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27 Sep, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Ah, I see German political memes are evolving with this election, even if the sclerotic political culture might not. 😉

Translation: "When you hear that the AfD is going to reach double figures again"

Plus, the top comment on German Reddit: "It seems Snoop Dogg has grown old."
Christian Lindner, the leader of the neo-liberal corporate lobbyists called the Free Democratic Party, after increasing the party's vote share by a massive 0.8%. Image
The joint leaders of The Left, after (the iconic founder of the party) Gregor Gysi saves their backsides again. Image
After Stefan Seidler, a candidate of the obsure South Schleswig Voters' Association (SSW) somehow won a direct constituency seat in Parliament despite the system designed by and for only those parties with more than 5% vote share,

"I see no God here.

Except for myself." Image
- "The Social Democratic Party is the strongest party!"
- "Yes."
- "What did it cost?"
- "The Left." Image
Armin Laschet, leader of the Christian Democratic Union.

- "Worst CDU electoral result in history."
- "Is this a mandate to form the new government?" Image
Voters: "Wait, nothing has changed."

CDU, CSU, and SPD: "That was never the plan." Image

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[Requiring laws to] ensure a systematic assessment of refugees fleeing for survival and differentiate between econ migrants."
"Political instabilities often trigger revived insurgencies ... Scarcity of resources and climate catastrophe make the state machinery and government weak and intrastate conflict ensues — giving rise to the non-state actors to take away the control of resources from the state."
"Despite being a country that has historically welcomed refugees, the ‘Eurocentric’ nature of the refugee convention has been a major source for India’s reluctance.

The convention disregards India’s historical realities and experiences."
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"Seventy-three years ago, Israel made a promise to India's Jews it didn't keep. It invited them to 'return to the promised land' but went back on its word.

Sometimes with heart-wrenching consequences."

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"Many Indian Jews packed up their lives and livelihoods and 'made the Aliyah', a religious phrase that describes 'moving to the Land of Israel'.

They had no idea just how miserable they would be."
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Well, there's the problem.

Being "an outlier in the postcolonial world for preserving democracy amid poverty" is not something to be proud of.

Real democracy is built by ending poverty, not preserving it.

Embrace Asian values and finally catch up to the rest of the continent.
As Lee Kwan Yew said of 'Asian values', a society can only uphold social, cultural, economic, or constitutional rights when their state is able to defend their sovereignty from external interference.

That is the shared vision behind the 1993 Bangkok Declaration on Human Rights.
Under 'Asian values', concepts like "individual freedoms and rights" only have meaning when:

- people have basic material needs fulfilled, and thus the ability to demand such rights; and
- their state has the sovereignty and capacity to recognise, grant, and enforce such rights.
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No need to imagine, it was called West Germany, where Christian Democrats claimed the US executing Nazis was 'un-Christian'.

"This change of course enabled many forrmer Nazis to return to prominent positions in politics and business in the emerging West German postwar republic."
"The demonstrators claimed to have a Christian cause: They demanded that the Americans suspend the death penalty for 28 [Nazis]."

When the truth was, West Germany would have had no policemen, judges or industrialists left, had the CDU-CSU actually taken Denazification seriously.
"In the minds of many people at that time, the Americans were still occupiers, even though the Federal Republic had already been founded.

And in their thinking, a German war criminal was still worth more than an American occupier."

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“The so-called conquest was accomplished with the sword and the cross. Thousands of people were murdered during this period. A culture was imposed, one civilization on top of another...where Catholic churches were constructed on top of the temples of pre-Hispanic peoples.” - AMLO
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"Both Spain and the Vatican have rebuffed the president’s demands for apologies. Events from five centuries ago cannot be judged by “contemporary considerations,” the Spanish government said."
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"In 1968, East Germany went about adopting a constitution ... Rather than simply imposing this new document, as the ruling SED could have easily done, it instead chose a more labour-intensive option: a mass national discussion followed by a plebiscite."

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"[N]early a million events and meetings were held throughout the GDR to discuss the contents of the proposed constitution ... , the constitutional commission received more than 12,000 letters and post cards from East Germans, expressing their support, concerns, and criticisms."
"The vast number of meetings and discussions surrounding the adoption of the new constitution were meant to both educate the public and ensure their participation in the final vote."
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