It's all amazing and incredible. Germany, the UK, and too much of the "developed world" is well into Orwell territory. If Orwell had foreseen the internet and the NGO censorship industrial complex, perhaps he would be writing your blog. Keep your head down, but keep writing. If the electricity gets shut off, get the dispatches out by carrier pigeon. Excellent, audacious, and hilarious work.
It's the humour in the face of such outrageous insanity that I find most appealing about Eugyppius' writing. The saying: "if you don't laugh, you'll cry", has never been truer.
Maybe it's a good thing that the nitwits behind it are about to push the enconomy over a cliff. They'll cause a revolution before their totalitarian surveillance state matures.
You mentioned electricity in passing but it is very real that the electricity in Germany could fail . They already pay three times the rate of the USA.
Germany is short on wind mills .I hear the dutch have some mills to spare ,they could be moved to Germany to solve the electricity shortage and expense .If that fails ,Russia has a way to light up Germany ,it seems the Germans are asking for it .
Belgium just reported that part of the oldest wind mills have to be replaced. I think they are about 15 years old. Surprising how short lived these things are, I wonder what the cost-benefit balance of these things is? And have they got a way to recycle them? or do they go to the garbage. Pretty big.
No, they are unrecyclable and must merely be buried forever, where their toxic components have the opportunity to leach into ground water.
Wind machines cost more energy and money to build and service than they will ever generate in their short lifetimes; they must be heavily subsidized to even be erected, and will need tax subsidies forever.
This is what's "green"; the gullibility of those who believe in wind power.
Tucker Carlson just advertised a generator. It is on the costly side, but I certainly have been thinking of a wood stove for the winter, just in case. Thankfully I have been watching some Azerbaijan family who live almost completely off the grid.
Please don't fall for those overpriced "as seen on XYZ's show" so-called generators, particularly the "solar" ones.
Do a little of your own research, figure out what energy you need to run your house during an emergency and plan for that instead of assuming some media person has your best interests at heart.
oh I won't, but it has crossed my mind, specially since we got hit last year with hurricane Helena, although on the outskirts. 4 Days without electricity was not much fun, but 4000 bucks for a machine you might need once in 5 or 6 years is just too much! If I had been in good shape, but it just hit us when both myself and my dog were sick! otherwise I surely would have built a small fire on the open spot in the yard and cooked on it, like I have seen the Azery people do so often. At least we learned to keep plenty of water at hand!
You can buy a perfectly adequate generator that will power your appliances (but not a stove or hot water heater) for a few hundred bucks. $4K should buy you a whole house gennie system and very few need that.
Yes, it seems it was only regionally that the electricity failed. BUT often underreported are the instances like this recent one in Frankfurt Main: Tagelanger Brand in Frankfurter Kraftwerk: So ist der Stand der Löscharbeiten. „Außergewöhnliche Lage“ – 100 Feuerwehrleute bei Brand in Kohlekraftwerk.
We all can imagine what happens if the electricity fails for a day or three. Chaos and plundering of Supermarkets and you don''t want to live in a high rise building in a City. The Gov. recommends u store basic food and other essentials for at least 72hrs or in other cases up to 3 weeks as if a potential war would save the population. Well, Merz is currently discussing to build Bunkers in Germany. Do People even know what the Air Raid Alarm Signals in September meant. Hide underr a Table or run to your SAFE Bunker. It's utter madness.
At least some of us have had hurricanes come over and have survived days, some even weeks, without power. We were on the outskirt last year and had 4 days outage, but a town nearby was without power for several weeks.
Humor is great leaven, some light in the darkness--but on a serious and strategic level, it is sorely needed as a weapon. Mockery shatters prestige, which is an illusion in itself; the ships of state are largely ships of fools, and the mocking refrains of the "emperors have no clothes--or brains" goes a long way to shattering the spell--which is largely psychological.
Everyone from Juvenal to Erasmus to Jonathan Swift to Gustave Le Bon to Flann O'Brien to Vladimir Nabokov to Vonnegut to the latest memester and Babylon Bee have understood the corrosive or dynamite power of laughter--and hence the iron insistence on no humor at all. THAT'S NOT FUNNY. 😂 Comedy is dead--long live comedy
This is not the first case you have reported on in which a leftist uses "forbidden words," gets called on it by a non-leftist, and only the latter is ever prosecuted for using the words . Germans themselves do not notice this pattern?
