Last Friday, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) declared Alternative für Deutschland to be a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organisation. I very much fear that “the right” is going to be the new panic apocalypse issue, now that climate has ceased to command apocalyptic fears, everyone abandoned the Covidpocalypse and nobody really believes that the Russians will invade Brandenburg and usher in the Putlerpocalypse.
Does Keisewetter mean bedwetter? Does any member German political class not behave like a histrionic teenage girl? Odd how they only experience glee when they destroy their own country - daddy issues?
Jim Kunstler's column today points out that the Democrats are just teenage girls who are rebelling against any boundaries or restrictions by daddy figure Donald Trump....
If that's the case, then we are all blithering morons who can't stop a teenage girl. Your haha funny on the internet means nothing to egotists and crooks who bend you over.
It really is an affront to reality what these morons are doing. It is hard to imagine how their thought processes work or more likely don't work! The left really is in self destruct mode. Surely they must realise that this is not going to end well.
Like in Sophocles play Antigone, after she ( as the AfD) is buried alive, perhaps the remaining parties, the CDU and the SPD (as the personification of her brothers and Oedipus's sons) agree to alternate years as rulers?
Even if one is not aware of the play, I am sure most of us can figure out the ending...She kills herself, and the brothers kill each other, of course. Then the Kingdom of Creon crumbles into chaos.
Just thirty-something years ago, Germany (and the EG, and Amnesty, and Red Cross and sundry other NGOs) would have been in the first line to condemn a nation for trying to outlaw parties, jail political opposition or dissidents on trumped-up charges, and stifling debate by outlawing opinions.
Just thirty years ago. Imagine if you're in your twenties today, what will be your normal thirty years from now if the current trends are allowed to continue.
Just remember what Ian musk said last week in regards to NGO and money laundering. He said that the two words are synonymous and he’s absolutely right.
1990? Not so much, it was during the 90s that the NGOs became infiltrated by people beholden to corporate capitalists, and suborned to serve the message of neoliberalism.
How could you ever know that in the 90s it wasn't any different? We didn't have access to the internet to give us unvarnished information, so how would we ever even know?
Early 1990s, the NGOs frequently attacked states, governments and corporations for their various crap behaviours - never private individuals, and never in the way they have been going about things since ca 2005.
The style and the total change in tonality, where society and Average Joe and Jill in the West became the target for every NGO from World Wildlife Organisation to Grteenpeace or Medicines sans Frontiers, is a full 180 from before the 1990s. No more "rainbow warriors" blocking Japanese whalers or garbage scows dumping toxic waste in oceans, but plenty of Wokescold Greta (she was far from the first, they usually roll out someone like her every ten years or so) clones telling guys like you and me that us having a dog means the planet is dying.
That's, like they say in poker, a 'tell'.
Also, having been on the inside in the late 1980s as a street-level politically active person, I can tell from personal experience how different the organisations are today, compared to then.
Greenpeace in 1985 wouldn't have bothered with any identity politics, and Amnesty the way I remember it would have been first in line to defend the Afd. That's two very real examples of co-optation.
One thing that has remained the same though: foreign aid when it is directly from one state to another, is usually a system of paying legal bribes to help capitalist corporations secure contracts.
I think I see what you're saying, and I don't think we're disagreeing. I thought you were saying that NGOs in the 90s didn't do politics, but I think now you're saying they didn't do _individual_ politics.
That actually makes a lot of sense, if you account for the whole "internet decentralizes allthethings" thing. You didn't have to go after individuals in a world before we had technology to give individuals a voice. You only had to go after institutions.
Individual politics/identity politics didn't exist outside fringe feminist and homo radical extremist groups, and before the internet they had no reach, no pull and zero appeal to normal people.
Plus: the NGOs engaged on matters of tangible real policy, not adherence to abstract virtue-signals. Greenpeace f.e. protested the use of dangerous chemicals and waste, based on facts.
All issues were real issues, and who you the person was, wasn't relevant. Rich, poor, brown, white, whatever - the volunteers (because we didn't use "activist" in those days) were focused, rightly or wrongly, on material issues only in the public eye. Sure, there were plenty of political agendas too, but people trying to push those to the front were kept back from any position of power within the organisations. The ommon phrase was, "If you want to preach about the dictatorship of the proletariat, go join the communist party, we're trying to stop a factory from producing Agent Orange and pouring its spillage into the river!".
