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Oct 25, 2023Liked by Elena Louisa Lange

Gentry liberals wouldn't break bread with conservatives even to save their own lives...the perceived moral pollution would make them outcasts with their own people, who imagine themselves as tolerant but can only tolerate others who think their exact same thoughts.

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Oct 25, 2023Liked by Elena Louisa Lange

The main purpose of the initiative is to increase the number of subscribers to SW's YouTube channel.

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I thought you were gonna say it was to increase the number of subscribers to my Substack!

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Oct 25, 2023Liked by Elena Louisa Lange

May that be among the unintended consequences.

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Fair points here.

I was kind of hoping, but I should know better.

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“A party co-led by Wagenknecht and the AfD’s chair Alice Weidel would have catapulted the established parties out of the Bundestag and into political oblivion.”

Fuck.

The more I think about this sentence, the more I think that’s exactly what could break this insufferable game of chairs between the obsolete labels left/right bullshit.

I’m sorry for the language. But fuck all this.

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I think even Wagenknecht joining the AfD could have accomplished that. But no, she wants to build her little GDR 2.0.

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I feed it creepy af that she names the party after herself. Maybe that’s just me

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