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peace demo

What is Timothy Snyder has long addressed in his books, namely that it Vladimir Putin succeeded in uniting Bolshevism not only with Stalinism but also with fascism has now been further perfected in Germany. Because there, for a year now, Stalinists have been marching side by side with National Socialists, swearing by final Russian victory and with it the final capitulation of the western system.

Icons of totalitarianism like Alice Schwarzer, Sahra Wagenknecht and Oskar Lafontaine held a so-called “peace demonstration” in Berlin last Saturday in support of their leader and comrade Vladimir Putins on. Her numerous fans, mostly Nazis, Bolsheviks and perhaps a few scattered women's rights activists, who have not yet noticed that the completely senile black woman is now dancing to a completely different music, cheered the impending downfall of our "pig system" - whether it was actually that Peace serves when Nazis and the other socialists go to bed together, that's an open question.

In any case, on the recent anniversary of the Russian Federation's attack on the whole of Europe, a sign of peace could actually be sent. But not to demolish the remaining Soviet memorials like in most liberated countries of the former Soviet Empire, but actually to give them the halfway credible claim to a memorial after all these decades.

And so I propose that the tanks and howitzers set up there should be dismantled and melted down as quickly as possible — starting at the Soviet memorial in the Tiergarten — and the metal obtained should be made available to the Ukraine for ammunition production. And instead of these war machines that glorify violence, set up recently destroyed Russian tanks - that would be a real and credible peace demonstration!

Wood pellets

The latest craze for our climate politicians. It doesn't matter that the last forests in the world are cut down for this and their burning causes more damage than coal before - it's just a question of definition.

And while you're at the point of redefining, you can also abolish the environmental zones one by one. We in Heilbronn are also taking our chance and dismantling the 26 nitrogen oxide filter systems on Weinsberger Straße. These completely useless systems cost us a good 2 million euros, which, if you examine them more closely, have done more harm than good to the environment — if you ignore the costs.

Slowly but surely we should notice that things are seen and defined differently depending on the respective power relations - regardless of whether a more realistic view would make sense or even be necessary for survival.

When I was young, this was done with butter and milk in an exemplary manner that was understandable for everyone. Depending on the balance of power in the Bundestag, milk and butter were either healthy or harmful.

What may still work well with mountains of milk and butter is, however, with accelerating climate change, a less good way of dealing with challenges and certainly not a successful way of overcoming existential problems.

News

Yesterday was filled with bad news that reached me via the internet and finally also via the daily topics. It wasn't much use anymore that I was able to use the outdoor pool of the Stadtbad for the first time in the year and shake a little dance leg in the evening.

And so it is probably not very surprising that the SPD Gerhard Schroeder and the CDU Hans Georg Maßen hold on and the politician of success Frances Giffey, as I already suspected, now as Deputy Prime Minister Berlin can continue to run down — the GroKo lives!

It is almost with a little pity that one can watch the halfway committed government politicians as they desperately try to actually get a little grip on the spiritually and morally turned and charred shambles of the Federal Republic of Germany, while aging opposition politicians try even more desperately to get back to the feeding pots to come.

And so the government now has to admit that Deutsche Bahn will only be able to function properly again in the next century and by then the last German forest will have been cut down. Climate change is already being redefined and can therefore only have an impact in a few centuries, as can education reform or sufficient housing for everyone, etc. and immediately — not to mention a functioning Bundeswehr.

The really tragic thing about it is that the very politicians who are actually trying to turn things around for the better will soon be voted out by us and the tried-and-true cliques will get their chance again. And if we don't watch out like hell, then the die-hards will soon be in government again, who are always the winners of such professional and human incompetence in professional politics and the comfortable ducking away of all petty bourgeoisie.

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"The countless ones who know nothing but themselves and their naked wandering interests are the same ones who capitulate as soon as organization and terror catches them."

THEODOR W ADORNO, MINIMA MORALIA (14th EDITION 2022 [1951]: 171)