Democray - as in the elective, pluralistic definition - has been a fairytale for some time now. "The policy agenda sold to the public at election time is regularly being quietly ‘improved’ by the 'deep state' bureaucsacy at the legislative drafting stage. Sometimes ministers find themselves at war with their own machine but even more times they simply cave in because there isn’t really that much they can realistically do about it. The Leviathan coils itself around their precious policy agenda and squelches the life out of it." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/carry-on-governing
Indeed. I'm by default Christian, of no church but it is the foundation of my moral and ethical sense. Read the bible, at last, starting a couple of years back, start to finish. Reading commentaries at the same time.
Conclusion? I need to read it again. It is a wonder.
He was the Son of God. He was baptized by a mere mortal, road into town on a donkey, sacrificed himself to save us. How much more humble do you want him to be?
Could it be the Germans don't repair the gas lines ,because Biden Joe would blow it up again and again ?? What if the Russians would blow up U.S. shipments of L.N.G. From the U.S .to Germany ??
Ah Clarence I forgot Germany is occupied territory by different objects ,The winners of W.W 2 and lately by the Whyrusses . Could Germany soon have a new marching song ?? WHYRUSS WHYRUSS uber alles .??
The press is clearly captured, as it is in most Western countries, if not the entire world. How are the globalists pulling this off? They seem to have figured out how to infiltrate the press of every major nation. Truth is now almost illegal in mainstream media. As I told a friend of mine the biggest issue of our time is censorship, and the news of this has been censored. How can we get those people who are being brainwashed to recognize the mind manipulation that is stealing their souls away?
I ponder this too. How did they capture it all? The media here in the UK is atrocious. Even the "right-wing" media only discusses very blatant illegal immigration, for example. The demographic shift is absolutely verboten despite the potential catastrophic effect it will have.
Fear is most definitely the major aspect. They let the moslems in, in their millions, thinking they could "house-train" them according to liberal ideology.
Imagine the reaction in Britain if your judiciary would decide to drop the hammer on sharia courts.
They fear and hope and hope and hope that somehow, it will all work out without them actually having to confront both their own errors and what is an invading force bent on genocide.
Yes, when confronting a very liberal lesbian women about how the Muslims will eventually throw her off a rooftop (after the "corrective" rape). Her only response was "we can teach them". I burst out laughing, offering to pay for her LGBTQ+ conversion mission to the Middle East.
I've met similar women (and some "men"). I think the first was somewhere around 1989 or so, claiming that we had a duty to allow our [insert-dark skinned ethnicity here] to adjust so that we could guide their development towards becoming like us.
I think that moment was one of my initial "Aha!"-moments that so-called anti-racists and multikultur-mensch were the actual racists.
Sadly, it's a 50/50 toss up if they change their minds after having experienced multikulti for real, or if they batten down the hatches and just try to multikulti harder, blaming "ze reycysts"for their troubles.
A former colleague was threatened by four arab boys in her class once. They cornered her in the classroom because she had had the audacity to tell them to sit down and be quiet in no uncertain terms.
The threat was, they'd rape her with a a broken bottle. They were 13-14 years old at the time, all of them born in Malmö, Sweden. No charges were pressed - if you're under 25 you cannot be convicted of a crime the normal way.
In a functioning nation, all of the boys and their families would have been sent back to their nations of origin.
Yes, so funny! No disrespect, but some of the most stupid liberals I met were Swedish. They claimed (30 years ago) that the poverty, slums, and crime in America was due to American racism, and such a thing would never happen in Sweden because Swedes were not racists, and all foreigners love them and their culture. I told them "If 10% of your population was dark skinned and had what is essentially a different culture, you'd have the same problems." Low and behold, Sweden has the exact same problems in Malmo - where these Swedes were students!
What is wrong with racism exactly? Clearly races are not the same. You can even tell race by looking at a skeleton. Are we supposed to believe that every race is the same aside from outward appearance (when the science and experience says otherwise)? Are we not supposed to protect our own people and our nations when this is what evolution, instincts, history and common sense dictate?
It’s assuming that someone is less human than you are based on their race that’s the problem. Races, like individuals, are different from one another, but no one is less human because of their race. Behavior is a different matter. Murdering others or otherwise attacking or intimidating them because of their race is wrong. Self defense is not. Just because someone doesn’t have pale skin doesn’t mean they can’t be racist or that their bad behavior isn’t bad.
