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eugyppius's avatar

It's been a bad several months for posting. First I suffered a bit of burnout, so I took a few weeks of semi-holiday. Then, just a few weeks after my return, my girlfriend suffered a serious accident last Thursday, landing in hospital with some rough injuries. Things took a turn for the worse over the weekend, but they're looking up now, and I hope to get the blog back up to speed (and my girlfriend back home) by the end of the week. Thanks as always for your patience with me.

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York Luethje's avatar

Best wishes and speedy recovery to Eugyppia!

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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Hope you and girlfriend get well soon.

I cannot fathom what it's like to live in today's Germany.

If the green agenda continues, your country will continue it's downward spiral.

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

Eugyppius, your posts are always worth waiting for. Best wishes to you and your girlfriend.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Sending healing vibes to you and your girlfriend.

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Suzie's avatar

Many prayers for your GF’s swift and complete recovery! May God bless and be with you both mightily! 🙏♥️🙏

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Avivafreudmann's avatar

Gute Besserung!

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Barbara's avatar

Healing and blessings 🙏🏻

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Joyce's avatar

Best wishes for your girlfriend, I hope she’ll make a full recovery 🙏💙💫

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Jack Gallagher's avatar

Prayers for you and your significant other!

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Martin T's avatar

I hope serious accident wasn’t inexplicable as BfV agents seen driving away at speed. Stay safe and stay well. The decline of democratic norms will keep going for a while yet, plenty of time to catch up and keep writing.

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Gilgamech's avatar

A speedy recovery to your good lady, Eugy.

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Zarayna Pradyer's avatar

Sincerely hope you and yours are feeling better and that the following item might be of some slight interest: - “The Promethean Power of Burnout.”

https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/12/30/david-whyte-burnout/

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

I pray for refeshment for you and healing and comfort for your girlfriend.

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Eva's avatar

Oh my gosh sending healing thoughts and prayers and hope that you can both get some time to rest together soon 😊🙏

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Seb Thirlway's avatar

All best wishes!

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SelfishNeuron's avatar

Oh my goodness!

All the best of luck for the future and best of health!

Speedy recovery!

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les's avatar

Is it my imagination but aren't all of the "intelligence. Agencies" in supposedly democratic countries doing what the Stasi did in the old DDR?

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eugyppius's avatar

the only reason the BfV haven't gone full Stasi is that, by design, they do not have police powers.

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SRwilson's avatar

YET

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les's avatar

I am glad that is the case in Germany but it appears to me that using gossip and being in the " wrong group" as far as ones ideology goes can get you into quite a bit of trouble in some "democracies". Sorry if it sounds a little muddled!

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

We have lots of that in Mr Starmer KC's Britain. Group think on steroids.

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les's avatar

I find the MSM in the UK is quite amazing with its gaslighting. I basically take everything they say as the opposite of what if happening. A along with any government agency.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Good man.

I find Mr Starmer KC and his mates difficult to follow, so like you, the few times MSM breaks through, apply 180 degree logic and the result is at least 80 per cent accurate.

Like the common cold sweeping across which has become.. yes... C-19, complete with lockdowns! All of that since the start of October 2025.

It's as if the past 5 years did not happen at all.

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KHP's avatar

https://www.ksbw.com/article/santa-cruz-county-mask-mandate-acute-care/68544510

It's only in "acute care", but of course ignores the fact that masks do basically nothing for respiratory viruses.

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Tardigrade's avatar

What? Is the UK doing lockdowns again?

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Danielle's avatar

Rapidly getting to that stage in Australia too.

A new speech law every month or so.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

I'm hoping the great leader, Dan Andrews, is able to stop drinking for a few minutes to resume Kontrol?

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Danielle's avatar

Soooo glad to have been in Qld during the dreaded Plague.

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Tardigrade's avatar

'the only reason the BfV haven't gone full Stasi is that, by design, they do not have police powers.'

Wait 10 minutes. It seems inevitable.

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Freedom Fox's avatar

We saw in the US the twisting of words with no legal meaning into criminal charges since 2016. Take the word, "collusion," as in "Russian collusion" as some crime Trump was accused of. How many people know that there is no such thing as the crime of "collusion" in the US? Collusion can be a piece of evidence in conspiracy and racketeering charges, monopoly price fixing, etc. But collusion doesn't exist as a criminal statute. The UK, Germany, Canada, Mexico, France, all major media in the US and global media "colluded" with the Clinton campaign against Trump in 2016. Even if it had been proven that Trump colluded with Russia, Putin, guess what - it wouldn't have been a crime. It would've looked bad, optics and all. But not a crime. It was manufactured into a crime, became the focus of a criminal investigation, blew up the American justice system and all political norms. But it wasn't a crime.

