Ricki Yasha TarrI would say this is pretty charted territory:
OMG Y'ALL THEY CHANGED IT
https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/09/01/the-hard-right-takes-germany-into-dangerous-territory
Logan Five Thousand@RickiTarr Wow! What other powers do you have???
Space Hobo@RickiTarr See, I would have gone with "Dangerous and Familiar" for that one.
Rob@RickiTarr I reckon someone called the editor up, and said pretty much what you said, in your initial post, but perhaps with a lot more colourful language, and personal insults!
AAA365@RickiTarr They’re using the racists here in UK to deport family members of Hospital Consultants and staff for facilitating the corporatism of UK NHS echoes of post office scandal. #Evil #Greed We are all one step away from needing hospital treatment due to a global disaster.
Phil Thane ✅@AAA365a
I'm sick of reading stories like this and embarrassed to be British. I've survived 2 cancers and live with liver and kidney disease. The NHS staff who've looked after me for decades come from all over the world. We need them. But it's not just the NHS, there are foreign-born workers in every trade and profession and as in this case people providing unpaid care so someone else can work. They are an asset not a cost.
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I'm sick of reading stories like this and embarrassed to be British. I've survived 2 cancers and live with liver and kidney disease. The NHS staff who've looked after me for decades come from all over the world. We need them. But it's not just the NHS, there are foreign-born workers in every trade and profession and as in this case people providing unpaid care so someone else can work. They are an asset not a cost.
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Digichelle@RickiTarr Is that Holocaust denial or just plain ignorance of history? Either way, Jesus fucking Christ.
Jürgen Hubert@digichelle @RickiTarr Some people just want to embrace Evil.
Simon@digichelle @RickiTarr East Germany never dealt with the history, this is the result.
soapone@RickiTarr the more things change, the more they stay the same.
GirlCroosh@RickiTarr The Economist… once again validating my recent decision to drop my decades old subscription.
Atanu 🇵🇸@pseudonymsupreme @RickiTarr I cancelled my subscription in March after decades , when they said Indian journalists didn’t understand the world. One of the targeted Indian journalists then enumerated the things they got wrong over the last 20 years. The most obvious being the bogus reasons for the Iraq war. The colonial mentality finally got too much. Switched to the FT which has been more satisfactory.
@atanu @RickiTarr They’ve become ridiculous. Good to know you found a replacement. FT as in Financial Times?
@pseudonymsupreme @RickiTarr Yes financial times ft.com. I live in the US, however, I could not bring myself to give money to the New York Times as they had deliberately lied about the Iraq war. They still have a problem with facts.
George Station@RickiTarr Seems like The Economist wouldn't flub this one, but we're looking right at it... 🙄
Simon dē Gulielmō 🐧@RickiTarr historical amnesia seems to be all the rage atm
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀@simonwilliamson @RickiTarr they need an all expenses paid educational trip to the remaining concentration camps turned into memorials .
All of them .
All of them .
Sam@RickiTarr
did you grab this, Ricki?
it looks like this right now. perhaps someone had a quiet word with the subeditor
did you grab this, Ricki?
it looks like this right now. perhaps someone had a quiet word with the subeditor
@ozofriendly Ohhh wow must have
@RickiTarr @ozofriendly the Economist are a bunch of hacks
Ω 🌍 Gus Posey@RickiTarr Charted AF.
seismo!allegra!utzoo@RickiTarr Holy crap. Uncharted? There's bathymetric charts and books written about those seas.
Giulliano@RickiTarr thanks for sharing. It is sad, but true that the AfD party is stronger than ever and, because of that, a lot of hate is being unleashed on the “foreigners” in Germany.
Strange Culprits HAS MOVED@RickiTarr Somebody please organize an Auschwitz tour for the editors of *The Economist*
Cassi@RickiTarr Headline aside, the far right in Germany almost pisses me off more than the far right in the US. Germans should really know better. I know how much they (proverbially) beat it into me when I was going to school to never repeat the same mistakes, and now this. It's embarrassing and infuriating.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesHistory never repeats...
...but it rhymes.
Brian Grinter
Gilgamesch@RickiTarr Nothing happened between 1933 and 1945! We were all on vacation, ja!
Zoidberg For President@RickiTarr "The hard right" makes it look like they are having an erection.
Just call them fascists, or even nazis in this case. Geez.
xs4me2Can say that again, and we know where it ends…
Steven Heywood@RickiTarr
The subeditors at the Economist appear to be the only people in the Western World not brought up on war films and 20th century history.
The subeditors at the Economist appear to be the only people in the Western World not brought up on war films and 20th century history.
Tito Ciuro@RickiTarr @bazscott Good one (very much true.)
CSDUMMI@RickiTarr let's just tamper down all the exaggerating comments on this thread.
The Economist is neither ignorant nor holocaust denying nor tone deaf.
This is legitimately uncharted territory for the German states and federal system.
It is not a repeat of the 1920s nor 1930s. Germany is in a far better place today than then. It's wealthier, integrated into a system of international alliances and conventions. Our constitution is stronger than Weimar's and the political system has a long post-war history of stability.
The introduction of the AfD and BSW are a unique challenge to this system and a product of said system.
They are not the NSDAP and neither Wagenknecht nor Höcke are a "new Hitler".
They are a threat to the country and Europe, but they pose a unique threat, will have unique consequences and will need unique strategies to oppose them.
Equating our current time with the rise of the NSDAP is ignorant and ignorance is the most dangerous thing when facing fascists and populists.
@csdummi This is a joke on the internet.
@RickiTarr not to all the people who responded to this.
Diabetic HeihachiHow could they not see?
GRASSY KNOWLES@RickiTarr not for long in the cosmic scale. These EUkarya require too much biomass to be sustainable. left alone and isolated, they will die off and will be nothing but carpets of blue green prokaryota in shallow brackish pools.
They cant escape their fate and neither can we. Accept. As they were our past, they will be our heirs and decendants, even dormant for eons. gather on the beach of the tumid river. eyes we dare not meet…
the woke Elders of THE CABAL OF ARGUS
We will see
:wq
@RickiTarr What to do in the meantime? We , as the good woke leftists we claim to be, must gather up our trawels and mixing pails and other tools of mass containment while we all chant:
BUILD THAT WALL AGAIN!
BUILD THAT WALL AGAIN!
:wq
Enara 
❔@RickiTarr well it took them... just 79 years to forget what happened.
Jeeesus Christ.
Jeeesus Christ.
The FrogI'm sure when I was in college history class, we had an entire semester on world war 2.
In Search of a Better World@RickiTarr Infamously so. The original charts, as it were.