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ruralbob's avatar

What's most frightening to me is that these guys really believe they are objective journalists.

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ScuzzaMan's avatar

What I really appreciate is how the left/liberal axis is always telling me about what new thing I need to be afraid of today, especially when they come up with the "solution" for me tomorrow.

Given all the things that were going to kill all of us during the last 20 years it is quite amazing that any of us are alive at all. Neo-nazis, far right extremists, plagues of frogs, bible belters, gun-clingers and various others in the basket of deplorables. And who could have guessed that the answer to all these problems would be to hand absolute silencing power to a group of unelected corporates themselves dominated by left/liberal sentiments? Wow, what a truly astounding coincidence!

But what I find supremely ironic is that the return of actual nazi legislation in Germany is completely elided. For example on November 18 of this year the German parliament voted in favour of changes to the Infection Protection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz) which gives the government the power to issue any edicts it wants under the guise of protecting public health. This is a distinct echo of the similarly approved Enabling Act of 1933, which granted the government the authority to issue any edicts it wanted to remove the distress of the people.

I looked in the Washington Post, but ... crickets.

(Well, OK, there WAS one article at the War Post that referenced the act but it was about a protest against it and how the police soaked people with cold water in November in Berlin because they were afraid they would catch a flu otherwise. The tone of the article suggested approval of the government's enforcement rather than their authoritarian legislation and behaviour. So it didn't really meet my standard of "speaking truth to power", IYKWIM.)

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