But as we see with the rise in #AfD polling numbers not the whole answer. People can have the table set for them but still refuse to eat. Being carried by Social Support is in itself a shameful status. People need to be able to stand on their own two feet. We need to help them get there.
Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the #Iran war. What is going on?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Ist aber langfristig zielführend, wenn wir die großen Herausforderungen wie den #Klimawandel und immer wiederkehrende #Migrationskrisen meistern wollen.
#Politik, #Deutschland, #Rechts, #Links, #AfD, #SPD, #CDU, #Gruene, #FDP
Vielleicht ist das, was die Demokratie so sinnvoll macht: Sie ist nicht schnell, sie ist nicht optimal, aber sie führt uns die gesellschaftliche Meinung vor Augen und zwingt uns, unsere Mitmenschen abzuholen, um weiterzukommen.
Niemand sollte zurückgelassen werden.
Das mag lästig sein…
#AfD #CDU
After Trump returned to WH, Ukraine held out hope of winning him over. But Trump revealed his affection for Putin again and again, halted American aid to Kyiv, insulted Ukrainian leaders, pressured Ukraine to cede territory. Now, Kyiv appears to have given up on US - The Atlantic
Using conflicts to influence markets and shovel money into his teams coffers helps pay for more voter buses in the midterms.
Mr. Art of the Deal maybe also wants to drag out this conflict while pretending to want it to end. It’s proving fantastic for yanking markets this way and that at the drop of a post.
Diese Frage sollte jeder Einzelne für sich reflektieren:
Wie kann *ICH* Menschen abholen?
Es ist nicht nur Job der Regierung und Politiker.
Haben wir verlernt, wie das geht? Übersteigen die Schwierigkeiten und gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen unsere Kapazität, sie zu verarbeiten?
Oder ist es beides?
Wie können wir Menschen abholen? Das ist die Kernfrage, die wir uns stellen sollten.
#Politik #AfD #CDU #Linke #Grüne #Merz #Deutschland
Ich glaube, der letzte Punkt ist der treffende: von der Gesellschaft abgehängte Menschen. Wie verarbeiten wir gemeinsam die Schwierigkeiten unserer Zeit? Wie kommen wir zusammen, um die Dinge miteinander zu diskutieren und konstruktiv anzugehen?
Es kann doch nicht so viele ungebildete, bankrotte, von der Gesellschaft abgehängte Menschen geben, oder? 🤷♂️
Der US Republikaner Plan funktioniert offenbar auch in Deutschland. Aber hier haben wir kostenlose Bildung, universelle Krankenversicherung und ein starkes Sozialfangnetz. Was ist dann das Problem?
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If you weren't thinking this all along, I question your judgement.
NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter...
You have to wonder:
1. Why is the purpose of the war unclear? 2. Why are the goals not defined?
3. Does flip-flopping from one extreme to another „Open the Straight, or-else!“ to „Ok we‘re going to close the Straight!“ just foster plausible deniability?
Krass, das ist beunruhigend.
Do not use VISA cards for „Express Travel“ in Apple Pay. They’re insecure.
youtu.be/PPJ6NJkmDAo?...
Very Good points. An analysis of Peter Magyar‘s success in Hungary.
Here’s How to Defeat Trumpism www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...
I‘m not saying it’s an easy thing to do, the #Republicans have been refining this game for decades. It takes a lot of effort and a lot of money. It would seem to be worth that effort and money for the players involved.
exactly.
I think this is very interesting:
chat.mistral.ai/chat/f1af06b...
#Politics #Honesty #Uninformed #VoterManipulation #MAGA #GOP #Trump #AfD #Weidel #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Republicans #Democrats #Liberals #CDU
this is where honesty and rationality lose out. If you’re honest you don’t manipulate uninformed people.
Honesty is the harder path. But more stable in the end (I think?).
Get-Out-The-Vote campaigns can be a sinister tool. They make people feel good for exercising their civic duty to vote, however, if the organizers are not operating honestly but steering public opinion in one direction or the other they can be very manipulative, taking advantage of uninformed voters
If you didn’t find the time to do your research and form an opinion, I think it wasn’t out of the ordinary to leave voting to the others that did.
This gets turned on it’s head, paradoxically, with voter recruitment efforts. Or ‚get-out-the-vote‘ campaigns.
I think another factor is the voting threshold for lack of a better description. What I mean is how confident a person feels about their opinion that they will go and vote. I think in the past, voting was something you did if you felt well-informed. The act in itself was considered prestigious.
What is definitely different now is the ease with which one can become an ‚influencer‘ and reach a large audience. A similar thing happened with the advent of the printing press in the 15th century, then the advent of radio in the early 20th century. In each of these eras, new ‚influencers‘ emerged
Intelligent thought/discourse used to be held in esteem. People strived to understand. I think in this way rational thought held sway, but not necessarily because everyone used their brains. Emotion or ‚gut instinct’ has probably always played a large role.
I wonder how much rationalism ever existed in our democracies. I‘m not convinced that everyone who voted in decades past formed an intelligent opinion. What may have been different was the way people judged informed opinion holders (or as they’re now called: ‚influencers‘).
It all depends on how much you need him politically. Arguably #Trump knows exactly what he’s doing.