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Missed opportunity to caption it as Musk (right) Trump (far right)
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Nvm
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Doesn’t say that it’s a presser, but let me dream 🥺🙏
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria...
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Feed showed your post and another one of an eo that calls for “using the military and other national security assets for law and order” back to back 😬
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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So the US is an apple, not a banana republic?
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Not saying that that argument was right then or now though.
Just that people grasping for straws to make some logic out of all this isn’t new.
And that it’s just not possible because there is none.
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During Trump I the copium was that he’s trying to move manufacturing back to the US right in time for automation to make it labour-free and thus basically printing free money.
That they didn’t even think of making this argument now just shows how the tariffs are purely vibe-based and dumb.
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Having a separate internet domain (.pm) is probably what confused whatever ai they used
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The most plausible explanation I’ve read so far is that they hallucinated themselves into the Weltmacht oder Niedergang (world power or downfall) mentality of pre-WWI Germany because they couldn’t cope with american exceptionalism even being questioned.
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Yes, in Latin during middle school iirc (my teacher thought the Greeks were based, so whenever he could get away with it the texts were Latin translations of Greek origin)
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The closest is probably Verfassungspatriotismus
wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_patriotism
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It matters because the vast majority journalists still use the site
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I think drawing the actual circle is overly simplistic, but if you quint hard enough an ‘order’-time-diagram depicting the the rise and eventual decline of empires, ideas, etc. would look somewhat close to a fee overlapping sine waves.
(But so does anything if you got enough sines so idk)
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And because their only point of reference was shitty YA literature/movies/anime, where the bad guy really is more competent and the protagonists only win through deus ex machina and the power of friendship, they uncovered this 'conspiracy' and drew the conclusion that they just have to be more evil.
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And I'm sure it's more complex than this, but I wouldn't be surprised if a good enough explanation is that their ego got hurt in high school because some girl/whoever they view as 'lesser', who - unlike them - actually put in the work, got better grades.
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I really get the feeling that those people think that knowledge and experience are just a mirage and that the liberals through their institutions are trying to conceal the 'fact' that true competence can only achieved by being as ruthless and evil as possible.
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Biedermeier on steroids
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Idk, succeeding and somehow turning Springer against right-wing parties right before the German elections would be pretty funny
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I should add that I get the feeling he views the AfD as beneath him, as a tool he can exploit against the SPD and Greens.
A hubris that is currently backfiring spectacularly in Germany.
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Looks like they’re trying to set the right historical context first.
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‘Our last hope is the FDP. Only if they become very strong - and that could happen - will the green-red [SPD/GREENS] disaster be avoided. Can't we do more for them [the FDP]? They are the only ones taking a consistent stance against the corona measures madness. It's a patriotic duty.’
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‘free West, fuck the intolerant Muslims and all the other nonsense’
‘And of course: Zionism above all else. Israel my country.’
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‘My compass goes like this: human rights - no compromises. Rule of law - zero tolerance and everything in favour of pure doctrine. Lifestyle (( as far as fucking and things like that are concerned - Fritz zwo: each to his own)’
‘Environmental policy - I am very much in favour of climate change.’
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Some other quotes from the article:
‘The ossis are either communists or fascists. They don't do anything in between. Disgusting.’
‘My mum always warned me about the Ossis. From Kaiser Wilhelm to Hitler to Honnecker without having enjoyed US reeducation in between. That leads directly to AFD.’
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This is the article where that quote comes from:
www.zeit.de/2023/16/math...
It seems like the party he's closest to seems to be the FDP and that he's very much against the AFD.
It also mentions that he’s close to Peter Thiel and that his son is something like Thiel’s Chief of Staff.
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This was way before I was born, but I’ve been told that many of the problems we face now were already present in the USENET era.
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Funny enough, most of these fires are caused by power line failures
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Not sure if repeating the Opferthese makes it any more true
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That one used to be a little more on the nose
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Wahrscheinlich ballert er das leer und braucht dann fünf Minuten zum nachladen
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Gonna have to ask serious questions about the degree if it doesn’t even filter by the common sense that you should ditch your ghost gun after you committed murder
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̶S̶h̶i̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶c̶i̶f̶i̶ ̶n̶o̶v̶e̶l̶ Gedankenexperiment
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Wenn man so darüber nachdenkt könnte die (linke) Kritik an seiner Blackrockbeschäftigung seine möglicherweise beste Wahlkampfhilfe sein, da sie eine (Wirtschafts)kompetenz suggeriert, die man einem Berufspolitiker nicht zuschreiben würde.
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Klingt sehr danach als ob er einen typischen Politikerjob bei Blackrock hatte.
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“Ordinary Organizations: Why Normal Men Carried Out the Holocaust” by Stefan Kühl