Bespoke translations by yours truly. Original articles 1 [A] and 2 [A] by Danisch. The context is last night's terrorist attack in Magdeburg, Germany
Twitter finding on the state of our society.
[translated, in chronological order:
"It is incredible.
I am speechless.
Our beautiful EU must take X away from Elon Musk NOW!
If you support AfD, you also want a third world war."
"The attack in #Magdeburg at the Winter market is tragic.
But it could have been foiled with a speed limit!
For how long do we continue tolerating motorized violence?"
"It is clear: We as a society are not allowed to freely supply [woke gendered term for fellow citizens] who want to use violence with their weapons.
The knife ban zones have worked. Now we need to ensure that cars can't be used as weapons either."]
People, are you out of your mind?
Right now I am sitting speechless in front of the screen. On my article from last night about "Clara Füllmich-Pfister" I have received a large amount of reactions via e-mail and Twitter of the sort "Did you not see that it's a satire account?", but in very different tonalities, from a well-meaning hint across "Do you not recognize satire?" and "Looks like you fell for satire" up to the large category Just what kind of moron are you.
Especially because I have already dealt with the topic of satire years ago and this - naive - stance annoys me tremendously, I want to say a few things on the topic.
Therefore, for all the know-it-alls, smartasses, lecturers, and satire recognizers:
Do you also open your front door when thieves are standing in front of it and saying "Howdy, we are the fire department, we need to get into your home, there might be a fire..."?
What is wrong with you if you fall for such crap, immediately eat up everything as soon as the keyword "satire" appears, and then you even feel smart and superior?
As I have written years ago: I cannot stand this phenomenon of "satire" anymore. Not only because it's only a tiny minority of the people who claim to do satire who are able to do it in the first place, are good satirists or even know what satire actually is.
Instead, today we are being deceived, lied to, misled, disinformed to an incredible extent - and incredibly many people even like it or justify it because they call it "satire" and mean that you have deficits if you don't recognize something as "satire" and then proceed to drop all rules.
Guys, 98% of what you categorize as satire - and you feel good in doing so, because you believe to have recognized it - is just bad, lies, crap - and their authors, the ones you call "satirists", are just deadbeats, propagandists, disinformants, and professional liars who cannot do anything well because you have been trained to eat up, accept, consider holy all sorts of crap when the magic word "satire" is uttered. Then you suddenly drop all thinking.
Go and do a simple exercise.
Everywhere where you want to call or believe to recognize satire, replace "satire" with "lie". Like, "satire account" becomes "lie account", "satirist" becomes "liar". And so on.
You are going to be surprised how well it fits and how much better your judgment has become by doing so.
Clara, Prenzlauer Berg
Twitter finding on the state of our society.
[translated, in chronological order:
"It is incredible.
I am speechless.
Our beautiful EU must take X away from Elon Musk NOW!
If you support AfD, you also want a third world war."
"The attack in #Magdeburg at the Winter market is tragic.
But it could have been foiled with a speed limit!
For how long do we continue tolerating motorized violence?"
"It is clear: We as a society are not allowed to freely supply [woke gendered term for fellow citizens] who want to use violence with their weapons.
The knife ban zones have worked. Now we need to ensure that cars can't be used as weapons either."]
Brain rot and brainlessness through satire reflex
People, are you out of your mind?
Right now I am sitting speechless in front of the screen. On my article from last night about "Clara Füllmich-Pfister" I have received a large amount of reactions via e-mail and Twitter of the sort "Did you not see that it's a satire account?", but in very different tonalities, from a well-meaning hint across "Do you not recognize satire?" and "Looks like you fell for satire" up to the large category Just what kind of moron are you.
Especially because I have already dealt with the topic of satire years ago and this - naive - stance annoys me tremendously, I want to say a few things on the topic.
Therefore, for all the know-it-alls, smartasses, lecturers, and satire recognizers:
- Because a lot of people came with the argument "It even says satire account underneath", subtext "Are you blind?":
No, at the time it did not say that, this was only added a significant amount of time after my article. Fortunately I still had the profile open in the browser and was able to make a screenshot of the old state.
Somehow, those Twitter clicker champions can't conceive of the possibility of changing such account details. Even though the phenomenon of people posting crap and making a huge blunder, and then taking the emergency exit by later and retroactively declaring "That was satire, did you not notice that?" should be a known item, and I have written extensively about it.
So, rather, those people who say "That is satire, you fell for it" should be met with "That is a lazy excuse, did you fall for that?"