Hear ya, and for most of them it is easier to get older than to get "wiser" and keep in mind that the first rule of Bureaucracy is to protect the Bureaucracy...at all costs !!!!!
Hate speech legislation and its affects will of course push more voters familiar with the facts towards the only party offering liberty. (No reason to state more that is already obvious.) This is the silver lining. Cause and effect.
There’s no righting the ship anyway I’m afraid. No fuel, no economy and Putin says he’ll never go back to selling cheap reliable pipeline gas to Europe. (Especially Germany which has proven to only be hostile.) I won’t speculate as to the future, I’ll just sound negative.
In large part that was enabled by the lack of regulation and entrenched bureaucracy. The right people were in place at the right time. I always hold out hope.
"leonid breshnev" elsewhere: "Well, Merz is currently discussing to build Bunkers in Germany. Do People even know what the Air Raid Alarm Signals in September meant. Hide underr a Table or run to your SAFE Bunker."
Looks like remembering WW2 is becoming all the rage.
My thoughts, too. You don't want to be a Police officer these days. The old German slogan, Polizei dein Freind und Helfer has lost it's haydays back in the 70s. Now they're more like Mercinaries from Columbia fighting in Ukraine.
Professor of Media Science, huh? It's like the researcher playing around with them caged mice and then one of 'em unfortunately gives him anthrax.
In relation to this story I particularly enjoyed one of your X posts this morning. Always glad when my contempt for various people is shared by the guys I admire.
Germans pay 3X the rate of the USA for electricity.
In 2025 they have deported a whopping 15,000 people ( 84 MM population ) while still admitting other non Germans . Soon German identity will be muted and Germans will adapt to a lower standard of living
Why is perplexing is …Why ? ..the wounds are self inflicted ..
As "Use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organisations" is forbidden, does the government provide a reference list of such symbols so that people can be sure to avoid them?
Good point. It's always good to know which phrases are forbidden (for your ideological enemies) so that you don't inadvertently turn into another Hitler by using an innocent phrase like Alles für Deutschland or Alter Kampfer
I know an organization uniquely qualified to assemble and enforce such a list. They're Danish instead of German, but I suspect they will be happy to help. Plus, they're kid-friendly!
I have recently learnt so-called 'AI' is based on Large Language Models. All of the USA versions have sealed systems that do not show how the algorithms work, what factors are used and so on. The China version does.
The mass data search is done via specialised or - worse - generalised AI.
It is easily deflected due to obscure or incorrect teaching / core data - with incorrect statistical probability information.
So, while targeting the professor could well be malicious, the use of AI to capture anyone who might transgress will be based on flawed logic - Chat GTP, Claude, Gemini - which needs ever increasingly complex searches (and much, much more energy) to yield ever poorer answers.
Law enforcement has to go back to evidence based prosecution rather than 'thought' crime.
AI is a remarkable tool that can generate impressive results if you know and avoid its weaknesses. I've used it successfully for tasks like analyzing Chinese grammar through to generating code in Python, and I'm only scratching the surface.
The decision to set AI the task of trawling for National Socialist slogans is made by humans for their own political reasons. And most germane to the discussion, the decision to overlook results when the words come from leftists, while prosecuting critics of the left, even when they merely quote leftists - that is entirely a human and political choice.
In fact, AI is most unlikely to be of use in inventing new means of political persecution. In the case of the sleight-of-hand over the slogan-phrases, the bureaucrats and NGOs would:
1. have to tell AI that they want to engage in deceptive maneuvers, which they will not generally admit, and
2. to the extent that they do ever admit to their tricks, it is in private communiques that will never show up in the public material used for Large Language Models.
It took the German State Authorities 'against hate' nearly TWO Years to act so bravely and decisively against that tweet and the tweeter?
Omigawd - what horrible anti-"Our Democracy" tweets could that man have published during that time!! No wonder the German Justice system is on its knees when they need nearly two years to 'react' ..
I honestly cannot believe the blatant idiocy displayed by police and public prosecutor. Perhaps some brave AfD politician should demand that the German prosecutors not prosecute anything bemoaned by those NGOs.
