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Oliver Bender

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8 Feb

Kürzlich (gestern) habe ich auch wieder gelesen, dass es noch immer Menschen gibt, die plädieren, dass auch sonntags Geschäfte öffnen dürfen sollten. Diesen Menschen würde ich empfehlen, doch einfach einen Arbeitgeber zu suchen, der ihnen ein Gleitzeitmodell eröffnet, damit sie

auch unter der Woche einkaufen gehen können. Ich sehe keinen Grund, warum dafür mitunter Menschen an ihrem (teilweise) einzigen freien Tag in der Woche zur Arbeit gerufen werden sollten, unter dem Vorwand, dass sie doch entweder etwas Richtiges hätten lernen sollen oder sich

einen neuen job direkt suchen sollten, wenn ihnen eine sieben-Tage-Woche stinke. Wie gesagt, diesen Ball kann man den Bewerben des Sonntagseinkaufs entgegenwerfen: Dasselbe Prinzip, nur auf links gedreht.
Es ist halt die gewisse universelle Albernheit im freiheitlich-ökonomi-

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Oliver Bender

@OliverBOfficial

20 Oct 20

To think that nullifying the rural states by abolishing the #ElectoralCollege was going to solve anything other than manifesting a liberal leadership for decades (as Trump did by nominating #ACB for #SupremeCourt), is to ignore the consquences of the urban-rural migration. 1/X

Link: jstor.org/stable/4286374…

As all the jobs like in the great cities, people move to the cities. The first consequence: Cities bloat, ready to implode because space is finite. The only action is to expand outwards, while prices downtown skyrocket. In the meantime, the | 2/X

rural areas decay because there are too few people to hire, while everyone is pilgrimaging to the cities. Without jobs, people seek relief elsewhere, such as in drugs, or otherwise become unemployed or criminal. For most, though, they just turn citywards too, leaving behind | 3/X

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Oliver Bender

@OliverBOfficial

20 Oct 20

I know what the results are supposed to tell us, but still I am sceptical about what those who said that they were disillusioned by #Democracy might think about their desired future outlook, what should change and how this change should be achieved.

bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications/g…

Of course not every person who says that it rated Liberal Democracy rather negative prefers authoritarian or generally totalitarian structures; but we do have a tendency towards incentives that could require a more proactive state with further duties and rights to intervene in

society (surveillance, police state) and the market (Socialism at worst).
As I said, not everyone falls through this riposte, not everyone would like to see a Big Brother or a GUlag-building totalitarian who sent rich people off because they are rich.
But we clearly walk into

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Oliver Bender

@OliverBOfficial

11 Jul 20

What I cannot understand is that some people still seem to believe that the elections in #Belarus are going to proceed justly and with equal chances to every candidate running for president in this country, so that #lukashenko had any reason to really feel nervous. This election

is going to be as farcical as any election in the #DPRK has always been. If Lukashenko really showed signs of nervousness, he pretends, to uphold a façade of fairness and equality in this race for president.

jamestown.org/program/belaru…

Whatever they write in these regards, they

are wrong to insist anything into the direction of an election that saw him in a chance to lose it. He had opponents arrested as had #Putin in #Russia. Of course Lukashenko is dependent on Putin's support, and likewise does Putin favour allies ruling over post-Soviet nations.

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Oliver Bender

@OliverBOfficial

3 Jul 20

Wann können wir eigentlich endgültig und einstimmig behaupten, dass die Auswüchse der neuen #BLM-Bewegung eindeutig aus den Ruder laufen und sich nur noch lächerlich machen?

ekstrabladet.dk/112/forsker-ha…

Ich meine: Selbst, wenn sie gute Intentionen dahinter hätten, stoßen sie mit

solchen Aktionen keine Debatte an, und werden auch niemanden zum Umdenken bewegen. Sie werden einige Statuen aus dem Weg geräumt haben )die nicht mal im Weg standen, oder irgendjemanden zum Rassisten machten, bekannte Persönlichkeiten wegen ihres Rassismus huldigten, ihren

Rassismus guthießen oder relativierten — egal, was man sich vorstellen mag in dieser Verbindung, findet nicht statt und fand so auch nie statt. Was dagegen erzielt wird, ist, dass die Gesellschaft am Ende noch weiter gespalten wird, weil man behauptet, dass junge urbane Linke nur

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Oliver Bender

@OliverBOfficial

25 Apr 20

It's this particular environment that endangers critical journalism, and it's this particular environment that led towards Ján Kuciak's murder, as well as Daphne Galizia's. I really hope that it won't happen thrice.

cpj.org/blog/2020/04/s…

The EU has to enact now, if it

doesn't want to forfeit its raison d'être. What I mean by this is: If it cannot assure the security of journalists in its participating countries, then we can as well question its existence altogether. It's not all about free trade, we have to lecture our black sheep too; what

good is such power to tranquilly intervene in “proto-authoritarian” countries if you won't use it? Under such circumstances, we don't need to perform military interventions, we should use this calmness. The Slovenian government still has got a choice: Comply, or feel the

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