Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸

English is my fourth language. Germany is sliding back into fascism.
My hobby is getting mad at the news.
Zionism is Apartheid. Free Palestine!

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@DannyNeund83843 @b_placeless @Volker_Beck Laut der Berliner Clubszene konsumiert Volker immer noch Meth auf Orgien

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@AlexFrankfurt6 @b_placeless Ist das dein Ernst? Die USA haben von 250 Jahren nur 16 Jahre keinen Krieg geführt. Wer profitiert? Steuergelder werden in die Taschen der Kapitaleigentümer gestopft. Hier haste was zu Lesen damit du nicht immer so dumm rüberkommst https://t.co/HGhDpwOf64

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@markomihkelson Says a god damn fascist moron. What "free world"? You're quoting the proof we are not living in a free world, but in that Nazi cunt VDL's authoritarian, corporatist hellhole. YOU are a bigger danger to EU citizens than RT!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

It always astonishes me how there is virtually ZERO public debate - or even public awareness - in Europe about the decisions that will most shape ordinary people's lives.

These days, the EU is drafting a new anti-China legal framework where - quite literally - the more affordable and competitive Chinese products are, the more illegal they'd become.

You'd think EU citizens would want to be informed about such things - as it couldn't be more consequential for their prosperity.

Yet I bet virtually no EU citizen is even aware of it, beyond a vague sense that there is some sort of trade dispute going on.

So what's going on exactly? It all centers around a new legal instrument the EU is drafting called the "overcapacity instrument" (https://t.co/mNpCMudYyS).

First of all, the very notion of "overcapacity" is pretty ridiculous to begin with, especially the way it's being defined by the EU, as it basically means being competitive enough to export.

By this definition of "overcapacity," pretty much every European industry that's ever run a trade surplus - German cars, French wine, Italian fashion - has been guilty of "overcapacity."

I'm not even exaggerating: if you read this study by the EU Parliament on "Industrial overcapacities, with a focus on China" (https://t.co/TcwEBoL8mD), they define "overcapacity" as building more capacity than your domestic market can absorb. So the moment you build capacity to export abroad, you're in "overcapacity."

Utterly ridiculous.

And what this "overcapacity instrument" is about is creating a permanent legal mechanism for the EU to block Chinese competition across whole sectors of the economy, if they happen to be in "overcapacity."

In effect, this means that if China is competitive globally in a given sector in such a way that it exports a lot, that's proof of overcapacity, and legally it'd mean that the entire sector can be restricted from the EU market.

Which means it really, factually, is a legal framework where the more affordable and competitive your products are, the more illegal they become.

Which is a CRAZY economic concept! 🤦‍♂️

Please note that it's different from the anti-subsidy legal instrument, which the EU has already put in place in 2023 (the "Foreign Subsidies Regulation": https://t.co/SvPKFyN0zo).

This "overcapacity instrument" would be above and beyond this: it wouldn't even matter if a particular sector was subsidized by the Chinese government or not, the mere fact of its competitiveness in exports would be grounds for restrictions in the EU.

It doesn't take a genius to understand how badly this could impact everyday people: this is European consumers being forced to pay more for worse products by law, so that uncompetitive European firms don't have to improve.

Politicians frame it as avoiding a "China shock 2.0" but really this is choosing an even steeper self-inflicted decline than is already the case, where EU citizens would subsidize mediocre EU companies that would have even less pressure to catch up. It's a hidden tax: subsidies for uncompetitive firms paid by consumers instead of governments, which in turn makes them less incentivized to become competitive.

The first "China shock" did de-industrialize Europe somewhat, but at least it made things cheaper for European consumers. If this becomes Europe's response to a second "China shock" not only it'd make everything more expensive but it'd do nothing for EU industry: you don't become competitive by banning the competition...

Look at China itself: the way it industrialized was NOT by banning Western firms but on the contrary by welcoming them strategically and learning from them. You learn to compete by... competing, duh!

What I find most shocking in all of this isn't even the policy itself - you can make arguments for and against protectionism, and reasonable people can disagree.

