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Va Gent's avatar

Glorious! The generational re-shaping of our world has begun, and will only continue to grow as the left grows weaker and more desperate, and it's spreading to the Americas as well.

However, always remember that all animals are at their most dangerous when cornered, and I wouldn't put it past the "Elites" to kick off WWIII with Putin as a distraction.

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Stuffysays's avatar

Luckily, Putin appears to actually be the only grown-up in the room so is unlikely to fall for the provocations

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Georgi's avatar

Putin is the only grown up in the room, but bare in mind he is not the only Russian in the room. If the hardliners in Russia take the upper hand at some point in time, within the next 2 years, we might be heading into a WW3 sooner than you think. Therefore I wish him good health and hope he is able to keep his position in power.

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carily myers's avatar

Amen

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John Bowman's avatar

Wouldn’t it be something if Putin and the Russians saved the West from itself?

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Good, True & Beautiful's avatar

He’s just playing his WEF role like all the rest. The system is bought and paid for, rotten to the core.

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Trevor Thistle's avatar

Even if right of centre politicians sweep over western nations with people-centred platforms, the elite find a way to subvert. The elite M.O. is to kill enemies by a thousand cuts over years. We could easily see this happened again in the next generation. The people need to be incentivize boxed and encouraged to engage as part of daily lives fe in the political process and shoring up our once great institutions.

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John Bowman's avatar

The only difference between centre-left and centre-right is one says potayto the other potahto. Those in the centre stand for everything and therefore nothing. The trouble with Europe is welfare statism - redistribution of wealth via the tax system and populations who vote for whoever offers them the most plunder from the treasury, so they can have lots of free stuff paid for by others. This used to be called greed and Socialism but now has a variety of nice sounding pseudonyms, like social democracy, liberal democracy, social justice, etc. There are too many people with no jobs, or jobs that produce nothing, create no wealth, living off those who do create wealth who are taxed to foot the bill. Failure is rewarded, success is punished.

The solution is abolish welfare statism, shut down government bureaucracy, return public services to the competitive, wealth creating private sector, stop borrowing and printing money. Unfortunately, it isn’t what people want - they want more of the nanny state, not less.

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Trevor Thistle's avatar

100%. I only stuck the label here for discussion. You are correct. And it has taken a couple generations to get here. If you talk to some young crowds and depending where, they are smarter than I originally gave them credit for. A lot of young people are pissed at the status quo and want change. They may not know exactly what they want right now but the spell of the status quo seems to be breaking on many which is a start. A good sign. It’s up to us to have them engaged and knowledgeable of the issues of the day that is and will be affecting them.

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Danno's avatar

They want a benevolent nanny state without the pathologies of corruption and overreach. Unfortunately that's impossible.

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Demeisen's avatar

Yes. It is a "ratchet" only one way. Which is why it is good to roll back progressivist actions when possible.

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Sarmange's avatar

The Elite of elites will be safe during a WWIII, while ticking off the population reduction thing.

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Danno's avatar

If that's their goal, they will be consumed by the fire they start.

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olgreenie's avatar

Yes, but it is a mistake to assume that it is in their nature to avoid that. They tend to be fearless and arrogant, and they have a lust for conflict and destruction. Relying on their "self-interest" continues to be a widespread error (not by you, but of the population).

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carily myers's avatar

Amen, I expect WWIII before Nov

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Va Gent's avatar

Or the "Bird Flu" pandemic that we're starting to hear about here in the states.

I don't think our populace will lock down again, ever.

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Wilma's avatar

Some eagerly await another siege of shelter-in-place orders!

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JPC's avatar

Plenty of clever idiots will!

Virtue signalling to their peers.

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Wilma's avatar

Some just want to sit around the house in their jammies all day!

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JPC's avatar

Well it's good for the planet (sarc)

Might help if they did the same for elections.

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Ravishing Rudey's avatar

Farage is completely useless of course. He is pure containment.

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Saturdaydancer's avatar

Britain is now officially a Banana Republic.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

No one wants to die in that meat grinder in Ukraine to support the corrupt Biden regime waging a proxy war to support the Military Industrial Complex, the corrupt and traitorous Pentagon, and the banksters.

