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… No, Denuvo is “anti-tamper” software, meaning DRM primarily with anti-cheat as a bonus.

Probably also helps with eating while lying down.

Rutte was a terrible PM. But he’s a pretty good diplomat. Which I suppose is what NATO needs atm, a diplomat to keep Trump on board, even if it means licking copious amounts of orange ass. There’s no low he won’t go to in order to achieve that goal. He’s doing everything he can to keep Trump from dragging the US out of NATO, which I suppose kind of fits his job description.

Too bad, I own the Buds 4 and they’re genuinely very nice.

Quebecky

He fucked off further than anyone has ever fucked off before.

Do they taste… fowl?

As if these are the only two options lmao

This is not stolen money, they have committed no crime, and they have not been accused of a crime.

They are accused of A) violating sanctions placed on Russia and B) attempting to circumvent sanctions. Since these are part of the European sanctions programme, sanctions are the punishment. These sanctions are put in place after an investigation by the EC.

Except the only courts they can challenge this in are in Brussels and the sanctions ban them from traveling outside of Germany.

The ECJ is located in Luxembourg, not Brussels. You also do not need to physically travel there to start a court case. You can either attend digitally, or you can simply travel there since travelling to- and from a court case is exempt from any travel restrictions; this stems from the same right that allows a prisoner to attend their court case or to sue, despite not being allowed to leave prison.

Oh btw, another fun tidbit: any contracts signed before the sanctions may still be paid with funds from the frozen accounts. In other words: if he signed his lease before the asset freeze, he may freely use those funds to make rent. German social programmes can help take care of food.

Again, these sanctions certainly aren’t fun, but if he or his kids are going to starve because of them, that’s entirely voluntary. They can still make rent, they can still feed their kids. That’s why he’s still posting away on X instead of living under a bridge. These are sanctions designed to prevent asset flight, not starve someone.

He is allowed to withdraw enough funds to cover the basic bills. She was sanctioned because he got a new car insurance in his name and used her account to pay for it.

There has been an investigation, and a ruling from the European Commission. He has also appealed that decision, which failed.

And the idea that they can’t challenge the sanctions in court is utter bullshit. You absolutely can challenge them before the GCEU/ECJ, which has made several rulings on applied sanctions in the past.

Did you miss the part where he’s still allowed to withdraw enough funds from the account to pay for the essential bills? He’s not starving and he’s not homeless either. He qualifies for several German social programs that will keep him afloat. He has been sanctioned for nearly a year now, if he was starving he’d have done so by now.

She was apparently hit with sanctions because he put a new car insurance in his own name on her account; that’s clearly circumventing sanctions and a pretty stupid thing to do, especially for a non-essential expenditure like that.

You also keep harping on about the pro-Palestinian stance being an issue, but there’s tons of pro-Palestinian media in the EU, all unsanctioned. Even the state media routinely calls the Israeli crimes in Gaza a genocide, bringing in experts that explain why it should be considered one. It makes no sense that only this guy would get sanctioned for that, and not the thousands of others who report on it just the same. The public evidence just doesn’t support that claim.

gleefully celebrate seeing their children starve

Nobody is starving here. You’ve fallen for a narrative that isn’t true. I also don’t support these sanctions, but I also don’t believe this guy’s narrative here, which contains several distortions of the truth. Hence why I think that even a judge would not revoke the sanctions here and an appeal is likely to fail.

The law does NOT have any requirements that schools STOP educating in their ethnic language.

That’s literally the requirement in the law. You have no idea what you’re talking about. There’s no point in discussing the law if you don’t even understand what it says.

Bilingual education is a far cry from what the West does

It’s not bilingual education, it’s Mandarin only:

Article 15: The state is to fully promote the spread of the nation’s common language and script. Citizens’ learning and use of the nation’s common language and script must not be obstructed by any organization or individual.

Schools and other educational institutions are to use the nation’s common language and script as the basic language and script for education and teaching. The state is to promote preschool students’ learning of Mandarin, so that youth who have completed compulsory education have a basic understanding of the nation’s common language and script.

But you don’t see Chinese newspapers in 1964/65 writing articles that say “The Civil Rights Act / Voting Rights Act is a law designed to assimilate ethnic minorities into white supremacy and eradicate them entirely”, like we see here.

The CRA doesn’t include similar provisions that are being criticized in the new Chinese law.

You don’t see a right wing movement in China screaming about the poor and the browns and the islamists.

China is not a democracy, the CPC doesn’t allow any other movements to scream about anything.

You don’t see politicians running local or national narratives on the basis of fear of the other.

They don’t have to, it’s an election tactic used everywhere in the world but the CPC doesn’t really have to worry about elections.

You seem to be under the strange delusion that there’s zero racism, discrimination or xenophobia in China. If you want to believe that, fine, but it also tells me you never actually visited and properly spoke to the locals.

Yeah but he already clarified it had to be a limp-dicked one.

You’ve completely missed their point. They’re saying that the words of the law are meaningless and not actual evidence. The Civil Rights Act also didn’t end racism, discrimination and cultural oppression in the US.

Who’s to say that the Chinese government actually enforces this as written?

On paper it says it promotes integration among the recognized ethnic groups, but some of the wording is much more dubious. For example, children won’t receive their education in their native language anymore; they must now learn Mandarin (which is the classic tactic to erode other languages, inspired directly from the west). There’s also text in there that may be used to justify breaking up certain ethnic/minority neighbourhoods.

It is.

Okay, you should be aware that that study you’re referring to the numbers of, was done by iirc a scientist linked to a Venezuelan thinktank whose stated purpose is sanctions relief. The study itself also has some questionable methods, for example: if a country previously provided aid in some form, but then stopped, this is counted as a “sanction” and any loss of life is thus included in the figure. So suppose country A supports country B with some aid program, but then B has a violent military coup. A now stops the aid, as there are clear signs that the junta in B is seizing the resources for themselves. The potential deaths the aid could have prevented when the aid was effectively being administered are included in the calculation for a period when that aid more than likely couldn’t be effectively administered. Aid programs with a limited duration are also included as “sanctions” once the programs end.

This inflates the numbers in quite a big way. Of course it’s still horrid that thousands die due to sanctions, but those numbers don’t paint an accurate image (this is not to discount the entire study btw, but it’s important to be aware of the nuance here).

Then there’s the question of: what is the alternative? Doing nothing at all? Declaring war? Sanctions do have an effect after all. Take apartheid South-Africa, eventually apartheid fell due to the severe economic pressure from international sanctions, spearheaded by India at the time. You’ll also have to ask yourself how many more people in SA would have suffered and died if no sanctions had been instated and apartheid had been allowed to fester unopposed internationally. And this effect was never taken into account into the study either.

Of course you could also hypothetically attribute the deaths to whatever triggered the instatement of the sanctions in the first place. If country A declares a war and gets sanctioned because of it, are the extra deaths in country A on the hands of A’s government or on the international community applying sanctions?

There’s plenty of ideologically motivated sanctions, especially levied by the US, that are total bullshit and just harmful (see: Cuba). I’ll always oppose those.

To be fair there’s several ‘types’ of Chess, like Bullet, Blitz, Rapid, etc…, and it’s not uncommon for high-level players to specialize in some of them. But given that they didn’t know what a GM is they probably didn’t know that either.

I don’t universally support all sanctions. I don’t support sanctions on Cuba for example, but I do support sanctions on Israel. If you want to consider me monstrous for that, go ahead.

It doesn’t, he’s explicitly allowed to withdraw enough money to cover basic needs. Dogru confirmed this in one article on this, but he’s also dishonest about it in his tweets where he suggets he’s not allowed to withdraw anything.