What is problematic or biased about the quote I provided?

Why are you accusing me of abusing reports to silence people who criticize me? Saying I am “abuse reports” about a single report you don’t feel is valid doesn’t feel fair to me.

Sure I will remove the “highly unreliable source”.

The ruling class always makes the same fatal mistake of believing people who condescendingly have been denied meaningful help for decades will act reactionally when provided the alternative vision and opportunity to burn it all down, damn the consequences.

I don’t know if it is irrational in a way though it usually ends up being a self immolating act for the desperate and poor, we are talking about human beings here, agency and free will are burning fires within us and given enough abuse that fire can be twisted into a rage that just wants everything to break around us in an enactment of a fantasy of eruptive “justice” coming to the people and systems that inflicted that suffering and denial of agency. When you corner an animal, instinct kicks in, we are no different.

This is why neoliberalism leads to a collapse into fascism, it locks society into a place where help is condescendingly denied continually while the narrative that neoliberalism is superior to conservatism (which is true) is used to beat any criticism from the left into submission.

Yes but neoliberalism was necessary to get to this point, fascism is worse than neoliberalism but that doesn’t change the fact that neoliberalism inevitably leads to a collapse into fascism by refusing to deal with structural issues until it is too late.

You have to be joking the art can only be interpreted strictly in that linear fashion, by the same logic Mein Kampf is barely fascist.

Fascism brought nothing new to the table that The Magic Mountain hadn’t already dismantled with fervor.

You have no conception of the relationships between simultaneous polarized reactions to the same perceived existential questions that dominate public discourse, what a morbid, lifeless view of history…

Thomas Mann’s novel The Magic Mountain is a large modern epic-philosophical poem about the struggle between light and darkness, health and disease, life and death. Since the writer wants to depict this struggle in its ideologically pure, most abstract form, he chooses to a certain extent an abstract environment in which all the phenomena of the capitalist world appear in all their essence, not obscured by the petty events of bourgeois everyday life.

This environment is the “Magic Mountain” – a fashionable tuberculosis sanatorium in Switzerland. People from all strata of bourgeois society meet here; all of them are in a state of forced inaction, artificial isolation from everyday worries. Thus, their social position does not essentially change, according to circumstances they give the opportunity to the individual, the best of them to ponder over the meaning and direction of their life.

On this Wednesday, Thomas Mann introduces his hero – a decent, honest German youth from a wealthy family. Here, in contact with other patients, he gets acquainted with the spiritual trends of his time. The path of his inner development is the content of the novel. Thomas Mann shows what an almost magical attractive effect had the conditions of Germany at that time on the morally sensitive bourgeois: sickness, darkness, death. Dissatisfaction with one’s own, purely personal life, an existence aimed only at achieving material goals, a moral disgust for the rough, barbaric sides of this life and at the same time the inability to understand that they are generated by the lack of social freedom in Germany, made these people defenseless against dark forces.

These people are ready to accept fascist “socialism,” which is nothing more than a demagogic disguise of universal enslavement.

Thomas Mann understood even earlier this defenselessness of the German bourgeoisie in the face of the dark forces of reaction and showed it with tragic irony in his short stories.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1943/humanism-barbarism/ch05.htm

Robert Heynen’s article, “Cultures of Confinement: Health, Illness, and Madness in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and The Magic Mountain” details the parallels of the theme of mental illness and the rise of authoritarianism in the real world, historical Weimar Germany, and the events within the film (Heynen 683). Heynen explains how mental asylums were a strategy for authority figures in Weimar Germany, in which they could place individuals who started leftist coalitions and organizations, as a way to squash such political opposition (Heynen 683–684). Through the lens of this theory, Dr. Caligari would represent an authoritarian fascist figure responsible for gaslighting his citizens, or patients, to commit murders through some sort of hypnotic mind control or brainwashing, as well as imprison revolutionary figures who pose a threat to his authoritative reign of his domain. Heynen also points to the writer Kracauer as an influential interpreter of the film as depicting the early breeding grounds of Nazism and authoritarianism in Germany at the time (Heynen 685).

https://dainealmaclean.medium.com/how-the-cabinet-of-dr-73660400e5e3

And yet how could Europe resist a novel that ends with the outbreak of a world war during which, to quote The Magic Mountain’s narrator, ‘so many things began whose beginnings, it seems, have not yet ceased’.

As the late Polish poet Adam Zagajewski once wrote, ‘We’re still dealing with the heroes of The Magic Mountain.’ And, let’s add, Adrian Leverkühn and Serenus Zeitblom, the ‘heroes’ of Doctor Faustus. But Thomas Mann did more than simply write about the cultural and spiritual transformations of German society in the early 20th century. He lived them. The reason that he became such a forceful foe of Nazism is because he shared the same intellectual and cultural roots.

https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/thomas-manns-cathedrals-in-prose/

Putler and his rapist ally Trump have been responsible for frauding their own elections

Right but the way that has occurred is well documented in both cases with Trump and Putin, what I am asking here is beyond indirect dark money funding of political groups in Germany (which is definitely wrong I am not defending it) what are the mechanisms of interference that are so grave as to make people question the results of the election?

