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Today — 9 October 2025Main stream

In Germany’s Depressed East, Tanks Are the Lesser of Two Evils

9 October 2025 at 12:01
Even leaders from the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which opposes aid to Ukraine, have embraced the jobs that come with new weapons production.

© Matthias Wehnert/Imago, via Alamy

An armored transport vehicle at the Alstom factory in Görlitz, Germany, this year. The company KNDS has taken over the plant, which used to produce train cars, to instead make tanks and other military vehicles.
Yesterday — 8 October 2025Main stream

Voters Favor Deporting Those in U.S. Illegally, Poll Finds, but Say Trump Has Gone Too Far

A Times/Siena survey shows that a majority of voters believe the Trump administration is deporting mostly the right people, even as a majority also say the process has been unfair.

© Paul Ratje for The New York Times

About 80 people being deported to Guatemala sit aboard a U.S. Air Force plane in January awaiting departure from Fort Bliss, Texas.
Before yesterdayMain stream

France’s Government Is Gone (Again). What Comes Next?

7 October 2025 at 03:46
President Emmanuel Macron could appoint a new prime minister. But he is under increasing pressure to call new parliamentary elections.

© Pool photo by Stephane Mahe

A microphone was set up in a courtyard in Paris on Monday before Sébastien Lecornu’s announcement that he was resigning as prime minister.

苟富贵

By: fivestone
6 September 2023 at 02:33

最近好几次在对话里,见到类似的思路。譬如

:你不用担心瓶盖的密封是不是靠谱,泡在洪水里是否受污染。这个工艺已经很成熟了,制造商都在卷。如果某一家做的不靠谱,被人发现了,它家自然会倒闭的。所以大家都会靠谱的。

又或者

:手游公司肯定会出这个角色的,毕竟很多人想要。公司要赚钱的啊。

这样的思路并不难反驳,譬如

  • 把群体趋势和个体行为混淆;
  • 监管都未必能保障的事,「用脚投票」就能做到?
  • 大环境下,是否所有人都以「赚钱」为目的?

但我更关心的,不是这些话题本身是什么答案,而是,说话的人,是怎样不暇思索地,用这种新自由主义的思路,来解决问题的?——或者说,潜意识里以为祭起了这个思路,就可以解决问题的?

毕竟,在这种思路的对话里,近期给我印象最深的是——

:我们(在上海疫情封城期间)过的很好啊。毕竟,只要小区物业想赚钱,他们终归会想方设法提供各种服务,把我们照顾好的啊。

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