Had it been the mother of another arab or such, that may have happened.
The sandfleas and the spearchukkers are having a gang war right now, and they are targetting their enemies' family-members.
Already, children and grandparents both have been shot, some killed.
Not even the most psychopathic of swedish criminals have ever done anything close to that - to the arab, the negro, the gypsym the afghan, that stuff is normal behaviour.
In France, politicians are being violently attacked at every level of government. The numbers are shocking. That's What awaits us with increasing Muslim and African populations.
“I've met similar women (and some "men"). I think the first was somewhere around 1989 or so, claiming that we had a duty to allow our [insert-dark skinned ethnicity here] to adjust so that we could guide their development towards becoming like us.”
I wonder if they got these ideas at the universities? Do know if they were reading French philosophers?
Yes. I've read the same literature and more of it than is part of courses and programs (out of interest, and after your first Foucault or Derrida, you can skim their texts since it's all repetitions on the same very simplistic basic themes).
French thinking filtered and simplified and weaponised via US universities in the 1960s and 1970s (catching the most naive and utopian bits of the "civil rights movement"), and then the resurgence under the guise of "queer theory" et c from around 2 000 to present day.
It shocked my younger self to realise that "anti-racist" is the worst kind of racist.
Skinheads chanting "Blackheads out!" is, while nasty, also honest. Rainbow-garbed tolerance-totalitarians re-inventing "White Man's Burden" into a total perversion of universal humanist ideals /and/ classic jingoistic chauvinism is hypocritical, bigoted and much much more dangerous.
Second big shock was discovering when dipping my pinky-toe in academia that facts didn't matter at all, only politically correct "truth"; any empirical findings contradicting that "truth" had to be re-worked until they fit.
My claims that doing so prevents anyone from ever coming up with some way of fixing, mitigating and cofferdamming against problems were deemed heresy; "To claim to be objective and impartial is picking the Enemy's side!" was said straight to my face.
That won't work, as you will be aware. If a political solution is not forthcoming we know what happens. The British have a high threshold for aggravation, but when it goes everything goes. Especially the northerners.
there is a list somewhere, how much gates paid all the media to silence them. the media belongs to the elite and the elite wants sheep, not open-eyed lions
like the tennis championship. sponsored by moderna. won by No Vax Djokovic. Immediately bought a Tshirt although I never watch tennis LOL. That was too nice an occasion to pass on. These people have just too much money, and instead of investing a decent research, they smack it anywhere.
I listen regularly to the No Agenda podcast, and they talk about this a lot. Big Pharma controls the media, at least where they care to. They show examples all the time, and they're pretty blatant.
I don’t watch anything on TV, but my boyfriend wanted to see a football game sometime ago. They showed news during the break. It made me furious that the moderator talked to me as if he was my teacher. I had an impression that they were telling me what I should think about this or another event.
Fear is the most effective lever. I think first 9/11, and then Trump and Brexit, were weaponized and used in order to leverage that fear. 2016 was really a turning point for a lot of what we're seeing today.
It’s fear - fear of having your bank account closed or losing your business (Post Office government speciality) fear of not wanting your kids perverted transgendered or emotionally neutered - manipulative, coercive fear seeping through our veins along with spiked mRNA etc plus a whole generation Z of entitled lazy halfwits who really need to take their colourful genders off to Gaza or Iran and see what happens ..
They might want to read up on Stalin and Mao. Because if they get the authoritarian they seemed to be seeking they can expect to be against the wall shortly after they are no longer of use.
I'm available as "authoritarian for hire" at reasonable rates, though I must stress absolute immunity from any prosecution is a non-negotiable condition.
Please inquire within for rates re: reforms, laws, practices et c to allow us to tailor your preferred authoritarian.
Railroads needs weeding. Highways and country roads needs their berms cut and cleaned. Snow must be showelled. Beaches have litter picked up. Et cetera.
No need for any suffering either, really. Just "You either work or you don't eat".
Maybe that is like a velvet hammer, come to think of it. Though "Velvet Hammer" sounds like a band in the vein of Head Machine.
