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[Floridaman]

I think it's more a case of no one's ever bothered to sit down and talk to the public about it. Contrary to popular belief they really aren't that stupid. Show them the pie charts of state expenditure, perhaps even give a little talk about what the Roman Welfare system did to the public and if you're feeling bold show how Welfare has utterly exacerbated the situation in crime riddled neighborhoods, just to get everyone on the same page.

As for those who scream "it's literal murder" to cut benefits, you can deliver a real gut punch by saying, "surely welfare costing that much is a sign of a very real problem in society that can't be solved by throwing more money at it."

Libertarians, Austrian Economists, and others including Milton Friedman have said that for years, people simply wont listen until they hit the brick wall.

 

[Cherico]

Libertarians, Austrian Economists, and others including Milton Friedman have said that for years, people simply wont listen until they hit the brick wall.

Pain unfortantly remains one of the best teachers this world has.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Libertarians, Austrian Economists, and others including Milton Friedman have said that for years, people simply wont listen until they hit the brick wall.

Or, their reach simply hasn't been far enough. Most people have never heard of Milton Friedman, let alone know who the "Austrian School" is. There is a wall, but it isn't one of public stupidity, it's the Left having been in command of the media and academia for over half a century. All the more important as to why the Intelligentsia must be defeated decisively in battle and routed from their strongholds.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

The german people need to get rid of her now.

Not tomorrow, not a year from now, now you should have gotten rid of her ten years ago you should have had term limits on how long prime ministers should serve but now they need to get rid of her.

Politics are too slow in my opinion when it comes to doing their decisions

Even if the majority of Germans are against migration, it will take too long to send them back or police them

 

[Deleted member 88]

So can the German police sneak into your house and install listening bugs? Or do they need some sort of court order and a warrant to put you under surveillance?

In the US-bugging someone's house is definitely a 4th Amendment breach in principle, and if your going to do it-you need to convince a judge the person is probably the next Bin Laden or something.

But then again, in the US we actually believe(or at least we say we do) that rights are innate, God Given, not mere privileges the state can revoke when it inconveniences it.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Today in "What can I do to earn the hatred of voters, present and future?", president of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Schäuble, put forward the idea of making the Summer Holidays of Germany shorter. The problem with that idea is that the students have continued their studies and homework home, so in effect they were just homeschooled. This is just an attempt to prevent the idea of homeschooling taking root in the citizens' minds. It would also serve as a precedent to make summer holidays shorter again, and again, until they are suspended permanently.

Schäuble bringt Verkürzung der Sommerferien ins Spiel

Die Sommerferien verkürzen, um den wegen der Corona-Pandemie ausgefallenen Unterricht teilweise nachzuholen - klingt eigentlich plausibel. Das findet auch ...

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Auch um Eltern zu entlasten: Schäuble will Sommerferien verkürzen

Bundestagspräsident Schäuble schlägt eine Verkürzung der Sommerferien vor. Dabei geht es auch um die Entlastung der Eltern.

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Overall, that overripe turd really should think beyond the economy if he wants his party to stay in power.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

Today in "What can I do to earn the hatred of voters, present and future?", president of the Bundestag, Wolfgang Schäuble, put forward the idea of making the Summer Holidays of Germany shorter. The problem with that idea is that the students have continued their studies and homework home, so in effect they were just homeschooled. This is just an attempt to prevent the idea of homeschooling taking root in the citizens' minds. It would also serve as a precedent to make summer holidays shorter again, and again, until they are suspended permanently.

Schäuble bringt Verkürzung der Sommerferien ins Spiel

Die Sommerferien verkürzen, um den wegen der Corona-Pandemie ausgefallenen Unterricht teilweise nachzuholen - klingt eigentlich plausibel. Das findet auch ...

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Auch um Eltern zu entlasten: Schäuble will Sommerferien verkürzen

Bundestagspräsident Schäuble schlägt eine Verkürzung der Sommerferien vor. Dabei geht es auch um die Entlastung der Eltern.

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Overall, that overripe turd really should think beyond the economy if he wants his party to stay in power.

Gotta keep the public school system alive, even if online education becomes way more cheaper and efficient in teaching

Oh wait, it’s because there’s less ability for easy government interference with online education

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Why is it that the Founding Fathers of the United States (on which my opinions are...unique) seem to be more correct with each passing year? Granting government more power has just led to more incompetence, mistakes and malice.

 

[DarthOne]

Why is it that the Founding Fathers of the United States (on which my opinions are...unique) seem to be more correct with each passing year? Granting government more power has just led to more incompetence, mistakes and malice.

Because if history doesn’t repeat, it does rhyme. And if your paying attention you can see the reoccurring parallels in each Nation or Empire’s rise and fall.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

Because if history doesn’t repeat, it does rhyme. And if your paying attention you can see the reoccurring parallels in each Nation or Empire’s rise and fall.

Ironically a government that is too powerful is often too slow to respond to a crisis. A strange contradiction, but it does seem to be the case as by comparison small government is quite flexible.

 

[Cherico]

Ironically a government that is too powerful is often too slow to respond to a crisis. A strange contradiction, but it does seem to be the case as by comparison small government is quite flexible.

A larger government has its hands in more of the pie and is using its resources on more stuff a smaller government has less mission creep which means it can focus on the task at hand.

What a lot of left wingers forget is that bruacracies are like really stupid children give them one task and they will do it well but the more tasks you give them the more they will gloriously fuck it up.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

A larger government has its hands in more of the pie and is using its resources on more stuff a smaller government has less mission creep which means it can focus on the task at hand.

