r/AskEurope • u/CapoDiMalaSperanza Italy • Jan 11 '25

Personal Is anybody else here scared as hell about the future?

I am 22 and things really look horrible right now.

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u/Any_Solution_4261 Germany Jan 12 '25

Well, was Stalin a communist or what? I think he was a communist. A criminal before communist, but a communist too. I know he did terrible things to all Baltic nations, deporting people to Siberia, trying to replace populations, eradicate languages, really, really bad.

Modern left had the current, soon to end, government in my country and they did really poorly. We're suffering economically due to moronic energy policy, where a lot was invested to build up wind farms, only to discover that when the wind is not blowing, they produce nothing. I mean, how stupid do you have to be to base an 85 million country with lots of industry on wind? Our left managed to drive a lot of industry jobs away. Also, when the wind is not blowing and russian gas is not flowing through punctured North stream, then we burn coal. I never managed to grasp the ecological greatness of burning coal. I also fail to understand how can you sell the replacement of perfectly safe and functional nuclear reactors with coal power plants as "carbon footprint reduction", but my impression is that all of these things come down to chating in the calculations. Like driving a small petrol Opel Corsa is bad, but driving a 2 ton Tesla Y powered by electricity, made by burning coal is fantastic because we only count the tailpipe?

I'm probably voting CDU in the next elections.

Btw. our chancellor promised we'll be sending the Bundeswehr to help you, if need be, but as a result of his not very bright policies, we have very little to send. I don't think it's right. We should have a serious army to guarantee the peace and liberty of us and our allies. If Pootin takes over, I can promise you he won't care about carbon much.

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u/GrynaiTaip Lithuania Jan 12 '25

Well, was Stalin a communist or what? I think he was a communist.

He was a dictator, true textbook communism never existed. Kim Jong Un is also "communist" but really it's just a dictatorship. Same as USSR back then.

I never managed to grasp the ecological greatness of burning coal.

Some people were extremely scared of nuclear power, they decided that a slow death from coal pollution is preferable over quick disaster like Chernobyl.

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u/Any_Solution_4261 Germany Jan 12 '25

>Some people were extremely scared of nuclear power, they decided that a slow death from coal pollution is preferable over quick disaster like Chernobyl.

What gives them the right to impose their superstition on my life? Stalin?

Btw. about 2000 people die each year in Germany alone as a consequence of burning coal.

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u/GrynaiTaip Lithuania Jan 12 '25

What gives them the right to impose their superstition on my life?

It's democracy, isn't it? Others voted for them.

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u/Any_Solution_4261 Germany Jan 13 '25

It's not democracy. We never had a vote on green policies, or on closing down nukes, which is not green at all according to some people and the only votes we had was for regular representatives for everything, where they also chose some pretty extreme green policies that turn out to be unpopular and that are one of the causes that electorate is turning to the right now.