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icantfindaname posted:It's split into 3 parties, plus all the reasons the center-left is weak everywhere in the first world right now, decline of unions, etc etc. Plus the CDU is a pragmatic ruling party that to a large extent is willing to just occupy the center-left if the SPD moves further to the left. Similar to Japan in a lot of ways actually, except people don't jump to racist/orientalist "well that's how Asian peoples' brains work" to explain it e: GC is a good example of this, constantly identifying with authoritarian-collectivist ants. A Buttery Pastry fucked around with this message at 21:49 on May 15, 2017 |
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Yeah, both the Germans and the Japanese are a hive culture. Fair enough, as long as our Teutonic friends are equally implicated
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100YrsofAttitude posted:You should just get it online, it'll save you time. That said I do recollect once just flashing my student card to get in w/out any ticket, but I think I'm wrong about that. I don't know if an online ticket is tough for you but I doubt you'll have to print it, having it on your phone should be good enough. thanks, my phone is kinda poo poo but i'll improvise
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unpacked robinhood posted:Have your machetes in separate transparent ziploc bags for easier inspection tia it's not this kind of date
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So anybody know why rent control has been successful in Germany? Or is it really not?
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punk rebel ecks posted:So anybody know why rent control has been successful in Germany? Or is it really not?
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LemonDrizzle posted:The TL,DR seems to be that Germany has a fairly well-organised planning system that does a better job than most of ensuring that new house building proceeds at a rate that broadly matches increasing demand due to population growth and demographic change. Because supply keeps up with demand, you don't have the kinds of pressures that create black markets and secondary tenancies in the (rent controlled) Swedish housing market, or upward-spiralling rents and house prices in the (much more liberal) UK market. So rent control work as long as housing keeps getting built? Personally I always wanted to have the government focus on building as much housing as much as required in order to keep costs down.
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punk rebel ecks posted:So anybody know why rent control has been successful in Germany? Or is it really not? LemonDrizzle posted:The TL,DR seems to be that Germany has a fairly well-organised planning system that does a better job than most of ensuring that new house building proceeds at a rate that broadly matches increasing demand due to population growth and demographic change. Because supply keeps up with demand, you don't have the kinds of pressures that create black markets and secondary tenancies in the (rent controlled) Swedish housing market, or upward-spiralling rents and house prices in the (much more liberal) UK market. also germany has a shrinking population so it doesn't actually need to build any new housing
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Various studies say germany has need for 1.5 million Apartments in the next years to 2020. Profiteurs of housing shortages Most of the new appartmennts ar built against the need so they build much 1 room appartment and need is for more 3 and more room Appartements for familys.In rural areas, Villages is the need not so high as in citys. Problems are too, to get a Apartmen if you have kids, low income or not german. 2019 the Bund no longer supports the countries to build sozial living space. That will have an big impact for manny familys specialy young and with low income, are victims of this politic. An intrresting text to read is this and this (sorry both in german)
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The government should tie housing unit building to YoY population growth.
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punk rebel ecks posted:The government should tie housing unit building to YoY population growth. That would require the state taking an active responsibility for basic human necessities which is not how the market fundamentalists of most of Europe's centre-left parties want to do things. It's the market or nothing.
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The only problem with regards to housing in Germany is that there are certain physical limitations to how many houses can be built upon a set amount of land, especially if you have limitations on building height. This leads to the situation where certain, rather small, areas have a very competitive housing situation, which the market obviously would solve by giving housing to the people who can afford it the most. For some reason the left is very unhappy with this situation, because they believe that the luxury of having living in such a neighborhood is a basic need and not a luxury and therefore they invented the very idiotic "Mietpreisbremse". Maybe next they can invent a "Autopreisbremse" for the people that really would like to drive a classic Porsche 911 but can't afford it.
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https://twitter.com/Wahlrecht_de/status/864351577280200704
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GaussianCopula posted:The only problem with regards to housing in Germany is that there are certain physical limitations to how many houses can be built upon a set amount of land, especially if you have limitations on building height. This leads to the situation where certain, rather small, areas have a very competitive housing situation, which the market obviously would solve by giving housing to the people who can afford it the most. For some reason the left is very unhappy with this situation, because they believe that the luxury of having living in such a neighborhood is a basic need and not a luxury and therefore they invented the very idiotic "Mietpreisbremse". Would you argue that Germany needs to expand in order to guarantee living space to its citizens?
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Flowers For Algeria posted:Would you argue that Germany needs to expand in order to guarantee living space to its citizens? No - It would probably be more beneficial to reduce the size of Germany by a factor of 5-10
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Also, if you're interested in a comparison of the British and German housing markets, here's one from the IPPR, a centre-left British think tank. The executive summary is: quote:Germany has higher rates of housebuilding, a much less volatile housing market, and a larger private rented sector than the UK. This paper, the first of three, explores the reasons for these differences, looking at both supply- and demand-side dimensions.
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GaussianCopula posted:No - It would probably be more beneficial to reduce the size of Germany by a factor of 5-10 Finally, a GC post everyone can agree with!
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39930986quote:Negotiations to form the next Dutch government have collapsed as the four parties involved were unable to decide what to do about migration.
