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It ain't just the West. Morons are everywhere, the more educated the merrier.

When my greatly unlamented highly-educated late ex-father-in-law built his dream house in a place far, far away, he included no fireplaces because electric heaters were *better. * In a place with regular load-shedding in winter for hours at a time. Though it wasn't like our winters, it can get mighty cold in houses built to keep out summer heat.

Whenever it got unbearable for me, I'd walk down the street to the relatives who had, you know, buckets of charcoal burning in their hearths. (Disputes between provincial governments ensured that their province had no gas pipelines. Propane was used for cooking in wealthier houses.)

I guess the whole purpose of higher education has been to breed common sense entirely out of the population. Project seems to be going nicely.

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The real question is: how much of this deliberate or is it truly just incompetence? Two years ago, I would have blamed this disaster on bumbling idiots but now I have a hard time believing it is not intentional.

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Germany’s energy regulator recently published various scenarios for their natural gas supply this winter. Six out of seven of those scenarios led to completely empty or virtually empty supplies by mid February, if not earlier.

https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words-ae8/comments

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"What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?"

~ Thomas Sowell

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You do realize that this is a planned demolition of the west, right?

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As someone who was in the energy industry for 30 years I can say that thinking we can just shut everything off without stable, reliable alternatives in place is a pipe dream. Sorry to the fanatical green movement, but it's a fact. My opinion has always been, let's use *everything* available and do it right. And American energy companies do it right more so than any other country on the planet. People don't realize that energy companies are some of the most regulated industries in America and are constantly evolving their practices to become "greener" and more efficient. And sorry again, most of what we see coming out of "smoke stacks" at power plants is *steam* from the massive scrubbers we're required to have in this country. Perfect? No. Better than other countries? Absolutely. Better than freezing to death or being unable to cook? You bet it is. People need to educate themselves on energy just like they've done with "vaccines" and I don't mean watching a discovery channel documentary about it either.

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Climate Change is the Covid of Energy.

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I personally think the ballot boxes are fixed for certain races here in Calif, I am sure it is the same elsewhere. Even then, vote out every single person who is in office now who did not stand against lockdowns. Mayor, judge, dog catcher, school board members, everyone. I'm sure WEF-controlled puppets like Gavin Newsom won't ever lose a race, but tipping the scale locally will be a start.

As for Germany, if those morons don't stop playing energy chicken with themselves, they will instigate a world-wide depression, which will include millions starving to death. Maybe that is what is needed to drain these swamps full of reptilian, political-class grifters. Once food riots start, lamp posts and trees start to get used instead of ballot boxes.

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The German dipshits laughing in the Trump video ain't laughing now.

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I’m laughing but it’s tragi-comic. The west has been dumbing down it’s citizens via government schools and pharmaceuticals for years. Love him or hate him, it seems like Putin is the only intelligent & strategic leader around. The globalists put stunted, effete, flaccid weaklings into leadership positions, and here we are. Let’s hope the farmers ignite the world and they all go the way of the Sri Lankan leadership - at best 😁

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The ESG bitches in Germany will have the conservationists up in arms when they burn the Bavarian forests to the ground this winter. Here's to Schadenfreude!

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"This is "the best breeding ground for populism, which is intended to undermine our liberal democracy from within," Habeck said, adding that Putin's plans must not be allowed to work out."

Always makes me chuckle to hear folks blame Putin for undermining a process that is only liberal with facts and not democracies by any stretch of the imagination outside political speeches and MSM talking points... better summarized in fluent gatoese..

"and let’s be honest, it took a very special sort of hallucinatory worldview to create the sort of echo chamber where you could not see this coming."

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<never gets old> keeping germans away from gas is never a bad idea </never gets old>

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Indeed. The time is coming for the U.S. and really all of Western Civilization to either shit or get off the pot. The path we are on is absolutely unsustainable. My fear is that we have to hit rock bottom first, likely following Germany's lead. When the lights no longer come on, when there are lines (again) at the gas pumps -- if the station is even open -- and when your collective energy bills each month outpace your mortgage or rent, perhaps then the deluded, self-righteous ESG proles will realize they've been played.

I only hope there remains something to rebuild with after this moment comes.

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Climate hysteria was the perfect ticket for the anti-capitalism / liberty crowd who no longer could get traction on the old class struggle meme. Thirty years ago they draped in "green" and continued to take over all the institutions and are now responsible for not only the end stage democracy of universally bankrupt welfare states but peak energy ignorance. The legacy media is now the exclusive media of the epistemologically bankrupt institutional elite and happy-faced fascism which has become much less happy-faced lately. The people's media is now almost exclusively online.

Thirty years ago the German auto workers (union) funded Greenpeace with payroll deductions. Today they get their energy policies from Greta Thunberg and face energy poverty, economic collapse and starvation.

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Another parallel with communism: green utopianism (or dystopianism - how many people really aspire to the life of a medieval serf?) only "works" if the whole planet does it. And by "works" I mean, successfully entrenches the permanent rule of the WEFite cult (which is essentially what communism was intended to do). If it's only successfully imposed on a few countries, the massive economic handicap that results enables competitors to steamroll the infected countries.

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