Nobody can say why the evil fascist Nazi Hitler party is so evil or fascist or Nazi or Hitler, but they and their 10 million voters will continue to be treated like shit anyway
In spite of my late father having countless bad experiences fighting Germany in WW2, he never showed any bitterness, quite the opposite in fact. He was massively impressed with German competence, organisation, military tactics, machines etc etc, so much so I acquired the middle name of a German General. I was brought up respecting all that was good about the German people, and to forget the nastiness of a few. So now I am absolutely dismayed at the sheer stupidity of the German Marxist Idiot Left, doing their best to screw their own country and their own people, all for their Communist ideal. What is it with Communism that so rots the human brain that they cannot think through really simple things? It is so sad to see the greatness of the German people poisoned by Leftism, like a cancer of the brain. AfD, PLEASE SAVE GERMANY! And also Europe!
I think with communism it is the other way around. The already broken are drawn to utopian schemes to control the world. They have the answers to humanity's problems. This is what animates the WEF just as much as German politicians. The useless have to do something with their time, so politics always beckons.
It's both. Possibly both plus at least a third, and likely more.
Communism *genuinely* appeals to people living under feudalism, which is why it keeps coming up in South America. Even as a *dedicated anticommunist* I can *understand* why it appeals to the peasantry, which is why one of the best methods for defeating communism is to turn all the peasants into kulaks, and yes, quite likely destroy the "landed gentry".
The UK springs to mind, as far as "western civ" goes, though the US is trying real hard to catch up, even without actual titles of nobility.
The second group it appeals to are the midwit intellectuals, who can think far enough ahead to get to "it would be gooderer if people were treated more equalerer" but are incapable of thinking through second or third order effects.
The third group of people it appeals to are the folks who look at it and go "That's an excellent mechanism for enslaving a bunch of people while telling them it's for their own good" and are actually immoral enough to pursue it.
I would say that "the useless" you refer to mostly fall into category two. Some of them are in category three, but are also likely what Stalin called "useful idiots" who would be purged in the actual revolution. *Very* few of them will be category three, and *also* hard enough psychotics to rape eleven year olds in front of their parents, before executing said parents, and thus suitable for actual communist cadre.
Of course, it should also be noted that since they're "only" fucking eleven year olds, they're *still* better than the Muslim sine qua non.
No worries. I only brought it up because the irony of FDA finally bringing it to light formally 5 years later. Maybe this is better late than never from them? Only due to RFK I suppose.
You might want to learn about US law before speaking about it. The UCMJ is the set of laws that govern the conduct of our military personnel, and outside of very limited circumstances, it has absolutely no application to anyone else in the US.
And our federal government - in theory a government of limited authority - is not generally responsible for creating laws about matters such as statutory rape. Issues such as that are generally left to the states, which exercise broad "police powers" to regulate the conduct of their citizens.
Fucking 11 year olds, or any minor, is depraved. In the US, where child marriage is legal in 80% of states, it is legal to sodomize males and females or have vaginally sex with females, from the age of 12 years old. 11 years old is too young, even by American standards, so Americans can feel superior that they are not fucking 11 year olds, only 12 year old. Further, to be permitted to fuck 12 year olds, the pedo has to be ready to participate in neocon wars and must marry the victim before sodomizing him or her.. (The legislation that Americans introduced to make it lawful for them to fuck 12 year old is Article 120b of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C. § 920b). Americans will not repeal this law and would engage in jihad to preserve it.)
Article 120b Rape and Sexual Assault of a Child includes the following elements: rape, sexual assault, or physical abuse or threats to abuse a child under the age of 16 years old. Persons suspected of these elements could face charges under Article 120b of the UCMJ.
However, as in medieval Muslim countries, in the US, which is similar to medieval Muslim countries in this regard, and dissimilat to other Western developed nations, which in contrast to the US prohibit sexual relations between pedos and children in ALL circumstances, it is considered that a 12 year old, has the capacity to consent.
The circumstances in which it is held by the US that the child has the capacity to consent are when the pedo is a serving member of the USMIL and the child is married to the pedo.
For it to be legal, the molestation of the child by the pedo also must take place within the US.
"Could face charges" means they have to be found guilty. You make claims without support and claim that it is normal for the US military. Yet you could take 2 minutes and a search engine to debunk yourself.
You sound like someone from Reddit
Here are examples of Soldiers going to jail for what you say is OK in the military?
While I accept that there are legal limits allowing child marriage in the majority of US states, I believe that most of them have *range* limits as well. It's significantly less abhorrent for a 19 year old to be having sex with a 17 year old, than a 49 year old to be having sex with a 17 year old. And so far as I'm aware, the lowest age of consent for sexual congress outside of marriage in any US state is 16 years old. That said, I am speaking *entirely* of state law, as opposed to federal law.
Which, yes, in the event of significant age gaps, is still an issue. That said, given that *I* was a minor -- having sex with someone who was *also* a minor -- for my first several sexual experiences, I would consider it hypocritical for me to rail against the idea of a 15 year old (myself) having sex with a 17 year old (my partner at the time). Teenagers **highly likely** to fuck, yo. Those actions already come with biological consequences for the unwary, and as such I see little need to impose *legal* consequences on top of them.
Your situation is very different to that of strict constitutionalists and others in the US who use their US constitutional "right to sodomize" (SCOTUS: Lawrence v Texas, 2004) in conjunction with 10 U.S.C. § 920b in order to sodomize 12 year old. No other Western nation has, or wants, laws or constitutional "rights" such as these.
Each state in the U.S. has its own set of statutes in this regard. The highest determining age of consent is eighteen. Thirty states set it at sixteen. Arkansas has the lowest at fifteen.
As for the age of marriage which is a completely different thing, many if not most states do not have a statutory limiting effect. Below the age of consent, the age of marriage is bound by parental consent and or judicial approval. I am certain there is no federal legislation on this matter at all.
Please don't waste my time citing Supreme Court rulings about one case in one set of circumstances with a complex judgement thirty pages long that leads me to a different conclusion as to the implications than the one you have drawn. The laws are on the books of each individual state both for the age of consent and for the age of marriage, for all to see. Not only are they enforced but are sometimes spectacularly enforced.
Not only are there criminal and civil liability laws in place which the o.p. denies but these are even extended beyond the age of consent. In the U.S. chronological afe is not the sole determinant factor. Even seemingly consenting adults can run afoul of the law if there is a perceived power imbalance.
Anyone not from the U.S. should ignore these posts about twelve year olds routinely, legally having anal sex with adults, and also the supposed military code of justice language. Anyone who lives in the U.S. will already have done so.
The great Thomas Sowell makes your point in his book, "A Conflict of Visions" that the Commie rarely will speak of what happens after they take power, and focuses on how evil the other side is.
"They believe there is an ideal solution to every problem, and that compromise is never acceptable. Collateral damage is merely the price of moving forward on the road to perfection. Sowell often refers to them as "the self anointed." Ultimately they believe that man is morally perfectible. Because of this, they believe that there exist some people who are further along the path of moral development, have overcome self-interest and are immune to the influence of power and therefore can act as surrogate decision-makers for the rest of society."
It has been a few years since I last read it. A great book. He was certainly familiar with the type as the universities are full of them. Absolutely lost to their mental visions. I believe many of them are mentally ill.
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Beg to differ. Their "sheer stupidity" has put them in control of one of Europe's most important countries. Very similar developments in a number of other countries.
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
Looking back from where we are now, a more fruitful line of investigation may be this:
We now know that the erstwhile Left and camouflage-"Greens" have successfully infiltrated and co-opted the major political parties.
Looking back, WHAT DOES THEIR SUCCESS tell you about WHO THEY ALWAYS WERE? About what their REAL AGENDA was all along? About their powerful but hidden backers across the water, going back to their very beginnings?
Dickens tried all his life to enlighten England, Europe and the world. He thought it had all been a waste of time after visiting Canada where he found the most backwards, reprobate Scrooges and Uriah Heeps imaginable. He despaired. Bleak house is seriously anti-establishment and attacking the judiciary is not something to be taken lightly. They are in most ways the worst of the worst.
Strangely or not, Russians consider Dickens one of their favorite authors and an honorary Russian.
>"So now I am absolutely dismayed at the sheer stupidity of the German Marxist Idiot Left"
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there is no significant Marxism in Germany since long. This is not about "left" or "right" in their original meaning of the 19th c. ie. related proletariat. It is about trans-national oligarchic projects.