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Sherry 1's avatar

I saw a video of a ‘Conscription Gang’ shoving a Ukrainian man around 50 y/o into a panel van. He was screaming that he had a child at home and other citizens helped free him. It is pathetic that NATO countries support this intentional, disgusting proxy war. Shame on ALL Western countries. This and migration war is purposeful chaos to keep our eyes off the real problem. The Globalists at the UN, WHO, WEF and NGO’s.

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Phil Davis's avatar

Yep, they are sacrificing Ukrainians as foder to the war they created. The goal is to soften up Russia before a NATO attack. Over 500000 Ukrainians have died; I don't know how many were maimed.

Merkel of Germany even stated on video that the Minsk peace agreement was only signed to give time for Ukraine to build a military to fight Russia—a military built by the West.

Did you see yesterday that in Congress, they are firing up the Draft, increasing ages, and including females? European countries are further ahead in the draft legislation, too. So soon, we will have vans pulling young girls into them not for some nefarious sexual plot but to draft into war—the full brunt of woman lib.

As we learned from the Kings of the past, war always sunk a nation. Now we have Neocons from both parties in the US who are even worse. These Neocons must be eliminated.

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Bizarro Man's avatar

Don’t you understand? We have to get ready to put the Chinese in their place. They made the fatal mistake of not following orders.

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carily myers's avatar

lol

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Danno's avatar

Ask Napoleon and Hitler about a land war against Russia.

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Phil Davis's avatar

That would mean they must study history. Not going to happen. They will not admit they are wrong.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The NATO countries are idiots and fools.

Why are they falling for this nonsense?

Have they no pride and self-respect?

Yes, NATO countries, go right ahead and fall for the BS that the corrupt Biden regime is pedaling.

NATO counties are supporting Pedo Joe, murderous Victoria Nuland, traitorous Blinken, and the traitorous psychos in the Pentagon.

At what point do you say Fuck You to the Yanks?

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Bizarro Man's avatar

I’m a Yank. Please, be my guest! The sooner the better for the ordinary American.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

I am also a Yank.

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Thunder Road's avatar

They and the Biden regime are largely in alignment though in their globalist aspirations and dependent on each other. Splitting apart would be like a pack of wolves splitting apart.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

The regular people in Europe need to rise up and refuse to send their sons and daughters to die in Ukraine.

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CS's avatar

Yes, Europe and America must get a divorce, asap.

Each has become very bad for the other.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Yes.

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carily myers's avatar

I am so with you on this-disgustsing.

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Bizarro Man's avatar

Do you have a link?

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Here is a story from RT about the Ukrainian conscription gangs.

https://www.rt.com/russia/590338-ukrainian-military-recruitement-trick/

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Sherry 1's avatar

https://x.com/boweschay/status/1802378411513438437?s=61&t=6pbStPMaUne0Gac6xEDuhA. This is one example - I am looking for the one I wrote about.

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Bizarro Man's avatar

Thanks. It's hard to find these because they obviously are being searched out and hidden by our friends in the informal Ministry of Truth to keep our minds undamaged by harmful facts.

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Bizarro Man's avatar

That’s surprising: the BBC actually runs a story illustrating the disastrous plight of Zelensky’s war effort. It must mean that they are trying to cover their bottoms before the coming collapse.

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SCA's avatar
Jun 16Edited

I guess one can only be a hopeless dolt for so long.

edit: How do you say "freakout" in German? How many miles long will that be?

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eugyppius's avatar

hmm. "Ausraster" is probably best translation, would generally be something like "tantrum" in English.

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SCA's avatar

Short and uncomplicated even on foreign tongues!

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

It is high time for Germans to change their language to Islamistic ,because soon it will not be mistic anymore .

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Cynthia Jeanne Ford's avatar

I can't resist. kharaj ean tawrih, which Google Translate says is equivalent to "blowout" and "freakout" in English, informal,

a wildly irrational reaction or spell of behavior

Frank Zappa has an entire album called Freakout, which I would link to except that it is unlistenable and anachronistic. It might be on one of those lists of songs they play in hell, like Muskrat Love and I believe in miracles you sexy thing,

interspersed with episodes of Bridgerton.

