Pit Scholtes

[Pit Scholtes @ScholtesPit]

Onofhängeg vum Rescht: Een deen Tesla fiirt, spillt mat sengem Liewen. https://t.co/wHSJzV2Qci

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

Stalin biographer and world historian Stephen Kotkin (Stanford, ex-Princeton) has an A+ take on the notion that Trump is “not who we are.” https://t.co/CiN6k9NtXK

[louis berger witten @nilherK]

wer noch nie auf keta vor millionenpublikum hitlergruß gemacht hat schmeiße den ersten stein

[Pit Scholtes @ScholtesPit]

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[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

[AlexandruC4 @AlexandruC4]

Russia is amassing forces that exceed the requirements of the current conflict in Ukraine, warned Major General Christian Freuding, head of Germany's military task force on assistance to Ukraine - DPA.

[Pit Scholtes @ScholtesPit]

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[Travis Woods @aHeartOfGould]

That time a shirtless, mud-spattered David Lynch emerged from a dirt hut in his backyard with a nude model and talked about his experimental garage rock album about the Valley to French TV.

I miss him.

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

In other words, what the Paris agreement hoped to prevent altogether happened more than two decades earlier than expected

[Jan-Philipp Hein @aufmacher]

Scholz‘ Veto gegen Pistorius und Baerbock lässt tief in die Seele eines Mannes blicken, der nicht versteht, welche Verantwortung zum Amt des Chefs der Regierung des wirtschaftsstärksten Landes Europas gehört. Es ist skrupellos.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Elon’s estranged daughter has re-entered the chat

[Ulrich Speck @ulrichspeck]

Scholz schöpft offenbar Hoffnung — mit Trump-Kritik wieder ins Kanzleramt? Aber: drei Jahre nichts für Europa getan, alle wichtigen Partner mit Nichtstun und Arroganz verärgert.

[Pit Scholtes @ScholtesPit]

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[Ruth Deyermond @ruth_deyermond]

If Trump's demands for 5% spending on defence really plunges European NATO members into crisis mode then they haven't been paying attention. It seems to me that the point of this demand is that it's designed not to be met. That's what should be causing alarm. 🧵

[Ruth Deyermond @ruth_deyermond]

It looks as if the point of the 5% demand is for it to be unachievable - the intention seems to be that states will fail. It's a coercive tactic (pay up or your country gets it) that also signals that NATO is no longer a meaningful alliance.

[Ruth Deyermond @ruth_deyermond]

If Trump's demands for 5% spending on defence really plunges European NATO members into crisis mode then they haven't been paying attention. It seems to me that the point of this demand is that it's designed not to be met. That's what should be causing alarm. 🧵

[Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz]

Guys guys guys I’ve seen this before and you already know where

[Julius Betschka @JuliusBetschka]

Wer russische Vorherrschaft will, wählt AfD.

Das sage nicht ich. So sieht es Putins Chefideologe.

Man kann vieles vorher wissen.

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

I think the @guardian can - and should - easily sue this guy.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

😳 Errol Musk says his son is named after a sci-fi book written in 1948 by Nazi rocket scientist Werner Von Braun called “Marsprojekt” where he describes in technical detail how people get to Mars & describes the Martian government as a technocracy with “the Elon” in charge.

Von Braun was brought to America during Operation Paperclip which brought Nazi scientists to America, and wrote “Mars Project” at Ft. Bliss — in German. Hermann Oberth, who Errol Musk also mentions, was another Nazi rocket scientist who came to America in 1955 to work for Von Braun.

In the chapter on the Martian government is also the core idea of non-geographical “network states” (a Thiel project to dissolve nation-states in favor of techno-dictatorships) and high velocity subways (think Boring Company/Hyperloop).

How much of what Elon Musk is doing right now based on the fantasies of a Nazi rocket scientists? Is all of this “the Elon” trying to prove something to his father?

Seems like we’re all screwed because of someone’s daddy issues.

[Ricarda Lang @Ricarda_Lang]

Es ist naiv zu denken, Elon Musk unterstütze die AfD nur, weil ihm niemand deutsche Politik gut genug erklärt hat. Weil es ihm ja eigentlich nur um Bürokratieabbau ginge.

Die rechtsextreme Ausrichtung der AfD ist der Grund für die Unterstützung, nicht das Hindernis.