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Now someone needs to convince the german government too. For some reason Merz says one thing but then acts in an orthogonal, US-serving manner. People in German

Now someone needs to convince the german government too. For some reason Merz says one thing but then acts in an orthogonal, US-serving manner. People in Germany have started to notice this too. Something is not working here for Merz - there is a disconnect between what he says and what he does.

TheChaplain 9mo ago
I may be too cynical but when it comes to politicians, the disconnect feels more than a rule than exception. It is hard to vote, being buttered up with promises and pretty speeches, just to be disappointed halfway to next election.
- hopelite 9mo ago
  No it’s not. It’s made very easy to vote and it has only been made easier and more people have been given the vote. That’s the whole point, so you on the one hand believe you have your say, and on the other hand the expansion of the vote was always for the purpose of drowning out the vote of intelligent, informed, smart, invested, productive people. For every vote the most informed and well read and intelligent person has, whose family built everything there is in any democracy…every single year of your life there is one additional foreign, alien, hostile person that was just given the right to vote along with the 5 children they will have to your 1.5 to all vote against you. That’s why the rich don’t vote, they got politicians, institutions, academics, organizations, etc. that’s our vote, we vote millions and billions of times with dollars, while importing millions of people who totally neutralize your vote and say every single time you go through that charade called voting.
aa-jv 9mo ago
Germans forget too easily that theirs is a vassal state without full sovereignty. Until the German people can investigate and prosecute their own intelligence services, this situation will not change. That the German intelligence services answer to the CIA is a travesty for the German people. Anyone wondering about Merz' servitude should keep this in mind.
- bossyTeacher 9mo ago
  > That the German intelligence services answer to the CIA Any sources on this? Is it some sort of legal agreement?
Angostura 9mo ago
Could it not be as simple as aspiration (we want to move to digital sovereignty) versus pragmatism (we need to implement this thing next month)?

TheChaplain 9mo ago

I may be too cynical but when it comes to politicians, the disconnect feels more than a rule than exception. It is hard to vote, being buttered up with promises and pretty speeches, just to be disappointed halfway to next election.

hopelite 9mo ago
No it’s not. It’s made very easy to vote and it has only been made easier and more people have been given the vote. That’s the whole point, so you on the one hand believe you have your say, and on the other hand the expansion of the vote was always for the purpose of drowning out the vote of intelligent, informed, smart, invested, productive people. For every vote the most informed and well read and intelligent person has, whose family built everything there is in any democracy…every single year of your life there is one additional foreign, alien, hostile person that was just given the right to vote along with the 5 children they will have to your 1.5 to all vote against you. That’s why the rich don’t vote, they got politicians, institutions, academics, organizations, etc. that’s our vote, we vote millions and billions of times with dollars, while importing millions of people who totally neutralize your vote and say every single time you go through that charade called voting.

aa-jv 9mo ago

Germans forget too easily that theirs is a vassal state without full sovereignty. Until the German people can investigate and prosecute their own intelligence services, this situation will not change. That the German intelligence services answer to the CIA is a travesty for the German people. Anyone wondering about Merz' servitude should keep this in mind.

bossyTeacher 9mo ago
> That the German intelligence services answer to the CIA Any sources on this? Is it some sort of legal agreement?

Angostura 9mo ago

Could it not be as simple as aspiration (we want to move to digital sovereignty) versus pragmatism (we need to implement this thing next month)?