What's shocking is that virtually no European media outlet is explaining any of this to the public. This is unarguably one of the single most consequential economic decisions the EU will make this decade, affecting the price of everything, and it's being drafted in near-total silence.

No newspaper is running the headline "EU plans to make Chinese goods illegal if they're too affordable" - even though that's essentially what's happening.

But that's what you call a "democracy" with "freedom of expression" these days apparently...

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

"What you're seeing here is Nazi Deutschland 2.0."

A pro-Palestine supporter in Berlin says police arrested him for the third time over a lapel pin that prosecutors and a judge had already returned to him multiple times.

While being escorted away by police, he accused German authorities of repeating the same repression Germany once used against Jews and leftists, saying Muslims and pro-Palestine voices are now being targeted instead.

"Their grandfathers did the same thing against Jews and leftists. Now it's against Muslims and leftists," he said.

"They arrested me for the third time for wearing this pin. I've received it back twice now from the prosecutor and from the judge."

He described the repeated arrests as intimidation and political repression, adding: "This is what fascism looks like."

The incident comes amid growing criticism of Germany’s crackdown on pro-Palestine demonstrations and dissent opposing Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@LionheartXIIV @0_7_user Du weisst nichts ausser Lügen über Israel, wenn du wirklich Antifaschist und Kommunist bist, solltest du dir zb dieses sehr gut recherchierte Video anschauen.
https://t.co/NUWgNOZu4U

[Israel Genocide Tracker @trackingisrael]

An Israeli unit's "homecoming" party featured a display of their well-documented annihilation of southern Lebanon's villages, met with cheers and laughter from crowds of soldiers, their relatives, and family members.

It is a scene impossible to see anywhere but Israel.

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@DIGeV_de Da hat der Volker wohl mal wieder auf ner Orgie zuviel Meth geraucht

[Jakob Reimann @Jakob_Reimann]

Der Faschist und #israel|ische Finanzminister Smotrich sagt, der ICC habe einen Haftbefehl gegen ihn ausgestellt. Als "Rache" dafür kündigt er die Vernichtung des palästinensischen Dorfes Khan al-Ahmar an:

Das sind die Wertepartner™ der Bundesregierung.

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

The EU claims that the “Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939” enabled WWII. It omits ten crucial facts:

- The Soviet Union was not even among the first ten countries to enter into treaties and non-aggression pacts with Nazi Germany. In 1939 alone, Lithuania, Romania, Denmark, Italy, Estonia and Latvia all signed non-aggression pacts with Hitler. Poland entered into one as far back as 1934.

- The Soviet Union tried to form an anti-fascist alliance throughout the 1930s, and was repeatedly rebuffed by European powers.

- Despite that, the Soviet Union was the most powerful bulwark against fascism before the war. The International Brigades in Spain represent the most concrete example of organised antifascist military resistance before Hitler’s invasion of Poland. These Brigades were led by communist parties armed by the Soviet Union, who were abandoned by Western “democracies” and their policies of "non-intervention” which simply left German and Italian intervention uncontested.

- In that same tradition, Stalin offered to send one million troops to deter Hitler’s aggression during the 1938 Sudetenland crisis. Poland and Romania objected, while France and Britain decided to pursue appeasement. That appeasement aimed in part at ensuring that Germany’s energies were directed eastwards, against communism.

- The Soviet Union was the primary target of German imperialism. The USSR’s leadership was aware of this from the early 1930s — and Germany’s leadership did not hide the fact. Hitler had repeatedly promised that Germany would be the “bulwark" of the West against “Bolshevism”, a position that found broad sympathies among the Western ruling classes. Auschwitz was first built to house Soviet POWs, 3.5 million of whom were exterminated during the war.

- Nazi Germany was simply the turning inwards of Western European colonialism. It was in modern-day Namibia that Germany’s Imperial Chancery recorded perhaps the first use of the term Konzentrationslager — the concentration camp — to describe an instrument of mass extermination.

- Adolf Hitler drew particular inspiration from the US settler-colonial model. He remarked approvingly how the US settlers had “gunned down the millions of Redskins to a few hundred thousand and now keep the modest remnants under observation in a cage”. He sent jurists to study the US Jim Crow laws, which formed the basis of the infamous Nuremberg Laws.

