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Emanuel Boeminghaus reported that a supervisor at a SIXT station in Palma de Mallorca had pointed out a small damage on his driver's license. A week earlier, he had rented a vehicle in Salzburg without any issues using the same document. After Boeminghaus referred to the situation as "kindergarten," he was reportedly denied further service according to his report. His request to be served by another employee was also declined because the colleague in question was the supervisor. Renting with his girlfriend's driver's license was also not possible. The situation occurred in front of his wife and their frightened child. Boeminghaus wrote that he acknowledges that SIXT has the right to check driver's licenses and refuse rentals when there are justified doubts. However, he criticized the handling of the disagreement and the refusal to let another employee review his case. From his perspective, the location has a significant problem in dealing with customers and complaints. He expects professionalism and an objective approach to conflicts from an international rental car company. #SIXT #Kundendienst #Mallorca (translated)

Cem Özdemir warns the Berlin Greens against forming a government with the Left Party, as such an alliance, in his opinion, would not bring a blessing and criticizes their plans for expropriation as well as anti-Semitic statements from some members. #Özdemir #Bündnis90DieGrünen #Linkspartei (translated)

The author wrote that the police rang the bell at ZEIT and demanded research material. He protested against this and accused the newspaper of always being at the forefront in combating the freedom of other opinions while standing alongside the state authority. https://t.co/UfGISyF5bM #Freiheit #Meinungsfreiheit #Pressefreiheit #DE (translated)

LilitThyra asked if anyone could provide convincing evidence that Zelensky is interested in peace. In her opinion, both Zelensky and most EU heads of state are equally uninterested in peace. She claimed that the war serves to maintain power and allows for the movement of funds and earning money through investments in the arms industry. According to her depiction, if peace were to occur, the flow of money into Ukraine and to Zelensky would dry up, and elections would take place. Zelensky would lose these, lose everything, and have to disappear; thus, the entire operation would be exposed, she wrote. #Frieden #Ukraine #Politik (translated)

Emanuel Boeminghaus wrote that since 2019, 300,000 flights have been removed from the schedule at German airports, while aviation in Europe is booming. The consequences for the location are severe, he reported to the Welt. Boeminghaus described the development as deliberately brought about and ideologically driven disaster, for which Angela Merkel's politics are also partly responsible. He has already published a YouTube video about it and urged his followers to watch it. https://t.co/39mGEwQ46W #Luftfahrt #Flughafen #Politik (translated)

It was always clear that there must be an equivalent replacement – and there isn't one. Hergovich once again brings up the tragic death of a 14-year-old from Upper Austria in his short speech, who, in Hergovich's opinion, might still be alive if an emergency doctor had been deployed quickly. #Notarzt #Purkersdorf #Gesundheitsreform (translated)

Daniela Seidel wrote that sharing content that glorifies violence is punishable. However, documenting a brutal act of violence and disseminating it out of outrage is not automatically glorification of violence. Section 131 of the German Penal Code explicitly exempts reporting on current events, she wrote. A blanket threat of punishment strikes her as an attempt to intimidate the public and critical voices. #Gewalt #Meinungsfreiheit #SozialeMedien (translated)

Sally Rooney's books are temporarily no longer being sold in the UK, as her publisher Faber has halted deliveries due to her financial support for the group Palestine Action, which is classified as a terrorist organization, in order to avoid legal consequences. #SallyRooney #Meinungsfreiheit #PalestineAction (translated)

Yvonne Kussmann wrote that the French teacher Samuel Paty was murdered on October 16, 2020, in the Paris suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine by an 18-year-old Chechen. The 47-year-old regularly addressed Mohammed cartoons from Charlie Hebdo in class regarding freedom of speech. A Muslim student, who according to Kussmann was not present during the relevant class, felt offended in her religion and told her father about it. According to Kussmann, the father urged Muslims to take action against Paty and spread a video about him. An Islamist who was already known to the police in France supported the call. The later perpetrator, Abdullah Ansorov, learned about the incident through the video, asked students about Paty's habits, and offered money for information. On October 16, he confronted Paty on his way home and beheaded him with a 35-centimeter-long knife; shortly thereafter, he was shot by the police. Kussmann regarded the case as a sign of the advanced influence of Islam in European schools. She also wrote that Paty had been reported for distributing pornographic materials to minors and had in turn filed a complaint for defamation. The reaction from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sparked outrage: he had not commented for 14 days and then stated that freedom of expression is not limitless and should not harm anyone. #SamuelPaty #Meinungsfreiheit #Islam2020 (translated)

Christiane Pabst, editor-in-chief of the Austrian Dictionary, believes that teenagers today have a larger vocabulary than adults, even though they may be less familiar with outdated terms and fairy tales, and emphasizes that language is strongly connected to identity and cannot be adequately represented by AI. #Wortschatz #Jugendsprache #KünstlicheIntelligenz (translated)

Karoline Preisler wrote that in Germany people had demonstrated against a hijab ban in Azerbaijan. From this, she concluded that there is a group in society that considers women without headscarves to be impure. She expressed a different opinion on this, Preisler explained. #b1810 https://t.co/vm3Z7f5vui #Freiheit #Menschenrechte #Gleichheit (translated)