Be careful Eugy, if “they” can do this to Bolz, they can do worse to you for something you did (3) years ago.
Poor Germany, at least with the Stasi or KGB you knew what you were dealing with. This nebulous combination of faceless NGOs and bureaucrats is insidious. Be careful. Real free speech is so important.
Well, the word "nincompoop" was the word Stalin used to describe Hitler according to rumors I have start......er......read. So, it is understandably verboten to use it to describe economists.
It's good to call the extreme socialists on the left "idiots" and keep them forever from the reins of government. Especially the likes of AOC and ones who promote that narrative like Bernie Sanders who would sell their souls for limelights.
It's all amazing and incredible. Germany, the UK, and too much of the "developed world" is well into Orwell territory. If Orwell had foreseen the internet and the NGO censorship industrial complex, perhaps he would be writing your blog. Keep your head down, but keep writing. If the electricity gets shut off, get the dispatches out by carrier pigeon. Excellent, audacious, and hilarious work.
It's the humour in the face of such outrageous insanity that I find most appealing about Eugyppius' writing. The saying: "if you don't laugh, you'll cry", has never been truer.
Of course such humour is itself "hate speech" when used to lampoon the authoritarian schoolmarms and their hall-monitor boot lickers.
Yet there is no pushback. One wonders just how much abuse a German can take or perhaps desires .
Goes a long way, history seems to tell. 😨
Gotta laugh to keep from crying....
Maybe it's a good thing that the nitwits behind it are about to push the enconomy over a cliff. They'll cause a revolution before their totalitarian surveillance state matures.
One can hope.
when you see the number of NoKings there are in these manifestations, I wonder when people will get their brains back.
You mentioned electricity in passing but it is very real that the electricity in Germany could fail . They already pay three times the rate of the USA.
Germany is short on wind mills .I hear the dutch have some mills to spare ,they could be moved to Germany to solve the electricity shortage and expense .If that fails ,Russia has a way to light up Germany ,it seems the Germans are asking for it .
Belgium just reported that part of the oldest wind mills have to be replaced. I think they are about 15 years old. Surprising how short lived these things are, I wonder what the cost-benefit balance of these things is? And have they got a way to recycle them? or do they go to the garbage. Pretty big.
No, they are unrecyclable and must merely be buried forever, where their toxic components have the opportunity to leach into ground water.
Wind machines cost more energy and money to build and service than they will ever generate in their short lifetimes; they must be heavily subsidized to even be erected, and will need tax subsidies forever.
This is what's "green"; the gullibility of those who believe in wind power.
Tucker Carlson just advertised a generator. It is on the costly side, but I certainly have been thinking of a wood stove for the winter, just in case. Thankfully I have been watching some Azerbaijan family who live almost completely off the grid.
Please don't fall for those overpriced "as seen on XYZ's show" so-called generators, particularly the "solar" ones.
Do a little of your own research, figure out what energy you need to run your house during an emergency and plan for that instead of assuming some media person has your best interests at heart.
oh I won't, but it has crossed my mind, specially since we got hit last year with hurricane Helena, although on the outskirts. 4 Days without electricity was not much fun, but 4000 bucks for a machine you might need once in 5 or 6 years is just too much! If I had been in good shape, but it just hit us when both myself and my dog were sick! otherwise I surely would have built a small fire on the open spot in the yard and cooked on it, like I have seen the Azery people do so often. At least we learned to keep plenty of water at hand!
You can buy a perfectly adequate generator that will power your appliances (but not a stove or hot water heater) for a few hundred bucks. $4K should buy you a whole house gennie system and very few need that.
It was unclear whether the poster was referencing a cessation of electricity regionally, or... just to eugy's house, perhaps at 4 AM. 🙀
Yes, it seems it was only regionally that the electricity failed. BUT often underreported are the instances like this recent one in Frankfurt Main: Tagelanger Brand in Frankfurter Kraftwerk: So ist der Stand der Löscharbeiten. „Außergewöhnliche Lage“ – 100 Feuerwehrleute bei Brand in Kohlekraftwerk.
