It is outrageous that the government had no second thoughts about banning knife sales in Solingen, the home of high quality knives known around the world. It is like banning shipbuilding in Groton, or salt water taffy in Coney Island.
Far-left candidate RFK Jr. just quit his presidential campaign and threw all his support to Donald Trump's campaign. The populists just got a boost from the anti-establishment left. There is hope for us. This is the way it should be.
I would argue that RFK's view on the Ukraine war are spot on. His landmark speech from a few days also called out the collusion between "Big Ag" (corporate farming), "Big Food" (highly processed food derived from corporate farms), and "Big Pharma" (selling the solutions to chronic illness brought forth from processed foods). He also suggested a link between the above and the gender nonsense. I am no lefty, but I think that these are critical societal interests to all that the Dems are not talking about.
Lastly, don't forget that President Trump was also a Democrat donor in the not too distant past.
He is a liberal, no doubt. He is not a leftist. He is smart, well read, hard working, and consistent. He has at least as much integrity as any politician and attorney can have. His speech was spot on across the board and will go down in history as one of the greats. There was so much honesty in his speech that they will certainly amplify his virtual (character) assassination/vilification, facilitate his actual assassination, and certainly continue to impose the "virtual death" that is imposed by blocking his access to the mainstream media outlets. I welcome his engagement in virtually any capacity his is permitted. There is no damage to the institutions that he threatens that can bring them any lower than their current status- they can sink no lower. I can think of nobody else with the knowledge, courage, conviction, and fortitude to bring down and possibly rebuild the houses that currently ooze toxic slime into our country and our world.
Solingen is famous for its knives and finely machined metal blades. This regulation will merely injure local industry / local business without doung anything to deter stabbings.
Is the next step in Germany to take a page from the UK and arrest those who post or meme support for deportation of immigrants? I’m a bit worried you may to need to post from an undisclosed location…
It is still the source of some of the best cutlery anywhere. But now they will make sure the city dies with its core industry by banning the sale of the goods that provide the primary reason for traveling there. And I'll bet the perp did not even use a Solingen knife (I have several sets myself) -- they are too expensive to waste on things like murder sprees. The only people who EVER suffer from this stuff are we the people -- NEVER they the politicians or they the perps.
What they are trying to "stab" is our will. They want us to believe there is nothing we can do about it.
They want our will withered to apathy; that is exactly how the few end up with dominion over the many.
They will crash that ship into the reefs a thousand times over until people realize that all these lies are to protect the Biggest Lie; that you are so alone you can't speak truth.
To lose that lie is a loss so threatening that they will crash us asunder until there is nothing left but splinters to wash ashore.
"They will crash that ship into the reefs a thousand times over until people realize that all these lies are to protect the Biggest Lie; that you are so alone you can't speak truth."
Very well put.
For them, Orwell's "1984" is a how-to manual, not a warning.
"splinters to wash ashore", like the plastic shards of the broken turbine blades from the effing wind farms off our East Coast. Just made me think of that.
that can only be done as long as it is not one of your dear ones. If your loved ones are hurt, things change. This is not a jab where lots don't connect the dots.
At times like this, I like to comfort myself with the soothing words of US Army Chief of Staff Gen George Casey following the jihadist shooting spree at Fort Hood TX in which Maj Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 and wounded 29 others:
“As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”
Sadly, par for the course in a country whose uber-woke top general freely admitted to treason, knowing there would be absolutely no consequences:
"During multiple secret phone calls, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley promised China’s top general that he would warn the communist nation of an impending attack from the United States"
this winter I decided, after reading one of Eugyppius' posts where he lifts a glass, that I wanted something stronger to drink again. The world is to a point, that a glass of cognac is necessary to read the news.
I've been waiting for your post since I read the Daily Mail article on this; you should have seen my face last night at the descriptive "Festival of Diversity." It was helpful to me, reading that newspaper piece, to know who people like Nancy Faeser are.
Only life experience teaches you about life. I was eager for diverse experiences when I was young. It was living in a place not the US that taught me the crucial importance of those savagely-derided Western values our less-experienced citizens and citizen-leaders are therefore incapable of understanding. People are alike all over in the basics of human nature, but what attempts to channel our natures into the means of constructing a civilization is entirely the perspective of culture. There are cultures of elevated ideals and cultures of brutal tribalism. They are not mixable.
