The energy thread

[Jimbuna]

I find it pitiful (if you understand the context I'm implying) that Germany, the major nation in the EU of recent decades is literally plummeting in stature at the present time.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

I find it pitiful (if you understand the context I'm implying) that Germany, the major nation in the EU of recent decades is literally plummeting in stature at the present time.

The glory is the past. The present and future is decline (except in bigmouthness). It will not change again. It started under Merkel, who was, not forget that, socialsied in the GDSr and was under the imrpoesison of GDR-German understanding of politics, government, and democracy. There is a reason why the CDU was hollowed out in the years of Merkel, and all conservative value and competence in it was exorcised, and her democratic understanding left a lot to be desired.

You read me complaining a lot about what goes on in Germany. But believe me, the reasons are real. And I will never forgive the left-woke-green scum the assassination of what was good and bright and great in Germany and especially Germany's past relevance as a cultural global power like only few others. All that is lost, was intentionally destroyed and gotten rid of. I will never forgive that, never. For my parents its even worse, culture and beauty was their life and profession. And now it gets mocked, ridiculed, and dirt being thrown at it all.

No, nobody shall ever ask me for forgiveness. My anger and rage at the Germans are irreconcilable. And I just cannto stand left ideology, it makes me vomitting in no time.

[Jimbuna]

So why exactly in your opinion have matters deteriorated thus?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

So why exactly in your opinion have matters deteriorated thus?

The student revolts of the late 60s have infested universities, later public schools, the whole educational sector even down to the kindergardens, and the media with extreme left-leaning thinking. Today, a recent research showed, over 90% of the volunteers and trainees at German newspapers and GermanTV channels vote green or left!

Since the 70s, this anchored a strong left-leaning bias in public opinion forming.

While this was a revolt, originally, against the burgeoise conservative and petrified post-war society, it met another strong trend in German society. Since the Prussians, Germans had gotten a strong and unshakable belief in the state and state authority implemented into them. This helped to direct more and more demands at the state how he should care for people's needs, since he was omnipotent and was given card blanche, while the people became more and more freed from responsibility. In the years when Merkel appeared, this turned into extremes, the state became the typical socialist nanny-state while Merkel spent her time with opportunistically doing just what secured her the good vibes and applaus of the masses. And so the social state grew and grew further, while needed reforms and investments that would have been detrimental to the socialist nanny state's conquest , were not done - until today. The German Railroad is a good example.

All this is more and more difficult to finance. Germany is the most tax-heavy state worldwide - and the SPD ministers and Greens in the current government already call for even higher taxes, not to mention the SED in the opposition. Add to this 2.4 trillion Euros in national debts end of Q1 2023 (60% of GDP), and another over 2 trillion in foreign state's liabilities that we guarantee for in the Euro-Zone (TARGET-2 saldi). With GDP falling. Inflation stubbornly persisting. Economy shrinking. Recession. It will not be over soon, I tell you. Its all here to stay. And I predicted that already years ago. Meanwhile, our infrastructure around us is collapsing in slow motion. But ever new regulations are ctreated by what I undersgtand the dicatorship of the bureaucrats! Construction of houses must take into account over 3700 different regulations! And the number is growing, the EU wants it so!

Germany has included in its Basic Law to - if thinking it to the logical end - unconditionally support and press for the great European unification behind which the national state, Germany, must step back and be deconstructed. Problem is, Germany is, to my best knowledge, the only nation in Europe having done so. The others all refuse to go this far. Nobody else is so dumb.

Here the German guilt complex after Hitler comes into play. It was the drive and motivation to uncritically throw one's own assets into the fire in support of the idea of the EU (to in the end become a super state that just is not - not yet - allowed to be called so). However, the older ones are dying out, the younger ones as well as the many offsprings with migrant background (one quarter of total families are mixed or pure migrant families) and the next generaiton in general seem to increasingly refuses to accept the burden of the Holocaust as a moral obligation they must share (to which I am even sympathetic, I do not identify with that, too). Instead, the former consensus on norms and morals as well as the state and its organs get challenged by that of non-integrating migrant cultures, and Islam.

But now comes two things that exploit this:

First, Germany is in the crosshairs of many international NGOs, capitalism critics, enemies of free market, ecological and pro-miorgant lobbies, socialist planned economy theoreticists, putting the German politicians under enormous pressure to comply with their left-leaning and woke ideology. And many politicians, since most of them indeed already are left-leaning, even in the CDU (if for no other reason than opportunism), even support the idea that NGOs increasingly should not only define but also execute politics of the democratically legitimised government and state offices - although NGOs have no democratic legitimation in themselves to execute governmetal powers or to have access to tax money: heck, thats why they are called NGO! Germany posed as prey, and so it was turned into prey, like the peace movement and anti-atom-movement were turned into prey for the Sovjet and Eastgerman KGB and Stasi to influence the political discourse in Germany and destabilise the social integrity of the Westgerman society. I have said it many times: the Greens are, before anything else, about social regime change, climate only is a fig leaf they hide behind. I claim it has been like this since they formed up as the party of this name in 1980.

