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Many ask about the significance of "traffic light." Via a somewhat recent convention, all German political parties have a colour. The Greens are green, naturally; the social democrats or SPD are red; the liberal FDP are yellow. (AfD are blue, and CDU/CSU are black, if you were wondering).

As all three are in the coalition government together, we have a red, yellow and green government – a traffic light, in other words. Thus the traffic light is a symbol for the coalition.

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Thank you. I knew it had to have a political connotation. That makes sense

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Thanks, I wondered about that too.

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That helped. Thankyou.!

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Rough equivalent of U.S. "Bipartisans".

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Love all the pictures included and Thanks for the translation!

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THANK YOU for getting this information out. The MSM in Canada and USA are not covering this incredibly important story - they made no mention of the Dutch protests, either. It is infuriating how they ignore anything that goes against their narrative. Could you please let us know which of the ‘traffic light’ Party’s are WEF adherents? I think the German Farmers might also be protesting the Globalist attack on farmers per WEF/UN AGENDA2030.

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In Woody Allen's "Love and Death," set in Russia in the 1800s, Allen's character proposed that it should be the serfs who run government, because they're the only ones who know how to DO anything. The elites are about to get a hard reminder of a banal fact: everyone needs to eat, but only farmers have the knowhow to make it happen. These "serfs" may not be in charge, but we are all about to re-learn that they are IN CONTROL, and not just in Germany. This control should not be squandered after the tractors return to their places in the barns.

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Your lips to god’s ears. But there is a ~0% chance this will positively impact anything. It’s a planned, quasi-sanctioned protest with protected corridors, end dates, and no real disruption or threat. The people manning the protest cry when compared to nazis (whatever that means) and go out of their way to distance themselves from the “far right” (whatever that means) and put forth a “centrist” agenda (read: please, please love us, we want to play your game!). Nothing will change until we stop caring what they think and there is real pain on offer. Frozen transportation. Food shortages. Fuel shortages. No government services.

Putting up funny signs and fist-bumping cops ain’t shit.

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Perhaps, but that day of pain is coming. Those handling the levers of power are vastly outnumbered by those with the levers of production. There are a LOT more of us than there are of them and when push comes to shove (and that is rapidly approaching), I'll take the side of the producers. Besides, do the increasing attempts to ban AfD suggest a confident regime, or one in a panicked meltdown? Watch for a number of EU governments to fall this year--some via elections, and others by force.

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The problem is much of the production is being consolidated to large corporate farms friendly to the globalist agenda.

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Yes. And they can de-bank, ostracize, etc. the dissenters. Look at the attempts to evoke violent hatred and actions towards traditional people, mRNA shot-refusers, etc. And, worse comes to worse, they can just use the "color revolution" technique of political and race-aligned goon squads to go around and sweat people, particularly in disarmed locales. Witness the groups roving around urban NY forcing people to raise their hands for BLM.

Most people are afraid to be called names ("oh no no, I'm not a racist!"), let alone get debanked or punched in the face.

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But when that happens, inevitably, they will have nothing to lose. And they will realize that long before it happens.

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The regime can only ignore reality for so long. As with the USSR, the end will come slowly at first, then very quickly.

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I think what everyone should remember is that identifying with the AfD can at the moment almost cost your life in certain states. I know my son lived in Hessen for a long time. That is changing though but I think at the moment it is best to keep to the middle. Also, if you say anything against the narrative your called a Nazi, nevermind what your real political affiliation is. Things are really difficult in Germany at the moment.

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Is the day coming? Let’s hope.

“Confident regime or one in a panicked meltdown?” It sounds like power exercising power, as it should. Shutting down your adversaries is not weakness, despite their desperate cries.

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Hopefully Macron, Rishi and Varadkar to start with.

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This is, I think, what the government is counting on. They're just waiting for the protests to run their course, and there's not much anybody can do about it. Unless the chancellor and his ministers lose their nerves and decide to step back, the coalition government will plod on for another year, doing much damage in the process.

