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The maximum appears to be a prison sentence of 43 years.

Each judge comes to their own verdict. They’re all ready, but given the exceptional case before them it takes a while to go through each of their verdicts.

It is but I’m not sure it’s a bad thing.

Err, the law requiring social media to register also has very broad provisions for government mandated removal of content from these social media. So it’s not exactly unlikely that that would have been the next step after the registration deadline had passed.

You are completely right that social media needs some form of regulation to avoid their nasty sides btw. But that’s not what this law was seemingly intent on doing.

None of those apply to what Palestine Action did though.

???

• CNN has an entire section on the frontpage for Ukraine.
• CBS is reporting on Trumps apparent doubts that a meeting between Putin and Zelensky will happen soon.
• ABC has two stories on Ukraine on the front page, one regarding Ukraine’s counterintelligence efforts regarding the assassination of a lawmaker and one on Trumps doubts regarding a meeting.
• MSNBC seems very intent on reporting on every fart Trump does or does not let out, they have a World section but honestly there’s very little in there anyway.
• NYT has an entire section on the war on the front page
• WaPo seems to have the least. You need to go to their World section to find an article from yesterday on families who lived in Kursk when Ukraine invaded there, mentioning that Ukrainian soldiers generally treated them well and how much of an embarrassment that invasion was for Putin.

But all of this I can hardly describe as radio silence. Besides, it’s only US media. I can assure you that there’s plenty of articles in European media too.

Your citation there shows von Braun being a total shitstain, but not necessarily a racist shitstain. He lacked morals and principles, and used slave labour; but it doesn’t seem like he cared much about who the slaves were. So he doesn’t seem to have ended up having any qualms about hiring black people. I suppose it makes him slightly more progressive, but not necessarily any less of a bad person.

Regarding Shpakovskii, it’s unclear what he was accused or convicted of, and it’s unclear if whatever the allegations were were also true. But given the example provided, it seems the worst thing he could be getting accused of there is stealing from partisans/Jewish people, which is bad but not a war crime (assuming his case is indeed ‘similar’ to the example provided in that text).

I’m not sure we can figure out what this guy did exactly with just online sources, I can’t exactly find much more on the man. Given the evidence, he could in theory have been a Chetnik, which would fit his motivations and background. Being a full-blown Nazi seems less likely. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t involved in any war crimes, but there’s currently nothing that suggests that he was.

It might not have been your intention, but it just really rubs me the wrong way to hear anybody try and paint this monster in any kind of positive light.

Von Braun was a Nazi and likely committed war crimes, most likely the usage of forced labour. But ultimately he himself did not seem to hold the Nazi ideology that close to heart. He was especially alienated after his arrest by the Gestapo.

The man lacked principles, and seemed fine with using slave labour as long as he could play rocketman. A shitstain, sure. Nonetheless, he doesn’t appear to have held any (strong) racial prejudices, afaik not even antisemitism or something.

What I was pointing out is that the shitstains in Alabama were even more racist than the former Nazi immigrants were. So even if Hans turned out to be a racist shitstain, that might not necessarily be because his dad was; it might also be caused by the racists that were around during his upbringing.

I’m not sure what that citation you mentioned contains, but the context it’s used in makes it a little ambiguous:

Appealing to the authorities to reclaim property that people believed was unlawfully taken by local officials in the weeks right after the war was also dangerous. After all, investigations would ensue, which could backfire on those who had sought justice from the state. When F. Borisevich from Slutsk (eastern Belorussia) wrote a letter to Ponomarenko, complaining that NKVD officers had taken several of her possessions, among them money and clothes, the Slutsk authorities began to look into the issue. They found out that Borisevich’s husband had been arrested in 1937 and sentenced to forced labor. During the war, Borisevich had shared a house with two local policemen—one of them her grandson, who stole from “partisan and Jewish families.” Slutsk authorities concluded that she had acquired most of her possessions unlawfully during the war, and they decided to pass the case on to a higher court

So either dad did steal from partisans or Jews, or he was merely tried for doing so after seeking justice from authorities. The timeline is weird though, when would this case have taken place? In 1945 he had already left for Germany, so how was he tried by the Soviets? Or was he tried in his absence? Or is that citation referring to a different person?

Spakovsky ended up in Huntsville, likely to join the rest of the Germans who went there. He was a sociologist, not a rocket scientist, so maybe not a priority for operation Paperclip or something.

It’s really hard to find somewhat accurate information on this guy. He seems to have been part of the White Army fighting the bolsheviks until the left for Yugoslavia. He taught there until 1941, when Germany invaded Yugoslavia. He stayed in the country until 1942 or 1945 (unclear), when he left for Bavaria. If the latter, it’s possible he tried to avoid Operation Keelhaul which would have seen him forcibly repatriated to the Soviet Union.