That's what these people do. Make up crimes and laws as they go along. Take words and lard them up with significance they do not possess. And upend democracy in doing so.

Linguistics. Marxist professor of linguistics Noam Chomsky taught generations of leftist radicals how to overthrow governments from within via linguistic transformation of values and norms. How terms like "vaccine failure" become "breakthrough infection." How 95% false positive test results deemed "cases" become "infections" requiring quarantine. Orwellian Newspeak, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength, War is Peace type shit.

Point is, it's possible they can take the current non-meaning of "confirmed right-wing extremist" and make it mean whatever they want it to mean. And only the rejection of the Newspeak by the public will prevent a newly acquired legal meaning from taking hold. Just think if Trump had responded to charges that he "colluded" with Russia by saying not only did it not happen, but even if it had Hillary "colluded" with all of the foreign and domestic powers she had working for her. And instructed his DOJ to not waste public resources investigating non crimes. Or to investigate all of the foreign interference and collusion involved on Hillary's side. Had he done that the crimes of the Obama administration spying on his campaign would've come to light in 2017 instead of a three year special counsel capitation of his first term he endured. Because, linguistics. Have to seize the initiative and not let the Orwell/Chomsky's become the language changers if they try to make CRWE a legal term with any teeth.

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Henrybowman's avatar

"by design, they do not have police powers."

But be assured they Know People.

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Colin Hunt's avatar

In Canada, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) has no policing powers whatsoever. It has no ability to do what Stasi did.

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UnvaxxedCanadian's avatar

We are lucky to be run by utter incompetent idiots who couldn’t get digital id going if they even tried. Too many liberal party apparatchiks bleeding off all the cash before a line of code is even written

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rjt's avatar

Sadly, we have globalists involved now, with plans and programmes ready.

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Mike Canary's avatar

Canadians should not get complacent, believing that our Charter of rights and freedoms will protect us from state abuse. Affordability, public safety, the economy and trade are Canadian’s top concerns. So what does the new Mark Carney Liberal advance legislation on priorities: Information, Censorship, and more powers for the federal government to override laws and regulations to “advance projects in the national interest” 😉

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Colin Hunt's avatar

The Charter may indeed mean very little. But the Courts are generally highly reluctant to allow any branch of government to exceed its legislated authority.

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Ernest Judd's avatar

... then the CoronaPrank.

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Hunterson7's avatar

How naive.

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Ernest Judd's avatar

Oh yeah?

They work WITH the RCMP when it is convenient.

The kidnapping of Meng Wanzhou comes to mind.

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BJ's avatar

Double plus Un good Citizen! The intel communities are simply protecting our Democracy! This message has been removed by Order of the Ministry of Truth...

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SSGJOHNZO's avatar

I was going to say “Just like the Stasi, except without guns.”

God help you poor souls if they start issuing them out.

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Max Rawnsley's avatar

No

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CC's avatar

Sounds like…

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Jim Brown's avatar

German government wants to ban the AfD. Biden tried to imprison Trump. France is trying to ban Marine Le Pen. Japan just elected a right-wing woman, to the great surprise of most. A monumental shift is percolating worldwide. May Germany escape the rapture without violence.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Macron’s PM already resigned today after failing to form a cabinet. Let’s see the new funny business Macron comes up with. He’s been anywhere but France the past few weeks.

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

“Hans - are we the baddies?”

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Jah. How is this possible?

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Ironic but not surprising that Nancy Faeser and Vice chancellor Lars Klingbeil (among others in the German government) are Antifa.

I hope Trump graduates that particular terrorist organization from “domestic” to “international.” Then he can start mentioning the history and current significant participants in his messaging.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

FYI the WH as of this morning says Bessent will be looking into who funds Antifa. 🎉

One of them, Mark Bray (author of the Antifa handbook) is now fleeing to Spain.‼️

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Henrybowman's avatar

Excellent. His college's branch of Turning Point just declaimed him to the administration and demanded he be fired. They may chalk up a win due to forfeit.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/10/turning-point-usa-chapter-at-rutgers-u-petitions-for-removal-of-antifa-aligned-prof/

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Wow! Awesome! 👍🏿

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SSGJOHNZO's avatar

If that leads to criminal charges, he won’t be able to dodge them in Spain.

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CS's avatar

How do you know Faeser is Antifa?