"Ya know how ya git to Carnegie Hall dontcha? Practice."
The Rhodes Miller conspirators and the Rockefeller interests began buying up newspapers and magazines in the 1890s. It was far enough along by 1898 they were able to lie the American people into a war with Spain. They profited from that war.
I want to be a buzz kill to all you "radio spectrum is scarce" bozos. Gooferment licences for radio and television broadcast beginning in the 1920s made the cartel smaller and easier to control. That was the jazz age Roaring Twenties.
Today we have the Twisted Twenties. A century of depravity makes a difference...
compared to the clown you got for health, this man looks very trustworthy. Glad you still have some in Germany, I was beginning to fear you were the only one left.
LOL that is probably a good purpose for him. I am sure no bird would land anywhere near. On second thought, how great it would be if one would, a big one, a drop something. Nasty me LOLOL
Despite the British stereotype a lot of Germans have a very sly, amusing way of speaking and enjoy teasing people. Very good fun and excellent company.
As has been noted many times many sociologists and assorted people of other such predilections, the former communist states are far less susceptible (still/yet) to political correctness and wokery.
Since woke et c is spread by (entertainment) media and via public education, how can it be our eastern cousins are not as far gone as those of us who lived outside the Iron Curtain? What differences - in the vector of cultural contagion - can be identified?
People who lived under communist regimes learned that of course governments and journalists lie. I used to think such attitude was detrimental but since Covid I have begun to appreciate it.
And, I think more importantly, not being subjected to US political correctness, corporate culture and woke liberalism ever since the early 1960s.
Every western european generation born from 1940s to today has been immersed, dunked even, in US cultural imperalist "entertaintment culture" and the ideals conveyed, overtly and covertly.
If anything good came of communism, it was safe-guarding the peoples' own cultures and social codes from nivellating capitalist greed.
Organizations that are run by men are less susceptible to "inclusion" and "diversity" scams. Intra elite competition among woman always involves doubling down on conspicuous empathy and compassion to the exclusion of all other virtues.
A multitude of Latin Americans who have fled Leftist regimes to come to the USA are not fooled, either. Many of them simply cannot believe how naive and gullible Americans are.
I always trusted the western mass media. I thought there was only one zombie box and it’s in my home country.
I realized that I was mistaken when I noticed the difference between the reality and the narrative that western mass media and politicians were trying to sell me.
"These are well-balanced people, they are not crazy at all." I closed me eyes, and said it three times, hoping I open my eyes and believe it. Alas, it was not to be. The bulk of the western world is in fact crazy, unbalanced, and dangerous to sanity. AfD - a democratic vote for the resurgent sanity of Germany.
The “free European press” looks more like Pravda these days. While history is being rewritten in our lifetime, one lesson not learned by the left is often if the pendulum of life or politics swings too far in One Direction, make sure you remember that kinetic energy will swing it back in the opposite one day.
What does "right wing" even mean anymore? Left/right used to mean something, now it just means good/bad, in whatever way the establishment deems fit at the moment.
Why don't they just say "nationalist" if that's what they actually mean? Why this "right wing" babble instead of something as clear as day? Is it because they fear that people will actually like it if they call it nationalist? Seems so.
Because „nationalist“ actually has a meaning and describes a set of values, whatever you might think of those. „Right wing“ on the other hand has obtained almost mystical connotations of evil. When discussing politics with a friend before I was surprised that in his vocabulary „left“ simply means good, virtuos and morally true. Describing somebody as „rechts“ in Germany usually comes in an attempt of denunciation.
I think this is the essence of it, a form of newspeak to signal good/evil without saying it outright. The bonus is that it maligns mainstream/establishment conservative parties as on the side of "evil" through their inclusion on the "right".
Yes, "far right" very much means "evil", at least in my part of the world. The media never uses "far left" because they don't want to malign the left and no degree of leftism is too far in their minds.
"Populist right" = slightly evil. "Far right" = pure evil. Populist/far left pretty much doesn't exist as a concept in the media, at least not anymore.
You just reminded me of my high school Latin teacher, a tiny little nun named Mother Celeste, who used to say that if we worked hard enough to cheat on our Virgil, we deserved an A.
Of course it is still a big, outraged brouhaha, but it is getting noticeable quieter now when an AfD candidates wins a local election.
