matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
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".
matrixmann: (Dark (1))
Escalation continues.
The downward spiral keeps on heading further down.
Consumer prices explode - and polititians behave like fools in trying to combat them.
While actually not really trying to fight them.

Winning a war, protecting the world climate, preventing an economic recession from happening, and keeping up the growth - all of this, they want to achieve at once.
While ignoring the technical (im-)possibilities to do so and, even the more, how much these targets altogether contradict themselves and cannot be unified.

Some more big names die and leave the world - like rats leaving a sinking ship?
Or just their time having run out - and it just happens at the right moment to still depart in happiness and not see how the world goes down...

Wishful thinking continues to conquer the human brains all over the world,
narrowing the corridor of their sight - fueling aggression and dogmatic thinking.
Valuing some rules or standards higher than the practice that comes attached to them - and which may require an adjustment of the rules because of their unworldly overidealistic absoluteness that no-one can truly live.

It's almost like the human behavior itself wants to say "we're too many here on this planet to be able to live as lavishly as we want to"...
matrixmann: (Black suits comin')
Henry Kissinger

(Died 100 years old.)

(insert "Straight to hell"-jingle of your own choice here)
matrixmann: (Thinking)
2022: Russia starts an endeavor that Western sources prophesied about for months and which some sympathizers of it say it was inevitable for 8 years already - the Russian Federation invades the former Eastern territories of Ukraine (since 2014: the self-proclaimed independent peoples’ republics of Donezk and Luhansk), officially calling it a “special military operation” in order to stop the ongoing bloodshed against ethnic Russians that takes place on these territories since shortly after a coup d'état in Kiev known as “Euromaidan”.


The situation is still ongoing with no end of the hostilities in sight - and due to the entanglement of several European countries and the United States of America in this issue (making it a matter of larger extent than just a regional conflict between neighboring countries), on both sides, everyone has to watch their mouth what to say and write and how about the conflict in public.
matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
In the light of today as the topic of “negotiations” is continuously being wiped off the table with arguments like “Putin started this war” and “Why should Ukraine aspire surrender while they’ve been attacked?” - let’s recall why negotiations are held at all in war scenarios.

When do officials and representatives hold them with representatives of the opponent?
Huh?
First and foremost, it’s not a question of giving up immaterial “values” and virtues” that one side thinks to have on its side - it’s not a question of ideology and idealism.
Plainly, it’s a matter of pragmatism.

Negotiations over truces and “peace” are being held if one side recognizes that it’s about to lose and being crushed, so the smarter people among the state officials figure they’ll be better off stopping to try to win the war by force and rather try to save the slice of the cake that they still have under their control instead of eventually maybe ending up with none of it.

The essence of sitting down to hold negotiations is not surrendering and handing everything over to the enemy that it wants, but more than that securing some little bits of what one still has instead of losing everything and then depending on the arbitrariness or mercy of the winning opponent what few bread crumbs will be granted to oneself.

You practically do that by trying to find things to offer to the enemy fraction for which it shows itself willing to give up the demands for another item. And you do that up until the enemy fraction becomes content and leaves again.

It’s no different than negotiating a price in a handshake deal.
A buyer has interest in obtaining a particular item, the seller tells you the price, but the buyer doesn’t have enough money or doesn’t want to pay that much, so it needs to approach the seller and see if they are hardened in their stance or if there’s some room that can be debated over.

In that case, it’s “only” that the item that you want to buy is “peace” - or at least a truce so that the fighting and the destruction stops.

Negotiating is a tactic that is known in wars and armed conflicts for centuries. As old as such scenarios.

So this isn’t like an “absolutely crazy idea” in this conflict.
Rather it should be asked: What speaks objectively so much against it?

(Unless the explanation is that there are very stubborn humans involved in this specific case that are occupied by ideology and emotional biases who have a very distorted understanding about war at all - that all that there is to obtain is winning, like in a manic fanatic attitude heading for a crusade, heading towards total war, not just mere self-defense.)
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
...Is there something meaningful to say during these days where the events of today also progress on their way tomorrow? Unimpressed and not impacted by personal opinions of anyone outside of circles of power and public influence?

