Perspectives

Exploring political views and discourse from different angles. Insight, comments, and fresh perspectives on policy, society, and change. We meme a lot.

[Perspectives @PerspectivaeX]

@RadioGenoa "The biggest threat to western civilisation isn't Hamas, or violent migrants. It's upper middle class primarily white women who would import all of the above to destroy the country in order to satisfy their suicidal empathy"

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@HBrandstaetter Posts aus dem Kindergarten: Der wars, nein der wars. Voll peinlich.

[Perspectives @PerspectivaeX]

Some little fun facts:

Pro-EU people want a government that governs their own national governments – and they’re happy to pay for it.

They want controls for their controls, bureaucracy to watch the bureaucracy – and the people pay for that too.

Before the EU (meaning before the political union of Maastricht 1993 and especially Lisbon 2009), Germany was one of the most respected and powerful trading nations in the world.

We set the tone in Europe, our currency was rock-solid, our industry dominated globally, and we made good, sovereign politics.

Then came the Brussels bureaucrats and ruined it step by step.Concrete examples of decisions that hit Germany especially hard: Euro rescue packages & Target 2 imbalances:

Germany is now liable for hundreds of billions through the ESM and ECB programs. By 2025, Germany’s exposure via the ECB alone (Target2 claims + NGEU liabilities) exceeds €1.5 trillion – money that will never come back if things go south.

Nord Stream 2 sanctions and the self-imposed energy suicide: Thanks to EU solidarity and green ideology from Brussels, Germany destroyed its cheap gas supply, adopted the most expensive energy transition in the world (EEG surcharge, coal & nuclear phase-out pushed by EU climate targets), and now has the highest electricity prices in the world.

Result: deindustrialisation – BASF, Volkswagen, ThyssenKrupp, and dozens of medium-sized companies are cutting jobs or moving production abroad.

Net contributor madness: Germany pays by far the most into the EU budget. In the 2021–2027 budget period alone, Germany’s net contribution is around €25–30 billion per year – that’s over €200 billion in just seven years.

In total, since the introduction of the euro, Germany has transferred well over €500 billion net to the EU system (budget + rescue packages + ECB). Migration policy 2015–today: Merkel’s “we can do it” happened with the blessing (or at least without resistance) of the EU Commission.

The costs for integration, welfare, and security are now estimated at over €150 billio and rising – paid almost exclusively by German taxpayers.

This new caste in Brussels and Strasbourg wants to forbid freedom of speech (Digital Services Act, “hate speech” laws, upcoming “Media Freedom Act” that is actually a censorship act) and is building mass surveillance systems (Chat Control, eID, European digital wallet) to silence every critic.

At the same time, they take our tax money and funnel hundreds of millions every year to regime-loyal “NGOs” that agitate against every government that doesn’t toe the Brussels line.

And it’s not just the AfD – this is a debate taking place in almost every single member state, from the right and the left.

Before today’s political EU, there was already the European Economic Area (EEA, since 1994), before that the European Free Trade Association (EFTA, since 1960), the European Coal and Steel Community (1952), and the EEC (1958). And it worked fine.

A common economic area is nothing new – the criticism of most EU skeptics is aimed precisely at the political deepening and centralization since the Maastricht Treaty (1993) and the Lisbon Treaty (2009), not at trade and cooperation per se.

Massive EU criticism is coming from everywhere, not just Germany. Hungary (Orbán) and Poland (PiS government until 2023) have been criticizing the rule-of-law mechanism and overreach of competences for years. Italy (Meloni government and previously Salvini/Lega) criticizes migration policy, deficit rules, and industrial destruction through green regulation.

France: Even Macron has been talking since 2017 about the need for a “sovereign Europe” and openly criticizes the rigid deficit rules that France itself repeatedly breaks. Marine Le Pen and large parts of both the right and the left (Mélenchon) demand partial or full EU exit or massive treaty changes.

Netherlands: Geert Wilders (PVV, strongest party in 2023) wants a “Nexit” referendum; the huge farmers’ protests of 2022/23 were directed primarily against EU environmental and nitrogen regulations.

Denmark: opted out of the euro and justice cooperation; Greenland left the EU in 1985.

Czechia and Slovakia (Fico) are increasingly sharply critical of arms deliveries to Ukraine and the sanctions policy.

Greece: Varoufakis (former finance minister), large parts of Syriza, and the communists still call the EU a “neoliberal prison” to this day; even the conservative Nea Dimokratia almost carried out a euro exit in 2015. In 2024, the EU-27 had a nominal GDP of approx. $19.4 trillion, the USA $28.8 trillion, China $18.5 trillion. In per-capita terms, the EU lags far behind the USA and several smaller countries.

That’s the reality – and more and more people, from left to right, across the entire continent, have had enough of it.

[Reisbürgerin 🇩🇪🇯🇵 @reisburgerin]

Nach der umstrittenen 120-Millionen-Euro-Strafe der EU-Kommission gegen 𝕏 (wegen Verstößen gegen den Digital Services Act, u. a. irreführende blaue Haken und fehlende Transparenz bei Werbung) hat 𝕏 das Werbekonto (Ads-Account) der EU-Kommission gesperrt.

