German energy giant RWE has begun dismantling a wind farm to make way for a further expansion of an open-pit lignite coal mine in the western region of North Rhine Westphalia.

I thought renewables were cheaper than coal. How is this possible?

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    the only people trivializing fascism are those who see fascism symbology like the swastika, Black Sun, various nordic runes, etc on the soldiers they’re egging on and go “doesn’t look like anything to me!” while advocating for the double genocide theory

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      Have you any pictures of Azov with swastika, black sun, or such after they got integrated into the national guard?

      Or is that just a convenient propaganda line to make you support an imperial aggressor fielding tons of fascist militias, itself being a mafia state slowly but surely turning fascist?

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        Have you any pictures of Azov with swastika, black sun, or such since 2014?

        The Black Sun and Wolfsangel have been right on their fucking shit rag of a flag until last year, you fascist turd.

        JFC the entire first page of your comments is nothing but nazi apologia, fick dich du kranke Faschosau.

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          Hey rember when they just got those new leopard tanks and some rascal painted a bunch of iron crosses on them, which libs insisted was from obscure world War 1 battalion and not where literally everybody knows the iron cross from, to the point the German government said they weren’t gonna keep giving them weapons if that shit didn’t stop

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          The black sun got removed in 2015, this is the new one. But, go on, spin random bullshit.

          JFC the entire first page of your comments is nothing but nazi apologia

          Yeah I happen to be arguing with another fascism-trivialising hexbear idiot in another thread.

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              Panzergrenadierbattalion 13 of the Bundeswehr (1980-1992, dissolved because cold war over). You’ll find it in more insignia not to mention coat of arms of towns but that one is closest to Azov in the sense that it’s simply a singular Wolfsangel. At least among the ones I could find within 10 seconds of googling.

              The Wolfsangel is not a Nazi symbol as such. If you want to outlaw everything the Nazis ever used then nothing would be left, including the Antifa flags because they totally did try to appropriate those. They’re getting off on that shit and you seem to be willing to play right into their hands.

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                It’s a neo-Nazi symbol because neo-Nazis like to use it.

                https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/wolfsangel

                Arguing “well actshually they used a bunch of different symbols” is more Nazi apologia since very few symbols were used as widely by the Nazis as the swastika or the wolfsangel. There’s a reason you don’t see neo-Nazis tattooing antifa flags on their bodies.

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                  In the US, that might be true. Germany doesn’t recognise it as such (page 82, “only illegal in connection with outlawed organisations, otherwise legal”), and neither does Ukraine. Context matters.

                  You can consider it more akin to the Iron Cross, just less common, which the ADL has a much better take on: “[…] an Iron Cross in isolation (i.e., without a superimposed swastika or without other accompanying hate symbols) cannot be determined to be a hate symbol. Care must therefore be used to correctly interpret this symbol in whatever context in which it may be found.”

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                    So they change their flag from one symbol widely used by Nazis to another symbol widely used by Nazis, but somehow that doesn’t make them Nazis.

                    Care must therefore be used to correctly interpret this symbol in whatever context in which it may be found

                    The context is it’s a widely-known Nazi symbol on a flag for a battalion whose members frequently express neo-Nazi views. What other fucking context do you need?