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@eugyppius1
Aug 9 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
I would like a clear explanation, for why the Crusade Against Smoking (which is clearly bad for you) has from the beginning always expanded to include all alternative sources of nicotine, many of which (snus and zyn) are not clearly harmful at all.
This makes absolutely no sense. Nicotine is a drug with useful productivity-enhancing neurological effects, if you want people to stop smoking, why hassle them over the vastly safer alternatives? It is the dumbest thing ever.
Because of dumb EU regulations, proper snus are illegal to sell everywhere but Sweden, as are the tobacco-free nicotine pouches in Germany. You can buy cigarettes in vending machines and at every corner store tho.

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Aug 6
Since July, all plastic bottles sold in EU must have tethered caps – they remain attached after unsrewing and interfere obnoxiously with attempts to drink. This is to save the oceans, altho Europe contributes almost no plastic waste to the seas. The big source is Asia.
Retrofitting bottle factories to manufacture the new caps is estimated to have cost millions of Euros. They also, ironically, tend to use somewhat more plastic. Packings experts/engineers have told the press multiple times that this will achieve nothing & merely annoy people.
The new regulation goes back to this 2016 EU Commission report on Marine Beach Litter in Europe, compiled by someone named Georg Hanke who I'm sure is a total shit. Image
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Jul 10
Disorderly "refugees" turn Erfurt commuter rail line into a daily hell of physical assaults, threats & fights; police respond by offering special classes on "railway rules" and "German customs"

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Apparently not stabbing and spitting on train conductors is a peculiar central European cultural norm unknown to our guests from Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey.
Focus first reported on this story in May. The 50km rail line between the town of Suhl and the Thüringen state capital of Erfurt has become a "battlefield," due to all the migrants travelling from a refugee centre in Suhl.

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Mar 29
Finally, in Germany anyway, we come to learn what was pandemic.

Lockdowns and other measures were not a rational response to dangerous virus; rather, a dangerous virus was socially & culturally constructed to justify the shiny new policy toy of lockdowns and other measures.
Maybe there were a few weeks in March where FlaTTenInG tHe CuRvE and related idiocy were a genuine goal. Thereafter exaggerating the curve became the order of the day, to rationalise their insane restrictions.
The whole thing was a massive and massively ridiculous artificially induced panic to rationalise unprecedented technocratic interference in everyday life, essentially a political coup by wannabe television ScIEnTisTs at the expense of ordinary people and their daily lives.
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Mar 29
RKI protocols reveal pandemic managers providing "fictitiously accurate" R-values and overstating Covid risk on the explicit directions of their political overseers in the Health Ministry

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The political fallout from the RKI document release continues. At issue are 2,500 pages of agendas and minutes from the daily meetings of the "covid crisis team" between January 2020 and April 2021.

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Establishment press is in turbo damage control mode.

"A Gift for the Conspiracy Theorists" screams Die Zeit, Germany's most widely read and therefore most profoundly obnoxious newsweekly.

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Mar 28
Witchcraft has long been hobby interest of mine, I read many trial documents and much academic literature too. In general response to various replies:

1) Witch-hunting in Europe is basically unknown before 1400; it reaches an apex in 17th c. and declines rapidly thereafter.
2) The witches of these hunts are typically older widowed or single femael peasants who are first denounced by relatives or neighbours. Many of them seem to have been operating side business in divination, folk healing, etc.
3) Upon interrogation, they are often persuaded by torture or threat of torture to admit to the learned diabolistic aspects of witchcraft: pact with the devil, participation in a regular mock liturgy called the 'sabbat', and so on.
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Mar 14
In the latest victory against right-wing extremism, police officers pull a 16 year-old girl out of chemistry class and advise her to stop posting Smurf-themed AfD-friendly content to TikTok

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As I posted last month, Germany is in the midst of an unusual hysterical paroxysm over RiGhT-WiNG EXtReMisM. Cabinet ministers have announced plans to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of those with inconvenient opinions.

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Domestic intelligence chief Thomas Halendwang has announced his intention to police the "thought and speech patterns" of ordinary Germans, lest uncomfortable words and ideas "become part of our language."
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