Ten days ago, the German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck appeared at a meeting of the German Council on Foreign Relations, where he spoke on “competitiveness, climate protection and polarisation.” There, he spent a lot of time explaining that Europe really needs to do something about the fact that people can say whatever they want on the internet:
One thing that is coming into focus for an increasing number of American citizens is just how disconnected our "leaders" are from the interests and goals of the populace. The question for Germany is: how much support does this really have among the German people? Bonus question: doesn't extreme talk such as this merely awaken more Germans and drive them into the arms of the AfD?
What cracks me up is, after 9 years, they STILL can not figure out that voting for Trump or AfD is really about voting AGAINST the government, elites, expertocrats and media. They have no clue what the serfs uprisings "middle finger" is all about.
Their stupidity was brought on by themselves by restricting their education & discourse within the bubble where they reside. This has been going on for a couple of generations & now we see the fruition of guarding yourself from critical thinking. The “elite” are only idiots with money.
{...The “elite” are only idiots with money...} 🤔🤔🤔🤔
There's a saying in German, that goes: The most stupid farmers harvest the largest potatoes ...
Being "elite" is not about potatoes, never has been and being stupid doesn't earn you such ludicrous amounts of money and power.
These "elites", since generations, are highly narcissistic, fully racist with intrinsic, arrogant and deeply rooted genuine hatred for "normal" humanity in general.
In short: with current standards of control and weaponry in their hands, getting more DANGEROUS by the minute !!!
I don't like the word "elite". They are certainly nothing of the kind. I prefer using the more precise word "elitists", meaning it is only in their minds that they are exceptional in any positive sense. A figment.
One obscure blogger I follow, who shall remain nameless, makes the very plausible case: at least at the upper levels of various agencies, whether in government, non-profits, academia (especially academia!) and also corporate, are indeed very intelligent. But there’s an important qualifier there. That means these people did indeed score very highly on their standardized tests. These tests probably have some value, but that doesn’t change the fact that the entire educational system is geared towards what here in America we call “teaching to the test.” Asian tiger moms and other achievement-oriented families send their children to SAT (or other test) preparation classes. In a related vein, it’s hardly a secret that most public education gives good grades regardless of actual achievement. Students are arriving at university lacking even rudimentary reading and math skills. And it’s not just the athletic scholarship people either. Even for the core students most universities too give everybody a passing or even good grade because students think is their right. Then there’s the actual value of the education taught: for decades, the emphasis has been on rote learning and memorization. Critical thinking in many fields is at best not taught and perhaps even actively discouraged; call it indoctrination into certain worldviews and if necessary disparaging others. Even better if they aren’t mentioned at all. Dramatic changes in technology have had huge impacts. One of these is that vast information is as close as one’s mobile phone. No need to actively research a topic in old-fashioned books, or even with diligent web searches. Merely read a few canned summaries from Google AI and you’re done. Copy and paste from what the search engine tells you is very helpful in writing that paper, but is it really a path to wisdom on how to run a country or a business?
The problem with such a system is that critical thinking skills, common sense, knowledge of history and such are at best left to one side, at worst actively discouraged.
As a result, we have a cadre of leaders and top-level people who live in intellectual and social bubbles, cocooned from outside realities. To a large extent, these people, intelligent though they may be, have figuratively been "hothouse flowers" their entire lives. They have never worked a real job in their lives, interacted with the common folk, even known failure because they've led such coddled lives.
If my blogger is correct in such views, this explains in large part why major opinion leaders promote such radical ideas that are profoundly out of touch with what the Deplorables want, or at times, indeed what is even realistic. The climate is changing and man is to blame. "Green" energy from windmills and sun can realistically and indeed must replace fossil fuels or humanity is doomed. If someone doesn’t like the sex (BTW, it’s not “gender”) they were “assigned at birth”, they are free to change it. Even if they are still children, they are competent to make such a choice. And once changed, others are legally obligated to accept this person’s inversion of reality. Limitless immigration of poor people with incompatible cultural values, lacking any marketable skills, is a net benefit to the receiving nation. Or to use the topic of today’s blog, that governments should regulate discourse on the nets in the name of protecting democracy.
In closing, to be sure, the desire to avoid having to deal with certain issues, to escape reality (if indeed, one ever was exposed to it in the first place!) are universal human faults by no means limited to the so-called Elite. The problem, as Ayn Rand said somewhere, is that one can deny reality but one cannot deny the consequences of denying reality. You can bury your head in the sand, but you will still drown when the tide comes in. (Granted that in reality, the ostrich probably doesn’t have that risk, since they don’t live at the seaside as far as I know, but it makes a good metaphor.)
But it's not the "elite" (which are only Goy...) against "their" plebes .
It's rather that hidden Zionism "has entirely penetrated not only the cabinets, but many, academic, journalistic, financial, institutions.
The so called (Goy) elites are just useful idiots and will be deposed of at first occasion; NO place for them in the New World Order being coerced from Jerusalem ...
They are completely disgusted by the ideas and ability to hold them by commoners with whom they disagree. In the liberal world there are only elite ideals founded in the academy and spread by the media and government. Any platform based on rationality and some kind of tradition is blasphemous.
These elites think that because they were very successful in one field that they must be smarter than anyone else in other areas also. For example Bill Gates and Mark Cuban are computer programmers and tackle everything as a coding problem. Same goes for some entertainers and athletes. They are not humble about offering their opinions because we, the common man, are too stupid to understand.
I don’t dispute the general belief that Bill Gates is an evil billionaire. However, I think you’re being unfair to the early Bill Gates. Consider this wiki entry:
I admit I’ve not looked into a detailed biography, but the gist of what I’ve read over the years says that Gates was indeed a programmer and quite a good one. I DO have enough background dabbling in coding as a hobby and with a few university classes to appreciate what a feat the creation of Altair BASIC was. People lacking background in computing can't grasp the complexity of such a project. This wasn’t a one page program you did in introduction to programming class; this would have been thousands of lines of code written in 8080 assembler. That a team of three or so coders could write this and that it worked relatively well when first tested on the target machine, is in and of itself little short of a miracle.
Clearly Gates didn’t write the whole thing himself, but I'm sure he was a big contributor. I read a hobbyist computer magazine in the 1970s. Of several competitors, the various flavors of Microsoft BASIC enjoyed, by far, the best reputation for quality. It shouldn’t be surprising that once consumer PCs (they were “microcomputers” back then) started to be marketed, most of them chose customized versions of Microsoft BASIC.
Some of Microsoft’s early success can be laid to “right time, right place” (i.e. luck), but the fact remains that they had a quality product at the outset, and that Gates was part of that quality. Yes, we can say he went to the Dark Side, but he was a Jedi when he began. We might light to think we’d be immune, but I suspect becoming filthy rich might tarnish us just a bit too.
Hard to believe that Microsoft turns 50 next year.
They are not stupid. Just like the emperor without cloths they do not tolerate even the tiniest degree of dissent or noticing the folly of their ways. They are pure evil. That’s all.
I don't know how much is actual stupidity per se, but they are so deeply coiled within their mutual and limited thought bubble that they can't imagine any other way to evaluate anything. Their brains travel on autopilot down a very narrow path of acceptable thought and belief to the point where they exhibit a shocking degree of tunnel vision.
If they were truly smart and 3D chess players, they would have brought us a candidate that they would tell us not to vote for under no circumstances and this would be a candidate that would be the true "controlled opposition."
Are you certain they have not? They have driven the majority of US voters of all stripes into the 'loving' arms of the GOP while Trump's track record is unimpressive, to say the least.
If they steal the election for the wokepuppets,will it be with the intention to stir up conflict? Given the unhinged Hitler rhetoric, will antifa and what little remains of BLM be activated to raise hell should they let Trump win? Will the lame duck dems then foist us all into WW3 and thwart a transfer of power? Will congress stand down and facilitate the dissolution of the Republic?
It would be swell if the current criminals get their comeuppance (would be a first) and DT delivers on a few of his promises but the inertia of the globalist program in all its iterations deems this outcome extremely unlikely, imo.
Sorry, I think I chose the wrong Reply link. I should've responded to the one above (PatriotInGibraltar). What I meant was that from the conversations I've had with Danish relatives and friends as well as watching the Danish media, most Danes are quite happy to be tyrannized. Smugly happy even.
Or as John Addams described in 1776 about his reluctant countrymen, "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you [...]."
Perhaps a decade ago Oprah Winfrey took a little trip to Denmark, which had been characterized recently as "the happiest place on earth" or some such. She interviewed locals in their teeny tiny efficiency apartments and they talked about how happy they were, and how much the government helped them. Not discussed was how much their taxes were. I remember watching it with a degree of surprise because they really seemed to believe living that way so wonderful. Not so much money, but they had all the basics. I couldn't relate to it in the least, although I'm sure a LOT of Americans would be fine with it.
Ryan, if "they" haven't already in the US, expect a debate on "anti-votes" to spring up soon, especially if Trump wins and actually takes office.
Our Communist, Green and Feminist parties have suggested such a thing: that you get one vote /for/ a party, and one /against/ a single party. If the net is too low, the party people "anti-voted" for won't get any seats no matter how many voted for them.
