oloriel: A Terry Pratchett quote: "Civilisation is only two meals away from chaos at the best of times", next to an egg and two laurel branches. (discworld - politics)
Well, Jörg and I we were both right, I guess.

Looking at the local data, there definitely seems to have been a surge of support for "local boy" Lindner (whose Liberal Democrats got 18.6 % of votes in our town, as opposed to 10.7% in the national average), but also some rising support for AfD (although it delights me to see that they "only" got 8.4% as opposed to the national average of 12.6%. Still too much, but.)

In that light, I suppose it may actually be a good thing (and not only sore loser mentality) that the Social Democrats have already announced that they will not stand ready for another "great coalition" with Merkel's Christian Democrats, but limit themselves to opposition instead. That way, the voice of the right-wing AfD will (presumably? if the SPD stick to their announcement?) be hemmed by a reasonably strong block of Social Democrats , and the third oppositional party will be the Left. So three quarters of the opposition will be made up of moderate to strong left-wing politicians which will hopefully keep the right-wing shenanigans down a bit. Hopefully.

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What really apalls me is news like from Duisburg, where apparently they didn't have enough ballots (like hello? YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING TO VOTE? AND AT WHICH POLLING STATION? Shouldn't they expect, just to be on the safe side, that 100% of voters show up? HOW THE HELL CAN YOU RUN OUT OF BALLOTS?) and voters had to wait for hours, or go home and return three times. This is how you discourage voters. This is how you drive voters to "protest vote" for the right-wing assholes. THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT WRONG.

Sheesh.

Yeah this will stop being a political blog any moment now but I had to ramble somewhere.
oloriel: A Terry Pratchett quote: "Civilisation is only two meals away from chaos at the best of times", next to an egg and two laurel branches. (discworld - politics)


And if memory serves, that was the most crowded polling station I've ever been to.

Jörg says it's probably a bad sign because it means that all those people who feel abandoned and misrepresented by regular politics crawled out of their holes to vote AfD (alt-very-right).

I'm hoping that rather, more people than usual were motivated to vote for the moderates in order to prevent the AfD getting too much of a foothold. Alternatively, since one of the major candidates (Liberal Democrats, i.e., sort of centre-ish) was born and raised in our little town, maybe they all want to give him an extra push.

Well, we'll find out tomorrow, but it's stressing me TF out. I mean. A high turnout is a good thing, but not if they vote AfD! Cmon fellow Germans, don't mess this up!
oloriel: (Patrick's Rune: Time for Heroism)


So the news have sunk in, and we're apparently not going to get a Groundhog Day style miracle, and the world will have to keep on turning.

And I have to admit that right now, some of what I hear from the non-Trump voters is almost as scary as the fact that Trump has won the election. (Or the electoral college? Or maybe they'll vote differently in December after all? I DO NOT GET THIS SYSTEM BUT THEN, I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO.)

I understand that the reality of it must be horrible if you're actually living in America and belong to a minority group (including, apparently, academics --- ow! what?!) or are a woman or *gasp* both. I realise that a lot of the things I'm seeing from my distant storm-threatened hill in the not entirely calm fields of Europe may look different from the eye of the hurricane. And I certainly get that a lot of the reactions I'm seeing from those who voted (or would have voted) for Clinton (or Other) are kneejerk reactions born out of disappointment, or very real fears.

But.

When I see people gathering for anti-Trump protests in the streets, I cannot help but wonder what these same people would be saying if things had been different, and Trump voters were heading out for anti-Clinton rallies. Look at them, can't even accept the result of a democratic election. Typical for them...
Yeah, well.

When I see people seriously considering emigration to Canada or New Zealand or Australia or the UK (um, the UK is actually not such a happy place right now, from what I hear; but sure, add a heavy wave of migration to their Brexit issues, I'm sure that's gonna go down well), I can't help but wonder who will be left to heal the wounds and protect those who cannot leave and write letters to their senators and try to move things back in the right direction. Nobody, apparently. And I can't help thinking that most people will serve their country and the world and, ultimately, themselves - emigration, I hear, is not a fun business - better by staying where they are and doing what they can.
(Unless, obviously, they're under actual threat, in which case, do try to get the hell outta there.)