We all can imagine what happens if the electricity fails for a day or three. Chaos and plundering of Supermarkets and you don''t want to live in a high rise building in a City. The Gov. recommends u store basic food and other essentials for at least 72hrs or in other cases up to 3 weeks as if a potential war would save the population. Well, Merz is currently discussing to build Bunkers in Germany. Do People even know what the Air Raid Alarm Signals in September meant. Hide underr a Table or run to your SAFE Bunker. It's utter madness.
At least some of us have had hurricanes come over and have survived days, some even weeks, without power. We were on the outskirt last year and had 4 days outage, but a town nearby was without power for several weeks.
Humor is great leaven, some light in the darkness--but on a serious and strategic level, it is sorely needed as a weapon. Mockery shatters prestige, which is an illusion in itself; the ships of state are largely ships of fools, and the mocking refrains of the "emperors have no clothes--or brains" goes a long way to shattering the spell--which is largely psychological.
Everyone from Juvenal to Erasmus to Jonathan Swift to Gustave Le Bon to Flann O'Brien to Vladimir Nabokov to Vonnegut to the latest memester and Babylon Bee have understood the corrosive or dynamite power of laughter--and hence the iron insistence on no humor at all. THAT'S NOT FUNNY. 😂 Comedy is dead--long live comedy
This is why I so enjoy having a President who trolls whole countries, never mind the opposition clowns.
This is not the first case you have reported on in which a leftist uses "forbidden words," gets called on it by a non-leftist, and only the latter is ever prosecuted for using the words . Germans themselves do not notice this pattern?
Hear ya, and for most of them it is easier to get older than to get "wiser" and keep in mind that the first rule of Bureaucracy is to protect the Bureaucracy...at all costs !!!!!
They apparently enjoy the abuse . What other conclusion could one come to ?
I don't think they enjoy it, but they certainly think they deserve it.
All Germans deserve it. Well, because they are German. Need there be any other reason?
Hate speech legislation and its affects will of course push more voters familiar with the facts towards the only party offering liberty. (No reason to state more that is already obvious.) This is the silver lining. Cause and effect.
Hate speech legislation is an authoritarian's dream.
It is taking a long time . With electricity rates triple those of the USA , if Germany doesnt right the ship soon , it will be too late to recover .
There’s no righting the ship anyway I’m afraid. No fuel, no economy and Putin says he’ll never go back to selling cheap reliable pipeline gas to Europe. (Especially Germany which has proven to only be hostile.) I won’t speculate as to the future, I’ll just sound negative.
It's never too late. Remember the economic miracle after the total devastation of WW2?
In large part that was enabled by the lack of regulation and entrenched bureaucracy. The right people were in place at the right time. I always hold out hope.
"leonid breshnev" elsewhere: "Well, Merz is currently discussing to build Bunkers in Germany. Do People even know what the Air Raid Alarm Signals in September meant. Hide underr a Table or run to your SAFE Bunker."
Looks like remembering WW2 is becoming all the rage.
I hear Trump has some spare sanctions left over, maybe he can sanction Germany for human rights violations?
If someone at the White House reads your suggestion, it might just happen. That kind of humorous provocation is what Trump does best.
how humiliating to be a police officer in Germany.
It's more humiliating to be a police officer in the UK, where it takes two officers to apprehend a woman for pouring some coffee down a storm drain.
My thoughts, too. You don't want to be a Police officer these days. The old German slogan, Polizei dein Freind und Helfer has lost it's haydays back in the 70s. Now they're more like Mercinaries from Columbia fighting in Ukraine.
Professor of Media Science, huh? It's like the researcher playing around with them caged mice and then one of 'em unfortunately gives him anthrax.
In relation to this story I particularly enjoyed one of your X posts this morning. Always glad when my contempt for various people is shared by the guys I admire.
It would seem that “rock bottom” needs to be redefined.
You raise an interesting question.
Germans pay 3X the rate of the USA for electricity.
In 2025 they have deported a whopping 15,000 people ( 84 MM population ) while still admitting other non Germans . Soon German identity will be muted and Germans will adapt to a lower standard of living
Why is perplexing is …Why ? ..the wounds are self inflicted ..
Read Jim Marrs.
The Rise of the Fourth Reich
Aka New World Order.
For Americans also add
Read Servando Gonzales
I Dare Call It Treason
How about 'AI bottom'?
As "Use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organisations" is forbidden, does the government provide a reference list of such symbols so that people can be sure to avoid them?