The goal is obvious: making any challenge to the Blob impossible.
May this note find us all ever closer to God, and His Peace.
It would be Just, Loving, and Better if voting, running or working for government, any status or position that exercises power over others and society be limited to those that have displayed virtue and willingness to Serve others and community by requiring displays and service like volunteering for a few years in National or international service.
Also, if not that above then - unpopular and dangerous as it is to argue - that woman should not vote, but instead her husband, father, older brother responsible for her will get to cast her vote and another one for each child dependent in family.
I have argued well with data that women are unfit by temperament and ability to Justly and undamagingly have power over others. That they are delusional psychotic resent-filled vicious male-hating fungal-strangling Poison to all advancement, progress, and morality - baby-killing [supporters], false-witnessing, grasping, lying, back-stabbing destroyers of family, children, fatherhood, decent men and decent women.
What the expertocrats and the media don't realize (or don't want to admit) is that Cass Sunstein's "Law of Group Polarization" (https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1541&context=law_and_economics) applies equally to them. Living in a bubble isolated from differing perspectives, they feed on each other's obsessions, in the process becoming increasingly radicalized and alarmed by the existence of people who don't agree with them.
I think this great divide was created when he was elected as pesident. they were testing their propaganda skills through social media. You were either a good liberal or a bad republican and rhe media made sure to manipulate the food/bad mantra.
Two words that offer hope: RALLY SIZE. One candidate busses them into high school gymnasia and small arenas, the other turns away countless thousands from the largest venues. This is a fair gauge of the state of woke vs. awakened.
The people are sheeple. Have been for generations in Europe. Sad to see you guys going down for the count. The best and brightest of you are more than welcome in the USA once things on the continent start really going south in a hurry.
Only they aren't because US immigration policy makes it nearly impossible for Europeans to come here unless they're from places that are living in the dark ages
I actually have blood family with my mom’s maiden name in Germany as my maternal great grandparents both emigrated here from Germany in the 1800’s. Several of my great grandfather’s siblings stayed behind and yet stayed in touch with our German/American counterparts. I’d be happy to sponsor any one of them in my country if the need arises as my own great grandfather was sponsored by a bishop relative back in the day. I still have one of the Bishop’s books, written in German, given to me by my grandmother. This is the type of emigration that should be proposed and considered by the church vs what they are illegally doing now via their wealthy NGO’s pretending to care about who they are importing. Instead of importing the Muslim world they should be saving the persecuted Christians who are being exterminated in Muslim countries—that’s what the Catholic Church USED to do—save Christians. Now they just don’t seem to care at all who gets hurt.
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It is with real shame and sadness that as a 6-7 year convert to Catholicism and 2-year convert to Traditional (pre-Modernist pre-communist pre-Satanic) Catholic Church, that the Sickness and Satanic powers that took control of Vatican and many Leaders, those post-Vatican II that embrace the Heresies and goals of Sickening, twisting, destroying souls and the real Chruch that existed and became more fully enlightened from Jesus Christs life, death, resurrection, His Church. Replacing it with a Worldly-enslaved Fake 'Ape' Church., ..
.. a Shame to say that the Church is in places supporting such nation, society, family, living-earning, trusting, truth, justice, Order, merit, virtue focused, .. Goodness destroying mass replacement and with genocide design for us indigenous population, and many such Satanic Goals that comes with open-borders and governmental protection and support of such evil.
Rational immigration policies that has strict limits and prioritize the politically-religiously native government oppression, violence, death people, seems like sane policy.
These politicians on the left make sure we are fed a steady stream of content for self entertainment. Tells us we have the right to our own pronouns and to force others to obey or that that they will bully „us“ with their own activism. They stroke „us“ with how justified and good they are for making us SAGE, but not free.
The instruments of propaganda (Noam Chomsky) do really work, and this machinery is full of screws to be tuned on and it works.
There is the general state of fear (Angst), that leads to people putting their brains on hold while listening to the Anti-Putin narrative and the question, which country he's going to invade next, mixed with the whole moral question and Ukraine being a victim (yes, it is a victim, but Putin is not the only victimary).
Also, the whole climate change narrative (CO2 is the climate Putin). Better not get started on this one.
Being a coward has several manifestations: being a snitch, which is well spread, is just one of them.
Being in denial is much more complex.
Denial of the actual issues by looking for a culprit: the unvaccinated, the immigrants, the jews, basically anything, but the root-cause, -the politicians as a result of the political system, including the "representative democracy"- is easier than daring to question the very deep logic: what is it, that we, as people, want to achieve? how do we want to be governed?
There is this term: delegation of authority. As it was said once: every people gets the government they deserve.
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Since we now have alternate sources of new and information, with most everyone has a recorder in their cell-phones, and rational anti-propaganda prospectives and reasoning can be found, ..
.. we might notice that official media and our leaders are re-writing history to fit the narrative they push now but to lie to future, that - for example - all the debunked lies about Oct 7th (lies like the rapes, that most of the civilians of the 1200 killed were not killed by israel military using the Hanabal directive, beheaded babies, Hamas in hospitals, in humanitarian groups, emergency responders, near critical infrastructure, under populated buildings, only 42K murdered in Gaza when rational estimated are 200K israeli cause deaths, etc.)
That our public figures continue to lie those lies that they want of record and in history, and we can watch it now, and consider our learned history and wonder how much of that is false in support of the Satanic Powerful, to hide the crimes and to warp us in destructive falseness, to harm and destroy Western Christian value-based society and continue the genocide of us indigenous white people and our earned resources and services.
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." - Frank Zappa
The kid gloves haven't even come off yet. As soon as they feel like they're losing power they will take progressively more aggressive steps to secure their power. Did you not notice this in the aftermath of the 2016 "dual disaster" of Trump and Brexit? They just tightened the screws and now both the UK and US are even more fk'd than they were pre-2016.
Nobody knows how far they will go in the end, if their power is truly threatened. Given the history of nation states, probably all of the way.
Maybe that's what it takes to sharpen the senses for so many people that are currently blissfully ignorant....or perhaps economic collapse...which I'm pretty sure is inevitable.
But I agree it's going to get ugly....that sad I think we beat the Globalist in the end.
While we shouldn't think this way and I certainly don't support doomerism, we have to face the possibility that humanity is a tragedy (or perhaps a comedy-tragedy?). In the end there may be no salvation (at least on Earth).
Technology is the only thing which separates us from the rest of life. Technology provides certain advantages to the individual, but it's becoming increasingly likely that it provides even greater advantages to consolidated power. All that matters is this balance, because as technology grows exponentially it alone determines if we end up with total freedom for the individual or total tyranny.
I plan on writing an article about this in the future, but this post will do for now :)
Funny how often that quote of Tom Wolfe (an American journalist and author) turns out to be true. “The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”
Without free speech, your country is living in an Oligarchic dictatorship...Which seems to describe Western Europe pretty well....."Democracy dies in darkness"...which is quite evidently what our dear leaders want...This is why President Thomas Jefferson said that Americans would periodically have to revolt against a tyrannical Government to preserve their Constitutional and God given rights....
That’s why the Biden admin passed an order that will allow the military to kill on American soil. Trying to get in front of it. This one is going to hurt.
'One of the most important developments of the past generation, is the growing cultural and social separation of our elites from their respective national populations.'
That right there is a factor in the growing polarization.
Expect this to become an EU-wide directive shortly (in the EU's timescale, not normal time). The reason I suspect this is that state censorship (under some euphemism or other) has widespread support, as long as you don't call it for what it is: state censorship.
In Sweden, all the parties of parliament are essentially pro-censorship, the dividing factors instead amounting to not much more than jostling over who among them would get to control it. As far as I know, Denmark, Norway, Finland are much the same.
Also, the recent loss in Georgia for the Globalist Octopus-agenda will only serve to make the likes of Habeck try and increase the pace for their electronic wall around Festung EUropa.
'state censorship (under some euphemism or other) has widespread support, as long as you don't call it for what it is: state censorship.'
I'm in the throes of a Facebook debate with a friend at the moment, who insists that fact-checking is not censorship, that people must be protected from being told untruths, and who refuses to acknowledge that trusting some entity to pass judgment on 'truth' is a slippery slope.
Perhaps being a professor of engineering for 42 years inculcated him with a trust in authority?
No doubt: the more entrenched you are in a system, the more you will defend it no matter what it is doing.
The debate here, such as it is, is largely the pro-censorship side using precisely those arguements, that are really nothing more than various fallacies, such as appeal to authority. "Someone must ensure that information spread around is correct" is the spiel, and they will never engage in debate on it, they'll just spew forth new slogans and truisms before descending into incarnadine rage when you point out to them that it is they who are emulating the likes of Russia, China, Iran and such - and not us who no matter our political tinge or hue say "Let me find out for myself and make my mind up on my own".
TDS in the USA may be the boil of 50 years of ever-more tightening constraints of PC-speech, but in Europe such reactions to political differences on fundamentals are sadly old hat.