Grund: Die Kommission soll ein lange ungenutztes Werbekonto aktiviert und dort Inhalte gepostet haben, die gegen die Plattformregeln verstießen (z. B. ein Format, das Nutzer täuscht, indem ein Link wie ein Video aussieht, um Reichweite zu boosten).

Das hat 𝕏-Manager Nikita Beer öffentlich bestätigt, und es wird als Reaktion auf die Strafe gesehen. Der normale Account der Kommission ist davon aber nicht betroffen. Es handelt sich also nur um eine Sperrung der Werbefunktion, nicht des gesamten Accounts.

Quelle:https://t.co/0uEz0vXIPT

[Perspectives @PerspectivaeX]

Some little fun facts:

Pro-EU people want a government that governs their own national governments – and they’re happy to pay for it.

They want controls for their controls, bureaucracy to watch the bureaucracy – and they pay for that too.

Before the EU (meaning before the political union of Maastricht 1993 and especially Lisbon 2009), Germany was one of the most respected and powerful trading nations in the world. We set the tone in Europe, our currency was rock-solid, our industry dominated globally, and we made good, sovereign politics.

Then came the Brussels bureaucrats and ruined it step by step.Concrete examples of decisions that hit Germany especially hard:
Euro rescue packages & Target 2 imbalances:
Germany is now liable for hundreds of billions through the ESM and ECB programs. By 2025, Germany’s exposure via the ECB alone (Target2 claims + NGEU liabilities) exceeds €1.5 trillion – money that will never come back if things go south.

Nord Stream 2 sanctions and the self-imposed energy suicide:
Thanks to EU solidarity and green ideology from Brussels, Germany destroyed its cheap gas supply, adopted the most expensive energy transition in the world (EEG surcharge, coal & nuclear phase-out pushed by EU climate targets), and now has the highest electricity prices in the world.

Result:
deindustrialisation – BASF, Volkswagen, ThyssenKrupp, and dozens of medium-sized companies are cutting jobs or moving production abroad.

Net contributor madness:
Germany pays by far the most into the EU budget. In the 2021–2027 budget period alone, Germany’s net contribution is around €25–30 billion per year – that’s over €200 billion in just seven years. In total, since the introduction of the euro, Germany has transferred well over €500 billion net to the EU system (budget + rescue packages + ECB).

Migration policy 2015–today:
Merkel’s “we can do it” happened with the blessing (or at least without resistance) of the EU Commission. The costs for integration, welfare, and security are now estimated at over €150 billio and rising – paid almost exclusively by German taxpayers.

This new caste in Brussels and Strasbourg wants to forbid freedom of speech (Digital Services Act, “hate speech” laws, upcoming “Media Freedom Act” that is actually a censorship act) and is building mass surveillance systems (Chat Control, eID, European digital wallet) to silence every critic.

At the same time, they take our tax money and funnel hundreds of millions every year to regime-loyal “NGOs” that agitate against every government that doesn’t toe the Brussels line.

And it’s not just the AfD – this is a debate taking place in almost every single member state, from the right and the left. Before today’s political EU, there was already the European Economic Area (EEA, since 1994), before that the European Free Trade Association (EFTA, since 1960), the European Coal and Steel Community (1952), and the EEC (1958). And it worked fine.

A common economic area is nothing new – the criticism of most EU skeptics is aimed precisely at the political deepening and centralization since the Maastricht Treaty (1993) and the Lisbon Treaty (2009), not at trade and cooperation per se.

Massive EU criticism is coming from everywhere, not just Germany. Hungary (Orbán) and Poland (PiS government until 2023) have been criticizing the rule-of-law mechanism and overreach of competences for years.
Italy (Meloni government and previously Salvini/Lega) criticizes migration policy, deficit rules, and industrial destruction through green regulation.
France: Even Macron has been talking since 2017 about the need for a “sovereign Europe” and openly criticizes the rigid deficit rules that France itself repeatedly breaks. Marine Le Pen and large parts of both the right and the left (Mélenchon) demand partial or full EU exit or massive treaty changes.
Netherlands: Geert Wilders (PVV, strongest party in 2023) wants a “Nexit” referendum; the huge farmers’ protests of 2022/23 were directed primarily against EU environmental and nitrogen regulations.
Denmark: opted out of the euro and justice cooperation; Greenland left the EU in 1985.
Czechia and Slovakia (Fico) are increasingly sharply critical of arms deliveries to Ukraine and the sanctions policy.
Greece: Varoufakis (former finance minister), large parts of Syriza, and the communists still call the EU a “neoliberal prison” to this day; even the conservative Nea Dimokratia almost carried out a euro exit in 2015.

In 2024, the EU-27 had a nominal GDP of approx. $19.4 trillion, the USA $28.8 trillion, China $18.5 trillion. In per-capita terms, the EU lags far behind the USA and several smaller countries. That’s the reality – and more and more people, from left to right, across the entire continent, have had enough of it.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

When far left legacy media refers to the “far right”, they actually mean centrists

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@elonmusk LETS GO !