Btw. as for stupidity, it was the German oligarchy in the 1930's that caused the destruction of Germany with loss of Baltic realms that were German since the 13th c. And for ever. And their heirs are still at work....
Linke is not Communist, not even anymore Socialist anymore.
The difference Conmunism/Socialism is btw typically blurred since ever in Anglosphere. The other name for Socialism is Social-democracy.
Some confusion also because Communist regimes kept using the Socialist naming. The current party that retains Social-democracy is BSW.
The fact that Linke was born as an adaptation to Germany of former DDR communists is obvious and means nothing in itself, because these were just politicians re-centering their political career inside the new framework. Exactly what Merkel did, as she started a career as young apparatchik inside DDR, but was recruited into CDU buy Kohl who was bragging about her as a "trophee". Merkel being like many a totally cold-blooded animal, she made career inside CDU because this looked promising, DDR being now shut down, if DDR had been kept going maybe she would have ended as president of Staatsrat or first secretary of SED.
Putin in Russia is a former communist in case you didn't know but Russia is a fine case of successful market economy.
the original meaning of the Left/Right difference was just about that: economy and social fairness in wages and social services. This is exactly what Marxism, in the texts of Engels and Marx, is about. You like or dislike, but this is what it is. These works were written at the time Engels and Marx were witnessing the harsh life conditions of proletariat in UK. Das Kapital is a huge work full of economic, industrial figures of the time and statistics, and was critic of Ricardo policies.
Btw, nor Marx nor Engels did actually prone a given political regime.
As a political analysis of the industrial economy of the 19th. c. Marxism is just facts-based and pertinent. It was not any Marxism policy that caused the living conditions of working class depicted for instance by Dickens.
Political regimes, states, that claimed to be inspired from Marx, were just making their own interpretation. It is similar to the way New Testament has been interpreted in different ways at different places: Middle-Eastern and Byzantine cradle, West-European Catholicism, Northern-European Lutheranism, American Calvinist sects.
From the 90's on, some European elites inside the Socialist parties, have progressively removed the economic-social core concern, and replaced it with so-called "Societal" topics. Topics like gender stuff, ecology stuff, moral stuff. These are the topics that have been progressively propagated as being "progressive", so to keep economic matters untouched. The ruling oligarchy don't want people to go protest in the streets about loans, retirement pensions, etc. This is a PITA for oligarchies. Instead people protesting in the streets for gay marriage, gender stuff, climate stuff, and whatnot that doesn't affect the big bank and Wall Street, is more than welcome. it keeps the natural teenager and post-teenager common protest spirit busy, but not about the big money.
AfD grew strong in ex-DDR, ie. among Ossis because they were expecting economic policies that would stop the social dumping and poverty induced on them by the way reunification was conducted.
Reunification was done in a way that killed a lot of industrial employment and caused unemployment reaching at times near 20%.
Some assets were plundered by Wessi groups. This was a small "shock therapy" policy, not as harsh as the one operated in Russia, yet noticeable.
Here in Norway vast majority of German immigration around early 2000's were Ossis, many who had moved from Ost to West in Germany but were still facing issues and then from 2003 the effects of Hartz mesures.
Thank you for the lengthy post! Much to absorb. Lots of interesting history and even more morphing and remaking of these movements both political and philosophical in the Anglospheres we could talk about. I may ask more questions if you in a while if that’s ok. Btw… some say Merkel was groomed and schooled for her job from a young age, much like Bill and Hill Clinton. 👋🏿
I don’t think this is communism. This is exactly the other side of the coin. The other parties as happens in so many of these situations have become that which they hate the most.
It's not communism. Communism in the former Soviet Union was, from the time of Stalin onwards, pro-heterosexual and anti transgender. People who knew Stalin, such as Khrushchev, suggested he long harboured negative sentiments toward Jews.
The Nazis, who disapproved of marriage between Aryans and Sri-Lankans, and who, like the Commuinsts, were pro-heterosexual and anti-transgender, would have rounded up the AfD and imprisoned them for leftism.
It is a joke that the AfD, although the best that Germany has, is considered "right wing."
By the standards of many foreigners, AfD is woke on steroids.
Indeed. Many miss these things. Such are the times we live in. People are so crazed by the insanity of the political and media classes they will grasp anything, including parties who will not conserve very much once they gin power.
AI: In Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Mr. Bucket is a fictional character who serves as a detective, particularly known for his methodical and observant approach to solving crimes. He's often portrayed as a skilled investigator who patiently gathers clues and uses his abilities to uncover the truth. (he might well have had a wife Franz!)
"Raed Saleh, an extremely obnoxious Jordanian-German"
He is either a German with an odd name for a German man, or an Arab from Jordania, holding German citizenship and privileges.
Don't adopt the American delusion of calling people hyphen-nationality, it only works with Americans since they aren't a Volk, but citizens of a Republic consisting of many different ethnicities; the American delusion is a weapon used against European peoples and European-descended peoples/nationalities to deprive them of their uniqueness and their own character, turning being Greek or Italian or whatever into just some commodified set of surface-level geegaws rather than the Kultur the name of a nationality embodies.
West Bank residents were issued a special type of Jordanian passport until at least 1993 when the Palestinian Authority started issuing its own passports. Jordan (then called Transjordan) had annexed the "West Bank" in 1948.
Oh, that’s a relief! Not. The Jordanians are largely sane. They’ve listed the Muslim Brotherhood and any of its tentacles-Hamas,Hezbollah,Houthis,Palestinian Jihad,Al Qaeda,Al Shabab,+ as Terrorist Entities and banned any and all affiliation as treason , punishable in the most extreme measures. Jordan has its own horrific history with the Palestinians , who showed gratitude for Jordan’s hospitality by going on a murder spree and attempting to overthrow the monarchy/government. Which resulted in Jordan seeking military aid from Turkey and took out 27,000 Palestinians in under a week.
Jordan has honored its peace treaty with Israel for decades. Whatever their feelings toward Israel and Jews, they aren’t psychotic ,savage ideologically driven death cultists.
Jordan was brutalized by ISIS. Obama, EU, the Pope turned a blind eye and the Pope , when the Christians begged for help, to arm themselves, Pope Francis made a statement from his balcony-“ Christians do not need guns”. Which the German, French,UK, Belgian, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, EU caliphates are all in with.
Seems to me that you have it backwards. Theoretically, all American citizens are exactly that...American. Ethnic labels are attached to the word America to show what sort of American they are. However I can move to France or Germany as a young person, live my life there and get citizenship..... but I will not be French. No need to attach a helpful label. It is sufficient to say....I am not French however I am a French citizen, that is all that matters. ditto for most other European countries. I can get Irish citizenship but won't suddenly become Irish.
In contrast, in America if I have been there for a few years and got my citizenship I am as American as the next person including the one whose family has been there for a couple of centuries. Of course, some American individuals will personally dispute this, but there is always someone to dispute anything. But American society as a whole says....yep, he's an American, got his citizenship papers to prove it.
That is surely why it will now balkanize. The melting pot seemed to work because it was largely limited to Europeans, for whom Americanization ultimately worked, even if it took a few generations. My own favourite example is the author Charles Bukowski; he was born in Germany and his birth name is Heinrich Karl Bukowski, but he is as American as they come.
The problem is it doesn't work so well with other ethnic groups. Here in Britain we have some third gen immigrants speaking to their children in a foreign language, naming them with foreign names, with absolutely nothing British about them. They reject it all and vocally.
Most of the world is like this, as America is now finding out. The congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, does not consider herself American, doesn't like America, and will never assimilate in any sense we would recognize. Her fellow Somailis are the same; just one example. This will probably sink most Western nations in the end.
Alas Americans are famously naive about this. The world is quite literally nothing like Europe or America. It is primitive, tribal and brutal. Having a piece of paper saying you are American means nothing. Just ask the Hispanics.
As noted above, centuries of immigration from places very similar to the US created a false sense anyone can assimilate. This is catastrophically wrong.
The best example are Italians, whom Americans remain ignorant of. Of all the Italians who came to America 70 percent went back home because they couldn't cope with a Northern European culture. The 30 percent who stayed could. No welfare in those days. This was a natural filtering process we now overlook. Even a century ago not everyone was cut out to become an American. Those who made it were not the norm.
Alas they will learn the hard way. Ilhan Omar is a tame example.