"Putin's troll factories", "pedophiles grooming kids on TikTok", "misdismalinformation", "fake news", "alt-facts" and more - it's the strategy and it aims to ostracize and mark as a Wrongthinker anyone /not/ joining in fervently enough.
And just to spice things up, two of the major driving groups behind censorship-laws in Europe? Jews and moslems. The first to control any narrative about Jews, where any criticism of any kind is immediately labeled "anti-semitic" (objecting to Jewish settlers stealing land from Palestinians f.e.). The latter to enact blasphemy-laws as a step towards making sharia the foundation of the law, and to ensure religious privilege for moslems.
Whereas indigenous European journalists reporting on wrongdoings of people allied to the regime, are sentenced to prison fro "libel" despite everything reported being on the public record and on the docket:
Article in Swedish I'm afraid. It is by the editor, owner and also reporter of the paper Samnytt that has been sentenced to prison for reporting dirty truths about a former police officer and this officer's sordid past. Imagine if the editor of the NYP had been put in prison for publishing pictures from Hunter's laptop - same thing here. Everything on the docket, on the record, proven true. Doesn't matter, it's still libel because the powers-that-be doesn't like Samnytt since they repeatedly violate the narrative, by not shying away from speaking truths about migrants, islam and related issues.
Horrifying that the reporter is sentenced to prison for reporting the proven, on the public record, TRUTH. That’s what this is really about. Mal/mis/disinformation is actually the TRUTH that must not be heard b/c it does not follow government narrative. Ever since the Internet they have been freaked out. They can control MSM but not social media - yet. That is what all this ridiculous legislation is about. Canada is even now trying to shove ‘Anti Hate Speech’ legislation through. They intend to have a ‘Board’ who can decide what is and isn’t hate speech. Insane.
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In my world censorship is real and occurs too often to me. Mostly the mind-raping censoring lying-spreading owners of YouTube (Google, Alphabet) remove all comments about israel, Zionist control of countries, genociding white Christians, suggestions or implications that the UN should remove nationhood from israel, removal based on their 75+ years of terrorism genocide spewing world-wide evil as they are Satan's Anus on earth, evil that that started long before the UN vote for stealing land, murdering indigenous Muslims, Christians, Jews living in peace, And setting up a Supremacist State, and YouTube censors on many other topics - argument and information to support is not allowed because they pretend we all children that need protection from wrong-thoughts.
I support both a public database where anyone harmed by another person, group, corporation, may place a report - giving them opportunity to rebut or explain and everyone else warning and also opportunity to judge it and you by cross-referencing to your Records and other relevant information. ..
.. and policy of lies, false-witnessers, thieves, .. to be publicly Pained&Shamed, restrained in public place such as a park and tasered till pissing and screaming, as the default first punishment with others based on damage, intent, etc.
Swedish law on defamation, libel and slander takes into account a) how public the figure being talked about is; b) how publicly known the information already is; c) if the individual spoken about suffers harm from the information being spread about and; d) if the information can be said to spread with malicious intent.
This was intended (originally) as a way to curb harassment of individuals a paper or other media outlet might have a beef with, but has become weaponised post-1990s era.
A parallel to the US would be the Democrat party and pals using private actors such as Facebook to get around the 1st Amendment.
Sorry, I'm not sure what you are referring to by "1A". So called hate speech laws have been passed or introduced in several countries. It can be deemed against the law to insult people by calling them stupid or fat or untruthful even if this is true.
As an engineer, I don't feel inculcated to trusting authority. On the contrary, analysis and critical thinking are essential skills, taught before synthesis. I suspect it is the 'professor' component of 'professor of engineering' that is the root culprit.
One of our disagreements is over the abysmal state of scientific publications, and of the growing trend of suppression of dissenting ideas in science. Somehow I don't think there's a lot of bad science in the field of engineering, and maybe he's incurious about other fields in which there is ample evidence of crappiness and industry influence.
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Sad to say that there is a huge slowdown in all fields including engineering, the fact that we do not have hypersonic missiles and no defense against is an example, but all research is now influenced, and much fraud exists as only those that support the lies and evil narratives are funded and advance.
I worked as a young man in a physiology research lab in a university back in the late 1980's through 1990's and became shocked at the meritless destructive resent filled man-haters working there, along with the politics that is truth, justice, order, Joy, goodness destroying intent and effect, and being targeted by such horrors - Witch-Wisper-Web of lies and recruiting others as tools of punishment and abuse, and no recourse available as responding through the system would clearly be destructive to me and my career, and the women would be immune and perhaps rewarded for 'surviving' such.
And with the indoctrination of lies and female-evil twisted resentment-fear expectations of average rapey oppressive men for the women, and the unjustified increase in self-loathing and support of female-evil for the men that go through such, that few Professionals can be trusted and the ones promoted and put-forward are the most Satan-Cocksuckers.
And since functional fatherlessness and baby-killing [supporters] mothers, male-hating sexual-damaging women pedo teachers and administrators that long ago drove men from children's education and our lives, left many males after generations of increasing insanity as 'normal' raised [now adult] children that VagFeelie think and believe themselves as bad because they are male, that such twistedness have driven many men to functional insanity and delusional psychosis that is nearly as bad a condition as our Sicken Western women.
Tartigrade, so-called 'fact-checking' is simply censorship lying about itself. Charlest Baudelaire wrote over a century ago that, "the Devil's best trick is pretending he doesn't exist." Sorry, but by insisting on censorship, your FB friend is indulging in pure evil. You can never argue religion with a priest of the cult.
Perhaps? Maybe 42 years of standing in front of skulls full of mush and being the arbiter of all speech has a lot to do with it. Any dissent from the masters teaching garners a failing grade and loss of job opportunities.
I can't see how the EU remains unsplintered unless it's governing body capitulates on its most egregious rules and demands of member states. It is impossible to ignore Poland's increasing production power and GDP and its and Hungary's public statements against EU policy. Italy is following along and even Nordic states are flexing their muscles.
Thus far, the EU has been tied together by Germany's large economic dominance over the entire union. It is dominant in manufacturing. The € works strongly to Germany's advantage by binding together a host of nations with unequal economic strengths. The Union is showing some cracks now because Germany's insane energy policies are ruining its industrial base and thus weakening Germany's control over Brussels.
As for the governing body, the organization in Brussels is controlled by Germany. And the EU parliament in Strasbourg is irrelevant. to day-to-day operations.
Hungary has already the same as DSA or any other nonsense law passed by 'left' governments. The rhetoric in the MSM is to blind you and believe something is different.
Non-Western migrants who don't care because our nations are just a place they live in, they have no deeper connection to it than you'd have to a hotel, basically.
Older generation who don't understand what has been happening ever since the Lissabon-treaty was signed, because they grew up with state/corporate media so to them streamlined narrative messaging is the norm.
Younger generation who uses VPN and other means as a matter-of-course and doesn't really understand or care about the politics of free speech, only about being able to freely stream, download and share stuff.
The slim slivver of people of all political denominations who /do/ care are either Wrongthinkers like I, or narrative knights worried about what will happen if their opponents gets hold of the tools of the state.
There are positive signs, though, especially in the wake of 25 years of woke-scolding via state/regime media, of anyone using banned words. Things like that pisses people off no matter their other ideas, especially when it is words that have never - ever - been slurs in our language. Negro (neger in Swedish) for example. Suddenly around '05, we were informed by state/regime media that "the N-word" was not to be used. How silly. It is a mere descriptor, no more controversial than "indian" or "chinese". Same with gypsy. Suddenly, we were supposed to say "rom" or "roma"; in Swedish when you say rom, you mean caviar in its unprocessed form: fish-eggs. Or rum, the drink. Or if capitalised, Rome in Italy.
Candywrappers had to be changed, some idiots tried to ban an ice cream for being racist, and more stuff like that has started to piss mr&mrs Normal Average off, finally.
I would like 2 things here in the US. First, that ALL presidential candidates got as much air time - there are to my knowledge 5 candidates and if people were to hear all of them, I think someone else would become president apart from the 2 we know. Instead of giving to 1 candidate, all the given money should then be spent on all candidates evenly.
And 2. that NO political emails, pamphlets, phone calls or messages were allowed. Yesterday I had 7 republican and 1 democrat email (thankfully all in my spam folder) and this week also 2 dem pamphlets. This all costs money and I don't want to pay for it.
I'd like to smack the muppet who allowed Yahoo to advertise the 'Kamala Harris Presidential Fund' for so many weeks.That shit was popping up in my feed. I was like, dude, she's already got millions from banking, industry and the WEF cronies why are you scraping the bottom of the barrel for nickel and dimes from proles? Oh, I know, the DNC are fucking grifters.
PS, the local dem candidate for the House (an incumbent with a 20 year history that involves arresting senior citizens protesting the gulf war) is dumping our mailboxes with glossy shit on heavy paper concerning the governor's race. Seems he is very concerned if we don't get another Inslee who has ruined this state with his draconian lockdowns and refusal to prosecute. How much money do they have and where the eff did they get it all from?