If she is, it astounds me that such a person could ever be appointed to high office in the West.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Lars Klingbeil (Vice Chancellor) though you will have to look outside Wikipedia which has scrubbed that fact. Some others including under Schultz. They seem to all be SPD.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

You can make up your own mind. There are at least 3 other high level SPD who are openly Antifa.

https://rmx.news/article/germanys-far-left-interior-minister-wrote-for-antifa-magazine-published-by-organization-with-extremist-ties/

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Tardigrade's avatar

'No sane person, whatever his politics, should want a secret spy agency to wield this kind of power.'

My very favorite movie ever is Terry Gilliam's 1985 film Brazil. From what you describe, Germany is getting closer and closer to that dystopian vision.

There's a reason that rather than a "Ministry of Truth", the movie has a "Ministry of Information". Whoever controls the information gets to dictate what truth is.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

If the secret spy agency can be used as a bludgeoning tool it will be used. See Joe Biden and his Autopen collective. (Maybe not the best example of sanity, granted.)

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Paul Jackson's avatar

In order to save the village we had to destroy it.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Perfectly sensible Antifa logic.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Did you see the DOJ is already honing in on Antifa leadership? The speed of which leads me to believe all the research was accomplished ahead of time. Research into US Antifa funding was only just announced this morning.

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rjt's avatar

Preferably "homing in on...". Have you ever seen a "honing pigeon?"

But your point is relevant; somebody has learned lessons in political management and has applied the successful stratagems.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

I was thinking that if there is a zombie apocalypse we’ll be using homing pigeons to communicate. We in USA will be wondering what’s going on over in Deutschland.

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

Well, I hope DoJ gets to do the job and those who may have broken the law get their day on court. The viper is slowly being removed.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Andy Ngo today reports that Mark Bray, international financier of Antifa, is swiftly exiting USA to Spain. Spain has an extradition treaty to USA do this will not help him. If he is an American citizen his financials will still be investigated. No hiding bank accounts anymore, even Swiss and Cayman have treaties with the Feds for full disclosure.

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Mitch's avatar

and we can't forget that the US has a history of killing terrorists with drones in other countries, under Obama even American citizens.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Won’t happen in USA. Media optics if for no other reason.

Biden DOJ putting Latin Catholics on a terror watchlist was bad enough. Hahaha. American public is watching closely and democrats are looking for media advantage any chance they can get.

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Henrybowman's avatar

"The viper is slowly being removed."

Thank heavens. At my advanced age, the prospect of having to vote from the rooftops has become dauntingly strenuous.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

😂😂😂

Bowman, you’re not even Korean!

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Henrybowman's avatar

My driver Kato is.

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kertch's avatar

What they actually mean is "In order to make the village ideologically acceptable, we had to destroy it".

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Reminds me of Clinton, the ATF, and the Branch Dividians. “We had to bomb the house to save the kids.”

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Compsci's avatar

“…the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) declared Alternative für Deutschland to be a “confirmed right-wing extremist” organisation.”

What a wonderfully “Orwellian” name, BfV—and within the same sentence the confirmation of the irony for all to see. WOW, simply wow! It doesn’t get better than that!

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SCA's avatar

There is never not the first step of declaring the "them" The Heretics Who Must Be Burned. Or banned, or busted, But always, always Bad.

[sending continued well wishes to be conveyed onwards]

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eugyppius's avatar

thanks for well-wishes, i will indeed pass them on.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Welcome back! I hope your GF is better.

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eugyppius's avatar

thanks tardigrade, also for your patience. it's going to be a while until she's better, but the situation has stabilised and things are looking up.

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les's avatar

Sorry for the delay but I meant to say hope things are improving for you and your people close to you.

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Alistair Penbroke's avatar

I am conflicted.

It's reasonable for a government to want civil servants who are aligned with their goals and politics. This is why in the American system a new "administration" is elected, not just some ministers. The top civil servants in each institution are then replaced, and this is considered normal.

If I were a socialist, I too would not want AfD members to be judges, senior civil servants, etc. I might imagine they would try to undermine or at least not enthusiastically implement my policies.

But of course, what goes around comes around. Now they have taken these steps towards a US system, they must be OK with every SP member being purged if and when the AfD manage to enter a coalition with sufficient power to do so. And if they've eliminated all the right wing people, then that would mean a total turnover of the civil service. This isn't practical except by massively reducing its size, but what is practical is "harnessing" all the people with any decision making power by using AI:

https://penbroke.substack.com/p/controlling-institutions-with-machines

The SP would obviously object, because being leftists they are unable to understand basic concepts like hypocrisy. But there'd be no reason for anyone on the right to care.