What a lot of left wingers forget is that bruacracies are like really stupid children give them one task and they will do it well but the more tasks you give them the more they will gloriously fuck it up.

With all that in mind, and this would be sacrilege in my country, I do question why we want to make healthcare a bureaucracy. After we get mass immigration and freedom of speech sorted out, the big political movement of the 21st century must be to downsize government. The progressive experiment has failed, it's time to go back to Classical Liberalism.

 

[LordsFire]

With all that in mind, and this would be sacrilege in my country, I do question why we want to make healthcare a bureaucracy. After we get mass immigration and freedom of speech sorted out, the big political movement of the 21st century must be to downsize government. The progressive experiment has failed, it's time to go back to Classical Liberalism.

You're competing with 'free stuff.' That's always a hard battle to win.

 

[Lord Sovereign]

You're competing with 'free stuff.' That's always a hard battle to win.

It's doable. All you need to do is a pick up a history book demonstrating that "free stuff ain't free" and beat the electorate over the head with it until the message sinks in. It's just that no one's done that yet because offering free stuff is a vote winner due to the lack of aforementioned book bashing.

 

[LordsFire]

It's doable. All you need to do is a pick up a history book demonstrating that "free stuff ain't free" and beat the electorate over the head with it until the message sinks in. It's just that no one's done that yet because offering free stuff is a vote winner due to the lack of aforementioned book bashing.

It's a fight worth having, absolutely. That doesn't mean it isn't extremely difficult.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

It's doable. All you need to do is a pick up a history book demonstrating that "free stuff ain't free" and beat the electorate over the head with it until the message sinks in. It's just that no one's done that yet because offering free stuff is a vote winner due to the lack of aforementioned book bashing.

It's a fight worth having, absolutely. That doesn't mean it isn't extremely difficult.

"Idealism" trumps facts

And the Idealism of other people is horrible misinformation if it differs from yours in-terms of methods and maybe goals

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-system-s-neatest-trick

The fact that people's sense of rebellion has been used against made up threats is what helps makes things harder

 

[Lord Sovereign]

"Idealism" trumps facts

And the Idealism of other people is horrible misinformation if it differs from yours in-terms of methods and maybe goals

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ted-kaczynski-the-system-s-neatest-trick

The fact that people's sense of rebellion has been used against made up threats is what helps makes things harder

Not in the case of a good chunk of the general public. Reality tends to rule their lives a good deal better than the "academics." Alas, academia is a breeding ground for them because the Right stupidly conceded that ground back in the 1950s. You'd go a long way in nipping this in bud by booting the Left out of the institutions.

On top of that, when you make the public aware of those who have their sense of rebellion riled up against things that don't exist, they'll act/vote against it. How can they hope to combat a threat they've scarcely been informed exists, after all.

 

[Urabrask Revealed]

Today's news is about the Hezbollah filth: After nearly a year, the scumbags in the german parliaments decided they need to steal yet another party-line from the AfD and went ahead with the ban of the Islamic Terror-Organisation Hezbollah.

Schlag gegen libanesische Terrorvereinigung: Seehofer verbietet Hisbollah in Deutschland

Der Bundesinnenminister setzt die Serie von Schlägen gegen Extremisten fort. Das Betätigungsverbot gegen die Hisbollah hat allerdings eine besondere Dimension.

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The first attempt at banning that islamic organisation was made by the AfD in June 2019.

Deutscher Bundestag - AfD-Antrag für ein Verbot der Hisbollah erörtert

Der Bundestag hat am Donnerstag, 6. Juni 2019, erstmals einen Antrag der AfD-Fraktion für ein Verbot der Hisbollah (19/10624) debattiert und im im Anschluss zur federführenden Beratung...

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The scum at the german parliament however, the CDU, the SPD, the Greens, and the rest of the swamp, refused to approve of banning a terror-organisation not because of concerns over freedom of expression or religion, but rather because the attempt came from the outcast of the german politics, the AfD.

Hauptsache dagegen – CDU & Co. vs. AfD ( von Dushan Wegner)

Ein Angestellter, der ALLE Ideen eines Kollegen torpediert, weil er diesen nicht mag, egal wie viel Schaden solche Kinderei der Firma zufügt, er würde sofort gefeuert werden! – So aber handeln Politiker, die ALLES ablehnen, was die AfD vorschlägt.

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This quote is especially illuminating about the attitude of the elite towards Democracy and the AfD:

Mister President! Ladies and gentlemen!
Mr Brandner, you have just asked why we did not agree to your application regarding the abstract standard control suit against the rent cover in Berlin.
I can give you a very clear answer: Because we don't want to have anything to do with you, your group and especially you as a person.
No matter what you will propose in this House, you will never get the support of the CDU / CSU.
- (Dr. Jan-Marco Luczak, CDU / CSU, via bundestag.de)

Go to hell, MISTER Luczak.

Does Seehofer think he can adorn himself with stolen plumes? That fat fuck and his trash-heap of a party won't ever get my vote. AfD all the way till the Super-Majority!

 

[Terthna]

You're competing with 'free stuff.' That's always a hard battle to win.

It'll get a lot easier as we get closer to a post-scarcity market. Offering for free what normally costs pennies to purchase (if that) isn't going to attract many followers.

 

[CarlManvers2019]

It'll get a lot easier as we get closer to a post-scarcity market. Offering for free what normally costs pennies to purchase (if that) isn't going to attract many followers.

Problem is, there will still be fearmongers going on about how you can’t easily get this basic & cheap good on simple jobs

Therefore more government spending