After the war he was in an American-run camp for displaced German peoples, where he met Hans mother. They left for the US in 1950/1951 and settled in Huntsville. Since he was connected to the University of Alabama (and was a professor in sociology before the war), it seems likely that he was somewhat connected to Von Braun, who was also important in elevating the UoA.

Interestingly, it’s said that Von Braun and his fellow German scientists were more progressive than the Americans there. Von Braun was threatened by the KKK for a while because he hired black people.

But the timeline is shaky. Hans claims that his dad fought communists in Russia and Yugoslavia (specifically Tito’s), but it’s unclear when he did so. If he left for Germany in 1942 he couldn’t have fought Tito’s communists because he wasn’t around.

Presumably if he was around in this period, he likely due to his nobleman origin would have been part of the Chetniks, who had a complicated relationship with the Axis. Not quite Nazis, but plenty of war crimes to go around still.

But the most credible source I could find claims he left for Germany in 1942, seemingly making it impossible for him to have been part of the Chetniks. Which raises the question: who did he even fight, if anyone at all? He seems to have consistently moved towards areas where there was less or no fighting at the time (and that he could actually move to). It’s not impossible that he tried to avoid the wars once they reached his doorstep. He was also an anti-communist, which at least could explain the move to Yugoslavia and to Germany if it happened in 1945.

I’m not sure if based on these fragile timelines we can conclusively say or suggest he was part of the Nazis, Chetniks or any other group. The gap in his resume could well be explained by the fact that it’s an academic resume, likely leaving things off if they weren’t relevant to his academic career. Had he worked in a factory in that time for example, it probably wouldn’t have been listed either.

We do know that his son’s a fascist shitstain though. Whether he himself was a Nazi is highly unclear given the contradicting timelines and statements.

Took me a sec but it’s Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS.

These parents aren’t even really incompetent. IIRC they failed the test because the mom suffered (sexual?) abuse as a child. And apparently that trauma disqualifies her as a mother somehow.

They were also told they’d take the baby away 3 weeks before the birth. Also, the law used here shouldn’t even apply to them because they’re Greenlandic.

It’s an all-round travesty of a case and the Danish government should be fucking ashamed of themselves.

Maps were used for navigation, which meant angles needed to be preserved. Christian nations colonised a lot, meaning they needed to have maps for navigation a lot too.

This isn’t some weird propaganda campaign, that makes no sense. Try making an angle-preserving map that doesn’t wildly distort the north and south of the world.

Besides, not sure how Christian the icy wastes of Greenland and Antarctica are.

The bridge isn’t even 4000 meters long, how would it surpass the longest suspension bridge by that amount?

It’s what Rutte negotiated with Trump: yes spending goes up to 5%, but 1.5% is for infrastructure the military could use, and the rest is for defense spending.

Polls have repeatedly shown that the Israeli population is majority supportive of their government’s actions in Palestine.

Why the fuck did he sign it

So it’s just a coincidence that no neighboring country has threatened them with outright military invasion since they got nukes?

I mean, haven’t they?

And when has Iran ever threatened to use a bomb against Israel?

The IAEA cites several officials that have stated that Iran is able to manufacture nuclear weapons, and pundits on state tv have threatened Israel with total destruction and “annihilation”. It doesn’t take much to put two and two together. They’re overt threats, but threats nonetheless.

The Soviets didn’t just keep expanding across Europe, precisely because the US had the bomb to hold them in check.

This ignores the many proxy wars the US and USSR fought in many regions. I wouldn’t necessarily call that very stabilizing. Meanwhile the theory that wars won’t be declared between nuclear powers is actively being tested by several states at the moment, prodding and probing nuclear-capable alliances to test where the boundary lies.

Results achieved in the past do not guarantee success in the future.

As much as I agree that Israel is a destabilizing force and that you have their MO fairly spot on, Israel doesn’t seem to be using its nuclear arsenal as a deterrent for invasion. They don’t have to, they have significant conventional forces with US backing, making invasion nigh-impossible anyway. That’s how it went in the past at least with the various regional wars.

I’m not sure an Iranian bomb would stabilize much if anything. Israel sees it as a direct existential threat and will stop at nothing to prevent or disable such a weapon. Iran has also repeatedly threatened to use it on Israel offensively, which doesn’t really bode well for peace either. Suppose Iran does lob a bomb at Israel, how would they respond? Or what if Israel strikes first? I don’t trust either party to be reasonable and responsible here tbh.

Iran can’t use the weapon to threaten Israel as you say, because it’d be an empty threat. Iran can’t nuke Israel without getting nuked right back. Israel knows this, so they can continue their expansions just fine.

MAD doctrine prevents nuclear wars from breaking out, but as we have been seeing recently it doesn’t prevent conventional wars.

Iran doesn’t even have nukes yet.

International law doesn’t put up any of those restrictions. As an illegal occupying force Israel is not allowed to dictate what the “proper” channels are.