Hyphenated-American is originally a term used to disparage immigrants to America who will not give up their old heritage and become Americans; the meaning is and was that one is either an American, full stop no matter origin or one is not an American at all.
This was because of the inevitable question: "Where is that persons loyalty in times of strife or conflict? With their fellow Americans of all origins, or with their racial group of origin?"
After WW2 when the idea of the "melting pot"-fallacy became accepted and the norm, hyphanted-American instead started to become a point of pride among some racial/cultural groups in the USA. Much to the amusement of their parent ethnicities in Europe who did not see them as [insert ethnicity here] but as Americans of European descent.
It may seem silly to some but there's a very real distinction between being a citizen of a republic - as are all American citizens - and a member of a people and a nation, as are all Europenas and most other peoples of the world. The first, citizenship, is an act of bureaucratic fiat and nothing more; the second can only be achieved by birth and is only inherited by blood.
Theodore Roosevelt said it best in 1915 at Carnegie Hall:
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."
It was abandond this in the 1940s and 1950s the USA laid the foundation to its ongoing race problems, which are unsolvable unless the USA goes back to the idea laid out by Roosevelt.
You wrote that nationality is "only inherited by blood", then quoted Theodore Roosevelt to the contrary. I think you meant something closer to the idea that nationality is psychologically profound while citizenship is a legal status. Am I right?
Even if I was to move to Japan, I would never be Japanese, nor would my children.
It is, literally, in the blood.
The current problems with cultural identity and such abominations such as African-German and such comes from borrowing the American way of thinking and interposing it on European peoples.
American is not tied to how you look, or your faith or your ethnicity - it is a citizenship and the embrace of the values and principles set forth in the documents the USA was founded on, and what has grown from those documents.
Swedish, there's only one way of becoming: birth. Swedish citizen is not the same as being a Swede.
Baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie. American football. American English. After the Revolutionary War, some Tories moved back to England and found that they didn't fit in. American blacks didn't belong in African societies in the decades after the Civil War.
Gotcha. I appreciate the effort and time you took. I realize now that my both 1st and 2nd generation Italian, Mexican, and Chinese friends refer to themselves this way and it is not considered a disparity or slight but more a recognition of carry through of culture and sometimes to explain poor English skills. By the 3rd Gen it is dropped in favor of the mere description of family heritage.
Wholeheartedly agree. Either one is American or not. Cultural heritage should not co-opt or supersede citizenship. My great grandparents emigrated from Russia and Italy. They became Americans. Proud Americans. Doesn’t mean they no longer listened to Tchaikovsky, Chopin, eschewed Tolstoy, Pasternak, disdained Faberge’ or replaced Puttanesca sauce with canned gravy , etc. They came to America for a better life. They worked their asses off and were so grateful for the opportunity America offered. There were no handouts, special treatment… didn’t matter.
Many Italians emigrating to America famously refused to speak to their children in Italian such was their desire for them to become American. They also chose non-Italian names for the same reason; lots of Roberts and Jameses etc.
Saleh himself apparently claims to be of "Arab" descent.
Woke Westerners would, of course, never dream of challenging the self-serving "identification" of any non-Westerner, but the fact is that speaking Arabic does not make one an Arab in the eyes of actual "Arabs" from the Arabian Peninsula.
Egyptians, Tunisians, Moroccans etc. speak versions of Arabic but do not regard themselves as "Arabs" in an ethnic sense, and generally do not look like peninsular Arabs.
Interesting question: would Europeans shy away from challenging a Greek's claim to be a Spaniard? What about a French-speaking Belgian claiming he is French?
French-speaking Belgian calling him/herself French you'd have to ask either a Frenchman or a Belgian - I'm neither, and from my Northern horizon they blend together.
Same as I imagine they'd have trouble telling a Swede, a Norwegian and a Finn apart by looking at us.
As for Arabs, I don't care. "Mongrel", or possibly "miscgenated mongrel", fits the bill nicely for such.
The children learned quickly. The parents/parent worked their asses off. My mother ‘would tell me stories about her Russian grandmother , mimicking her,that had me in stitches. She was so stern and her broken English and thick Russian accent made the stories even more hilarious.
My maternal grandfather’s parents emigrated from Russia when he was 2 years old. He was nearly fanatical in his “ American Patriotism”. Imagine a Jewish man with barely enough money to make ends meet , who with his wife raised two children in a one bedroom Brooklyn apartment and would not tolerate a scintilla of any sort of accent. He and my grandmother moved to South Florida in 1960, took a gamble and purchased a home, pre-construction in Hollywood. It paid off… and it wasn’t, thank God, Miami Beach.. you know, “ those people” with the Brooklyn accent. 😂
The 'AfD = Hitler / Evil / Nazi' meme is an example of an unfalsifiable belief. Its most enthusiastic adherents START with the belief, and then fill in the picture afterwards (or they just believe it anyway, in the complete absence of evidence or logic). The AfD MUST be evil, because they believe it to be. I've communicated with journalists who cite solely one poorly contextualized line from a political speech or a reference on a website, in support of their theses, and they almost become exasperated that people would demand EVIDENCE from them. Of course it's true, damnit! They believe it! They KNOW it... except they don't. They know very little (frankly, we all do).
The crazy thing is how MANY political ideas take this form these days. People will bob and weave and reframe and carefully use radically different standards for evaluating opponents / allies. It's all fervent belief in the absence of real understanding, reinforced by a massive dose of confirmation bias.
It is in fact pretty common. It was Jung who stated, thinking is hard, that's why most people judge.
Thinking IS hard, harder than complying with one's peers which often brings immediate rewards.
AfD's real sin is they make it difficult for the insufferable university graduate midwits to feel superior, partly because they have to resort to thinking and not casual judging. An unforgivable state of affairs for today's sophisticates.
High praise from Franz Kafka. 🤓 I have become a fan of Jung and believe his core tenets will prevail. I see a lot of sense in his ideas, especially Shadow work.
Substack does seem to be holding the line for now too. We do need somewhere to go to read actual content.
Very similar to what happened during COVID. Lots of unfalsifiable beliefs that the German government (and many others) learned how to use during that time.
Being deplorable in the Clintonian way means stupid, low bred, and dirty. Unclean like you’ve just mucked cow dung, or greasy because you were in the dirt and heat working on the tractor with your chewing gum, hillbilly music, and patriotic platitudes blaring loudly.
Every day the AfD and other populist parties around Europe do a sterling service to expose the Establishment as nothing like the Machiavellian uberthinkers we are told to fear. They are inept inheritors of first world nations they have no idea how to maintain. This becomes obvious more and more each day. Long may it continue.
Still, it appears AfD has a hard ceiling that is less than 30% of the electorate. If the last five years haven't been enough for the German Michales to decide otherwise then they are beyond hope.
Yes they are, which is where real life comes in. At this stage for most European nations we are witnessing a cosmic test. Many will not make it. They are too mentally weak. They will be destroyed by what comes next.
The numbers roughly correspond with the Covid numbers. About a fifth to a quarter have a fighting chance. The rest are being carried, for now.
I think the UK has managed, with Prime Minister Mr Starmer KC, to be the most stupid state of all.
This week Prime Minister Mr Starmer KC gave 12 years of fishing rights when the EU27 wanted 4 years, and joined the EU27 carbon credit trading scam with no voting rights at all. This adds tax to our already world-beating high energy cost. There is more but....
The same week the very same Libtard gave away our land to a random government (Mauritius) and propose to rent some of the land we gave away for 99 years at a cost of £30 billion, plus expenses, plus inflation. Oh, and we get to tell Mauritius about secret military things - Mauritius signed agreements with China and Russia.
Honestly, is there a more stupid political leadership in the world?
AfD may not be perfect, but the opposition to the present 'norm' is alive and Germany is ready for greatness - something the present political parties can not deliver.
I am not a physiognomist but Sir Queer Stormtruper's face defies both caricature and satire. Come to think of it, from Schmerz, to Pustula van der Lyen, to Kaja Callous to Manny Micron on to Trudeau, Dr Meat (Carney the Wanker-Banker) all the way to King Charles who is about to read the Riot Act to Canadians, they all look like that
I hasten to add that in no way whatsoever do I mean that in a literal sense - I only hope that insofar as it relates to his career.
It's sad that I have to qualify my above hope in this manner but I am conscious of the fact that "freedom of speech" exists in the UK with the threat of imprisonment forever hovering.
QUOTE: I think the UK has managed, with Prime Minister Mr Starmer KC, to be the most stupid state of all.