I remember long ago, when Jimmy Carter was president, that he was smeared for saying that some countries are not ready for democracy. I think he meant what you just say here.
No one really truly in the fastnesses of their own hearts likes democracy. No matter who you are, you don't want the morons on the other side to have power over you. You want power over them, or at least to thwart them sufficiently so they cannot cause any degree of havoc in your own life.
How any culture deals with a faction or side or considerable number of similar-minded people being out of power is the crucial factor. Being scornful and contemptuous and trying to win the next time is one way of dealing with disappointment and anger.
Running around hacking to death anyone suspected of being on the "wrong side" is not regarded as acceptable in the West, though assassinations of the focal point of rage do seem to be a not-uncommon concern.
Human nature is everywhere. Enlightenments are always being snuffed out by it. But at least valuing the ideals and wanting to restore them is a measure of a people's national character.
I agree. Winston Churchill once remarked that "Democracy is the worst of all political systems, except for all the others." What we see in various First World nations now is the notion of democracy, tolerance of others and acceptable political behaviour breaking down.
Agreed. Some cultures had practises that the rest of the world found utterly abhorrent. These including things like cannibalism or the Indian practise of Sati in the 19th century. Ultimately these practises were so horrific to most of human experience that they could only be stopped by executing the offenders.
Just been re-readng about the Aztek practice of extracting living hearts, which Cortez piously used to justify his killing spree. And robbing in the name of his king and country...
I have read all your stuff all over for years. From someone who has spent his life living all over the world, this is perhaps the most compact, profound statement on this matter I have read. Brava!
such casualties of WWIII can be easily sent down the memory hole with the help of the propaganda media which is totally controlled... its a new type of war
When I read about this last night on X, I could almost hear Eugyppius penning a response. It's one of the only good things about state and media dunce-craft: watching it being ripped to shreds by Eug..
"...Obviously what is killing people is not the imported and to-be-celebrated diversity from the global south, but rather these sharp objects that for some reason never gave us any problems before.."
WHY are these pointy things suddenly getting so dangerous?? LOL.
But you will note Eugyppius is getting increasingly agitated and increasingly scornful -- at least that is my impression having read him since his very first post. If this is all finally getting to him, perhaps he will have some thoughts as to what we all can do about it. I keep dinging him about applying his much-more-profound-than-mine mind to potential paths forward -- with luck he will eventually get so irritated he turns that way. We are all ears here.
Steam being released in a positive fashion from an excellent writer is welcome.
What to do? These problems can not be solved by mere humans. Alas, humans don't want to hear this no less act upon it. I've decided to pray, yes...to the God of Creation. I pray for peace in my heart, protection and ask for (then act) on opportunities to encourage others throughout day, every day. But, nahhh... God? Did no one tell the Muslims the West got rid of God decades back. The West exchanged any reverence for God for a lie of perverse diversity and tolerance.
Humans can not stop this accelerating decline into the abyss. We are in the divine comedy.
Totally agree with your disdain for "our" (not mine) politicians, only that I always think "Who voted them into office?". The voters could, no, should have ended this shitshow at least since 2015, but they didn't; instead, they asked for more. The AfD, which I vote for since its foundation, never got more than, dunno, 15% nationwide, and that even when the party was more appealing to moderates than it is now. It should have had a share of more than 30% after 2015, but people decided that no, immigration is not important for them, so they get what they vote for. Everyday everybody is closing his entrance door behind himself, sinks into his couch and feels safe, thinks "Ah, cruel world outside, lucky that I'm at home"; and lives well as long he gets his salary, his rent, his "Kindergeld", his "Bürgergeld" on his account on the 1st of the month. So, in my opinion, nothing will change; in the contrary, with every attack (remember Mannheim? no, forgotten already) people get more accoustomed to these incidents and care even less. Change will only come when the voters themselves suffer on a big scale, like mass unemployment and economic hardship. Not before. So, yes, I have run out of pity for people, victims, voters.
The only comment here that makes sense. I too ran out of sympathy for the "new age european". Democracy is a threat to my life, i'd rather see things return to a very orderly dictatorship than let these lunatics have the power to vote.
Or climate change — summer has been hot in Europe, hot temperatures are associated with more murders, therefore climate change has “fueled” these murders.
