The dirty secret is that Rheinmetal is now the most “valuable” company in Germany. Politicians skew more pro-israeli-gov than the general population (which is saying something!) and I strongly suspect the military industrial complex to be the reason why.
I don’t follow German politics that closely, so I’ve probably missed something, but how was Baerbock involved in suppressing protests as Foreign Minister?
Her comments at the start of the genocide should be enough for her to lose her position in government. It is really sickening and sad. But when it comes to German politicians, I don’t know any that are better.
Sadly she’s probably one of the more moderate Germans from the last government. Germany as a whole, learned the most narrow lesson from the Holocaust and Munich Olympics; which, you would think would be “Genocide bad”, but is actually “Israel good”.
At least Baerbock has acknowledged the suffering and declared that “Palestine belongs to Palestinians”. That’s such a low bar but the majority of Germans don’t clear that. It’s very sad, but what can you do?
For so long anything critical has been labelled antisemitic and sometimes also made illegal. The first news org in Germany to do Israel-gov critical reporting would end up in court and might lose it’s license.
Perhaps ironically, this is mocking a strawman. Flatpacks can be installed and managed using the terminal! Not only that but Linux-Distros have had graphical package managers for decades.
The primary reason that distros have embraced flatpack / snap / appimage is that they promise to lower the burden of managing software repositories. The primary reason that some users are mad is that these often don’t provide a good experience:
Theoretically they are also more secure… But reality of that has also been questioned. Fine grained permissions are nice, but bundling libraries makes it hard to know what outdated libraries are running on the systems.