So here I am watching the Dutch coverage of the German elections. The exit poll is just in, so we go quickly to the *second biggest* party to hear what they have to say.

Why go straight to the second biggest? Because they're the neonazi afd, and the Dutch media *always* talks to the extreme right wing who want to screw us all over before they talk to anyone else.

I'm really sick of this. We're in the state we're in now, possibly facing escalation of a completely pointless ear, largely because of the shit job that journalists are doing, seemingly everywhere.
#germanelection #DutchMedia #nos #journalism @NOS

A three toed sloth stands as dictator in my currently arbitrarily democratic nation.

What should I do?

#politics

Tell me what I should be, what I should think, what I should do.

You paint me.

@peterrelph

that was hair trigger

this is slow burn

more wwii than wwi

the west yielded to nazi germany's early moves. sudetenland for example. so germany was emboldened and they aimed higher

and so: georgia 2008. crimea 2014. the west shrugged. putin aimed higher

fascism must be confronted when it is small, early. or you get larger, later

the only choices unfortunately

dithering and evasion means greater chance of war with a creature like putin

we should have helped georgia in 2008

@peterrelph
I’ve long said that #Trump didn’t change the #GOP, he merely revealed what it truly is.

He’s the symptom, not the underlying disease.

Fascism is the disease.

@jmcleod @StillIRise1963

Absolutely correct, Trump did not cause this.

Only a profoundly insane system could possibly have entertained the concept of President Trump as an option in the first place.

There is nowhere forward to go from here, "excuse me, but I'm lost. Can you please tell me how to get to sanity from here".
"Sorry, you can't get there from here".

You need the nutter's "great reset" I suppose, get rid of the nutters.

@LeftToPonder
Whereas I was speaking objectively about the effects that the person might have on the world, regardless of their parent's pride or otherwise.

@Alienated53

Galileo, Kepler, Einstein made significant formative contributions to our current milieu.

Not history, our way of life.

@dragestil @KarunaX

The parties themselves are irrelevant, it is the people that matter. I was a Labor supporter, I have not been such for 20 years.
I was a member of the Greens, I stood for them, I am no longer a member.

Forget the parties & talk to the people.

@KarunaX @dragestil

Divide & conquer

Someone said that a long time ago, it still works.

@peterrelph @dragestil True, most Oz greens would easily fit into a neo-liberal classification. Still, I would prefer many of their housing, climate and transport policies to those of the Uniparty - and note they have been vociferous in their support for Julian Assange, again unlike the Uniparty.

@dragestil @KarunaX

The Greens that I have met & associated with were neither authoritarian nor misogynistic, they were however Neoliberal.

@KarunaX @DrALJONES and that's been going on for decades.
What is new is that they're doing it overtly, and the west is applauding and supporting them.
Hence that historic legacy will also be that of the USA, UK, France. Germany, the (n)ever neutral Switzerland, the rest of the white supremacist wankers disguised as progressive nations, furthering the destruction of a nation that's been inhabiting these lands since pre-biblical times, unlike the vast majority of Israelis.

@peterrelph The duopoly has been a successful political ploy for generations, as people are told to vote for the lesser bastard, but still end up with one or other cheek of the Uniparty's arse. Go independents! Go Greens! Go anywhere but to the major parties.

@peterrelph @HumanServitor

Stay outside is a good strategy. I take risks. I go out. But if I’m at a crowded concert I wear a mask, shopping centres, public transport, etc. If cases are rising or I hear word that people are catching it I go back to super cautious.

@peterrelph @HumanServitor

We still need to watch out for droplets on surfaces and clean our hands. The virus may be aerosolised but: “High relative humidity increases the condensation effect and causes larger infectious droplets to fall earlier.”

I too am still Covid free and well vaxxed.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8646542/#:~:text=Respiratory%20droplets%20travel%20farther%20in,temperature%20and%20low%20humidity%20environments.

@LeftToPonder@mastodon.social @tripop@catodon.social

I have set my Wordpress site up as a member of the Fediverse, hopefully

@relph.org/@relph.org

So if the other instances piss me off or I get pissed off with them I still have a place to speak. Unlimited characters too.

aka some random sensor

@LeftToPonder@mastodon.social @tripop@catodon.social

I understand, finally, they can display it but not create it.

@LeftToPonder@mastodon.social @tripop@catodon.social

Our choices 😉

@LeftToPonder@mastodon.social @tripop@catodon.social

Firefish has 8000, as does Catodon, Kolektiva has 10000, even Mastodon could increase the limit