This, and the successes the movements had in the 1980s, were intolerable to neoliberal capitalists, especially of the Mises/Hayek/Friedman schools, since all three of them were anti-democrats, working since 1938 to move decision-making out of reach of elected officials and into unelected supra-national organisations, so that whatever people voted for, they'd get the same politics anyway.
It's funny in a way. Communism took from 1921 to 1995 to fail completely. Neoliberalism did it from 1990 to 2020.
> Similar to those I know who proclaim 'if we didn't get the coof shot, everyone would have died'.
What I'm about to say is going to sound like extremely autistic internet pedantry, but I actually mean it.
If the world had its way, we would simply not know, because we would have forced everyone to get the clot shot and there would be no control group to compare against.
Well... I never accepted the vaccine as my lord and saviour. I am the control group.
My motivations for this choice have changed over time, but one of them is grandiose: I have a moral duty to humanity to not get the vaccine, so that there is a control group to compare it to.
Of course, the last time I checked the data, I'm still not dead.
You don't sound a bit autistic...I think your response was measured and reasonable. Does that make me autistic? 🙇🏼♀️
As for being part of the recent worldwide medical experiment, choosing to be in the control group was a 'no-brainer' for me. A natural loner, comfortable with accepting responsibility for my own actions and no need to explain my decision is my 'normal'.
I appreciate your point of view and your comment was put forward with a kind inquisitiveness. Marvelous qualities in a human!
Excellent point. Compared to how relatively easy it is to ferret out information these days, it was incredibly different in the 1990s. Who knows what was going on before the rise of the Internet. I'm sure it was so much worse than we ever imagined. They could hide things so much more easily pre-internet.
It's a matter of degree, but yes, I do think that a suitably motivated person can leverage the internet to easily access unvarnished information.
For one example of what I mean: back before I stopped caring about stuff that happens, I had an app on my phone called Broadcastify. It's an index for a collection of radio repeaters that broadcast online, and you can go there to eg listen to the police and fire radio traffic in any city in the world.
When stuff like George Floyd riots happened, that's where I was getting my news. I was just listening to the police dispatchers' radio signals, hearing the police chatter as they were actually on the ground dealing with things.
This was, with absolute certainty, unvarnished true information, that I can get for free from the internet, that was impossible to get (unless you happened to live within range of whichever radio signal you're trying to listen to) before the internet.
I absolutely get what you're saying, and you're not wrong. Social media is far from reliable and accurate. But social media is also not the only source of information online.
Another source of true, accurate, and not-meddled-by-the-government information is your text messages. A friend can ping you on Signal and tell you something. Before the internet, text messages like this didn't exist. And the government isn't, like, snooping into our text messages and rewriting them in realtime to censor information.
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I mean hell, look where we are right now. _This blog_ is an example of the internet letting us do an end-run around the mechanisms of information control and get direct accurate news about the world. Things like this blog could not have existed prior to the internet; at best, they'd again be a local publication that could exist within a specific city but which would not be able to report on any other cities, and which would not be seen by anyone outside of that city.
Consider how much less we here would know about Covid nonsense if this blog didn't exist. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about
That most people didn't bother reading official documents back before the internet, doesn't mean they didn't exist.
We simply had to haul ass to the correct library or public archive, and do a lot of digging, scouring through microfiche and microfilm and filing cabinets.
That's one of the things that worries me. I (and most of my friends) remember what it was like before. Even my son in his thirties can remember a time before the internet when stuff was 'normal'. I'm very worried about these coming generations with no point of reference other than the shitshow that has been the last 20 years, especially since they lack the stamina to read actual history and are so reliant on influencers to break down everything into regurgitated 20 second soundbites.
Giant meteor/EMP loss of the electric grid/Pole shift cannot happen too soon.
The 'leaders' better hope for some downright heinous atrocities in there. (On the other hand, if there were such atrocities included, they'd already be leaked.)
If this turns out to be another situation in which they're twisting the law in order to 'justify' bogus charges (ala Trump), I'm afraid of what's going to happen. People are SICK of being lied to and told it's for our own good.
Will they be called something like "Sicherheitabteilung" or "SA" for short? Will they have appropriate uniforms and parades? I wonder about these things...
"Was könnte schief gehen?"
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” — Benjamin Franklin.
