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  • Oh, no! Their debt rose by 1,x percent… to a total of ~64%. That’s nearly 20% under EU average. And while countries with rates of 100-160% (let’s not even talk about Japan or US as they are playing in another league entirely) take on more debt to push the economy in times of crisis Germany is not spending anything as no new debts (beyond 0,35%) are allowed constitutionally.

    Sure… Germany totally has a debt problem. One of retarded politicians stuck in economic ideas of the 1970s that still don’t understand the difference between a country’s economy and business economy. So they refuse to take on any debt when everyone else does to make their location more attractive for companies via investments.

    And still the German economy is only shrinking if you round rediculous low numbers up to 0,1%. Guess the country will deindustrialise and collaps any day now. I hope someone tells the companies building massive new production sites in Germany that they are wasting their money on lost case they will lose all its industry… somehow…


  • When your government has taken on debt with the assumption that number keep go up, that’s a problem.

    And again, the opposite is true. They have reduced debt constantly for decades, did not spend big sums on stimuli while covid (in fact the recent budgetary discussion was about the unused covid funds) and are still not spending anything on the economy. If they actually would take on debt to invest it into economy boosts like everyone araund them does right now, they would obviously have growth.

    So they sat at ~+/-0 now and everyone loudly cries recession, doom and apocalypse because two quarters in a row had a (rounded down) -0.1% which technically qualifies.


  • Sure… so much common wisdom about Germany. Including their immidiate collaps any day now for the last 20+ years. Or the 5%+ economy loss should they not get Russian gas (after all those people who froze to death of course).

    In reality those massive losses -coming out of covid, still having supply chain issues and with not even a fraction of the stimulus money other countries spend to counteract on top of no more gas- are now what? +/-0? And with some more obsolete techs slowly sourcing out parts for cost reasons while new technologies open up shop there at the same time.

    The only actual risk for Germany (and a lot of other countries) is that people start to believe the bullshit, the outrage farming and doom scrolling trash and all the usual propaganda they are flodded with on a daily basis.





  • In several interviews in British media, where he spoke (uncensored) about censorship in the West being more intense and more rediculous than in China. About the fact that he -while freely talking on TV- is somehow not allowed to freely talk about the truth. And about how “the sense of guilt around the persecution of the Jewish people” is weaponized against Arabs via the “Jewish community’s significant influence in the media, finance and culture in the US”.

    The latter btw is the bullshit he originally argued. So he is in fact openly telling us to blame all that evil Jewish influence while at the same complaining that he is not allowed to speak about exactly what he is allowed to repeatedly say in interviews…






  • But that would solve something. And that’s not wanted.

    So instead we will lament ballooning costs and build times for nuclear and invent narratives how that’s totally not caused by nuclear being a shitty alternative to renewables and storage.

    This way we can spend another few decades on building a none-solution while just accidently also having sunk so much money already that changing to an actual solution doesn’t make sense anymore.

    Oh, sorry. Were we expected to stop burning fossil fuels? Doesn’t seem to work for some reason, but don’t worry. Building nuclear will totally solve this. Any decade now… (And no, we totally did not build to little anyway, just to make sure it will never solve anything even if the unimaginable happens and build times and costs become manageable…)


  • Yes, that’s a funny tale. And polemic bullshit…

    In reality anti-semitism is still wide-spread, no one needs to turn those people. But for quite some time it wasn’t acceptable to say that bullshit out loud. And now a lot of those people are even willing to support a terror organisation like Hamas implicitly or openly, because that gives them the chance to finally have a justification to express their anti-semitism openly again.

    When an UN commissioner openly talks about all “media being controlled by the Jewish lobby” you don’t need any made-up excuse like “they are critical about us, so they must be anti-semite” anymore. That guy is an actual anti-semite, shown by parroting a century old anti-semitic conspiracy about their secret world control.

    And it’s even worse. People like you are part of the problem. As long as there are easy to see anti-semites among Israel’s critics, but you prefer to ignore them, it’s actually easier for Israel to run with the bullshit story of how all criticism is anti-semitic and anti-Israel. Because the easiest way to lie is to hide it between some truths.

    Get rid of obvious anti-semites among critics that anyone can clearly spot -unless you are a total moron or antisemite yourself- and suddenly your criticism seems so much more valid and is not vulnerable anymore to being attacked as antisemitsm, something Israel’s propaganda departments will happily exploit. Fail to do so and you look just like a moron/anti-semite, actually helping Israel’s bullshit PR by devaluating your own arguments.


  • Says the guy cheerleading genocide committed by an authoritarian regime.

    Problem is I didn’t. I called out bad journalism. Because bullshit narratives and tribalism make any actual discussion meaningless.

    But then your see something that is seemingly criticising “your team” and instantly your delusions get triggered and you hallucinate how I “cheerlead for genocide” when I did actually not say anything other than that this report is polemic low quality bullshit.


  • There is a very clear and limit and number. It’s zero. Zero people should be bombed. Zero people would be bombed without a despicable terror attack against Israel (oh, wait… as I just learned in this very thread here this never actually happened and it was a legitimate military attack against military targets somehow…). Zero people would be bombed without Hamas using the population as human shields. Also zero people should have been killed on October 7. Zero rockets should be fired each day at Israel. And zero neighbouring countries or factions should cheer for a newe excuse to attack Israel.

    Do you want to know another relevance regarding that number? If you have no ability to argue without questioning the general right of Israel to exist, without questioning any right of self defense, without questionings if Israel was actually attacked, and without falling back to a “oh, the evil Jews are plotting together with corrupt world leaders again…”-narratives, then you have zero valid arguments, because you are a fucking anti-semite.

    And then you have zero legitimacy to argue

    So, again. Slowly this time because you -probably intentionally, but I’m an optimist by heart- seemed to have missed it: This pile of shit is not journalism. It would be low effort even for an opinion piece, which it isn’t. It’s full of polemics, lies and can’t even manage too stay internally consistent (a “litany” of arguments is at the same time not existing, facts become claims when mentioned by Israel, while claims become facts when it’s against them…) or free of anti-semite narratives.

    I know… in this world where arguing about people killing each other has become a team sport and everything needs to be black and white it’s nearly inconceivable but… Pause for a moment, take a deep breath and try to imagine just for one moment the following -nowadays neartly heretical- thought: Israel’s government can be a clownshow of genocidal morons, Hamas is the exact same, and at the same time 70%+ of the people arguing against Israel are still doing so not based on facts but on anti-semitic narratives. And those people need to called out on their bullshit. Because not doing it devaluates the actual discussion. If I can’t call out bullshit arguments as bullshit without being attacked for supporting a genocide, how is this or any discussion (or any court case) legitimate, if we all see clearly that it’s not about the arguments but a popularity contest between two teams.

    Which is what I did. I called this trashy piece of non-journalism out. And for this I now have been called insane, toxic and a supporter of genocide. Because you are brain-washed into believing this is a team sport, so you happily accept anti-semites on your team that is obviously better than the enemy… Guess what. It’s not. You are both wrong.

    Sorry to tell you, but team “I accept anti-semitism, lies and bullshit and ignore Hamas, because I’m pro-Palestine” is just as insane as team “Every crticism is anti-semitism, “targeted area bombing” and deportation plans aren’t crazy”.