This is false. Have you ever been around just a single AfD voter? They aren’t driven by “reason”. They hate reason. To them, it’s just another devious tool of the “elite,” i.e. academics, Greens, and the “leftist” establishment.
What the AfD achieves or not hardly matters, except for one thing: “the immigrants.” If you paid any attention, their voters have been screaming for quite a while, mouths foaming:

“AfD is the strongest party in this city/ county/ state, and has been for more than a month. And yet, yesterday I saw another immigrant on the streets! When will this finally be cleaned up?”

That’s what we are up against. Not in any way rational actors.

*Pulls up soapbox* A little bit of background might be in order:

• AfD is the strongest party in all of the former GDR states, including SA where yesterdays’ elections were held. They stand for unbridled, neoliberal capitalism, garnished with lots of anti-immigration rhetoric. Their boss worked for Goldman-Sachs and that’s saying it all, really.
• SA - one state out of 16 - has 2.1 million inhabitants, out of Germany’s 83.5 million. They do have an outsized influence on the 2nd chamber of parliament, though. As of now, it looks like they will form a coalition government and rule SA.
• In the whole of Germany, AfD currently polls at 27-28%; runner-up is the conservative CDU which is currently leading the federal government, at 20-21%. AfD polls especially high in places where the previous, notorious right-wing party, NPD, did; and before them, the NSDAP. They poll especially high among blue-collar workers, first-time (young) voters and previous non-voters.
• In the EU parliament, AfD has 15 of ESN’s 27 seats. Judging from the seating in the parliament, and from who wants to form a coalition with the AfD, it becomes clear that they are significantly farther right-wing than the likes of Orbán, Le Pen, Fico, Meloni, Salvini or any of the EU-wide known names, really.
• I recommend this free 2024 study to assess the immense danger democracy in Germany is facing. Trans people, women, feminists, Jews, immigrants, social Darwinism - far-right wing voters poll approximately 1.5-3x as high in “hate” values than right-wing voters.
• The long and short is: Don’t come to Germany, especially not Eastern Germany, and especially not if you don’t have lily-white skin. This is my honest, sober advice for you.

Meanwhile, my workplace just announced RTO, starting next year. It’s a moderately large, 100% white collar office site.
Gotta drive those CO2 numbers up, baby!

Anecdotally, just the other day, I roamed around a little and realized that the large rapeseed fields around my city are all totally burned. EDIT: meant to write: shriveled up. Dry as bone.
Just… gone.

They are here already and have been for some time, it keeps being all over the news.
Though they don’t appear to carry explosive payloads… yet.

So… about that Peace Prize…

Armenia, too.

Infancy? At the very least, it’s already learned to walk. According to Wikipedia, within 14 months of its launch, 43.5 million users were registered.

This one always makes me melancholic:

Such a big turning point in time, captured on a photograph.

I didn’t know he was Georgian

There are better ways to devalue your currency. It’s not such an uncommon thing for countries to do. Why go out of your way to be a dick? This new type of behavior we are observing from US officials just smacks of sheer incompetency and lack of direction on the diplomatic stage.

My feeling as today’s designated Arm Chair General is: he’ll invade Greenland before Easter, then wage a 3-front war on Canada. Plus pulling the plug from Canada’s internet, cloud services etc., and of course ramping up the trade war, blockading their harbors etc.
Then, US forces will blockade the Mediterranean, using Israel as their stronghold, and relieve what’s left of Russia’s Black Sea fleet. The US plan for Europe is to get the Blue Banana and especially ASML under their control. What Russia will get, I don’t know.
Despite all the hope-against-hope rhetoric that routinely comes up in these threads, none of this going to be a problem. In fact, I’m willing to bet money that there will be a completely new world order before Christmas.
And then the stripping of citizen’s rights and the cleansing of “unwanted elements” will start.

Change the system from within.

Denmark thought so, too. And of course Hungary still thinks it. When everybody thinks they will get special treatment from the US, internal cohesion suffers, as evidenced by this “summit” bullshit.

Who is in charge, though?

Shocking news… that 55% of European Tesla buyers don’t know or don’t care about Elon’s egregious public Nazi displays.

At this point, there is no more “The West.”
“The Wild West,” maybe.

“Turmoil” is an interesting choice of words.

Fascinating game. You get to learn what amazing liars people can be. The devil really is a squirrel.

What do they need bots for? Just cut out the middleman and buy and sell upvotes/ recommendations/ rankings on the frontpage. Who would notice?
Lemmings and even more so Redditors are still clinging to the sham of “objective” platforms playing by some sort of physical rules and clean, unbiased algorithms in the face of multiple daily threads on social media that are very obviously being brigaded and capsized, for much more than 10 years at this point.