I have long thought these same things myself! Over the last 20 years, I have become increasingly tired of what seems like constant campaigning all year around, year after year. Keep the campaign periods limited and near the elections, everyone is given equal time to present their cases where everyone can see and hear what they have to say, and I'd even support equal funding from the government for this limited period of time. No donations from outside, same money available for everyone.
1. The USA has a two-party political system: Democrats and Republicans.
2. The USA is bound by the First Amendment to the Constitution which protects the right of the people to engage in free speech without government interference or prohibition, most particularly political speech.
Ingrid Durden: We live in a swing state. All day long we get political: phone calls, texts, emails, TV ads, radio ads, and physical mailings in the snail mail. Oh, and all the signs in yards, roadsides, and businesses. It’s relentless. And I absolutely agree: what an inexcusable waste of money! To top it off, not ONE of these ads ever does anything but say negative crap about their opponent. I also agree about how all candidates should get equal time (used to be that way; never will again).
How do you pay for it? My understanding was that individuals had to raise their own money in the US? If I gave money to support a specific candidate I wouldn't want it to be used to support someone else. If you are getting unwanted political emails, you can easily block them. I know it's annoying but just part of interacting online these days.
Candidate PAC’s can contribute to other candidate PAC’s . That is one of the ways legislators in sage districts such as Pelosi keep control of their caucus, threaten to close the purse strings.
Okay. But they would only share the contributions with others of the same party i.e. Dem or Rep, yes? When Dr Linda referred to 'paying', it sounded to me like her personal contributions OR taxes were being used to fund candidates not of her choice. BTW in some countries (like where I live in NZ) political parties get funding in terms of free ads etc once they have reached a certain threshold of seats in parliament (I don't agree with this).
I hear what youvare saying, however . . . In my opinion, there is nothing easy about blocking political emails. They just come at you with a new sender. I stopped trying to block. It took too long and they just find a way around it.
I never receive political emails. I have the advantage of taking advice from my tech savvy son which may be a factor! I can see how frustrating this could be for you.
We have a local farmer's pinot noir which very much reminded me of red Sancerre, but depending on the weight and depth of the algorithm I see the white as a better choice.
Algorithms of platform X are open source and can be reviewed by everybody on X. That's for the transparency of X, which seems to be unknown by Minister Habeck.
The other sozial platforms don't publish their algorithms. But as we all know Facebook was censored by the US government and forced to hide certain posts against its will.
It seems Habeck wants to be in the same position as the US government. What an goal he has set for himself!
Perhaps, if two persons are doing the same thing, then it is still a different thing legally. Example: US has no history of censoring or burning books in the dimensions Germany did under Hitler's dictatorship. Habeck should better avoid anything in his power to initiate such comparisons of Germany's present to its past, shouldn't he in his best interests?
May this note find us all ever closer to God, and His Peace.
Note that I support censoring or book-burning, but the society damaging porn and sexual deviation and transgender books are what the Nazis burned. Most people do not know this or that most of history has been warped and manipulated, as we can see today with lies that are debunked and published and known by most of us able and willing to look to alternate information sources of good repute, that the Office record that history will be written from is filled with lies that not only mis-inform many authority trusting peoples, but in the future will be stated as historical facts.
Once you grasp this rational distrust of history, perhaps some questions where not-illegal about how 6 millions of people can die and the pre-post WWII European population data does not show it, or how gas-chambers cannot be found, etc .. that is where it is legal to ask and discuss such questions. And once answered you can be free of those 5.7 millions of never living undead haunting us from childhood and haunting the world, that used to weaken us and make it hard to stop genocide or correct such evil that it is used for.
The underlying theme by the entrenched political class both here in the USA and in Germany is this: “In order to save democracy we must suspend democracy, thus preventing the unclean from voting for anyone else but us.” It’s downright Orwellian newspeak.
'We cannot, as liberal democracies, allow billionaires who support Donald Trump in the US to define discourse in Europe with their idea of communication, or with Chinese technology – which is itself banned or regulated in China.'
Because following China's example work sooo well with Covid...
Habeck is being disingenuous on multiple levels here: first he wraps himself in the mantle of "liberal democracy" as some sort of invisibility cloak for his authoritarian desires. Then he claims Musk (obvs) is the one who is "defining" discourse, when he is doing nothing of the sort - the "discourse" is the more or less free input of users, whose posts cover the full spectrum of opinion, the difference with Old Twitter being that the discourse Habeck does not like is no longer suppressed.
As for the slur of assimilating what Musk is doing with X with China's social control methods, this is a pure Alinskyite play of accusing your opponent of doing what you are doing: X is banned in China and Habeck would dearly love to ban X in the EU.
All of a sudden these toadies to the financial elites have developed a distaste for billionaires. But clearly they don’t mean Soros or Gates. Hmm… which single billionaire in all the world is it that they hate? Could it be the one that is a free speech advocate?
As someone who keeps an eye on the posts of Serpentza and LaoWhy86, this engineering is failing miserably. If Westerners don't want to have to scavenge grain from fields or trample each other in the market for a piece of tainted meat while breathing the most vile green air, maybe they'd better act now to prevent the dystopia we've not only been warned about but have observed in real time in the places they have been implemented in.
To be devil's advocate it could be that he means that TikTok is somehow much less deranged and more positive within China than outside. I don't like Habeck, the Greens or censorship but I sense in this case he didn't mean the Chinese surveillance tech itself that he praises. Interpreting it in that way you could argue that TikTok indeed has massive influence on the development of the youth's brains and whatever China does here with its 'technology' to make sure the result is more positive seems to kinda work (at least you could've a debate about that which isn't completely Orwellian)
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I so much like the fact that those mind-raping thought-controlling powerful families and their puppets and minions got so upset at TikTok because many young people where surprised and sharing everywhere the Gaudian (UK) old publish writings by Osama bin Laden explaining the justifications of attack on this genocide-supporting unending warring Godless vile country, that it was rational and response to generation of inJustice, murders, horrors we did, and such was an eye-opener to many, not only because the false-witnessed lies of 'they hate us for our freedom', but that realization that evil lying mind-raping horror is the corp-gov-education system that the trusted, the mind-raping betrayal of trust and duty that have towards them was just a way to destroy truth, justice, order, goodness, and they like of torturing pedo grooming them into their windowless van.
What a goodness - such censoring and removal of source their reaction exposed to us all.
But it is true. Once we created fixed societies the way the alphas and alphas-in waiting behaved was focused on the symbolic rather than the practical. So the symbolic assumed terrifying power.
It's really funny when you read the history of the Mongols. Horse-tamer (or horse collaborators, really, when you think about it) warrior nomads became, in only a few generations, fat emperors with a court language so refined there wasn't a straightforward word for "penis" in it.
One thing that is coming into focus for an increasing number of American citizens is just how disconnected our "leaders" are from the interests and goals of the populace. The question for Germany is: how much support does this really have among the German people? Bonus question: doesn't extreme talk such as this merely awaken more Germans and drive them into the arms of the AfD?
Exactly this.
What cracks me up is, after 9 years, they STILL can not figure out that voting for Trump or AfD is really about voting AGAINST the government, elites, expertocrats and media. They have no clue what the serfs uprisings "middle finger" is all about.
Seen in that light, it really is amazing how stupid our intellectual and political elites actually are!
Their stupidity was brought on by themselves by restricting their education & discourse within the bubble where they reside. This has been going on for a couple of generations & now we see the fruition of guarding yourself from critical thinking. The “elite” are only idiots with money.
{...The “elite” are only idiots with money...} 🤔🤔🤔🤔
There's a saying in German, that goes: The most stupid farmers harvest the largest potatoes ...
Being "elite" is not about potatoes, never has been and being stupid doesn't earn you such ludicrous amounts of money and power.
These "elites", since generations, are highly narcissistic, fully racist with intrinsic, arrogant and deeply rooted genuine hatred for "normal" humanity in general.
In short: with current standards of control and weaponry in their hands, getting more DANGEROUS by the minute !!!
I don't like the word "elite". They are certainly nothing of the kind. I prefer using the more precise word "elitists", meaning it is only in their minds that they are exceptional in any positive sense. A figment.
One obscure blogger I follow, who shall remain nameless, makes the very plausible case: at least at the upper levels of various agencies, whether in government, non-profits, academia (especially academia!) and also corporate, are indeed very intelligent. But there’s an important qualifier there. That means these people did indeed score very highly on their standardized tests. These tests probably have some value, but that doesn’t change the fact that the entire educational system is geared towards what here in America we call “teaching to the test.” Asian tiger moms and other achievement-oriented families send their children to SAT (or other test) preparation classes. In a related vein, it’s hardly a secret that most public education gives good grades regardless of actual achievement. Students are arriving at university lacking even rudimentary reading and math skills. And it’s not just the athletic scholarship people either. Even for the core students most universities too give everybody a passing or even good grade because students think is their right. Then there’s the actual value of the education taught: for decades, the emphasis has been on rote learning and memorization. Critical thinking in many fields is at best not taught and perhaps even actively discouraged; call it indoctrination into certain worldviews and if necessary disparaging others. Even better if they aren’t mentioned at all. Dramatic changes in technology have had huge impacts. One of these is that vast information is as close as one’s mobile phone. No need to actively research a topic in old-fashioned books, or even with diligent web searches. Merely read a few canned summaries from Google AI and you’re done. Copy and paste from what the search engine tells you is very helpful in writing that paper, but is it really a path to wisdom on how to run a country or a business?