This week Prime Minister Mr Starmer KC gave 12 years of fishing rights when the EU27 wanted 4 years, and joined the EU27 carbon credit trading scam with no voting rights at all. This adds tax to our already world-beating high energy cost. There is more but....
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It's almost as if Sir Queir, patron saint of Ukrainian rent boys, answers to a higher power than Parliament and His Majesty King Chuck. Remember the Stormer was one of the chief prosecutors who ensured that the vile Jimmy Sa got to skate on countless rape claims for decades.
Let’s hope that the people can embarrass the next powers that be to undo Starmer’s destruction forthwith. Maybe he can he found to have been kompromat.
I cannot imagine a power lower than King Chuck, can you? Over here, his representative (GG Simon) does not realize that he is the king of Canada and readily signs any piece of paper stuffed under her nose by the PM (Wanker-Banker; this epithet is going to spread); more likely an aide does this for her using an auto-pen.
I was thinking about Ernst Junger just before I got to his name in the succeeding paragraph. It really seems to be true that only people who've survived the most monstrous experiences of war with their minds uncrushed have any complete understanding of political realities and what nationhood means.
Next of course will be those who've survived a system like Communist East Germany with their integrity intact or wounded but still precious enough to them to be willing to vote according to their best judgment instead of being frightened away by the badnaming hurled by their adversaries.
I sure hope I live long enough with my brains intact to see what the world looks like a few decades from now.
"...avoid 'giving voters the impression that the CDU is aiming to eliminate a rival party' – which is of course exactly what the CDU was hoping to do until the BfV fucked everything up with their retarded 1,108-page collection of dyspeptic Facebook-grade political takes."
Priceless. Best take I've read in a long time - bravo, eugyppius!
I haven't been a subscriber for too long, maybe a year, but I think this is the best article I've read of all time. Great humor and great analysis. Thank you, eugyppius.
oh gosh. the whole world is going mental. US and Germany and UK are really vying for the top spot. We never had this kind of divisive and derisive environment before Oblamer. He was the worst. Our country has turned into a bunch of angry mentally damaged people. It is annoying.
It does not matter what the discussion is about, there are people that will have a seizure because you believe something.
I have a very dear old friend, she is black. We knew each other when our kids were little and we never had problems disagreeing or diminishing or scolding.
I took the time last year to find her.. we had both moved from the neighborhood. It turns out, now she is a virulent Trump hater, She said he is a Nazi.
She also claimed that white people are free and black people have never been free - never!!
This discussion was all done by text. I told her that my parents lived in the Netherlands and endured a world war that was life altering and devastating. Recovery and going on with your life, no matter who you are, is a challenge and requires courage. We are the children of those survivors and we were sometimes reminded by the trauma. I have to admit, both of my parents endured a lot in WW2 but they really moved on quite well despite those traumatic years.
Now, Slavery is the white mans fault and USAs fault. There never were slaves until USA started having slaves (she believes this)
Also, now that US has taken in 45 refugees from Aouth Africa, Trump is a racist horrible monster.
I finally did have some snark, after long patience, and said that if there had not been slavery, SHE AND HER FAMILY WOULD NOT BE HERE Where would they be?
I do not understand the serious mental abuse these people inflict on themselves.
I am supposed to be ashamed. They feel the need to keep looking back and finding horrible people to blame for why they are living in such petty ridiculing, condemnation of past harms.
Wow. Sometimes it does not make sense.
I do not feel things are improving anywhere, there is still so much anger.
A lot of my friends who hate Trump were unhappy before he came along. They took out a lot of anger against Bush first, and then Trump. Or they tend to be unable to resolve on-going situations that keep them trapped, don't even try. It's not a question of whether they succeed or not. It's they don't even realize they need to try to get out. It's a type of "abuse" and they heap it on themselves. Just an observation.
As the West sinks further into decadence I sometimes think we need a really cataclysmic event to happen in order to jolt us back into realising that it is the fundamental things in life which really matter. We've all had it too easy. We have everything and take it for granted that things will forever be thus which makes it so easy for us to sit in judgment of others.
For example, in the UK we have the likes of Johnson (he who has done so much to end so many lives in Russia/Ukraine) advocating sending NATO troops into Ukraine in order to defeat Putin. He believes and encourages others to believe that Putin is bluffing re the threat of nuclear war.
Maybe it would be a much needed wake up call for the West were just a "small" tactical nuclear bomb to go off.
"I guess this is because they are really, really stupid. I can’t think of any other reason." I'm asking me the same question often; the only answer I can come up with is that the parties will at some point pay the price (retaliation), but the party leaders of the day won't. For those holding office today it pays and will get them going over the next few years, enough to secure their pensions. For their successors – not so much, I think. Short term gains, long term losses.
But emphasise that the gains are personal, the costs national or societal.
For a current example, see Jasmeet Singh in Canada, who supported Justin Trudeau until his pension vested, decimated the NDP which he inherited, and paved the way for the "Wanker-Banker." (Acknowledgement to Franz Kafka above!)
I'm pretty unsophisticated, and it seems pretty obvious even to me that repression tactics will only increase the rise of populism, as the people start to notice and get more and more frustrated.
'the insults and the foul plays to grow, while the evil fascist Nazi Hitler party is the only glue holding the cartel parties together. A lot of potential energy has accumulated in this profoundly stupid system and I have no idea what will happen when it is released...'
There might be a clue in the way the U.S. Democratic Party is starting to fall apart after years of counting on "Because Trump" to cement their base.
To the humble citizen, the solution seems really simple: propose and implement policies that actually do some good for the people. Yet this never seems to occur to our governing elites.
In spite of my late father having countless bad experiences fighting Germany in WW2, he never showed any bitterness, quite the opposite in fact. He was massively impressed with German competence, organisation, military tactics, machines etc etc, so much so I acquired the middle name of a German General. I was brought up respecting all that was good about the German people, and to forget the nastiness of a few. So now I am absolutely dismayed at the sheer stupidity of the German Marxist Idiot Left, doing their best to screw their own country and their own people, all for their Communist ideal. What is it with Communism that so rots the human brain that they cannot think through really simple things? It is so sad to see the greatness of the German people poisoned by Leftism, like a cancer of the brain. AfD, PLEASE SAVE GERMANY! And also Europe!
I think with communism it is the other way around. The already broken are drawn to utopian schemes to control the world. They have the answers to humanity's problems. This is what animates the WEF just as much as German politicians. The useless have to do something with their time, so politics always beckons.
As a spaceman, your opinion is very well earthed !!!
That's because I am spiffing.
Is Hobbs along with you?
Spiff has no sidekick 😎
Nice Calvin and Hobbs ref. Good work mate
Just try to avoid it on Mondays ... 🤣🤣🤣
It's both. Possibly both plus at least a third, and likely more.
Communism *genuinely* appeals to people living under feudalism, which is why it keeps coming up in South America. Even as a *dedicated anticommunist* I can *understand* why it appeals to the peasantry, which is why one of the best methods for defeating communism is to turn all the peasants into kulaks, and yes, quite likely destroy the "landed gentry".
The UK springs to mind, as far as "western civ" goes, though the US is trying real hard to catch up, even without actual titles of nobility.
The second group it appeals to are the midwit intellectuals, who can think far enough ahead to get to "it would be gooderer if people were treated more equalerer" but are incapable of thinking through second or third order effects.
The third group of people it appeals to are the folks who look at it and go "That's an excellent mechanism for enslaving a bunch of people while telling them it's for their own good" and are actually immoral enough to pursue it.
I would say that "the useless" you refer to mostly fall into category two. Some of them are in category three, but are also likely what Stalin called "useful idiots" who would be purged in the actual revolution. *Very* few of them will be category three, and *also* hard enough psychotics to rape eleven year olds in front of their parents, before executing said parents, and thus suitable for actual communist cadre.
Of course, it should also be noted that since they're "only" fucking eleven year olds, they're *still* better than the Muslim sine qua non.
Warmek, fyi… Breaking: FDA expands warning label for Coof jabs to warn of heart risk.
Just sharing.
*sigh*
I *fully* admit that I *really* misfired previously.
As far as that goes, well, if I haven't died yet, I'm just not going to worry about it for now. I have bigger issues, as designed. :-/
No worries. I only brought it up because the irony of FDA finally bringing it to light formally 5 years later. Maybe this is better late than never from them? Only due to RFK I suppose.
