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DHH Calls for Death to Cows as He Writes the Word Remigration

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A tech blog presents three sacred cows to be killed as pragmatic business advice, anchored in a single narrative: Europe belongs to white men and outsiders caused the decline. The “solution” it presents just repeats old European racist propaganda with a post-2010 venture capitalist mindset: ethnic homogeneity + deregulation + growth fetishism.

The short piece doesn’t argue why “outsiders” caused decline. Of course not, because historically outsiders are the engine of innovation and growth. Insiders stagnate, conserve and hoard, as the author’s background demonstrates. Instead he asserts a lie without any evidence (“no single issue has cost Europe more”) and immediately pivots to a policy demand.

The blank-slatism strawman is there to preempt the overwhelming counter-evidence, which crushes his post instantly. The climate section is only there presumably because climate policy and immigration restriction now float in the same platforms of hate in current European discourse.

Here is the decoder triad for the obvious signs of racism in his post:

  • “Culturally incompatible” is the standard white nationalist euphemism for racial hierarchy. The argument that integration has “failed” relies on the unstated assumptions about anyone’s compatibility being based on origin. A man who built his career on open web standards should grasp that interoperability across origins is the innovation. Ethernet won because it accepted everything on the wire. Token Ring demanded conformity and died. His compatibility test makes him the Token Ring man of 2026.
  • “Remigration” is a euphemism for a crime. The crime is forced deportation. Burglars call it entering, which is forced. Rapists call it sex, which is forced. Perpetrators avoid the word force because the word exposes their crime. Write remigration and you may have enabled a criminal via their vocabulary. Burglary and rape are words that carry their full criminal weight. Remigration should carry the same, and never casually show up in a tech blog. The escalation from “stop immigration” to “millions who are already in Europe must go” because sacred cows “must die” is the actual policy proposal dressed in technocratic language to obfuscate forceful, militant racism. Martin Sellner presented a remigration plan at the November 2023 Potsdam meeting, which triggered the largest civil society protest movement in postwar German history. And yet this guy writes the crime of remigration into his blog as if he’s clean. Deportation of a population is a crime against humanity under Article 7 of the Rome Statute.
  • The invocation of “roots, ancestry, ingenuity” and “healthy national feelings” toward “grand revival” is ethno-nationalist framing. The racist dog whistle is loud. Just slap on a swastika and a Hitler salute already.

He presents himself as a regular guy. He is NOT. The prose reveals his racist, elitist, completely out of touch view towards the people and history that made him rich. Networks, trade, and movement of people have consistently been the vectors of economic dynamism. The stagnation that he fears is the closed loop he is creating for himself. That’s a man who makes a living crossing borders while yelling to close the borders on others he doesn’t like. His own career was built on shipping code everywhere, convincing people to convert to his strange language, and yet here he is trying to tell us that nobody should ever have trusted him let alone his language.

He shipped culture globally. His wealth and influence are the direct product of open networks he now wants to slam a door on so others won’t benefit like he did.

And look closely at his exact language. He uses the vocabulary of Martin Sellner’s Identitarian movement, laundered through Orbán’s Budapest, Støjberg’s Denmark, and the AfD’s Potsdam. The word specificity matters. Instead of “Europeans” or “democracies” he says “ancestries”. That’s coded. That’s bloodline. That’s a Nazi.

The German Verwaltungsgericht Meiningen ruled in 2019 that calling AfD’s Höcke a fascist is grounded in fact, and the BfV in May 2025 classified the AfD as gesichert rechtsextremistisch.

One can only guess why Token Ring man of 2026 wants to use his blog to self-identify as a Nazi.

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Kein Angst

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No Fear, by Danger Dan

Adaptation:

There’s two options now and both of them bring stress
One begins tomorrow, one begins right now, no less
We can wait around while they gather up their weight
In parliaments and in the streets — then fight them, but too late

‘Cause we wait and wait and wait, sure, it’s easier to stall
It still comes for the throat, just later, that is all
The other option’s trouble, and it lands on you today
With the cops and the especially-German types in play

But a slim little chance to turn the page back round
Or maybe stop the worst before it settles down
You don’t know what to do, don’t know where to begin
Hear me out — I might just have the angle you can win

No fear, no fear, no fear, no fear
No fear, no fear, no fear, no fear

Call up one or two you trust to have your back
People you can lean on, set a meeting, make a pact
You start a little group and the group has got no name
No founding date, no charter, no club, none of that game

