Bespoke translation by yours truly. Original article [A] by Danisch
Just a question.
In New Year's speeches, you're supposed to be looking forward to the future and be optimistic, don't you dare have a negative tone and so on, don't complain, don't be a whiner.
Which very clearly means that you're supposed to do all of that beforehand, that is, today.
So before we start the year 2025 (for which, to be honest, my perspective is nothing but pessimistic), I would like to pose a question:
What has actually been good about and within the year 2024?
I can't think of much. Ad hoc, actually nothing.
I thought the Olympic Games were not bad, even though many people complained about the tranny opening ceremony, but I liked the fact that they held the Games not in dank, replaceable gyms, but at historical, pretty places. And the rebuilding of Notre Dame, even though I don't like churches per se, greatly impressed and wowed me, for technical reasons. So it is still possible to do great things. But: Both are points for France. Our [German] medal yield, even though there were some gold medals in cheering, is, added up, sh...ameful.
Other than that, ad hoc, I can't think of anything positive about 2024.
And that's not good. A lack of hooray is unhealthy.
Even if there had been something good: You no longer dare celebrate it. If you still celebrate nowadays, you are Nazi, racist, or at least sexist, and are discriminating against someone who isn't being celebrated.
Being a citizen has started to remind me of the "At attention!" at the army. "Men, quiet down! Facial expressions to zero!"
What's even worse than the socialist planned economy is the socialist planned opinion.
So what was good about 2024?
Which begs a nasty question. All signs are pointing at things getting rapidly worse for us in 2025, economically, politically, socially, medially, criminally, corrupt.
In a collapse, is the principle of double negation or cumulative negation the right one? (Does "He has never not done this" with a double negation mean that he has always done this or is it supposed to emphasize that he has never done it?) So if it's good if bad things are followed up by collapse, so something bad is nearing its end? Or does that add up to something even worse?
In different words: Is the best thing about 2024 that it's finally over?
The Year-End Question
Just a question.
In New Year's speeches, you're supposed to be looking forward to the future and be optimistic, don't you dare have a negative tone and so on, don't complain, don't be a whiner.
Which very clearly means that you're supposed to do all of that beforehand, that is, today.
So before we start the year 2025 (for which, to be honest, my perspective is nothing but pessimistic), I would like to pose a question:
What has actually been good about and within the year 2024?
I can't think of much. Ad hoc, actually nothing.
I thought the Olympic Games were not bad, even though many people complained about the tranny opening ceremony, but I liked the fact that they held the Games not in dank, replaceable gyms, but at historical, pretty places. And the rebuilding of Notre Dame, even though I don't like churches per se, greatly impressed and wowed me, for technical reasons. So it is still possible to do great things. But: Both are points for France. Our [German] medal yield, even though there were some gold medals in cheering, is, added up, sh...ameful.
Other than that, ad hoc, I can't think of anything positive about 2024.
And that's not good. A lack of hooray is unhealthy.
Even if there had been something good: You no longer dare celebrate it. If you still celebrate nowadays, you are Nazi, racist, or at least sexist, and are discriminating against someone who isn't being celebrated.
Being a citizen has started to remind me of the "At attention!" at the army. "Men, quiet down! Facial expressions to zero!"
What's even worse than the socialist planned economy is the socialist planned opinion.
So what was good about 2024?
Which begs a nasty question. All signs are pointing at things getting rapidly worse for us in 2025, economically, politically, socially, medially, criminally, corrupt.
In a collapse, is the principle of double negation or cumulative negation the right one? (Does "He has never not done this" with a double negation mean that he has always done this or is it supposed to emphasize that he has never done it?) So if it's good if bad things are followed up by collapse, so something bad is nearing its end? Or does that add up to something even worse?
In different words: Is the best thing about 2024 that it's finally over?