The problem with such a system is that critical thinking skills, common sense, knowledge of history and such are at best left to one side, at worst actively discouraged.
As a result, we have a cadre of leaders and top-level people who live in intellectual and social bubbles, cocooned from outside realities. To a large extent, these people, intelligent though they may be, have figuratively been "hothouse flowers" their entire lives. They have never worked a real job in their lives, interacted with the common folk, even known failure because they've led such coddled lives.
If my blogger is correct in such views, this explains in large part why major opinion leaders promote such radical ideas that are profoundly out of touch with what the Deplorables want, or at times, indeed what is even realistic. The climate is changing and man is to blame. "Green" energy from windmills and sun can realistically and indeed must replace fossil fuels or humanity is doomed. If someone doesn’t like the sex (BTW, it’s not “gender”) they were “assigned at birth”, they are free to change it. Even if they are still children, they are competent to make such a choice. And once changed, others are legally obligated to accept this person’s inversion of reality. Limitless immigration of poor people with incompatible cultural values, lacking any marketable skills, is a net benefit to the receiving nation. Or to use the topic of today’s blog, that governments should regulate discourse on the nets in the name of protecting democracy.
In closing, to be sure, the desire to avoid having to deal with certain issues, to escape reality (if indeed, one ever was exposed to it in the first place!) are universal human faults by no means limited to the so-called Elite. The problem, as Ayn Rand said somewhere, is that one can deny reality but one cannot deny the consequences of denying reality. You can bury your head in the sand, but you will still drown when the tide comes in. (Granted that in reality, the ostrich probably doesn’t have that risk, since they don’t live at the seaside as far as I know, but it makes a good metaphor.)
They're a kakistocracy. Rule by the worst a society has to offer.
Agreed !!!
still a highly DANGEROUS one ...
The caste system is alive and well in Europe and UK and elsewhere.
YESSSS !!! 👍👍👍
But it's not the "elite" (which are only Goy...) against "their" plebes .
It's rather that hidden Zionism "has entirely penetrated not only the cabinets, but many, academic, journalistic, financial, institutions.
The so called (Goy) elites are just useful idiots and will be deposed of at first occasion; NO place for them in the New World Order being coerced from Jerusalem ...
'The “elite” are only idiots with money.'
Fantastic formulation!
They spend too much time in WEF, UN, WHO, NGO, IMF idiot bubble meetings.
They are completely disgusted by the ideas and ability to hold them by commoners with whom they disagree. In the liberal world there are only elite ideals founded in the academy and spread by the media and government. Any platform based on rationality and some kind of tradition is blasphemous.
These elites think that because they were very successful in one field that they must be smarter than anyone else in other areas also. For example Bill Gates and Mark Cuban are computer programmers and tackle everything as a coding problem. Same goes for some entertainers and athletes. They are not humble about offering their opinions because we, the common man, are too stupid to understand.
Gates was a monopolist. He was good at business not at coding. He bought people and technology. He invented nothing himself. Just for the record.
I don’t dispute the general belief that Bill Gates is an evil billionaire. However, I think you’re being unfair to the early Bill Gates. Consider this wiki entry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC
I admit I’ve not looked into a detailed biography, but the gist of what I’ve read over the years says that Gates was indeed a programmer and quite a good one. I DO have enough background dabbling in coding as a hobby and with a few university classes to appreciate what a feat the creation of Altair BASIC was. People lacking background in computing can't grasp the complexity of such a project. This wasn’t a one page program you did in introduction to programming class; this would have been thousands of lines of code written in 8080 assembler. That a team of three or so coders could write this and that it worked relatively well when first tested on the target machine, is in and of itself little short of a miracle.
Clearly Gates didn’t write the whole thing himself, but I'm sure he was a big contributor. I read a hobbyist computer magazine in the 1970s. Of several competitors, the various flavors of Microsoft BASIC enjoyed, by far, the best reputation for quality. It shouldn’t be surprising that once consumer PCs (they were “microcomputers” back then) started to be marketed, most of them chose customized versions of Microsoft BASIC.
Some of Microsoft’s early success can be laid to “right time, right place” (i.e. luck), but the fact remains that they had a quality product at the outset, and that Gates was part of that quality. Yes, we can say he went to the Dark Side, but he was a Jedi when he began. We might light to think we’d be immune, but I suspect becoming filthy rich might tarnish us just a bit too.
Hard to believe that Microsoft turns 50 next year.
Check out the best of the Corbett Report & you’ll get a history of Bill Gates…Wikipedia is a joke
Without a doubt. Narcissists think they are correct
They are not stupid. Just like the emperor without cloths they do not tolerate even the tiniest degree of dissent or noticing the folly of their ways. They are pure evil. That’s all.
They are narcissistic, evil, and stupid.
I don't know how much is actual stupidity per se, but they are so deeply coiled within their mutual and limited thought bubble that they can't imagine any other way to evaluate anything. Their brains travel on autopilot down a very narrow path of acceptable thought and belief to the point where they exhibit a shocking degree of tunnel vision.
Quite literally the most useless aristocrat's in the history of mankind.
Mostly beyond parody at this point.
I think they are more pure evil than stupid
I disagree. I think they are in equal parts evil and stupid.
If they were truly smart and 3D chess players, they would have brought us a candidate that they would tell us not to vote for under no circumstances and this would be a candidate that would be the true "controlled opposition."
Are you certain they have not? They have driven the majority of US voters of all stripes into the 'loving' arms of the GOP while Trump's track record is unimpressive, to say the least.
If they steal the election for the wokepuppets,will it be with the intention to stir up conflict? Given the unhinged Hitler rhetoric, will antifa and what little remains of BLM be activated to raise hell should they let Trump win? Will the lame duck dems then foist us all into WW3 and thwart a transfer of power? Will congress stand down and facilitate the dissolution of the Republic?
It would be swell if the current criminals get their comeuppance (would be a first) and DT delivers on a few of his promises but the inertia of the globalist program in all its iterations deems this outcome extremely unlikely, imo.
The impression I have from my Danish relatives is that's the way they like it.
What do you mean?
Sorry, I think I chose the wrong Reply link. I should've responded to the one above (PatriotInGibraltar). What I meant was that from the conversations I've had with Danish relatives and friends as well as watching the Danish media, most Danes are quite happy to be tyrannized. Smugly happy even.
Or as John Addams described in 1776 about his reluctant countrymen, "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you [...]."
Perhaps a decade ago Oprah Winfrey took a little trip to Denmark, which had been characterized recently as "the happiest place on earth" or some such. She interviewed locals in their teeny tiny efficiency apartments and they talked about how happy they were, and how much the government helped them. Not discussed was how much their taxes were. I remember watching it with a degree of surprise because they really seemed to believe living that way so wonderful. Not so much money, but they had all the basics. I couldn't relate to it in the least, although I'm sure a LOT of Americans would be fine with it.
The cattle on our lease are equally content. We make sure they stay that way, or else the meat gets tough.
Ryan, if "they" haven't already in the US, expect a debate on "anti-votes" to spring up soon, especially if Trump wins and actually takes office.
Our Communist, Green and Feminist parties have suggested such a thing: that you get one vote /for/ a party, and one /against/ a single party. If the net is too low, the party people "anti-voted" for won't get any seats no matter how many voted for them.
The goal is obvious: making any challenge to the Blob impossible.
May this note find us all ever closer to God, and His Peace.
It would be Just, Loving, and Better if voting, running or working for government, any status or position that exercises power over others and society be limited to those that have displayed virtue and willingness to Serve others and community by requiring displays and service like volunteering for a few years in National or international service.
Also, if not that above then - unpopular and dangerous as it is to argue - that woman should not vote, but instead her husband, father, older brother responsible for her will get to cast her vote and another one for each child dependent in family.
I have argued well with data that women are unfit by temperament and ability to Justly and undamagingly have power over others. That they are delusional psychotic resent-filled vicious male-hating fungal-strangling Poison to all advancement, progress, and morality - baby-killing [supporters], false-witnessing, grasping, lying, back-stabbing destroyers of family, children, fatherhood, decent men and decent women.
God Bless., Steve
What the expertocrats and the media don't realize (or don't want to admit) is that Cass Sunstein's "Law of Group Polarization" (https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1541&context=law_and_economics) applies equally to them. Living in a bubble isolated from differing perspectives, they feed on each other's obsessions, in the process becoming increasingly radicalized and alarmed by the existence of people who don't agree with them.
This was excellent Username.
Thx for post
I think this great divide was created when he was elected as pesident. they were testing their propaganda skills through social media. You were either a good liberal or a bad republican and rhe media made sure to manipulate the food/bad mantra.
The people have to wake from their zombie state long enough to notice. For too many, the propaganda veil is impenetrable.
Two words that offer hope: RALLY SIZE. One candidate busses them into high school gymnasia and small arenas, the other turns away countless thousands from the largest venues. This is a fair gauge of the state of woke vs. awakened.