The leaders of Germany who supported immigration have blood on their hands and should be jailed for putting the citizens of Germany at risk. These leaders have failed, and their unwillingness to admit their failure is no different than the inhumanity of the Nazi regime demanding allegiance to their failed policies. How many must die before enough of the German population come to the same conclusion? Or will some trigger evolve that throws the country's emotions over the limit, as in Great Britain?
You don't understand the mindset you are up against. It isn't failing because it is a bad idea. It is failing because of you. Your comment perfectly illustrates the problem. There would be no problems if bigots like you were locked up and kept out of the way. You are failing THEM. You are failing the West. You are the problem.
Every calamity, every stabbing, every young girl abused by a foreign man is a failure of you to embrace our multicultural future. It is your small mindedness and hate that makes this happen.
This is how they actually think. The stabbings are proof they need to come down harder on normal people. They do not trigger reflection or doubt. That is not how mental illness works.
Only a robust response that ignores their delusions will fix this. A very robust response.
Let me explain how stupid, utterly inane your comment is—you see, nowhere in history has multiculturalism worked. Why? Because people or groups want to maintain their own identities and cultures. Not even members of Islam can live together, they have different factions. In Europe, people still are mad and hate other countries and groups because of atrocities that were committed against them hundreds of years ago. The people of Europe don't forget or forgive past wars or ethnic cleansing. For example, fathers in France forbid their daughters from dating men from Germany. They tell their daughter to remember what Germany did to us.
The only place where different cultures could blend is the USA, and again, why? Because America was a brand new place, it did not have a history of hatred from one side of the continent to the other. Additionally, everyone learned and used English. How many French girls marry German men? Only a few, but here in America, we call our heritage German/French or Italian/English. Everyone who came off the boat learned English; otherwise, they could not succeed or live the American dream. This is why we are called the melting pot.
What is happening in Germany is a forced integration that no one wants. The Muslims are not going to accept German culture—they want to take over Germany and make Islam the new culture. If you didn't have such doltish theories about me, you could understand this concept.
Alas, Germans are getting what they voted for. And the votes are not too distant from the 1930 tyranny.
The government's first mandate was to protect its citizens, but German and American leaders purposely failed. They are letting mass migration destroy each country's culture. The very purpose of having a government is worthless.
You are describing America prior to 1965. Everyone had to integrate into the English based culture. We are now a salad without enough dressing to hold it together rather than any melting pot.
For sure, but by whom? I'm thinking not by immigrants; politicians have security, we don't. Historically, immigration, especially during times of economic downturns, creates extreme civil unrest.
After New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne, I naively thought things would change. It was the first time things became so clear on such a large scale, impossible to hide from the general public or to sell as individual actions by “confused” men. But alas, here we are, almost 10 years later…
I guess I’m a bad person, but I LIKE that yesterday’s horror happened during a “Diversity Festival”.
Exactly as we normies felt here in the US when delegates to the Democrat Convention were shot by holdup men on the street outside their Chicago hotel. A city with all the diversity and gun control Democrats demand for the rest of the US. Enjoy it, delegates.
I was just googling and looking at the headlines. The name of the event was “Diversity Festival”. “Festival der Vielfalt”, as the url of the dedicated website shows.
But the press are squirming to avoid the name 😂.
Almost everywhere it’s called “a festival, “German festival”, “city festival”, “music festival”…
In the German press too it’s mostly referred to as “Stadtfestival” and “Solingen Festival”.
“When I was younger, I reacted with autistic impatience to news of terror attacks and stabbings like these; I reasoned that, statistically, they were not a significant cause of death and should be ignored.”
Me too. I used to respond to attacks in Britain by pulling up the longer list of terror attacks perpetrated by Irish republicans, and smugly asserting that British people didn’t generally make a big fuss about those and simply got on with their lives.
Maybe so, but they shouldn’t have had to deal with bombs planted in their cities and assassination attempts on soldiers, police and the Prime Minister. And now they shouldn’t have to deal with foreigners running around stabbing people in the neck.
I used to have the same autistic response to terror attacks in the UK. At the time it felt like I was being hyper-rational and somewhat contrarian, which I’d feel smug about.
It’s amazing even in the last 10 yrs how coverage has completely changed - back then at least the media seemed to report on the actual nature of the crimes.