There's a lot of words that you could voice and drop about the state the world it is in and what and who is responsible for it - but, will it matter? Will it matter anything? Outside of maybe getting into personal trouble? And having to fight that out alone?

Not only that it's war again in Europe - and one of the most devastating times after WWII; unlike in the war over Yugoslavia where NATO came to drop bombs and anytime they won with their orgy of violence -, meanwhile whole NATO discusses and fantasizes about sending weapons into a combat zone headlessly and without safety guarantees which hands these are gonna end up in, while at the same time every time it denies that WWIII has broken out and that its member countries play a very lively part in that. And that Ukraine, their investment proxy in this endeavor, is winning all the time for 11 months, although if it truly did, the war would already been over for a long time.
What kind of world has this become? - Or was it ever any different? Has it only been smart enough in covering its true nature with enough glitter and gold in order to make most of the population believe in its harmlessness and goodwill, being not worth a critical thought about it?

The Western world which calls itself "democractic" and still keeps on spreading its curses on a former president of the United States Trump, using acting and verbal expressions like #NotMyPresident, just because he didn't function according to the usual wishes of the economic and political establishment, seriously shows up and wants to make believe like its whole population supports these political decisions while the reality actually is that there would already be enough people out there to support a national #NotMyPresident campaign in every damn coutry against these so-called "democratic" current leaders. If it wouldn't entail the possibility of becoming subject to repressions or being publicly thrown into the camp of the political right (or whatever kind of zeitgeisty "public enemy"-image) and maybe losing your job and seeing your private life going down the drain through these unfounded mere accusations.

In which point do these policymakers pose anything different than this clown? Making decisions all the time that at least half of the country opposes over its ridiculousness and the danger they create?

The Western world keps reassuring itself over and over again that they're the good guys, the righteous ones - those with all the virtues and values worth fighting for.
But, seen from the prespective of the rest of the world, and seen from the viewpoint of a sober mind, it much more eventually turns into the Death Star from Star Wars. Destroying everything it disapproves of and enslaving everything it can for the profit of the Empire. While leaving behind the trash, the blood and the scattered body parts in the landscape to those who live in the ruins of its acting.

Long story short: Go the hell and make your war alone! Go and have a seat in your own tanks and go to the frontline!
The earlier the warmongering lobbyists and politicians are gone, including their obedient fanboys and fangirls, the better for everyone else who just want to live in peace and quiet.
matrixmann: (Dark (1))
Zeitenwende - but not as the proclaimer intended it.
After disease follow political dislocations; the final results still not fully foreseeable.

A big change slowly unfolds forcibly and unstoppably; “the” old order continues to die, so do even its representative figures from former times.
And the new leaders of the current time episode that emerge upon the stage, which are supposed to follow in their footsteps, they... gleam with maximum fanatism, zero willingness to compromise and maximum incompetence.
Aiding the collapse of the society they shall administer more than getting it to stick together.

Bringing forth of a new age of regression, full of rabid and raging conservatism that seeks cohesion in delusive items.

All the while, in the meantime, planet earth grows sicker and sicker from the presence of the human species...
matrixmann: (Default icon)
An alle, die aktuell für eine Revision der jetzigen Energiepolitik sind und für die Wiederaufnahme der Beziehungen mit Russland eintreten bzw. auf der Straße demonstrieren gehen:

Soweit wie die Dinge inzwischen fortgeschritten sind, muss euch leider auch klar sein, dass es inzwischen nicht mehr nur mit einer Bitte um Verzeihung und einen Bußgang nach Canossa getan ist, um die alten Rohstofflieferungen und die dazugehörigen günstigen Konditionen wieder zurückzubekommen.
Mittlerweile muss man Russland schon etwas (an)bieten, damit von Seiten Gazproms überhaupt die Initiative erfolgt, das Angebot für solche Verträge wieder zu unterbreiten.
Solch große Schäden hat das Verhalten der Ampel-Koalition inzwischen verursacht.
matrixmann: (Black suits comin')
Mikhail Gorbachev

(insert "Straight to hell"-jingle of your own choice here)
matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
You know what’s going to be the biggest factor getting in the way of soothing the extent that climate change will have on this blue sphere here?
The international community outside of the Western countries gives a fuck about so-called “green technologies”. They care more about their own development, which had been kept down for centuries by the plundering of the dominant European and North American countries. And that means, cheap energy accessible to the biggest mass of people and local industries carries more importance than making it as exclusive as it can get through applying complex and expensive technologies in the chain, which the bigger parts of the population in the first world countries are able to afford (in whatever way possible to individuals).
The mindset of the Western world and what they think of as “problems” is so far away from those of the rest of the world - literally elevated thousands of kilometers above the ground, figuratively.

