ShahdagMountains
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Germany is becoming a weird place – not just politically, but culturally and discursively too. Every day it more closely resembles a massive open-air kindergarten.
Consider what is happening to the Bundestag: This has always been a highly ponderous parliamentary body, basically the Ambien of Western liberal democracy. As our economic situation and our political system have deteriorated, however, Bundestag discourse has only become more farcical. Under Bundestag President
Julia Klöckner, it is increasingly forbidden to say anything interesting at all. Alice Weidel in a recent speech was admonished for observing that Chancellor Friedrich Merz has become the “lying chancellor” in the eyes of the people. Also forbidden in Klöckner’s Bundestag: using the English word “bullshit” (which is not really a profanity in German), referring to the statements of other politicians as “untruths” and calling the self-proclaimed “democratic parties” a “political cartel.” Even the basic act of levelling accusations against one’s political opponents is now out of bounds. All of this is uncivil, beyond the pale, unbecoming of parliamentary discourse – and should you overstep, you are likely to get a lecture and maybe even a call to order from nightmare-haunting personages like Bundestag Vice President Josephine Ortleb:
www.eugyppius.com
Consider what is happening to the Bundestag: This has always been a highly ponderous parliamentary body, basically the Ambien of Western liberal democracy. As our economic situation and our political system have deteriorated, however, Bundestag discourse has only become more farcical. Under Bundestag President
Julia Klöckner, it is increasingly forbidden to say anything interesting at all. Alice Weidel in a recent speech was admonished for observing that Chancellor Friedrich Merz has become the “lying chancellor” in the eyes of the people. Also forbidden in Klöckner’s Bundestag: using the English word “bullshit” (which is not really a profanity in German), referring to the statements of other politicians as “untruths” and calling the self-proclaimed “democratic parties” a “political cartel.” Even the basic act of levelling accusations against one’s political opponents is now out of bounds. All of this is uncivil, beyond the pale, unbecoming of parliamentary discourse – and should you overstep, you are likely to get a lecture and maybe even a call to order from nightmare-haunting personages like Bundestag Vice President Josephine Ortleb:
Schoolmarmocracy
Thoughts on the hall monitors and the discourse police who make progressive Western politics such an unbearable lobotomised shitshow
www.eugyppius.com