Still, the protests help people to see that they are no longer a minuscule atomized minority of one that doesn't love the current government surrounded by a sea of coalition supporters. It also helps them to see that people who do not love the current governments are centrists and moderates, albeit pretty desparate ones. I don't know what the practical implications of this may be, but it can only be a change for the better.

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^ this. This seems like the "well I didn't vote for Trump" or "I thought I'd never side with conservatives" disclaimer so many make in America. They are accepting, in a sociological sense, the "binding definition of reality" of the mainstream. From the outside, it seems to me that the right and whatever silent plurality exists in Germany are their friends.

We'll see if someone tries to Trudeau them.

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“Trudeau them”. Love it. Have no respect for him.

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So many of the "intelligent" upper-middle class in the US, at least on the coasts, seem to believe weird things: planes fly themselves and pilots are for show, AI can replace radiologists today, men can functionally be women by wishing so, not enforcing laws creates peace and harmony, etc.

The key insight is very few of these people have material deliverables: changing tires, treating heart attacks, fixing power lines, raising food animals, driving a vehicle, etc. In Woody Allen's point, they can't "do" anything. But they think they are 1. above it and 2. understand it all better.

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This is essentially the problem with over-educating a population. You create a large class of arrogant, ignorant, indoctrinated fools who think they are better than the people who provide everything they use and live on. Every single greatest evil in history has always been delivered by the stupidity of the intelligentsia. And the majority of our upper-middle classes, and the upper-echelons all work for multinationals, which have been the winners of the global Monopoly Capitalism predations, and shipping all the jobs and food suppliers to China and other nations. And in the celebration of their success with high salaries they think they are better than all the 'deplorables' and fail to understand they are simple little cogs in a big machine of corporate monopolies that are raping, pillaging and plundering the planet and humanity. Their share as high salaries doesn't make them smarter it makes them culpable in the never ending expansion of the wealth and income inequality driven by this machine of wealth extraction. It is really a class war against the 90% driven by the 1% using the top 10% as useful idiots.

I rest my case.

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Hunger Games in real life.

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Ivan, you’ve provided a basic understanding of a historical phenomenon. This metric has been in place going back to feudal times.

Crown & Nobles 1%

Vassals 10%

Serfs & Villeins

(Peasants) 89%

This societal structure has never gone away, it’s just been given new names through linguistic manipulation

Knell before the King or lose your head 🤴

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Anthony - thanks for turning up to give me this feedback.

As you've laid it out is exactly the conclusion I have come to about how the world we live in is truly structured.

Here's some of my personal definitions relating to your percentages.

1% (Crowns & Nobles) = the Roman Empire Alliance. (monarchies, bankers, and oligarchs).

10% (Vassals) = useful idiots in the World Government Alliance (the true quest)

90% (Peasants) = citizen slaves (enslaved by the international monetary system, global Monopoly Capitalism, and the multinationals)

You are DEAD RIGHT the structure is the same.

& my attitude is f*ck the King.

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I think there's a control system using varied superiority complexes.

I saw it during Brexit where credentialed people would dismiss the real problems of the EU raised by working people.

All very Brave New World without even telling people their assigned class.

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Exactly.

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There's a lot of people who think they're alphas and striving to be bigger "alphas" and the Rentier class just laugh at these credentialled higher functioning dunning kruger sufferers, knowing there's no chance they get in.

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God did I love that movie. After he moved on from comedy to please the artsy crowd, he lost all his sparkle.

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I love his old stuff. I find the 'arty' stuff boring. But then I never lived in Manhattan so I suppose I don't 'get' the humor (if it is there...).

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In my peasant's view all his later films are just circular navel-gazing and the opportunity to cast his friends and lovers in cinematic masterpieces that make 'em all look like the most boring people on earth.

