Imo this is the most dangerous part rn. War is bad and everyone can see that, but propaganda on a global scale is very opaque and those who are targeted will usually not know, as it employs various forms of subtlety.
I get the other parts but why is there a target for 75% adoption of cloud and AI? It feels like solutions looking for problems instead of the other way around.
Recognizing that those goals are simply wrong should be one of those "basic digital skills" they talk about. I mean use cloud services and AI if you really need them, but it should not be encouraged.
Sorry for my ignorance, but what would the Model T be here? And why does it make this rocket obsolete? I don't know much more about the subject than I see in the press.
That's fine, but is that so essential right now that it can be compared to going from a horse-drawn carriage to a car? I mean, do you think there won't be room for disposable launchers anymore?
One can argue about having a disposable second stage (like Falcon-9) vs. full re-usability (like the upcoming Starship), as the latter is not very efficient fuel wise. But not having a reusable first stage just makes it way too expensive to be able to compete in the currently market dominated by the Falcon-9.
Shit. I noticed too late that the English version is paywalled (the German translation isn't). :(
DeepL re-translation into English
After weeks of silence regarding revelations about the Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) youth group, which praised Mussolini and far-right terrorists, Senate President Ignazio La Russa condemned the acts. Pressure is mounting on Giorgia Meloni, who remains silent on the matter.
In a Facebook post, La Russa, President of the Senate and co-founder of the Fratelli d'Italia, strongly condemned all forms of racism and anti-Semitism, adding that the incidents were contrary to the party's values.
The Italian news agency Fanpage carried out investigative research into the youth wing of the Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) and published undercover footage showing the Roman salute, young people praising Mussolini and chanting fascist slogans.
La Russa's statement came after a leading representative of the Gioventù Nazionale (Nationalist Youth) made anti-Semitic remarks about the Fratelli d'Italia senator and former spokesperson for Rome's Jewish community, Ester Mieli, in front of a hidden camera in the second part of the report.
"My sincere and warm-hearted solidarity goes to the senator and friend Ester Mieli, who has been the victim of unacceptable statements by some members of the Gioventù Nazionale," he wrote.
FdI changes position within a few hours
On Wednesday, Giovanni Donzelli, the head of the FdI organization, also changed his tone.
In the afternoon, he initially declared that he did not believe "the one-sided research of the radical left-wing press". The attempt to portray the Fratelli d'Italia as an extremist and nostalgic movement was pathetic, Donzelli said.
But in the evening, after the publication of the second part of the investigation, there was a U-turn and disciplinary measures were even announced.
"We repeat: There is no place for racists, extremists and anti-Semites at Fratelli d'Italia. The statements heard in the videos published today, regardless of the way they were recorded and published, are unacceptable and incompatible with the values of our political movement [...] Fratelli d'Italia will act with great determination against those responsible".
Meloni and public broadcaster in the spotlight
In light of the second video, which shows homophobia, racism, nostalgia for Benito Mussolini, sympathy for Adolf Hitler and National Socialism within the FdI youth group, the opposition continues to demand a statement from Giorgia Meloni on the fan page investigation.
Many are also calling for the public broadcaster Rai to broadcast the investigation, as it has been reported on all channels and in all newspapers except Rai.
In response, several associations and parties organized a demonstration in front of the Rai headquarters in Turin on Wednesday evening to show solidarity with the editorial team of RaiNews24. The latter had recently complained about the public broadcaster's lack of coverage of the investigation.
"If we can't watch it on Rai, then we'll watch it on Rai," was the slogan of the initiative, which showed the second part of the investigation on a big screen.
Oh the usual: Youth orgs of parties being a little more radical than their parent parties. Fratelli is a right-wing, self described "post-Fascist" party that, when behind closed doors, is celebrating Mussolini. Interior politics have included taking away adoption rights from LGBTQ parents,rolling back trans rights, and re-organizing state broadcasters.
Unfortunately, since Meloni is pro-Ukrainian and apparently charming, a lot of conservatives all over Europe (and in fact Biden too) have acted is if everything is A-OK.
Honestly, I think going down to city level is a brilliant idea. In my experience local politicians are much more likely to work together to achieve such a goal.
Yeah, it also allows to test different things as different cities have different challenges. And local solutions also make sense. Like heating homes using the waste heat from other locations, mini grids etc.