- The Red Army liberated Auschwitz, then liberated Europe. If not for the US, which moved quickly to suffocate the rising communist movements on the continent, we might have seen socialism rise at least in Greece, Italy, France and, eventually, Portugal.

- After the war, West Germany quickly reneged on the Potsdam Agreement, filled its security services with former Nazis. NATO, also filled with former Nazis, was founded to wage war on socialism and anti-colonial struggles. In the process it resuscitated the Wehrmacht and paved the way for the German revanchism we are seeing today.

- As a result, we have endured decades of US-led imperial hegemony, whose effects are a dying planet and tens of millions of lives stolen by imperialist wars and sanctions alone. That hegemony has absorbed and expanded the historical mission of fascism, carrying it forward into a new century. Gaza is the clearest expression of that process today — but it is by no means the only one.

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@eckilepsie @jensspahn Ist das Sarkasmus? Das ist ein korrupter Dieb, das ganze Land hasst ihn. Anscheinend wollt ihr dass die AFD gewinnt

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@unverantwortbar @Hasan425i Weil dein Vorbild Netanjahu heute Nacht evtl. Atomwaffen einsetzen wird damit Israel keinen fähigen Gegner gegen dessen Lebensraum-Ambitionen mehr hat und er nicht wegen Korruption ins Gefägnis muss.

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@unverantwortbar @Hasan425i Ja der Mann ist nur für Gefangene/Entführte (über 10k davon ohne Anklage oder Beweise) Palästinenser zuständing, managed deren Wärter und jetzt auch deren Henker.
Alles kein Problem, was regen sich diese Schwurbler hier auf 🙃

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@Wupper12 @reflexxe1 @UtePiper28 @einsteinradler Der Hass gegen Israel hat die Ursache dass die Zionisten schon vor der Gründung Israels (und seitdem) Faschisten sind, die ihr Land auf Rassismus, Vertreibung und Apartheid aufbauen https://t.co/6IIQiktMEj

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@RocketDougie @upholdreality US economic sanctions kill about a million people a year but you dumbass fuckwits still don't understand why anyone would want to kill your terrorist soldiers all over the world

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@JosephPeel7680 @DropSiteNews Most of the Arab states are brutal dictatorships that have the be America's lapdogs to stay in power. Watch videos from those states where people are cheering Iranian missiles striking US military bases and you'll understand that the population wants something different

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

German Court Shields Israeli-Linked Politician from Public Trial in Child Abuse Case

A German court chose to avoid a full public hearing in former Bundestag politician Hartmut Ebbing's child sex abuse case, citing concerns that exposure could harm his role as treasurer within the German–Israeli Society (Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft (DIG)). Instead, the case was handled through a criminal order, limiting public scrutiny.

Ebbing asked that his case be handled in the expedited procedure with a criminal order. He referred to the “modest prominence” that he had “at least in a certain Berlin bubble”. A main public hearing, he argued, would also be a serious blow to the German–Israeli Society if the allegations became known. Since October 7, Hebbing argued, such non-disclosure had become even more important to prevent harm to society. The district court allowed Ebbing’s request.

This resulted in a court decision that prioritised protecting reputation and institutional relationships with Israel over full transparency in a case involving the abuse of German children.

[Hüseyin Dogru @hussedogru]

!!! HUMANITARIAN EMERGENCY CALL !!!

As of yesterday, German authorities seized the bank accounts of my wife.

She is not sanctioned and has committed no crime.

As of now we have only ca. 104 euros left — with two newborn babies and one 7-year-old child!!!

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[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@deutschlett @10Caponi @NabiYuecel Ah toll, in einem Schritt von "Israel tötet weniger" zu "ja aber die Araber haben es verdient ermordet zu werden". Die nächste Antwort wird dann "Steht so in der Bibel" sein. Du findest verkokste Diebe (Rubio) brilliant, wieso rede ich überhaupt mit solchen Deppen?

[Michel F 🇱🇺🇵🇸 @Vodos78]

@deutschlett @10Caponi @NabiYuecel Klar, glaubt dir jeder bestimmt sofort