When I see people posting on Tumblr that everyone who voted for Trump please (or not please) unfollow them, I actually facepalm. Because yes, Trump gives the impression of being a horrible person in a lot of ways, and his racism, sexism and sheer popularism are enough to terrify anyone, but he's still a human being, and so are the people who voted for him. I realise it's hard to stop and consider this - especially on Tumblr, where the "other side" never appears to be made up of human beings - but by blocking them from your friendslists or whatever the things are called on Tumblr, you'll only suggest to them that feminists, people of whatever ethnic background that isn't white, people who aren't (US) American, academics or people who believe in climate change are sore loosers and elitist and out of touch with the working/ middle classes or whatnot and refusing to engage in dialogue. Instead of showing them that uh, no, black lesbian feminists with a college education (or whatever else) are actually totally normal, quite reasonable people who may have interesting things to say and reasons to say them. Look, people are not gonna listen to media from the other side or read long eloquent articles about just why Trump was a bad choice, no matter how true they are. But they might absorb something from someone who's in the same fandom or shares their obsession with figure skating or their love for gardening or whatever. There's the adage of "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer" and while I don't think you should consider these people enemies - because a lot of them may not, in fact, be sexist or racist or whatever, but just frustrated and uninformed - I think it applies now, too. You may be needing the bridges you're burning right now.

And that's the bad thing about these perfectly understandable kneejerk reactions, they are already burning bridges and causing damage. Because looking back, the people who are happy with the result of this election will always be able to point their finger and say "See, they don't want to play by the rules either, they hit the streets and rioted, too, so why should we do any different?", and they'll be sorta right. Because if you unfollow/unfriend everyone who happened to vote for Trump, the rift is only getting deeper. In the end, there'll just be a neat community of Trump supporters re-assuring and re-asserting themselves, with no information trickling in from outside (or if anything does trickle inside, it'll be easily stamped down in the way that every critical thought is stamped down in a Tumblr crusade).

So yeah. This is a bad, bad, BAD result and you have every reason to be angry and scared and to feel like lashing out. And I totally get the urge to disconnect from anybody who may be responsible for it, but it's not going to make things better. In fact, I'm worried that it has already begun to make things worse.

Sorry, had to get this out of my system. I know it's none of my business, really, sitting on, as I said, my little hill in the wide fields of Europe (haha). But as news about the election is everywhere, and as things that happen in the US tend to have an impact on the whole world, it's a bit of my business after all.

I hear things about an Interstate Popular Vote Compact and about writing letters to various electorals, which sounds like a route more fruitful than, you know, kicking the two or three Trump voters you can actually reach off your friendslist. At least in the long run. So look into that. And stay safe. And sane. Have a cup of tea or a good bubble bath or a pedicure treatment. Have a binge reading of Harry Potter or, if that's too uncomfortable right now, read fluffy fanfic until your eyes water. Or stay away from the internet for a while. Chop some wood. Bake a cake and eat it, too. Whatever makes you feel better. Hugs.
oloriel: (firefly - define interesting.)
is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

My heartfelt condolences to the Americans on my flist. We have to watch this shit from afar, but you have to deal with it first-hand. Hang in there! This too shall pass! (I sincerely hope.)

Shit.

Jun. 24th, 2016 09:58 am
oloriel: (I shoulda stayed in bed.)
So the Brexit apparently is going to happen.

I honestly can't believe it. When I wrote up my snarky illustrated commentary, I was honestly convinced that in the end, the "Remain" voters would win out anyway. I honestly thought that in spite of the noisy and, alas, violent debate, in the end the majority of Brits would want to stay. I honestly couldn't imagine this ending any other way.

