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Are we though?

And now we're copying current US politics but the profiteers aren't even domestic. Palantir and fracking companies and near everyone else profiteering off this BS government is a foreign billionaire.

The issue is actually solidarity: When Jette Nietzard says something mildly controversial and a bunch of right-wing asshats start a campaign against a young women, there is a large-enough, largely older male part of the Green party that will agree with, at least in part, with such right-wing "criticism". And that kinda behavior is in fact not how you win elections.

Wait till you learn that that those Catholic organizations running hospitals are largely state-funded as well.

• Be aware that the source is a little dubitable, garnering a "Mixed" rating by MBFC.

• If you look for corroborating articles, it appears this story is only reported in various Indian outlets often ranked similarly, but not in e.g. the Guardian or other UK outlets.

They've drawn this comparison since 2023 and tbh, it always struck me as a little off. The point has always been justifying the "robust" response to the attack as self-defence.

I think it's a collaboratively created document which, as you noticed, used to be hosted on the site of NCTV but is now hosted on the site of AIVD. :)

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The document is here. Israel is mentioned multiple times in it, though most times as a target of threats. However, there's also this (DeepL translation):

Israel also seeks to influence political and public opinion abroad, including Netherlands. This was illustrated by the distribution of a report by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora and Anti-Semitism, following disturbances surrounding the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv soccer match in November 2024. The report was not shared with the Dutch government through official channels, but was sent specifically to specific politicians and journalists. The manner of dissemination was called unusual by the Dutch Ministers of Justice and Security and of Foreign Affairs and, because of the potential negative consequences for Dutch residents, undesirable. For example, the individuals mentioned could be intimidated or threatened, or in the most serious case, assaulted.

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Known targets of state interference are international institutions present in the Netherlands, such as the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice. The United States and Israel publicly expressed threats toward the court, and the United States has imposed sanctions.64 This could damage or even shut down the court's work, in part because the court may have no or limited access to financial services. Currently, sanctions have only been imposed against a chief prosecutor because of the court's arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister and former defense minister. However, further completion of the sanctions list is real in time. The U.S. sanctions may in time have profound consequences for the functioning of the court, and thus for the prosecution and trial of individuals suspected of committing international crimes, such as genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes. Also the courts are an interesting target of espionage and undermining influence for a large number of countries, because their nationals can be tried there.

@hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz Could you fix the editorialized title, please? (Note from the mod.)

Nah, the thing with Merz is that he more-or-less transparently lied during the campaign, brought in multiple lobbyists as minister, brought in multiple politicians with previous corruption scandals as minister/party whip and now these people are behaving exactly as you think they would. They're trying to do Trump light, and unfortunately they're not totally unsuccessful in that.

Externally, Merz is making pointlessly macho announcements to other countries (and is then often not following up, e.g. along with Macron, he gave an ultimatum for a ceasefire to Putin ... which just passed and was never heard of again). Domestically, Merz continues verbally beating up the poorest while investigating tax cuts for the richest. Dobrindt is making inhumanity and inefficiency at the border cool again, in the process fucking up relations to neighboring countries like Poland. Reiche is evaluating how to fuck solar and wind power to be able to import more fossil gas. Schnieder is investigating how to fuck the cheap-ish national train ticket while making fossil-powered cars and flights cheaper. Now-party whip Spahn, whose corruption led to somewhere between 2.5 and 10bn€ being lost on FFP2 masks since 2021, is tirelessly repeating that he is being prosecuted for nothing and feels zero guilt. And in the past few days, the CxU parliamentary group prevented the election of a constitutional judge because of a right-wing campaign cooking up a bunch of lies about her.

That's a lot of shit, especially given they're just 70 days in office.

Gawds, slam me with the thang!