The people are sheeple. Have been for generations in Europe. Sad to see you guys going down for the count. The best and brightest of you are more than welcome in the USA once things on the continent start really going south in a hurry.
Only they aren't because US immigration policy makes it nearly impossible for Europeans to come here unless they're from places that are living in the dark ages
I actually have blood family with my mom’s maiden name in Germany as my maternal great grandparents both emigrated here from Germany in the 1800’s. Several of my great grandfather’s siblings stayed behind and yet stayed in touch with our German/American counterparts. I’d be happy to sponsor any one of them in my country if the need arises as my own great grandfather was sponsored by a bishop relative back in the day. I still have one of the Bishop’s books, written in German, given to me by my grandmother. This is the type of emigration that should be proposed and considered by the church vs what they are illegally doing now via their wealthy NGO’s pretending to care about who they are importing. Instead of importing the Muslim world they should be saving the persecuted Christians who are being exterminated in Muslim countries—that’s what the Catholic Church USED to do—save Christians. Now they just don’t seem to care at all who gets hurt.
And actually sponsoring the invasion and abetting it for the money. The old axiom, "Follow the money" is true in every aspect of American government.
Not just American government, I suspect. It’s at least Western government-wide.
May this note find us all ever closer to God, and His Peace.
It is with real shame and sadness that as a 6-7 year convert to Catholicism and 2-year convert to Traditional (pre-Modernist pre-communist pre-Satanic) Catholic Church, that the Sickness and Satanic powers that took control of Vatican and many Leaders, those post-Vatican II that embrace the Heresies and goals of Sickening, twisting, destroying souls and the real Chruch that existed and became more fully enlightened from Jesus Christs life, death, resurrection, His Church. Replacing it with a Worldly-enslaved Fake 'Ape' Church., ..
.. a Shame to say that the Church is in places supporting such nation, society, family, living-earning, trusting, truth, justice, Order, merit, virtue focused, .. Goodness destroying mass replacement and with genocide design for us indigenous population, and many such Satanic Goals that comes with open-borders and governmental protection and support of such evil.
Rational immigration policies that has strict limits and prioritize the politically-religiously native government oppression, violence, death people, seems like sane policy.
God Bless., Steve
Something for the next Trump administration, if there is one, to change immediately.
Oh dear.
agree. They live in their own "universe"
they truly do not give a damn about 99% of the humans on this planet.
It would be great if Musk could just pack up all of these sour pusses and ship them off to Mars.
Wishful thinking Rosemary?
It does. That’s why they want to ban the AfD.
These politicians on the left make sure we are fed a steady stream of content for self entertainment. Tells us we have the right to our own pronouns and to force others to obey or that that they will bully „us“ with their own activism. They stroke „us“ with how justified and good they are for making us SAGE, but not free.
How much support? If Habeck has his way, no one will ever know.
Unfortunately, the perceived support is huge.
The instruments of propaganda (Noam Chomsky) do really work, and this machinery is full of screws to be tuned on and it works.
There is the general state of fear (Angst), that leads to people putting their brains on hold while listening to the Anti-Putin narrative and the question, which country he's going to invade next, mixed with the whole moral question and Ukraine being a victim (yes, it is a victim, but Putin is not the only victimary).
Also, the whole climate change narrative (CO2 is the climate Putin). Better not get started on this one.
Being a coward has several manifestations: being a snitch, which is well spread, is just one of them.
Being in denial is much more complex.
Denial of the actual issues by looking for a culprit: the unvaccinated, the immigrants, the jews, basically anything, but the root-cause, -the politicians as a result of the political system, including the "representative democracy"- is easier than daring to question the very deep logic: what is it, that we, as people, want to achieve? how do we want to be governed?
There is this term: delegation of authority. As it was said once: every people gets the government they deserve.
May this note find us all ever closer to God, and His Peace.
Since we now have alternate sources of new and information, with most everyone has a recorder in their cell-phones, and rational anti-propaganda prospectives and reasoning can be found, ..
.. we might notice that official media and our leaders are re-writing history to fit the narrative they push now but to lie to future, that - for example - all the debunked lies about Oct 7th (lies like the rapes, that most of the civilians of the 1200 killed were not killed by israel military using the Hanabal directive, beheaded babies, Hamas in hospitals, in humanitarian groups, emergency responders, near critical infrastructure, under populated buildings, only 42K murdered in Gaza when rational estimated are 200K israeli cause deaths, etc.)
That our public figures continue to lie those lies that they want of record and in history, and we can watch it now, and consider our learned history and wonder how much of that is false in support of the Satanic Powerful, to hide the crimes and to warp us in destructive falseness, to harm and destroy Western Christian value-based society and continue the genocide of us indigenous white people and our earned resources and services.
Make sense?
God Bless., Steve
1. They wanted us to feel hopeless...otherwise there wouldn't be a need for the propaganda, censorship and the moral trickboxs.
2. It's a religion to be "anti-right" because it gives these emotionally handicapped cry babies instant absolution of all past mortal sins.
The good news is, they are on a terminal glide slope - out of altitude, out of airspeed, and out of ideas.
I'm calling it now:
For the first time in decades Team Sanity is WINNING.
They're falling...time to push. Now is the time to lean at the tape!
Absolution of all previous sins and protection from DeadNaming. What more can a criminal ask for?
Fingers and toes crossed
Team sanity:
-deregulation
-reducing bureaucracy /government
-not by choosing another side who will do the same but packaged differently
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." - Frank Zappa
The kid gloves haven't even come off yet. As soon as they feel like they're losing power they will take progressively more aggressive steps to secure their power. Did you not notice this in the aftermath of the 2016 "dual disaster" of Trump and Brexit? They just tightened the screws and now both the UK and US are even more fk'd than they were pre-2016.
Nobody knows how far they will go in the end, if their power is truly threatened. Given the history of nation states, probably all of the way.
Maybe that's what it takes to sharpen the senses for so many people that are currently blissfully ignorant....or perhaps economic collapse...which I'm pretty sure is inevitable.
But I agree it's going to get ugly....that sad I think we beat the Globalist in the end.
While we shouldn't think this way and I certainly don't support doomerism, we have to face the possibility that humanity is a tragedy (or perhaps a comedy-tragedy?). In the end there may be no salvation (at least on Earth).
Technology is the only thing which separates us from the rest of life. Technology provides certain advantages to the individual, but it's becoming increasingly likely that it provides even greater advantages to consolidated power. All that matters is this balance, because as technology grows exponentially it alone determines if we end up with total freedom for the individual or total tyranny.
I plan on writing an article about this in the future, but this post will do for now :)
Free speech and freedom are synonymous
Which is why the totalitarians first suppress both.
Funny how often that quote of Tom Wolfe (an American journalist and author) turns out to be true. “The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.”
The 1st amendment is largely responsible for that.
Without free speech, your country is living in an Oligarchic dictatorship...Which seems to describe Western Europe pretty well....."Democracy dies in darkness"...which is quite evidently what our dear leaders want...This is why President Thomas Jefferson said that Americans would periodically have to revolt against a tyrannical Government to preserve their Constitutional and God given rights....
That’s why the Biden admin passed an order that will allow the military to kill on American soil. Trying to get in front of it. This one is going to hurt.
The 'other' side is over turning or cancelling exactly 0 of these nonsense laws/orders.
Are they revolting? No. And they won’t it’s all a cope. It’s easy to laugh at Europe, a vassal and tested of the American Empire.
'defensive democracy'
Another one to add to the Orwellian Dictionary.
'One of the most important developments of the past generation, is the growing cultural and social separation of our elites from their respective national populations.'
That right there is a factor in the growing polarization.
I found this a great insight.
And they sit in their ivory towers trying to distract and divide us.
Three classes: the super rich, their very well paid flunkies, and the manipulated DEI masses.
We won’t own anything (we will rent); our horizons will be a 15 minute walk away; and the best of us will get the best bugs to eat.
An alternative interpretation would suggest that an elite historically known to be footloose and only committed to itself are in charge.
I can't help but image that this is how the Pope would have sounded if Martin Luther had had the Internet.
LOL!
Expect this to become an EU-wide directive shortly (in the EU's timescale, not normal time). The reason I suspect this is that state censorship (under some euphemism or other) has widespread support, as long as you don't call it for what it is: state censorship.
In Sweden, all the parties of parliament are essentially pro-censorship, the dividing factors instead amounting to not much more than jostling over who among them would get to control it. As far as I know, Denmark, Norway, Finland are much the same.
Also, the recent loss in Georgia for the Globalist Octopus-agenda will only serve to make the likes of Habeck try and increase the pace for their electronic wall around Festung EUropa.
'state censorship (under some euphemism or other) has widespread support, as long as you don't call it for what it is: state censorship.'
I'm in the throes of a Facebook debate with a friend at the moment, who insists that fact-checking is not censorship, that people must be protected from being told untruths, and who refuses to acknowledge that trusting some entity to pass judgment on 'truth' is a slippery slope.
Perhaps being a professor of engineering for 42 years inculcated him with a trust in authority?