I wonder if the government would have to sue itself for publishing such a list?
Governments seems to always have special reasons to permit unlawful acts.
Good point. It's always good to know which phrases are forbidden (for your ideological enemies) so that you don't inadvertently turn into another Hitler by using an innocent phrase like Alles für Deutschland or Alter Kampfer
I know an organization uniquely qualified to assemble and enforce such a list. They're Danish instead of German, but I suspect they will be happy to help. Plus, they're kid-friendly!
https://www.reddit.com/r/legogaming/comments/1ko7ne0/where_can_i_read_the_badwordstxt_file_from_lego/
If the Taz says it, it is ok. If Bolz says it, it is a crime.
It is a good illustration that there is not really a Nazi trauma; nobody really cares anymore about the actual Nazis, or the words they used.
As you mentioned earlier, they have become the antichrist, in which no one really believes.
They are just the excuse to punish the enemies of the current regime.
It would be much funnier to observe without all the historical examples to what extremes those people are willing to go.
I don't know what Germans are taught in schools about Nazis, but Americans are almost entirely ignorant about it all.
Well said.
This is tragic.
I have recently learnt so-called 'AI' is based on Large Language Models. All of the USA versions have sealed systems that do not show how the algorithms work, what factors are used and so on. The China version does.
The mass data search is done via specialised or - worse - generalised AI.
It is easily deflected due to obscure or incorrect teaching / core data - with incorrect statistical probability information.
So, while targeting the professor could well be malicious, the use of AI to capture anyone who might transgress will be based on flawed logic - Chat GTP, Claude, Gemini - which needs ever increasingly complex searches (and much, much more energy) to yield ever poorer answers.
Law enforcement has to go back to evidence based prosecution rather than 'thought' crime.
AI is a remarkable tool that can generate impressive results if you know and avoid its weaknesses. I've used it successfully for tasks like analyzing Chinese grammar through to generating code in Python, and I'm only scratching the surface.
The decision to set AI the task of trawling for National Socialist slogans is made by humans for their own political reasons. And most germane to the discussion, the decision to overlook results when the words come from leftists, while prosecuting critics of the left, even when they merely quote leftists - that is entirely a human and political choice.
In fact, AI is most unlikely to be of use in inventing new means of political persecution. In the case of the sleight-of-hand over the slogan-phrases, the bureaucrats and NGOs would:
1. have to tell AI that they want to engage in deceptive maneuvers, which they will not generally admit, and
2. to the extent that they do ever admit to their tricks, it is in private communiques that will never show up in the public material used for Large Language Models.
Meanwhile, in the UK, a woman receives a hefty fine (since rescinded) for pouring a bit of coffee down a storm drain before boarding a bus.
One can't help wondering if the same fine would've been imposed if she had tripped and accidentally spilled some coffee.
What we can conclude from this, is that taz is more to the left than prof. Bolz.
I will now go on Youtube and listen to Panzerlied, which is used by the Leibgarde for the Royal House of Sweden.
Because.
I went to Wikipedia and read about Sturmlied, then listened to it on Youtube. When are they going to be taken down?
It took the German State Authorities 'against hate' nearly TWO Years to act so bravely and decisively against that tweet and the tweeter?
Omigawd - what horrible anti-"Our Democracy" tweets could that man have published during that time!! No wonder the German Justice system is on its knees when they need nearly two years to 'react' ..
I honestly cannot believe the blatant idiocy displayed by police and public prosecutor. Perhaps some brave AfD politician should demand that the German prosecutors not prosecute anything bemoaned by those NGOs.
Be careful Eugy, if “they” can do this to Bolz, they can do worse to you for something you did (3) years ago.
Poor Germany, at least with the Stasi or KGB you knew what you were dealing with. This nebulous combination of faceless NGOs and bureaucrats is insidious. Be careful. Real free speech is so important.
Sad.
Let us know if there is a fundraiser for Bolz's defense.
Well, the word "nincompoop" was the word Stalin used to describe Hitler according to rumors I have start......er......read. So, it is understandably verboten to use it to describe economists.
It's good to call the extreme socialists on the left "idiots" and keep them forever from the reins of government. Especially the likes of AOC and ones who promote that narrative like Bernie Sanders who would sell their souls for limelights.