Even if it were true that 48 % of Germans are for banning, the majority is against it. And who have they asked? 1000 people randomly (or not so randomly) called on the phone, preferably at dinner time like they do here in the States?
I am amazed that the Germans trot out a Korean to tell them hope to handle dissidents. South Korea has only been a liberal, non-dictatorship since 1987. It is truly disappointing to watch Germany descend into this kind of tyranny.
(2) fervently kissing up to anyone in power, and eagerly regurgitating the most recent shibboleths circulated by the ruling faction;
(3) exploiting and jerking around regular people and hitting them up for bribes.
In the U.S., we have long become inured to the spectacle of individuals from VERY well-connected family backgrounds in non-Western countries coming to America and promptly mutating into self-proclaimed saviors of various oppressed groups (e.g. American blacks) with whom they have no personal connection. Kamala Harris - daughter of a Tamil Brahmin mother, grew up mostly in Canada - is perhaps the most prominent example.
This is common in nations that adopted the Confucian system of government. Bureaucratic status was based on examinations requiring the regurgitation of Confusian text.
I only truly understood how cooked the polls are when I read about Hillary giving the poll manufacturers a 26 page how-to manual on how to take a poll (favorable to her, of course).
Giving the document of the AfD to only “certain” journalists with a pre-approved narrative construction activated pass, is a perfect parallel to the Steele dossier also being given to certain journalists during the beginning of the Trump Russiagate phony baloney hoax.
I would wager JD Vance reads your texts where else can someone go to get the nuanced political moves going on in Germany? There is no media coverage and now even the opinion columns in the papers are even dodgy, at best. Remember how long it took for someone to even broach the topic of who did the Nordstream bombing…
There's something to keep in mind that's both easy to forget, since it was already a decade ago, and easy to overlook if you weren't in it.
And that is that Trump 2016 was the first US political campaign to truly leverage social media to a victory. This let them do an end-run around the gatekeepers of messaging and get a more true and accurate vision of the facts on the ground.
It would be absolutely in keeping with this strategy for them to have staffers reading blogs like this.
Hi Mr. Vance! I'm a friend of Yarvin's, can you please executive-order me a green card?
You're not the first person to suggest this, and I've never been able to tell how sarcastic everyone's being when they say that.
Trump might be the president, but there's still ~3 million career civil servants in the government, and almost all of them are sympathetic to bougie democrat opinions. For a white guy from Germany (or Canada, in my case) to apply for political asylum because we can't post on Twitter would get us laughed out of the room by someone who dyes her hair blue.
No joke: I eyed a blue-haired Her over the weekend at a local park, Her 'Golden-doodle' had a pink mohawk and She was perfectly at ease strolling it in a baby carriage.
Remember the Medusa! Protective eyewear strongly recommended. Look for heavy-duty welder's goggles, and even then do NOT look directly at the blue-haired apparition. If you must look, use a reflective object, e.g. a polished shield, or the glass cover of your watch.
I think it was probably more "in mild jest" than actually "sarcastic" when I said it myself, before. "Sarcastic would imply I *didn't* want you to do it. "In jest" is more, "I know it would be futile, but what's the harm?" Which may itself be a position of severe ignorance.
You’re joking, but even with all the shit, I bet that if the US sold a platinum citizenship card for something like a few millions there would be a lot of takers
QUOTE: the topic of who did the Nordstream bombing…
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People who paid attention remember how they made Scholz STAND NEXT to Biden, like a wet poodle, as Biden announced to the world that Nord Stream would not be permitted to operate.
In the USA the great unwinding continues. 100 ilegal immigrants were rounded up in Nashville,TN over the weekend . They had drugs , firearms ,outstanding warrants etc .
Of course it will be forever before we can rid them from our country but we have been largely successful in detentions and more facilities are being built so we can humanely house them as they each have due process and lengthy judicial review . Of course , to get here they simply walked in from Mexico and Biden handed them a free credit card and put them up in a nice hotel .
Correct . So are you saying why deport ANY ? Is it meaningful that we have at least slowed the onslaught to a trickle . It’s now tough to get in as witnessed by multiple drownings in San Diego as immigrants tried to storm the beach in a panda boat only to capsize and meet an untimely demise . But you are right as I alluded to . Even when you if catch them , the process of removal is daunting.
Sorry, but Clinton was deporting about 1.3 million per year during his two terms. I haven't seen anything approaching that from the Trump administration.
