of targeting them when it's the whole of Germany that is at risk. Nobody here in the US AFAIK (outside of certain far-right wing circles perhaps) ever talked about targeting ethnic minorities for combating 'fake news'.

Because the nature of what we're worried is different. There has been fake news specifically targeted at Russo-German, the most famous exemple being the sotry of rape by migrant pushed by RT (Complete with complains by Lavrov that it wasn't being investigated).


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In other news, the head of the French socialist primary admitted to messing up with the votes to produce higher participation rate and generate better headlines. It's not clear what exactly happened and they claim that the results of every voting place if public so the final results shouldn't change, but they apparently reported vote total by just taking the percentage obtained on a portions of the voting place and extrapolating to the number of vote they wanted to get overall.

The socialist primary has had much less success than the current right-wing primary, or the 2012 left primary and the socialist party, already dragged down by Hollande and faced with a challenger from teh center in Macron doesn't want to look like no one care about it anymore.

[Sheb]

Carbyn has announced he'd push for a yes vote and I don't see many Tories voting no on this, so it shouldn't change much.


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In other news, it just transpired that the wife of presidential candidate François Fillion was paid as his parliamentary assistant whilenot doing anything, grabbing about 500.000 euros over 8 years.

[martinuzz]

Bastard turned his wife into a tax-deductable asset.

[Sheb]

He's a firm believer in traditional marriage between a man and a source of embezzlement. This put him so far at the head of the "Candidate with parliamentary scandal", in front of Le Pen and her 300.000 euros in money from the European parliament.

Now, I wonder if the socialist will manage to beat them.

[Loud Whispers]

Poortugal not allowed to take Iraqi refugees because favoritism, even though the refugees are being bullied by Sunni refugees

[Sheb]

Poortugal not allowed to take Iraqi refugees because favoritism, even though the refugees are being bullied by Sunni refugees

That's a misleading title. Greece don't want to let Portugal prioritize resettling Yazidis refugees currently in Greece because they're afraid that all Europeans countries will cherry-pick the refugees they are taking.

[Loud Whispers]

Poortugal not allowed to take Iraqi refugees because favoritism, even though the refugees are being bullied by Sunni refugees

That's a misleading title. Greece don't want to let Portugal prioritize resettling Yazidis refugees currently in Greece because they're afraid that all Europeans countries will cherry-pick the refugees they are taking.

Do you know what favoritism means

[Sheb]

Well, in this case it's less than someone think it's immoral to play favourite and more than Greece don't want to let others pick up the "nice" refugees leaving it to deal with the Sunni.

[TempAcc]

In today's news, yazidi refugees are fucked because the EU can't decide if saving yazidis from being murdered by muslims is discrimination or lack of discrimination
When reached for comment, portugal said "wat do?", greece said ">:C", ISIS said ":DDDD" and yazidis said "D:", more at eleven.

[Silverthrone]

The Yazidis suffer more misfortune by having the terrible judgment of being Christian. Who, lest we forget, can only persecute and not be persecuted. After all, [Horrible, unlikable bullshit church, Lower Bumblefuck, Bible Belt, USA] are speaking about persecution sometimes, during their lucid periods, which means, since all Christian movements through the world are the same and in the WBC spectrum, there is no persecution at all. Well, besides the persecution executed by them, naturally.
^{Why, yes, I do have quite the chip on my shoulder reguarding this phenomenon. Grumble grumble.}

Mind you, with the current state of the United Nations, they are jolly lucky that their suffering under Islamic rule has not been labelled as an exorcise in cultural enrichment...

I am quite "biased" (as much as one can reasonably be when it comes to matters like ethnic cleansing), of course, but the Yazidis ending up this horribly and irrevocably fucked because the "Ethnicities & Religions that are morally right" flow chart short cirquited again rather irritates me. The main irritant is that I think that the Islamic State and the movement it represents are, in the practical sense, identical to Nazism, in most things bar the tastes in beards. But it is not seen nor treated like Nazism would be, for some reason, even though they are so much alike, and about an equal threat to civilisation, the kind of civilisation worth having. It is awfully unfair, and the fact that it continues to trip up the Yazidis, even though it's been five or so bloody buggery years of this palaver now, is not surprising at all.

[LoSboccacc]

I don't think that's what happening, if you refer to the ones in Greece. Portugal is trying to call dibs on the yazidi because if EU decides for quota based redistribution (as Germany, Greece are now pushing) countries wouldn't, nor shouldn't, get a chance to pick. This way they can claim they have done their part already, while leaving behind the bulk of troublemakers.