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Won't happen, as long as billionaires and politicians are walking the earth:

https://techno-society.com/

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the writer makes the same mistake Marx made, thinking that the average person is "good" while the reality is that most are inherently evil, how else to describe everything happening in the world today? Living in South Africa I see this everyday.

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I disagree - most are not inherently evil. However, they can be made to act so, given enough fear and propaganda. Take away that, and you will find the vast majority want what is best for them and their loved ones.

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The greatest evil, corruption, and crimes always start at the top and are radiated down. The greatest crimes are created by the biggest actors. Big companies, big governments. Not ordinary people committing little crimes to survive in a world that has been so corrupted and distorted by the corruption at the top and through the system that robs them of opportunities to access what is needed to meet their daily cost of living - and so they are the petty criminals that they don't know how else to survive.

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Thanks for the link, a great read!

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As someone who cannot read German, I appreciate your taking the time to provide translations of the signs. I am glad you are on the case and reporting from the scene. We have not seen any information from the media on this side of the pond.

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even the german press are desperate to bury this but it is the most important political story in central europe right now. we see how it develops.

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Exactly. And why are the media trying to suppress the story? Because they are terrified of its implications. Some in this thread make the error of mistaking this as "power" because the media are supposed to control the narrative. But it is the same fear that drives those "in power" to try to ban AfD in Germany; take out MPs in Poland; ban Trump from the ballot in the USA, etc. As the apathy of the common man is increasingly replaced by anger, violent revolution is a possibility in many places where this was heretofore inconceivable.

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The media is owned by the IBFIC, which is the International Banking, Finance and Investment Cartel, best symbolized by the iconic Big Three - Vanguard, BlackRock and State Street.

They are not "terrified."

The true architects of the Great Rest, which is this global war on humanity, are buried behind so many layers, of which the IBFIC is one of them, that you and I cannot see them, we can only guess at who they are, and by their actions, and words we can identify key players, like woke-King Charles, and all the monarchies and banking families supporting the Great Reset.

These people own the International Monetary System, which has enslaved almost every human on earth, and they own and control all of the multinational corporations, now nicely arranged into a cartel which we can see, the World Economic Forum, and these are the Essential Industries, which didn't shut for Covid-terrorism, and they control the global Monopoly Capitalism chessboard.

The people "in power" who you can see that you think are suffering from "fear" are not the true powers. They are agents and puppets. And absolutely dispensable for the puppet masters.

The puppet masters have zero fear, because they are the true psychopaths that create forever wars - for example they are busy driving the war in Ukraine to exterminate the population and take it over with the BlackRock-Chase Manhattan $400 billion dollar deal signed with Zelensky to "rebuild" Ukraine-after the genocide leaves no one left to claim it.

To think the Davos globalist classes are afraid of the people is a mistake. They are not. They hide behind layers, pretend to be good people, and laugh at our protests.

This is the ugly truth.

And since 1946 they have built a global infrastructure of what amounts to neo-monarchies, unaccountable international institutions like the UN, WHO, and WEF, and they have seized almost complete control over the global economy, they are operating in a supranational situation and jerking the chains of our corrupt traitorous puppet leaders.

This is why it is so hard to stop this evil.

The puppet politicians of the G20 nations are working for the World Government Alliance of Davos globalists who yank their chains, and reward them when they leave office - like the Covid-terrorist Jacinda Arden of New Zealand, getting a Damehood from the British monarchy, a plum job at one of their NGOs, and accolades from Harvard University.

The puppet politicians are not listening to the people because they are not responsible to the people - they are beholden to their true masters - the masters of global capitalism, and the quest for World (communist) Government.

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Many of the slogans rhyme in a clever way that only Germans, and their tongue, can manage.

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Well, the alternative media do mention it (Daily Wire) but it is ludicrously under-reported overall.

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Nothing on the BBC 'Europe' page either

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God bless the German farmers, the Freedom convoy and all normal, hardworking people willing to stand up to tyranny.

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More more more of this.

Bring the corrupt climate cultists to their knees.

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Yes please.