Well, apparently it has. I still can't believe it. Part of me hopes that they're gonna count another couple of votes they've overlooked so far and that's going to tip the scales. Or that there's some other kind of mistake. (Well, it clearly is a mistake, but you know what I mean.) I genuinely can't imagine Britain leaving the EU.

I'd like to say something intelligent, but really, the only thing that comes to mind right now is, Shit.
oloriel: (Patrick's Rune: Time for Heroism)


Yeah, I owe you (or rather myself) a shitload of updates on my personal real life, so I shouldn't talk politics instead. Especially in the light of recent events, which have really rather taken all the humour out of the Brexit debate.

However. I've had a couple of graphics prepared for THIS DAY and I'm not gonna let my bad blogging habits or fundamentalist idiots stop me from dispensing my unasked-for, badly illustrated and probably not at all funny OPINION. BECAUSE I HAVE OPINIONS, YOU GALS.

But I'll give you the chance to skip my unasked-for, badly illustrated and unfunny Brexit opinion by applying an LJ cut. )

(We'll stay friends anyway, of course, but I felt I needed to say that.)
oloriel: (random - blind patriotism)
Man möchte kotzen. Und zwar nicht mal akut wegen des erschreckend hohen Wahlerfolgs der AfD in einigen Landtagswahlen der vergangenen Woche(n), sondern wegen des ganzen dummen "Wahldebakel"-Geseiers, das darauf folgt.
"Denkzettel für die Kanzlerin". "Flüchtlingspolitik Schuld an der Missstimmung der Wähler". Was durfte ich heute in einem Leserbrief in der Zeitung lesen? "Die Mehrheit [...] will gesicherte Grenzen und geregelte Zuwanderung" und wählt natürlich nuuur deshalb AfD.
Jedenfalls sind sie alle am Heulen und Zähneklappern, und zwar vor allem in der CDU. Das machte mich stutzig, denn die CDU hatte ja nun immer noch eine recht deutliche Mehrheit, wieso kommt also ausgerechnet von dort das Gejaule?

Ich bin mal aus purer Neugierde auf die Seiten des statistischen Landesamts von Sachen-Anhalts gegangen. ICH! Aus NEUGIERDE! Auf eine STATISTIK-Seite! Da seht ihr mal, wie verzweifelt die Lage ist!
Na, jedenfalls hab ich mir da die bunten Kuchengrafiken der Landtagswahlen mal angeschaut. Und zwar die von 2011 und die von 2016.
(Warum? Weil mir Sachen-Anhalt als erstes einfiel. Sorry, Sachsen-Anhalt.)

Ehe wir uns nun falsch verstehen: Ja, 24,2% AfD sind furchtbar. Aber das Problem ist, dass man diesen Wählern eben nicht wirklich entgegen kommen kann. Ich sag's jetzt mal ganz hart, wer AfD wählt, ist entweder ein Arschloch oder naiv. Den Arschlöchern will man nicht entgegen kommen und die Naiven wird man schwerlich überzeugen.

UND:
Ausgerechnet die CDU, deren diverse Mitglieder jetzt so am Jaulen und am Umdenken-Wollen sind, hat sich da doch ganz wacker geschlagen. 2,7% Verluste sind, wenn man sich vergleichsweise mal die SPD oder die Linken anschaut, NICHTS. Ausgerechnet da gibt es also überhaupt keinen Grund, jetzt von einem Merkzettel für Denkel (ahahah, schöner Wortdreher, der darf bleiben!) und einem dringend nötigen Umdenken in der Flüchtlingspolitik zu wimmern. Sind bestimmt einige CDU-Stammwähler zur AfD gewechselt, sicher doch, aber insgesamt müssen dafür ja einige SPD-, Grünen oder gar Linken-Wähler plötzlich ihr Kreuzchen bei der CDU gemacht haben. UND DAS HABEN SIE SICHER NICHT, WEIL SIE MIT DER FLÜCHTLINGSPOLITIK NICHT EINVERSTANDEN SIND, SONDERN VIELLEICHT EHER SO EIN BISSCHEN IM GEGENTEIL?