You might want to learn about US law before speaking about it. The UCMJ is the set of laws that govern the conduct of our military personnel, and outside of very limited circumstances, it has absolutely no application to anyone else in the US.
And our federal government - in theory a government of limited authority - is not generally responsible for creating laws about matters such as statutory rape. Issues such as that are generally left to the states, which exercise broad "police powers" to regulate the conduct of their citizens.
I think you may have responded to the wrong comment.
Nailed it in one. My bad. That was intended for the gentleman prattling on about the UCMJ.
Fucking 11 year olds, or any minor, is depraved. In the US, where child marriage is legal in 80% of states, it is legal to sodomize males and females or have vaginally sex with females, from the age of 12 years old. 11 years old is too young, even by American standards, so Americans can feel superior that they are not fucking 11 year olds, only 12 year old. Further, to be permitted to fuck 12 year olds, the pedo has to be ready to participate in neocon wars and must marry the victim before sodomizing him or her.. (The legislation that Americans introduced to make it lawful for them to fuck 12 year old is Article 120b of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (10 U.S.C. § 920b). Americans will not repeal this law and would engage in jihad to preserve it.)
Article 120b Rape and Sexual Assault of a Child includes the following elements: rape, sexual assault, or physical abuse or threats to abuse a child under the age of 16 years old. Persons suspected of these elements could face charges under Article 120b of the UCMJ.
https://www.ucmjlaw.com/courts-martial/military-crimes/ucmj-article-120b-rape-and-sexual-assault-of-a-child/#:~:text=Article%20120b%20Rape%20and%20Sexual%20Assault%20of%20a%20Child%20includes,Article%20120b%20of%20the%20UCMJ.
"could face charges"
However, as in medieval Muslim countries, in the US, which is similar to medieval Muslim countries in this regard, and dissimilat to other Western developed nations, which in contrast to the US prohibit sexual relations between pedos and children in ALL circumstances, it is considered that a 12 year old, has the capacity to consent.
The circumstances in which it is held by the US that the child has the capacity to consent are when the pedo is a serving member of the USMIL and the child is married to the pedo.
For it to be legal, the molestation of the child by the pedo also must take place within the US.
"Could face charges" means they have to be found guilty. You make claims without support and claim that it is normal for the US military. Yet you could take 2 minutes and a search engine to debunk yourself.
You sound like someone from Reddit
Here are examples of Soldiers going to jail for what you say is OK in the military?
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/01/19/soldier-sentenced-to-42-years-in-prison-for-multiple-sexual-assaults/
https://www.bryancountynews.com/news/public-safety/june-courts-martial-four-fort-stewart-soldiers-convicted-of-sexual-abuse-of-children/
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2023-11-21/okinawa-marines-sex-scheme-minors-12132078.html
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-corps-child-sex-abuse/
While I accept that there are legal limits allowing child marriage in the majority of US states, I believe that most of them have *range* limits as well. It's significantly less abhorrent for a 19 year old to be having sex with a 17 year old, than a 49 year old to be having sex with a 17 year old. And so far as I'm aware, the lowest age of consent for sexual congress outside of marriage in any US state is 16 years old. That said, I am speaking *entirely* of state law, as opposed to federal law.
Which, yes, in the event of significant age gaps, is still an issue. That said, given that *I* was a minor -- having sex with someone who was *also* a minor -- for my first several sexual experiences, I would consider it hypocritical for me to rail against the idea of a 15 year old (myself) having sex with a 17 year old (my partner at the time). Teenagers **highly likely** to fuck, yo. Those actions already come with biological consequences for the unwary, and as such I see little need to impose *legal* consequences on top of them.
Your situation is very different to that of strict constitutionalists and others in the US who use their US constitutional "right to sodomize" (SCOTUS: Lawrence v Texas, 2004) in conjunction with 10 U.S.C. § 920b in order to sodomize 12 year old. No other Western nation has, or wants, laws or constitutional "rights" such as these.
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Each state in the U.S. has its own set of statutes in this regard. The highest determining age of consent is eighteen. Thirty states set it at sixteen. Arkansas has the lowest at fifteen.
As for the age of marriage which is a completely different thing, many if not most states do not have a statutory limiting effect. Below the age of consent, the age of marriage is bound by parental consent and or judicial approval. I am certain there is no federal legislation on this matter at all.
Please don't waste my time citing Supreme Court rulings about one case in one set of circumstances with a complex judgement thirty pages long that leads me to a different conclusion as to the implications than the one you have drawn. The laws are on the books of each individual state both for the age of consent and for the age of marriage, for all to see. Not only are they enforced but are sometimes spectacularly enforced.
Not only are there criminal and civil liability laws in place which the o.p. denies but these are even extended beyond the age of consent. In the U.S. chronological afe is not the sole determinant factor. Even seemingly consenting adults can run afoul of the law if there is a perceived power imbalance.
Anyone not from the U.S. should ignore these posts about twelve year olds routinely, legally having anal sex with adults, and also the supposed military code of justice language. Anyone who lives in the U.S. will already have done so.
The great Thomas Sowell makes your point in his book, "A Conflict of Visions" that the Commie rarely will speak of what happens after they take power, and focuses on how evil the other side is.
"They believe there is an ideal solution to every problem, and that compromise is never acceptable. Collateral damage is merely the price of moving forward on the road to perfection. Sowell often refers to them as "the self anointed." Ultimately they believe that man is morally perfectible. Because of this, they believe that there exist some people who are further along the path of moral development, have overcome self-interest and are immune to the influence of power and therefore can act as surrogate decision-makers for the rest of society."
It has been a few years since I last read it. A great book. He was certainly familiar with the type as the universities are full of them. Absolutely lost to their mental visions. I believe many of them are mentally ill.
QUOTE: ... the sheer stupidity of the German Marxist Idiot Left ...
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Beg to differ. Their "sheer stupidity" has put them in control of one of Europe's most important countries. Very similar developments in a number of other countries.
WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?
Looking back from where we are now, a more fruitful line of investigation may be this:
We now know that the erstwhile Left and camouflage-"Greens" have successfully infiltrated and co-opted the major political parties.
Looking back, WHAT DOES THEIR SUCCESS tell you about WHO THEY ALWAYS WERE? About what their REAL AGENDA was all along? About their powerful but hidden backers across the water, going back to their very beginnings?
Ai Ai Ai, not A I:
Dickens tried all his life to enlighten England, Europe and the world. He thought it had all been a waste of time after visiting Canada where he found the most backwards, reprobate Scrooges and Uriah Heeps imaginable. He despaired. Bleak house is seriously anti-establishment and attacking the judiciary is not something to be taken lightly. They are in most ways the worst of the worst.
Strangely or not, Russians consider Dickens one of their favorite authors and an honorary Russian.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TBK-Qt8edxM
You may like this. 👆🏿
Dickens made his money by the word which is why he was so descriptive.😂
I still return to his paragraph in which "Dead as a Doornail" is rightly taken as inferior to "Dead as a Coffin-nail."
(This was well before Monty Python's demonstration.)
>"So now I am absolutely dismayed at the sheer stupidity of the German Marxist Idiot Left"
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there is no significant Marxism in Germany since long. This is not about "left" or "right" in their original meaning of the 19th c. ie. related proletariat. It is about trans-national oligarchic projects.
Btw. as for stupidity, it was the German oligarchy in the 1930's that caused the destruction of Germany with loss of Baltic realms that were German since the 13th c. And for ever. And their heirs are still at work....
de Linke, the remnant commie party polls less than 5% but I doubt even they bring up the “M” word.
Linke is not Communist, not even anymore Socialist anymore.
The difference Conmunism/Socialism is btw typically blurred since ever in Anglosphere. The other name for Socialism is Social-democracy.
Some confusion also because Communist regimes kept using the Socialist naming. The current party that retains Social-democracy is BSW.
The fact that Linke was born as an adaptation to Germany of former DDR communists is obvious and means nothing in itself, because these were just politicians re-centering their political career inside the new framework. Exactly what Merkel did, as she started a career as young apparatchik inside DDR, but was recruited into CDU buy Kohl who was bragging about her as a "trophee". Merkel being like many a totally cold-blooded animal, she made career inside CDU because this looked promising, DDR being now shut down, if DDR had been kept going maybe she would have ended as president of Staatsrat or first secretary of SED.