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Yes!

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I love this:

“Political shit is not fertiliser!”

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Oh, you Eugyppius you. Taking the part of those greedy farmers. Let DW school you:

https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-far-right-exploits-farmers-protests/a-67920952

My friend-from-fifth-grade [need to get that on autofill] doesn't have cable but DW is magically available to her (someone ought to do an examination of what channels are deemed worthy of being included in over-the-air free digital offerings and who does the deeming) and she considers herself well-informed on domestic and world affairs, and when I tell her about stuff she hasn't seen because they don't show it to her, she starts shrieking at me that "how do you know stuff nobody else knows? Do you go to the Dark Web? What sort of crazy stuff do you read?"

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You mean you haven't told her that you *are* the Dark Web?

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She'd think I was overly self-important. We do enough shouting every week anyway. I'd like my vocal cords to last for the duration.

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😂 I don’t know if you’re joking or serious but regardless, this gave me a good laugh.

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Oh heck dead serious, sort of.

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> "Hans Pfeifer is a DW reporter specializing in right-wing extremism."

"And he knows that everything he disagrees with is right-wing extremism."

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It's quite clever I think to "specialize" in fuzzy subjects.

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That's why I study kittens.

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Studied 'em sufficiently to note how they study you?

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All the internet loves a kitten!

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They're fuzzy!

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Got the same treatment from a Caucasian acquaintance who when espousing about the evils of white supremacy was countered by some actual facts, sneer/shouted at me this query...”well then ...what do you listen to and read”...I followed that shot across my bow with a rapid verbal listing of 6 different alternatives to the MSM.She immediately and tearfully countered with a victim claim of being raped by a white man... somehow that explained her white supremacy narrative.. I am not sure of how to describe her response other than it was like a rabid animals behavior, erratic and not attached to anything other than highly inflamed misfiring neurons.Mind virus.

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Such a strange thing, you know, that aside from the white British hooligans who harassed me fifty years ago on a Birmingham street, the only people who've criminally attacked me were black. Three times! One shoved a gun in my side (I shoved it away before I started screaming).

And yet I've had a black supervisor I was happy to be a henchgal for, and black doctors, and I can assert with confidence that everyone ought to have a good black dad to keep 'em on the straight and narrow even if they have a white dad too, and it's really best to discount hysterics of all ethnicities because they are in general hysterical.

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A young black man held me up at gunpoint thirty years ago in California. He pointed a pistol right towards my chest.

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I don't understand the weird distortion of political 'left' and 'right' these days. Used to be the 'left' supported the workers having/owning the means of production. These farmers fit that bill quite nicely. Nowadays the 'left' does corporate bidding and cannot imagine a world without corporate/NGO ownership of all production and discourse and as long as their pet fetishes are celebrated, they will fight for them.

I posit that the terms are now distorted beyond all meaning and most 'leftists' don't know their arse from a hole in the ground.

On edit: I say this as an old-school type who still supports workers having a stake and share in production...

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baker charlie said "I don't understand the weird distortion of political 'left' and 'right' these days."

It makes sense. The left now considers itself in possession of the state apparatus. It works together with favored corporations rather than "doing their bidding". Only the state has powers of taxation and the creation of fiat money, so while many CEOs remain in their posts longer than the average government minister, they are still beholden to government in general.

The farmers are, in Marxist terms, the independent petty bourgeoisie rather than the proletariat, so there is no reason for even the old left to align with the farmers, let alone the woke left. In the New Economic Policy years of the 20s, Lenin let the Russian and Ukrainian peasants keep the private farmlands they had already won by their own revolutionary struggle, but only so that they could crush the peasants later (as happened in the early 30s) - communism could not possibly be built on a society of smallholders.

For the Marxist left, workers owning the means of production meant the "worker's state" owning the means of production. Small-scale private ownership of the means of production is what Marxists want to stamp out. The combination of the lockdowns and BLM/Antifa performed much of this task in the US during 2020-21, reputedly the period of the largest transfer of wealth ever - from small private owners to the corporations that work hand-in-hand with the state.