It was much noisier when they won in Sonneberg, and this was already much quieter compared to the apocalyptic screaming when Kemmerich (FDP) dared to accept votes from the AfD.
It seems the country is getting used to AfD people voted into office.
It will be interesting if they will try to ban the party before the next national election in 2025.
i noticed exactly this too. i waited a whole day to post on this, because i wanted more butthurt reactions. i waited all the way until this evening and it was still just a trickle, most of the pieces are lightly reworked versions of dpa news service write-up. massively bigger freakout over sonneberg in june, a much more minor victory.
compare also the AfD/CDU cooperation in Thüringen today, to 2020 hysteria.
Indeed. Astonishing - and disheartening - the similarities. The election of Herr Lochner and others is a preview of what's to come in the US re: Trump. That is, barring some 'democratic' means of excluding him from the ballot. He's already regularly referred to in the outraged corporate press as a dictator, a demagogue, an autocrat. Very interesting word choices, but hey, when you're king, or the king's fool, you get to decide what words mean. Words / phrases like 'democracy', 'right wing' and 'extremist'. The only recourse is to insist the MSM defines its' terms - objectively. Otherwise - consider it mis-/dis-/mal-information.
fascism also now seems to be deciding everything doesn't need to be inside the state, there can be things outside the state and often having things against the state is a good safety measure.
Democracy IS on fire, dumb dumbs. That’s why Lochner was elected.
Democray - as in the elective, pluralistic definition - has been a fairytale for some time now. "The policy agenda sold to the public at election time is regularly being quietly ‘improved’ by the 'deep state' bureaucsacy at the legislative drafting stage. Sometimes ministers find themselves at war with their own machine but even more times they simply cave in because there isn’t really that much they can realistically do about it. The Leviathan coils itself around their precious policy agenda and squelches the life out of it." https://grahamcunningham.substack.com/p/carry-on-governing
Great! Not before time and it’s not an organised agenda Maui fire either - screw ideology
A humble carpenter you say...
And likely to be crucified by Germany's media Pharisees just like the last humble carpenter.
sounds right in time for Christmas!
To be fair, the crucifixion is an Easter-time event.
They wouldn't want to ruin Christmas....
well I was thinking of Joseph the carpenter at christmas. I still remember some stuff from back when bible reading
Our friend Jesus is also known for being a carpenter. Reading the Bible is wholesome. God bless you. Amen.
Indeed. I'm by default Christian, of no church but it is the foundation of my moral and ethical sense. Read the bible, at last, starting a couple of years back, start to finish. Reading commentaries at the same time.
Conclusion? I need to read it again. It is a wonder.
He's not exactly known for being humble though, is he? Claiming to be the son of God.
He was the Son of God. He was baptized by a mere mortal, road into town on a donkey, sacrificed himself to save us. How much more humble do you want him to be?
Jesus is the truth, the life, and the way. He is the word of God made flesh. Praise God. Amen.
I think the gas pipelines from Russia should be repaired for Christmas ,or are the Germans waiting for global warming to stay warm ?
Could it be the Germans don't repair the gas lines ,because Biden Joe would blow it up again and again ?? What if the Russians would blow up U.S. shipments of L.N.G. From the U.S .to Germany ??
Ah Clarence I forgot Germany is occupied territory by different objects ,The winners of W.W 2 and lately by the Whyrusses . Could Germany soon have a new marching song ?? WHYRUSS WHYRUSS uber alles .??
Carpenters never amount to much, do they?!
One carpenter is sitting at the right hand of God the Father Almighty.
The press is clearly captured, as it is in most Western countries, if not the entire world. How are the globalists pulling this off? They seem to have figured out how to infiltrate the press of every major nation. Truth is now almost illegal in mainstream media. As I told a friend of mine the biggest issue of our time is censorship, and the news of this has been censored. How can we get those people who are being brainwashed to recognize the mind manipulation that is stealing their souls away?
I ponder this too. How did they capture it all? The media here in the UK is atrocious. Even the "right-wing" media only discusses very blatant illegal immigration, for example. The demographic shift is absolutely verboten despite the potential catastrophic effect it will have.
I do suspect fear is a major aspect.
