Unless the CDU decides to do a Macron, i.e. campaign alongside SPD and turn around after the elections because they’re ideologically much closer to AfD.

Gendered bathrooms? It certainly does not require a lot of good faith to come up with this example.

You offended a bunch of Germans here. Don’t forget the Americans are sitting in Germany mostly to bomb Syrian kids though, they’re not defending Europe from anything.

You call it islamophobia, some call it an effort to curb radicalisation

Most American comment, talk about the end of democracy for millions of people and death of thousands, worry about the price of their iphone

If anything reverse engineering is more permissible in the USA than many other places, IIRC

I don’t think heterosexuals are persecuted anywhere, that’s not a valid equivalence. Not that I find the idea of making porn to prove your sexual orientation morally fine.

If you know their name, they are probably a celebrity. That’s kind of the definition

Isn’t the joke that the smart engineer will change the labels on the knob since they don’t have any unit? That’s the scammy aspect. I don’t think OC finds the idea of selling a better amp immoral

GDPR applies regardless of where headquarters are located

Oh we got a bunch of leeches in Europe, Ireland is not the only one

It is easily provable that there is an infinite number of prime numbers.

Except Michael in German is not pronounced with a “k” sound

Actually facing jail time for killing someone with a car in France is unusual, that’s probably why

Then why are the sanctions still in place? If the US stopped pirating maybe we would be able to tell bow shitty the government is. But all anyone can see here is a cruel government getting off oppressing smaller nations. It’s not even about political blackmail, given how Puerto Rico and Hawaii are treated, only gratuitous violence.

Better have your info shared with one government, rather than have it shared with every government

Impressive how people misunderstand this stuff. You don’t open a research lab for technology transfer, kinda the opposite. This is Apple saying they don’t see the USA as the best place to do research. The tech is already transferred

What’s yours? This whole “pirates are also buyers” is just a cop-out, but sure your anecdotic experience is valid proof against the more logical alternative

White people moving across the world, imposing their language and culture, is a “cultural mixing pot” ? Did you play a uno reverse card lol

Right, because D-Day and Vietnam showed clearly that USA politicians never act against what the popular opinion dictates