Inken Padberg

Biologist and physician, views are my own

[Arnd Pollmann @ArndPollmann]

@finkeldey Das kann ich schon nachvollziehen. Aber es ist diese anhaltende Gehässigkeit (Blome und Konsorten), die für mindestens 6-8 % AfD verantwortlich ist.

[Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין @MairavZ]

Marwan Barghouti to Bid for Palestinian Presidency From Israeli Prison, Report Says https://t.co/CHqiYxkzOv

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

This is a convenient deflection. “Settler violence” of course means violence by settlers against Palestinians, not exclusively murder. The sanctioned conduct includes arson, assault, torched groves. And 94% of those cases close with no indictment.

[Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin]

It speaks volumes about the quality of Russia discourse in Britain that 50 British MPs demand banning Masha & the Bear, the child cartoon series.

You know what happens when stupid governments motivate children to hate censorship? I grew up in the USSR and took part in undoing it in 1991. I was very enthusiastic about that as well as about all the forbidden culture from the other side of the wall.

Mind you, nobody of any stature in the West was mad enough to ban Soviet culture at the time. A Soviet film could win an Oscar. Maybe it explains why they didn’t end up as losers.

[Arnd Pollmann @ArndPollmann]

Wer glaubt, mit einem Krankentag politisch Kasse machen und den Eindruck von Reformwilligkeit simulieren zu können, ist nicht mehr von dieser Welt.

[Sophia Proneikos @Pergament_F]

A Brief History of Philosophy
1. Socrates deletes his account.
2. Plato posts screenshots of Socrates.
3. Aristotle unfollows Plato.
4. Aquinas retweets Jesus.
5. Descartes mutes Aquinas.
6. Locke mutes Descartes.
7. Kant unfollows Locke and Descartes.
8. Hegel subtweets Kant.
9. Schopenhauer blocks Hegel.
10. Marx likes Hegel.
11. Nietzsche gets hacked.
12. Heidegger DMs Arendt.
13. Adorno reports Heidegger.
14. Derrida gets verified.
15. Heidegger gets banned.
16. Wittgenstein only does instagram.

17. And I'm leaving for today without drama.

Night

[Nostos @NostosLit]

- Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

What a great guy. Thank you Steffen for your friendship and everything you have done in your time in Israel

[Ruben Gerczikow @RubenGerczi]

Die Diskrepanz in der Wahrnehmung von Steffen Seibert als @GerAmbTLV zwischen israelischen und deutschen Accounts ist, sagen wir, bemerkenswert.

[Nostos @NostosLit]

- Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

Your auntie when she doesn’t like your rishta:

[Seth Frantzman @sfrantzman]

Hatred of Palestinians by some extremists is pathological, it's so deep seated and normalized among some people and the way they talk of hatred of the whole group has been increasingly normalized in recent years in a way that few other bigotries are normalized. I encounter it every day on replies to my posts and one can see it in the language used.

The hatred includes two basic, but contradictory, concepts. First, that the Palestinians don't exist, so they are put in parenthesis, "Palestinians." Second, is the assertion that basically any ill treatment of them is acceptable and hatred of them all is acceptable.

The two are contradictory, because if one really believed they didn't exist as a people, then why hate them all and excuse violence and mistreatment of them?

The hatred of them spans the gamut from arguing they should be expelled, ethnically cleansed, even subjected to genocide. At its root is a view that they don't deserve basic human rights, that they aren't equal, that they aren't the same as any other group of people. It's visceral and disturbing. It goes far beyond a discussion of a "conflict" or a dispute.

This hatred and its normalization in some discourse should be studied because it has increasingly radicalized some people and polities and extends beyond the "conflict" zone to the way people talk in other places. One should be wary, and guard against, extremism in discourse and excusing human rights abuses. Abuses and hatred of whole peoples doesn't usually end with just one group, but extends outward.

[Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit @ChanasitJonas]

@Karl_Lauterbach Lieber Herr Lauterbach, also „inhaltlich“ waren diese Angriffe sicherlich nicht. Das international anerkannte Wissenschaftler u.a. durch den Spiegel diffamiert wurden, sollte von Ihrer Seite auch so klar benannt werden.

[John Lyndon @JohnLyndon_]

Thank you @GerAmbTLV. For setting standard for what Ambo can do to *truly* dive deeply into civil society. For including so many @ALLMEP members in your efforts (and Top 25), protecting & amplifying their work- and for being something that works in both German & Hebrew: a mensch

[Steffen Seibert @GerAmbTLV]

I say farewell to Israel. Here are 25 reasons why I will miss this place. Thank you for following this account over the past four years.

