Undeterred by the protesters' popularity, the press continue their smear campaigns, while "Extremism researcher" Matthias Quent demands that the farmers paint rainbows on their placards to repel Nazis
In the US, as in Germany (and much of the West), the elites and their media mouthpieces can never admit that they're unpopular because their policies are stupid. It's always got to be that they're unpopular because the people are stupid.
Well then allow the supporters to eat food from the farmers and the non-supporters don't need any food from the farmers. This will lead to more food for the supporters anyway.
Mr Eugyppius - I’ve got a podcast, am a trucker, was at Freedom Convoy, etc etc
Do you know any Farmers or truckers involved in Germany who would speak on my show? Unfortunately I don’t speak German, so would need someone that can speak English fairly well.
Mainstream characterization of resistance to plutarchy is always framed as extremist. In Canada we regularly saw "trucker" protesters using swastikas to describe the state in protest, and of course the MSM claimed it was how protesters represented themselves. There is apparently no limit to the dishonest bad faith used to implant propaganda.
But it is Deutschlandfunk who bring the pièce de résistance, in an interview with “extremism researcher” Matthias Quent. He demands that the protesters more clearly distance themselves from the right, perhaps by carrying signs saying “Nazis get out,” or by painting LGBTQ rainbows on their placards. He believes that these will drive out right-wingers, I guess in the same way that garlic repels vampires. 👏👏
Court scribes ye shall always have with you, whatever form the court takes. Add that to any list of eternal truths.
Having learned to milk a cow during my tenure as a tour guide in a NYC children's petting farm, I can identify as a farmer at will, so let me cheer on my people and vouch for the cleanliness of their souls.
And isn't it sad to learn that in German "funk" merely means radio or wireless? And here I was getting all excited about Deutschlandfunk. What a letdown.
Thank you for giving me a phrase to describe what appears to be a recent trend in journalism. I can see the point of including some personal experience anecdotes, but extensive articles with n=1 or n=2 don't really illustrate, or demonstrate, much of anything.
It just seems like a ploy to draw in readers whose interest can be held by a (frequently emotionally-manipulative) story, but who have limited patience for serious analysis.
I am impressed that you and other SS contributors read these muckrakers. I feel like you are taking one for the team. The idiotic nonsense they call journalism is nothing more than muckraking and they don’t do that well either. Their bias is so obvious.
I support farmers and miners, tradies, and the working man and woman everywhere. Go the farmers.
> State-media broadcaster tagesschau turned instead to “protest researcher” Saldivia Gonzatti to explain that the farmers are suffering simultaneously from “instrumentalisation” by the right (I am getting very tired of typing this) and from their own “fear of the future.”
I hate the level of smug condescension implicit in things like this.
Let's say, hypothetically, that the farmers are in fact "suffering... from their own 'fear of the future'". THAT IS A PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE THING TO BE UPSET ABOUT AND TO PROTEST OVER
If the fears are legitimate, then that is self-justifying, somewhat tautologically.
If the fears are not legitimate, then the correct way to address them would be _to actually address them_, to acknowledge them, to acknowledge why someone might reasonably fear them, and then to explain how those fears are not actually going to happen.
But they don't do that. Instead they use it as a weapon to mock and belittle: AHAHA LOOK AT THESE FARMERS THEY'RE FUCKIN SCARED.
That is not the tone of someone with morality on their side
When eugy wrote about the German farmers strike the other day, I looked up how things were going in the Dutch farmers strike. It did not sound encouraging. But then, there's always the question of how much to believe of what you read…
The Great European Peasant revolt of 2024 is about to kick off.
German farmers will play a key role in said uprising.
Populism of this sort is here to stay, regardless of what the “regime” says.
Freedom Convoy media coverage all over again.
Serious Deja vu vibes.
At some point we need to stop calling them journalists and admit they are simply propagandists adhering to and promoting the narrative.