Second, and ironically I just sent Catfish a video link on this, we see a massive decline of the relevance of institutionalised religion, means: the churches. Last year more peope fled from them than ever before (around 900,000 for both churches). The time of the churches is over. As the man in the video, Broder, explained, and I fully agree with him on that: when you are about the four-days working week and work-life balance, you do not need the churches anymore to add meaning to your life, for you think you already are focussed on it. The green ideology has become a surrogate religion, or a new religion, and that religion follows the classical mechanics of religious dogmatics: there is purgatory (improper heating or showering for too long has dire consequences), there are high priests or saints (Greta and Al Gore, for example). ), there are many commandments (Greens' most favourite hobby: issuing new commandments), there is am indulgence trade (tricks of the climate politics to bypass climate obligations), and in general it is true that one is not too close with intellectual knowledge, rather one concentrates on believing something intensely and living the life pleasing to religion as a vegan or vegetarian, as a migrant rescuer on the high seas and ecologically conscious alternative consumer, so one does one's part, so that in the end all reach the ecological heavenly kingdom called climate salvation. Since it is about nothing less than this belief in the ecological kingdom of heaven, this then also justifies an increasing militancy, an increasing totalitarian attitude, in order to force even the "unbelievers" onto the right path. One does not have to prove that one's own arguments are valid, because one knows that one believes the right thing. Religion is always about faith, believing, not knowledge. Believing is even declared to be a cardinal virtue (proof of the fervour of the religious mind), scepticism or even just wanting to check for oneself is considered an unforgivable outrage that justifies any persecution.

This intellectual clusterbombing by international groups and NGOs, and this messianic, increasingly hysterical fanatism of the eco-religious, now slam into a softened, weakened Germany that

- has been prepared since decades by left ideologists,

- has deconstructed the quality of its educational system and media in the name of "social" left thinking norms,

- chases its qualified and performance willing elites away with insane tax and other payment loads

- is, like I say since years, economically WEAK, not strong, due to its suicidal dependence from exporting - and thus from markets and factors beyonmd its control (read the press carefully, German exports are dramatically declining since two quarters at least, and there is a long term trend established, many experts fear: this will disastrously erode German financial income basis)

- and the systematic reduction of the availability of electrical power while forcing people to accept growing demand for it.

I do not even list the migration dilemma and the problem of challenges of the state due to failed integration of Muslim sub cultures, and the dramatic demographic decline, the overaging of society.

Do you then still ask why matters detoriate over here? If so, my attempt to explain has failed, I'm sorry. The problems with and for Germany are much, much deeper and dangerous than most people seem to see. Including our carricature of a government, diese Trottel. TBH, I have given up Germany. It falls. The golden times are over. The best we can hope for is to slow down the decline. Thats is true for most if not all of central and western and southern Europe. I only have some cautious hope for eastern Europe - but that is under threat by Russia now.


Edit:
Catfish knows it already, this is the video I mentioned, in German. Maybe English translated subtitles will do the trick for you.

[Jimbuna]

Hmm interesting

[Skybird]

I apologize for the many typos making the read difficult. I had corrected it all afterwards, but it seems that I switched pages too fast after hitting the Enter button, and it got not transmitted. I thought the corections were up.



I have just redone it.

[Jimbuna]

Not a problem and cheers.

[Jimbuna]

[Skybird]

https://think--again-org.translate.g..._x_tr_pto=wapp


The logic of failure. The law of unintended consequences.

[Rockstar]

[Oubaas]

If the military personnel of the world would snap out of the brainless reverie in which they're lost, and stop fighting each other at the behest of corrupt, brainless, morally bankrupt, evil civilians, we could band together, seize the world at gunpoint, and implement a samurai-style government in every country on Earth, with all nations working together to maintain good order and discipline throughout the world.

We would walk as kings. All who opposed us would fall. Those who were not warriors would be required to genuflect as we passed. Each of us would be answerable only to our respective warlords and the Shogun of our particular nation. Those without honor would be required to commit seppuku. Warriors with no warlord would become ronin.

That would fix things. The crap would stop in short order.

[Jimbuna]

Meanwhile, British Gas Energy profits soar by 889%

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

[mapuc]

Today our windmills produced 55 % of our daily consumption of electricity. Rest has been imported from Norway and Sweden and a few percentage came from Poland.

Makes one wonder who would be without electricity if there only was windmills and not coal, oil or nuclear powerplants in Europe ?

Renewable energi can't stand by itself. Not yet.

Can't remember what it is called but around 14-16 % is turn from sunshine into electricity. The newest type has a 20 or so percentage.

Markus

[Jimbuna]

^ Solar energy.