I think the only way to deal with the numbers of illegals (over 40 million) is to introduce a bounty system.
I know my views may seem too often those of a cranky old Yankee [general not specifically Yankee of course] but I myself suspect that the threats to human dignity were perfectly exemplified by Christian Drosten et al and them guys ought, in a universe bending towards justice, be sent by a bespokely designed hideously ugly SpaceX rocket to the furthest bend of the cosmos.
I hope the Germanic temperament that smashed the Roman Empire and eventually produced guys like Bach will somehow awaken from the deep because clearly its time has come, and now or, you know, maybe never.
Well, having worked briefly for a feminist-with-a-vengeance NGO back in 1986, I was more than well-schooled in their hypocrisy and viciousness. One of the worst jobs I've ever had and I had some real crappy ones fer shure.
Stupid, indeed! The areas where the AfD has it’s strongest support are the areas where they lived under communism and they are not wanting authoritarian rule under any other name. They are about the farthest away from Hitler among the Germans, especially the current government.
I pray that the efforts to ban them will backfire like so many other leftist plots are here in the USA.
The tragic irony of this is that should the AfD somehow survive and gain power, they will be under intense pressure to use the same laws to ban all the other parties. After all, it is unquestionable that the coalition is trying to overthrow democracy with these actions and thus legally the case is watertight (of course the judges would ignore the law, but they could be replaced).
And what happens if the AfD did not do that? The first time they lose the opposition will destroy them all, possibly kill them. The relentless escalation by the left seems to point to only one outcome. And so like a classic tragedy, the left risks creating the monster of their imagination for real.
I have written about this before. Were the AfD to gain power and were the apparatus of ‘defensive democracy’ to still exist at that time, the AfD would have to be suicidal not to use it against other parties. You only need to take down one, to break the left machine, just like left knows you only need to take down one (the AfD) to break the right machine. Greens would be in focus.
How convenient that the only affront to democracy listed is that the AfD is right wing. They don't care about totalitarianism as long as its not from the Right. In fact, they seem to fully support totalitarianism from the Left. Obviously, it makes no difference to the oppressed population whether the tyrants are from the Left or the Right. The result is the same. The only ones it makes a difference to are the ones who want to be the tyrants.
Exactly and in true COMMUNIST style is always. That leopard never changes it spot whether it’s anarchist Marxist communist or globalist. The stench is always the same.
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Does Keisewetter mean bedwetter? Does any member German political class not behave like a histrionic teenage girl? Odd how they only experience glee when they destroy their own country - daddy issues?
Jim Kunstler's column today points out that the Democrats are just teenage girls who are rebelling against any boundaries or restrictions by daddy figure Donald Trump....
If that's the case, then we are all blithering morons who can't stop a teenage girl. Your haha funny on the internet means nothing to egotists and crooks who bend you over.
"Hot chicks like Patty Hearst and Joan of Arc are waiting to date guys exactly like you!"
Is that the extent of your field of concern? Women?
It really is an affront to reality what these morons are doing. It is hard to imagine how their thought processes work or more likely don't work! The left really is in self destruct mode. Surely they must realise that this is not going to end well.
This is all about the utopia inside their minds. They are entranced. You common sense pushback is seen as a threat. That's all it is. They are lost.
it's from all the men being forced to pee sitting down.
I am reading your articles like I would read an ancient Greek tragicomedy.
I refuse to feel bad for laughing!
As a German I unfortunately can’t relate. Hard not to despair.
Don't despair!!!
It's important not to.
Always remember it can get MUCH worse, you know, like trench warfare.
You can fix it, and quite easily too - these elites are VERY few and actually weak and vulnerable.
You'll figure it out, all of us Europeans have to figure it out or we're done for.
{...these elites are VERY few and actually weak and vulnerable...} Vulnerable ??? ...
They're UNTOUCHABLE !!!
AGREE
as long as they have the media behind them with knives at their own throats - they are longing to go to hell in a handbasket
I'm an outsider, but I sense that the opposition to AfD will crumble, and there will be imperfect hope on the other side. Good luck!
flee while you can. Argentina has always been a popular destination.
You must have some Goth genes.
Like in Sophocles play Antigone, after she ( as the AfD) is buried alive, perhaps the remaining parties, the CDU and the SPD (as the personification of her brothers and Oedipus's sons) agree to alternate years as rulers?