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@NXT4EU

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@ConStelz So you get money and support from EU? Classic 🤣🤣🤣

[Perspectives @PerspectivaeX]

Also diese AfD Fixierung ist schon beeindruckend. Verstehen wir aber. Wer schlechte Politik macht wird abgewählt. Das hat nichts mit der AfD zu tun sondern mit der desolaten Politik der CDU und SPD. Jetzt sagt man oh es geht um uns gegen die AfD. Klassiker. Also lassen die uns keine Wahl außer die AfD zu wählen. Gescheite Politik ist wohl zu kompliziert für die. Na dann.

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@MarvinTBaumann A Pro-EU Guy tells us why EU is good. Classic 🤣

[Perspectives @PerspectivaeX]

Es geht also nicht um „AFD-Clowns“, sondern um eine Debatte, die in fast allen Mitgliedstaaten stattfindet – von rechts wie von links.

Vor der EU gab es bereits den Europäischen Wirtschaftsraum (EWR, seit 1994) und davor die Europäische Freihandelsassoziation (EFTA, seit 1960) sowie die Europäische Gemeinschaft für Kohl und Stahl (1952) und die EWG (1958). Ein gemeinsamer Wirtschaftsraum ist also nichts Neues – die Kritik vieler EU-Skeptiker richtet sich genau gegen die politische Vertiefung und Zentralisierung seit Maastricht (1993) und Lissabon (2009), nicht gegen Handel und Kooperation an sich.

Massive EU-Kritik kommt nicht nur aus Deutschland. Beispiele:Ungarn (Orbán) und Polen (bis 2023 PiS-Regierung) kritisieren seit Jahren Rechtsstaatsmechanismus und Kompetenzüberschreitung.

Italien (Meloni-Regierung und früher Salvini/Lega) kritisiert Migrationspolitik, Defizitregeln und

Frankreich: Macron selbst spricht seit 2017 von der Notwendigkeit einer „souveränen Europa“ und kritisiert offen die starren Defizitregeln, die Frankreich selbst immer wieder verletzt. Auch Marine Le Pen und große Teile der Rechten/Linken (Mélenchon) fordern teils EU-Austritt oder massive Vertragsänderung.
Niederlande: Geert Wilders (PVV, stärkste Kraft 2023) will „Nexit“-Referendum; auch die Bauernproteste 2022/23 richteten sich massiv gegen EU-Umwelt- und Stickstoffvorschriften.

Dänemark: hat Euro- und Justiz-Zusammenarbeit ausgenommen, Grönland ist 1985 ausgetreten.
Tschechien und Slowakei (Fico) äußern zunehmend scharfe Kritik an Waffenlieferungen und Sanktionen.
Griechenland: Varoufakis (ehemaliger Finanzminister) und große Teile von Syriza sowie die Kommunisten nennen die EU bis heute „neoliberales Gefängnis“; selbst die konservative Nea Dimokratia hatte 2015 fast den Euro-Austritt vollzogen.

Die EU ist der größte gemeinsame Binnenmarkt – das stimmt. Aber „wohlhabendste und einflussreichste Wirtschaftsraum weltweit“ ist faktisch nicht mehr korrekt: Die EU-27 hatten 2024 ein nominales BIP von ca. 19,4 Bio. USD, die USA 28,8 Bio. USD, China 18,5 Bio. USD. Pro-Kopf liegt die EU weit hinter den USA und mehreren kleineren Ländern.

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@MMittermeier

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@Neccccy Yes

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@Coolnasenbaer Ach... https://t.co/bkw8uv9II3

[Georg Pazderski @Georg_Pazderski]

Ein Imam erklärt, eine Ehefrau habe kein Recht, ihrem Mann den Geschlechtsverkehr zu verweigern. Anschließend erklärt er, wie der Ehemann vorgehen muss:

1. Überzeuge sie mit Worten.
2. Setze sie unter Druck.
3. Du darfst sie schlagen.

Bei uns nennt man das Vergewaltigung❗️

[Georg Pazderski @Georg_Pazderski]

Ein Imam erklärt, eine Ehefrau habe kein Recht, ihrem Mann den Geschlechtsverkehr zu verweigern. Anschließend erklärt er, wie der Ehemann vorgehen muss:

1. Überzeuge sie mit Worten.
2. Setze sie unter Druck.
3. Du darfst sie schlagen.

Bei uns nennt man das Vergewaltigung❗️

[The Conservative Alternative @OldeWorldOrder]

@elonmusk We're rooting for you, Europe.

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@LizWebsterSBF @elonmusk Jealous? - then earn more money

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@BestBallJunkie @xagreat OH OF COURSE THAT MAKES EVERYTHING BETTER !

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@xagreat @WillyAUniqic Only a true enemy of Allah would call a brother in spirit a liar without listening to god. You have failed your gods priciples for your own purpose. May he forgive you brother. You bring shame and disgust on the saviour.