So are many other issues such as that of a cultural nature, for example.
The rest of the world literally doesn’t care about the gender-fantasies of twenty-somethings in the US or Europe and their dreams of deconstructing the biological base of the two sexes. Or about rainbow flags, pride months and loudly celebrating LGBT minority rights like they would be a cure against HIV and cancer altogether (rights which quite a chunk of areas in the world don’t have anyway).
There are way more urgent problems to them than such boredom- and living-in-security-driven ergotherapy of emphasizing things that revolve around the aspect of the anthropocentric worldview to overestimate the social ongoings between humans in a society.

To the rest of the world, the classic aspects of the mindset of the anthropocentric worldview are important: Where do humans get a space to live, a roof over their head, food and water for humans, jobs to earn money and chances to procreate - as well as chances to feed that offspring and raise it into an adult.

If you want to get the rest of the world into the same boat as the culturally loony Western part of the planet, then you first rather need to get them to abandon their part of the anthropocentric worldview, in which all natural resources of the planet exist just to serve and be consumed primarily by humans. - Including your own focus where human business and social interaction still also overshadows everything, beside you talking about “wanting to save the world” and “protecting the environment” (inconsequently).

Touché!

26 July 2022 04:11 pm
matrixmann: (Standing one's ground)
Here, with the war in Ukraine active soon-to-be for half a year, the world is still waiting for Russia to collapse under the consequences of that decision.
Instead consumer prices exploded around the world, certain goods have become even rarer than before after the slight relief of the global economy from Covid-19, and food supplies and heating have become not safe (the latter - let alone how much it will cost in the end and if you can afford it, if your wallet’s budget is tight).

May it not be that the community of the so-called “Western states” miscalculated in a very high degree in this issue?
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
Hopefully those countries which now file their applications for becoming a member of the NATO don't forget that membership doesn't only mean getting "safe from a Russian invasion", but also, whenever the United States are up in a war again with anyone, they're firmly part of the cleanup squad then after that skirmish.
matrixmann: Perceiving a grain of sand in the desert (I see with the eyes of a hunter)
Any party going through with either their plans or already having banned imports of Russian oil and gas and replacing it with liquefied petroleum gas from the US - offically call their agenda to "fight climate change" broke and dishonest (if it ever even officially existed at all).
Because transporting LPG with tankers over half of the globe, burning fuel to deliver fuel, there's nothing more harmful to the world climate than this in this aspect of the economy and regarding general supply with common contemporary energy carriers.
Not even talking about needing to make the energy-intensive efforts to first liquefy the gas to transport it and then turn it into gas again, sacrificing additional amounts of energy, when it's reached its destination. And the terminals that have to be specifically created and built in order to execute both jobs.
matrixmann: Perceiving a grain of sand in the desert (I see with the eyes of a hunter)
It is as it has always been: If some figure with a popular name and/or executive power in its hands shows up in TV or other mainstream mass media presenting a story with an emotionally heavily loaded tone, it's time to get skeptic.
'Cause never has this story that the person comes up with truly been as it is presented.
matrixmann: Irgendwas ist hier gründlich schiefgelaufen... (Something's happened here...)
Das neuste begehrte Objekt unter Hamsterkäufern (und allen, die wegen dem irrationalem Hamstern selbst anfangen, von einer Ware etwas mehr zu kaufen als sonst): Senf!
Hier speziell (eventuell regional bedingt): Bautz'ner Senf.
matrixmann: (Thinking)
Das Hamstern hat wieder angefangen... Diesmal (für den Anfang): Die üblichen Speiseöle. Insbesondere und ausschließlich Raps, Sonnenblume und Mischöle davon.
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
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?
matrixmann: Perceiving a grain of sand in the desert (I see with the eyes of a hunter)
(For the Russian folks around here, for the sake of formalities, I’ll mark this as “18+”, but therefore you’ll have to endure me not speaking nice here.)