My actual favorite new word is bouleversement, French, an inversion, a violent upset or upheaval. My brain has been turned to oatmeal by the state of things so I can't remember it now, but someone long ago taught me how to say "put your dick in the tea" in Russian. A fine curse.

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

I'm not too worried living in a upsite down world ,since my mind keeps singing . < Alle Jahre wieder kommt das Christus Kind auf die Erde nieder ,wo wir Menschen sind .

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dandyandy's avatar

Are you mad? Freak out is one of Zappa’s best ever!

Sorry it had to be said, :)

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MAGRIETHA DU PLESSIS's avatar

I do not think people know how bad it is. My children went away for a weekend for a weekend. In the process they had to take 3 trains to and from their destination. My son says he only saw 2 Germans on the trains

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joe stuerzl 85's avatar

That's more prove ,that most real Germans died out in 1945

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SimonB's avatar

"Durchdrehen" , "sie drehen durch" would be another option

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SimonB's avatar

means 'they're going berserk'

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Graham Cunningham's avatar

What is the German for "Western Liberalism has disappeared up its own arse"?

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Justinian's avatar

„Der westliche Liberalismus hat sich auf den Arsch gelegt.”

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kertch's avatar

If the Germans could make one word out of it that would be great: Westlichesliberalismusblodsinn.

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Graham Cunningham's avatar

danke schön

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Hellwood's avatar

"Der westliche Liberalismus ist sich selber in den Arsch gekrochen und darin verschwunden."

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Oh well, I hear a post-election white hot hangover is best served at zero Kelvin.

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Tamenund's avatar

"der Wahnsinnstrip" (per Leo: https://dict.leo.org/german-english/freakout)

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SCA's avatar

Gosh. Only a tenth of what I imagined.

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Rikard's avatar

Well, you couold try the swedish word for the same thing?

Vansinnesutbrott.

Or the informal slang-term: psykbryt.

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SCA's avatar

Can you walk me through them phonetically? It might be fun to shout them out occasionally in this peaceful New England landscape.

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Rikard's avatar

I'll give it the college try.

Note that many dictionaries translate it to "hissy fit" which is incorrect.

Hissy fit would better be translated with "fis på tvären" (f.e.): "having a fart stuck sideways".

Here goes:

The 'a' in 'van' is an open long at the back sound. Kind of likie you'd make if the doctor had a spatula pressing down your tongue and telling you to say "Ahhhh".

sinnes: 'sin' basically the same as in english, 'nes' as in 'Loch Ness'.

utbrott: long 'u'-sound with lip-rounding, the lips being somewhat stiff as if your about to kiss someone on the cheek, 'brott' is close to how you say brought, but in a sharp short way instead of the normal one.

Psykbryt: long 'y' the way it sounds in "mystery", bit longer, short sharp k-sound, 'br' as if you're imitating an engine and again long y followed by sharp-stop t.

I'll link to the wiki-page on swedish phonology, might make it clearer than my attempts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_phonology

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SCA's avatar

Saved for studying and memorization. You never know. Bears are not infrequently encountered here and I'm not skilled at running or even playing dead and have no bear spray to hand. Shouting these words out might work though!

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CStone's avatar

And how much spit can one spit in one word?😂😂😂

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Henry's avatar

"ordinary Germans turn out to care more about mass migration and knife crime"

It is worth making an effort to avoid adopting the language of the left when discussing violent crime. "Lethal-force attacks" and "violent assaults" are valid problems. "Knife crime" and "gun crime" are artificial categories, designed as a setup to feed subsequent demands for additional freedom-sucking non-solutions.

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eugyppius's avatar

Well, crimes committed with knives are a) a category of crime on which we have good statistics, and b) one of the genres of crime that has gone up substantially in direct correlation with mass migration.

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Viv's avatar

And gun crime is practically unheard of, armed robbery having never really been much of a thing here, it being more or less impossible to legally get hold of a firearm, and presumably vastly more difficult for a recent arrival than someone who has held family lands since the 15th century.