I'm getting the Freedom Convoy vibes too, it's snowing here! Just not -25c, man that was COLD, but it was
SO
MUCH
FUN.
Worth every minute of it even though I probably got put on various gov't watch lists.
In the US, as in Germany (and much of the West), the elites and their media mouthpieces can never admit that they're unpopular because their policies are stupid. It's always got to be that they're unpopular because the people are stupid.
Well then allow the supporters to eat food from the farmers and the non-supporters don't need any food from the farmers. This will lead to more food for the supporters anyway.
Mr Eugyppius - I’ve got a podcast, am a trucker, was at Freedom Convoy, etc etc
Do you know any Farmers or truckers involved in Germany who would speak on my show? Unfortunately I don’t speak German, so would need someone that can speak English fairly well.
If you know, email me here gordilocks@protonmail.com
Mainstream characterization of resistance to plutarchy is always framed as extremist. In Canada we regularly saw "trucker" protesters using swastikas to describe the state in protest, and of course the MSM claimed it was how protesters represented themselves. There is apparently no limit to the dishonest bad faith used to implant propaganda.
'When mass demonstrations and tax strikes did not work, some turned to terror. In the end, the Nazis profited.'
So Godwin's Law even applies in Germany. Or maybe, especially in Germany? As an outsider, I can't say which.
But it is Deutschlandfunk who bring the pièce de résistance, in an interview with “extremism researcher” Matthias Quent. He demands that the protesters more clearly distance themselves from the right, perhaps by carrying signs saying “Nazis get out,” or by painting LGBTQ rainbows on their placards. He believes that these will drive out right-wingers, I guess in the same way that garlic repels vampires. 👏👏
Thanks for the update and last paragraph laugh.
Court scribes ye shall always have with you, whatever form the court takes. Add that to any list of eternal truths.
Having learned to milk a cow during my tenure as a tour guide in a NYC children's petting farm, I can identify as a farmer at will, so let me cheer on my people and vouch for the cleanliness of their souls.
And isn't it sad to learn that in German "funk" merely means radio or wireless? And here I was getting all excited about Deutschlandfunk. What a letdown.
I only wish it was closer to 90%...
'a long intensely anecdotal piece'
Thank you for giving me a phrase to describe what appears to be a recent trend in journalism. I can see the point of including some personal experience anecdotes, but extensive articles with n=1 or n=2 don't really illustrate, or demonstrate, much of anything.
It just seems like a ploy to draw in readers whose interest can be held by a (frequently emotionally-manipulative) story, but who have limited patience for serious analysis.
I am impressed that you and other SS contributors read these muckrakers. I feel like you are taking one for the team. The idiotic nonsense they call journalism is nothing more than muckraking and they don’t do that well either. Their bias is so obvious.
I support farmers and miners, tradies, and the working man and woman everywhere. Go the farmers.
> State-media broadcaster tagesschau turned instead to “protest researcher” Saldivia Gonzatti to explain that the farmers are suffering simultaneously from “instrumentalisation” by the right (I am getting very tired of typing this) and from their own “fear of the future.”
I hate the level of smug condescension implicit in things like this.
Let's say, hypothetically, that the farmers are in fact "suffering... from their own 'fear of the future'". THAT IS A PERFECTLY LEGITIMATE THING TO BE UPSET ABOUT AND TO PROTEST OVER
If the fears are legitimate, then that is self-justifying, somewhat tautologically.
If the fears are not legitimate, then the correct way to address them would be _to actually address them_, to acknowledge them, to acknowledge why someone might reasonably fear them, and then to explain how those fears are not actually going to happen.
But they don't do that. Instead they use it as a weapon to mock and belittle: AHAHA LOOK AT THESE FARMERS THEY'RE FUCKIN SCARED.
That is not the tone of someone with morality on their side
And thus, 31% of Germans are ratards.
When eugy wrote about the German farmers strike the other day, I looked up how things were going in the Dutch farmers strike. It did not sound encouraging. But then, there's always the question of how much to believe of what you read…