Unemployment is supposedly stable, and poverty is actually supposedly dropping, which is most likely caused by the lower inflation.
Though the numbers are sketchy and dependent on narrative - either from supporters trying to portray his government as extremely successful or detractors.
The de-industrialization seems to be uncontested data.
Nationalism + stopping inflation (it currently dropped to a pleasant 32,0 %, and stayed there for a year) through shock doctrine. Much like in the post-Soviet states, it collapsed industry.
the ACP is a very low bar to clear
Eh, try Eastern Europe. Poland, the Baltics, etc.
All basically the same, with Poland being maybe the only one to not glorify nazi collaborators.
I am concerned about this because if you, or anyone reading this, put gegenstandpunkt in the lemmygrad search engine to find posts/comments you will see an active user heavily influenced by this weird deviation.
Yeah, me circa 2 years ago probably lol. (Edit: huh, there’s a second person)
Be in GS circles long enough and you’ll see how often there is no desire to change the world to improve one’s own life. I had it admitted to me by a few GS people. Their lives are good, so why risk anything? Criticism is enough, and if you criticise well enough… you get enlightenment, better ways of thinking, and society will change if enough people lose their enthusiasm for the state and capitalism.
I don’t know what to make of them. I don’t interact with their structures anymore though. And that’s definitely for the best. Unpleasant people… but maybe because they’re Germans.
They’re a pseudo-left-communist quarterly magazine (not actually an organisation since 1991, when their predecessor, funnily named “Marxist Group”, dissolved) that is known for its dense writing style and being notoriously aggressive and annoying to interact with.
They see activism as currently useless because most people on the left have views that according to them are a dead-end that has kept the left in stagnation for decades - something that needs to be fixed before anything productive can happen. Criticism of moral argumentation and nationalism are shared by the communist left, but its views of the state are the main source of controversy in Germany. The state acts in self-preservation and it chooses to support a capitalist economy and the interests of the bourgeoisie, because the people running it see it as the best way to advance its own interests. Thus, it can act against the class interests of the bourgeoisie, or decide which faction to favor, according to what it wants to. If you talk to them, you’d probably get something more nuanced, but that is what they write. They also are critical of Lenin. I am not sure why exactly, but the way they criticize the state does lead some GS-influenced people into Anarchism.
They’re rapidly growing in influence in the left, mostly in groups that only mostly agree with them, thanks to a couple of large podcasts. Someone influenced by them, journalist and podcaster Ole Nymoen, has become a hate figure of the liberals last year because he wrote a book denouncing militarist propaganda and has thus been given lots of (negative) publicity. This growing influence has led to attempts at pushback from MLs and more recently Trotskyists, but the criticism I read so far has been pretty bad.
C. Derick Varn has recently examined one of their texts on his show… and has argued with one of GSP’s influencers in the comments lol. Unlike the above-mentioned criticism, he did actually investigate the source material. GS people are infamous for going “you didn’t understand the argument correctly upon disagreement”, as well as reliably showing up whenever they are mentioned, and are hard to push back against.
The Illusion of Critique: Gegenstandpunkt’s Radical Critique of the State (1) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xbYicjuQTY
The Illusion Of Critique: Gegenstandpunkt’s Critique of Democratic Law and its Limits (2) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUmLZxSX0dc
If you speak German, Fabian Lehr also had a long discussion with Ole Nymoen and Simon Dressler on GS-influenced criticism they had of the recent anti-conscription protests:
Israel has definitely adopted a kill or be killed mentality, so it might wage war until Arabs do not pose any perceived threat whatsoever (plus the fears of the “great replacement”) by either submission under the boot or death.
Most of the area dedicated to the Nazi Party Gathering area has been repurposed into Langwasser, a commieblock (but western) residential neighborhood with a 2/3 majority of foreigners and people with at least one foreign parent (“Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund”).
Nuremberg has recently reached 51% of its population being either first generation foreigners or having a foreign background (Eastern Europeans, Turks, Arabs and Vietnamese mostly). It’s a city largely divided between north and south, with the north being wealthier and more German, and the south poorer and mostly foreign.
The poorest areas are also the ones getting most gentrified, because that’s where the fucking students move in. There’s areas in Gostenhof, an area that used to vote for the Left Party, that was won by the “Politbande”, an electoral list of the culture scene for the culture scene, which got 2% elsewhere. If you hear someone speak English, instead of Turkish on the street - that’s likely a gentrifier.
Monument protection laws, I believe. The building is old enough.
UK or USA? It could be either!
where it kept coming back periodically for 500 years
Skyrim is good (with mods), but Morrowind is what made me fall in love with the setting.
I miss paint.net. I found Krita decent, but that program was my go to for basically anything.
The gas price at my local gas station was at 2,07 €/l yesterday - $9.08 per gallon. The price jumped by around 0,40 € per liter ($1.75 / gal) this week.
They’re once again struck with the beauty of American missiles
The market economy can’t provide any of these anyway
Living alone is not viable in the housing market constantly in crisis unless there is mass investment from the government for any reason.
Finding “the one” is a fun task when: 1) people don’t go out anymore, and even if they wanted to, there are few places where you can (and they’re usually commodities to be accessed by money) - 2) people don’t know how to talk to each other anymore and are increasingly reliant on social media that keeps you addicted for profit - 3) more people are directionless and the target of grifter self-help gurus
well yeah, that’s the core of it.