Fear is most definitely the major aspect. They let the moslems in, in their millions, thinking they could "house-train" them according to liberal ideology.
Imagine the reaction in Britain if your judiciary would decide to drop the hammer on sharia courts.
They fear and hope and hope and hope that somehow, it will all work out without them actually having to confront both their own errors and what is an invading force bent on genocide.
Yes, when confronting a very liberal lesbian women about how the Muslims will eventually throw her off a rooftop (after the "corrective" rape). Her only response was "we can teach them". I burst out laughing, offering to pay for her LGBTQ+ conversion mission to the Middle East.
I've met similar women (and some "men"). I think the first was somewhere around 1989 or so, claiming that we had a duty to allow our [insert-dark skinned ethnicity here] to adjust so that we could guide their development towards becoming like us.
I think that moment was one of my initial "Aha!"-moments that so-called anti-racists and multikultur-mensch were the actual racists.
Sadly, it's a 50/50 toss up if they change their minds after having experienced multikulti for real, or if they batten down the hatches and just try to multikulti harder, blaming "ze reycysts"for their troubles.
A former colleague was threatened by four arab boys in her class once. They cornered her in the classroom because she had had the audacity to tell them to sit down and be quiet in no uncertain terms.
The threat was, they'd rape her with a a broken bottle. They were 13-14 years old at the time, all of them born in Malmö, Sweden. No charges were pressed - if you're under 25 you cannot be convicted of a crime the normal way.
In a functioning nation, all of the boys and their families would have been sent back to their nations of origin.
Yes, so funny! No disrespect, but some of the most stupid liberals I met were Swedish. They claimed (30 years ago) that the poverty, slums, and crime in America was due to American racism, and such a thing would never happen in Sweden because Swedes were not racists, and all foreigners love them and their culture. I told them "If 10% of your population was dark skinned and had what is essentially a different culture, you'd have the same problems." Low and behold, Sweden has the exact same problems in Malmo - where these Swedes were students!
It's a modern blasphemy to notice that the habits that some cultures carry with them are wealth destroying...
I'm not offended, since you're correct.
Or rather, I'm offended by the naive and arrogant stupidity of my fellow country men.
10% is optimistic by the way. From empiric experience we know that 3% blacks or moslems in any area is enough for crime-figures to rise sharply.
What is wrong with racism exactly? Clearly races are not the same. You can even tell race by looking at a skeleton. Are we supposed to believe that every race is the same aside from outward appearance (when the science and experience says otherwise)? Are we not supposed to protect our own people and our nations when this is what evolution, instincts, history and common sense dictate?
It’s assuming that someone is less human than you are based on their race that’s the problem. Races, like individuals, are different from one another, but no one is less human because of their race. Behavior is a different matter. Murdering others or otherwise attacking or intimidating them because of their race is wrong. Self defense is not. Just because someone doesn’t have pale skin doesn’t mean they can’t be racist or that their bad behavior isn’t bad.
In a functioning nation, someone would have shot those boys in the head a few hours after they left class
Had it been the mother of another arab or such, that may have happened.
The sandfleas and the spearchukkers are having a gang war right now, and they are targetting their enemies' family-members.
Already, children and grandparents both have been shot, some killed.
Not even the most psychopathic of swedish criminals have ever done anything close to that - to the arab, the negro, the gypsym the afghan, that stuff is normal behaviour.
In France, politicians are being violently attacked at every level of government. The numbers are shocking. That's What awaits us with increasing Muslim and African populations.
“I've met similar women (and some "men"). I think the first was somewhere around 1989 or so, claiming that we had a duty to allow our [insert-dark skinned ethnicity here] to adjust so that we could guide their development towards becoming like us.”
I wonder if they got these ideas at the universities? Do know if they were reading French philosophers?
Yes. I've read the same literature and more of it than is part of courses and programs (out of interest, and after your first Foucault or Derrida, you can skim their texts since it's all repetitions on the same very simplistic basic themes).
French thinking filtered and simplified and weaponised via US universities in the 1960s and 1970s (catching the most naive and utopian bits of the "civil rights movement"), and then the resurgence under the guise of "queer theory" et c from around 2 000 to present day.
'so that we could guide their development towards becoming like us.'
Said with no self-awareness of how arrogant and condescending that sounds.