Nu gut. Ich bin keine Politologin und habe auch nicht die Detaildaten, also schenke ich mir jetzt eine Analyse, wer wahrscheinlich warum von wo nach wo gewechselt ist. Ich sach bloß: Ausgerechnet die Partei, die am wenigsten unter der Entwicklung gelitten hat, sollte sich jetzt mal nicht ins Hemd machen und schon gar nicht anfangen, ins Horn der AfD zu stoßen. Denn die "enttäuschten" AfD-Wähler werden sie so nicht zurückgewinnen, aber die neu gewonnenen Wähler, die vielleicht eher von Gabriel enttäuscht sind als von Merkel, die gehen dann wieder zurück. Denn ja, dieses Wahlergebniss hat zweifellos auch etwas mit der Flüchtlingspolitik zu tun, aber womöglich anders, als ihr das glaubt.

Und ach ja, lieber Leserbriefschreiber, 24,2% sind Gottseidank noch keine Mehrheit.
Und wenn ihr so niedlich glaubt, bei der AfD ginge es nicht "undifferenziert gegen Asylbedürftige, sondern gegen eine chaotische, konzeptionslose, undurchdachte Politik" und deshalb wäre es voll OK, sie aus Protest zu wählen, dann seid ihr halt... na sagen wir mal, naiv.

Diesen Rant hätte ich mir jetzt vermutlich schenken sollen, aber es musste mal raus.

Ich hab übrigens den vagen Verdacht, dass die gewalttätigen Abiturienten in Köln nicht aus Syrien kommen...
oloriel: (sandman - unhappy)


Had a night full of unsettling, convoluted dreams in which I had to uncover a whole ball of conspiracies surrounding a terrorist attack in Paris. Nothing was as it seemed, everything was dark and dangerous, and the only person on my side was Joan Watson. (Set against us were Interpol, the Freemasons, "Pegida" and probably a whole lot of other groups I don't remember or can't identify in the waking world. Basically, everyone.)

Well, it's pretty clear where those dreams come from.


Graphic by Ruben L. Oppenheimer, found here

I'm not a fan of "Charlie Hebdo", just as I'm not a fan of "Titanic" or "The Onion": Almost always, their humour is too harsh for my tastes. However, I (mostly) manage to follow a simple "Don't like, don't read" rule, offline as online, and it works perfectly well. That some people believe that offensive words or images are a justification for violence and murder - worse, that some higher power condones or demands such violence! - is just horrifying and disgusting. And therefore, right now,
JE SUIS CHARLIE.
oloriel: (let it bee)


(VarroaGate is not actually a political thing, but to me, it sounds like Watergate or Nipplegate, i.e., like some kind of political scandal. Perhaps in a beehive, it is? Maybe there is a special OH NOES VARROA waggle dance?)
(If you got this obscure joke, clap your hands.)

I actually made use of my membership with the lokal beekeeping club (I'm really just a member for insurance reasons) and went along on an excursion to the Bayer BeeCare Center in *dundundun* exotic Monheim. That was fascinating. (The most fascinating thing was in fact where I came too late, and a very friendly security guard tried to find out where my beekeeping club had gone, and drove me around in a security cart.) I missed the visit to the experimental greenhouses :( but came in time for drinks and cake and a lecture. Lecture was quite interesting. The facts as such weren't new, but it was interesting to learn about the research Bayer does with the bees (both in order to find better ways for dealing with the #1 problem of European bees, i.e., Varroa mites, and in order to find out how their pesticides etc. affect bees). That is, about how they do their research. We also got to see an experimental Varroa control method they're currently working on, the above-mentioned VarroaGate. I still have to be convinced that it's superior to current methods, but I seem to be less sceptical than some of the older beekeepers. (Some of their concerns are very silly, TBH. "But they'll loose their pollen if you work with that thing!" Yes. Because bees really desperately need pollen in autumn when they should no longer be breeding. (Spoiler: They don't.))