What are the nature of these accusations? Actual faked votes? “Gerrymandering” style manipulation? Deregistration of valid voters?

I don’t doubt that Putin would try to do this kind of thing, not for a second but also when I look at my own country… Putin didn’t need to make Trump win, we did that all by ourselves, yes russia threw gasoline on the fire but focusing on that is missing the point of fact that we started the fire here all by ourselves.

Then why do stupid propagandists and their brain-dead victims need to lie contantly about those imaginary weapons used on Palestinians?

There are a couple of alarming things about your response here.

First, why are you so focused on being angry at the people you consider who are misinformed about something you have explicitly said is a target of propaganda? Even taking your argument at face value, you seem angriest at the symptom of misinformed people not the causes driving it, which I think reveals a lot about your character.

Second if you don’t think Germany has been directly supporting Israel during the course of the Palestinian Genocide, you are simply misinformed and I urge you to take a step back and reconsider some of the things you may have dismissed said by others just because it clashed with how you thought things were.

https://www.ecchr.eu/en/press-release/despite-international-warnings-germany-continuously-exported-billions-in-arms-to-israel-from-2023-to-2026/

Keep your damn eye on the ball, what matters is the Genocide stops not that you get to be righteously angry at people who you considered were fooled by misinformation/disinformation.

Oh so you still think the “only defensive weapons” line still works?

Pathetic.

You insult my intelligence by thinking this kind of shitty logic will work on me, you also insult this community by talking down to their intelligence with lazy arguments like this.

When a Genocide and War is occurring, if you give tools of war to the people perpetrating Genocide and War you are responsible for empowering their Genocide and War, whether the weapons are “defensive” or not is a laughable distraction from that basic reality.

Pertinently, in modern warfare the most crucial enablers for offensive action are air defenses and ballistic missile defenses, this is a basic consequence of combined arms warfare and it makes your framing absurd based on its first principles alone.

Unless you have substantiated evidence to share that this election was tampered with please stop spreading potential misinformation about it.

shrugs why else do you immediately jump to election interference then?

Precisely

I think you just don’t want to face the reality of how much German society apologizes and makes space for white nationalism/fascism.

Stop spamming my posts with the same lazy comment.

Well, they played with fire, still believe liberal system can stand still.

BAHAHAHAHAHA

ok

I don’t know, I think the misinformation has been that Germany isn’t a nation teetering on a collapse into fascism while directly supporting the ongoing Palestinian Genocide.

The failure is from the center to provide anything of value except the capacity to shut down all positive attempts at progress by the left, same as it was/is in the US.

Also the far right is clearly in cahoots with russia but is that really news?

(again, same as in US)

Don’t worry tardigrade, the rest of us well are aware of your sole mission to make us all terrified of China!

We didn’t forget, its ok shhhh now.

pats tardigrade who is frothing at the mouth

I agree that this was big waste of time, lets agree to not do it again.

lol ok, you don’t grasp basic things about how art works, about how art is always in conversation with the context it arose from given the author’s life experiences and yet you are committed to this futile argument.

The Magic Mountain is one of the world’s great antifascist novels.

Now, it’s not unheard of that authors can see the proverbial writing on the wall and anticipate future events to some degree. But to argue that you would also have to actually point to his writing and draw parallels. You can’t just point at later events as proof for what is in the book.

Have you actually read any literary analysis of The Magic Mountain… or like… just read the damn book? Were you not paying attention to the conversations with Naptha and how Hans Castorp changes in his disposition towards them over the course of the novel as WW1 ripens on the limb…? Go read the book again, I will not waste my time handing you things just so you can throw them at the wall like a baby.

Your desire to bifurcate periods of time and development of ideologies into artificial divisions is childish.

Are you claiming The Magic Mountain is a reaction to Mein Kampf, a book that had not been published by then?

…no?

Absolutely, the Far Right need to stoke power with Xenophobic fearmongering media in order to both cement their hold on power in Europe and ensure their russian allies in high places have a ready made narrative to tell russians about how they are actually fighting the bad guys who hate the Global South and are trying to push “poor” russia into it.

Russia thus can continue to laughably claim it is a champion of the Global South against nazi “Western” rich powers while throwing human beings from wherever they can scoop them up in the Global South into unfathomably wasteful meatgrinder human wave attacks in Ukraine that amount to nothing… which isn’t to imply the only meatgrinders russia runs are in Ukraine…

In that sense the event at Ceuta was propaganda that mutually served two rightwing empires at once and if that doesn’t send a foreboding shiver down your spine I don’t know what will.

The only people who don’t win here no matter what happens next are the people with actual empathy in the EU and of course immigrants.

edit you think Merz would be left out of this? Fat chance!

So is Mein Kampf not fascist because it predates 1933 too?

Get out of here with this lazy shit, Naptha is clearly a fascist in all but name in The Magic Mountain.