Yep.
It shocked my younger self to realise that "anti-racist" is the worst kind of racist.
Skinheads chanting "Blackheads out!" is, while nasty, also honest. Rainbow-garbed tolerance-totalitarians re-inventing "White Man's Burden" into a total perversion of universal humanist ideals /and/ classic jingoistic chauvinism is hypocritical, bigoted and much much more dangerous.
Second big shock was discovering when dipping my pinky-toe in academia that facts didn't matter at all, only politically correct "truth"; any empirical findings contradicting that "truth" had to be re-worked until they fit.
My claims that doing so prevents anyone from ever coming up with some way of fixing, mitigating and cofferdamming against problems were deemed heresy; "To claim to be objective and impartial is picking the Enemy's side!" was said straight to my face.
In 2001.
That won't work, as you will be aware. If a political solution is not forthcoming we know what happens. The British have a high threshold for aggravation, but when it goes everything goes. Especially the northerners.
there is a list somewhere, how much gates paid all the media to silence them. the media belongs to the elite and the elite wants sheep, not open-eyed lions
He even paid the BBC which is supposed to be illegal.
the only thing I do remember is the 3 million for Spiegel, which used to be a good source of information, years ago
I am still amazed at how much goodwill the media has thrown away just in the last few years. Tragic.
like the tennis championship. sponsored by moderna. won by No Vax Djokovic. Immediately bought a Tshirt although I never watch tennis LOL. That was too nice an occasion to pass on. These people have just too much money, and instead of investing a decent research, they smack it anywhere.
I listen regularly to the No Agenda podcast, and they talk about this a lot. Big Pharma controls the media, at least where they care to. They show examples all the time, and they're pretty blatant.
Yes! It's not confined to just broadcast media, but also print and online media. It's all of media.
That's why they need wars, pland*emics etc. Lies cost a lot. To keep lying is costly.
Yes, it is a farce. But it is also dying. However people like Carlson and Joe Rogan have shown people alternatives are possible.
"The media here in the UK is atrocious."
The garbage is see posted on the BBC's North America site is breathtaking. It is so silly I can't believe it.
I literally cannot watch it. It is like news for toddlers.
I don’t watch anything on TV, but my boyfriend wanted to see a football game sometime ago. They showed news during the break. It made me furious that the moderator talked to me as if he was my teacher. I had an impression that they were telling me what I should think about this or another event.
That's exactly what they are doing. Today's important cause. Throw out your TV 🤓
Even GBNews is softening a little - you know the well balanced be nice to wokes routine - as if they would do the same!🤮
"GBNews"
I don't know what that is.
Big money from above, Woke environmentalism from below. Management in the middle eithers plays ball or gets "disappeared".
"Well Mr. Smith, what qualifications do you have to work as a manager at this McDonalds?"
"I was the managing director of a major news network".
"Mmmm ... I'll be honest Mr. Smith. I'm not sure you have the qualifications to properly manage a McDonalds."
Fear is the most effective lever. I think first 9/11, and then Trump and Brexit, were weaponized and used in order to leverage that fear. 2016 was really a turning point for a lot of what we're seeing today.
Agree. We will look back and wonder if it was all a dream.
It’s fear - fear of having your bank account closed or losing your business (Post Office government speciality) fear of not wanting your kids perverted transgendered or emotionally neutered - manipulative, coercive fear seeping through our veins along with spiked mRNA etc plus a whole generation Z of entitled lazy halfwits who really need to take their colourful genders off to Gaza or Iran and see what happens ..
In the UK, media can be fined by OFCOM if they say something "offensive".
Could it be the last least free media in the western world?
No. They are all like this. And regulation is there to ensure compliance with the regime. That's why the mainstream is dying.
They might want to read up on Stalin and Mao. Because if they get the authoritarian they seemed to be seeking they can expect to be against the wall shortly after they are no longer of use.
I'm available as "authoritarian for hire" at reasonable rates, though I must stress absolute immunity from any prosecution is a non-negotiable condition.
Please inquire within for rates re: reforms, laws, practices et c to allow us to tailor your preferred authoritarian.
I'm sure, in your merciful restraint, you'd go about killing them softly with a velvet hammer.
"With this song..."
Nah. Why kill unless forced to?
