Wartime

Sometimes you wonder if the people who work for the (mass) media think of themselves like having a little of the touch of a deity. Totally overestimate their role in and for society and the services in practice they deliver.
Because - how could it be otherwise that alpha journalists who are economically relatively safe mindlessly repeat propaganda over and over again aggressively that screams of being such, or even join creating fake shit where it’s obvious later if you see it that it’s made up, that it’s been created, artificially arranged and cut together? If people from the outside can find out without the use of higher science that something is arranged circus, how come that the journalists who report the crap can’t recognize it similarly?
If that’s the case, there’s only one option... That they know they present fake and arranged shit. But they either don’t care or harbor the mentality “the ends justify the means”.
Meaning: They imagine being on a mission from the Lord himself or some sort of that.
Think like they have truth, justice and rightfulness on their side, and what they proclaim is totally unquestionable. Only a fool would dare to do that.

Because - it’s noticeable that acting as a tool of propaganda and war factories isn’t solely done by people who work for the media whose position is in economically precarious conditions, that they have to do that as part of their job because they don’t have the necessary personal freedom to refuse doing something.
Even more it’s being done by people who rather have made it up to the highest ranks, who are in an economically favorable position, who are firmly employed and don’t have to worry so soon about not getting engaged anymore by certain media houses, fired or dropped by the whole “craft” itself because of supposedly “having gone crazy” or “having joined the enemy side/the side of the unreasonable ones”.
So... if you can factually afford refusing, but don’t do it and even hang around at the front of the information war directly, rehashing the crap of the powerful ones or crap that’s supposed to influence the powerful ones (especially from politics), then there is nothing left but assuming a targeted will and belief in the shit that you spread and propagate.
Combined with probably overestimating yourself and your personal role for the ongoings of the world outside of human society, and subscribing to some sort of megalomania “I’m the news content because I make the news content!” (similarly to “I am the law!”) - the same arbitrariness that one can see with people who are self-righteous from the depths of their hearts and are little tyrants below the surface.

Mal eine andere Betrachtungsweise zu dem herumgegangenen Video der reichen Sprösslinge auf Sylt, die da meinten, besoffen ihr "Deutschland den Deutschen" singen zu müssen:

Ich weiß nicht, ob es der Sache gerecht wird, es allein auf Rassismus und Ausländerfeindlichkeit reduzieren.

Letztes Jahr grölten sie alle was von "und seine Puffmama heißt Layla", weil das der einschlägige und eingängige Party-Hit in den Festzelten und auf Feierlichkeiten war.
Wie so immer war es auch da schon merklich so: Dem besoffenen Publikum auf solchen Veranstaltungen ist es ziemlich egal, was sie da mitgrölen. Hautsache, es ist so eingängig, dass man es auch noch in der größten geistigen Umnebelung schafft. - Gesangeskünste: Überhaupt keine Voraussetzung. Je schiefer erlaubt, desto besser.

Irgendeinem Idioten, am wahrscheinlichsten aus dem rechten Spektrum, wird natürlich irgendwann einmal aufgefallen sein, dass man die Parole "Deutschland den Deutschen, Ausländer 'raus" zum Takt von Gigi D'Agostinos "L'amour toujours" grölen kann, weil der Takt und die Silbenanzahl annähernd passt.
Und der wird damit mal angefangen haben, diesen Unsinn von irgendwo aus als Startpunkt zu verbreiten. Sodass es sich von dort aus seinen Weg tiefer und breiter ins Internet gefunden hat und andere diese Unsitte nachgeahmt haben.

Nun hat sich - so ekelhaft das klingt - diese Geschmacklosigkeit wie eine Art neuer Party-Hit weiter verbreitet und Leute wie die auf Sylt grölen es (mit), weil es in ihren Hirnen gar nicht verstanden wird, gar nicht ankommt, dass es sich dabei um eine rechte Parole handelt. Für sie ist es nur ein weiteres "Lied" bzw. ein weiterer Feierbrauch, bei dem sie im Suff zum Spaß (!) mitmachen. - Spaß, nichts ernsthaftes.
Sie kriegen nicht einmal mit, was sie dort wörtlich von sich geben (sodass, wenn man schon nicht erkennt, dass sich dabei um einen rechten Inhalt handeln könnte, man aber am Wortlaut erkennt, dass es etwas ist, dass entweder in diese Richtung geht oder sich schlicht sozial einfach verbietet).