Even if one is not aware of the play, I am sure most of us can figure out the ending...She kills herself, and the brothers kill each other, of course. Then the Kingdom of Creon crumbles into chaos.
Nice lead, Random!
Just thirty-something years ago, Germany (and the EG, and Amnesty, and Red Cross and sundry other NGOs) would have been in the first line to condemn a nation for trying to outlaw parties, jail political opposition or dissidents on trumped-up charges, and stifling debate by outlawing opinions.
Just thirty years ago. Imagine if you're in your twenties today, what will be your normal thirty years from now if the current trends are allowed to continue.
Just remember what Ian musk said last week in regards to NGO and money laundering. He said that the two words are synonymous and he’s absolutely right.
Nowadays, absolutely.
1990? Not so much, it was during the 90s that the NGOs became infiltrated by people beholden to corporate capitalists, and suborned to serve the message of neoliberalism.
I'm probably a broken record on this, but
How could you ever know that in the 90s it wasn't any different? We didn't have access to the internet to give us unvarnished information, so how would we ever even know?
Early 1990s, the NGOs frequently attacked states, governments and corporations for their various crap behaviours - never private individuals, and never in the way they have been going about things since ca 2005.
The style and the total change in tonality, where society and Average Joe and Jill in the West became the target for every NGO from World Wildlife Organisation to Grteenpeace or Medicines sans Frontiers, is a full 180 from before the 1990s. No more "rainbow warriors" blocking Japanese whalers or garbage scows dumping toxic waste in oceans, but plenty of Wokescold Greta (she was far from the first, they usually roll out someone like her every ten years or so) clones telling guys like you and me that us having a dog means the planet is dying.
That's, like they say in poker, a 'tell'.
Also, having been on the inside in the late 1980s as a street-level politically active person, I can tell from personal experience how different the organisations are today, compared to then.
Greenpeace in 1985 wouldn't have bothered with any identity politics, and Amnesty the way I remember it would have been first in line to defend the Afd. That's two very real examples of co-optation.
One thing that has remained the same though: foreign aid when it is directly from one state to another, is usually a system of paying legal bribes to help capitalist corporations secure contracts.
I think I see what you're saying, and I don't think we're disagreeing. I thought you were saying that NGOs in the 90s didn't do politics, but I think now you're saying they didn't do _individual_ politics.
That actually makes a lot of sense, if you account for the whole "internet decentralizes allthethings" thing. You didn't have to go after individuals in a world before we had technology to give individuals a voice. You only had to go after institutions.
Yes, but:
Individual politics/identity politics didn't exist outside fringe feminist and homo radical extremist groups, and before the internet they had no reach, no pull and zero appeal to normal people.
Plus: the NGOs engaged on matters of tangible real policy, not adherence to abstract virtue-signals. Greenpeace f.e. protested the use of dangerous chemicals and waste, based on facts.
All issues were real issues, and who you the person was, wasn't relevant. Rich, poor, brown, white, whatever - the volunteers (because we didn't use "activist" in those days) were focused, rightly or wrongly, on material issues only in the public eye. Sure, there were plenty of political agendas too, but people trying to push those to the front were kept back from any position of power within the organisations. The ommon phrase was, "If you want to preach about the dictatorship of the proletariat, go join the communist party, we're trying to stop a factory from producing Agent Orange and pouring its spillage into the river!".
This, and the successes the movements had in the 1980s, were intolerable to neoliberal capitalists, especially of the Mises/Hayek/Friedman schools, since all three of them were anti-democrats, working since 1938 to move decision-making out of reach of elected officials and into unelected supra-national organisations, so that whatever people voted for, they'd get the same politics anyway.
It's funny in a way. Communism took from 1921 to 1995 to fail completely. Neoliberalism did it from 1990 to 2020.
This is a valid point, Eidein.
Similar to those I know who proclaim 'if we didn't get the coof shot, everyone would have died'.
One simply does not know.
> Similar to those I know who proclaim 'if we didn't get the coof shot, everyone would have died'.
What I'm about to say is going to sound like extremely autistic internet pedantry, but I actually mean it.
If the world had its way, we would simply not know, because we would have forced everyone to get the clot shot and there would be no control group to compare against.
Well... I never accepted the vaccine as my lord and saviour. I am the control group.
