{"id":6422,"date":"2026-09-07T13:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2026-09-07T13:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T13:49:43","slug":"interesting-for-what-it-omits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2026\/09\/07\/interesting-for-what-it-omits\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting For What It Omits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went through <a href=\"https:\/\/firstthings.com\/why-the-afd-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I basically stopped paying attention to the internal workings of Germany, the country where I spent half my youth, after some of the outrageous Green policies it took during the mid-2000s, and its stance when it came to the GWOT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, the performance of the Bundeswehr were important, impressive, in Afghanistan, but they really moved away with Operation Iraqi Freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AfD are being called Nazis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But nobody is paying attention to the shit-sandwich that the KPD made of East Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, that the hulking remains of bad Communist industry are being reinflated with &#8220;migrants&#8221; feels oddly familiar to the US;  &#8220;they&#8217;re eating the dogs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know.  Nobody is  actually a Nazi.  But there&#8217;s more than a few Communists still around, even if the guy who&#8217;d be Chancellor was born after The Wall fell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went through this. I basically stopped paying attention to the internal workings of Germany, the country where I spent half my youth, after some of the outrageous Green policies it took during the mid-2000s, and its stance when it came to the GWOT. Yes, the performance of the Bundeswehr were important, impressive, in Afghanistan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scarred-brain-murmurings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6423,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions\/6423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}