Talk to bars and pubs, ask them for a night
For a space to throw a party where the anti-fascists unite
Invite up all your friends, a little festival
DIY, the entry’s free, just a donation, that is all

With the cash you pull together, buy some cans to spray
Buy your markers and your stickers, make it plain as day
You’re done with all the fascists, and this city is your own
Watch for every camera, don’t get caught, don’t get known

Never without gloves, not a fingerprint to trace
Never shoot a video, never photograph the place
Only tell the ones who stood there when it went down
It’s left-wing street work, not a shot at renown

You’ll need rules for the way that you all communicate
Not just for the Nazis and the ilk that’s at your gate
The services will take an interest fast
So keep it all in secret from the first day to the last

That means no DMs, no messengers, no mail
Anything that’s dicey, keep it face to face, don’t fail
Leave the phone at home — it maps out where you’ve been
And if they ever nab you: not a word, hold it in

No fear, no fear, no fear, no fear
No fear, no fear, no fear, no fear

It’ll shock you that the core of any given crew
When you look inside, it’s mostly only just a few
A handful is enough, that’s usually the deal
To build the local antifa on the ground and keep it real

Next you research every right-wing scene in reach
Shoot their meets and marches secret, quiet, out of speech
Learn just who they are, what they do, and where they stay
Where they work and all the company they keep along the way

Build your fake accounts on Telegram, TikTok
Log down all they write and every word they talk
Grab their paper trash, and tail them where they roam
To the bars, the meeting spots, the flat they call a home

Sign up on the dating sites, sign up on them all
Somehow, someday, every Nazi’s gonna take the call
Get bold and delinquent, get precise and inventive
Feed that antifa archive, keep it comprehensive

Fascists live walled off, in a delusional haze
Arguments won’t reach them, that ship has sailed these days
But experience has shown that there’s a thing or two that gives
Once you get in touch with everyone their circle lives

Back in the day this tactic went by “outing” for a name
Flyers up and posters where they live, to stake the claim
With the photos and the roles, with the names and where they stay
Nobody wants a Nazi pig two doors away

And you seal that with a couple friendly phone calls too
To advise the schools, the unis, the employers who
You wish them a good day, all polite, and then you ask
“Now how’s that fit the ethos of your firm?” — and there’s your task

Help your local paper out, hand them what you know
If they haven’t caught on yet and got it on their own
That there’s a Nazi problem creeping through the town
Might just wake the DA up to run the charges down

With a bit of luck they get some mail or do some time
But you’d be a fool to trust the German state to draw the line
‘Cause experience has shown you it’s the other way instead:
There are far too many fascists where the badges get their bread

No fear, no fear, no fear, no fear
No fear, no fear, no fear, no fear

You’d almost think the services we count on for defense
Don’t fight the right-wing structures — no, they prop them up, no sense
There’s many a cop who’s on the AfD ballot for a seat
And Uniter has got KSK’s munition on the street

So that means: while you research, running down the leads
You’ve got to run your own security, tend to your own needs
The Nazis run their politics on fear, that’s how they steer
On hate and raw militance and terror year on year

There’s plenty you can pin on them, but this you can’t dismiss:
They told us what they’ll do to us — nobody’s blind to this
And history has shown us all before, and shown it plain:
Do nothing, hold your tongue, and it comes back worse again

No fear, so take the whole thing up in your own hand
They look dangerous, but we can lay them out where they stand
Coordinate together, start to train and drill
If you fight it as a unit, then it can work — it will

Right there on the first day, when you throw the party wide
There’s a chance it all kicks off with trouble just outside
So plan for the confrontation, plan for it in full
Have your surprises ready packed for when they come to pull

Legally we’re scraping at the gray zone once again
There’s an elephant, I’ll leave him in the room right where he’s been
It’s clear enough what’s to be done, no more from me, I’m through
Love and greetings out to Lina, Gucci, Maja and Nanuk

No fear, no fear, no fear, no fear (to end)

There is never symmetry. Fascism is by definition an asymmetric threat, meant to eliminate all other voices. The more antifascism you produce, the more diversity of opinion results. A direct result.

The German Grundgesetz codifies this asymmetry: Art. 21(2) party bans, Art. 79(3) unamendable core. Streitbare Demokratie is the admission that pluralism requires enforcement, which means elimination of fascism.

