A_norny_mousse

Around here or in Iowa?

The corrupt US admin astounds, too.

Thanks. Fascinating how people come up with fancy terms and almost scientific-sounding explanations for what essentially comes down to being an asshole.

Beautiful. Why haven’t I heard this one before? Standard repertoire from now on!

That’s an interesting mix of acute observation and megalomania. Who wrote it and when?

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill

Washington … ‘denial of reality’

That is very kindly phrased, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

a million dyslexics like you

So we’re down to personal insults now? Way to say “I won the argument”.

“leftism and the modern concept of terrorism were invented by the French revolutionaries”

They were correctly paraphrasing you:

horrible chaos everywhere, marking the first instance of leftist terrorism after a successful revolution. This would happen several times in other countries that went the same route. Of course, both leftism and the modern concept of terrorism were invented around that place and time.

Whatever nuance they misrepresented is not relevant here. Of course you will now claim that the difference between “invented by the French revolutionaries” and “invented around that place and time” is relevant, but really it isn’t.

marking the first instance of leftist terrorism

Calling the French Revolution left of center is probably correct, but calling it Leftist most definitely isn’t. Look up Bourgeoisie, which is much closer to your Libertarian/“Centrist” views than you think.

Also, people have been doing this for much longer. Only much later was the label terrorism added, which usually just means “violence that isn’t state sanctioned”

Better question: what changed for the better, compared to before the Revolution?

This sounds a little bit like someone claiming that the German nazi regime shouldn’t have ended because Germany still isn’t a leftist paradise.

Seriously, anybody saying “the French Revolution didn’t go so great” is conveniently leaving out how bad things were before. Seen that way, the French Revolution was a massive success for both the working class and the bourgeoisie.

In the end you’re just trying to dissuade and demotivate people who want change.

It’s funny how they never have a problem pushing things forward in one direction. Maybe we should stop coming up with excuses for why they can’t do it in the other.

I was a bit tired when I replied to the other guy last night, but there it is. Even just NOT passing legislation that makes matters worse for most (and surely more options for rich people to NOT pay taxes makes matters worse for the rest of the nation) would already help and costs nothing in terms of “major reforms” that “take time”.

It’s a form of concern trolling. The previous commenter might be earnest about it though; such opinions are offered by all major outlets and talking heads and it’s nothing new either.

Though I do notice with this one that they carefully avoid drawing conclusions: should we tackle these “difficult” and “long-term” changes or not? They never say which side they’re on, really.

This is true, and so do most articles. But Der Spiegel is still describing this as an individual occurence as opposed to most others who forego any finer points and immediately portray it as part of The Protests writ large. Its tone is also more respectful while remaining factual but that could just be because I’m more familiar with German.

I checked a few articles about this. They’re all very short on facts and very long on emotional reactions. This is most definitely being used to discredit otherwise valid protest. Mostly by far-right-leaning outlets. I found only one article that speaks of masked individuals, refrains from blaming the protests and adds overall context, and it’s not in English.

This happened yesterday. It is now Sunday. I will withhold further judgement for a few days.

edit (Monday):

Police reaction to these protests has been described as escalating, violent and incompetent long before this occurence and I can see how that might lead to events like this one.

Taz.de meanwhile has some more context; your favorite nuanced news outlet probably has too.

The day after, however, all that was spoken of was the violence and the powerlessness of the state leadership. The actual topic and reason for the protests, namely the government’s austerity policy with its draft national budget and the question of purchasing power, faded into the background - which is perhaps just fine with the government. (source)

I’d also like to add that these acts are not aimed at people, just property. Something that cannot be said about the police violence.

I agree that there is a larger problem at play here.

changing the tax system

It seems to me that the comment you’re replying to said that.

Funnily, “The West” mostly exists in Putin’s mind.

Trust the woowoo people to have 0 consistency and even less math.

Overall costs? I believe it would. But it’s entirely possible that he manages to blind them temporarily with lower fuel prices.

Easier to list the things that are NOT really fucked under the Trump admin.