So banal es klingt, aber der Vorfall erweckt mehr den Eindruck, dass es etwas über die grundlegende Ungebildetheit und kognitive Dummheit der Teilnehmer und der verschiedenen sozialen Schichten und Gruppen, denen sie angehören (oder wofür sie optisch stehend angesehen werden), aussagt als über etwaige rechte Haltungen oder gar "Rassismus" (wie es wieder pauschal viel in den Mainstreammedien behauptet wird).

...Hämisch könnte man zu diesem Vorfall sagen: Wenigstens ist so was mal in Westdeutschland passiert, und das sogar noch unter Wohlstandsverwöhnten.
Damit man sich von Seiten der Mainstream-Parteien und -medien nicht wieder damit herausreden kann, dass es irgendwo im Osten in der Provinz passiert ist - irgendwo in einem Gebiet, dem man obendrein noch zuschreibt, dass dort besonders viele sozial schwache leben, und man sich daher über solche Vorfälle nicht wirklich wundern muss.
Dass zu erkennen ist, die gleichen beschissenen Haltungen und asozialen Angewohnheiten, respektive die gleiche kognitive Dummheit und Ungebildetheit, sie steckt inzwischen in allen Einkommensschichten drin. Selbst bei denjenigen, die sich Zugang zu guter Bildung leisten können und wo man das Beibringen von allgemeinen Manieren bisher noch nicht als so ein großes Problem gesehen oder angenommen hat. - Wo beides, offensichtlich, nicht viel gebracht hat, weil diejenigen gar nicht zuhören, und/oder wo sie gegen deren primitive Triebgesteuertheit und dem allgemeinen Verfall von sozialen Manieren und Gepflogenheiten nicht viel ausrichten konnte.

...Bemitleiden kann man in diesem Kontext nur den armen Gigi D'Agostino.
Man kann von seiner Musik und Italodance halten was man will; man muss es nicht mögen.
Aber - solchen Scheiß hat auch er nicht verdient. Dass man so was mit seinen Liedern anstellt.
Politisch/gesellschaftlich hat der Mann nie für so etwas gestanden, noch sich jemals derartig geäußert - auch nicht in Bezug auf seine Heimat Italien.
Und gewiss wird er das auch in Zukunft nicht tun.
Er hat mit solchem Dreck persönlich überhaupt nichts zu tun.

Ohnehin ist es "seltsam" bis "schleierhaft" wie es irgendjemandem einfallen kann - und erst recht, dass Leute das als dummen Partyspaß nachahmen -, auf dem Takt eines mittlerweile fast 25 (!) Jahre alten Dance-Klassikers diese noch viel ältere, bekannte (!) rechte Parole zu skandieren.
Mit Verlaub - beides ist kalter Kaffee. Wohlmöglich ist beides sogar des Öfteren älter als die Brote, die auf die Parties gehen und/oder erneut (!) diese rechte Parole grölen (ob mit oder ohne "L'amour toujours" dazu).

Allerdings... wer weiß - vielleicht war das sogar einst die Absicht dahinter.
Eine alte, schon von mehreren Generationen junger Leute wiedergekäute Parole möglichst wirksam und einfach an die nächste gebracht.
Und das in so einem Stil, dass sie es als gar nicht so schlimm empfinden.
Das funktioniert natürlich am besten, wenn man sich dafür etwas so eingängiges sucht, dass es locker mal zwei Generationen schon kennen - dafür taugt nicht gerade ein letztjähriger oder nur bescheidene 5 Jahre alter Partysong.
Besser geht das mit einem Evergreen, der bis heute nicht aus den Playlisten der DJs und sogar von Kapellen (also genrefremder Musik und Art, Musik zu spielen) verschwunden ist.

