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@´QUERDENKER´ / QANON / Conspiracy Theory Fans: If you believe the nonsense spread by Sputnik/Russia Today (directly in RT-DE/RT-UK, indirectly, e.g. in Trump´s house channel FOX News or by some ´influencers´) is really no longer to help you!

´One will still be allowed to say that´ / ´Prohibitions of expression´ / Suppression of opinion ... It´s funny that these sayings come from AFD etc. all the time and are also spread in normal media (´social media´ are rather not part of it), where is something suppressed? What is rightly criticized and, if necessary, prosecuted with legal remedies are statements that violate human rights (also according to the Basic Law!), glorification of violence, etc.

Fake news: The worst distributors constantly complain in their forums about what they call ´fake news´ from media, people and institutions. Their filter bubbles are the only accepted ´truth´ for a loud, often aggressive minority, so anyone who shouts ´LIE´ loud enough is right. the media they call ´LIE PRESS´ (radio, TV, newspapers and their counterparts on the Internet) are more trustworthy - with the exception of populist opinion changing of media such as SUN etc.

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Now some people offer simple solutions for imaginary problems and sidetrack from real problems, such as
Ex-Fake-PotUS Trump and his Republican sect (Tea Party 2.0; Sideline critics, de-democratization, Lies (so-called ´ALTERNATIVE FACTS´), disenfranchisement of the ♀ population; dominance of a fundamentalist evangelical minority), Half of the US population does the ´lemming´ and follows the pied pipers (we are probably also on this path with the AFD).
TSAR Putin - Leading war criminal; perpetual term of office; criminalization and calls for violence against his opponents and so-called ´ENEMIES OF RUSSIA´ - this goes as far as controlled assassination actions (probably only a selection: 2003 Sergei Yushenkov-politician, 2006 Anna Politkovskaya-journalist and Alexander Litvinenko-Putin critic, 2008 Sergei Magnitsky-lawyer, 2013 Boris Berezovsky-oligarch, 2015 Boris Nemtsov-opposition politician, 2019 Selimkhan Khangoshvili-´Tiergarten murder´, 2022 Ravil Maganov-oil company boss and Alexander Subbotin-oil company manager, 2023 Yevgeny Prigozhin-mercenary chief, 2024 Maxim Kuzminov-former helicopter pilot, Alexei Navalny-opposition politician and Witalij Robertus-oil company deputy manager); lying to the population; War - from 1999 in Chechnya (1994-1996 was before Putin), 2008 Georgia, since 2011 Syria, since 2014 annexation of Crimea, occupation (establishment of ´independent people´s republics´ after alleged genocide of Russians) of Donbass and Luhansk, since 2022-02-24 even more murderous in the whole of Ukraine; Media suppress⇒alternative truths, Orwell´s 1984 sends its regards. The brothers and sisters in spirit - Jarosław Kaczyński, Jair Bolsonaro (fortunately removed from office in the meantime), Viktor Orbán, Robert Fico, the dictator at Putin´s mercy Alexander Lukashenko as well as currently Nicolás Maduro (illegitimate ´president´ of Venezuela, plans by ´law´ occupation/takeover of a large part of the neighboring country Guyana because of large oil deposits found there) etc., they are approaching countries whose determiners are always right:
SULTAN Erdogan (witch hunt against opponents, war against Syrian Kurds on dubious grounds),
Emperor Xi Jinpíng - Uyghurs, sabre-rattling against Taiwan,
Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un - dictator dynasty, the madman with the atomic bombs, arms supplier for the murderous Russian war against Ukraine,
Ali Khamenei - supreme religious determiner in Iran, ruled with massive support of the Revolutionary Guards, violence against its own population, arms supplier for the murderous Russian war against Ukraine, support for the Houthi rebels, Hezbollah and Hamas,

Even before the enlargements, the EU functioned only to a limited extent, partly because of the massive influence of individual member states, especially Germany, France and Great Britain (until Brexit). Now (with currently 27 Member States and 7 candidates) this has become even worse. Small-minded wrangling and more and more populism, as well as some strange processes - e.g. the elections to the European Parliament in 2019 - as well as partial blockades, e.g. Orban/Hungary, do not fit into a constructive democratic coexistence.

The situation in NATO is particularly muddled, where Turkey and Hungary are currently blocking decisions - Erdogan and Orban seem to be Putin fans and each have a very peculiar view of their legitimacy to manipulate law in other countries.

politicians/parties with populist changes of opinion or statements - e.g. AfD before/after April 2020, again and again Markus Söder and Friedrich Merz (both felt at least weekly and usually quite wrong in terms of content).

For many years - not only since the events around FIFA and Qatar - I have not been interested in major sporting events, there is too much money and thus manipulation involved! But what FIFA has done (probably in the spirit of Qatar) - various bought World Cups, whitewashing the incidents in Qatar, muzzling criticism, etc. - is even more underground (actually works) than the actions of other associations (e.g. IOC). And now the icing on the cake on the part of the IOC, the re-admission (*) of athletes from Russia/Belarus - business as usual, only money (for the IOC, UEFA, FIFA etc.) counts!

*) ´selected´ athletes were invited to the Olympics in Paris 2024, provided they do not support the war against Ukraine and act ´neutrally´ - ridiculous with a (at least in Russia and Belarus) close ties of almost all athletes to the military!

Until the last federal election, I considered (among others) the former Minister of Transport Scheuer (CSU) to be the absolute lowest point in the long line of abysmal transport ministers. Now the current Minister of Transport Wissing (FDP) is scratching at this ´top position´, his ´arguments´ against all possible and necessary measures in his area of responsibility and his threats of measures and populist counter-proposals are only embarrassing! So it can be even worse than under CDU/CSU ministers...
Today (2024-04-26) the ´reform of the Climate Protection Act´ was passed in the Bundestag - and again the FDP has prevailed and the partial transport minister can continue to ignore his originally planned climate protection goals...

In some countries, corrupt or otherwise criminal politicians rise to the highest offices. Recent examples:

Israel, where coalition negotiations are intended to undermine the legal system in favor of some politicians/parties. 2024-01-01: The Supreme Court has overturned a central part of the ´judicial reform´ - no judicial obstruction of ´inappropriate´ decisions of the government.
the Slovak Republic, which is now Prime Minister Fico (a few years ago involvement in corruption cases and obstruction of the investigation of the double murder of Ján Kuciak and Martina Kušnírová) and the newly elected President Pellegrini will probably redirect to an autocratic, Russia-friendly course (following the example of Hungary)

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