Putin in Russia is a former communist in case you didn't know but Russia is a fine case of successful market economy.
the original meaning of the Left/Right difference was just about that: economy and social fairness in wages and social services. This is exactly what Marxism, in the texts of Engels and Marx, is about. You like or dislike, but this is what it is. These works were written at the time Engels and Marx were witnessing the harsh life conditions of proletariat in UK. Das Kapital is a huge work full of economic, industrial figures of the time and statistics, and was critic of Ricardo policies.
Btw, nor Marx nor Engels did actually prone a given political regime.
As a political analysis of the industrial economy of the 19th. c. Marxism is just facts-based and pertinent. It was not any Marxism policy that caused the living conditions of working class depicted for instance by Dickens.
Political regimes, states, that claimed to be inspired from Marx, were just making their own interpretation. It is similar to the way New Testament has been interpreted in different ways at different places: Middle-Eastern and Byzantine cradle, West-European Catholicism, Northern-European Lutheranism, American Calvinist sects.
From the 90's on, some European elites inside the Socialist parties, have progressively removed the economic-social core concern, and replaced it with so-called "Societal" topics. Topics like gender stuff, ecology stuff, moral stuff. These are the topics that have been progressively propagated as being "progressive", so to keep economic matters untouched. The ruling oligarchy don't want people to go protest in the streets about loans, retirement pensions, etc. This is a PITA for oligarchies. Instead people protesting in the streets for gay marriage, gender stuff, climate stuff, and whatnot that doesn't affect the big bank and Wall Street, is more than welcome. it keeps the natural teenager and post-teenager common protest spirit busy, but not about the big money.
AfD grew strong in ex-DDR, ie. among Ossis because they were expecting economic policies that would stop the social dumping and poverty induced on them by the way reunification was conducted.
Reunification was done in a way that killed a lot of industrial employment and caused unemployment reaching at times near 20%.
Some assets were plundered by Wessi groups. This was a small "shock therapy" policy, not as harsh as the one operated in Russia, yet noticeable.
Here in Norway vast majority of German immigration around early 2000's were Ossis, many who had moved from Ost to West in Germany but were still facing issues and then from 2003 the effects of Hartz mesures.
AfD wants to relaunch trade with Russia at least on energy, but Merz wants a permanent cut: https://www-ft-com.ezphost.dur.ac.uk/content/3fcbf8b2-9796-4695-987c-9ba875abe5d4
So you see one of the point where German ruling elite wants to keep AfD out.
Thank you for the lengthy post! Much to absorb. Lots of interesting history and even more morphing and remaking of these movements both political and philosophical in the Anglospheres we could talk about. I may ask more questions if you in a while if that’s ok. Btw… some say Merkel was groomed and schooled for her job from a young age, much like Bill and Hill Clinton. 👋🏿
I don’t think this is communism. This is exactly the other side of the coin. The other parties as happens in so many of these situations have become that which they hate the most.
It's not communism. Communism in the former Soviet Union was, from the time of Stalin onwards, pro-heterosexual and anti transgender. People who knew Stalin, such as Khrushchev, suggested he long harboured negative sentiments toward Jews.
The Nazis, who disapproved of marriage between Aryans and Sri-Lankans, and who, like the Commuinsts, were pro-heterosexual and anti-transgender, would have rounded up the AfD and imprisoned them for leftism.
It is a joke that the AfD, although the best that Germany has, is considered "right wing."
By the standards of many foreigners, AfD is woke on steroids.
Indeed. Many miss these things. Such are the times we live in. People are so crazed by the insanity of the political and media classes they will grasp anything, including parties who will not conserve very much once they gin power.
Mrs Bouquet!?
AI: In Charles Dickens's Bleak House, Mr. Bucket is a fictional character who serves as a detective, particularly known for his methodical and observant approach to solving crimes. He's often portrayed as a skilled investigator who patiently gathers clues and uses his abilities to uncover the truth. (he might well have had a wife Franz!)
I don’t know, but I regularly refer to Kamala Harris as, “The Artful Dodger.” LOL
Let's keep up appearances.
I have always wondered what MILF stood for. Now I know: Marxist Idiot Left Faction. Thank you for clarifying that for me.
Pardon me if you already know, but "MILF" in American English is almost always used to denote a sexually very attractive woman.
Your name is Mrs. Paulus Bucket?
Could that be where Bucket List comes from?
Your middle name is von Manstein?
"Raed Saleh, an extremely obnoxious Jordanian-German"
He is either a German with an odd name for a German man, or an Arab from Jordania, holding German citizenship and privileges.
Don't adopt the American delusion of calling people hyphen-nationality, it only works with Americans since they aren't a Volk, but citizens of a Republic consisting of many different ethnicities; the American delusion is a weapon used against European peoples and European-descended peoples/nationalities to deprive them of their uniqueness and their own character, turning being Greek or Italian or whatever into just some commodified set of surface-level geegaws rather than the Kultur the name of a nationality embodies.
it's my mistake anyway, he's not Jordanian, rather from the West Bank, not sure where that error came from.
West Bank residents were issued a special type of Jordanian passport until at least 1993 when the Palestinian Authority started issuing its own passports. Jordan (then called Transjordan) had annexed the "West Bank" in 1948.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Authority_passport
Who needs Wiki!? Wiki should be citing you as corroboration, not you it.
Don't worry, seen from Emden, the distance is almost the same ... 🤣🤣🤣
Oh, that’s a relief! Not. The Jordanians are largely sane. They’ve listed the Muslim Brotherhood and any of its tentacles-Hamas,Hezbollah,Houthis,Palestinian Jihad,Al Qaeda,Al Shabab,+ as Terrorist Entities and banned any and all affiliation as treason , punishable in the most extreme measures. Jordan has its own horrific history with the Palestinians , who showed gratitude for Jordan’s hospitality by going on a murder spree and attempting to overthrow the monarchy/government. Which resulted in Jordan seeking military aid from Turkey and took out 27,000 Palestinians in under a week.
Jordan has honored its peace treaty with Israel for decades. Whatever their feelings toward Israel and Jews, they aren’t psychotic ,savage ideologically driven death cultists.
Jordan was brutalized by ISIS. Obama, EU, the Pope turned a blind eye and the Pope , when the Christians begged for help, to arm themselves, Pope Francis made a statement from his balcony-“ Christians do not need guns”. Which the German, French,UK, Belgian, Irish, Welsh, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, EU caliphates are all in with.
Seems to me that you have it backwards. Theoretically, all American citizens are exactly that...American. Ethnic labels are attached to the word America to show what sort of American they are. However I can move to France or Germany as a young person, live my life there and get citizenship..... but I will not be French. No need to attach a helpful label. It is sufficient to say....I am not French however I am a French citizen, that is all that matters. ditto for most other European countries. I can get Irish citizenship but won't suddenly become Irish.
In contrast, in America if I have been there for a few years and got my citizenship I am as American as the next person including the one whose family has been there for a couple of centuries. Of course, some American individuals will personally dispute this, but there is always someone to dispute anything. But American society as a whole says....yep, he's an American, got his citizenship papers to prove it.
That is surely why it will now balkanize. The melting pot seemed to work because it was largely limited to Europeans, for whom Americanization ultimately worked, even if it took a few generations. My own favourite example is the author Charles Bukowski; he was born in Germany and his birth name is Heinrich Karl Bukowski, but he is as American as they come.
The problem is it doesn't work so well with other ethnic groups. Here in Britain we have some third gen immigrants speaking to their children in a foreign language, naming them with foreign names, with absolutely nothing British about them. They reject it all and vocally.
Most of the world is like this, as America is now finding out. The congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, does not consider herself American, doesn't like America, and will never assimilate in any sense we would recognize. Her fellow Somailis are the same; just one example. This will probably sink most Western nations in the end.
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Alas Americans are famously naive about this. The world is quite literally nothing like Europe or America. It is primitive, tribal and brutal. Having a piece of paper saying you are American means nothing. Just ask the Hispanics.
As noted above, centuries of immigration from places very similar to the US created a false sense anyone can assimilate. This is catastrophically wrong.
The best example are Italians, whom Americans remain ignorant of. Of all the Italians who came to America 70 percent went back home because they couldn't cope with a Northern European culture. The 30 percent who stayed could. No welfare in those days. This was a natural filtering process we now overlook. Even a century ago not everyone was cut out to become an American. Those who made it were not the norm.
Alas they will learn the hard way. Ilhan Omar is a tame example.
Please explain the hyphen usage by Americans. I am American but I do not recognize it. Thanks.