No doubt: the more entrenched you are in a system, the more you will defend it no matter what it is doing.
The debate here, such as it is, is largely the pro-censorship side using precisely those arguements, that are really nothing more than various fallacies, such as appeal to authority. "Someone must ensure that information spread around is correct" is the spiel, and they will never engage in debate on it, they'll just spew forth new slogans and truisms before descending into incarnadine rage when you point out to them that it is they who are emulating the likes of Russia, China, Iran and such - and not us who no matter our political tinge or hue say "Let me find out for myself and make my mind up on my own".
TDS in the USA may be the boil of 50 years of ever-more tightening constraints of PC-speech, but in Europe such reactions to political differences on fundamentals are sadly old hat.
"Putin's troll factories", "pedophiles grooming kids on TikTok", "misdismalinformation", "fake news", "alt-facts" and more - it's the strategy and it aims to ostracize and mark as a Wrongthinker anyone /not/ joining in fervently enough.
And just to spice things up, two of the major driving groups behind censorship-laws in Europe? Jews and moslems. The first to control any narrative about Jews, where any criticism of any kind is immediately labeled "anti-semitic" (objecting to Jewish settlers stealing land from Palestinians f.e.). The latter to enact blasphemy-laws as a step towards making sharia the foundation of the law, and to ensure religious privilege for moslems.
Whereas indigenous European journalists reporting on wrongdoings of people allied to the regime, are sentenced to prison fro "libel" despite everything reported being on the public record and on the docket:
https://samnytt.se/hovratten-mats-dagerlind-fangslas-efter-journalistik-om-nathatsgranskaren
Article in Swedish I'm afraid. It is by the editor, owner and also reporter of the paper Samnytt that has been sentenced to prison for reporting dirty truths about a former police officer and this officer's sordid past. Imagine if the editor of the NYP had been put in prison for publishing pictures from Hunter's laptop - same thing here. Everything on the docket, on the record, proven true. Doesn't matter, it's still libel because the powers-that-be doesn't like Samnytt since they repeatedly violate the narrative, by not shying away from speaking truths about migrants, islam and related issues.
Horrifying that the reporter is sentenced to prison for reporting the proven, on the public record, TRUTH. That’s what this is really about. Mal/mis/disinformation is actually the TRUTH that must not be heard b/c it does not follow government narrative. Ever since the Internet they have been freaked out. They can control MSM but not social media - yet. That is what all this ridiculous legislation is about. Canada is even now trying to shove ‘Anti Hate Speech’ legislation through. They intend to have a ‘Board’ who can decide what is and isn’t hate speech. Insane.
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In my world censorship is real and occurs too often to me. Mostly the mind-raping censoring lying-spreading owners of YouTube (Google, Alphabet) remove all comments about israel, Zionist control of countries, genociding white Christians, suggestions or implications that the UN should remove nationhood from israel, removal based on their 75+ years of terrorism genocide spewing world-wide evil as they are Satan's Anus on earth, evil that that started long before the UN vote for stealing land, murdering indigenous Muslims, Christians, Jews living in peace, And setting up a Supremacist State, and YouTube censors on many other topics - argument and information to support is not allowed because they pretend we all children that need protection from wrong-thoughts.
I support both a public database where anyone harmed by another person, group, corporation, may place a report - giving them opportunity to rebut or explain and everyone else warning and also opportunity to judge it and you by cross-referencing to your Records and other relevant information. ..
.. and policy of lies, false-witnessers, thieves, .. to be publicly Pained&Shamed, restrained in public place such as a park and tasered till pissing and screaming, as the default first punishment with others based on damage, intent, etc.
God Bless., Steve
Truth used to be a defense against defamation claims.
Swedish law on defamation, libel and slander takes into account a) how public the figure being talked about is; b) how publicly known the information already is; c) if the individual spoken about suffers harm from the information being spread about and; d) if the information can be said to spread with malicious intent.
This was intended (originally) as a way to curb harassment of individuals a paper or other media outlet might have a beef with, but has become weaponised post-1990s era.
A parallel to the US would be the Democrat party and pals using private actors such as Facebook to get around the 1st Amendment.
Not with hate speech laws. Coming to your country very soon.
Hate speech and false speech aside from defamation are protected by 1A which is superior to legislation.
referring to US constitution, amendment 1, which i know doesnt apply in other countries
Sorry, I'm not sure what you are referring to by "1A". So called hate speech laws have been passed or introduced in several countries. It can be deemed against the law to insult people by calling them stupid or fat or untruthful even if this is true.
As an engineer, I don't feel inculcated to trusting authority. On the contrary, analysis and critical thinking are essential skills, taught before synthesis. I suspect it is the 'professor' component of 'professor of engineering' that is the root culprit.
One of our disagreements is over the abysmal state of scientific publications, and of the growing trend of suppression of dissenting ideas in science. Somehow I don't think there's a lot of bad science in the field of engineering, and maybe he's incurious about other fields in which there is ample evidence of crappiness and industry influence.
Really curious about what specific type of engineering, amd where he’s a professor.
No idea, except I think he's retired.
Bridges don't have feelings.
I’m with you
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Sad to say that there is a huge slowdown in all fields including engineering, the fact that we do not have hypersonic missiles and no defense against is an example, but all research is now influenced, and much fraud exists as only those that support the lies and evil narratives are funded and advance.
I worked as a young man in a physiology research lab in a university back in the late 1980's through 1990's and became shocked at the meritless destructive resent filled man-haters working there, along with the politics that is truth, justice, order, Joy, goodness destroying intent and effect, and being targeted by such horrors - Witch-Wisper-Web of lies and recruiting others as tools of punishment and abuse, and no recourse available as responding through the system would clearly be destructive to me and my career, and the women would be immune and perhaps rewarded for 'surviving' such.
And with the indoctrination of lies and female-evil twisted resentment-fear expectations of average rapey oppressive men for the women, and the unjustified increase in self-loathing and support of female-evil for the men that go through such, that few Professionals can be trusted and the ones promoted and put-forward are the most Satan-Cocksuckers.
And since functional fatherlessness and baby-killing [supporters] mothers, male-hating sexual-damaging women pedo teachers and administrators that long ago drove men from children's education and our lives, left many males after generations of increasing insanity as 'normal' raised [now adult] children that VagFeelie think and believe themselves as bad because they are male, that such twistedness have driven many men to functional insanity and delusional psychosis that is nearly as bad a condition as our Sicken Western women.
God Bless., Steve
Tartigrade, so-called 'fact-checking' is simply censorship lying about itself. Charlest Baudelaire wrote over a century ago that, "the Devil's best trick is pretending he doesn't exist." Sorry, but by insisting on censorship, your FB friend is indulging in pure evil. You can never argue religion with a priest of the cult.
You're not telling me anything I don't already know 😐
However, even though I probably can't budge him, there's a chance that other people following that conversation might see some of my points.
Perhaps? Maybe 42 years of standing in front of skulls full of mush and being the arbiter of all speech has a lot to do with it. Any dissent from the masters teaching garners a failing grade and loss of job opportunities.
Professor of exactly what type of engineering? There are so many different types. Also - professor working where exactly?
Maybe because engineers deal in facts themselves, they automatically assume that everyone else does.
My brother, aerospace engineer, is very similar.
I'm sure that's part of it.
I can't see how the EU remains unsplintered unless it's governing body capitulates on its most egregious rules and demands of member states. It is impossible to ignore Poland's increasing production power and GDP and its and Hungary's public statements against EU policy. Italy is following along and even Nordic states are flexing their muscles.
Thus far, the EU has been tied together by Germany's large economic dominance over the entire union. It is dominant in manufacturing. The € works strongly to Germany's advantage by binding together a host of nations with unequal economic strengths. The Union is showing some cracks now because Germany's insane energy policies are ruining its industrial base and thus weakening Germany's control over Brussels.
As for the governing body, the organization in Brussels is controlled by Germany. And the EU parliament in Strasbourg is irrelevant. to day-to-day operations.
Hungary has already the same as DSA or any other nonsense law passed by 'left' governments. The rhetoric in the MSM is to blind you and believe something is different.
I find this information overwhelming. I pray the populace won’t tolerate and has the means to rebel
The populace can be divided roughly like this:
Non-Western migrants who don't care because our nations are just a place they live in, they have no deeper connection to it than you'd have to a hotel, basically.
Older generation who don't understand what has been happening ever since the Lissabon-treaty was signed, because they grew up with state/corporate media so to them streamlined narrative messaging is the norm.
Younger generation who uses VPN and other means as a matter-of-course and doesn't really understand or care about the politics of free speech, only about being able to freely stream, download and share stuff.
The slim slivver of people of all political denominations who /do/ care are either Wrongthinkers like I, or narrative knights worried about what will happen if their opponents gets hold of the tools of the state.
There are positive signs, though, especially in the wake of 25 years of woke-scolding via state/regime media, of anyone using banned words. Things like that pisses people off no matter their other ideas, especially when it is words that have never - ever - been slurs in our language. Negro (neger in Swedish) for example. Suddenly around '05, we were informed by state/regime media that "the N-word" was not to be used. How silly. It is a mere descriptor, no more controversial than "indian" or "chinese". Same with gypsy. Suddenly, we were supposed to say "rom" or "roma"; in Swedish when you say rom, you mean caviar in its unprocessed form: fish-eggs. Or rum, the drink. Or if capitalised, Rome in Italy.
