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  • It’s a bit more complex than this though. Left-leaning/progressive Turks are more likely to be integrated in German society, gain citizenship or even give up Turkish citizenship. Whereas conservative/nationalistic Turks are more likely to be interested in Turkish affairs and vote in Turkish elections. So it’s not purely “expats are more rightwing”, it’s more that those expats who bother/are eligible to vote in their country of origin tend to be more nationalistic.













  • Any large-scale technological development, like e.g. the smart IDs mentioned in the video, is usually decades in the making before it becomes feasible for daily and widespread use. So I’m not surprised a group of well-funded and well-connected futurists were able to predict this kind of stuff as it was probably already being developed in some way back in 1997.

    Also, the risk of a pandemic was well-known long before Covid-19, e.g. I remember Germany had an emergency plan for that exact scenario long before 2020.