Thanks to US vaccine imperialism and the top to bottom failure of the federal and state governments to contain omicron, it's looking more and more like the end game for COVID will be that a less virulent but highly transmissible strain will become endemic in the population, and we'll just live with it. Getting COVID will just be like getting a regular winter cold, except every now and then it just kills somebody horribly.
It will likely kill more people annually than the flu, but not so many more that we really notice it. And this will be an entirely avoidable outcome that will have been made inevitable by the intransigence of a few powerful stakeholders to freely share our vaccines with the rest of the world, and the stubborn insistence of a sullen, reactionary minority that their individual "freedom" to go to Target maskless and be waited on at Applebee's like they're in an episode of Downton Abby, and of course to not get vaccinated if they personally don't feel sure about it, was worth every bit of the death and misery they caused.
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Mit den GrĂŒnen Nyke Slawik und Tessa Ganserer ziehen erstmals zwei trans Frauen ins Parlament ein. Sie wollen sich in queerpolitischen Fragen engagieren - aber nicht nur.
Germany elected two trans women into the Bundestag for the first time.
Translation:
Nyke Slawik and Tessa Ganserer are the first trans women in the Bundestag
With the Greens Nyke Slawik and Tessa Ganserer, two trans women enter parliament for the first time. They want to get involved in queer political issues - but not only.
Nyke Slawik and Tessa Ganserer from the Green Party made history in the Bundestag elections: they were the first trans women to enter parliament.
Although Ganserer was far behind the CSU direct candidate Sebastian Brehm in her constituency of Nuremberg-North, she had nevertheless secured her place on the state list of the Bavarian Greens. âI am still overwhelmed, but I am really looking forward to my new task in Berlin,â Ganserer tweeted on Monday morning with the hashtag #QueerReprĂ€sentanzMatters [translates to: Queer representation matters].
Nyke Slawik also entered via her list position. She comes from NRW, her constituency was in Leverkusen, where SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach won the direct mandate.
âI have meanwhile received congratulations from Poland, the UK and the USA. Our trans election success is going around the world,â Slawik wrote on Twitter on Monday night.
There has only been one trans MP in the Bundestag so far, Christian Schenk of the Left Party, but Schenk only came out after his term of office ended in 2002. Victoria BroĂart of the Green Party and Ria Cybill Geyer (Brandenburg) of the SPD were other trans women on the electoral lists for the 2021 elections, but they did not make it into parliament.
Tessa Ganserer joined the Greens because of âclassic environmental issuesâ such as mobility policy and nature conservation. âThey drove me to do politics for years, and I didnât give up these interests when I came out,â she said in an interview with the Tagesspiegel, âmy heart beats for the forestâ. This was already evident in her early years before her political career, when she completed an apprenticeship as a forester.
Ganserer still sees many gaps in the law on queer issues
The 44-year-old is also the queer policy spokesperson for the Green Partyâs parliamentary group in Bavaria and has championed the interests of the queer community in recent years. She sees the biggest gaps in the law on parentage, which discriminates against lesbian, non-binary and trans parents, and the âdegrading transsexual lawâ, which Ganserer says needs to be replaced by a self-determination law.
âThe fact that I have to go before a judge so that the state accepts me as I am; that I have to endure psychological assessments; that I have to put up with degrading questions, that is against human dignity and violates the right to self-determination of the Basic Law,â Ganserer said.
She herself was listed on the ballot papers in the federal election with her deadname, i.e. the first name she has renounced. Her female first name âTessaâ was merely in brackets. She wrote on Twitter that the mention of her deadname had âexceeded the level of humiliationâ. As a result, she applied to change her legal name and gender according to the so-called âTranssexual Law.â
She also wants to remain true to her core topic: the environment
With regard to trans people, Ganserer also calls for a legally anchored right to medical care in addition to a reform of this law. What is also needed, she says, are nationwide regulations for financial support for families with same-sex parents wishing to have children and a reform of the General Equality Act. Anti-discrimination offices should also receive more support.
However, Ganserer also wants to remain true to her core topic, the environment. In the interview she said: "It would be a real thrill for me to be allowed to make policy on these issues for the Greens in the Bundestag.â
Nyke Slawik calls for more diversity among MPs
At 27, Nyke Slawik belongs to a different generation than Ganserer. Slawik told the Tagesspiegel before the election that more diversity is needed among MPs so that there are finally people sitting there who not only talk about different realities of life, but also know them and can empathise with them.
Slawik was not only alluding to the fact that she is trans. She also alluded to her family background: she comes from a working-class family, her parents met as machinists. She was the first in the family to go to university.
