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- Nov 14, 2022
My boy Danisch published again; translation by yours truly, original here [A]
If you can determine the truth by laying hands on Twitter and you've got conspiracy theories as evidence...
I already found it astounding that the SPIEGEL claims to have the full truth just from a few tweets, without even posing the question of whether the tweets are genuine and authentic, whether they are meant sincerely or are a deceptive trick. You find a few tweets that are lying around as if they had been placed there, then just use a bit of SPIEGEL voodoo and laying on hands - and out comes the truth. Whether or not he is a culprit - that is still "alleged". [okay, I gotta interject here, the media go with German legalese for fear of legal consequences. A suspect only becomes a culprit once they are convicted] They did arrest him at the scene, but you can't know anything about it, there is the presumption of innocence. [okay, valid point] But that he is an AfD supporter, that is absolute certainty, because there are a whopping two tweets. And the tweets are incontrovertible evidence, even with Musk.
This guy [a German politician, notorious political lolcow] aims even higher:
"After everything that we have learned so far,..."
The problem here: Other than a few tweets, nothing at all has been learned.
But, they are certain about this: Arabs and AfD/Nazis are collaborating. The latter have been presented as xenophobic, islamophobic, and snarling "German" with a rolling harsh R, but who would miss out on a conspiracy theory when it's opportune.
Everything is a big conspiracy. All you need are the Twitter auditors and the Twitter exegetics.
That guy [Polenz] has once been general secretary of the CDU. If he weren't so old and tattered, I would assume that he joins Antifa to go on vandalism and racketeering tours at night.
Why even investigate?
If you can determine the truth by laying hands on Twitter and you've got conspiracy theories as evidence...
I already found it astounding that the SPIEGEL claims to have the full truth just from a few tweets, without even posing the question of whether the tweets are genuine and authentic, whether they are meant sincerely or are a deceptive trick. You find a few tweets that are lying around as if they had been placed there, then just use a bit of SPIEGEL voodoo and laying on hands - and out comes the truth. Whether or not he is a culprit - that is still "alleged". [okay, I gotta interject here, the media go with German legalese for fear of legal consequences. A suspect only becomes a culprit once they are convicted] They did arrest him at the scene, but you can't know anything about it, there is the presumption of innocence. [okay, valid point] But that he is an AfD supporter, that is absolute certainty, because there are a whopping two tweets. And the tweets are incontrovertible evidence, even with Musk.
This guy [a German politician, notorious political lolcow] aims even higher:
After everything that we have learned so far, the attack by Taleb A. follows the trend of the right wing extremist attacks of Breivik (77 dead) and Christchurch (51 dead). The same is true for the connections of the culprits to the right wing extremist scene.
— Ruprecht Polenz @polenz.bsky (@polenz_r) December 21, 2024
"After everything that we have learned so far,..."
The problem here: Other than a few tweets, nothing at all has been learned.
But, they are certain about this: Arabs and AfD/Nazis are collaborating. The latter have been presented as xenophobic, islamophobic, and snarling "German" with a rolling harsh R, but who would miss out on a conspiracy theory when it's opportune.
Everything is a big conspiracy. All you need are the Twitter auditors and the Twitter exegetics.
That guy [Polenz] has once been general secretary of the CDU. If he weren't so old and tattered, I would assume that he joins Antifa to go on vandalism and racketeering tours at night.