The media have chosen their side. Their choice was quite unwise given the way things are going. Increasing numbers look elsewhere for information. They will come for Substack soon I suspect.
I guess forbidding merchants from selling knives will at least deter the forgetful lunatic types who meant to bring their own but forgot
It is outrageous that the government had no second thoughts about banning knife sales in Solingen, the home of high quality knives known around the world. It is like banning shipbuilding in Groton, or salt water taffy in Coney Island.
Destroying old traditions, local industry, etc, is all par for the course for these globalist pricks.
Far-left candidate RFK Jr. just quit his presidential campaign and threw all his support to Donald Trump's campaign. The populists just got a boost from the anti-establishment left. There is hope for us. This is the way it should be.
Not sure if you are being sarcastic in describing RFK Jr as being "far left". He is a classical liberal centrist (or "far right" in today's lexicon).
He is far left. All demonRATS are far left. The only thing he isn’t far left about is vaccinations.
And, in spite of ALL the evidence proving the RATS to be evil, he still thinks (like a child) that the party ‘changed, over time’.
So yeah. He’s far left.
I would argue that RFK's view on the Ukraine war are spot on. His landmark speech from a few days also called out the collusion between "Big Ag" (corporate farming), "Big Food" (highly processed food derived from corporate farms), and "Big Pharma" (selling the solutions to chronic illness brought forth from processed foods). He also suggested a link between the above and the gender nonsense. I am no lefty, but I think that these are critical societal interests to all that the Dems are not talking about.
Lastly, don't forget that President Trump was also a Democrat donor in the not too distant past.
The DNC is far-right... so he can only be far-left!
The dnc is demonic. Far-left and in. Downward trajectory to hell (I hope)
He is a liberal, no doubt. He is not a leftist. He is smart, well read, hard working, and consistent. He has at least as much integrity as any politician and attorney can have. His speech was spot on across the board and will go down in history as one of the greats. There was so much honesty in his speech that they will certainly amplify his virtual (character) assassination/vilification, facilitate his actual assassination, and certainly continue to impose the "virtual death" that is imposed by blocking his access to the mainstream media outlets. I welcome his engagement in virtually any capacity his is permitted. There is no damage to the institutions that he threatens that can bring them any lower than their current status- they can sink no lower. I can think of nobody else with the knowledge, courage, conviction, and fortitude to bring down and possibly rebuild the houses that currently ooze toxic slime into our country and our world.
So thick with irony, this attack. Pathetic.
SPIEGEL, I think, reported that one shop that sells knives has decided to remove them from stalls at festivals.
Solingen is famous for its knives and finely machined metal blades. This regulation will merely injure local industry / local business without doung anything to deter stabbings.
agree. Ban screwdrivers (esp Phillips head), ban ice picks, ban claw hammers. SMH we are ruled by total idiots.
I'd also ban any sharp twig that might be attached to a tree. Could easily poke an eye out with that.
Just my sense of humour!
What happens when these places overfill on the “far right” types is my question
Is the next step in Germany to take a page from the UK and arrest those who post or meme support for deportation of immigrants? I’m a bit worried you may to need to post from an undisclosed location…
Someone said that they will likely charge the German victims with dulling his knife.
Everyone knows knifes have the right-of-way!
OMG, like
kek!
I remember that our knives came from Solingen. Isn't there a knife and scissors factory there? or is that long gone and now all made in China?
It is still the source of some of the best cutlery anywhere. But now they will make sure the city dies with its core industry by banning the sale of the goods that provide the primary reason for traveling there. And I'll bet the perp did not even use a Solingen knife (I have several sets myself) -- they are too expensive to waste on things like murder sprees. The only people who EVER suffer from this stuff are we the people -- NEVER they the politicians or they the perps.
The politicians probably paid the guy to do those, just so they could ban the knife industry.
Change it into a pitchfork factory.
What they are trying to "stab" is our will. They want us to believe there is nothing we can do about it.
They want our will withered to apathy; that is exactly how the few end up with dominion over the many.
They will crash that ship into the reefs a thousand times over until people realize that all these lies are to protect the Biggest Lie; that you are so alone you can't speak truth.
To lose that lie is a loss so threatening that they will crash us asunder until there is nothing left but splinters to wash ashore.
"They will crash that ship into the reefs a thousand times over until people realize that all these lies are to protect the Biggest Lie; that you are so alone you can't speak truth."