Candywrappers had to be changed, some idiots tried to ban an ice cream for being racist, and more stuff like that has started to piss mr&mrs Normal Average off, finally.
I would like 2 things here in the US. First, that ALL presidential candidates got as much air time - there are to my knowledge 5 candidates and if people were to hear all of them, I think someone else would become president apart from the 2 we know. Instead of giving to 1 candidate, all the given money should then be spent on all candidates evenly.
And 2. that NO political emails, pamphlets, phone calls or messages were allowed. Yesterday I had 7 republican and 1 democrat email (thankfully all in my spam folder) and this week also 2 dem pamphlets. This all costs money and I don't want to pay for it.
I'd like to smack the muppet who allowed Yahoo to advertise the 'Kamala Harris Presidential Fund' for so many weeks.That shit was popping up in my feed. I was like, dude, she's already got millions from banking, industry and the WEF cronies why are you scraping the bottom of the barrel for nickel and dimes from proles? Oh, I know, the DNC are fucking grifters.
PS, the local dem candidate for the House (an incumbent with a 20 year history that involves arresting senior citizens protesting the gulf war) is dumping our mailboxes with glossy shit on heavy paper concerning the governor's race. Seems he is very concerned if we don't get another Inslee who has ruined this state with his draconian lockdowns and refusal to prosecute. How much money do they have and where the eff did they get it all from?
I have long thought these same things myself! Over the last 20 years, I have become increasingly tired of what seems like constant campaigning all year around, year after year. Keep the campaign periods limited and near the elections, everyone is given equal time to present their cases where everyone can see and hear what they have to say, and I'd even support equal funding from the government for this limited period of time. No donations from outside, same money available for everyone.
1. The USA has a two-party political system: Democrats and Republicans.
2. The USA is bound by the First Amendment to the Constitution which protects the right of the people to engage in free speech without government interference or prohibition, most particularly political speech.
The only thing worse than the over abundance of campaign literature and ads is a system that would prohibit the same. Freedom is scary. Deal with it.
Ingrid Durden: We live in a swing state. All day long we get political: phone calls, texts, emails, TV ads, radio ads, and physical mailings in the snail mail. Oh, and all the signs in yards, roadsides, and businesses. It’s relentless. And I absolutely agree: what an inexcusable waste of money! To top it off, not ONE of these ads ever does anything but say negative crap about their opponent. I also agree about how all candidates should get equal time (used to be that way; never will again).
Me either
How do you pay for it? My understanding was that individuals had to raise their own money in the US? If I gave money to support a specific candidate I wouldn't want it to be used to support someone else. If you are getting unwanted political emails, you can easily block them. I know it's annoying but just part of interacting online these days.
Candidate PAC’s can contribute to other candidate PAC’s . That is one of the ways legislators in sage districts such as Pelosi keep control of their caucus, threaten to close the purse strings.
Okay. But they would only share the contributions with others of the same party i.e. Dem or Rep, yes? When Dr Linda referred to 'paying', it sounded to me like her personal contributions OR taxes were being used to fund candidates not of her choice. BTW in some countries (like where I live in NZ) political parties get funding in terms of free ads etc once they have reached a certain threshold of seats in parliament (I don't agree with this).
I hear what youvare saying, however . . . In my opinion, there is nothing easy about blocking political emails. They just come at you with a new sender. I stopped trying to block. It took too long and they just find a way around it.
I never receive political emails. I have the advantage of taking advice from my tech savvy son which may be a factor! I can see how frustrating this could be for you.
What I like to do is serve algorithms slightly toasted, smeared with crushed garlic. They pair nicely with Sancerre.
Please post your recipe.
Yes, white. Contrasts nicely with greasy granules of censorship.
Fantastic
I presume white Sancerre (sauvignon blanc)?
We have a local farmer's pinot noir which very much reminded me of red Sancerre, but depending on the weight and depth of the algorithm I see the white as a better choice.
I’m in
That's a good algorithm.
Algorithms of platform X are open source and can be reviewed by everybody on X. That's for the transparency of X, which seems to be unknown by Minister Habeck.
The other sozial platforms don't publish their algorithms. But as we all know Facebook was censored by the US government and forced to hide certain posts against its will.
It seems Habeck wants to be in the same position as the US government. What an goal he has set for himself!
Perhaps, if two persons are doing the same thing, then it is still a different thing legally. Example: US has no history of censoring or burning books in the dimensions Germany did under Hitler's dictatorship. Habeck should better avoid anything in his power to initiate such comparisons of Germany's present to its past, shouldn't he in his best interests?
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Note that I support censoring or book-burning, but the society damaging porn and sexual deviation and transgender books are what the Nazis burned. Most people do not know this or that most of history has been warped and manipulated, as we can see today with lies that are debunked and published and known by most of us able and willing to look to alternate information sources of good repute, that the Office record that history will be written from is filled with lies that not only mis-inform many authority trusting peoples, but in the future will be stated as historical facts.
Once you grasp this rational distrust of history, perhaps some questions where not-illegal about how 6 millions of people can die and the pre-post WWII European population data does not show it, or how gas-chambers cannot be found, etc .. that is where it is legal to ask and discuss such questions. And once answered you can be free of those 5.7 millions of never living undead haunting us from childhood and haunting the world, that used to weaken us and make it hard to stop genocide or correct such evil that it is used for.
God Bless., Steve
The underlying theme by the entrenched political class both here in the USA and in Germany is this: “In order to save democracy we must suspend democracy, thus preventing the unclean from voting for anyone else but us.” It’s downright Orwellian newspeak.
What he desires is what drives polarization. Stifling public discourse drives the very thing that he pretends to abhor.
'We cannot, as liberal democracies, allow billionaires who support Donald Trump in the US to define discourse in Europe with their idea of communication, or with Chinese technology – which is itself banned or regulated in China.'
Because following China's example work sooo well with Covid...
Habeck is being disingenuous on multiple levels here: first he wraps himself in the mantle of "liberal democracy" as some sort of invisibility cloak for his authoritarian desires. Then he claims Musk (obvs) is the one who is "defining" discourse, when he is doing nothing of the sort - the "discourse" is the more or less free input of users, whose posts cover the full spectrum of opinion, the difference with Old Twitter being that the discourse Habeck does not like is no longer suppressed.
As for the slur of assimilating what Musk is doing with X with China's social control methods, this is a pure Alinskyite play of accusing your opponent of doing what you are doing: X is banned in China and Habeck would dearly love to ban X in the EU.
All of a sudden these toadies to the financial elites have developed a distaste for billionaires. But clearly they don’t mean Soros or Gates. Hmm… which single billionaire in all the world is it that they hate? Could it be the one that is a free speech advocate?
All Western leaders get little stiffies (even the gals) just thinking about the power Chinese leaders have to "engineer" the society of the future.
As someone who keeps an eye on the posts of Serpentza and LaoWhy86, this engineering is failing miserably. If Westerners don't want to have to scavenge grain from fields or trample each other in the market for a piece of tainted meat while breathing the most vile green air, maybe they'd better act now to prevent the dystopia we've not only been warned about but have observed in real time in the places they have been implemented in.
To be devil's advocate it could be that he means that TikTok is somehow much less deranged and more positive within China than outside. I don't like Habeck, the Greens or censorship but I sense in this case he didn't mean the Chinese surveillance tech itself that he praises. Interpreting it in that way you could argue that TikTok indeed has massive influence on the development of the youth's brains and whatever China does here with its 'technology' to make sure the result is more positive seems to kinda work (at least you could've a debate about that which isn't completely Orwellian)
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I so much like the fact that those mind-raping thought-controlling powerful families and their puppets and minions got so upset at TikTok because many young people where surprised and sharing everywhere the Gaudian (UK) old publish writings by Osama bin Laden explaining the justifications of attack on this genocide-supporting unending warring Godless vile country, that it was rational and response to generation of inJustice, murders, horrors we did, and such was an eye-opener to many, not only because the false-witnessed lies of 'they hate us for our freedom', but that realization that evil lying mind-raping horror is the corp-gov-education system that the trusted, the mind-raping betrayal of trust and duty that have towards them was just a way to destroy truth, justice, order, goodness, and they like of torturing pedo grooming them into their windowless van.
What a goodness - such censoring and removal of source their reaction exposed to us all.
God Bless., Steve
Plus ca change, truly. Eleven hundred years ago this guy's type was trying Meister Eckhart for heresy.
'There is nothing new under the sun' is what I keep telling myself.
But it is true. Once we created fixed societies the way the alphas and alphas-in waiting behaved was focused on the symbolic rather than the practical. So the symbolic assumed terrifying power.
It's really funny when you read the history of the Mongols. Horse-tamer (or horse collaborators, really, when you think about it) warrior nomads became, in only a few generations, fat emperors with a court language so refined there wasn't a straightforward word for "penis" in it.