Even the traditional criminal supply route of Yugoslav war cast-offs seems to have dried up, that also being a finite resource.

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Demeisen's avatar

Yes, Europe is more civilized in that people (mostly young Muslim immigrants) knife each other. Far better than in the US, where *gasp* ordinary unwashed citizens are armed. The most heavily armed parts of the US are quite peaceful.

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Warmek's avatar

To be fair, I understand entirely why Europeans are so skittish about firearms. Their gun violence rate is absurdly higher than ours. Just look at the number of people who died from firearm injuries over the last 150 years in Europe versus the USA, it's insane. When we aren't keeping an eye on them, they just blast the holy hell out of one another. It's quite sad, really.

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

People are just 3D printing plastic guns now, instead if buying them. We live in a Brave New World.

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Gilgamech's avatar

You make me nostalgic for the firearm-wielding armed robberies of the RAF (the other one) and Baader-Meinhof.

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Warmek's avatar

I'm guessing Henry is American and has a contact induced allergy to the terms due to the way they're used in the USA by anti-gun groups to agitate against gun rights. Because you know it's so much worse to be killed with a gun than a knife or a hammer or a fist. Certainly, that's why *my* eyelid twitches when I hear such terms. :D

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Demeisen's avatar

Yes, gang violence is now "gun violence". I cringe at the term.

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Bizarro Man's avatar

Those damned guns. All you have to do is get ahold of one, and it turns you into a violent criminal. It’s like it has an evil force field or something.

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carily myers's avatar

lol, I'm looking at mine and it's just laying there, not doing anything. I expected more.

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Warmek's avatar

Mine appear to be defective in that regard, though... ;)

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SCA's avatar

Au contraire. It's quite useful to see that knife crimes can be just as lethal as gun crimes, helping to anchor us more firmly in reality that crazy and/or malicious people are the actual instruments of harm.

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No name here's avatar

I remember writing an essay for a proto-woke high school teacher back in the 90s, saying it would not end with gun control, and that knives would be legislated against instead of dealing with the actual problem. That idea was a conspiracy theory at the time. I was given a less than stellar grade.

It never changes - deny it's happening, it's happening but it's actually a good thing, then tragedy, then lie to the next generation. Lather, rinse, repeat.

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SCA's avatar

Let us say that I have finally matured into a true appreciation of the Second Amendment in our, the American, foundational documents.

Signed, Born and Bred Noo Yawkuh but She Lives in the Real World Now

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John B.'s avatar

When a liberal calls something a “conspiracy theory” you should inform them they are misspelling “spoiler alert”.

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Rikard's avatar

Our knife law (which is from the 1980s) is so vague by now, basically any object might be a crime if "they" need it to be.

The old law didn't ban the carrying of knives; it instead added years onto the sentence if you had used a knife (or any other object) when assaulting someone.

Now, we have had cases where construction workers have been convicted of knife crime because they have the ones they use at work on them when going on their lunch break.

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Bizarro Man's avatar

There’s only one answer. Edged tools such as knives must be kept under lock and key until the very moment they are used, and locked up again immediately after. Of course, soon we’ll have to do the same for heavy hand tools and such. A new Ministry for the Sequestration of Dangerous Objects will be necessary to enforce these restrictions and keep us all safe.

Every home and work venue must have its own Dangerous Object Monitor, with broad discretionary powers to enforce the rules and arrest violators. Only then will we be safe.

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Warmek's avatar

Sir! I believe you have forgotten about the danger pose by both Rocks and Pointy Sticks! I demand Pointy Stick Control!

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Henry's avatar

No. That only leads to out-of-control Key Crime.

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No name here's avatar

The government will not make us safe and free from our oppressors with just Dangerous Object Monitors. Will there be no more unkind words? Hand gestures?

We need the arc of history to bend away from all discomfort in order to truly be safe. All forward thinking people know this.

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Henry's avatar

"That idea was a conspiracy theory at the time. I was given a less than stellar grade."

