On December 24, 1914, German and British troops stationed across from each other in Belgium made an informal truce in defiance of their commanders.

The Germans began by singing; the British responded with English carols. Both sides shouted Christmas greetings across the wasteland. A few soldiers stuck their heads above the fortifications and, not being fired upon, made their way to meet in the middle. Soon the enemy combatants were exchanging gifts and embraces.

The truce enabled both sides to recover the bodies of their slaughtered comrades, which had been rotting in No Man’s Land. Soldiers of both armies mourned the dead together. The next day, everyone gathered for a football match. We can imagine how senseless the war must have felt that afternoon.

By January, the commanding officers regained control and the young men who had laughed, sang, cried, and played together were once again killing each other.

It is not insubordination that is dangerous, but obedience.

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Song of the day 😇🙏🏽: https://open.spotify.com/track/56GBItqD18Be9iN7zGqMX5?si=Y3UWzCuuSnigTZYjGYIpCQ

🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄For those of you who celebrate Christmas
a few reminders:💥💥💥

-Jesus stood up to authorities and people with a lot of power & money, who therefore
wanted to eliminate him.
He stood up for a for mindful interaction with one another & for social justice.

If he were alive today
alive today, he would probably be an activist who against borders, the climate crisis and capitalism, and the
would want to lock him up.
would want to lock him up.

-It was called "love your neighbour as yourself
yourself" and not "love your neighbour
as long as he has enough money & a German passport
and only love yourself if you have
enough"

-to speak out against racist, sexist or
or other discriminatory sayings at the
- discriminatory sayings at the Christmas table

"family peace" but it is important and
absolutely right.
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In 2023, over 2500 people drowned in the Mediterranean because the EU
hinders sea rescue & blocks safe
blocked escape routes. The right to asylum is being
abolished more and more and there is
- against refugees. If you
love your neighbour even a little bit
serious, then show solidarity with people
people who have to flee, who are losing their lose their homes due to the climate crisis, all those who suffer from the injustices - of this system.

Your own problems (financial difficulties
difficulties, overwork,...) do not go away
not go away from the fact that you are
others, but that we work together
for a fairer world.

Have a nice & relaxing time
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TIL that there is an exposed breast on flag of the US state of Virginia. It was added to the flag in 1901 when the then secretary of the commonwealth of Virginia felt Virtus, the Roman goddess of virtue featured on the flag, who at the time wore a full breast plate, looked too manly. [source, comments]

TIL that 50% of vinyl record buyers in the U.S. don’t own a record player to play their vinyl on. [source, comments]

"Wir regeln die Klimakrise nach wie vor mit Überkonsum. Doch eigentlich bräuchten wir grundlegend weniger Konsum. Eben, eine grundlegende systemische Transformation."

Warum uns diese Klimaexpertin Hoffnung macht im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel https://www.watson.ch/!118535322

I'm a descendant of a 3.7 billion years-old chain of successful survivors. Vast majority of them are not human.

Arms exports at historic high in 2023

Germany has exported more weapons around the world this year than ever before. This is the result of a small question to the Bundestag.

According to the question, the German government approved arms exports worth 11.7 billion euros.
The previous record of 9.35 billion from 2021 was thus exceeded by a quarter. Compared to 2022, even by 40%.

Around a third of arms exports are accounted for by Ukraine alone, to which weapons worth over 4 billion euros were exported.

Weapons worth hundreds of millions of euros were also exported to countries such as Hungary, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Arms exports to Israel in particular have increased tenfold this year.

The increase in arms exports is a direct result of the "turnaround" of the traffic light government. With it, the decades-old principle of not supplying weapons to war zones was abandoned.