Or: Do you not notice that account details can be changed? - For everyone who says that the name is unambiguously satirical: I have dealt with feminism and there are many people with such names. Just because you don't know something, you can't expect other people, to whom it feels familiar, to categorize it as satire because there cannot possibly be such a thing.
- Guys, some crap doesn't simply become satire by adding the label "satire". Just as little as a General Motors becomes a Mercedes by you writing "Mercedes" on it or a man becomes a woman if he calls himself a woman. And a "vegan schnitzel" doesn't become a schnitzel just because marketing calls it that way.
Are you all so gendered already, so trained, to take everything as what it claims to be, without any criticism or resistance?
Are you trained apes, Pavlovian dogs, who take everything as satire as soon as someone writes "satire account" on it?
Satire is a matter of content, presentation, and not the label that someone slaps on it. Chocolate, television, and athlete are only these things when they possess certain attributes, and not because arbitrary objects have been labeled that way.
To all the satire recognizers and did-you-not-notice-smartasses, I want to decisively counter that you do not know what satire is if you believe that you identify it by a "satire" label. If you argue with that label, you are not in the position to lecture others about satire. - Lies and false flags are not satire.
Satire is always recognizable as such.
Simply lying, misrepresentations, false flag accounts are not satire.
I am surprised as how many people defend lying and fraud. Are you among the strange kind of kids who believed that you can lie and make wrong promises willy-nilly as long as you cross two fingers behind your back? What kind of strange relationship do you have with the truth if you believe that you can lie willy-nilly if you afterwards, when it's uncovered, quickly shout "satire!"? That's elementary school levels of character. - How were they even able to train you into believing that there is a special category of statements that is liberated from all rules, evaluation criteria, and requirements? This "satire is allowed to do everything"?
No. That is nonsense. Satire is not allowed to do anything more than all the others, because satire is not a master key, as you have been successfully trained to believe so you eat up propaganda and [notorious public broadcasting propaganda lapdog and agitator Jan] Böhmermann and are happy, but satire is just a certain way of voicing criticism, without any special privileges. Whether or not something is a satire account - or calls itself one - is actually completely irrelevant, because it is not entitled to different judgment than others.
You don't go into a cafe, order a strawberry milkshake, and then accept that the glass is dirty, it's only half full, or the thing has been put together without any hygiene and in a bad way, forbidden substances are in there, because the waiter says "That is strawberry, there are other regulations for strawberry. If you want a clean glass and a hygienically flawless shake, you need to order banana!"
How do you get the idea that satire had some special privileges, as if they were the emergency vehicle siren among critics?
You are victims of media.
Public broadcasting presents to you trash propagandists like Böhmermann, convinces you "He's allowed to do that, he's a satirist" - and you diligently and obediently eat it up? - Even if it is satire, it does not change anything about the fact that some trash-tweeting asshole is behind it.
- Satire can only be done if you understand the subject. Satire isn't not knowing anything about and crapping something out. At that point in time, nothing has been known about the background of the attack. It wasn't satirizable yet.
- After what we know today about the attack, the "satire" was completely failed, completely off the mark.
Do you also open your front door when thieves are standing in front of it and saying "Howdy, we are the fire department, we need to get into your home, there might be a fire..."?
What is wrong with you if you fall for such crap, immediately eat up everything as soon as the keyword "satire" appears, and then you even feel smart and superior?
As I have written years ago: I cannot stand this phenomenon of "satire" anymore. Not only because it's only a tiny minority of the people who claim to do satire who are able to do it in the first place, are good satirists or even know what satire actually is.
Instead, today we are being deceived, lied to, misled, disinformed to an incredible extent - and incredibly many people even like it or justify it because they call it "satire" and mean that you have deficits if you don't recognize something as "satire" and then proceed to drop all rules.
Guys, 98% of what you categorize as satire - and you feel good in doing so, because you believe to have recognized it - is just bad, lies, crap - and their authors, the ones you call "satirists", are just deadbeats, propagandists, disinformants, and professional liars who cannot do anything well because you have been trained to eat up, accept, consider holy all sorts of crap when the magic word "satire" is uttered. Then you suddenly drop all thinking.
Go and do a simple exercise.
Everywhere where you want to call or believe to recognize satire, replace "satire" with "lie". Like, "satire account" becomes "lie account", "satirist" becomes "liar". And so on.
You are going to be surprised how well it fits and how much better your judgment has become by doing so.