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  • Imma be pedantic about this one: judges are not in the same part of the three separate parts of power as the police (at least commonly in democracies). Technically they are supposed to keep the cops in check and be a neutral independent instance.

    In reality: most judges are bastards too if you have any qualm with the police, because that often translates to problems with state authority which includes them as well, which more often than not makes them allies to the cops.



  • when the mutual benefit of the practice was to provide ample space for fire trucks and ambulances on the roads.

    This view weighs comfort of pedestrians against space for emergency vehicles and just takes it as granted that cars will and thus must be allowed to park there. It only asks “who do we discomfort with these cars” and not “can we stop discomforting people with all these cars”.

    How about: no parking where there isn’t enough room for emergency vehicles left and leave the sidewalk to the fucking pedestrians that deserve not just a 1,5m tunnel of steel and concrete but a sidewalk that is comfortable to use.

    Car owners shouldn’t be allowed to discomfort every pedestrian just because of their comfort of parking right in front of their house.



  • The AfD is, for all their faults, relatively libertarian when it comes to privacy rights. That might be because they have a lot to hide, but that’s besides the point. It is definitely not because that’s “too right wing” for them.

    We have had a push for “Vorratsdatenspeicherung” basically every legislature period which is kind of in the same category of “wtf stop doing that”. Ironically it was the FDP that saved us when the SPD in the last coalition tried to implement that. Not sure the CDU is going to stop Dobrint when he has his go at it.

    I don’t see it as a grand departure from current party lines, except for the AfD while the Greens are very ambivalent between their fundi and realo party wings.


  • It will be harder for the advocates now to explain to the rest of the member states why it should be put back on the agenda.

    All it takes is some form of crime that remotely looks like it could have been prevented by client side scanning. Be it child porn, be it terrorism, be it some big drug case. Now that scanning isn’t an exception anymore but generally allowed, the step to “just” forcing everyone to do what the big companies are doing anyways, won’t be as big.

    In short: Assuming that they won’t have reasons and pressure to put this topic back on the table seems unlikely to me, considering the amount of resources they have continually put into this already. Especially since Germany seems to shift more and more towards more autoritarian tendencies itself, a few repetitions might be enough to finally topple their resistance