She herself was often âuncomfortableâ being âso much in the spotlight because of my identity. But there is so little visibility and so much legal discrimination that I have decided to deal with it head-on,â said Slawik. She hopes âthat today we can open a new chapter of self-determination in politics and end the years of infantilisation of queer peopleâ, she tweeted on the election night.
wenn aschenbrödel einen schwarm tauben mit âmeine freundeâ begrĂŒĂt und in ihre kĂŒche lĂ€sst, ist es âsooo romantischâ, aber wenn ich es mache, ist es âunhygienischâ und âwas stimmt mit dem alten mann nichtâ smh
algeria is really in the pits right now. weâre suffering from water shortages, COVID cases are at an all time high, and now weâre dealing with horrible fires across the kabyle region to the point where the fumes and heat has reached algiers. please donate to support the victims of the fire, most are elderly and find it difficult to evacuate as itâs a village and doesnât have the same resources as a large town or city. keep us in your prayers.
Meine Mutter hatte mich vorhin darauf hingewiesen, das nach den Wahlen im September die Preise wieder erhöht werden, worauf hin ich das natĂŒrlich direkt mal gegoogelt habe und das einzige was ich finden konnte waren Artikel ĂŒber die preisenden Spritpreise. Die ĂŒbrigens mindestens alle 3-6 Monate erhöht werden, weshalb ich persönlich auch nicht verstehe warum die GrĂŒnen der Meinung sind, dass weitere Preiserhöhungen irgendwem weiter helfen sollen. Vor allem wenn man bedenkt das die Preise fĂŒr Bus und Bahn auch jedes Jahr steigen.
Ich war schon oft genug in Situationen in denen ich kein Geld mehr fĂŒr ein Ticket oder wenigstens 1/4 Tank hatte. Trotzdem weiĂ ich aber auch das mein relativ junges Alter und auch die UnterstĂŒtzung meiner Familie ein groĂes Privileg ist. Dem entsprechend kann ich es mir auch nur schwer vorstellen, wie es sein muss als Rentner in Armut zu leben und auf öffentliche Verkehrsmittel angewiesen sein zu mĂŒssen, oder wie es Menschen mit Behinderungen, die in Ă€hnlichen VerhĂ€ltnissen leben, gehen muss.
Ich meine, Autos sind schon ein ganz schöner Luxus, immerhin muss man Steuern, Versicherungen, Sprit, Reparaturen etc zahlen.. und trotzdem brauchen viele Menschen mit geringem Einkommen, ein Auto. Mich eingeschlossen.
Deshalb finde ich es so unglaublich bescheuert, dass man der Meinung sei dem Normalverbraucher noch mehr Geld aus den Taschen zu nehmen wĂ€re die Lösung fĂŒr absolut alle Probleme.
Es gibt so viele Studien und Beobachtungen, und was weiĂ ich nicht alles, die alle beweisen, dass Strafen niemandem helfen. AuĂer vielleicht dem Staat, der allerdings dafĂŒr verantwortlich sein sollte die BĂŒrger zu unterstĂŒtzen und zu helfen. Was mich dazu bringt, dass uns genau solche Hilfsprogramme fehlen! Ja, du kannst staatliche Hilfe beantragen, aber es dauert MONATE bis du eine Antwort bekommst. Und was machst du dann wĂ€hrend du auf eine Antwort wartest, die eventuell am Ende ein Nein ist? Und was tust du wenn der Staat dir keine Hilfe leisten will?
Um auf die Spritpreise zurĂŒck zu kommen: wenn die GrĂŒnen und wer auch immer sonst noch so unendlich schiss davor haben, dass die Welt untergeht weil die Leute zu viel Auto fahren, sollte man vielleicht anfangen nach vernĂŒnftigen Alternativen zu suchen. Wie zum Beispiel kostenlose öffentliche Verkehrsmittel. Es gibt Studien die bezeugen, das solche Projekte viel Zuspruch bekommen.
NatĂŒrlich wĂŒrde es am CO2 AusstoĂ nichts Ă€ndern, aber es wĂ€re eine spĂŒrbare Entlastung fĂŒr die Menschen.
Auf jeden Fall habe ich noch einmal eine deutsche Studie mit reingenommen, die angeblich das Gegenteil beweisen soll, allerdings denke ich persönlich das diese Studie kaum Halt hat, wenn man bedenkt, dass es nur durch einen Simulator getestet wurde. In Frankreich hingegen wurde es in der RealitÀt umgesetzt.
Und da eine Umstellung der Klimakrise nicht helfen wĂŒrde, denke ich das man in dem Falle darauf gucken sollte wer und was (MilliardĂ€re z.B.) tatsĂ€chlich fĂŒr die Krise verantwortlich ist und was diejenigen dagegen tun mĂŒssen.
Die Schuld in die Schuhe des Normalverbrauchers zu schieben ist so ein unglaublich ekelhaftes Verhalten. Vor allem wenn darauf achtet wie krass verschiedene Marken momentan mit Green washing werben, wÀhrend sie sich weigern tatsÀchlich ethisch zu arbeiten.
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