Trump has made crime a major focus of his administration

Yes, for the more informed among them, you could call it that, or:

“Strategic ignorance (also called deliberate ignorance or wilful blindness) is the intentional avoidance of information because possessing it would impose costs, obligations, or constraints that reduce expected utility.”

Somewhat sloppyly adapted from Sweeny et al. (2010) and Sims (2003).

There is a word for it, but these people would never think of applying it to their peers because they themselves are the epitome of its meaning, which is in turn evidenced by their inability to recognize this fact: ignorance.

I never liked him with his canned laughter sitcom and his conformist suburban humor—a bit like a pop song that hasn’t aged well, the kind that was successful in its day but is so unoriginal, boring, and unimaginative that no one wants to hear it anymore.

The far right will take credit for this, even though it has probably little to do with it—if anything, only indirectly.

But let them: it will then be even easier to identify their hate speech against foreigners as a key factor in the shortage of skilled workers.

In Germany, for example, there are approximately 68,000 doctors from abroad, a significant proportion of whom (approximately 6,500) come from Syria and entered the country as asylum seekers (source).

So it would be great if we could finally shift the migration debate away from mindless racism and toward meaningful politics—not only because racism is repugnant, but also for purely practical reasons: with dull-witted Nazis, the future cannot be secured; that much is certain.

That may be a bit of a generalization.

But what is extremely ironic is the fact that there is a massive shortage of skilled workers in the east, which has to do with the fact that people from abroad don’t want to go there because they are treated with hostility by all the goddamn Nazis.

And so we have the most ironic situation: in rural areas of eastern Germany in particular, there are actually very few foreigners – and yet the AfD scores particularly well there with the completely false claim that foreigners would take away jobs from Germans.

I think it’s exactly the same in the US and elsewhere: people prefer to blame someone else rather than looking for the real culprits – such as the AfD, whose hate speech is causing massive damage to Germany and which is also a neoliberal party that does not stand up for “the little people” at all.

Just to be clear: This is about the state of Saxony-Anhalt, not Germany as a whole. In eastern Germany, which includes Saxony-Anhalt, the Nazis have traditionally been strong.

Unfortunately, the situation at the federal level also looks pretty bleak: overall, the AfD currently has around 25% support in Germany, which is of course an absolute disgrace.

This US administration is truly a cabal. It resembles an organized criminal organization more than a government.

And the fact that these Nazis are using fabricated allegations of anti-Semitism to justify their censorship measures is among the most absurd things I’ve heard in a while.

How has the issue of big money been on the back burner in recent years? Who said that this was not a problem?

The incumbent US-President is orange and doing nothing but organizing crime together with his henchmen.

How is this not an issue of big money? How is this not an issue with a very long history of corruption on the highest leveles?

You still have fond memories, such as the Patriot Act. The fascists who rule you will certainly make good use of that.

What else can I say? Every thinking person is aware of the problem, but you’re not going to achieve anything with your propaganda slogans – on the contrary, you’re scaring off people who basically agree with you.

Oh, don’t get me wrong: he is certainly a racist monster but I don’t think he puts anything else above his own interests.

I think that pretty much applies to all members of the Israeli government. Take Netanyahu, for example, who not only has had an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court for ages, but is also on trial for massive corruption, which is why he is interested in maintaining the state of war for as long as possible, even though it is not a war, of course, but genocide. But Netanyahu doesn’t care; he’s just trying to delay his trial—which is typical of this regime: they are criminals who will literally walk over dead bodies.

That may be true for the US, but we’re talking about Europe here, where many countries have a welfare state, workers’ rights exist, and education is handled very differently. That’s precisely why I find it even more incomprehensible how people can be so incredibly stupid and vote for Nazis who are not only inhuman racists, but also want to create US-style conditions in Europe.

And any halfway decent human being would say that this minister is a monster who belongs behind bars for the rest of its miserable life.

It seems that democracy is beyond saving in the age of social media and all the misinformation that circulates there. I mean, you can’t be that incredibly stupid if you live even halfway in reality.

You only have to look at the US to see very clearly how corrupt the goddamn neo-Nazis are and that the promises they make to their ignorant voters are nothing but lies. It’s more than obvious that the US fascists are pursuing policies that are by no means in the interests of the people, but rather the work of a criminal syndicate, which is what they truly are. There is no difference between these barbarians and those in Europe – they are all agents of the power hungry billionaires and do nothing but pursue their interests, which is of course at the expense of the citizens.

Anyone who still doesn’t understand this is living entirely in the imaginary parallel world that the Nazis have built together with their financial backers.

Since this obviously affects so many people and these people cannot be convinced with rational arguments, it is probably hopeless.

Then I fear that the US will soon become a dictatorship in all but name. I don’t see how this can be prevented. One thing is certain, however: in a repressive autocracy, there will be many more, much more tangible reasons to put up with everything the rulers do.

That’s all well and good, but it’ll take more than memes to finally get rid of this despot, US folks—why isn’t there any serious resistance?

So shameless - they don’t even bother hiding the corruption anymore…

Don’t forget about the 75 billion for ICE. I cannot for the life of me imagine why this agency needs such an astronomical budget, unless it is to turn it into a secret police force – which seems highly likely in the case of this US government.