This emerging system of the corporatist state used to be known as "fascism", but while this is what the left practises, they try to wield the term against us instead.

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Thank you for your insight. This is important conversation to have. So many venues will no longer discuss details, this is one of the few that permit it.

Perhaps I have always been confused by the anger at farmers. I grew up as the daughter of former farmers and heard all the stories about the depression and how they survived, funny (the draft horses running to the river on hot days) the informative (the windmill outside the house that provided energy for the radio) and the bad (freezing cold and illegally distilling alcohol for the tractors...did you think prohibition was about mere consumption by humans of alcohol?). I now live a life closer to them than I do what is considered 'modern'. I side with the farmers always.

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You're welcome.

I know it's tangential here, but I've also heard the allegation you mention about Prohibition suppressing alcohol-based fuel in favor of oil. It sounded plausible, but as far as I can see, it's false.

At no point during the Prohibition years can I find any banning of ethanol fuel. Henry Ford supported it, and it remained on sale at many gas stations across the US. The only supression of ethanol occurred two and more decades earlier, as a result of heavy taxation, which allowed oil to overtake it. The tax was lifted in 1906, and after that, ethanol and oil vied with each other on the free market.

Once the Depression began, many of the small ethanol distilleries in farms disappeared, not because of any legislation, but because impoverished farmers moved to the cities to find work.

To the extent that there was an oil-cartel using dirty tricks and lobbying against ethanol producers, this was a feature of the years following the demise of Prohibition.

I might be missing something, and you may know more, but this is why I think the allegation is wrong. I've just discovered this timeline, which might be of use:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_alcohol_fuel

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The tell is it was available at commercially available at pumps in relavent locations. My family lived, at the time, miles from approved pumps. They told me their story. As farmers on the Illinois River Basin back in the day. They couldn't have gone into bigger towns to get fuel. They would have told this as part of the story if it had happened.

They ran the tractors on ethanol. Used horses for the rest. Raised chickens, goats, sheep and cattle for eggs, milk, and meat. They had radio for entertainment and my dad learned morse code and other ham stuff to communicate with others outside like we do now with the internet.

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Right, so the ethanol outlets were restricted. I'm not sure whether that was just because gas was cheaper on the market at the time than ethanol, or because the oil companies were playing dirty tricks. But I'm not sure that Prohibition was playing a role. It's beyond my knowledge of the situation, but speculating, I could imagine that farmers producing ethanol on a small-scale ethanol might have been under suspicion for producing alcohol for drinking and subject to official discouragement and harassed by inspectors (I've no idea if this is true, but again, you might know more from your family history).

When I mentioned farmers going to the towns, I wasn't referring to the possibility of them buying fuel - I was only talking about those who had to give up their farms for financial reasons (and every time that happened, another small-scale ethanol producer was gone).

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The only times my family talked about going into town was for movies at the local cinema, which last I knew was still booking 'nostalgia' movies my family would have loved.

Growing up, here were lovely dinnerttime tales about what it took to get into town ( 15 or 20 or so miles away) and what they did there.. My father told it all in such a funny way, almost Mark Twain (my family was from that region) but now I dissect it.

What was he really telling me?

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Excellent analysis.

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Well summarized.

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Speaking from the context of the US, Left and Right have traded places. The Public substack recently had a good article explaining the arc of the Democratic Party over the last few decades. https://public.substack.com/p/how-democrats-sold-out-the-working

You can disregard the part at the end about how to rehabilitate the Democratic Party. Personally, I don't think it's worth it.

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…or possible.

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I'm past rehabilitating it. I spent the Bush 2 years trying to do so by raising awareness ofof the direction the party was secretly travelling. The DNC and other NeoLibs are too far entrenched and they are invisible to casual party members and 'D' voters. I gave up after getting burned in 2008 (at least HRC didn't get her brass ring, there's that...) and I discovered that nobody around me wanted to question their 'team'.

