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On Lex, you said you want to have Elon as dictator. Dinner is served, enjoy your meal.

dudefeliciano 2y ago
The issue with these contrarians, is that all they can do is scream loudly about how shitty everything is, without any real proposals on how to improve the world. We see this all the time: MAGA in the US, AFD in Germany...
- desumeku 2y ago
  I would say that AfD has a pretty clear idea of what they think would improve the situation in Germany.
  - dudefeliciano 2y ago
    Their ideas are to deport immigrants, end the "woke agenda", stop supporting Ukraine, leave the euro, end green policies, get rid of the political establishment. All of these are purely reactionary and do not adress the problems Germany is facing. They did manage to galvanize a large portion of the electorate, and the last election debates were ridiculous, in that immigration seemed to be the only issue Germany needs to talk about. Not the collapsing infrastructure, not the loss of competetivity of German brands, not foreign policy, not the housing crisis. They have no proposals to improve these issues, and it doesn't even matter, because it's so easy to blind people with "immigrant bad".
    - desumeku 2y ago
      > and do not adress the problems Germany is facing According to you. The solutions to your complaints come pretty easily from solving AfD's, at least in my view.
      - dudefeliciano 2y ago
        According to me and 80% of the German electorate, yes. We are seeing the effects of MAGA on the US and the world in real time, I don't think AFD would fare any better.
        desumeku 2y ago
        Well, I hope more immigrants and more green deal policies and more political establishment somehow solves the housing crisis and the neutering of the country's industries in some opposite day fashion.
        dudefeliciano 2y ago
        I just wish those issues were talked about, then we could try to start solving them. If we talked about those issues half as much as we talk about what the AFD considers the problem, we would be well on our way. Instead we talk about the scourge of children turning trans, and how the immigrants are killing literally everybody, and how climate change is just a paranoia, and how shit our politcal establishent is that has given us stability for the past 80 years.
  - amai 2y ago
    What is this idea?
- acjohnson55 2y ago
  Oh, but he does have a proposal: the gold standard!

The issue with these contrarians, is that all they can do is scream loudly about how shitty everything is, without any real proposals on how to improve the world. We see this all the time: MAGA in the US, AFD in Germany...

desumeku 2y ago
I would say that AfD has a pretty clear idea of what they think would improve the situation in Germany.
- dudefeliciano 2y ago
  Their ideas are to deport immigrants, end the "woke agenda", stop supporting Ukraine, leave the euro, end green policies, get rid of the political establishment. All of these are purely reactionary and do not adress the problems Germany is facing. They did manage to galvanize a large portion of the electorate, and the last election debates were ridiculous, in that immigration seemed to be the only issue Germany needs to talk about. Not the collapsing infrastructure, not the loss of competetivity of German brands, not foreign policy, not the housing crisis. They have no proposals to improve these issues, and it doesn't even matter, because it's so easy to blind people with "immigrant bad".
  - desumeku 2y ago
    > and do not adress the problems Germany is facing According to you. The solutions to your complaints come pretty easily from solving AfD's, at least in my view.
    - dudefeliciano 2y ago
      According to me and 80% of the German electorate, yes. We are seeing the effects of MAGA on the US and the world in real time, I don't think AFD would fare any better.
      - desumeku 2y ago
        Well, I hope more immigrants and more green deal policies and more political establishment somehow solves the housing crisis and the neutering of the country's industries in some opposite day fashion.
        dudefeliciano 2y ago
        I just wish those issues were talked about, then we could try to start solving them. If we talked about those issues half as much as we talk about what the AFD considers the problem, we would be well on our way. Instead we talk about the scourge of children turning trans, and how the immigrants are killing literally everybody, and how climate change is just a paranoia, and how shit our politcal establishent is that has given us stability for the past 80 years.
- amai 2y ago
  What is this idea?
acjohnson55 2y ago
Oh, but he does have a proposal: the gold standard!