Do narrow waterways know how important they are for world peace?

What a paragraph to start with.

It’s really disheartening to see that we are increasingly not talking about the same thing anymore. There are infinite echo chambers now, all of them can be controlled and manipulated.

Wake up, new mystery just dropped

Tweeting feels so unnatural to me these days, and I'm kind of sad about it. I used to do this almost religiously five years ago.

I miss reading something without immediately reading something else.

Germany’s political debate right now is basically every party shouting at the public, “no, THEY’RE the ones who don’t take antisemitism seriously!!!!”

how they text in Chile

Hauptstadtjournalismus dieser Tage

This happens in the US too. The media reports on every crazy sounding thing Hasan Piker has said in probably thousands of hours of streaming, but Ben Gvir makes statements of genocidal intent over and over, to the point that the ICJ ruled on it, and nothing happens.

Why does a statement at a Die Linke event become evidence against the whole party, while statements by Israeli ministers are so often treated as individual views?

Tenants, migrants and younger voters can explain in their own words why Die Linke’s campaign spoke to them. That does not make social media a level playing field. It does mean established media can no longer assume that their account of an election will be the only one people hear.

For decades, major newspapers and broadcasters had enormous power to decide which political demands sounded reasonable. Social media has weakened that control.

Germany’s media debate is blurring the line between radical reform and an actual threat to democratic rights. That distortion ultimately benefits the far right.

When the topic of redistribution is treated as seriously as right-wing extremism, the political centre reveals what it considers most threatening: not the erosion of equal rights, but the redistribution of power and property.

Die Linke has earned its moment of glory. The difficult part comes next: turning first place into a government and turning campaign promises into material improvements for everyone who lives in Berlin, including those whom Berlin’s democracy still excludes.

And there is symbolism here too. Elif Eralp, the daughter of an immigrant family, led a left-wing party to first place while the AfD tried to turn migration and social problems into threats. Berlin chose a politics centred on rent, inequality and participation instead.

I cannot assume that people without voting rights would all support Die Linke. I also cannot assume that every non-voter feels represented by it. But Die Linke is more likely than the CDU or AfD to protect renters, low-income residents and people with a migration history.