My motivations for this choice have changed over time, but one of them is grandiose: I have a moral duty to humanity to not get the vaccine, so that there is a control group to compare it to.
Of course, the last time I checked the data, I'm still not dead.
And then we have the Amish people. No shots. No distancing, continued to go to church and pass the communion cup twice a year. They were fine.
You don't sound a bit autistic...I think your response was measured and reasonable. Does that make me autistic? 🙇🏼♀️
As for being part of the recent worldwide medical experiment, choosing to be in the control group was a 'no-brainer' for me. A natural loner, comfortable with accepting responsibility for my own actions and no need to explain my decision is my 'normal'.
I appreciate your point of view and your comment was put forward with a kind inquisitiveness. Marvelous qualities in a human!
Excellent point. Compared to how relatively easy it is to ferret out information these days, it was incredibly different in the 1990s. Who knows what was going on before the rise of the Internet. I'm sure it was so much worse than we ever imagined. They could hide things so much more easily pre-internet.
"We didn't have access to the internet to give us unvarnished information"
And you think we have now?
It's a matter of degree, but yes, I do think that a suitably motivated person can leverage the internet to easily access unvarnished information.
For one example of what I mean: back before I stopped caring about stuff that happens, I had an app on my phone called Broadcastify. It's an index for a collection of radio repeaters that broadcast online, and you can go there to eg listen to the police and fire radio traffic in any city in the world.
When stuff like George Floyd riots happened, that's where I was getting my news. I was just listening to the police dispatchers' radio signals, hearing the police chatter as they were actually on the ground dealing with things.
This was, with absolute certainty, unvarnished true information, that I can get for free from the internet, that was impossible to get (unless you happened to live within range of whichever radio signal you're trying to listen to) before the internet.
I absolutely get what you're saying, and you're not wrong. Social media is far from reliable and accurate. But social media is also not the only source of information online.
Another source of true, accurate, and not-meddled-by-the-government information is your text messages. A friend can ping you on Signal and tell you something. Before the internet, text messages like this didn't exist. And the government isn't, like, snooping into our text messages and rewriting them in realtime to censor information.
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I mean hell, look where we are right now. _This blog_ is an example of the internet letting us do an end-run around the mechanisms of information control and get direct accurate news about the world. Things like this blog could not have existed prior to the internet; at best, they'd again be a local publication that could exist within a specific city but which would not be able to report on any other cities, and which would not be seen by anyone outside of that city.
Consider how much less we here would know about Covid nonsense if this blog didn't exist. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about
That most people didn't bother reading official documents back before the internet, doesn't mean they didn't exist.
We simply had to haul ass to the correct library or public archive, and do a lot of digging, scouring through microfiche and microfilm and filing cabinets.
I'm old enough to remember when Putin kicked out all the NGO's claiming they were agents of foreign powers....turns out he was right again.
That's one of the things that worries me. I (and most of my friends) remember what it was like before. Even my son in his thirties can remember a time before the internet when stuff was 'normal'. I'm very worried about these coming generations with no point of reference other than the shitshow that has been the last 20 years, especially since they lack the stamina to read actual history and are so reliant on influencers to break down everything into regurgitated 20 second soundbites.
Giant meteor/EMP loss of the electric grid/Pole shift cannot happen too soon.
Sooner or later that report will become public.
The 'leaders' better hope for some downright heinous atrocities in there. (On the other hand, if there were such atrocities included, they'd already be leaked.)
If this turns out to be another situation in which they're twisting the law in order to 'justify' bogus charges (ala Trump), I'm afraid of what's going to happen. People are SICK of being lied to and told it's for our own good.
Will they be called something like "Sicherheitabteilung" or "SA" for short? Will they have appropriate uniforms and parades? I wonder about these things...
"Was könnte schief gehen?"
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety” — Benjamin Franklin.
Even if it were true that 48 % of Germans are for banning, the majority is against it. And who have they asked? 1000 people randomly (or not so randomly) called on the phone, preferably at dinner time like they do here in the States?
I am amazed that the Germans trot out a Korean to tell them hope to handle dissidents. South Korea has only been a liberal, non-dictatorship since 1987. It is truly disappointing to watch Germany descend into this kind of tyranny.
