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German voters in Thuringia democratically elect a candidate from the populist Alternative für Deutschland party, are denounced by state media and establishment politicians for being antidemocratic
Democracy is when you want what the late-stage liberal system wants to give you, and the system gives it to you. If you don’t want what the system wants to give you, your preferences are undemocratic and the system gives it to you anyway. You’re free to protest the things the system hates, but if you protest the system or any of its agenda, that’s undemocratic and you’ll be water cannoned to protect democracy. You’re free to believe in the principles espoused by late-stage liberal democratic politicians, but if you dispute them, you’re a danger to the free world and should be arrested. ...
“Democracy” has obviously acquired a strange new definition for our political establishment and their academic allies. It no longer denotes the right of citizens to elect representatives of their choosing, but rather their obligation to vote for parties and policies that are already favoured by the political elite. ...
Now, I am myself right-leaning, but you don’t have to be on the right to loathe these developments. The AfD aren’t antisemitic Nazi fascists as they’re often slurred. My American readers would find them very hard to differentiate from MAGA Republicans. What’s more, they’re the only major German party to have opposed lockdowns and mass vaccination, and to oppose the ruinous energy transition agenda and to call for an end to mass migration.
The clear aim is to deny German voters all possibility of mounting any democratic opposition to these increasingly unpopular lunacies. Germany is no longer even interested in democratic pretences. It’s a thinly-veiled oligarchy steered by a closed political elite, whose interests every day wander further from the people they claim to serve.
Democracy is when you want what the late-stage liberal system wants to give you, and the system gives it to you. If you don’t want what the system wants to give you, your preferences are undemocratic and the system gives it to you anyway. You’re free to protest the things the system hates, but if you protest the system or any of its agenda, that’s undemocratic and you’ll be water cannoned to protect democracy. You’re free to believe in the principles espoused by late-stage liberal democratic politicians, but if you dispute them, you’re a danger to the free world and should be arrested. ...
Mark Zuckerberg Splurges on Private Security For Himself While Financing 'Defund the Police'
The Facebook founder takes his own security seriously while defunding public safety measures for ordinary Americans.
Ben & Jerry's ice cream says the "US exists on stolen Indigenous land" and we must "commit to returning it" in July 4th post...
Hilarious. Hey - maybe they should go first:
On Friday, Don Stevens — chief of the Nulhegan Band of The Coosuk Abenaki Nation, one of four tribes descended from the Abenaki that are recognized in Vermont — told The Post ... that if the ice cream maker is "sincere," it should reach out to him as the company's corporate headquarters — located at 30 Community Dr. in South Burlington, Vt. — is situated on Western Abanaki land.
I mean, it doesn't get much simpler than that, right? Their own HQ is sitting on land those evil white people stole! Ben and Jerry aren't as evil as the rest of us colonizers, are they?? The only proper thing to do would be to hand the deed over to the local Abanaki tribe.
I mean, it doesn't get much simpler than that, right? Their own HQ is sitting on land those evil white people stole! Ben and Jerry aren't as evil as the rest of us colonizers, are they?? The only proper thing to do would be to hand the deed over to the local Abanaki tribe.
The regulators say everything is fine and dandy, but the market participants know otherwise.
Prior to September 17, 2019 banks used to loan each other money for short periods of time. Since that date, banks no longer loan to each other. If banks need short term funds, they get the loan directly from the Fed's discount window. The banks know that on any given day the system could collapse and their counter party could simply stiff them.
The regulators say everything is fine and dandy, but the market participants know otherwise.
Took me a while to get this. Now I see it as as the sexually deviant new left killing and eating the guts of the old left, the left that used to be exclusively about workers' pay and conditions.
I could feel them, in real time, leaving me behind.
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