Railroads needs weeding. Highways and country roads needs their berms cut and cleaned. Snow must be showelled. Beaches have litter picked up. Et cetera.
No need for any suffering either, really. Just "You either work or you don't eat".
Maybe that is like a velvet hammer, come to think of it. Though "Velvet Hammer" sounds like a band in the vein of Head Machine.
"Ya know how ya git to Carnegie Hall dontcha? Practice."
The Rhodes Miller conspirators and the Rockefeller interests began buying up newspapers and magazines in the 1890s. It was far enough along by 1898 they were able to lie the American people into a war with Spain. They profited from that war.
I want to be a buzz kill to all you "radio spectrum is scarce" bozos. Gooferment licences for radio and television broadcast beginning in the 1920s made the cartel smaller and easier to control. That was the jazz age Roaring Twenties.
Today we have the Twisted Twenties. A century of depravity makes a difference...
The "Twisted Twenties". That name might stick.
And Chuck Berry has the dance music for it. 😎
money
Oh God. Can I have him? A man who can fix things and looks like Ian McKellen to boot. Santa, are you there? It's me...
Sesselmann who who won the Landrat election in Sonneberg, occasioning similar controversy, also looked like a very appealing guy.
compared to the clown you got for health, this man looks very trustworthy. Glad you still have some in Germany, I was beginning to fear you were the only one left.
No post is complete without reference to that scarecrow.
LOL that is probably a good purpose for him. I am sure no bird would land anywhere near. On second thought, how great it would be if one would, a big one, a drop something. Nasty me LOLOL
Bird poop happens, why not to or on him
Is there something either in, or not in, the water there?
Everything is either in, or not in, water
Very small words can be mighty when conveying the meaning of sentences.
fluoride
You're right. There is something vaguely Gandalf-ish about him.
To be sure, though, McKellen has portrayed quite the broad range of characters and I've found him compelling as all of them. Some quite dark, too.
But then, I've always liked guys with a bit of depth to them.
He has a huge range . His bad guy are really bad.
Did you see him in "Apt Pupil?"
No, sounds like I should.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118636/
Gandalf has waved his staff at a lot of young hobbits...
I thought he was the best Richard III.
Poor Richard. I've never thought the same way about him after reading "The Daughter of TIme."
Despite the British stereotype a lot of Germans have a very sly, amusing way of speaking and enjoy teasing people. Very good fun and excellent company.
Well, I ain't British.
I know, I'm referring to the German German who's a German. In Germany.
I know.
As has been noted many times many sociologists and assorted people of other such predilections, the former communist states are far less susceptible (still/yet) to political correctness and wokery.
Since woke et c is spread by (entertainment) media and via public education, how can it be our eastern cousins are not as far gone as those of us who lived outside the Iron Curtain? What differences - in the vector of cultural contagion - can be identified?
People who lived under communist regimes learned that of course governments and journalists lie. I used to think such attitude was detrimental but since Covid I have begun to appreciate it.
A weary skepticism. An expectation of deceit within a low trust society.
We are gullible. They are less so.
And, I think more importantly, not being subjected to US political correctness, corporate culture and woke liberalism ever since the early 1960s.
Every western european generation born from 1940s to today has been immersed, dunked even, in US cultural imperalist "entertaintment culture" and the ideals conveyed, overtly and covertly.
If anything good came of communism, it was safe-guarding the peoples' own cultures and social codes from nivellating capitalist greed.
I’m not sure if greed can be called “capitalist”. I believe it’s such a human feature. Some people have more and some less of it.
They recognise totalitarionism - and don't like it very much.
I wonder why...
Organizations that are run by men are less susceptible to "inclusion" and "diversity" scams. Intra elite competition among woman always involves doubling down on conspicuous empathy and compassion to the exclusion of all other virtues.
Citation??
A multitude of Latin Americans who have fled Leftist regimes to come to the USA are not fooled, either. Many of them simply cannot believe how naive and gullible Americans are.
I always trusted the western mass media. I thought there was only one zombie box and it’s in my home country.
I realized that I was mistaken when I noticed the difference between the reality and the narrative that western mass media and politicians were trying to sell me.