Korean society over the centuries developed a HEREDITARY class of would-be civil servants (兩班 yangban) who over time got very good at three things:
(1) taking written tests regurgitating memorized stuff (科舉 Chin. keju exams);
(2) fervently kissing up to anyone in power, and eagerly regurgitating the most recent shibboleths circulated by the ruling faction;
(3) exploiting and jerking around regular people and hitting them up for bribes.
In the U.S., we have long become inured to the spectacle of individuals from VERY well-connected family backgrounds in non-Western countries coming to America and promptly mutating into self-proclaimed saviors of various oppressed groups (e.g. American blacks) with whom they have no personal connection. Kamala Harris - daughter of a Tamil Brahmin mother, grew up mostly in Canada - is perhaps the most prominent example.
This is common in nations that adopted the Confucian system of government. Bureaucratic status was based on examinations requiring the regurgitation of Confusian text.
Korea is also startlingly non-diverse. They really need to import a few million Africans in order to add some color.
I only truly understood how cooked the polls are when I read about Hillary giving the poll manufacturers a 26 page how-to manual on how to take a poll (favorable to her, of course).
They'd need to ask MPs of the established parties only ...
Giving the document of the AfD to only “certain” journalists with a pre-approved narrative construction activated pass, is a perfect parallel to the Steele dossier also being given to certain journalists during the beginning of the Trump Russiagate phony baloney hoax.
I would wager JD Vance reads your texts where else can someone go to get the nuanced political moves going on in Germany? There is no media coverage and now even the opinion columns in the papers are even dodgy, at best. Remember how long it took for someone to even broach the topic of who did the Nordstream bombing…
There's something to keep in mind that's both easy to forget, since it was already a decade ago, and easy to overlook if you weren't in it.
And that is that Trump 2016 was the first US political campaign to truly leverage social media to a victory. This let them do an end-run around the gatekeepers of messaging and get a more true and accurate vision of the facts on the ground.
It would be absolutely in keeping with this strategy for them to have staffers reading blogs like this.
Hi Mr. Vance! I'm a friend of Yarvin's, can you please executive-order me a green card?
A simpler way might be to request political asylum as Germany (like the UK sadly) is clearly a country where free speech is dead.
You're not the first person to suggest this, and I've never been able to tell how sarcastic everyone's being when they say that.
Trump might be the president, but there's still ~3 million career civil servants in the government, and almost all of them are sympathetic to bougie democrat opinions. For a white guy from Germany (or Canada, in my case) to apply for political asylum because we can't post on Twitter would get us laughed out of the room by someone who dyes her hair blue.
No joke: I eyed a blue-haired Her over the weekend at a local park, Her 'Golden-doodle' had a pink mohawk and She was perfectly at ease strolling it in a baby carriage.
These are our new 'special needs' people. 🤡
Remember the Medusa! Protective eyewear strongly recommended. Look for heavy-duty welder's goggles, and even then do NOT look directly at the blue-haired apparition. If you must look, use a reflective object, e.g. a polished shield, or the glass cover of your watch.
You can guess where I spotted this, can't you? Go more left than DC....
Kalicrazy-fornia!
I think it was probably more "in mild jest" than actually "sarcastic" when I said it myself, before. "Sarcastic would imply I *didn't* want you to do it. "In jest" is more, "I know it would be futile, but what's the harm?" Which may itself be a position of severe ignorance.
For you? Nothing but our very best Gold Card! 😜
You’re joking, but even with all the shit, I bet that if the US sold a platinum citizenship card for something like a few millions there would be a lot of takers
Just making sure that you know that the "gold card" is actually a real thing..!
https://time.com/7261958/what-is-gold-card-trump-citizenship-route-how-it-might-work/
QUOTE: the topic of who did the Nordstream bombing…
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People who paid attention remember how they made Scholz STAND NEXT to Biden, like a wet poodle, as Biden announced to the world that Nord Stream would not be permitted to operate.
I totally forgot this! Lol, Scholz was just pathetic to give the ok to that! It was crazy to watch Biden say that.
In the USA the great unwinding continues. 100 ilegal immigrants were rounded up in Nashville,TN over the weekend . They had drugs , firearms ,outstanding warrants etc .
Of course it will be forever before we can rid them from our country but we have been largely successful in detentions and more facilities are being built so we can humanely house them as they each have due process and lengthy judicial review . Of course , to get here they simply walked in from Mexico and Biden handed them a free credit card and put them up in a nice hotel .
