Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]

How will Europe function as they decline from relative prosperity into a hellhole similar to modern America? Will people take it lying down?

Yeah, they will. They’ll blame foreigners and immigration from Africa, the Middle East, Ukraine, etc. Those are things that won’t really stop anytime soon, and thanks to the wonders of climate change, will even increase. The fash will be given an evergreen source of scapegoats for the lack of success of the nation.

I was shocked to discover the Bozo is younger than me.

They will probably lose territory to Poland as well if this keeps up

Sigh

No they won’t. It was a fringe position in the Polish far-right before the election and now that the libs have won it’s even less likely to happen.

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. 😕

It’s incredibly easy to pin down all the negatives in a society on the left - especially if they’ve never been in power.

Half Life is a GOAT game (2 is mid) and Black Mesa is a good remake. There’s also a mod that recreates the Blue Shift expansion, but I don’t know if it’s even close to being finished.

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.

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 😔

DIE LINKE in East Germany is also a bunch of libs

This is just 19th Century racism.

Inherently reactionary by blood and culture.

Libs 100% don’t know what the PFLP is, or any of the secondary groups active in Palestine, including the Fatah and the Palestinian Authority.

To the average person’s view, the situation is filtered by the media and it is a dualism of:

Israel (Good Guys) vs Hamas (Evil Arbitrary Terrorists)

Yeah, the lib intellectuals will just claim China’s manipulating the numbers, and the regular libs will nod along.

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.

Sounds about Polish

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