We’ll have an election in a few days here in Germany. And we’re already stumbling. The polls don’t look wo good.

Heh PLA. While it is made from starch it’s also not (really) biodegradable, it just is in a very controlled environment.

And PLA still is plastic.

I personally absolutely agree of getting rid of that shit. I just said there are big hurdles, and you need to do so in a very organized and based on proof way.

You can’t just outlaw them because you don’t like them, that doesn’t work. Germany having laws against hate speech doesn’t mean there’s not also a law about freedom of expression in the Grundgesetz.

You need to prove them to be against democracy in a watertight way. That’s what I mean with not willy-nilly.

Or as I read it once: Democracy implicitly protects its enemies.

Quite contrary, we have a big problem censoring Nazi speech.

We have some very specific rules when something can be censored and when it can’t - and the far right has quite some training in “just not saying that, maybe only implicating it a little”.

So any legal action outlawing then needs to rest on really solid legal basis or it will fail. Such a failure would be the propaganda the right wishes for.

Consequently they are always just shy of openly saying things but implying them. Like having election posters where their politicians can say “No we’re not showing a Hitler salute in that image, we were just miming a roof of a house over a bunch of kids”

Sometimes a single politician gets caught with doing something too far, but then (of course) the whole party acts like they are shocked.

Getting rid of this shit is not easy, unfortunately. We can’t censor what we don’t like willy nilly.