The EU doesn’t represent the interests of ordinary people.

Merz doesn’t want to change anything, yet he wants different results. Insanity.

EU Inc. also seemed to have good intentions, making a company across borders in the EU really is a pain in the ass that’s genuinely crippling quite a lot of upcoming companies, but now its clear that it is just a whip to attack workers with.

The intent behind laws really does not matter, all that matters is what’s written down and actually legally binding.

True, tech bros lobbied the European commission to implement this dystopian 1984-style shit in order to get even more data to train their AIs.

This isn’t about protecting the children. That’s just an excuse to further promote mass surveillance and to exempt companies from responsibility for the additive design of their products and services.

This only serves to favour large corporations. It’s easier and more rewarding to penalize the users and smaller businesses.

Furthermore this will make all game servers that do not collect users’ personal data illegal in the EU, including discontinued and community-run ones, even if authorized by the publisher.

Political system ≠ Political position

But if we go down that way, the USA isn’t an example to follow either, as it has taken even worse positions.

Most of them are completely opposed to voting. They are trying to exclude only a portion of the current electorate, as it is more difficult to convince a significant part of the population to support the total abolition of elections.

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No, thanks.

We need to become more like Switzerland, not America. Direct democracy is the way, fire all unelected bureaucrats!

LoL

EU leaders, who dream about implementing chat control at all costs, are even more radically against encryption.

AfD is the result of the self-imposed austerity mania that Germany has proudly pursued, which has led to such a lack of investment that even the most basic needs, such as infrastructure repairs, have been neglected.

EU countries have already lost this AI race.

Merz knows what he should have done, but he didn’t have the balls and neither did his predecessors. All that remains for anyone with a bit of common sense and regard for their own skin is to leave Germany to its misery.

Good.

Once they are in power, you can also follow orders to survive, but be as incompetent as you can to contribute to their downfal.

Yes, of course.

But both of my grandfathers managed to avoid being sent to fight in Africa during Portugal’s Colonial Wars, so it is not impossible. One had connections. The other put a bee in his underwear the day before the inspection. Each did what was within their means to survive. 13 years of war, 41 of fascistic dictatorship.

But Estado Novo was a bit different. Salazar wasn’t a populist, for example (quite the opposite, in fact). I doubt these new movements will manage to hold onto power for that long. The man did not create a cult of personality, he was an economics professor before being called upon by the army to serve as Minister of Finance and, subsequently, as Dictator. He was chosen for his academic qualifications, and he is an example of how fascistic technocracy isn’t good, but still more stable than fascism, ultranationalist populism.

These are organizations on a quick rise to power. If they truly intend to drastically reshape state institutions as they propose, they will need new and loyal people to fill specific roles. These parties offer excellent career opportunities, even for those who do not identify with their message and simply seek a comfortable place in the world in a higher social class, especially if you aren’t qualified for the job and rely solely on the party’s goodwill to keep your position. That’s the cynical view.

The more it grows, the more unqualified, loyal careerists will appear. Then, just wait for the whole thing to collapse under its own ill-placed weight. It might hurt and take some time, but you keep surviving until then.

Everything ends one day.

AfD is winning just as Germany attempts to rebuild its armed forces. Will CDU create a death machine and promptly hand the keys over to neo-Nazis?

And that’s one of the greatest proofs that people across different cultures are more alike than different.

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