#17: LEFT-WING VOTERS MOST LIKELY TO FLY
Right-wing politician savagely assaulted + activists occupy private home as "migrant shelter" + climate activists beg police for help after cementing themselves to ground + MORE!
“THE MORE YOU VOTE LEFT THE MORE YOU FLY”
A new poll by Ipsos France found that left-wing voters were more likely to fly and therefore contribute to polluting the atmosphere.
In a Jan. 12 Twitter thread, research director Mathieu Gallard revealed that those who voted for the most so-called “environmentally conscious” parties were also the biggest hypocrites.
16% of voters for far-left parties like the socialist La France Insoumise (FI) and the French Communist Party (PCF) told the polling company that they boarded a plane multiple times a year. Only 22% of far-left voters indicated they “never” flew.
The same percentage of people who voted for President Emmanuel Macron’s ruling party Renaissance (LREM) also indicated they took a plane multiple times a year.
People who voted for Marine Le Pen’s National Rally were among the least likely to fly regularly with only 9% of voters saying they boarded a plane more than once every year. Meanwhile 45% indicated they had never taken a flight.
“Which electorates take the least flights? The RN and (Republican) electorates, which are the least sensitive to the environmental argument, but which are also the oldest and the most popular respectively. The more you vote left, the more you fly,” writes Gallard.
RIGHT-WING GERMAN POLITICIAN SAVAGELY BEATEN
Political violence against right-wing politicans in Germany is a common sight and the authorities often look the other way.
On Jan. 6 Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) Hamburg district deputy Marc-Manuel Kuntsmann was savagely attacked by two men while listening to music on a bus ride for no apparent reason.
Police are investigating whether the 28 and 35-year-old suspects had a political motive in attacking the deputy. Kuntsmann believes that the two “southern” suspects identified him as a member of AfD.
Furthermore, while still bleeding after the attack he had asked the bus driver to call the police but the operator told him to get off the bus because he no longer had his mask – a requirement on public transport.
Out on the street, Kuntsmann was saved by police who happened to be passing by while still being attacked by the two men.
“I expect that this robbery will have timely criminal consequences. AfD members are not fair game," AfD’s state chairman Dirk Nockemann told Die Welt.
This isn’t the first time and AfD politician was the target of political violence. In 2019, AfD Member of Parliament Frank Magnitz was sent to the hospital with serious head injuries after being the victim of a politically motivated attack. Regional AfD parliamentarian Michael Meister was also attacked on three occasions between 2020 and 2013.
ACTIVISTS OCCUPY HOME OF ELDERLY COUPLE AS “MIGRANT SHELTER”
In a brazen act of trespassing and squatting, on Jan. 7 activists with the French “People’s House” organization claimed the unoccupied home of an elderly couple in Nantes as a “migrant shelter.” The couple are currently staying at an old folks home.
“It is the only way for us to act and provide an answer to these families abandoned by the authorities,” claimed the group in a Twitter post.
“It is for this reason, and for lack of other choices, that despite our reluctance, we now occupy a private house, empty and abandoned for more than a year.”
The couple’s grandson called the occupation an “illegal situation” pondering whether citizens should take matters into their own hands.
“An association does not have the right to substitute public authorities and requisition housing. They also unconsciously endanger the people they want to relocate,” he told the outlet Ouest France.
After sparking outrage among the local populace the group announced it would be leaving the premises within 48 hours.
ARCHBISHOP DECLARES CHURCH OF SWEDEN “MUST BE WOKE”
Church of Sweden Archbishop Antje Jackelen declared on Twitter that the national church “must be woke.”
The statement came following a rebuke by Liberal People’s Party politician Robert Hannah to the expected new leader of Sweden’s Centre Party Muharrem Demirok who is a “Muslim member of the Church of Sweden.”
“Understand why C [Party] choose Muharrem Demirok. There is nothing more woke than being a Muslim AND a member of the Church of Sweden,” tweeted Hannah.
“It is completely illogical but logical with C's new ideology. The Center has moved away from liberalism to, just like the Church of Sweden, making woke into an overarching ideology.”
In response, Jackelen invoked the figure of Jesus Christ implying that he too was woke.
“Well, Jesus was very much in favor of justice. If that is what you mean by woke, the Church of Sweden must of course also be woke -- stay awake for Jesus,” said Jackelen.
SATANCON 2023 TO REQUIRE MASKS AND VACCINES
The Satanic Temple will require masks and vaccine certificates for the “largest satanic gathering in history” in Downtown Boston on April 28-30.
"Attendees must wear an N-95, KN-95, or disposable surgical mask," the temple stated on its website.
Boston was chosen as the location because the Satanic Temple has attempted for some time to have Boston City Hall allow them to do a “satanic invocation” at a public gathering but local officials have not budged.
“This event is dedicated to Boston mayor Michelle Wu for her unconstitutional efforts to keep TST out of Boston's public spaces,” wrote the group’s website.
“TST SatanCon 2023 will be in historic downtown Boston, Massachusetts from April 28th to April 30th, 2023, with the theme, ‘Hexennacht in Boston’.”
Last year, the controversial group held a similar event also featuring all attendees donned in masks.
CLIMATE ACTIVISTS ASK POLICE FOR HELP AFTER CEMENTING THEMSELVES TO GROUND
Climate activists in Germany protesting the government’s expansion of coal mines cemented themselves to the ground in the abandoned mining village of Lützerath where energy provider RWE hopes to begin its operations.
Protesters have encamped the area for months and only recently police have moved to evict the hundreds that have gathered there.
Yet due to a bout of cold weather and exposure, some regretted their decisions and went crying to the police for help.
Police had to use jackhammers and saws to free the protestors who were then allowed to leave the area with a police escort.