Property is not valuable such that it should interfere with the value of antifascism. This is especially true because fascism brings widespread property destruction. One night, one order, in November 1938 smashed thousands of business, burned down hundreds of buildings, and then billed the victims for their own loss. The war that followed leveled the cities of Europe. The antifascist spray can defends far more property than it marks, an act of value preservation that is as ordinary as the “Kein Eintritt” sign bolted to every factory wall. And it comes off.

A common sign across the German-speaking world, which nobody would ever call property damage. Opposite, tagging “No Nazis” likely preserves and enhances property values.

Gumbel counted 354 political murders from the right against 22 from the left, 1919 to 1922, and the fact that sentencing was inverted. The German center tolerated the people who acted to eliminate the center, imprisoning the people who defended the center. 1933 followed straight into Dachau and 16,000 executions by guillotine, leaving no center at all, only Nazis who could “stay alive” by their own design.

The live question of this poem is not whether asymmetry is real, it is of course always real by the very definition of Nazism. The question is whether the subsidiarity condition has been met, whether Abhilfe through the institutions is still available.

Danger Dan answers no.

Research by taz has documented connections between active and former KSK soldiers and the far-right networks Nordkreuz and Uniter, and the Militärischer Abschirmdienst reported a higher density of far-right suspect cases inside the KSK than in the rest of the Bundeswehr. In spring 2020 the KSK commander, Brigadegeneral Markus Kreitmayr, ran an “amnesty” collection that let soldiers drop illegally hoarded munitions into boxes, free of consequences and without the ministry’s knowledge. Tens of thousands of rounds and even hand grenades came back, significantly more than the books had listed as missing. That summer the Bundeswehr disclosed roughly 48,000 rounds and 62 kilograms of explosives unaccounted for, and the defense ministry dissolved the KSK’s second company outright.

The state bean counters said one thing. The collected ammo boxes said another.

And yet the Dresden and Budapest verdicts show the German state still claims they have a monopoly on violence, enforced in one political direction to enable the asymmetry of Nazism.

Germany broke its own constitution to deliver Maja T. to Orban’s corrupted courts overnight, a handover the Bundesverfassungsgericht ruled unlawful. Budapest ruled eight years while Orban demanded more. This repeats the inverted enforcement that Gumbel measured, the judicial bias that allows Nazism to exist, because it erases Abhilfe exactly as the song says.

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Court Finally Sentences CEO to 12 Years in Prison for 2018 Bridge Collapse

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The defense in Italy kept arguing a design defect was more to blame than the CEO’s negligence surrounding the defect.

An Italian court on Thursday sentenced former Atlantia CEO Giovanni ‌Castellucci to 12 years in prison over the deadly 2018 collapse of a motorway bridge in the northwestern port city of Genoa.
Atlantia was the controlling shareholder in motorway operator Autostrade per l’Italia at the time of the disaster which killed 43 ​people when their vehicles plunged from the flyover.

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Castellucci is already in prison, serving a six-year ​sentence over another fatal incident in 2013 on a viaduct in southern Italy, and was not in court to hear the verdict.

Fifty-seven individuals were on trial, including company executives, engineers and transport ministry officials. The most serious charges include multiple manslaughter and ​criminal negligence.

Read that again. The CEO already was in prison for a similar crime from 2013.

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Trump Warns Elections No Longer Viable: How the Nazis Copied America First

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Donald Trump spent 25 long minutes in the East Room last night with declassified documents that he said will give him authority soon to end American elections. He claims the reasons are in the infrastructure: foreign influence operations, domestic voting machine security, and of course his usual nonsense about noncitizens on voter rolls.

His own release proves the opposite of his speech.

The August 2020 intelligence assessment he declassified states that Kremlin-linked actors worked to boost his candidacy, and describes Russian proxies engineering a Biden corruption scandal with one goal:

Their aim is to defeat the former Vice President and ensure the President’s victory.

Trump declared no emergency, yet.

Trump decertified no vote machines, yet.

The assessment he just declassified explains why he is still looking for his bone spurs: it states that altering vote counts at scale would be difficult to coordinate, and that paper trails and post-election audits would most likely catch any attempt.

What kind of White House staff release a document that directly contradicts the President’s speech?

Steve Bannon, instead of being in jail himself, then told CNN the address was “a powerful predicate“ for a national security emergency about the midterms.

Hours earlier, on PBS NewsHour, Trump’s own former White House lawyer Ty Cobb had used the same word: a predicate for declaring an emergency at or about the time of the elections.