The older beekeepers were also being niggly about the fact that the former Institut für Insektizide is now called Pest Control because wah wah, Anglicisms and what's becoming of the German language. SURPRISE, GUYS. NEITHER Institut nor Insektizide are originally German words...

Speaking of nationalistic antics, so Scotland apparently remains British. As I don't have to care about Scottish economy etc., I have to admit that I found the thought of a FREE AT LAST! Scotland kind of attractive. In a historical sense. But it seems to make sense to stick with GB, and so they do.
Amusingly, on Wednesday when the referendum was held, one of our (German!) TV channels was showing Braveheart and Highlander. They clearly had an Opinion, too...
oloriel: (marvin the paranoid android)


on October 13th, no wait, October 6th, which is tomorrow. (Linked removed due to potential phishiness.)

It's gonna "shake the entire planet", they say, but I expect we're not supposed to take that literally - as [livejournal.com profile] ladyelleth so aptly observed, if it were something catastrophic, they wouldn't have built a cutesy retro countdown page for it.

So! Hoax? Publicity gag? Life on other planets? A means for affordable space travel? EÄRENDIL? Come and speculate! Or we can just wait another 11 hours, of course.
I HOPE NASA ISN'T PURELY GOVERNMENT-FUNDED BECAUSE OTHERWISE, OOPS.

Yes, I know that's not a laughing matter. Excuse me, but I'm more busy weeping over the Lampedusa incident than I can be bothered to weep about pigheaded representatives of a people who'll run their country bankrupt and drag the world into Great Despression II 1/2. Pardon my German, but fickt Euch doch ins Knie.

[/political commentary in strike outs]
oloriel: (cut out this f*cking noise!)
... des heutigen Morgens.

Beim Lesen der Zeitung springt mich das Presse-Echo zum Auftakt des NSU-Prozesses ins Auge. Als Collage sieht man mehrere Zeitungs-Titelseiten, eher so aus dem Klatschpresse-Bereich (abgesehen von der taz; und bei den türkischen Zeitungen kann ich's mangels Sprachkenntnissen und Kulturwissen natürlich nicht beurteilen). Und der mir bislang nicht weiter bekannte, jetzt aber gleich unsympathische "Berliner Kurier" titel also fröhlich:
"NAZI-BRAUT: KALT WIE DER HASS"

"Nazi-Braut"? Da kommt mir ja mein Frühstück wieder hoch. Eine "Nazi-Braut" ist für mich, ähnlich wie eine "Rocker-Braut" oder "Gangster-Braut", ein dekoratives Anhängsel mit geringem eigenen Aktions-, Entscheidungs- oder Verantwortungsradius. Schlimm genug, wenn eine Frau sich so als "Weibchen" des wie-auch-immer-gearteten "starken Mannes" inszeniert, aber wenn ihr das reicht... ist das halt ihre Entscheidung. Jetzt war's aber die Entscheidung der entsprechenden Zeitung.
Die Zschäpe war aber nach allem, was wir bisher erfahren haben, keinesfalls nur eine willenlose, dekorative "Braut". Die war durchaus selbst verbrecherisch aktiv. Und sie dann als "Nazi-Braut" abzustempeln, ist einfach unangemessen. Ohne das jetzt irgendwie dignifizieren zu wollen. Die ist eine eigenständige Nazi. Soviel "Anerkennung" (in Ermangelung eines angemesseneren Wortes - das Gegenteil von Verharmlosung halt) muss gerade noch sein.
Und damit meine ich nicht, dass Nazi-tum anerkennenswert ist. Nur darum, dass die beiden Uwes ja auch nicht als "Nazi-Bräutigam" bezeichnet worden wären. (Ironischerweise vermutlich nicht mal dann, wenn das ihrer Rolle entsprochen hätte.)

