Berlin: Thousands march in COVID-19 pandemic skeptic protest – DW – 08/03/2024
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Thousands marched in Berlin to reprise demonstrations questioning government-imposed measures at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants also voiced opposition to Germany's push to rebuild its military.

Several thousand people on Saturday joined a street demonstration and rally in Berlin organized by Germany’s “Lateral Thinking” protest movement.

The protest faction, best known for staging demonstrations against COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, was calling for a reassessment of government measures and “consequences for those responsible.”

However, a large contingent also protested against the German government’s push to rebuild the country’s military.

  • mindbleachEnglish
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    4 months ago

    There’s a phrase that resonated but never caught on: “epistemic crisis.”

    We’re dealing with people who barely know what truth looks like. They will throw out incompatible ideas one after the other and not even grasp how they could contradict one another. Like that’s not a thing ideas do. Their conspiracy theories don’t even need theories. You can motion in the vague direction of an evil scheme by someone to do something, and if it has enough fnords, the Fox News crowd will latch on and repeat it forever.