Be of good cheer -- by your experience, you have surely earned a plenary indulgence from Saint Fedex, which will grease your slide into heaven.

https://achievement.org/achiever/frederick-w-smith/

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Thermal Neutron's avatar

The best communication involves rhetoric and dialectic. "Knife crime" is a real category and causes a visceral reaction that associates functional condemnation of Leftist policies and real fear of crimes those policies enable. Additionally, the label has secondary connection of that type of crime to predominantly Muslim migrant attacks, resulting in a effective and affective reaction. Affective memories always last longer.

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RD's avatar

Maybe closing down all the nuke plants and unfettered immigration with plenty of handouts was a bad idea

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Stop being anti-semitic !!!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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carily myers's avatar

lol, literally

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Eugine Nier's avatar

Hey, closing the nuke plants was popular until the consequence became obvious.

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Andy Fately's avatar

It is delicious to watch all these parties on the left self immolate

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yeah these twee lil' ninnies will do great in The Reaping

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carily myers's avatar

lol, true

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Rikard's avatar

Or: an alliance of "everyone against the AfD" will be formed, to ensure globalist policy is maintained.

That's what happened here - after the Sweden Democrats became the second-largest party, the others closed ranks, neoliberals and communists and greens and feminists all uniting de facto if not formally.

Now, the Christian Democrat Party, the Liberal Party and the Moderate Party all conspire to minimise the influence of the Sweden Democrats despite all four being in coalition in the governement, to prevent any real paradigm-shift, and especially to prevent a cleaning house of Socialist Democrat clerks, civil servants et cetera within the administration and bureaucracy.

Remember; the Scholz-crowd and similar politicos would rather burn everything down than admit being wrong, guilty of treason against their own people or anything approaching truth or justice.

On the other hand, many political observers throughout time have noticed that when germanic people change opinions, everyone does it almost simultaneously, so it may well be that a year from now, everyone but the Greens will at least sound more "right wing" than AfD.

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eugyppius's avatar

yes, next government will probably be Kenia coalition of CDU and Green and (as the latter are not strong enough anymore) SPD.

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Charlotte's avatar

But that would mean that nothing has changed- those are all of the same bedfellows as now. They are just re-arranging the deck chairs and hoping no one notices. Basically everyone who backed the Build Back Crappier motto exposed themselves as being a globalist- it crossed all the parties and revealed who was looking to be “included with the cool kids” and enriched with possible kickbacks. We need them to struggle to even build a coalition in order to best dismantle bigger parts of them. The UK has been fascinating to watch, particularly as Reform is now polling better than the Tories!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Oh well, maybe you guys will get your first half-white Kenian Chancellor too!

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Charlotte's avatar

Merkel was the half-Kenyan lol!

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Upper or lower part ??? ...

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Lmao!

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carily myers's avatar

Your Gov and parties just confuse the shit out of me. Who keeps track of 7 parties and what they stand for? Making some sort of coalition between people who are opposite of what you stand for-I just don't get it. Is power that important?

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

Great upset all over Europe. I just read that Wilders is not going to be the lead in Netherlands, and the Belgian WEF prime and vice are quitting. France 's Macron deleted his govt as well. See what comes. I suppose Ursula is still in her seat, so I think as long as she sits there, all the rest is clownery. I hope the countries get back to governing themselves, and I think they all should have a rule that the biggest party gets the prime minister. I thought the Netherlands had that, but obviously not. I know for sure Belgium does not have that rule.

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Warmek's avatar

Of course, since Ursula doesn't get voted on by the actual people. Bah.

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Tonetta's avatar

He didnt want to become the pm, and the new coalition partner nsc did not want him to be. After bringing up some dirt on labour guy plasterk, who held formation talks with the parties, dick schoof was suddenly shoved into the limelight. Former head of the algemene inlichtingen en veiligheidsdienst, former national terror combat dept., aiding pm Rutte in his covid response! He was on no election list, resigned from a 30 yr membership of the labour party only in 2021. So you know where we stand right now here in holland. Was reminded of an interview with willem oltmans, great journalist who sued the state here and won. He remarked about the deep state’s influence in gove4nment, culminating in the cia finally getting their president in the seat, bush.

