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Three years later: Willkommenskultur revisited

24th September 2019 Guardian Council 0

It’s been over three years now that Frau Dr. Angela Merkel, German chancellor, tried to turn Germany into a Willkommensrepublik (welcoming republic). At the height of the Syrian refugee crisis, the Islamic State’s (ISIS) multinational [more…]

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Das Projekt Europa: The “good” Totalitarianism

17th September 2019 Guardian Council 0

Over the last few years, I have been watching with utter disbelief the extent to which the democratic process in this country has been dismantled. It has now come to a point where governmental business-as-usual [more…]

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How I stopped being a Lefty and became literally Hitler

28th June 2019 Guardian Council 0

This is what I’ve been putting off writing for the longest time now: a personal account of how things became the way they are now, at least ideologically speaking. When I grew up and all [more…]

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Why Germany? Part 2

6th June 2019 Guardian Council 0

After the Second World War, the need was felt to learn the lessons from history and make it impossible for Germany to cause any more catastrophes. Integrating the Federal Republic (aka West Germany) into a [more…]

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Why Germany? Part 1

6th June 2019 Guardian Council 0

In this brief essay, I’m going to argue that German nationalism is inherently flawed and a danger to others. I will draw on historical, cultural, social and other empirical evidence to make my point. I [more…]

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The Encyclopedia of Lost Languages

7th May 2019 Guardian Council 0

During my recent foray to visit some elderly relatives in Chemnitz, a place formerly known as Karl-Marx-Stadt (named after that famous German philosopher without whose political theories Herr Hitler would have been an impossibility), and [more…]

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Euthanasia Machine

22nd April 2019 Guardian Council 0

It all started innocently enough with my dad. Namely, with a botched Chinese take away for his 79th anniversary. He got so badly over it he had to go to hospital and had to stay [more…]

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