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Thanks Germany, for doing your part to help Ukraine....
Article is From March 2022? >

I (genuinely) love the yellow bar on the articles page that clearly says:
“This article is over 9 months old” >

I remember in school when we were learning about citing sources we were told to check the author, the company they write for and also the date before using them in papers.
I guess OP didnt pay attention in history or lit. >


I guess OP didnt pay attention in history or lit.

i mean it's top post on the sub right now. OP's on par with 90% of readers and getting plenty of fake internet points to boot >

Also, OP posted it to a bunch of different subs. Very blatant karma tactic. >

Or they are just tryin' to make a change :/ >

Says the man in the mirror >

What a relief, I was beginning to be worried about the ethical implications of energy dependence on Russia. Thankfully that is all behind us now. >

Ethics is one thing, security is another- much of the world was willing to accept Russian human rights abuses as a necessary cost of business, it’s a different matter when the Russians are waging war and trying to redraw the world map. The Qataris aren’t going to be using German money to try to destroy the international order.
At any rate, even Qatari human rights abuses that do occur are less of an issue. Countries treating unskilled migrant labor poorly are unfortunately a frequent occurrence- Qatar’s issues are one of improving law enforcement and regulations, its society doesn’t require exploitive behavior to function (whereas Russian society is built on imperialism, and violent policy is inherent to their system). >

Sorry, doesn't require exploitative behaviour to live there? How many actual slaves died just building the fucking world cup pitch? >


Please tell us more about how slavery is actually a good thing.

What a weird thing to say. Slavery is always unacceptable. Be better. >


The Qatar world cup therefore saved lives.

You don't seem to think that. >

It did save lives though. This is unrelated to your other point, as the workers were not slaves. They worked voluntarily and made a material gain. Do you even know what slavery means? Are you equating paid employment with literal slaves? You are diminishing the struggles of actual slaves. Be better. >

I just posted a link with evidence that says exactly the opposite. Maybe you should read it. >

I (pre-emptively) posted a link with evidence that proved your link wrong. Maybe you should read it. >

Ah yes. Cut dependence on one shitty regime by going with a totally different shitty regime. >

an even shittier regime in fact >

I don't know about that, not since the war in Ukraine. >

Um. Qatar executes their LGBT+ population, women, infidels and its population is mostly made up of immigrant slave labourers who die in horrible working conditions (thats hiw the football stadium was built: slabe labour, many of whom died) 
As bad as Putinland is, its not at the level of Qatar. >

It’s getting better and it’s Islam so it’s a different culture. 
If there was a Republican majority we’d be in a very similar boat. >

What? The US had a republican majority via the Presidency, House, and Senate in 2017 and 2018, and homosexuality wasn't declared illegal much less anyone executed for it. >

No one was executed for it in Qatar either. 
Filibuster was the only thing protecting it. Republicans voted to not protect same sex marriage. They’re also anti workers rights too >

Come on now, I hate the US republican's, but there is a large difference between federally garunteeing same sex marriage (which Obama + a Dem majority didn't do in 2009-2010) and criminalizing homosexuality. 
Also we agree that US doesn't have great workers rights, but they do have significantly better than Qatar, even in times of Republican majorities and in the absolute redest of states. >

9 month old article. Karma farming much? >

"running with the deeeviiiil! Wahhyaaahyaaaheeeah!"
-Van Halen >

This reminded me of how hilarious the vocal track to that song is when played without the instruments. >

Lmao none of you twits read the article or noticed that it's over 9 months old smh. >

I just went to the drug store and got candles for this article's 1st birthday cake!
I'm sure we will get some cute pictures of it trying to stuff a fistful of frosting into its mouth >

"Germany decommissions orphan-crushing machine, switches to orphan-zapping machine instead" >

Oh good, stopped buying from Hitler and started buying from Mussolini >

To be fair, a nuclear power plant is not something that can be propped up in a few months or even years. A short term solution was needed here to cut ties with Russia. >

The hell happened to all the plants they shut down? >

No maintenance, no personnel, no fuel rods, no supply/disposal chain >

Its almost like dismantling functioning infrastructure in response to a reactionary panic is a bad idea. >

The same government that also torpedoed their domestic photovoltaic industry. Thanks merkel >

Remember when Germany reduced its Nuclear energy usage and ramped up dependence from hostile foreign regimes. Pepperidge farms remembers >

Well well what we got here? >

Better than destroying their landscape and farmland for some coal >

Driving out the Devil with Beelzebub? >

From one terrorist and human rights abusing scum country to another. Great job, Germany. >

Is Russia really worse than Qatar? >

Germany shouldn’t have closed those nuclear power plants. There’s nothing more they can do about it now but it’s still insane they plan on closing the remaining ones in April. Not that it’ll make a massive difference at this point but I’ve become completely disillusioned with Green Party short sightedness. >

It isn't just nuclear plants. Natural gas is also a feedstock for the chemical industry - fertilizer, polymers, medical etc. >

Out of the frying pan... >

Swap one evil for another >

It's even worse, a lot of poorer nations are finding it harder to acquire gas from Qatar, their regular supplier because a bunch of European countries are outbidding them. >

This is why Canada’s green agenda is stupid. Our green agenda should be forcing the gulf countries out of business while we become the suppliers to europe. Not vice versa. Us turning off our taps does nothing except allows the Americans, Russians and gulf countries to be the ones to meet the worlds oil demands. All those shit head countries. >

I guess the planet’s doomed anyway. Might as well profit off of it while we’re still here right? >

What should be targeted is oil consumption not production. Because if one country produces less oil, another country can just produce more. Humanity needs to stop consuming for there to be change. >

Yeah there needs to be a coordinated global effort to reduce consumption which is an enormous task. I just feel like an abundancy of oil on the market is going the other direction. Good for Canada’s economy of course. >

I don’t think trying to lead by example is going to accomplish anything personally. >

I’m with you there. >

lmao american redditors clamoring about how Qatar is a shitty regime when they still have slave labor in their prisons, the highest incarceration rate in any developed nation, more extrajudicial killings by cops than Qatar has any kind of executions at all, and that's not even going into the international mayhem the USA has caused for oil specifically. Still calling themselves the only "good" oil nation lmao >

We're just that much more qualified to know a slave state when we see one!
Side note- how in the hell did Norway manage to go from a poor farming country to a rich oil country, without becoming a shitty oil country? >

Government royalties not being squandered. >

Old article but still stands
Just
Build
A
Nuclear
Plant >

Oh we have plenty. Too bad we shut them down. >

Hopefully this deal is just in the meantime to transition Germany from gas. Both for humanitarian reasons and ecological reasons. >

im pretty sure it is.
the problem is that every deal brings countries closer together.