Another transport sector strike in Germany.
— S p r i n t e r F a c t o r y (@Sprinterfactory) April 20, 2023
Trade unions in Germany again announced strikes by railway and air transport workers on Thursday and Friday due to a lack of agreement with employers on working conditions and wages. pic.twitter.com/b8YH7ywghI
As everyone knew was going to happen, the German economy has totally collapsed and they’re staring down deindustrialization.
Of course, the government will always make sure the upper classes are totally insulated, and as much of the middle classes as possible, because the lower classes can’t do shit.
That’s a fact of reality. Peasants cannot do revolutions without leaders, and they are so dumb, the leaders are usually people with totally different motives than those stated (see the entire history of both communism and the US color revolutions).
You can grab the peasants and use them for good, however. If you had the will to power. Napoleon did it. Hitler did it. It’s not really that hard. They just want inspired speeches and cool looking tribal symbols and like, hardcore military shit (i.e., symbols of the capacity for violence to be used to protect the tribe).
These Germans have their hearts in the right place, of course. Shutting down the things they have the ability to shut down is the very most obvious thing peasants will do to show dissatisfaction. But this has never resulted in any meaningful outcome unless Robespierre or Lenin showed up and was like “and now, we start killing all my personal enemies!”
Rail workers went on strike across Germany on Friday, bringing national operator Deutsche Bahn’s services largely to a halt, in the latest of a series of stoppages over pay in Europe’s largest economy.
The walkout, organised by the EVG union, was due to run from 3 a.m. (0100 GMT) to 11 a.m, though the train network was expected to be impacted for the whole day.
State-owned Deutsche Bahn said all its long-distance connections would be cancelled until 1 p.m. and that few commuter trains would run.
The EVG, which is negotiating on behalf of 230,000 workers, is seeking a 12% wage increase, or at least an additional 650 euros ($715) per month. Deutsche Bahn has offered 5% and one-off payments of up to 2,500 euros.
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Friday’s transport strike was set to coincide with a walkout at four German airports – Duesseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne Bonn and Stuttgart – by members of the Verdi union.
The problem is that the democracy system understands that the only real threat from the masses of people is a charismatic, intelligent, youngish (under 50) man with a vision of restructuring the current system through the use of an organized mob.
These people are targeted, before they even think of doing that thing, and brought into the system. The elite school system is designed to pull youth with potential into the system.
You know in these schools, they film each other doing like, masturbation rituals and other gay shit?
Skull & Bones is I’m sure the most famous, because it’s the most elite, but every fraternity collects kompromat on their members. Then you have the Epstein stuff of course, but that’s hardly even necessary.
An enlightened man might see a video of their revolutionary leader doing some gay shit in a fraternity or having sex with a teenage girl on a devil island and laugh and be like “yeah that’s how they get ya.”
But a peasant mob will tear their leader apart over something like that.
Tucker Carlson, for example, actually does have the qualities of a revolutionary leader. These are very evident traits. But as we see now, he’s entirely bought into the system.
And of course, if you slip through, and manage to develop the kinds of skills necessary to be a revolutionary leader without having been integrated into the existing power structure (which is probably basically impossible now), they can just arrest you over some bullshit like they did to the Golden Dawn in Greece. They just put them all in prison for literally no reason.
This is the problem we’re facing, and it is why, in my view, the only revolution is going to come from a mix of internal collapse and external pressure from China.
China will become the main source of global economic growth in the next five years – IMF believes
— The Rio Times (@TheRioTimes) April 18, 2023
The country's share in global GDP will be 22.6%, which is twice the share of the United States.
The contribution of the BRICS countries will exceed the contribution of the G7… pic.twitter.com/nYkRwh48LS
This machine we live in is far from perfect, but the mechanism for suppressing the people is perfect. That is really probably the best definition of democracy: “the perfected suppression of the population by the ruling elite.”
We need these big problems to get a lot bigger and we need Emperor Xi to do the exact right thing over and over again and then maybe.
Maybe.
But it is all just noise, brothers.
There is one thing in the universe that matters: “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Have Mercy on Me, A Sinner.”
Try to have fun.