@poVoq our socialists and liberals also defeated* the far-right in EU Elections, but they are just a bunch of corrupt entitled fuckers, holding some conservative views themselves as well. Hope this is not also the case with Portugal.
the far right literally has more than one party in the parliament, with more MEPs than in the previous legislature!!!
Making them the 3rd largest party in the country is not exactly a defeat to the far right. I don't know why this rhetoric keeps popping up, but just because they had a down tick compared to our last general election here, does not "solve" the problem of a rising far right normalisation.
I wouldn't say that we make a better distinction between the two types of elections. I think what happened now was a "knee jerk reaction" to our last legislative elections in which we saw such a high increase of the far right.
That coupled with the fact that the main person leading the left vote was the former health minister that was largely responsible for guiding us through the pandemic, was a good push in that left vote mobilisation in my opinion.
That can be explained for reasons other than their support having fallen.
Portugal doesn't have any significant anti-EU feeling, probably because Portuguese Nationalism doesn't have the kind of delusions of grandeur (i.e. the "we're better than other Europeans" beliefs) that you will find in the Nationalism of the larger European countries (and which was very much what propelled Brexit in the UK) and hence the local Fascist far-right (Chega) don't really sell that specific type of fable whilst the ultra neoliberal far-right (Iniciativa Liberal) think leaving the EU would be "bad for business and hence bad for the business elites" (which is entirelly what they're about).
Since a lot of the electorate of the Fascists are old, backwards and quite ignorant people who really don't follow or care about anything outside Portugal, it makes sense that in the absence of an anti-EU message from their party they would simply not care enough to go vote in EU elections.
Meanwhile Iniciativa Liberal, the other far-right party, are far more Technocratic and internationalists (their politics are literally importing a version of the American model on steroids - one even more Reaganist than Reagan - to replace the European-style social safety net) so their voters are just as much or more likely to vote in the EU elections as everybody else and hence they've actually increased their vote a lot percentage-wise (more than double) and even in absolute terms (12% more votes than in the last Parliamentary elections, which had a lot less abstention than the EU elections).
I wouldn't call this good news, though I definitelly agree with you that people are making "a bit more of a distinction between national and EU elections".
Good to hear that. Now, why are the Portuguese able to defeat far-right parties and the other European countries are not? What’s different in Portugal?
In my experience it's pretty hard to get the politics of a different country without a significative time investment, and I say this as somebody who has moved into a couple of countries and eventually started getting the politics there even though I was actually living in those countries (after 10 years there, I was even a Green Party member in the UK).
Basically the 3rd and 4th placed parties are both far-right.
The 3rd most voted one (Iniciativa Liberal) is an ultra neoliberal party that basically wants to replace the European-style social safety net with an American model on steroids, which in American terms is probably at the right most end of the Democrat Party politics or a bit to the right of it. Their entire politics has no local origin whatsoever and their ideas are entirelly imported, so it does match very closely the kind of politics of American Finance types and Tech Bros (though Iniciativa Liberal did shut out about privatising the National Health Service when they saw just how badly received that was in Portugal).
The 4th most voted one (Chega) are Fascists of a mild strain. Portugal had Fascism until the Revolution of 74 and it was never very violent (not really prone to murdering and during WWII Portugal was even a safe transit point for Jews fleeing the Nazis, though the government of the time would not let Jewish refugees stay in the country) which is probably more a product of the Portuguese culture - one of the safest countries in the World when it comes to violence - than of the local Fascist being in any way "nice": people just aren't comfortable with high levels of violence so those parties know that won't sell well except amongst tiny tiny fridges (neo-nazi movements never amounted to much or lasted long around here). Nationalism in Portugal is pretty mild - as a small country which was dirt poor until recently, the Portuguese simply don't think of themselves as superior to most other Europeans (or, as far as I can tell, any other Europeans) - and Religion has considerably decayed toward general agnosticism since the Revolution in 74, so the modern Fascists here doesn't go for religiosity. Their politics pretty much all add up to anti-immigration and anti-establishment, with a bit of nationalism but one a lot less rabbid than what I've seen for example in the UK and which has no actual anti-Europeanism, so all very mild by comparison with for example Trump and even the AfD's and Le Penn's variants of Fascism.
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