Und ja, das mag jetzt irgendwie sinnlos sein, sich über die Herabwürdigung des verbrecherischen Tuns einer verbrecherischen Frau zu ärgern. Anerkennung für Verbrechen? Das klingt so... falsch. Aber ich kann's nicht ändern, ich tu's trotzdem.
Lieber Berliner Kurier: Frauen sind nicht nur "Bräute". Frauen können auch ganz selbstständig Scheiße bauen.
So.
Is doch wahr.
oloriel: (for delirium was once delight)


I apologise for the morbid subject line. I just couldn't resist. Yes, yes, I'm ashamed!

First things first:
A happy belated birthday, Yueni! )
For another dose of wanderlust...


A very happy birthday, Oshun! )
Can't offer a Finrod, but here, have a symbolic picture of blossoms through a broken window!

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The funeral (well, case of death), just to make up the title, is Margaret Thatcher's. No, I'm not a fan of her politics (as little as I know of them!). I still think that the people currently singing "Ding dong, the witch is dead" are assholes. (As my mother so aptly put it, "If she'd been male, would they have found a vicious song, too?") Oh well. Maybe I only care because I just proofread my brother's thesis ("British Educational Policies Under Margaret Thatcher") a couple of weeks ago. Now, it has become possibly the very last academic paper about The Iron Lady (TM) without a deathdate...

(I again apologise for hijacking your birthday post, [livejournal.com profile] yueni and [livejournal.com profile] heartofoshun.)
oloriel: (random - blind patriotism)


What was Sasha Obama doing there all the time? SMSing? Twittering? General bratting? Either way, I found her kind of irritating. Yes, you're a teenager. You're also under international surveillance, so how about not misbehaving for two hours?

So, was Obama's tongue-knot bad enough to warrant a fifth oath?

The choir was good, but I hated the arrangement - sounded like a bloody Disney song, you practically saw the singing deer and rabbits prance all over the National Mall. Or maybe a musical. BATTLE HYMN, PEOPLE.

Nice speech. Basically, translating to "Compromise days are over, no need to get re-elected, dear opposition, prepare to be pissed off"?
oloriel: (tried to get life; download terminated.)


One of my mother's childhood stories is how she came home from school one day and her neighbour was leaning out of the window and shouted "The pope is dead!"
And my mother went "Hah hah, yeah, six weeks ago."

The year was 1978 (how I wish I was in Sherbrooke now --- sorry), and there was, indeed, a papacy that lasted just a few weeks.

Seen like that, one and a half years of federal presidency don't look that shabby anymore, I suppose. But my goodness, we're rather going through heads of state right now, aren't we? Not that it's a genuinely important post, but it's still looking... odd. Instable, sort of. Banana republic.

I guess the funniest thing is that when Wulff was elected, there were many comments along the lines of "Yeah, he's boring, but at least he's too boring for scandals." Oh, hindsight!

And that's really all I've got to say on that topic, because I cannot even express how disinterested I am. Shame on me, yeah, I know, but... well. It's only the head of state, not the head of government, after all... ^^

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*Very often, I find it hard to come up with a subject line for my posts. This time, the only trouble was deciding for one.
oloriel: (how does this thing work?)


(particularly in the light of the Megaupload arrests)
but either way I found this graphic (found via [livejournal.com profile] allamistako) quite intriguing.
What mainly intrigues me is that so many opponents showed up out of the blue after (I assume?) the Wikipedia Blackout. I mean, 15 Members of Congress appear to have changed camps according to that graphic, but where did the other 55 come from? From the realm of "I don't care", or maybe from "I didn't know", that's where...

I guess this once again shows my Nerd Bubble glasses - when the Blackout started, and all those links appeared to "Why SOPA/PIPA is harmful", I was thinking "Yeaaaaaaah we know it already". Except that apparently, many people, presumably including those 15 + 55 Members of Congress (or the people who phoned, mailed or messaged them) really didn't know already. Mental note: Really don't take common web knowledge for granted, it is still just as exotic as common sense is.

