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Mental Health hipsters gonna do mental health hipster shit.

That can be considered the same in these days.

POV: You are an EU commissioner and don’t know the difference between the paint aisle in the DIY store and the drinks section in the supermarket.

Von der Leyen talking about skills. Just my kind of humour.

Hot deal incoming! Gluten free water! Only 50€ the bottle! Limited offer buy now!

The thing is, people following health fads or fashionable food hypes often don’t think, so you can sell them the most mundane stuff for the most outrageous amounts of money with some clever labeling.

Veggies/Vegans don’t often accidentally buy meat because they’re confused by the packaging

If the packaging were labeled “vegan”, quite a number of them would. And happily pay three times as much for it as regular customers.

Yes, that guy is a pathological liar. (even worse worse than the usual politicians) If he says “the sun is shining”, better bring a flashlight and an umbrella, because it actually is most likely midnight and a raging rainstorm.

I wouldn’t trust him any further than I can throw the Kanzleramt.

The “journalists” whose job it is to research the background of the story do blame the product and/or the seller.

Instead they could have done a public safety announcement about long hair and loose clothing in combination with rotating power tools. Apparently modern day society is in dire need of some education on the topic.

But they chose not to to jump on the China/Temu bad bandwagon. There are tons of things to criticise about both China and Temu, but a rotating power tool having the inherent dangers of rotating power tools isn’t one of them. The low quality of Items sold on Temu might have even saved that stupid mother’s poor child from a scalping injury, which more powerful tools are perfectly capable of inflicting.

Rotating power tools and long hair have been known as a dangerous combination since the invention of rotating power tools.

The German president is merely a ceremonial figurehead, though. Pretty much akin to what constitutional monarchies have a king or queen for.

The few and little actual powers he has, he rarely exercises. Thanks to the way he is elected, he of course is a loyal card carrying member of one of the big parties, and won’t really go against the general political agenda.

1. It sells
2. When effective, it promotes society becoming increasingly authoritarian, which suits the corporate owners of the media.

People are paranoid lunatics and keep falling for never ending scaremongering propaganda in the media.

When haven’t fascists been traitors?

Usually they do things like internationally isolating their country, leading to economic problems and poverty due to lack of international trade, or even outright picking unwinnable fights with the rest of the world, leading to eventual, inevitable, and total defeat, additionally they will imprison and/or kill a large part of their own population.

What is destroying or severely damaging your own country (all while pretending you love it) and imprisoning and killing its people, if not treason?

The very same people who profit from the former, do also profit from the latter. Even more so, they will be able to profit from increasing poverty much longer, if enough policing powers ensure the impoverished part of the population can be subdued.

Scaremongering propaganda is powerful and ubiquitous. Just ask yourself who profits from a scared populous putting up with ever increasing policing powers.

And once more, the UK’s political caste will learn in a very entertaining way that the EU is neither a giant free-for-all, nor that they hold all the cards.

Bre-entry is going to be just as entertaining a political comedy as Brexit was.

Meanwhile pretty much every manufacturer of “modern” machinery. Enshittification is universal.

The problem isn’t Chinese back doors as such, but the enshittification of infrastructure with remote access that alows manufacturers to brick shit whenever they like. Remember those trains in Poland that were remotely shut down whenever their manufacturer saw that they were maintained by a third party?

Banks and Nazis, name a more iconic duo.