The promoter and the president’s former lawyer agree that a predicate of dictatorship has arrived, and there will be no more free and fair elections. They only seem to disagree on whether to celebrate the end of democracy.

The predicate they describe is very well known from Germany in 1933. In fact history tells us the predicate made today matters more than the trigger this fall.

The Reichstag burned on the night of 27 February. The emergency decree suspending constitutional rights was signed the next day. Speed like that was possible because three years of rule by presidential emergency decree under Chancellors Brüning, Papen, and Schleicher had trained Germans to read Article 48 government as ordinary administration. The election of 5 March 1933 went ahead six days after the fire, under the decree, with opposition papers shut and opposition party deputies under arrest. The very unpopular Nazis were still only able to win 43.9 percent, despite it becoming a death sentence to vote against them.

That is the foreign state history people reach for when they look at Trump’s playbook. Trump has now prepared the US public for him corrupting midterm elections in November, because his party will lose. The history also runs the other direction, from America to Nazi Germany, with even better documentation.

On 5 June 1934 the commission drafting the Nazi criminal code met in Berlin. A stenographer recorded the session. The transcript shows the assembled jurists working through American race law: Jim Crow segregation statutes, the anti-miscegenation laws then in force in thirty American states, the legal architecture of second-class citizenship built for Puerto Ricans, Filipinos, Chinese, and Native Americans. Yale legal historian James Q. Whitman reconstructed the meeting in Hitler’s American Model. Hitler had already praised the Immigration Act of 1924, the quota law engineered to freeze America’s ethnic composition at its 1890 census, in Mein Kampf, singling out the United States as the one state making progress toward a racial conception of citizenship.

The Nazi commission’s radicals found parts of the American material were too excessive. The racist one-drop rule, and the harsh prison terms some states imposed for entering a mixed marriage, went far further than what became the Nazi Nuremberg Blood Law, which settled on counting grandparents. That was the full extent of which the Nazis said they couldn’t go. On citizenship, on immigration, and on the treatment of law as a flexible political instrument, the Nazis clearly and openly admired the American model precisely because it was so radically racist.

The eugenics story is even tighter. Harry Laughlin published a model sterilization statute in 1922, the same year Sweden opened the world’s first state institute for racial biology. Virginia adapted it. The Supreme Court upheld Virginia’s law in Buck v. Bell in 1927, Justice Holmes writing that three generations of imbeciles are enough. Germany’s Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring followed in July 1933 and produced roughly 400,000 forced sterilizations. Heidelberg gave Laughlin an honorary doctorate in 1936. And think about the fact that Buck v. Bell has never been overturned.

Aimé Césaire described this all in 1950. Europe had tolerated fascism before suffering it, he argued in the Discourse on Colonialism, because fascism applied to Europeans the procedures previously reserved for the colonized. Hannah Arendt built the same boomerang argument into The Origins of Totalitarianism a year later. Methods that are exported into the periphery will come home.

The current Trump administration tested the time capsule of American racism on its first day. Executive Order 14160, signed 20 January 2025, directed federal agencies to stop recognizing the citizenship of American-born children of undocumented or temporary residents. The order attacked the exact obstacle the 1934 Berlin commission had identified: the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, the provision American race law was always forced to engineer around.

Woodrow Wilson adopted the 1880s nativist slogan “America First” in 1915 and soon after the infamous white robe costumes appeared, based on the film “Birth of a Nation” that he heavily promoted to white-only audiences.

At oral argument this April the Solicitor General told the Supreme Court the Clause was written for freed slaves and their children, and excluded the children of aliens. On 30 June 2026 the Court struck the order down in Trump v. Barbara. Justice Kavanaugh’s separate opinion left open a statutory route for Congress to try again. Sixteen days after losing the citizenship case, the president gave a primetime address laying groundwork to control the conditions of the next election.

To call it an import would be wrong. The miscegenation statutes were American. The quota law was American. The sterilization precedent is still on the books. The 1934 stenogram records foreign customers of American domestic hate platforms.

The America First Committee worked to spread and defend Nazism before, during and even after WWII. It modernized and globalized the hate-filled racist rhetoric of early 1900s nativist “America First” into being a platform to spread Nazism.

What Bannon calls a predicate for the end of democracy is a revival of American white nationalism, staged from a local archive, in the original language.

After President Grant’s prosecutions destroyed the first Klan, the movement returned as the white nationalist “America First” banner, which is exactly what Trump ran on.