...Eine altbekannte Strategie von rechts also. Seine Ansichten und Parolen möglichst volkstümlich und insbesondere volksdümmlich unterzujubeln, sodass auch der Dümmste sie noch mitschreien kann.
Je dümmer und ungebildeter das Publikum, auf das es trifft, desto größer das Einsickern und der Wiederholungsfaktor.

...Und eben danach sieht es aus, wenn es um die "Hoffähigkeit" solcher klar erkennbaren Floskeln und Inhalte geht.
Man setzt bewusst auf den Faktor "der Durchschnittsbürger ist inzwischen so dumm und ungebildet, dass er nicht einmal mehr mitkriegt, was er falsch macht, wenn er etwas falsch macht".

Die Fußball-WM in Katar wird das sportlich unbedeutenste Turnier irgendeiner Sportart seit langem werden. - So lang sowieso noch irgendjemandem danach ist, solche internationalen Veranstaltungen mit Unterhaltungsziel abzuhalten.

† Hans-Christian Ströbele

(Der letzte echte Grüne der west- und gesamtdeutschen Partei "Die Grünen".)

Just a critical question: US gun control activists - where are you if it's about the countless US foreign military aid and the guns it sells to the rest of the world? On top, to partly dubious and shady places, organizations and groups?
You also just stand ready for action if it's about your precious kids who could get shot at school or at their college by some weirdo or a kid from their own ranks that was bullied for all its life! If this shit can affect yourself, you feel the urgent need to do something against it - for example, to call for laws that are unrealistic that don't solve any problem.
But if the dying happens thousands of kilometers away from you, if it's not your kids who die, not your spouses, friends and relatives, you're nowhere to be seen, like you don't give a damn.
You know what? In your case, it stinks of typical narrow-mindedness, the usual US-centrism and it reeks of paid activism.
You just only care about something if it happens next door or the people who could be affected by it could be someone you personally know. If it could be somebody you hold dear.
You don't care a single bit about the general concept and anything else outside of your narrow ken that you have picked for yourself to act outraged!

Fuck you, people, FUCK YOU!
And fuck your stupid claims to care about people who die through firearms!
You're just a bunch of clowns in town!

After a failed attempt to pull Russia into a war with Ukraine again for the millionth time (the so-called "invasion plans" from December) since the coup d'etat in 2014 and a failed attempt to overthrow the government in Belarus in 2020, the full-grown violence in Kazakhstan now is supposed to be an act of "accident" or honestly result from domestic issues?
This big picture that you get see rather looks like the so-called "orange peel strategy" ("Orangenschalen-Strategie") that already the German Kaiser William II tried to use in order to weaken the Russian Empire, win on the Eastern front in WWI and gain control over Russian territories. - Breaking border territories away from the core empire, like peeling an orange, in order to receive the rich essence lying in the main land.

All three countries used to be and/or are important partners to Russia, in two of them have violent riots taken place over the years with verifiable moral, media, material and financial support of West European countries and the United States.

"Evil to him who evil thinks" if you scratch your head and wonder why, of all places on the earth who are plagued with inner conflicts (which is practically every country by now due to the enemyship against the Covid measures by a growingly radical and violent minority of the population; or take the 1-year-anniversary of the storming of United States Capitol in mind), such coordinated violent actions happen in Kazakhstan - and not in, like, some Western country?

Ein sehr böser Gedanke, der mir kam:
Beim Hochwasser am Rhein können alle eigentlich noch “froh” sein (so makaber es sich anhört), dass nicht dazwischen ein noch laufendes oder ehemaliges Atomkraftwerk von den Überschwemmungen getroffen wurde (so viele wie in der Nähe von diesem Fluss nämlich situiert sind)...
Das wäre nämlich nicht besser gelaufen als in Fukishima.

This year, until now, the temperatures for summer have been slowly ramping up.
That's how it's best and how it should be for nature.
Nobody needs desert temperatures of 40°C already at the beginning of June in Central Europe. (Even if some liked to have that because of their having been talked into "needing sun and warmth" for decades by Western capitalist wealth.)