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Suzie's avatar

Watching news - and especially photos - from the G7 meeting, where 99% of those attending had just been crushed to smithereens in their respective elections, said it all.

They. Do. Not. Care. one whit about the people in their countries they supposedly represent.

They have their WEF marching orders and merely regroup to figure out how to more deviously and wickedly crush the ungrateful hordes who don’t appreciate their illustrious brilliance.

They all make me sick.

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports, “it is dawning on the SPD that they have underestimated the importance of migration and domestic security as political issues.” Masterful understatement by the S.Z. to my mind.

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Warmek's avatar

I found that line particularly masterful as well. :D

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Bizarro Man's avatar

Somewhere in the cramped, dark recesses of the socialist mind, the realization that people actually care about the destruction wreaked on their country has flickered dimly to life.

Let’s hope it’s too late.

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Phil Davis's avatar

It is a phenomenon in politics that I don't understand and happens under almost all types of governments; that is, politicians never think of reform to stay in power. They would instead become tyrannical. I believe the reason might be that politicians truly believe their shit does not stink when in fact, theirs is the most intense.

At least in the days of the King, a few practiced reform, albeit they were broke or their armies were weak at the time. But at least they did make changes.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

You ask why?

My guess is The Unholy Trinity of Fear:

1. Fear of losing power by those who wield it

2. Fear of those who are subject to it (reprisal or losing a "benefit/privilege")

3. Fear of those who's livelihood is beholden and justified by those who wield the power (bureaucrats, technocrats, etc.)

Fear of losing something is just as powerful as gaining something - if not more so. So strong it will launch a thousand terrible ships of terror.

Fear will corrupt to the core; even those who's fear is caused by the scourge of power.

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kertch's avatar

Psychological studies have shown that at least in the area of finance, fear of loss is twice as potent as expectation of gains. The best movie ever made about Capitalism is Trading Places - so many truths! Eddie Murphy tells Dan Akroyd that "Seems the best way to hurt rich people is to turn them into poor people." The same holds for powerful people. Fear of losing power is probably the biggest psychological neurosis of powerful people.

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Phil Davis's avatar

That's a significant factor. But, have you ever witnessed a politician admit a mistake? Never happens. They believe they have the answers and are never wrong. Admitting mistakes makes them equal to the plebs.

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Lisa's avatar

Only the recent apology to the people from an ex minister from Japan for all the clot shot deaths over the last four years. Probably only happened because he is no longer in that position.

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CS's avatar

Who is it?

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Lisa's avatar

Kazuhiro Haraguchi

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CS's avatar

Thank you!

Apparently, some Japanese still have some dignity and self-respect.

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CS's avatar

I think Jimmy Carter may have admitted to errors while still in office. I'm not sure, though.

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CMCM's avatar

I've been around awhile...not sure I can ever remember any politician admitting any sort of mea culpa...ever.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Never. Ever. Unless it "benefits" them

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air dog's avatar

The American government is inching toward collapse too, but is likely to be re-elected. It must be nice to be able to throw the bums out. Even if the next bums are not much better.

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CMCM's avatar

We usually have a choice between bums and bums lite.

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Viv's avatar

The tax thing is worth a comment in its own right.

Germany's tax take has doubled in ten years, yet the government wants to borrow more than ever.

What the actual fuck are they doing with all the money?

If you try and get some kind of basic service as a citizen, like an appointment to renew your passport, you are screwed. You can't do it. Or you spend longer trying to get the appointment than the paperwork takes. This is not double the level of government service we have 10 years ago, something we might expect for a doubled tax take, it is not even half.

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eugyppius's avatar

The decay in public services has been breathtaking. The only one I deal with regularly is the local Finanzamt, which since Corona has degenerated into an operation of total incompetence and inexplicable delays, and weirdly wrong assessments.

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eugyppius's avatar

This means I end up paying my own tax adviser to explain to them how to properly tax me, often correcting their errors in my favour upwards.

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Viv's avatar

It's so bad where I live I am genuinely considering going to the German embassy in London next time I am "back home", as there is at least a possibility of getting seen there.