There are some 40 MILLION illegals in the U.S. Headline-grabbing initiatives involving 100 illegals are meaningless except as PR.
So round all 40 Million up and send them away. Every last one.
Correct . So are you saying why deport ANY ? Is it meaningful that we have at least slowed the onslaught to a trickle . It’s now tough to get in as witnessed by multiple drownings in San Diego as immigrants tried to storm the beach in a panda boat only to capsize and meet an untimely demise . But you are right as I alluded to . Even when you if catch them , the process of removal is daunting.
Tougher to get in via the southern border, but there are still a ton of visa overstays and increasing numbers coming from Canada (largely Indians).
But you gotta start somewhere.
Sorry, but Clinton was deporting about 1.3 million per year during his two terms. I haven't seen anything approaching that from the Trump administration.
I think the only way to deal with the numbers of illegals (over 40 million) is to introduce a bounty system.
Clinton wasn't fighting half the judiciary.
> Perhaps the Vice President really does read eugyppius!
I may have mentioned this before, but I have a bunch of people I know, who have met Mr. Vance before, through the Thiel connection.
Just based on my gut check of what kind of guys those are, he very well might read this!
I know my views may seem too often those of a cranky old Yankee [general not specifically Yankee of course] but I myself suspect that the threats to human dignity were perfectly exemplified by Christian Drosten et al and them guys ought, in a universe bending towards justice, be sent by a bespokely designed hideously ugly SpaceX rocket to the furthest bend of the cosmos.
I hope the Germanic temperament that smashed the Roman Empire and eventually produced guys like Bach will somehow awaken from the deep because clearly its time has come, and now or, you know, maybe never.
"CranKee"? :D
Well. I only said it for the rhyme. Nothing fortifies the Noo Yawkuh in me like living in New England has.
Bring back Attila the Hun.
Well. I think rampaging isn't the best approach. But a gazillion-fold increase in the genetic capacity to say "no" would do wonders.
That's something I miss from the Covid/vaccine-debates over here a few years ago:
Telling feminists et al "No means no" and "My body, my choice" to their faces and see them smoulder and erupt.
Well, having worked briefly for a feminist-with-a-vengeance NGO back in 1986, I was more than well-schooled in their hypocrisy and viciousness. One of the worst jobs I've ever had and I had some real crappy ones fer shure.
I wonder if AfD supporters will be forced to wear identifying badges on their lapel, and put signs on their houses and storefronts.
Good idea. Light blue stars sound appropriate.
tattoo'd numbers would come next
Stupid, indeed! The areas where the AfD has it’s strongest support are the areas where they lived under communism and they are not wanting authoritarian rule under any other name. They are about the farthest away from Hitler among the Germans, especially the current government.
I pray that the efforts to ban them will backfire like so many other leftist plots are here in the USA.
Also the same people who rebelled most against Covid Clown World - especially the threats of compulsory mmRNA Gene therapies.
I recall Eugyppius producing a map showing the areas of relative dissent it mirrored East Germany.
The same is true as regards most Eastern European countries.
The tragic irony of this is that should the AfD somehow survive and gain power, they will be under intense pressure to use the same laws to ban all the other parties. After all, it is unquestionable that the coalition is trying to overthrow democracy with these actions and thus legally the case is watertight (of course the judges would ignore the law, but they could be replaced).
And what happens if the AfD did not do that? The first time they lose the opposition will destroy them all, possibly kill them. The relentless escalation by the left seems to point to only one outcome. And so like a classic tragedy, the left risks creating the monster of their imagination for real.
I have written about this before. Were the AfD to gain power and were the apparatus of ‘defensive democracy’ to still exist at that time, the AfD would have to be suicidal not to use it against other parties. You only need to take down one, to break the left machine, just like left knows you only need to take down one (the AfD) to break the right machine. Greens would be in focus.
How convenient that the only affront to democracy listed is that the AfD is right wing. They don't care about totalitarianism as long as its not from the Right. In fact, they seem to fully support totalitarianism from the Left. Obviously, it makes no difference to the oppressed population whether the tyrants are from the Left or the Right. The result is the same. The only ones it makes a difference to are the ones who want to be the tyrants.
What you cannot counter by rational argument and democracy you must ban or censor?
Exactly and in true COMMUNIST style is always. That leopard never changes it spot whether it’s anarchist Marxist communist or globalist. The stench is always the same.