Courtesy of somewhat better reporting by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, the 'protests against the right™', called for by the embattled Scholz gov't in early 2024, are revealed for what they are: agit-prop
Well, if it's any consolation (and I hope it is), esp. my younger brother also falls into that particular category (last time we met, he called me a 'Nazi' for expressing anti-woke sentiments).
Much like you, I don't drink, mostly because it doesn't make ignorant people appear less ignorant.
How interested is the German public, really? This looks very much as journalists writing about other journalists, for journalists (and their employers) to read about - and as infighting in the Lügenpresse, possibly Old Guard vs Young Turks.
I think many people have kinda checked out; as long as the standard of living doesn't drop to much too fast, the régime will continue, albeit in slightly modified ways. History shows that absent major problems, no danger lurks for any kind of régime, hence there's little to fear.
What, then, could be such 'game-changer'? Perhaps the end of NATO, which, absent a major war against Russia, will likely see the transformation of the EU into a fully-fledged militarised super-state (i.e., a catastrophe for everybody except the loons running that shit-show).
As to your consideration of régime media writing BS to be consumed by other régime media, thus shoring up the régime while celebrating themselves, well, apart from being an extra-nauseating exercise in narcissism, it's mainly fake/fictional crap anyways.
These things have little, if any bearing on reality, with perhaps the 'sudden and unexpected' overthrow of a failing gov't by people simply ceasing to go along with whatever BS is spouted--think, at best, the GDR in autumn 1989, with options ranging all the way to a military coup attempt to Romania executing its tyrant in autumn 1989.
One should note that this episode is a good example of parallel construction, i.e. the ‚making legal‘ after the fact of information that has initially been acquired illegally. In this case the German state security service surveilled a meeting (illegal without a court order) and then transferred their insights to Correctiv to whitewash and publish. That’s why the article is almost bereft of actual quotes, as those would have been an admission of illegal wiretapping by the journalists. Since nothing untoward had happened during the meeting (admitted by Haldenwang), Jean Peters had to get creative and that’s why the story has been falling apart for months.
Of course it's a kind of para-logic, which only 'works™' in the netherworld of these delusional creatures. For them, it all makes 'sense™'.
One of the more grotesque aspects of Stupid Watergate was that theatre production these clowns did in Berlin a year ago. Everything was certainly fake (lest the Verfassungsschutz and its illegal surveillance would be disclosed), and these clowns also hid behind 'artists' licence staging this absurdity.
That 'story' never was more than a cheap public-private/GONGO publicity stunt to shore up publicised support for the failing Scholz gov't. Let's also note that the Uniparty is all-in on this one, with Haldenwang (CDU) colluding without any qualms with the SPD-Green-FDP gov't to, of course, keep the AfD out.
In the wake of this relatives sent me excited selfies of them attending a huge demonstration against Nazis in Potsdam.
I want to say that this is why I drink but I seem to have stopped doing that.
Sigh.
Well, if it's any consolation (and I hope it is), esp. my younger brother also falls into that particular category (last time we met, he called me a 'Nazi' for expressing anti-woke sentiments).
Much like you, I don't drink, mostly because it doesn't make ignorant people appear less ignorant.
How interested is the German public, really? This looks very much as journalists writing about other journalists, for journalists (and their employers) to read about - and as infighting in the Lügenpresse, possibly Old Guard vs Young Turks.
I think many people have kinda checked out; as long as the standard of living doesn't drop to much too fast, the régime will continue, albeit in slightly modified ways. History shows that absent major problems, no danger lurks for any kind of régime, hence there's little to fear.
What, then, could be such 'game-changer'? Perhaps the end of NATO, which, absent a major war against Russia, will likely see the transformation of the EU into a fully-fledged militarised super-state (i.e., a catastrophe for everybody except the loons running that shit-show).
As to your consideration of régime media writing BS to be consumed by other régime media, thus shoring up the régime while celebrating themselves, well, apart from being an extra-nauseating exercise in narcissism, it's mainly fake/fictional crap anyways.
These things have little, if any bearing on reality, with perhaps the 'sudden and unexpected' overthrow of a failing gov't by people simply ceasing to go along with whatever BS is spouted--think, at best, the GDR in autumn 1989, with options ranging all the way to a military coup attempt to Romania executing its tyrant in autumn 1989.
Time will tell.
One should note that this episode is a good example of parallel construction, i.e. the ‚making legal‘ after the fact of information that has initially been acquired illegally. In this case the German state security service surveilled a meeting (illegal without a court order) and then transferred their insights to Correctiv to whitewash and publish. That’s why the article is almost bereft of actual quotes, as those would have been an admission of illegal wiretapping by the journalists. Since nothing untoward had happened during the meeting (admitted by Haldenwang), Jean Peters had to get creative and that’s why the story has been falling apart for months.
Of course it's a kind of para-logic, which only 'works™' in the netherworld of these delusional creatures. For them, it all makes 'sense™'.
One of the more grotesque aspects of Stupid Watergate was that theatre production these clowns did in Berlin a year ago. Everything was certainly fake (lest the Verfassungsschutz and its illegal surveillance would be disclosed), and these clowns also hid behind 'artists' licence staging this absurdity.
That 'story' never was more than a cheap public-private/GONGO publicity stunt to shore up publicised support for the failing Scholz gov't. Let's also note that the Uniparty is all-in on this one, with Haldenwang (CDU) colluding without any qualms with the SPD-Green-FDP gov't to, of course, keep the AfD out.