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Originally Posted by mapuc
Had to translate this danish article and post it here in our GER politics thread.
I presume he is very much wrong in his statement
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Absolute freedom means absolute responsibility. There will always be consequences, the way consequences are delivered can differ. Some of the ways to deliver consequences are more in line with repression or even totalitarian than others. Musk as “Free speech absolutist” is by default absolute totalitarian!
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Nobel laureate Doris Lessing in her book Prisons we choose to live inside. Brainwashing, Lessing writes, has three elements. The first is creating fear and tension ‘the country is going down’ alternating with relaxation, ‘the sun is going to shine again.’ The second element is repetition. Saying the same thing over and over again, shouting, screaming. The third is reducing complex reality to simple slogans. ‘’Close the borders‘’.
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If you see AFD voters as people who have been brainwashed, the perspective changes. In public discourse, they are never viewed that way. There, they are disgruntled voters or racists. Rarely are they portrayed as victims of deception. The AFD makes people racist who weren't before, there they too. Racism is also a form of brainwashing. We are not born racists, anyone who works in a kindergarten knows, we are made that way. Without us realising it. Don't believe simple slogans. Not even those of people you agree with, because brainwashing is not tied to political affiliation. The politicians and media totally distorted reality into a totally different story, fuelling hatred. It would be good if the people would dare to think, how they themselves are accountable to the government and administration. However, the people demand all sorts of things, do not act in accordance with their own laws and rules, yet call to account those who are trying to remedy the shortcomings every so often and demand the most contradictory things from them. Self-interest and the delusion of the day is more decisive than reasonable sense and the common good.
Those who are not for us are against us. Everything foreign must be banished and is a threat to the true nature of the people. This creates an atmosphere of arbitrariness and lawlessness, whereby anyone can be made an enemy of the system by anyone. All this for the glory of the populist leaders. The restoration or the road back to a free society in function of the common good will require ever greater sacrifices if the dissenting voices delay and recoil from the violence of the demagogues. ‘Wir haben es nicht gewusst’.