Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name] @ Gosplan14_the_Third @hexbear.net

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Or, the fighting will eventually stop and the current status quo will remain permanent. It's hard to tell.

It's less wacky politicians (though there undoubtedly are some that actually believe that) and more nationalist propaganda - showing Poland as an island of righteousness against the removed west or something. It's an attempt by the far-right Law and Justice Party to gain support via culture war and shocking people into disgust and hoping they back you based on that. Even at the cost of pretty blatant lies.

It works on my family, at least in part. 😕

0 chance. The SPD agrees, the CDU agrees, most of the AfD except the very nazi ones agree, the FDP and the Greens agree enthusiastically and likely even the Left Party is likely to have a sizeable amount of people voting for. Probably only the BSW (the left wing conservative splitter party of Sahra Wagenknecht) will vote against.

Kaiji hooked me HARD when I started it. The anime has a fantastic narrator as well.

Well, there's a bit of context behind it:

The name is a meme in Poland and comes from the 1969 adventure-comedy mini-series Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I unleashed World War 2).

In the second episode, the main character is in hiding insideof Nazi Germany after escaping from a Prisoner of War camp. He is eventually arrested for an unrelated reason and this is the fake name he gives to the German bureaucrat using the typewriter. Unsurprisingly, he is baffled by the spelling, especially once he gets it right... since he gets an even more difficult fake birthplace to spell by the MC.

Edit: If you mean Grzegorz, it means George and isn't too difficult, I suppose.

Grzegorz is a perfectly normal name, and it's not their fault if they have a difficult surname 😔

Easier yes, I suppose.

It's still a half measure that will at best delay the worst effects of climate change (such as many other mainstream proposals to combat it) and there's a difference between how radical the changes to society will be and whether climate change will be bad, very bad, very very bad or lead to Medieval death rates

Have fun trying to stop climate change without reducing meat consumption, not to mention other problems like desertification and soil degradation.

The earth is an ecosystem with a metabolism, and humans take out of it way more than return, and with capitalism that isn't going to change anytime soon.

You can go "sweetie, but meat tastes good!" all you want, not to mention your bizzarre comment on optimizing land usage for population growth. It's not a question of morality - it's a question of not being a fool.

He's not advocating Europe separate from the US, but become a military superpower in its own right by having as large a military as the US. I am sure both Petr Pavel and Joe Biden agree on enforcing the "rules-based international order".

To think that the EU suddenly wants to ditch the US because they see them as a burden/dangerous is wishful thinking. In fact the only countries willing to do that might be France, because the local bourgeois don't like to be limited by the US on pursuing their imperialist interests in Africa.

To be fair it doesn't say that. He says modern day Germany is worse than these days, and there could be various reasons for it:

Be it the economic decline (organized looting by the west Germans in the 90s) of the region which left a permanent mark on local areas which similarly to Poland have been reduced to dependency from the wealthier neighbor to a large part. This paired with the joys of the market (among other things, an utter unwillingness to reduce regional inequalities) is a popular point out east. (personal anecdote) my mom also likes blaming most economic woes on the EU and Euro.

"Foreigners and gay people are literally 1984. We don't have them out east, yet the Wessis are trying to shove them down our throats." + the a bit more exotic yet also popular "covid was a lie and global warming is a lie too!"

There's of course the possibility they retain some progressive ideas and thought the GDR was the better state in spite of its flaws.

Personal anecdote, but I've been to Saxony yesterday on my way to Poland and I saw a car with the EU flag covered up by the GDR coat of arms and thought to myself how there was probably a 70/30 chance of them either being a chud local nationalist or a communist. Indeed, entering a random town to stop by an ATM, there was an AfD informational stand and a lot of right wing/football hooligan stickers; even if that's barely proof of anything.

Oh, it's Axel Springer.

They've been peddlers of right wing propaganda in Germany for decades now, especially in BILD. There's even pictures from protests around 1968 hating on them.

I love how everyone here is treating this as proof of Germany going full Nazi and staring the fourth Reich instead of just the lib government being as full of shit as the libs in Canada and elsewhere.

Praising Nazis is mainstream nowadays

I think Honecker was in the same prison in the 90s as the Nazis put him in in the 1930s.

Every time I say something positive about Poland, I get hit by something awful in return

So:

The Bozo was in a nationalist organization since before 1939, and according to what he said it was supported by the whole village, including organized campaigns against Polish rule. He later goes on to praise a teacher of that nationality basically as "one of the good ones".

He goes to talk about the Stalin era rule of western Ukraine and mentions several kinds of people getting "1984d", but the main thing that bothered him was that the communists... were actually Ukrainians! (No, they spoke Ukrainian. They surely had to be Russian!)

He mentioned that Hitler put Ukrainians in concentration camps, but he goes very very easy on them. After all, they allowed them religion classes instead of scientific ones and to be as nationalistic as they wanted + some nonsense about gentlemen.

He then goes to call it the two best years of his time and gets giddy at the thought of killing "beasts with red stars on their forehead" and goes to call the nazis the lesser evil, because something something different rotten apples.

He compares Ukraine to the Jews and brags how they did a fuckton of PR work to spread their view of the situation, because hey why not have gusano orgs spread interventionism.

Finally, he says how bad the city of his youth had become, because its aesthetics were ruined and how the people had become without spirit or whatever. The usual nationalistic nonsense of how the big national "we" has been corrupted by bad apples or something and that with more love of the nation everything would be fine.

Critical support for Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; I hope the Bozo gets to live his last days in a jail cell in Lublin or wherever.

German right wing politician does politics in name of the German car industry, what a surprise.

Angel Densetsu's great.

Twitter brainrot

But yeah.

Additional Context: The state government of Bavaria (and several others around that same period, with similar ideas) passed a controversial reform of police laws in 2017-2018 (It was polemically called "The strictest police law since 1945").

It included changes such as:

• increased allowance of use of personal data by the police forces.
• allowing the police to openly film and photograph people participating in public gatherings.
• allowing the police to infringe on postal secrecy and to confiscate mail without a person's knowledge. (if given permission by the courts)
• allowing the use of police spies. Including even entering people's homes if given permission.

As well as making previous restrictions such as on "probable danger" way more lax.

Really the only thing that would make sense is some radlib that would strive to normalize relations in the name of pacifism or whatever or some libertarian who'd do the whole "free trade with anyone" shtick.

Neither has come to prominence nor is rising in popularity, at least to my knowledge as someone from overseas.