Jester's license in Germany:

• Zölle = Trade Tariffs
• Klima ... = climate change(?)
• Massendeportationen (?) = Mass deportations
• And no, Annex-Ionen are no ions of annex, but annexations

It is said jesters say the truth...

And yes, I am very angry and very worried. WW2 is forgotten...

Edited March 4Mar 4 by Eise

52 minutes ago, Eise said:

And yes, I am very angry and very worried. WW2 is forgotten...

We forget things that are a few years (maybe months/weeks?) ago. I am also worried that there there is just so much going on that just the latest biggest thing erases everything else (considering e.g., the historic gains of the AfD).

(Weidel is the current leader of the AfD, Estwaehler are folks who voted for the first time).

There are politicians in Germany who called the holocaust a "Fliegenschiss" (literally, fly shit, meaning something insignificant), in German history. The world is shifting, powered by a never ending stream of idiocy. And I would be very angry, too, if I wasn't so tired.

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Edited March 4Mar 4 by Genady

4 hours ago, Eise said:

And yes, I am very angry and very worried. WW2 is forgotten...

Welcome to the resistance. Never forget. 

18 hours ago, MSC said:

Welcome to the resistance. Never forget. 

Lest we forget, has been forgotten and replaced with the latest iteration of the Hitler youth, that are now pentioners... 

21 hours ago, dimreepr said:

Lest we forget, has been forgotten and replaced with the latest iteration of the Hitler youth, that are now pentioners... 

You spelled Senators wrong...

On 3/4/2025 at 2:33 PM, Eise said:

Jester's license in Germany:

• Zölle = Trade Tariffs
• Klima ... = climate change(?)
• Massendeportationen (?) = Mass deportations
• And no, Annex-Ionen are no ions of annex, but annexations

It is said jesters say the truth...

And yes, I am very angry and very worried. WW2 is forgotten...

Yes, the good thing (if there is anything "good" about this disaster)  is this shows German people are alive to the seriousness of the sudden switch in alliances. We will all (and I mean the UK and Norway plus the EU) need to put our hand in our pocket to fund a rapid rearmament of Europe.  Taxes must rise and we need a lot more of those excellent German panzers. Not only to help Ukraine but to defend the eastern boundary of the EU, especially Poland and the Baltics. The USA is no longer an ally and could easily become the enemy, at least in terms of intelligence sharing and cyber warfare. We have to kick the US out of the Five Eyes system. Anything we tell them may go straight to Moscow.     

3 hours ago, exchemist said:

We have to kick the US out of the Five Eyes system. Anything we tell them may go straight to Moscow.

I wish I could say our intelligence community is smarter and more sensible than El Douche, but am no longer confident that will stay the case.  It will be quite the goatf---, trying to remove operations like Pine Gap, in Australia, if the remaining Four Eyes decide to separate and keep up intel ops without the massive US technical infrastructure.  Since Pine Gap is a US base, for example, what does Australia do?  IIRC, there has long been a movement in Australia to close Pine Gap and boot out the US - I'm guessing current events are giving them momentum.  

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

I wish I could say our intelligence community is smarter and more sensible than El Douche, but am no longer confident that will stay the case.  It will be quite the goatf---, trying to remove operations like Pine Gap, in Australia, if the remaining Four Eyes decide to separate and keep up intel ops without the massive US technical infrastructure.  Since Pine Gap is a US base, for example, what does Australia do?  IIRC, there has long been a movement in Australia to close Pine Gap and boot out the US - I'm guessing current events are giving them momentum.  

A number of British former diplomats have suggested we need to do this. Trump may even at this moment be planning an invasion of Canada, for Christ's sake!  I have little doubt the heads of intelligence in the other Five Eyes group will be urgently talking about how this could be done, hard though it will undoubtedly be. They may start by no longer sharing their most sensitive information. Obviously nothing on Ukraine.

There is also a move for the EU to provide a backup for Ukraine to Musk's Starlink, which they have been using for military operations, in case Musk pulls the plug on that. There is another system I gather, a French one. 

De Gaulle was right, it seems, to insist that France should have independent defence capability. They have their own ballistic missiles, unlike Britain whose system was bought from the US. 

The modern world, eh, we all need each other but no one wants to pay the taxes... 🙄

And now it was 'Fastnacht' in Switzerland. And it shows how just a small video/picture can lead to fake news:

It was posted at Instagram, commented with 'protest against Trump':

Link to the video.

But the group itself meant it as a satire about our modern discussion culture. There was no reference to Trump at all.

And yes, why does the government allow this? In the first place there is the "jester's freedom". And in the second place: because we have freedom of speech.

5 hours ago, Eise said:

in the second place: because we have freedom of speech.

US leadership is apparently planning to amend this particular constitutional amendment, even if only in action and deed.