Hyphenated-American is originally a term used to disparage immigrants to America who will not give up their old heritage and become Americans; the meaning is and was that one is either an American, full stop no matter origin or one is not an American at all.
This was because of the inevitable question: "Where is that persons loyalty in times of strife or conflict? With their fellow Americans of all origins, or with their racial group of origin?"
After WW2 when the idea of the "melting pot"-fallacy became accepted and the norm, hyphanted-American instead started to become a point of pride among some racial/cultural groups in the USA. Much to the amusement of their parent ethnicities in Europe who did not see them as [insert ethnicity here] but as Americans of European descent.
It may seem silly to some but there's a very real distinction between being a citizen of a republic - as are all American citizens - and a member of a people and a nation, as are all Europenas and most other peoples of the world. The first, citizenship, is an act of bureaucratic fiat and nothing more; the second can only be achieved by birth and is only inherited by blood.
Theodore Roosevelt said it best in 1915 at Carnegie Hall:
"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."
It was abandond this in the 1940s and 1950s the USA laid the foundation to its ongoing race problems, which are unsolvable unless the USA goes back to the idea laid out by Roosevelt.
You wrote that nationality is "only inherited by blood", then quoted Theodore Roosevelt to the contrary. I think you meant something closer to the idea that nationality is psychologically profound while citizenship is a legal status. Am I right?
It is much deeper than psychological.
Even if I was to move to Japan, I would never be Japanese, nor would my children.
It is, literally, in the blood.
The current problems with cultural identity and such abominations such as African-German and such comes from borrowing the American way of thinking and interposing it on European peoples.
American is not tied to how you look, or your faith or your ethnicity - it is a citizenship and the embrace of the values and principles set forth in the documents the USA was founded on, and what has grown from those documents.
Swedish, there's only one way of becoming: birth. Swedish citizen is not the same as being a Swede.
Baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie. American football. American English. After the Revolutionary War, some Tories moved back to England and found that they didn't fit in. American blacks didn't belong in African societies in the decades after the Civil War.
Gotcha. I appreciate the effort and time you took. I realize now that my both 1st and 2nd generation Italian, Mexican, and Chinese friends refer to themselves this way and it is not considered a disparity or slight but more a recognition of carry through of culture and sometimes to explain poor English skills. By the 3rd Gen it is dropped in favor of the mere description of family heritage.
Wholeheartedly agree. Either one is American or not. Cultural heritage should not co-opt or supersede citizenship. My great grandparents emigrated from Russia and Italy. They became Americans. Proud Americans. Doesn’t mean they no longer listened to Tchaikovsky, Chopin, eschewed Tolstoy, Pasternak, disdained Faberge’ or replaced Puttanesca sauce with canned gravy , etc. They came to America for a better life. They worked their asses off and were so grateful for the opportunity America offered. There were no handouts, special treatment… didn’t matter.
Many Italians emigrating to America famously refused to speak to their children in Italian such was their desire for them to become American. They also chose non-Italian names for the same reason; lots of Roberts and Jameses etc.
E just called Raed Sakeg ,’an extremely obnoxious politician from the SPD.’- his Origen were not mentioned.
The post has been amended; the original read as I quoted it.
And from the name, it is obvious he is of MENA-origin and not a German.
Ok
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More precisely, former Turkish (Ottoman) Empire.
Saleh himself apparently claims to be of "Arab" descent.
Woke Westerners would, of course, never dream of challenging the self-serving "identification" of any non-Westerner, but the fact is that speaking Arabic does not make one an Arab in the eyes of actual "Arabs" from the Arabian Peninsula.
Egyptians, Tunisians, Moroccans etc. speak versions of Arabic but do not regard themselves as "Arabs" in an ethnic sense, and generally do not look like peninsular Arabs.
Interesting question: would Europeans shy away from challenging a Greek's claim to be a Spaniard? What about a French-speaking Belgian claiming he is French?
French-speaking Belgian calling him/herself French you'd have to ask either a Frenchman or a Belgian - I'm neither, and from my Northern horizon they blend together.
Same as I imagine they'd have trouble telling a Swede, a Norwegian and a Finn apart by looking at us.
As for Arabs, I don't care. "Mongrel", or possibly "miscgenated mongrel", fits the bill nicely for such.
The children learned quickly. The parents/parent worked their asses off. My mother ‘would tell me stories about her Russian grandmother , mimicking her,that had me in stitches. She was so stern and her broken English and thick Russian accent made the stories even more hilarious.
My maternal grandfather’s parents emigrated from Russia when he was 2 years old. He was nearly fanatical in his “ American Patriotism”. Imagine a Jewish man with barely enough money to make ends meet , who with his wife raised two children in a one bedroom Brooklyn apartment and would not tolerate a scintilla of any sort of accent. He and my grandmother moved to South Florida in 1960, took a gamble and purchased a home, pre-construction in Hollywood. It paid off… and it wasn’t, thank God, Miami Beach.. you know, “ those people” with the Brooklyn accent. 😂
"despite problems as basic as fire safety."
-- In the Reichstag?!?!?
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
The 'AfD = Hitler / Evil / Nazi' meme is an example of an unfalsifiable belief. Its most enthusiastic adherents START with the belief, and then fill in the picture afterwards (or they just believe it anyway, in the complete absence of evidence or logic). The AfD MUST be evil, because they believe it to be. I've communicated with journalists who cite solely one poorly contextualized line from a political speech or a reference on a website, in support of their theses, and they almost become exasperated that people would demand EVIDENCE from them. Of course it's true, damnit! They believe it! They KNOW it... except they don't. They know very little (frankly, we all do).
The crazy thing is how MANY political ideas take this form these days. People will bob and weave and reframe and carefully use radically different standards for evaluating opponents / allies. It's all fervent belief in the absence of real understanding, reinforced by a massive dose of confirmation bias.
It's pretty ridiculous.
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/unfalsifiable-belief
It is in fact pretty common. It was Jung who stated, thinking is hard, that's why most people judge.
Thinking IS hard, harder than complying with one's peers which often brings immediate rewards.
AfD's real sin is they make it difficult for the insufferable university graduate midwits to feel superior, partly because they have to resort to thinking and not casual judging. An unforgivable state of affairs for today's sophisticates.
Great quotes from the thought of Jung. Where else but on this site will find such an astonishing range of knowledge and references?
High praise from Franz Kafka. 🤓 I have become a fan of Jung and believe his core tenets will prevail. I see a lot of sense in his ideas, especially Shadow work.
Substack does seem to be holding the line for now too. We do need somewhere to go to read actual content.
Very similar to what happened during COVID. Lots of unfalsifiable beliefs that the German government (and many others) learned how to use during that time.
Morally required belief. Mental virus. Signaling virtue. You already see how the virus defends itself against normal human mental immune systems.
Have they yet referred to the citizens who supported AfD as “deplorables” or “garbage “?
They have not yet reached Clintonian levels of depravity.
Yes. They call them Nazi’s.
Which is even worse.
Being deplorable in the Clintonian way means stupid, low bred, and dirty. Unclean like you’ve just mucked cow dung, or greasy because you were in the dirt and heat working on the tractor with your chewing gum, hillbilly music, and patriotic platitudes blaring loudly.
Every day the AfD and other populist parties around Europe do a sterling service to expose the Establishment as nothing like the Machiavellian uberthinkers we are told to fear. They are inept inheritors of first world nations they have no idea how to maintain. This becomes obvious more and more each day. Long may it continue.
Still, it appears AfD has a hard ceiling that is less than 30% of the electorate. If the last five years haven't been enough for the German Michales to decide otherwise then they are beyond hope.
Yes they are, which is where real life comes in. At this stage for most European nations we are witnessing a cosmic test. Many will not make it. They are too mentally weak. They will be destroyed by what comes next.
The numbers roughly correspond with the Covid numbers. About a fifth to a quarter have a fighting chance. The rest are being carried, for now.
I think the UK has managed, with Prime Minister Mr Starmer KC, to be the most stupid state of all.
This week Prime Minister Mr Starmer KC gave 12 years of fishing rights when the EU27 wanted 4 years, and joined the EU27 carbon credit trading scam with no voting rights at all. This adds tax to our already world-beating high energy cost. There is more but....
The same week the very same Libtard gave away our land to a random government (Mauritius) and propose to rent some of the land we gave away for 99 years at a cost of £30 billion, plus expenses, plus inflation. Oh, and we get to tell Mauritius about secret military things - Mauritius signed agreements with China and Russia.