These days it’s ringing one year with Covid-19 being globally around - and, thinking realistically, the end still can not be foreseen. Although, admittedly, the means against the disease that this new coronavirus causes have grown from that status of “zero” last year.

So, let’s forge a summarization what there could be learned through the course of this year past...

One thing that, for sure, could be very clearly learned, wherever you lived on this planet: Capitalism is on its last legs. Or better say: It’s not the economy form anymore which can seemingly supply everyone with everything he/she needs. Also, it’s not the capitalism anymore that people used to know from glorious and wealthy times.
Why is that?
It’s because of the globalized economy that is around there now, that it has formed over decades, and the “development plan” of “let’s develop the world and bring supply and goods to the most difficult areas of the world” has shifted to “let’s make money with the least amount of work and investment” - which in practice means “minimal setup for everything, so that the circle of making money is still being kept up, but don’t think about the future or possible disturbances of that one setup for achieving something”. A wobbly base for supply with necessary goods.

As the virus went around the globe and other states than China and its East Asian neighbors realized that this is a topic that affects them also, this should have become very visible as nearly all countries of the world suddenly charged the market of face masks, disposable gloves and protection suits and found themselves getting way too few than needed because most of the production worldwide had been outsourced to China. - Here not the Middle Kingdom is to blame, but just greed, first world arrogance and a slightly racist mindset of Western enterprises which think like “things that have become minor activities which get paid just a few pennies - these can very well be done by some primitive people; for us this is beyond our standards”.
Enterprises and the big economy never wasted a thought about “What if there could suddenly be a spike in need?”, they didn’t care for a home-brew supply just in case whatever happens.
The only thing they cared about was their profit and about exploiting some folks in a country far away from their headquarters. And they have assured themselves of that never anything is going to happen which may break their concept how they had arranged the supply chains.

As the first countries had to operate with national lockdowns because of infection rates spiking, supply chains being more dominated by greed and thoughtlessness than anything else could be witnessed with food items.
At that time, and still it is so, some countries literally “had the task” to produce ware X and none else did that.
Why? Because of “planned economy”. “Planned economy” that doesn’t serve peoples’ needs and keeping up a public order, but just big enterprises and corporations making the most in profit with the least amount of bet - which had been arranged this way by corrupt politicians which realized the laws and legislature for that over decades.
Simultaneously, it became noticeable how many food items of particular types nationally were produced merely for exporting them to some other nation(s) - because then, these wares once remained in their countries of origin because the international trade and border traffic strongly reduced all by themselves.
So actually there’s a strong overproduction in particular goods just in favor of export in each country because some circumstances for creating them seemingly or factually fit advantageously for those who draw the most gain from the price of them and the separate national economies have been shifted to incredibly monocultures, leading to strong dependence on each other and therefore to fragile supply chains that break down as soon as anything on a larger scale strikes and disturbs their functionality. (Besides: Also leading to incredible one-sided ecological burdens).

Which, in the end, leads to countries producing some particular stuff in such large quantities that they could barely use them up themselves to supply their own people, and other stuff being produced in such few or no quantities that they’re literally fucked if they’re on their own for once.

This is not optimization of production and international “division of labor” according to the concept of David Ricardo. This is abuse of currency exchange courses for the sake of making dead substance called “money”, exploiting one people - the one that manages to be cheaper than all other -, playing multiple ends against the middle for no practical use of human society as a whole, destroying and ruining nature along the way, and even endangering the prosperity that mankind has made it to over centuries (because infrastructure already erected is being left to decay or to reduction due to costs, but which also results in decrease of performance, safety and stability). Including preventing other people from the 2nd or 3rd world countries getting to comparable levels of prosperity - because infrastructure in their countries sees no real development and investment into it anymore, other than if it is for broadening the circle of generating money for some far-away-living already wealthy person in a skyscraper.