"These are well-balanced people, they are not crazy at all." I closed me eyes, and said it three times, hoping I open my eyes and believe it. Alas, it was not to be. The bulk of the western world is in fact crazy, unbalanced, and dangerous to sanity. AfD - a democratic vote for the resurgent sanity of Germany.
The “free European press” looks more like Pravda these days. While history is being rewritten in our lifetime, one lesson not learned by the left is often if the pendulum of life or politics swings too far in One Direction, make sure you remember that kinetic energy will swing it back in the opposite one day.
I guess the Left is relieved he wasn’t a disgruntled artist and house painter
Let's face it, they are putting a set of economic and social conditions in place that practically guarantee the emergence of another Austrian painter.
we seem to have to repeat history and relearn that race marxism is as bad as class marxism.
I would suggest you look into getting cognitive behavioral therapy.
Perhaps some high lithium foods while you wait.
If they carry on like this the Left will be reviled (hopefully) - as opposed to being relieved.
Interesting times...
I am also a “right wing extremist” , but so far I haven’t been “proven “.
What does "right wing" even mean anymore? Left/right used to mean something, now it just means good/bad, in whatever way the establishment deems fit at the moment.
Why don't they just say "nationalist" if that's what they actually mean? Why this "right wing" babble instead of something as clear as day? Is it because they fear that people will actually like it if they call it nationalist? Seems so.
Because „nationalist“ actually has a meaning and describes a set of values, whatever you might think of those. „Right wing“ on the other hand has obtained almost mystical connotations of evil. When discussing politics with a friend before I was surprised that in his vocabulary „left“ simply means good, virtuos and morally true. Describing somebody as „rechts“ in Germany usually comes in an attempt of denunciation.
I think this is the essence of it, a form of newspeak to signal good/evil without saying it outright. The bonus is that it maligns mainstream/establishment conservative parties as on the side of "evil" through their inclusion on the "right".
Yes, "far right" very much means "evil", at least in my part of the world. The media never uses "far left" because they don't want to malign the left and no degree of leftism is too far in their minds.
"Populist right" = slightly evil. "Far right" = pure evil. Populist/far left pretty much doesn't exist as a concept in the media, at least not anymore.
Woo~hoo!
You GO true SANE German people!
Keep it up and Crush those diabolical idiots into dust!!
So hilarious that liberals all around the world think it is not democracy if a non-liberal is elected. Elected.
but they cheated so much they deserved to win!
You just reminded me of my high school Latin teacher, a tiny little nun named Mother Celeste, who used to say that if we worked hard enough to cheat on our Virgil, we deserved an A.
Well, the really on Liberals. A better description would be Leftists. But, yes.
Of course it is still a big, outraged brouhaha, but it is getting noticeable quieter now when an AfD candidates wins a local election.
It was much noisier when they won in Sonneberg, and this was already much quieter compared to the apocalyptic screaming when Kemmerich (FDP) dared to accept votes from the AfD.
It seems the country is getting used to AfD people voted into office.
It will be interesting if they will try to ban the party before the next national election in 2025.
i noticed exactly this too. i waited a whole day to post on this, because i wanted more butthurt reactions. i waited all the way until this evening and it was still just a trickle, most of the pieces are lightly reworked versions of dpa news service write-up. massively bigger freakout over sonneberg in june, a much more minor victory.
compare also the AfD/CDU cooperation in Thüringen today, to 2020 hysteria.
The world is going crazy - here in the USA they are preparing conditions for azzazzination of Trump. The press is near hysterical
Indeed. Astonishing - and disheartening - the similarities. The election of Herr Lochner and others is a preview of what's to come in the US re: Trump. That is, barring some 'democratic' means of excluding him from the ballot. He's already regularly referred to in the outraged corporate press as a dictator, a demagogue, an autocrat. Very interesting word choices, but hey, when you're king, or the king's fool, you get to decide what words mean. Words / phrases like 'democracy', 'right wing' and 'extremist'. The only recourse is to insist the MSM defines its' terms - objectively. Otherwise - consider it mis-/dis-/mal-information.
Very affugaloo, that election result.
My favourite line:
"because fascism is when people you don't like win mayoral elections in towns you don't live in."
fascism also now seems to be deciding everything doesn't need to be inside the state, there can be things outside the state and often having things against the state is a good safety measure.