Ich bin erstaunt, dass die so ein Essay in der FAZ schreiben durfte. Edit: brauche wohl eine Brille. Das war in der taz, nicht FAZ.

Och wieso? Eine von und zu habe ich auch erstmal im Verdacht, nur Steuern optimieren zu wollen. Ich bekomme auch ständig Videos wie “ab wann lohnt sich die Stiftung” in meinen YouTube-Feed rein. Heutzutage gehe ich davon aus, dass es ein paar tatsächlich wohltätige Stiftungen gibt und der ganze Rest unsere gesellschaftlichen Regeln zu ihrem nutzen missbrauchen.

I think that response was more insightful than he realised. Every Extremist planning something should take into account that the reaction might be much more than anticipated. But that also goes for the people doing the reaction. Israel likewise can’t control what people’s reaction to their actions will be.

Now isn’t that a missed opportunity. I wonder how the world would have shaped up if that guy hadn’t wriggled out of service, gone to Vietnam and bought the farm.

Come to think of it though, I doubt anyone would have let him anywhere near real weapons. Honest work in some backwater part of the logistics train might have done him some good though.

I think a significant number of states will now want to develop their own nuclear weapons. The US has been teaching people for the last 20 years that there is a significant difference in how they will treat countries that have the bomb like North Korea and those that haven’t, like Irak, Iran, Afganistan, Denmark and other NATO countries.

NATO countries I believe will mostly ralley around the UK and France. But even among them, in the medium run, I believe there might be some wanting their own. Turkey has just recently announced a missile that basically only makes sense as a nuklear weapon.

The rules based international relations was something making countries believe they don’t need nuclear weapons of their own. This premise doesn’t hold in the same way anymore. We’ll probably end up with 30-40 countries with nuclear weapons.

Dunno, the Patriot-in-Chief has his minions sell a phone with an American flag missing some stripes. Details, eh?

“insbesondere natürlich diejenigen, die es schon sind”

That’s fine, as long as the corporation does so without the aid of any other entity.

That last part is essential. People learn much more habits from observing people than from being told. Best one can do is be a good role model.

It’s the other way round. Trump repeated again and again and again that the borders were a problem until people believed it and believed it was something important.

That gave him something none substantive to run on without coming up with real policies.

Property taxes are local — they fund schools,

Funding schools by highly localized tax isn’t universal. The US adopted it to make sure less affluent areas have worse schools. I believe the UK does similar things, but they also want marked differences between public and private school alumnus.

but most that tried it abandoned it — capital flight and valuation headaches.

And most importantly: relentless lobbying by the wealthy to get rid of those taxes.

They’ll probably try to argue the war powers act “clock” resets with the name change: look, totally different operation, we have another 90 days… And if they get away with it, expect a new stupid name regularly.

I’m assuming the Chinese did a little psychological test and Trump turned out to be the little bastard without self control that eat the cookie while he thought noone was looking.

Das Problem ist, dass das zu oft der Fall ist. Wenn jemand reich wird, aber mehr als ausreichenden Gegenwert bereitstellt, ist ja alles in Ordnung. Wie viele Abteilungsleiter und höher sehen den Wert ihres Beitrags im Vordergrund und wie viele wollen selber möglichst viel haben und möglichst wenig selbst geben? Gäbe es nur erstere, hätten wir diese Diskussion gar nicht.

I see where your confusion comes from. You think you have a pancake there =) To me that looks more like a Austrian Kaiserschmarrn. Delicious, but how are you supposed to put a spread on that and roll it up?

Though your point stands that pancakes are just close approximations of proper crêpe. =)