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Shock as German conservatives open door to cooperation with far-right

www.yahoo.com Shock as German conservatives open door to cooperation with far-right

German politicians reacted with shock on Friday after opposition leader Friedrich Merz opened the door to cooperation with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on migration reform after an Afghan man was held in connection with a deadly knife attack. German mainstream parties have previously ...

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5d ago

To nobody's surprise, German conservatives open the door to cooperation with AfD

www.yahoo.com /news/shock-german-conservatives-open-door-165925702.html

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It's called doubling down and it's not just happening in Germany.
The COALition in Australia has just compared the First Nations People who have lived in Australia for over 65,000 years with Aliens.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-26/liberal-sussan-ley-first-fleet-elon-musk-australia-day/104860982
It's not the first time they've shown their #racist colours either.
The "leader" of the COALition has refused to stand in front of a First Nations flag:
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/peter-dutton-faces-mounting-criticism-over-inflammatory-indigenous-flags-remark/9ve4afxtm
So has the "leader" of the COALition in Western Australia:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-17/wa-liberal-leader-libby-mettam-aboriginal-flag/104829360
- [...] Men in boats arrived on the edge of the known world to embark on that new experiment. And just like astronauts arriving on Mars those first settlers would be confronted with a different and strange world, full of danger, adventure and potential.
  The aboriginal people were the first of Homo Sapiens to leave Africa. They used the rudimentary technology of the era to sail to Australia. When they landed in Australia the ecosystem was even more more dangerous than it is now. They had to survive alongside giant reptiles and other megafauna for 17,000 years. That's in addition to everything else on that continent trying to kill you.
  If anyone in Australia is a pioneering adventurer to be celebrated, it's these people. Yet the colonialist mind is so brain dead that they'll denigrate these people and their culture, while celebrating the arrival of a group of psychopathic plunderers who arrived at a land that was already settled by humans.
  
  Yeah, well unfortunately for you, all of that supposed history happened before the Earth and universe were created. So... Lol jokes on you.
  
  It might be misleading to say they were the first out of Africa. I think there was 100,000 years or so between homo sapiens leaving Africa and arriving in Australia.
  Also I think they might have been able to walk due to lower sea levels at the time.
  Finally it's pretty likely that homo sapiens (in this case aboriginals) hunted mega fauna to extinction.
  
  It might be misleading to say they were the first out of Africa
  I didn't say they immediately arrived in Australia, a place they couldn't possibly know existed. But it's not disputable that Aboriginals were in the first wave of humanity to leave Africa.
  They might have been able to walk due to lower sea levels at the time.
  Yes, the sea levels were lower and they may have walked for some of their journey. But they did have to sail across the open ocean and did have to construct vessels that would allow them to do that. Let's not denigrate the technological achievements of these people by saying they just walked it.
  Homo sapiens (in this case aboriginals) hunted mega fauna to extinction
  What's really misleading is to just say they hunted the megafauna to extinction when they lived with them for 17,000 years. If you also compare that to the few hundred years it took for the American bison to almost be eradicated after Europeans arrived in North America, you'll see that these people were still great stewards of the land. Even if, like all Homo Sapiens, they spell disaster for other species around them.
  
  Oh man.
  First time round you said "The aboriginal people were the first of Homo Sapiens to leave Africa." I merely responded that might be misleading.
  it’s not disputable that Aboriginals were in the first wave of humanity to leave Africa.
  No one is disputing that Aboriginals, along with every other race, descended from the first wave of humanity to leave Africa. That's what the article you linked from the smithsonian says. Well done.
  You're conflating being the first to become Isolated (in Australia and New Guinea) with being the first to leave Africa.
  But they did have to sail across the open ocean and did have to construct vessels that would allow them to do that.
  Aboriginals migrated to Australia via land bridges and short sea crossings over the course of many thousands of years. If you want to call a hunter in a dug out canoe a technological achievement then you're welcome to.
  they lived with them for 17,000 years.
  This claim is derived from the existence of a single fossil. As you're no doubt aware, this is a subject of hot debate. Wikipedia says:
  the main mechanism for extinction was human burning of a landscape that was then much less fire-adapted; oxygen and carbon isotopes of teeth indicate sudden, drastic, non-climate-related changes in vegetation and in the diet of surviving marsupial species. However, early Aboriginal peoples appear to have rapidly eliminated the megafauna of Tasmania about 41,000 years ago (following formation of a land bridge to Australia about 43,000 years ago as Ice Age sea levels declined) without using fire to modify the environment there, implying that at least in this case hunting was the most important factor. It has also been suggested that the vegetational changes that occurred on the mainland were a consequence, rather than a cause, of the elimination of the megafauna.

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