(Source)


Modern protectors of the traditional family and marriage and anti-gay hillbillies in Россия - you remember these two? These came from your country!
Even the marketing image came from your circle and was exported into the whole world without change!

So don’t tell anyone nonsense that now you suddenly care so much about culture, about family, children and what not!
What you’re at war with is American propaganda and mindset - because people get stupid from it!
And the country itself as well because it started war against you one more time!


And you folks in the West, crying about “(in)visibility of marginalized groups” and all that crap - take this as one of many proofs what kinda class clowns you truly are! We already had all this before, you don’t reinvent the wheel now!

You call yourselves “Millennials” just because you were born at the millennium.
This comes, with greetings to your naivety, from folks who have actually seen it!
matrixmann: (Default icon)
As much as the Afghanistan war remained an apple of discord throughout the whole time of the 20 years the occupation of the Western troops lasted because of the shady reasons it was started with, it also simultaneously and silently became a train you couldn’t just jump off anymore and quit tomorrow.

Now with their departure, the tactical and political changes of the coming weeks and months will be a proof of that - and, at the same time, it will lay down the sad record of that the two biggest and strongest armies in modern history - the US army + its NATO associates and the Soviet Army - couldn’t rip out the root of exaggerated Islamic religion in this region and create a united country called “Afghanistan” that can claim its rank in the modern world order.
Be that that the religious extremism was just started and about to be strengthened (the Afghanistan war of the Soviet Union) or that it is a result of past foreign engagements gone wrong (the support of the US for the mujaheddin fighters in the 80s to make the Soviet Union fall; the support of the Syrian rebels, which were mostly if not entirely Islamic extremists as well, and by that helping creating the Islamic State, strengthening Islamic religious motivated terrorism and systematic violence on the whole and in the whole Middle East area) and that it outgrows one’s own powers and finances that one was originally willing to sacrifice for this endeavor (the Afghanistan war of the US and the NATO troops that were still deployed there).

It’s hard to guess how much the decay inside these big players make out a share in their respective defeat...
As a question to those two wars you can leave behind if how war itself is being led in these modern times hasn’t changed too much from the scheme of firm organized and equipped armies fighting each other on the battlefield, as it still was the case in WWII and its later offshoots around the world.

For this specific case, you can put on the record - as bitter, brutal and cynical it may sound: As long as the residents of this country who aren’t involved in religious extremism aren’t willing themselves to take a different path, to organize and do something to drive this out of their country, to rip this root of war and violence out in their society once and for all and harshly sanction it, as long as they rather flee abroad or to Europe, giving in to the order that a guerrilla army imposes on them - as long as that remains the case, this country won’t ever be peaceful and “free” again (whatever anyone wants to imagine under the term “free”).

That Afghanistan which even received a seat in the Intercosmos program and could see one of their citizens fly into space to the Mir station will be missing for a very, very long time now...
matrixmann: Determined (Yuber Suikoden I)
Tja, Bonner Wasserwerk - Verzeihung, deutscher Bundestag und liebe Regierung -: Vor dem Karl-Marx-Kopf in Chemnitz und auf zahlreichen Plätzen Berlins und anderer Städte fällt euch jetzt euer in dieser Form geliebter deutscher Staat auf die Füße, den ihr über Jahrzehnte mitgestaltet und zu dem gemacht habt, was er ist.

So ist das, wenn man das Tafelsilber an private Unternehmen auslagert, Bildung, soziales Miteinander und Recht sich selbst überlässt, und die Regierenden irgendwann ein Haufen voller Hampelmänner und -frauen ist, die von nichts 'ne Ahnung haben und bloß noch ein Spielball ihrer zahlreichen Berater sind.

Am Ende streitet man sich um Fantasiegebilde, Unfähigkeit und das fehlende Eingeständnis, dass man weder die richtigen Antworten auf bestehende Probleme, noch irgendetwas unter Kontrolle hat...

Andererorts nennt man so etwas einen "failed state".

Kleiner Trost für euch: In anderen Ländern aus euren eigenen Reihen sieht es auch nicht viel besser aus.

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