Very well put.
For them, Orwell's "1984" is a how-to manual, not a warning.
"splinters to wash ashore", like the plastic shards of the broken turbine blades from the effing wind farms off our East Coast. Just made me think of that.
Full of hot air….
that can only be done as long as it is not one of your dear ones. If your loved ones are hurt, things change. This is not a jab where lots don't connect the dots.
As usual, right on point, and very well stated, Ryan.
Help break their will in return by responding with street parties. That would freak them out and get them all back in Davos to figure out a new plan
For every problem->reaction setup give them an unexpected response each time.
This is a great strategy
At times like this, I like to comfort myself with the soothing words of US Army Chief of Staff Gen George Casey following the jihadist shooting spree at Fort Hood TX in which Maj Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 and wounded 29 others:
“As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse.”
With generals like that who needs enemies?
Sadly, par for the course in a country whose uber-woke top general freely admitted to treason, knowing there would be absolutely no consequences:
"During multiple secret phone calls, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley promised China’s top general that he would warn the communist nation of an impending attack from the United States"
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/09/report-gen-milley-secretly-promised-china-hed-warn-them-before-a-us-attack/
no shit
this winter I decided, after reading one of Eugyppius' posts where he lifts a glass, that I wanted something stronger to drink again. The world is to a point, that a glass of cognac is necessary to read the news.
Sometimes two...
General Casey’s sense of military mission had long-since evaporated.
Fuck, he didn't say that, surely?
As reported at Jihad Watch: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/us-army-general-lack-of-diversity-in-army-is-worse-than-mass-murder
Thanks for the link, but that really is appalling. What an absolute creature, who says something like that??
I've been waiting for your post since I read the Daily Mail article on this; you should have seen my face last night at the descriptive "Festival of Diversity." It was helpful to me, reading that newspaper piece, to know who people like Nancy Faeser are.
Only life experience teaches you about life. I was eager for diverse experiences when I was young. It was living in a place not the US that taught me the crucial importance of those savagely-derided Western values our less-experienced citizens and citizen-leaders are therefore incapable of understanding. People are alike all over in the basics of human nature, but what attempts to channel our natures into the means of constructing a civilization is entirely the perspective of culture. There are cultures of elevated ideals and cultures of brutal tribalism. They are not mixable.
I remember long ago, when Jimmy Carter was president, that he was smeared for saying that some countries are not ready for democracy. I think he meant what you just say here.
I would put it a little differently.
No one really truly in the fastnesses of their own hearts likes democracy. No matter who you are, you don't want the morons on the other side to have power over you. You want power over them, or at least to thwart them sufficiently so they cannot cause any degree of havoc in your own life.
How any culture deals with a faction or side or considerable number of similar-minded people being out of power is the crucial factor. Being scornful and contemptuous and trying to win the next time is one way of dealing with disappointment and anger.
Running around hacking to death anyone suspected of being on the "wrong side" is not regarded as acceptable in the West, though assassinations of the focal point of rage do seem to be a not-uncommon concern.
Human nature is everywhere. Enlightenments are always being snuffed out by it. But at least valuing the ideals and wanting to restore them is a measure of a people's national character.
I agree. Winston Churchill once remarked that "Democracy is the worst of all political systems, except for all the others." What we see in various First World nations now is the notion of democracy, tolerance of others and acceptable political behaviour breaking down.
agree totally, some cultures just are incompatible with others.
Agreed. Some cultures had practises that the rest of the world found utterly abhorrent. These including things like cannibalism or the Indian practise of Sati in the 19th century. Ultimately these practises were so horrific to most of human experience that they could only be stopped by executing the offenders.
Just been re-readng about the Aztek practice of extracting living hearts, which Cortez piously used to justify his killing spree. And robbing in the name of his king and country...
I have read all your stuff all over for years. From someone who has spent his life living all over the world, this is perhaps the most compact, profound statement on this matter I have read. Brava!
I am very glad to have earned your regard.
such casualties of WWIII can be easily sent down the memory hole with the help of the propaganda media which is totally controlled... its a new type of war
War is peace.
Slavery is freedom.
Diversity is strength.
GAG
"This just in: predator allowed to live among rabbits kills rabbits, Chancellor of Hens says '#notallpredators' at anti-speciesism rally"
No, it's not funny.