During the year with Covid-19 around, witnessing time episodes through the natural seasons with more or lesser restrictions in each country, the overall global economy has a little adapted to the circumstances given - even though, noticeable in many spots and situations, against its will. Actually the big economy wanted to go on and act like nothing is wrong, like the virus and the disease doesn’t exist.
Supply chains have a little adapted through the course too because the countries and their national economies individually realized that this isn’t going to be over so soon and they are going to have to adapt if they want to evade chaos, bottlenecks and public panic - all, additionally, to their own personal disfavor too.

But, one point still remains as it was before: Protection clothes, masks and corona test kits still are being mostly produced and China and other East Asian countries. - The most important goods in order to actually manage and decrease this pandemic.
And the (capitalistically-organized) world economy doesn’t seem to see a problem with that. Forgotten are the troubles of the past spring in which the self-declared “wealthiest countries of the world” were running around like scared chicken and panicked over their lack of supply with basic medical goods for hygiene.
All progresses according to habit meanwhile... With nothing really learned from it.

That is why there is to say that capitalism is at its end.
That is why there is to say that the capitalism that people knew, which once helped developing the world, is no more.
Now it is just an economic system rooted down on fragile legs, existing mostly for making a few dozen people in the world rich (rich with something that has no meaning in nature and that can’t feed you if there are no food items to buy with it), and even these big partakers actually just wish for getting well through the breakdown if it happens. Because they somehow know that this stripped down machinery isn’t gonna last forever anymore.
But changing the concept or coming down from their “standards” of greed, how much this shall be supposed to bring them in “gain”, is like blasphemy to them - like they’re going to break a leg if they once be content with their amounted mass of money and sacrifice some in order to keep their own base for a living upright.

So it is either up to you and me to come up with something else in time, to shift structures back or erect new ones as best as possible under that reign in order to secure our own well-being - because the people currently sitting at the levers that make the world go around won’t be willing to make that happen. They just sit and watch and try to figure out how much juice the lemon still exudes.
All the while not really caring for human life, animal life, plant life, civilization, health of the masses or mankind being still alive in a hundred years and in good shape, not degenerated.

So - what could be witnessed in the past year with Covid-19 is the expectation of what can be seen in the coming year. Maybe milder, probably rather worse...
‘Cause it cannot be forgotten that also vaccine manufacturers are just subjects interested in making money. - Guess what they do if someone else discovers or engineers are way better and more easier vaccine or treatment for the disease?
Of course, they’ll try to shut that one down and ruin that person... Even if it’s factually correct with what it has found/engineered.
The laws of a corrupted market full of predators are still intact, even though there is a plague out there.

Actually, the charge of the Capitol is just the tip of the ice berg of a development that's been going on for longer in the United States.
It's an event displaying the deep split within the US society and its political system, as well it's an expression of two very sharply opposing forces which both firmly believe to have found the Holy Grail and be on a mission from the Lord itself, while they're just both streams trying to force their understanding of how the world works upon the rest of the society governed by them.

In other words, to the people lesser educated about the US: Intersectionality is just radical racism and sexism through the backdoor, it doesn't change anything, and violent anti-racist protests and arbitrary juristic accusations against whoever is in the wrong place at the wrong time aren't going to fix your country (neither they bake you a loaf of bread) - just like a drifting back to nostalgia, glorifying golden economic ages which are no more, displaying one's guns in public all the time, disregarding the rules what one's country is made of and governed by, believing in bullshit theories about getting younger and 150 years old through the blood of children, stepping on the lesser financially fortunate and steadily disputing over if the poor deserve to get any handouts like social benefits and a general health insurance (because they're supposedly "of no use to anyone") isn't going to make anything turn to the better.

Each side needs to take a step back from their replacement religion and recognize it for what it is: Something that only takes places in their heads. Imagination.
And then take a precise pragmatic look at what the problems are - facts, not faith.

(It isn't called "theory" for nothing... "Theory" means "explanation pattern lacking scientific proof for it".)

In the case of US society drifting apart and being shortly before fighting each other physically, all supporters of both fractions can take a good look at themselves, if they search someone to blame.
It's your fault altogether!

Just so you heard it for once...