Along those lines I guess I might rant again about a line in the Stern magazine, concerning "the illustrious web community" and the plagiarism case around our ex-Minister of Defense: The old spiel how the very web community that brought Guttenberg down is itself all about violating copyright, ZOMG TEH DOUBLE STANDARDS.
Let me explain it again, idiots: TWO. DIFFERENT. KETTLES. OF. FISH.
Guttenberg's actions would be comparable to "the illustrious web community" if he'd scanned, pdf-ed and uploaded some (possibly absurdly expensive) Law Studies book, saying "Here, this is [Law Studies Book] by [Name of Author/Editor], enjoy, hope it helps with your exams, spread the word".
Instead, his actions are comparable to a member of the web community who uploaded a cracked version of - say - Dragon Age, saying "Here, this is a little game I programmed last weekend, enjoy, hope you like it, spread the word"...
which would result in scorn and a good take-down. As it did. No double standard there. THIS IS NOT A DIFFICULT CONCEPT. So why will you not understand it?

Oh right. Nerd Bubble. I forgot. :P

ETA: [livejournal.com profile] samtyr links to an interesting...campaign? Don't know what to call it. Interesting, anyway. And not hard to participate in (even though Crucible of Gold comes out in March ;)), really. So, worth considering?
oloriel: (tried to get life; download terminated.)


Heute unser Gaststar: N24!

Schlagzeile in den Nachrichten: Polizei darf kein E10 tanken!

Äh... joa. Wer ein Dieselfahrzeug fährt, sollte in der Tat kein E10 tanken.
Normales Super aber auch nicht...

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Was mich an einen Aufreger letzte Woche erinnert!

Da las ich in einer großen deutschen Wochenzeitung, deren Name zweifelsohne an eine große britische Tageszeitung angelehnt ist, wie seltsam es doch sei, dass Guttenberg ausgerechnet von der "Netzgemeinde" (wer immer das sein soll) so gejagt wurde, wo er doch eigentlich nur das getan habe, was doch im Netz gang und gäbe wäre, so von wegen Raubkopiererei und so.

Äh... nein.
Was Guttenberg getan hat, entspricht einem Internet-Nutzer, der - sagen wir mal - die PJ-Version der Herr der Ringe-Trilogie hochlädt mit dem Kommentar "Guckt mal der geile Film, den wir beim letzten LARP gedreht haben".

So jemand würde auch als Mitglied der Netzgemeinde (zu Recht) aufs Maul kriegen. Also im übertragenen Sinne. Mindestens beißender Spott, vermutlich aber auch jede Menge Flames und Drohugen. Am Ende würde der Server zusammenbrechen und der Account des betreffenden Users gelöscht. Danach müsste der/die Schuldige untertauchen bzw. unter anderem Namen wieder von vorn anfangen. Jeder, der schon mal ein zünftiges Fandom-Drama um "geklaute" Fanfic mitbekommen hat, weiß, dass auch im Internet großer Wert darauf gelegt wird, Urheber, Autoren, Regisseure und sonstige Quellenschaffende zu würdigen. Und wenn's nur um Livejournal-Icons geht.

Guttenberg hätte getan, was "im Netz gang und gäbe" ist, wenn er irgendein schweineteures Jura-Standardwerk komplett gescannt, verpdft und kostenlos ins Internet gestellt hätte*. Mit - wohlbemerkt - dem richtigen Titel und mit Nennung des/der Autor/en - nur eben so, dass jede Menge Leute darauf zugreifen könnten, ohne Geld dafür zu zahlen.

Hatter aber nich.

Hat also nix miteinander zu tun.

Glückwunsch, liebe Zeit - schön versucht, Bezüge herzustellen, und gleich schön totale Ahnungslosigkeit bewiesen.

Aber mittlerweile erwarte ich eigentlich von einer bestimmten Generation/ Art Leute gar keine Internet-Kompetenz mehr. Es reicht eben nicht, ein Facebook zu haben oder "ab in die Cloud" zu gehen, um sich auszukennen. Um ein Mitglied der ominösen "Netzgemeinde" zu werden, muss man schon tiefer eingetaucht sein. Auch im Internet ist Oberflächlichkeit nicht hilfreich...