But turning it into 'Animal Farm'-esque satire is the only way without writing actionable statements of truth.
When I read about this last night on X, I could almost hear Eugyppius penning a response. It's one of the only good things about state and media dunce-craft: watching it being ripped to shreds by Eug..
same feeling here, including the "I can't wait to see what Eugyppius does with this.” Sarcasm and daylight may save us, along with memes.
"...Obviously what is killing people is not the imported and to-be-celebrated diversity from the global south, but rather these sharp objects that for some reason never gave us any problems before.."
WHY are these pointy things suddenly getting so dangerous?? LOL.
But you will note Eugyppius is getting increasingly agitated and increasingly scornful -- at least that is my impression having read him since his very first post. If this is all finally getting to him, perhaps he will have some thoughts as to what we all can do about it. I keep dinging him about applying his much-more-profound-than-mine mind to potential paths forward -- with luck he will eventually get so irritated he turns that way. We are all ears here.
Steam being released in a positive fashion from an excellent writer is welcome.
What to do? These problems can not be solved by mere humans. Alas, humans don't want to hear this no less act upon it. I've decided to pray, yes...to the God of Creation. I pray for peace in my heart, protection and ask for (then act) on opportunities to encourage others throughout day, every day. But, nahhh... God? Did no one tell the Muslims the West got rid of God decades back. The West exchanged any reverence for God for a lie of perverse diversity and tolerance.
Humans can not stop this accelerating decline into the abyss. We are in the divine comedy.
Essentially agree but isn’t ‘live and let live’ and ‘leave me alone’ the same concept?
It is. It's like watching a bride being jilted at the alter. Quite pleasurable to watch, actually.
I think you meant “cheating bride” or some such. The comeuppance has to be well-deserved.
Totally agree with your disdain for "our" (not mine) politicians, only that I always think "Who voted them into office?". The voters could, no, should have ended this shitshow at least since 2015, but they didn't; instead, they asked for more. The AfD, which I vote for since its foundation, never got more than, dunno, 15% nationwide, and that even when the party was more appealing to moderates than it is now. It should have had a share of more than 30% after 2015, but people decided that no, immigration is not important for them, so they get what they vote for. Everyday everybody is closing his entrance door behind himself, sinks into his couch and feels safe, thinks "Ah, cruel world outside, lucky that I'm at home"; and lives well as long he gets his salary, his rent, his "Kindergeld", his "Bürgergeld" on his account on the 1st of the month. So, in my opinion, nothing will change; in the contrary, with every attack (remember Mannheim? no, forgotten already) people get more accoustomed to these incidents and care even less. Change will only come when the voters themselves suffer on a big scale, like mass unemployment and economic hardship. Not before. So, yes, I have run out of pity for people, victims, voters.
I agree. Personal hardship will change things. People are terrified to be mean.
The only comment here that makes sense. I too ran out of sympathy for the "new age european". Democracy is a threat to my life, i'd rather see things return to a very orderly dictatorship than let these lunatics have the power to vote.
At least he didn’t post any hurtful memes.
lol, like
Sure is taking the mainstream media a long time to come up with a way to blame it on Trump.
Or climate change — summer has been hot in Europe, hot temperatures are associated with more murders, therefore climate change has “fueled” these murders.
Hahaha. So true
The leaders of Germany who supported immigration have blood on their hands and should be jailed for putting the citizens of Germany at risk. These leaders have failed, and their unwillingness to admit their failure is no different than the inhumanity of the Nazi regime demanding allegiance to their failed policies. How many must die before enough of the German population come to the same conclusion? Or will some trigger evolve that throws the country's emotions over the limit, as in Great Britain?
You don't understand the mindset you are up against. It isn't failing because it is a bad idea. It is failing because of you. Your comment perfectly illustrates the problem. There would be no problems if bigots like you were locked up and kept out of the way. You are failing THEM. You are failing the West. You are the problem.
Every calamity, every stabbing, every young girl abused by a foreign man is a failure of you to embrace our multicultural future. It is your small mindedness and hate that makes this happen.
This is how they actually think. The stabbings are proof they need to come down harder on normal people. They do not trigger reflection or doubt. That is not how mental illness works.
Only a robust response that ignores their delusions will fix this. A very robust response.
The robuster the better!