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eugyppius's avatar

Well, we're not talking about political appointees here, or even the upper tiers of the civil service, like the state secretaries. These rules will affect teachers, police officers, librarians and a lot of ordinary people.

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Alistair Penbroke's avatar

Yes, and heavily left-controlled police, teachers and librarians are a big concern for the right today in many countries but they struggle to mobilize because these professions all claim to be neutral and politically trustworthy - left merely by default.

If the German government actually formalizes that arrangement then they simply create a new norm, opening up the Overton window to truly massive purges of the entire civil service if the right ever get into power. After all, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

To your point…

This current purge will feel political and will only enhance low trust in government.

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UnvaxxedCanadian's avatar

“Robust” civil service? That’s a generous term I wouldn’t use but hey.

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Wim de Vriend's avatar

Yes, it's hard to visualize Schwarzenegger as a paper-pusher. On the other hand, as Governor of California he did not blaze a trail to anything in particular. So he might have qualified.

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Mitch's avatar

so just like how the Nazis began then?

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Andrew Marsh's avatar

In a free society how people debate in their own time is their business.

The moment an employee decides to implement policy at work just because they feel like it, is wrong.

What the German blob is doing here is to insist on block voting - if employed by the Blob, there are pre-approved ideas, pre-approved votes, pre-approved 'rights' and anyone not doing this 24/7 is fired.

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Alistair Penbroke's avatar

Yes, it's effectively vote buying. The left loves this kind of tactic. They always look for ways to use state money to buy votes for the left.

Unfortunately the reality is that leftists cannot and will not leave their politics at the door. They think everyone has to be loyal 24/7 because they themselves never stop thinking of ways to abuse the power given in their job to advance leftism, so they can't imagine anyone else would do likewise.

So getting to a place where mass purges of the public sector are politically viable is necessary.

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Seb Thirlway's avatar

I think I saw a good word about this: "clientelist politics". I think it means exactly what you're talking about here. YOU say the right things, and stick with the Party through thick and thin; WE will make sure you get preferential treatment. That's the deal.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Sounds like Baerbock’s reward in failing upwards to her new cushy UN post.

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les's avatar

It is amazing how incompetents fall upwards isn't it? The more useless you are seems to be the qualifying criteria for success today.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Reading this, I felt the same conflict.

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Gym+Fritz's avatar

In the US’s capital city, UN wards of 90% of the people living here / working for the federal government are leftist democrats (can’t help but wonder why this is so); does anyone know what the breakdown re party allegiance is for the German federal government? Or is it just more obvious in a 2 party system?

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elle laren's avatar

Perhaps German "Democracy" was just a Spenglerian pseudomorphosis all along.

Mead glasses clink somewhere in a Teutonic hall.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

Normie Germans have a completely different idea of what, “Democracy” means. The roots of which are subdued by the thumb of WW2 consequences pressed upon the scale. This corruption taints all notions of how to “protect” their democracy and leaves them vulnerable to manipulation by the arbiters of truth.

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Tardigrade's avatar

'We are literally abolishing democracy in order to defend it.'

And yet the people doing this don't appear to be aware of it. Not just in Germany, but in a lot of western democracies at the moment.

Are they deliberately turning a blind eye? Are they just sticking their heads in the sand? Are they really that stupid?

So much easier to believe that it's completely deliberate.

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Chixbythesea's avatar

A German told me recently that because of Great Grandpa, not even choice can be safely left to the German population. Therefore, sacrifices must at times be made to preserve sanctity of the state.

👇🏾

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy2ju_qPtuM&pp=0gcJCRsBo7VqN5tD

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Wim de Vriend's avatar

"Sanctity of the State"? Has it merged with the Vatican?

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Chixbythesea's avatar

More or less, yes. Both are globalist institutions. The new Pope hugged the idol of the green agenda the other day as though it was his diety.

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Dave S's avatar

That photo is real postcard material, isn't it?

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Tardigrade's avatar

The architectural style goes beyond Brutalism…Terminal Ennui, perhaps?

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Dave S's avatar

LOL, indeed!

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Henrybowman's avatar

It looks like a tonsillectomy factory from the '50s.

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Tardigrade's avatar

Got it: Terminal Despair

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KHP's avatar

Please tell me this building was constructed by the DDR.

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jotolo's avatar

What goes around, comes around.

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Roland Müller's avatar

Man kann Orwell nur bewundern, „as civil servants with a special duty of loyalty to the state“, entweder hat er die Entwicklung, dass einmal alles auf den Kopf gestellt werden wird, genial vorhergesehen, oder, es war schon immer so, feinfühlig erkannt.

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