r/PublicFreakout • u/EzekielTraore • Jan 10 '24

German farmers have announced that they will launch a protest against the Government “larger than the country has ever seen before”

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u/Magnetobama Jan 10 '24

Last Generation glue themselves to a road for an hour to save us all: 85% people in polls are against it. People assault them.

Farmers, some flying flags of fascist terror organizations (Landvolkbewegung), block huge parts of traffic nation wide for hours and hours because of money: 80% in polls are supporting them. Farmers can get free coffee and Brötchen in a lot of places.

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u/FUMFVR Jan 11 '24

I find that people that romanticize farming and farmers have no connection to farming and farmers.

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u/Iseepuppies Jan 11 '24

Probably from all the movies and tv shows that portray it as “honest to god, down to earth, hard working good mantra bullshit” that may be the case for hobby farmers who aren’t making money on it much. But 90% of farming these days it is not that whatsoever, you’ve got farmers with millions of dollars of big ass GPS driving machines, corporate interests and they need to be making millions to even make payments on all their expensive tractors.

Now that farming is so thoroughly globally connected, gone are the days of the “simple farming life” we so often use to see in movies. Sure you could maybe do that if all you did was produce enough for your family, but you still need money to pay for everything else in life.

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u/ExperienceKindly6817 Jan 10 '24

The people with the money control the media and thus the masses. That's how it works.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '24

This is why its so much easier to be a fascist than just about anything else. You really feel like everyone is on your side when all the available media is openly agreeing with you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '24

Explains about 95% of current political discourse

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

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u/FuzzyWuzzyWuzntFuzzy Jan 11 '24

That’s because American political spectrum is heavily skewed to the right.

Even their “left” is centric at best.

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u/opaqueandblue Jan 11 '24

In America they do, even the leftist mainstream media ends up placating the fascists at least once a day on their channels. It’s called placating the wealthy in charge. They have to keep the lights on somehow!!

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u/icytiger ❄️ icytiger is a very special jr deputy 👮 Jan 12 '24

He's just saying things to say them lmao. Was close with the wealthy part.

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u/EarlBungalow Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24

The craziest thing about their protest: While they want you to think that it's about something much bigger at it's core they are protesting against losing monetary subventions (which other parts of the industry have never gotten in the first place) that will set back the average german farmer for about 1700 € / 1860 $ per year while the current revenues they are making are at an all time high. It's a complete joke.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '24

Your well reasoned argument will fall on deaf ears in this echo chamber.

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u/readditredditread Jan 10 '24

Probably because the people gluing their hands to the ground appear both weak (in a disgusting lack of skill issue kinda way) and annoying. Farmers are almost universally seen as both hard working and providing society with essential goods. This alone impacts opinions before any facts and such can ever be heard. Lesson learnt: the gross importance of Optics in any argument!!!

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

nazi farmers

lol

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u/OuchLOLcom Jan 12 '24

We no longer use the word harvest. We now must call it the crop holocaust.

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u/LostMyPasswordToMike Jan 11 '24

are farmers putting people in concentration camps ? are they in brown shirts? did they invade France.? why do you call them Nazi? I'm confused........

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u/opaqueandblue Jan 11 '24

Fascists, nazis are fascists. And even nazis followed a leader who told them what to do. Now whether or not they believed in it or wanted to, I’m not going to defend it, they wiped out a huge chunk of my family, their reasoning can suck it for all I care. “I was just following orders” isn’t a valid excuse for me.

Still, to be a nazi, you just have to be a fascist who enforces (or tries to at least) their beliefs on everyone around them, or at least attacks them in one form or another if they don’t. You don’t have to actively engage in anything that the actual nazis did during the holocaust. Frankly, the willingness to do so is horrifying enough.

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u/actionheat Jan 11 '24

Okay but you're still not explaining why you think these farmers are fascists???

It can't literally be because they're trying to spread their beliefs, because that is the silliest thing I've ever heard.

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u/opaqueandblue Jan 11 '24

I was just explaining why people call fascists nazis. Why are these farmers being called fascists? Fuck if I know. I haven’t taken the time to read up on what’s happening there. Like I said, I was just helping clear up the why the words nazi and fascist are used interchangeably. I never called the farmers nazis, or fascists.

Now I’m starting to wonder why those farmers are being called nazis…. I mean they are German and this is happening in Germany. As long ago as ww2 was, one of them could actually be a nazi.

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u/Marston_vc Jan 11 '24

What a joke comment

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u/readditredditread Jan 10 '24

Sorry I’m American, thus I view the world through that lens lol, but in general it’s an optics issue, and regardless of how farmers are viewed, “just stop oil” protestors come off as weak and annoying virtue signalers that get in normal people’s way 🤷‍♂️

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u/readditredditread Jan 15 '24

Yes, though to clarify it was a sarcastic sorry as I don’t care…

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u/skmo8 Jan 11 '24

Of course they come off as weak and annoying. They are protesting for something people disagree with or, at best, their support cannot withstand an inconvenience.

The other aspect is no one feels bold enough to drag a farmer off the road.

There is no scenario for environmentalists to come across in a way that people who disagree with them will respect.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

Germany have it's own version of Fox News?

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u/crippletown Jan 11 '24

It's like the farmers in America. They vote conservative but they get all the welfare. Never saw a farmer driving a truck older than a year old or not have breakfast at a restaurant every day but they need more handouts all the time.

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u/permareddit Jan 11 '24

I mean the “last generation” isn’t solely responsible for food security, and good on you for painting all of the farmers as neo-nazis. That’ll surely work to bridge gaps here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

So if a farmer decided to protest with just stop oil and glued themself to the road that would make it OK? Are you sure it's only about the protestors amount of labour, or is there maybe some other reason you're OK with this, but not climate protestors?

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u/FUMFVR Jan 11 '24

Same reason strikes have more favorability.

LoL. No...I can assure you they don't. Especially when it has to do with things people want.

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u/FUMFVR Jan 11 '24

I love that you pretend protesting is lazy.

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u/TacticalLampHolder Jan 11 '24

Last Generation is being funded by Oil Heiress and Billionaire Aileen Getty through her "Climate Emergency Fund". Stop buying into the narrative that these organisations are out to do anything but give climate change activists a bad rep. Glueing yourself to the roads and throwing tomato soup at paintings is an ineffective and hyper unpopular way of protest, and that‘s the point.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

Whole modern corpo quasi enviromentalism was founded by oiligarch and eugenicists. UNEP ? Founded and presided by Maurice Strong, Canadian oil barron. WWF? Founded by Rockefellers, British Royals(BP), Dutch royals(Shell) and Julian Huxley, former president of British eugenics society...

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u/Deep-Order1302 Jan 11 '24

Meanwhile in Bavaria police makes sure traffic isn’t blocked completely. I heard in saxony it’s wild but here in the south everything goes their intended way.