[f.luebberding @luebberding]

Das wird durch Wiederholung nicht besser. Jede Industrie ist immer im Strukturwandel. Der Feind des Guten ist das bessere. In Brüssel und Berlin gab es planwirtschaftliche Vorgaben zur sogenannten Mobilitätswende. Es ging also nicht darum, wie Millionen Kunden das Angebot bewerten, sondern der einzige Akteur waren die Planwirtschaftler in Berlin und Brüssel. Es ging auch nicht darum, wie man besser von A nach B kommt, sondern wie der Autofahrer den Klimawandel bekämpfen soll. Diese regulatorischen Vorgaben bestimmten das Verhalten der Autoindustrie. Wenn nicht der Markt entscheidet, sondern Bürokraten, müssen auch die Bürokraten die Rahmenbedingingen setzen, um die Millionen Kunder zu überzeugen. Das setzte einen Subventionsmarathon in Gang, der mittlerweile die deutsche VoWi zu einem Symbol für Zentralverwaltungswirtschaften gemacht hat. Einen Marktmechanismus gibt es nicht mehr. Ohne diese Planwirtschaft hätten die Hersteller natürlich auf Veränderungen im Konsumentenverhalten reagieren müssen. Wer keine Schreibmaschine haben will, sondern einen PC, wird den auch bekommen. Aber hier wurde von den Planwirtschaftlern entschieden, dass sie Schreibmaschinen produzieren müssen: Die verbraucht nämlich keinen Strom ... . Für diese Entwicklung ist u.a Flasbarth verantwortlich. Zurück zum Fussball.

[Iuliia Mendel @IuliiaMendel]

Today, Putin finally reacted to Ukraine’s recent strikes. As expected, he tried to minimize the damage, offered no compromises and instead raised the stakes.
Earlier, he had spoken about annexing Donbas and parts of Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. Now he is talking about creating a “security zone” in Kharkiv and Sumy regions. He remained silent about the small part of Dnipropetrovsk region that Russian forces have also entered in the past year.
Ukraine continues to plan operations aimed at cutting all supply routes to Crimea, while Volodymyr Zelenskyy has once again repeated his threats against Lukashenko this week.
The meeting between Lukashenko and Putin remains the most mysterious of all. Two days of talks — and not a single press release. Afterwards, Lukashenko flew to Asia. Could he plan discussing with China the possible use of nuclear weapons if Zelenskyy’s threats become reality?
What we are seeing is a predictable escalation of the war. And as always, it will be the people who pay the price — above all, the Ukrainians.

[Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin]

All the expected reactions from Putin in last night’s interview - a show of defiance and performative confidence in the face of painful Ukrainian deep and midrange strikes. Also hinting at the possibility of raising the cost of resistance for Ukraine.

Putin claimed that Zelensky had suggested that the two sides limit the warfare to the four Ukrainian regions Russia had annexed on paper. That would give both Russia and Ukraine a reprieve from aerial strikes, but it would also considerably reduce the length of the frontline for the understaffed Ukrainian forces.

Putin reads this offer (if it really happened) as a sign of weakness . He says it confirms that Russian aerial strikes are more damaging and that Ukraine is finding it hard to tackle its manforce shortage.

He also seems hopeful about a breakthrough on the battlefield, specifically at Dobropilla. He described
the western Donbas city as the last element of Ukraine’s three-line defence in the east and claimed that the Ukrainians have no defence lines beyond that.

On terms of raising stakes, he spoke about the occupation (“liberation” in his parlance) of not only Donbas, but also “Novorosiya, a vague term that covers a very wide area.

The historical governorship of Novorossiya extended to Kremenchug in Poltava region in the north and well beyond Odessa in the west.

At the moment Russia can only feasibly threaten the unoccupied part of Zaporizhzhia region. Along with parts of Dnipropetrovsk region, this is the prime candidate for inclusion in the list of Putin’s new demands on top of northern Donbas.

Any Russian operations on the right bank of the Dnipro seem unthinkable for now, but Putin seems to believe in his ability to win the war of attrition.

[daniel bax @bax_daniel]

Ein Grünen-Politiker möchte Menschen „unabhängig von ihrem Pass“ aus Deutschland ausweisen. So weit geht noch nicht mal die AfD. Alles normal bei euch, @Die_Gruenen? Wollt ihr euch dazu nicht äußern?