Thanks for the article!

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But have they really? Idk

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NGOs are are scourge

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Me too. The left including the trade unions and left political parties have become a career vehicle for student politicians and simply use the working class as a stage army. They are all either gung-ho or quiescent on climate control freakery , supportive of identity politics and spend their time virtue signalling their concern for immigrants and grandstanding on international affairs. These are all issues most working class people have no time for. They want a movement that will fight for them and that includes most of the ethnic members. I call these people the corporatist left. People like Sarah Wagknecht Freddie De Boer and Bari Weiss on the populist left offer a detailed critique.

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I want many of the same things as well. Well said.

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Thank you for the reporting and sign translation, much appreciated. I like the passion of the farmers, these are the salt of the earth types without whom our societies and cities would collapse into chaos and anarchy. Here in Canada as it is there in Germany, we don't need the government to tell us what do, we need them to get the hell out of the way of the growers, builders, and manufacturers.

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Those signs...

And who says Germans aren't funny?

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I used to . . .

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I am SO encouraged by all this! The elites have finally gone too far, and it's good to see good people finally taking a hard stance.

May their courage find compatriots here in the US, and we fight back against our own oppression, as we're only a handful of years behind you in the Vaterland....

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Interesting to compare with the Freedom Convoy - the fact that the "official" farmers association is on board makes the protest perhaps bigger, but also less radical.

Good logistics and giving out free food seem to be a feature of both - and will be more apparent if protesters remain in place.

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Organizers of the Freedom Convoy are still bring punished in Canada. It's a Trudeau totalitarian thing. Intended to destroy effective protests.

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Trudeau might be the very most reprehensible Canadian in history.

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Great signs and thanks for the translations, in particular, the last one. These protests, and others all over Europe, are the only way to defeat the totalitarians at the WEF, etc., from taking over and creating 1984/Animal Farm societies.

Danny Huckabee

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I’ll be looking forward to your report!

It looks like it’s going to be a great day to make a very profound statement.

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Thank you, eugyppius, for suffering some discomforts to serve as a real journalist. From your reporting, it's now clear that Scholz doesn't want to do a Trudeau on the farmers. But since the farmers pose a political threat to him, he has to do something.

It looks (to me) as if his best option would be to cultivate Rukwied and his associates as a pliable leadership among the farmers. He can give them the prestige of meetings with government committees, and grant them substantial concessions. Flattered, Rukwied will gladly agree to increase the strength and frequency of his denunciations of the AfD.

If this works, the farmers (at least in the eyes of the majority of the public that is uninvolved) will appear to be pitted against the AfD, which will clear the ground for a ban on the AfD. On the back of their "success" in wringing concessions from the government, Rukwied or others could be persuaded to create a kind of toothless substitute for the AfD that will serve to mute protest against the supression of the AfD. This would easily be enough to obtain Green support in compensation for dropping several of the Green policies the farmers oppose.

Things may play out differently, but if I, a political nobody, can conceive of this scenario, it must have been wargamed out by Scholz's advisors over the past week.

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Plausible plan, but don't underestimate the incompetence of Scholz and co.

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Certainly. It's one of eugyppius's main themes that our problems generally don't arise from cunning conspirators, but from the dead weight of bureaucracies that are inevitably full of incompetents (since the rewarding of failure rather than success is built in to bureaucratic systems).

Even so, devious and organized incompetence can still triumph over naive and unorganized incompetence, which may be a fair characterization of Scholz's government and the Farmers' Association respectively.

In that case, the majority of protesting farmers will have to organize against damaging compromises by the Association, and win public support for this. If they try to court "respectability" by continuing to distance themselves from the AfD, they will almost certainly fail.

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What a great best of posters, thanks for your hard work. It's just strange that this is now allowed and there are no charges of insult so far. There has been a lot of submarine traffic in this country for three years🤔

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