patrick.net

MolotovCocktail says

They must think Germans are stupid!

"Why not? Our elites think the same thing of us."

No. This will ensure that the AfD candidates will be elected in a landslide.

The_Deplorable says

No. This will ensure that the AfD candidates will be elected in a landslide.

They can't win if they are too dead to run. This is Germany, not New Jersey.

https://twitter.com/scientificecon/status/1962757193372983359

A Syrian man in Germany says he does not like Germany because it is not a Muslim country and Germans are "non-believers."

When asked which is better, the Germans who welcomed him or the Muslim countries that did not welcome him, he responds: "The Muslims."

Whenever Germans head to the polls, one question dominates all debate: How strong will the populist AfD become this time? Last Sunday’s district and mayoral elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)—Germany’s most populous state—provided a stark answer.

While Germany’s state broadcaster spoke of a “sigh of relief” when the ruling CDU emerged victorious with 33.3% of votes, keeping the AfD in third place at 14.5%, this narrative of triumph masks a far more troubling reality for Germany’s political elite.

Minister President Henrik Wüst, despite his CDU’s electoral win, admitted he could no longer “sleep peacefully” given the AfD’s result. His anxiety is well-founded. Though his party technically won, the CDU achieved its worst post-war result in the state. Meanwhile, the traditionally dominant SPD collapsed to a mere 22.1%—also its worst performance ever, following an already disastrous showing five years prior.

The AfD, by contrast, nearly tripled its 2020 result under circumstances that would have crippled any other party.

This past month I started noticing Rammstein videos for the 1st time. They're pretty good! I just wish I understood what they were saying.

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

This past month I started noticing Rammstein videos for the 1st time. They're pretty good! I just wish I understood what they were saying.

Loved "Deutschland" and especially "Zick Zack" (Snip Snip) and the song close to my heart, "Dicke Titen" Very creative stuff, like the DDR Future and the "Red String" as a laser tying everything together.

While China gets cheap energy and increases production, German companies now get expensive energy and have to decrease production. This is a death spiral.

German police raid the home of renowned media critic and WELT columnist Norbert Bolz for an ironic tweet, in latest case of insane speech repression to hit the Federal Republic

Thousands of ordinary Germans have suffered similar intimidation, but today's raid is the first we know of to target a mainstream media figure.



In it, he makes light of one of the routine idiocies propounded by the leftist newspaper taz. In this case, taz had just published (and tweeted) the headline “Germany is awakening!” in response to a petition to strip the AfD politician Björn Höcke of his right to run for office and a renewed wave of demands to ban Höcke’s party. The problem is that the phrase “Germany is awakening” – “Deutschland erwacht” – is basically identical to a notorious Nazi slogan, specifically, an SA lyric.1 This would be why taz almost immediately revised their headline to something innocuous. Before they could do that, however, Bolz noticed their screwup and wrote that “Deutschland awaken!” was “a good translation of ‘woke,’” in this way drawing attention to their mistake and turning their words against them.

That happened on 20 January 2024. This morning, police investigating this nearly two year-old tweet raided Bolz’s Berlin home to seize evidence. They had with them a search warrant approved by the Tiergarten District Court. According to NiUS, investigators had earlier asked Bolz to surrender his devices voluntarily, but he refused. The search warrant lists the large number of replies, retweets and likes that Bolz’s post received as a criminally aggravating factor. Before departing, a police officer advised Bolz “to be more careful in future.”

Bolz stands under suspicion of having violated Section 86a of the German Criminal Code, which forbids the “Use of symbols of unconstitutional and terrorist organisations” – even though his obviously ironic, critical tweet does not actually violate this statute. It goes without saying that nobody at taz has been accused of any crime, although they are the ones whom Bolz merely called out for using the forbidden phrase in the first place.

German police finally taking action against Muslim groups.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/germany-bans-one-muslim-group-and-raids-two-others/ar-AA1PVEor

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has published an amazing story about an anonymous professor in Hessen and his run-in with the Hessian Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

This is one of the sixteen state divisions of the German domestic intelligence apparatus whose agents I refer to affectionately as the constitutional protectors. Domestic intelligence agencies in other countries primarily busy themselves with things like terrorism and counter-espionage, but the constitutional protectors of the Federal Republic spend a great part of their time monitoring ordinary citizens for signs of political unreliability. They publish periodic reports autistically delineating all of the species and subspecies of political wrongthink they encounter among the rabble, they help orchestrate media smear campaigns and they selectively disclose their findings to employers and business associates, thereby ensuring that political offenders are appropriately ostracised for believing or saying or perhaps even just seeming to believe or say the wrong things. ...

A few months after his stay at the Elsässer house, on 15 January 2024, he received a call at home. It was a receptionist at his university. She told him to cancel his afternoon class and appear instead at the office of the university President. This was at the start of a massive nationwide freakout “against the right,” set off by dishonest reports from government-adjacent “fact-checkers” that the AfD were secretly plotting mass deportations of migrants – just like the Nazis, or something. Our baffled professor wondered what he could have done wrong and hoped the meeting was just some pointless formality. ...

Our professor asked what this was all about, and to his amazement the President told him of his overnight stay at the Elsässer house. As in the DDR, so in the Federal Republic: Association with the politically suspect is the best way to become politically suspect yourself. The professor protested that it was merely an incidental visit and clarified that he had no political ties to the Elsässer family and barely knew Jürgen Elsässer at all, but the President merely asked him to leave the room. He needed a moment to consult privately with his Head of Disciplinary Affairs.

When the professor was allowed back in, the President issued him an official “ban on performing his duties” and informed him of the consequences: He had to hand over his university keys immediately … His work laptop would be confiscated the next day, and he would only be allowed to enter the building once more, under supervision, to clear out his office. After that, he would be prohibited from contacting his students. Finally, the professor was asked if he felt well enough to drive home and informed that psychosocial services stood ready to help. ...

Because our professor had not done anything wrong or even remotely actionable, there was nothing to investigate. There was only the recursive, probing, punitive investigation itself.

A new insane German speech crime investigation just dropped.

On 29 September of this year, a German man of libertarian persuasion known only by the pseudonym Damian N. tweeted the following:

"No, anyone who is financed by the state pays no net taxes; they live off taxes: Every civil servant, every politician, every employee in a state-owned enterprise, everyone who is subsidized and financed by the state. Not a single parasite pays any net taxes."

You can find the tweet here; as I write this, it has a grand total of 402 views and ten likes.

https://x.com/Wnschmstr/status/1972709094495604869

No matter: Yesterday morning, police acting on behalf of the Ulm public prosecutor’s office raided Damian’s home. He is suspected of the crime of inciting hatred (in violation of Section 130 of the German Criminal Code) for his rough remark about government “parasites.”

https://apollo-news.net/ueberlegen-sie-sich-was-sie-in-zukunft-posten-mann-erlebt-durchsuchung-und-radikale-polizeimassnahmen-nach-x-post/

... The identification procedures – roughly comparable to a police booking in the United States – were likely illegal in this case. Damian N. further claims that the police produced no search warrant and provided no receipt for his confiscated phone, which would represent a further violation of the law. Before leaving, an officer instructed our suspected speech criminal to “Think carefully about what you post in future,” because “You must realise that you are now under observation.”