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Vielleicht sollte ich doch eine Karriere im Journalismus anstreben. Nicht, weil's da so toll ist, sondern um's besser zu machen... :p

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*Ja, ich weiß, das ist in mindestens zweierlei Hinsicht ein höchst unrealistisches Szenario. Ich sag ja auch nur "wenn"...
oloriel: (Uni - schlechte Zeiten)


... macht aber Spaß.*

Als Magistrandinerin, die ihre Arbeit in heiliger Furcht vor Plagiatsvorwürfen verfasst hat, und vor allem als Inhaberin eines so genannten Gerechtigkeitssinns, der sich erst so richtig aufregt, wenn man eine große Sache mit Hinweis auf die Kinder in Afrika die blutenden Soldaten in Afghanistan kleinreden will, gebe ich es ganz offen zu: JA, ICH LACHE!

Fehler können passieren, aber dann muss man eben auch konsequent handeln. Und nicht wochenlang rumeiern, bis nix mehr geht. Frau Dr. (HAH!) Käßmann hat das vor einem Jahr sehr schön vorgemacht...

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Das Schöne an der Affäre ist: Meine leider nur mittelmäßige, dafür aber selbst recherchierte, selbst verfasste und korrekt zitierende Magisterarbeit wächst mir nun langsam doch wieder ans Herz. Immerhin habe ich nebenher ja noch einen Halbtagsjob gehabt und an den Wochenenden ein Haus renoviert...
Das ganze verfrustete letzte halbe Jahr ist rehabilitiert. DANKE, Herr Guttenberg!²

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*Zuerst gesehen bei [livejournal.com profile] frogspace, hier.
²Ja, Guttenberg, nicht zu Guttenberg, "wir sind schließlich keine Österreicher."³
³[livejournal.com profile] degu_aus_stahl in einem LJ-Kommentar, 01.März 2011, OP friends only.
4"Schadenfreude". In: Whitty, Jeff, Robert Lopez und Jeff Marx, 2003. Avenue Q.
oloriel: (firefly - Irony bites)


Gerade läuft (war ja klar) ein ziemlich tendenziöses Interview mit Stefan Mappus, also dem Ministerpräsidenten von BaWü, der ja irgendwie irgendwo total verantwortlich ist für das Debakel gestern.

Und der Mensch hat gerade etwas gesagt, was ihn mir spontan --- SYMPATHISCH macht. Ja, sympathisch!

Und zwar kam die Frage, wieso er denn Stuttgart21 durchsetzen will, wo doch sogar die Frau Merkel schon gesagt hat, dass die Landtagswahl im nächsten März auch eine Entscheidung über Stuttgart21 sein wird, und ob es denn dieses Projekt wert sei, möglicherweise abgewählt zu werden.

Und da hat ENDLICH ENDLICH ENDLICH mal ein Politiker gesagt, dass man das davon nicht abhängig machen könne.

Mit anderen Worten: Er steht also zu dem, was er für richtig hält (egal, ob es das nun ist oder nicht), OBWOHL ihn das unpopulär macht und seine Wiederwahl gefährdet extrem unwahrscheinlich macht. Das tut mir so gut, nachdem ich mir anderthalb Jahre lang eine hin-und-her-taktierende Regierung antun musste, die bloß nichts entscheiden wollte, weil ja noch NRW-Landtagswahlen anstanden und man es sich ja mit niemandem verderben wollte...

Dafür also - völlig unabhängig davon, was man von Stuttgart21 halten mag; ich halte es für Schwachsinn, kann mir aber auch nicht vorstellen, dass die pöhse Polizei gestern völlig unmotiviert gehandelt hat, bei aller Liebe - hat der Mann meine Hochachtung.

So, das musste vielleicht auch mal gesagt werden.

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