After many years of increasingly stupid agit-prop, legacy media and academia begin to talk, however imperfectly and stupidly, about blind spots: grab some popcorn, you're in for a wild ride
How do supposedly democratic countries such as Germany and Austria differ from „real dictatorships“ when they arbitrarily deprive unscrupulous citizens of basic existential rights such as housing, a bank account and the rent of public auditoriums? When citizens – by the way including vaccine sceptics - are tormented with judicial harassment at taxpayers' expense? Incidentally I can't find anything politically unchaste in Martin Sellner's clever and patriotic book "Remigration: A Proposal."
I haven't read Mr. Sellner's book, yet your (rhetorical) question is poignant--he has no criminal conviction, yet he is subject to these travails. A few weeks ago I read one of his longer threads on X/Twitter (can't find it now) where he described his ordeal of having (if memory serves) 30+ bank accounts terminated, the problems of finding a place to rent, and having been barred from entering the US, among other things, for, get this, his political views.
The reason I bring up his example is simple: it won't be long before these practices are extended to everyone whom the authorities deem 'an enemy of the people' or the like. Just look at the Austrian Greens who, I've read somewhere (probably BlueSky or X/Twitter), are now hilariously calling for an entry ban on Elon Musk.
Once this is established as 'normal' with respect to these protagonists, these policies will affect everybody else.
Since the concepts "left" and "right" are completely arbitrary and undefinable to the point of pointlessness, being "left/right of center" is equally meaningless; it is the rhetorical equivalent of dividing by zero.
Doesn't matter if it's one or one trillion, it's still divide by zero.
But: the alternative is for journalists, pundits and politicians to debate real issues using real words about real things. And that's difficult, you run the risk of being wrong on facts, plus it's a lot more work.
I suppose there's not much any individual can do at this point.
Legacy media will continue to haemorrhage readers/viewers/listeners to the point that state broadcasters and 'private-sector' actors will rely virtually exclusively on subsidies (this is already a quite advanced development across most Western countries), and at some point, once said subsidies aren't raised enough or, God forbid, cut back, a lot of these outlets will go belly-up, bought-up by a few still-existing outlets, and restructured, thus eventually resulting in a few ultra-big mega-corporations who can afford not to make a product ('news™') that is consumed but paid-for by ads, deep state/intel/Wall St cabal financiers (which is where the US is at this point).
The mai difference between 'here' (Europe) and the 'there' (USA) being way less opportunities/markets due to the EU not being a federal state and tons of more regulatory burdens.
In other words, Europeans will get the worst of both possible worlds, with the one meta consequence being:
Already happening, I think. Schibsted announced the other day that they are laying of 350 employees in Sweden this year alone. Journos are more upset over the total lack of concern from people, than the lay-offs.
How do supposedly democratic countries such as Germany and Austria differ from „real dictatorships“ when they arbitrarily deprive unscrupulous citizens of basic existential rights such as housing, a bank account and the rent of public auditoriums? When citizens – by the way including vaccine sceptics - are tormented with judicial harassment at taxpayers' expense? Incidentally I can't find anything politically unchaste in Martin Sellner's clever and patriotic book "Remigration: A Proposal."
I haven't read Mr. Sellner's book, yet your (rhetorical) question is poignant--he has no criminal conviction, yet he is subject to these travails. A few weeks ago I read one of his longer threads on X/Twitter (can't find it now) where he described his ordeal of having (if memory serves) 30+ bank accounts terminated, the problems of finding a place to rent, and having been barred from entering the US, among other things, for, get this, his political views.
The reason I bring up his example is simple: it won't be long before these practices are extended to everyone whom the authorities deem 'an enemy of the people' or the like. Just look at the Austrian Greens who, I've read somewhere (probably BlueSky or X/Twitter), are now hilariously calling for an entry ban on Elon Musk.
Once this is established as 'normal' with respect to these protagonists, these policies will affect everybody else.
Since the concepts "left" and "right" are completely arbitrary and undefinable to the point of pointlessness, being "left/right of center" is equally meaningless; it is the rhetorical equivalent of dividing by zero.
Doesn't matter if it's one or one trillion, it's still divide by zero.
But: the alternative is for journalists, pundits and politicians to debate real issues using real words about real things. And that's difficult, you run the risk of being wrong on facts, plus it's a lot more work.
What is to be done?
I suppose there's not much any individual can do at this point.
Legacy media will continue to haemorrhage readers/viewers/listeners to the point that state broadcasters and 'private-sector' actors will rely virtually exclusively on subsidies (this is already a quite advanced development across most Western countries), and at some point, once said subsidies aren't raised enough or, God forbid, cut back, a lot of these outlets will go belly-up, bought-up by a few still-existing outlets, and restructured, thus eventually resulting in a few ultra-big mega-corporations who can afford not to make a product ('news™') that is consumed but paid-for by ads, deep state/intel/Wall St cabal financiers (which is where the US is at this point).
The mai difference between 'here' (Europe) and the 'there' (USA) being way less opportunities/markets due to the EU not being a federal state and tons of more regulatory burdens.
In other words, Europeans will get the worst of both possible worlds, with the one meta consequence being:
https://fackel.substack.com/p/the-great-sorting-is-here
Already happening, I think. Schibsted announced the other day that they are laying of 350 employees in Sweden this year alone. Journos are more upset over the total lack of concern from people, than the lay-offs.
Haha, they do the same here in Norway.
I doubt anyone cares or will miss them…