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In the end, all that remains is consumption as a hobby, nice shopping and such
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Hey people, how are you?
Here is your government.
We thought we'd get in touch with you in a very informal way.
How's it going for you, oh man, it's not easy for us either, huh?
Sweet, how you participate, we wanted to say.
Well, sure, not all of them, but cool, really.
Could be different, couldn't it?
In all honesty, we sometimes thought: Hey, if we decide something again, where in the end all that remains is consumption as a hobby, nice shopping and such - we just say: Christmas business, ringing!
-, then maybe there will be an official wave of protests from you, but ... okay, right?
What do you want to do.
The ruble has to roll is like that.
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Rosanna Graf
Born in 1986, was born in Poland and grew up in Berlin.
She studied philosophy and social sciences and has been working as a freelance writer since 2009.
Her feminist bestseller "Unterrum frei" was published in 2016 by Rowohlt Verlag.
In 2018, "The Last Days of Patriarchy" followed, a collection of columns from SPIEGEL ONLINE and "taz".
We think it's funny ourselves, some of us go into something with culture, and now with the lockdown light, where we treated all the cultural organizers a bit harshly and at the same time established shopping as a basic right - that's when it came to us even at an angle because, in all honesty, we couldn't argue that properly: why shopping in a shopping center should be so much safer than going to a theater with a hygiene concept.
But you swallowed it, hehe.
Well, the few lateral thinkers ... but there was no talk of theater either, just forced vaccination and the like, which nobody is planning anyway.
Way too expensive.
Long live capital, we always say.
Well, not the book that is called that is clear.
Buy, people, buy, treat yourself to something.
Ikea has new types of scented candles!
Is that nothing?
Such a small
je ne sais quoi
for the cozy home?
The cool thing is: The Christmas thing is already pulling properly.
Everything for Christmas!
Because Christmas is the celebration of love, and for us not least: the love of consumption.
Best of both worlds
from two ideologies: God and money.
Wow, if it weren't for Christmas, we'd just make it up: you all have to behave now so as not to spoil anyone's Christmas.
Because: religious feelings, well!
You could also talk about it completely differently, of course, for example: the subject of death.
A lot of people still die away.
But the thing is, death has now worn itself out a bit as an announcement.
Crazy with the mink, right?
Speaking of death.
You have read, definitely.
How Denmark killed a few million mink and France now has to do it too.
The smelly martens have to go through that now.
That was already a thing in the Tönnies-Causa, animal husbandry and so on, you could have talked about it a bit more about how coherent everything is with the massive killing, but okay.
The Greens are happy that they have something to complain about.
We could logically use Christmas as an opportunity to get the people from Moria.
God, hopefully no one will think of it.
We have really different things to do here and people are well distracted now.
We keep football going because of cash, you know, sponsors depend on it and everything.
We also need some of the test capacities that you won't get anything from, that's the way it is now.
You could boycott this by stopping looking, but - LOL.
It's not even that we lie to you, you know that, do you?
We don't constantly say that capitalism is sacred to us, but sometimes we send one of our people in front, who are only taken so seriously anyway, and let them sort it out.
Quote from Markus Söder: »Our children have to be looked after.
Because if we also want to prevent the economic lockdown - that's the connection, school and daycare also have the meaning and purpose of keeping the economy going.
If the parents have no care, there is no economy.
And that's why it's ... for me ... I'm really behind. "Sure, he could also have said school and daycare are important for the development of children and so on, but phew ... how much kitsch can you endure?
It would also be important to us that you don't look too much at other countries.
Taiwan is already doing festivals again, but that's a long way off, too.
Or Finland, for example, you really shouldn't look there.
It's closer, but the thing is, they simply have the lowest infection rate in the EU.
Effective lockdown, good test system, working app, and somehow their economy has collapsed much less than in the rest of the EU, but we wouldn't want to draw any conclusions from it now.
Just don't worry too much.
We know ourselves that it would be the perfect time for a left movement that would finally make it clear that for us, too, profit is about good life, consumption about culture, economy about well-being.
You know, we know - so we don't talk about it, okay?
Happy Black Friday, you little rascals.
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