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Thomas Vierhaus is an economist from Düsseldorf with a small but active social media presence, particularly on Twitter/X. There, he now and again replies caustically to the idiocies of our media and politicians. Because our media and politicians do not like caustic commentary,| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
Late Saturday night, a pair of migrants on the Dresden tram (line 7) chose to amuse themselves by harassing two women, when a 21 year-old American man stepped in to stop them.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
The sharp-eyed reporters at Apollo News caught this nugget in the flood of post-summit media coverage yesterday:| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
In Friday’s summit with U.S.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
For a whole week after 8 August, the Alaska summit between U.S.| www.eugyppius.com
A *noble* sheep, unperturbed by solitude. The faces of all creatures reveal their characters.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
This will be a more personal post.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
I am trying to sell a house, which means posting is a littler harder than I’d like it to be right now, but the news even over the summer holidays is unrelenting.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
On 21 September 2025, Ludwigshafen will elect a new mayor.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
NGOs are a lot of things.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
The establishment press love to call U.S.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
A brief primer on why the American empire exists, how it works, and Europe's place in it.| www.eugyppius.com
Also open thread.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
I don’t want to be writing this, and I have two reasons for my reluctance:| www.eugyppius.com
Bavarian AfD representative Ramona Storm has been fined €24,000 for posting a video of a leftist protester throwing a Nazi salute, in an attempt to expose and denounce him| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
I hereby retract my last assessment.| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
What will happen if Germany's largest opposition party is prohibited and why it is in everybody's interest for the centre-right CDU to bring down the firewall and normalise the populist right| www.eugyppius.com
Thoughts on the hall monitors and the discourse police who make progressive Western politics such an unbearable lobotomised shitshow| www.eugyppius.com
How the Fail Chancellor sabotaged his own vote, pissed off his coalition partners & cast his government into chaos – all in a misbegotten attempt to own the AfD| www.eugyppius.com
The climate insanity is always achieving new heights| eugyppius: a plague chronicle
This pinched woman with problem glasses is named Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf.| www.eugyppius.com
Also open thread.| www.eugyppius.com
In the last ten years, we’ve welcomed a lot of ill-behaved and criminal young men into our country for no discernible reason, and along the way we’ve had the dubious privilege of discovering whole new categories of crime.| www.eugyppius.com
Nobody can say why the evil fascist Nazi Hitler party is so evil or fascist or Nazi or Hitler, but they and their 10 million voters will continue to be treated like shit anyway| www.eugyppius.com
It is trivial to claim that the press are biased.| www.eugyppius.com
Thoughts inspired by the unfolding USAID scandal and German political dysfunction| www.eugyppius.com
Two weeks ago, a court forced the Robert Koch Institut to release the internal protocols of their “Covid Crisis Team” meetings between January 2020 and April 2021, and the fallout continues as I type this.| www.eugyppius.com
The Robert Koch Institut is the German equivalent of the American Centres for Disease Control; they are our primary public health authority, and as such they were central to the management of the Covid pandemic in Germany.| www.eugyppius.com
As everyone knows, Donald J.| www.eugyppius.com
Apparently not stabbing and spitting on conductors is a peculiar central European cultural norm unknown to our guests from Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey.| www.eugyppius.com
We are governed by crazy lunatics, Part 2436502345.| www.eugyppius.com
The time has to talk about spies and the stories we tell about spying.| www.eugyppius.com
Last week, the Robert Koch Institut (the German CDC) released over 2,500 pages documenting the meetings of the “Covid Crisis Team” between January 2020 and April 2021.| www.eugyppius.com
After Germany’s defeat in 1945, Walter Ulbricht returned from exile in Moscow to become one of the founding politicians of the DDR.| www.eugyppius.com
First came the farmers’ protests in the Netherlands, then the Freedom Convoy in Canada. Now the farm protests have reached Germany.| www.eugyppius.com
Our governing elite are increasingly selected not for intelligence or ability, but for conscientiousness, agreeability and conformity. The consequence is a new kind of midwit tyranny.| www.eugyppius.com
I don’t know much about the American pandemic pundits, but I gather that Brown University economist and “parenting guru” Emily Oster is far from the worst of them.| www.eugyppius.com