Y'know: that NYT article offered lots of info via which: a one Can grok-almost-to-Fullness: much that I, for one deemed Useful in attempring to gauge-from-afar: Just How? sucessfully? ..completely!? thus-far IS engrained in tribes within Germany's vox populi, just NOW -vs- the all-too-familiar dis-US variant of the same Dirge..

Your knee-jerk responses to virtually every Box-post lately, smacks--a lot-like the mental inner-gyrations of The Menace, upon whose purest-Evil all now are experts. I doubt that you've ever had a Conversation with Box: as I Have. (And while I have no opinion on the 'Why?s' of his long-adopted 'persona' in IWE-parts)
--and have rarely felt a need to play Inner-shrink in every event where One behaves (oddly) ... I'll continue to riposte re whatever Post of his ..seems to ~earn such, eschewing 'dropping the atom bomb on Luxembourg'.

We're all geezers here by now; Chaos reigns in the Maya-all-around. Do you want to be compared to the Viciousness-level of pure-US-ian Old White Men-with-blindfolds? I Can.. carry two-opposed-thoughts in the same head without reaching for (even the lesser) snub-nosed .38 and Tiki-torch. Can you?
Mayhap you have Reasons, quite unknowable to moi; if I'm wide-of-the-Mark: Lay On, Mac Duff; I'm impervious to any epithets as manifest the reptile-brain of a homo-sap--(well, if from Mr. Spock? I might well fold my 3-Aces + Joker).

Carrion.

(Thanks for a thoughtful reply, shall attempt some reciprocity)
No argument re the annoyance of such repetitive non-Pearls before not-Swine; a kinda parable does come to mind, though:

Gurdjieff (the Russky mystic) had his band of Followers--he also took steps to ensure their sustenance, food etc. along the Way--sometimes omitted by other charismatic folks-with-motives. Specifically: there was a member who utterly Pissed-Off most of the others. (I forget his other attributes, but lying seemed a biggie). When confronted--even by G about that, his riposte was, "but then.. I never lie!" {Great Hastur!--how near-to our Menace can another get? (a Drumpf-clan forebear!? just occurred to moi}.

Turns out that G. PAID him to remain (but G. was not in habit of simplistically helping the troops to fantasize) by clearly explaining his motives, as a sop? to the lazy-minded who were There.. to Not-Be that way. Safe to say that he deemed the Irritation-factor to be ..another part of his teaching method. But it seemed to work, as n of his students went on to be ..say, Insightful in psych- and psyche matters.

Presumably our troops /troupe? did not stay around for any reasons near to G's, while my attitude towards the 'utility' of excessive(?) tolerance is irrelevant. I consider that view--Because! it is hard to bear. But nobody else need share that (mere) possibility of better-stifling one's er, inner-Nazi--always bent on strife; aka,
Is strife the cause? or effect? of testosterone poisoning--guess I'm trying to find out.

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And neither of us has the slightest knowledge of whatever Box-'events' all-along? created this local-persona
(let alone his reasons for persisting: against 'Our' knee-jerk responses to Irritants), Right?
Hey! ..might as well derive from his own 'psychologically-valid' teaching? Testing!? ..or just being entertained, Eh?
What-if he's the sharpest knife in the Drawer?
Rest case.

Carrion .. sometimes it shares a bunk in the Perplexity cave.

Much-too-closely. (The topic is the LAST Serious Matter which Drumpfians would never ponder for a nanosecond).

[...]

Germany has belatedly begun dealing with far-right networks that officials now say are far more extensive than they ever understood. The reach of far-right extremists into its armed forces is particularly alarming in a country that has worked to cleanse itself of its Nazi past and the horrors of the Holocaust. In July the government disbanded an entire company infiltrated by extremists in the nation’s special forces.

But the Nordkreuz case, which only recently came to trial after being uncovered more than three years ago, shows that the problem of far-right infiltration is neither new nor confined to to the KSK, or even the military.

Far-right extremism penetrated multiple layers of German society in the years when the authorities underestimated the threat or were reluctant to countenance it fully, officials and lawmakers acknowledge. Now they are struggling to uproot it.

[...]

{{sigh}}

(Someone could translate the core of this report into Drumpf-pabulum-simplicity and spoon-feed it into his minuscule-hippocampus: his 'response'?) Anyone here could limn that, to a fare-thee-well: Denial wrapped in grammar-school insults to the Presenter; have him fired from (whatever, legally or Std. nihilist ravings).

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Good.. Ugly.. find, Box--it could not be more relevant to August 2020, Day X of the insane reign of The most Dangerous Man alive
(to ~quote a Niece, also Shrink and bloody-Literate to boot)

Carrion ..it 's just ..Everywhen you Look. (Some daze ya just gotta unplug the transistors, for brainz-rehab time).

Like to hear the tapes of The Menace and Merkel ... I don't thnk he could possibly 'bully' her.
(and he couldn't possibly translate Go Fuck Yourself, auf Deutsch).

Thinking ... Putin must have grokked fully--from first contact--how Insanely-GrreeatI it is!
to have a lap dog (envying Himself for his Manly-persona) ..under his Total mind-control.