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Viv's avatar

If the Finanzamt make an error in your favour you should keep quiet about it. But make provision for them to discover it within the statute of limitations, which is, you will be shocked and surprised to learn, much longer for errors they make in your favour, than for errors you make in theirs.

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Demeisen's avatar

This is so foreign from two-three decades ago... Stuffiness I can see but incompetence seems so un-German to me.

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Rikard's avatar

Inviting in millions of unemployable and highly criminal ethnicites is expensive. Plus their offspring, generation for generation.

To the taxpaying public.

To the owners of power companies, water, real estate and housing corporations renting out property to the state and its subdivisions, the mega-store owners, and so on, mass-migration means more moolah as taxes are funneled via the state to welfare and said welfare then paid to private capitalist corporations.

It's called neoliberalism, and is working exactly as intended.

The rich can always move somewhere else, and have no stake in the nation, being a class and caste of their own, who sees concepts such a folk/volk, nation, culture and history either as commodities to be exploited or obstacles to be destroyed (identical to how communists view those things).

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xk-pluto's avatar

On the native side, there is a huge and very well compensated propaganda apparatus as well as the so-called "civil society", a gigantic gaggle of intellectuals, professional activists, social workers and NGO drones. There are also people making top 5% incomes selling "products" and providing "services" that would not exist without government fiat and if you never had contact with such circles you wouldn't believe they exist.

On the non-native side, there is a slice of people who assimmilated into the aforementioned "civil society": Left-aligned foreigners who passed through the university system and whose primary profession is being "professionally" Turkish/Ukrainian/Arab/African/Asian etc.

Like in the US for example, "model minorities" like the Vietnamese show themselves to be prone to assimmilation into the dominant oikophobic paradigm.

And of course, the classic millions of direct welfare cases both unable and unwilling to find gainful employment.

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Demeisen's avatar

Yes, the model minorities are exactly prone to that. The only insulation is religion, from what I've seen.

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Boflys's avatar

Interesting. Seems as though the leftists throughout the west have simple run out of the ability to keep borrowing or printing money without completely going into another Great Depression type event. Printing or borrowing money to hand out was the only way they were able to stay in power. Now their only out is a major global war. Pretty obvious when it’s framed that way.

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Phil Davis's avatar

Yep, so true. When they can no longer fund the past debt, the Ponzi scheme, the government defaults; by the way, we have trillions that will be rolled over this year, and China is a seller. This is the reason they are pushing for war. It is a distraction; it's always a distraction.

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Demeisen's avatar

Paul Krugman says it's fine. And there are several books from Glibwell and Thomas Friedman... But only the people that already believe that still believe that, if you know what i mean.

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CMCM's avatar

Krugman lives deep in the bubble.

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Quakeress's avatar

I really can't fathom how removed a government must be from the electorate to ignore that what mattered primarily for voters was - surprise - migration. There are oodles of surveys showing exactly that. How can people whose job it is to listen to the electorate and who have enough money and time to focus on exactly that get it so spectacularly wrong?

At the same time where reality is dawning upon some on the left, there is a dig-in-and-fight-in-the-trenches mentality in other parts of the left - those who actually say that they lost votes BECAUSE they did not push for more climate legislation, fight more radically for open borders etc. They actually think they have alienated voters with their moderate stance. It's mad.

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Va Gent's avatar

The left's fear-mongering failed in France as well:

"He also warned that Mr Macron’s “project fear” approach to the Le Pen camp, including claims the markets will collapse should it win power due to its hugely costly programme was increasingly inaudible.

“The threat that they will arrive with jackboots and the sky will fall in no longer works. I come from the Pas-de-Calais region where towns run by RN can see that has not been the case, on the contrary people are voting for them more and more."

The good guys are winning, my friends! Let's take it to them with gusto from here until VICTORY!!!!

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Matthew McWilliams's avatar

Over here in America I've heard that if Trump wins the Presidential election in November the Sun will go Supernova and fry the Earth to a crisp.

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Gilgamech's avatar

The Sun is just so fascist, white supremacist and Christian nationalist. It's also an anti-abortion extremist I think?

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