04/09/2024
It is not really a good situation that allowed me to this situation, but I have been published by the American leftist journal and website Jacobin! Topic is the victory of the AfD in two East German states: Thuringia and Saxony, increasing their vote share considerably where now 1 in 3 voters have voted for them... And it is not very surprising, I have seen how since Covid there has been a continual radicalisation in my family -- from once moderate conservatives and confused apolitics to staunch far-right suppoters, believers of conspiracy theories and preppers. I do not know really where we will go here, and also it is saddening how weak protests were in response. Just 1.000 people protested on the two days after the election in the leftist (!) Leipzig, which voted by a plurality for the near-dead Linke!
In other news: I am now sick with a severe flu, can hardly talk and my throat aches constantly - coupled with an awful, awful heat, that makes me nearly go insane. The previous days I spent at the job school (Berusschule), yesterday we had a class which is supposed to be about job-related topics that other classes did not cover enough (!) and the teachers says he has no clue about the job topics, so he lets us pick topics, and since he has no clue about 99% of them, he says we do a presentation and he will, somehow, judge and evaluate them. But that is life in this job school, which is just for everyone a huge waste of time - where each side may be paid to attend, but does not learn anything, anything at all. Total, extreme, waste of time. What a mess.