CowdnOwd 

Bog standard bloke.
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Response to the UKHSA stonewall
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The MHRA Papers - Part 24
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It's the triangulation tactic involved that bothers me. They're only relevant in areas where AfD is really strong. Maybe it's just my suspicious American mind but BSW does really look like a stalking horse to drain off votes. Percents are going to matter in this election. I'm cheering AfD on. Auslander Raus!

Make Germany Great Again. Get the pipelines open again with Russia once Trump settles this Ukraine crap.

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I must admit, that as an American, the last 9 years have trained me to roll my eyes pretty hard at the phrase "pro-Russia". ;)

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I understand that re the postwar years.

But I wonder what a "German identity" actually means, culturally.

For example I was astonished not too long ago to learn how many dialects of Dutch exist between the Netherlands and Belgium. When you have a different way of saying the same thing then you have a difference in local culture too. Your natural identity is more village/region based no matter what citizenship any particular era conveys upon you.

So between High German and Low German there must be …

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One thing common to all the nations of the West is that the number of folks who are just sick to the teeth of 50+ years of political Progressivism has finally reached critical mass. Sick to the teeth of all the race-guilt-tripping, gender-bending, virtue-signalling nonsense that the university-'educated' middle classes have been sheep-dipped in.

I thank Eugyppius for this succinct summary of the German version.

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Well, it doesn’t seem like German leadership is going to change much. I guess the people there haven’t had enough, yet. Unfortunately, it’ll probably result in more “asylum seeker” rampages.

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Hi Eugyppius, thanks for the very useful primer. Did you see the article by Thomas Fazi in Unherd today, "Will Merz sell Germany to BlackRock?". Any comments?

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so it doesn't matter who you vote for because you end up with the same old same old uniparty. just like everywhere else in europe. and if you vote for an outsider like afd and they get loads of votes and seats then the uniparty will just ignore that result and carry on as normal. the supposed democratic systems of europe are not in the slightest bit democratic are they?

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Thank you, clear information on German current events & the history behind it. I don't think you understand how valuable you are- we would have never gotten anything like this from our msm "news".

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I understand that the polls indicate AfD will only garner 21%-23% of the vote, but what if, similar to the 2016 election when people were afraid to admit they were going to vote for Trump, there is a significant undercounting in the polls. if AfD were to win 30%, would that be enough to block any other legislation, or even the formation of a government? and if they got the most votes, would the President be obligated to ask them to form a government?

Love your stuff and am hoping the imbeciles t…

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Just like in the UK with Labour in power, in DE we are destined to suffer 4/5 more years of the same disastrous policies that have hobbled us over the last 10 years. Sinking further into economic stagnation, de-industrialisation and yet more unfettered migration, state surveillance and the curtailment of free expression, quite why us Germans keep voting for the same parties and expecting different policy outcomes is beyond me. On the plus side, booze is relatively cheap by comparison, as are fa…