Yeah right ,see above. Do as we say or die. The usual response from tyrants.
Or the mentally disturbed, as many of these people are.
Let me explain how stupid, utterly inane your comment is—you see, nowhere in history has multiculturalism worked. Why? Because people or groups want to maintain their own identities and cultures. Not even members of Islam can live together, they have different factions. In Europe, people still are mad and hate other countries and groups because of atrocities that were committed against them hundreds of years ago. The people of Europe don't forget or forgive past wars or ethnic cleansing. For example, fathers in France forbid their daughters from dating men from Germany. They tell their daughter to remember what Germany did to us.
The only place where different cultures could blend is the USA, and again, why? Because America was a brand new place, it did not have a history of hatred from one side of the continent to the other. Additionally, everyone learned and used English. How many French girls marry German men? Only a few, but here in America, we call our heritage German/French or Italian/English. Everyone who came off the boat learned English; otherwise, they could not succeed or live the American dream. This is why we are called the melting pot.
What is happening in Germany is a forced integration that no one wants. The Muslims are not going to accept German culture—they want to take over Germany and make Islam the new culture. If you didn't have such doltish theories about me, you could understand this concept.
Alas, Germans are getting what they voted for. And the votes are not too distant from the 1930 tyranny.
The government's first mandate was to protect its citizens, but German and American leaders purposely failed. They are letting mass migration destroy each country's culture. The very purpose of having a government is worthless.
Indeed you missed my point. I was reflecting their views. I agree, multiculturalism has never worked anywhere. It always leads to widespread violence.
Even America is now collapsing because too many too quickly who do not share America's values. The center cannot hold.
The future for all European nations is warfare at home. All of it was avoidable, and still is. But people learn the hard way.
I think maybe you misread Spiff's comment, overlooking the sarcasm.
Well, I hope so.
You are describing America prior to 1965. Everyone had to integrate into the English based culture. We are now a salad without enough dressing to hold it together rather than any melting pot.
You are both right btw...you're just passing each other.
If you guys were having beers together you'd be laughing until you woke up with a galactic hangover.
When one of the leaders is killed, then we might see something.
For sure, but by whom? I'm thinking not by immigrants; politicians have security, we don't. Historically, immigration, especially during times of economic downturns, creates extreme civil unrest.
After New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne, I naively thought things would change. It was the first time things became so clear on such a large scale, impossible to hide from the general public or to sell as individual actions by “confused” men. But alas, here we are, almost 10 years later…
I guess I’m a bad person, but I LIKE that yesterday’s horror happened during a “Diversity Festival”.
Wir schaffen das.
Actually, Mutti meant to say Wir scheissen das.
Exactly as we normies felt here in the US when delegates to the Democrat Convention were shot by holdup men on the street outside their Chicago hotel. A city with all the diversity and gun control Democrats demand for the rest of the US. Enjoy it, delegates.
I was just googling and looking at the headlines. The name of the event was “Diversity Festival”. “Festival der Vielfalt”, as the url of the dedicated website shows.
But the press are squirming to avoid the name 😂.
Almost everywhere it’s called “a festival, “German festival”, “city festival”, “music festival”…
In the German press too it’s mostly referred to as “Stadtfestival” and “Solingen Festival”.
I've noticed that too. Extremely embarrassing for them. Good.
lol, like. bastards that they are.
“When I was younger, I reacted with autistic impatience to news of terror attacks and stabbings like these; I reasoned that, statistically, they were not a significant cause of death and should be ignored.”
Me too. I used to respond to attacks in Britain by pulling up the longer list of terror attacks perpetrated by Irish republicans, and smugly asserting that British people didn’t generally make a big fuss about those and simply got on with their lives.
Maybe so, but they shouldn’t have had to deal with bombs planted in their cities and assassination attempts on soldiers, police and the Prime Minister. And now they shouldn’t have to deal with foreigners running around stabbing people in the neck.
I used to have the same autistic response to terror attacks in the UK. At the time it felt like I was being hyper-rational and somewhat contrarian, which I’d feel smug about.
It’s amazing even in the last 10 yrs how coverage has completely changed - back then at least the media seemed to report on the actual nature of the crimes.
The media have chosen their side. Their choice was quite unwise given the way things are going. Increasing numbers look elsewhere for information. They will come for Substack soon I suspect.