Honestly, is there a more stupid political leadership in the world?
AfD may not be perfect, but the opposition to the present 'norm' is alive and Germany is ready for greatness - something the present political parties can not deliver.
I am not a physiognomist but Sir Queer Stormtruper's face defies both caricature and satire. Come to think of it, from Schmerz, to Pustula van der Lyen, to Kaja Callous to Manny Micron on to Trudeau, Dr Meat (Carney the Wanker-Banker) all the way to King Charles who is about to read the Riot Act to Canadians, they all look like that
May I use "Wanker-Banker" in my Canadian commentary?
I am insufficiently skilled to acknowledge your reference every time, and would hate being caught out for plagiarism.
I will consider it an honor.
I was sure that I had replied with a large, and I thought witty, Yes, you may.
But now I do not see that reply here. I am flattered. Fire away!
Starmer has long resembled to me the muppet named “Beaker” who has the unfortunate role of getting repeatedly blown up.
If only....
I hasten to add that in no way whatsoever do I mean that in a literal sense - I only hope that insofar as it relates to his career.
It's sad that I have to qualify my above hope in this manner but I am conscious of the fact that "freedom of speech" exists in the UK with the threat of imprisonment forever hovering.
The 77th is never far away.
By the way, Dame M Dawes is a very modest, yet surprisingly capable, leader of Ofcom - which is an organisation which has never employed activists.
Up the 77th!!!
QUOTE: I think the UK has managed, with Prime Minister Mr Starmer KC, to be the most stupid state of all.
This week Prime Minister Mr Starmer KC gave 12 years of fishing rights when the EU27 wanted 4 years, and joined the EU27 carbon credit trading scam with no voting rights at all. This adds tax to our already world-beating high energy cost. There is more but....
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It's almost as if Sir Queir, patron saint of Ukrainian rent boys, answers to a higher power than Parliament and His Majesty King Chuck. Remember the Stormer was one of the chief prosecutors who ensured that the vile Jimmy Sa got to skate on countless rape claims for decades.
I gather the Ukrainian pretty men are queueing up to see Mr Starmer, KC.
So.... 'KC'. This means Kings Council (senior lawyer in Amer-i-caaan speak).
Or, does this mean Komplete C##t?
Let’s hope that the people can embarrass the next powers that be to undo Starmer’s destruction forthwith. Maybe he can he found to have been kompromat.
I cannot imagine a power lower than King Chuck, can you? Over here, his representative (GG Simon) does not realize that he is the king of Canada and readily signs any piece of paper stuffed under her nose by the PM (Wanker-Banker; this epithet is going to spread); more likely an aide does this for her using an auto-pen.
George Galloway's comments on Arsongate, quoting some amusing double-entendres from other sources.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9cbABULIcY
I was thinking about Ernst Junger just before I got to his name in the succeeding paragraph. It really seems to be true that only people who've survived the most monstrous experiences of war with their minds uncrushed have any complete understanding of political realities and what nationhood means.
Next of course will be those who've survived a system like Communist East Germany with their integrity intact or wounded but still precious enough to them to be willing to vote according to their best judgment instead of being frightened away by the badnaming hurled by their adversaries.
I sure hope I live long enough with my brains intact to see what the world looks like a few decades from now.
"...avoid 'giving voters the impression that the CDU is aiming to eliminate a rival party' – which is of course exactly what the CDU was hoping to do until the BfV fucked everything up with their retarded 1,108-page collection of dyspeptic Facebook-grade political takes."
Priceless. Best take I've read in a long time - bravo, eugyppius!
I haven't been a subscriber for too long, maybe a year, but I think this is the best article I've read of all time. Great humor and great analysis. Thank you, eugyppius.
There is a lot more great stuff in the archive.
oh gosh. the whole world is going mental. US and Germany and UK are really vying for the top spot. We never had this kind of divisive and derisive environment before Oblamer. He was the worst. Our country has turned into a bunch of angry mentally damaged people. It is annoying.
It does not matter what the discussion is about, there are people that will have a seizure because you believe something.
I have a very dear old friend, she is black. We knew each other when our kids were little and we never had problems disagreeing or diminishing or scolding.
I took the time last year to find her.. we had both moved from the neighborhood. It turns out, now she is a virulent Trump hater, She said he is a Nazi.
She also claimed that white people are free and black people have never been free - never!!
This discussion was all done by text. I told her that my parents lived in the Netherlands and endured a world war that was life altering and devastating. Recovery and going on with your life, no matter who you are, is a challenge and requires courage. We are the children of those survivors and we were sometimes reminded by the trauma. I have to admit, both of my parents endured a lot in WW2 but they really moved on quite well despite those traumatic years.
Now, Slavery is the white mans fault and USAs fault. There never were slaves until USA started having slaves (she believes this)
Also, now that US has taken in 45 refugees from Aouth Africa, Trump is a racist horrible monster.
I finally did have some snark, after long patience, and said that if there had not been slavery, SHE AND HER FAMILY WOULD NOT BE HERE Where would they be?
I do not understand the serious mental abuse these people inflict on themselves.
I am supposed to be ashamed. They feel the need to keep looking back and finding horrible people to blame for why they are living in such petty ridiculing, condemnation of past harms.
Wow. Sometimes it does not make sense.
I do not feel things are improving anywhere, there is still so much anger.
A lot of my friends who hate Trump were unhappy before he came along. They took out a lot of anger against Bush first, and then Trump. Or they tend to be unable to resolve on-going situations that keep them trapped, don't even try. It's not a question of whether they succeed or not. It's they don't even realize they need to try to get out. It's a type of "abuse" and they heap it on themselves. Just an observation.
agree. too much "self abuse"
As the West sinks further into decadence I sometimes think we need a really cataclysmic event to happen in order to jolt us back into realising that it is the fundamental things in life which really matter. We've all had it too easy. We have everything and take it for granted that things will forever be thus which makes it so easy for us to sit in judgment of others.
For example, in the UK we have the likes of Johnson (he who has done so much to end so many lives in Russia/Ukraine) advocating sending NATO troops into Ukraine in order to defeat Putin. He believes and encourages others to believe that Putin is bluffing re the threat of nuclear war.
Maybe it would be a much needed wake up call for the West were just a "small" tactical nuclear bomb to go off.
Never play Russian roulette with a Russian
Do you have any Cataclysmic Events in mind?
Most of these events only shake a small percent of humans.
The Media controls response to events.
For them, the cataclysmic event is Trump, or some racist bs.
"I guess this is because they are really, really stupid. I can’t think of any other reason." I'm asking me the same question often; the only answer I can come up with is that the parties will at some point pay the price (retaliation), but the party leaders of the day won't. For those holding office today it pays and will get them going over the next few years, enough to secure their pensions. For their successors – not so much, I think. Short term gains, long term losses.
this must be what they are thinking. it would make sense, because their politics since Merkel is like this. short-term gains, long-term losses.
Yes.
But emphasise that the gains are personal, the costs national or societal.
For a current example, see Jasmeet Singh in Canada, who supported Justin Trudeau until his pension vested, decimated the NDP which he inherited, and paved the way for the "Wanker-Banker." (Acknowledgement to Franz Kafka above!)
I'm pretty unsophisticated, and it seems pretty obvious even to me that repression tactics will only increase the rise of populism, as the people start to notice and get more and more frustrated.
'the insults and the foul plays to grow, while the evil fascist Nazi Hitler party is the only glue holding the cartel parties together. A lot of potential energy has accumulated in this profoundly stupid system and I have no idea what will happen when it is released...'
There might be a clue in the way the U.S. Democratic Party is starting to fall apart after years of counting on "Because Trump" to cement their base.
To the humble citizen, the solution seems really simple: propose and implement policies that actually do some good for the people. Yet this never seems to occur to our governing elites.
Is there a point where this evil far right party may actually do something evil and far right? Lord knows its due
They could at least try to burn a porn stash. Put in a bit of effort, you know?
Class struggle in the Bundestag: https://x.com/ErikHoffma35980/status/1924930306970108037
Love your analysis, and despair for the German people who deserve better politicians (they're definitely not leaders).
Do they (or we, collectively) deserve better politicians?🤔 I’ve long believed that in democratic societies, you get the government you deserve.
I look forward to the people of Germany re-enacting 1618... time the major Parties receive a DEFENESTRATION! 👏