World renowned Austrian economist Gunther Fehlinger-Jahn weighs in on the Brussels farmer protests with advice for the PM

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  1. Weird how quiet it is about this on the Belgium reddit page’s or maybe they arent being pushed as much? If this was worker unions i would have been bombarded with opinion pieces from every newspaper and rants from people themselves about how undemocratic they are and more insane tales when they are using even a fraction of the violence. Now they are almost trying to kill police officiers by driving tractors into them and i barely see something about it…

  2. The issue with world renowned economists is that they usually are completely oblivious to what real jobs entail. 

    I’m not saying it’s ok to run over people with a tractor (which didn’t happen anyway), but farmers have a hard time staying afloat and importing meat from livestock on fields for which rainforests are being cut down while rules are regulations over here are increasing by the year isn’t going to help. 

    Or should we, like we did with our industry, stop farming altogether and just rely on the rest of the world to sell us food at a good price? That’s a highway to getting fucked over.

  3. I mean, it is terrorism, but at the same time, I agree that the Mercosur treaty is not a good thing for a whole array of environmental questions. Nevermind the economical implications. There are other things in this summit (eg deregulation of some actually-forbidden pesticides), but this is the one critical object I see literally everyone opposing.

    I don’t really know what to say. This thing keeps coming back year after year in the EU agenda (eerie parallel with Chat Control here), there’s backlash every time… at this point, the fault might as well be inputted to the ministers pushing it, for it has become predictable now.

    Of course, I condemn the destruction of public assets. But it was predictable, because it’s reliably happened before.

  4. One-Neighborhood-843 on

    >Fehlinger supports a liberal internationalist order and, in this sense, opposes socialism, Irish, Serbian, and Arab nationalism, as well as Shiite Islamism.

    >Fehlinger opposes Sinn Féin and Irish reunification, accusing Sinn Féin of being a “pro-Russian propaganda organization.”

    >Fehlinger is a military interventionist. He supports the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya, considering them successes because they eliminated “the socialist Gaddafi” and “the genocidal socialist nationalist terrorist regime of Saddam Hussein.

    >On August 25, 2023, following Brazil’s participation in the 15th BRICS summit, Fehlinger responded by saying that if President Lula “led Brazil in the same direction as Russia, China, and Iran” and joined a “hostile axis of genocide,” he would “call for the dismantling of Brazil .“ Fehlinger included a map depicting the division of Brazil into four fragmented states with their respective regimes: Amazonia, ”Pedronia,” Recife, and Brazil.

    >After his tweet went viral, Fehlinger became the target of false claims in comments attributing his tweet to an official NATO position, with Reuters reporting that a video making such claims had been viewed more than 250,000 times on Facebook. In a statement, Fehlinger clarified on Twitter that he “does not represent NATO” in an official capacity and that “NATO has no intention of dismembering Brazil or any other country.” A NATO statement further declared that “any allegations that NATO is considering invading or dividing Brazil are complete nonsense.

    This guy is dumb as fuck.

  5. zever_gezever96 on

    I think the farmers are a bunch of idiots but why does this “renowned” economist talks like a toddler?

  6. “They did something that breaks our media narrative of perfect unity. Our enemies will benefit from this. We must strike back by acting like our enemies”.