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LemonDrizzle posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39930986 The most likely option is that they will first try to negotiate with the Christian Union party, which is a soft left party in terms of economics, good on climate and refugees, but socially conservative. It would however be difficult to reconcile their positions in the social field with D66. They might seem a plausible fit for the CDA too, as the CDA used to be a Christian party too (at least theoretically ) but it has reinvented themselves to become more rightwing than the VVD so it wouldn't be a great combination. Also, a coalition with the CU would have a majority of only a single seat in parliament so it would be unstable. Working together with the PvdA is not really likely since the PvdA would likely have to go along with more rightwing policies, and that didn't work out well for them last time. Final option would be the formation of a minority cabinet seeking majority support on a case-by-case basis, but I can't imagine that lasting too long since it requires too much trust between the parties. However, it is still possible that VVD/CDA/D66 try other options first but then come back to Green-Left anyway; it would not be the first time something like that happened.
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kind of funny to see all the right wing politicians doing damage control about the new prime minister being from their party
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https://twitter.com/YanniKouts/status/864396645076787200 And people are talking about a Eurozone budget ...
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Pluskut Tukker posted:The most likely option is that they will first try to negotiate with the Christian Union party, which is a soft left party in terms of economics, good on climate and refugees, but socially conservative. It would however be difficult to reconcile their positions in the social field with D66. They might seem a plausible fit for the CDA too, as the CDA used to be a Christian party too (at least theoretically ) but it has reinvented themselves to become more rightwing than the VVD so it wouldn't be a great combination. Also, a coalition with the CU would have a majority of only a single seat in parliament so it would be unstable. But since we live in the Bad Timeline, I wouldn't be surprised to have Rutte renege on his promise to keep Wilders out and end up with a hell coalition of VVD+PVV+CDA+some lovely fundamentalist or fascist minor party.
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Asehujiko posted:Limburgs Dagblad listed CDA+D66+GL+PvdA+SP+CU as an 80 seat option. That would be a sight to behold. A nightmare coalition of those parties with the SGP and FvD is possible, covering both the lovely, the fundamentalist, and the fascist part. This thought is now ruining my day. Build your own coalition here (click "maak je eigen coalitie" for those who aren't Dutch)).
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Pluskut Tukker posted:A nightmare coalition of those parties with the SGP and FvD is possible, covering both the lovely, the fundamentalist, and the fascist part. This thought is now ruining my day. Build your own coalition here (click "maak je eigen coalitie" for those who aren't Dutch)). dutch for women is vrouwen? lol
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Kurtofan posted:dutch for women is vrouwen? lol ?
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Kurtofan posted:dutch for women is vrouwen? lol E: Pluskut Tukker posted:A nightmare coalition of those parties with the SGP and FvD is possible, covering both the lovely, the fundamentalist, and the fascist part. This thought is now ruining my day. Hambilderberglar fucked around with this message at 10:04 on May 16, 2017 |
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Hambilderberglar posted:vrouw, vrouwen, vrouwtje, vrouwtjes. hope this helps you giggle through the day. Let's not call for murder in this thread. Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that the self-described 'most important intellectual' in the Netherlands would be entirely too pleased with being thought to be equally dangerous as Fortuyn, so let's not give him the satisfaction either.
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Flowers For Algeria posted:Sounds like the sound a car makes yeah, i am a child vroom vroom
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Flowers For Algeria posted:Sounds like the sound a car makes It doesn't, the vowel for a car sound is "oe", as in vroem vroem. The ou sounds completely different. In fact it sounds the same as au or the ou in ouch in English. I hope this explanation has left you confused.
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Pluskut Tukker posted:Let's not call for murder in this thread. Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that the self-described 'most important intellectual' in the Netherlands would be entirely too pleased with being thought to be equally dangerous as Fortuyn, so let's not give him the satisfaction either. If there truly is a desire for Thierry Baudet to die, we should hold a national referendum about it. He'd be totally on board.
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Kurtofan posted:yeah, i am a child They are not pronounced even remotely the same  'Vr' from 'vroom' yes, but 'ouw' is like 'auw' when you get hurt.
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quote:They could, theoretically, leave the EU, but the consequences would be so dire that even the most incompetent fool would not dare to do it. Have you not been paying attention in 2016?
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Orange Devil posted:It doesn't, the vowel for a car sound is "oe", as in vroem vroem. The ou sounds completely different. In fact it sounds the same as au or the ou in ouch in English. I hope this explanation has left you confused. Vrouw is just a weird misspelling of "Frau", which doesn't sound like vroom vroooooom at all. easy peasy
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Pluskut Tukker posted:Let's not call for murder in this thread. Also, I have a sneaking suspicion that the self-described 'most important intellectual' in the Netherlands would be entirely too pleased with being thought to be equally dangerous as Fortuyn, so let's not give him the satisfaction either. I take your point about his smug self-satisfaction however.
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Baudet definitely features on the long, long list of "people we'd all be better off if they up and died today". Alas, we can but hope.
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Namarrgon posted:Have you not been paying attention in 2016? Again, there is a significant difference between the UK, who are not a part of the Eurozone and have a relatively strong economy and a country like Greece or Portugal, whose economy is significantly weaker (they are net recipients of EU money) and who are part of the Euro. There is a reason that Tsipras and his merry band of communists bend the knee in front of the market Gods instead of Grexit.
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Hambilderberglar posted:Well I'm not calling for it per se, I just also wouldn't be particularly sad about him being run over by a nearly-blind pensioner in a Canta if ole Volkert isn't available to do the needful. Besides, I've so missed all the "de kogel kwam van links!!!!" memes of my teenage years. True that, I suppose we could use some new memes about the Baudet-rocket ending like the Challenger. For those wondering what this is about by the way, one picture should suffice:  edit: also: 
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Pluskut Tukker posted:True that, I suppose we could use some new memes about the Baudet-rocket ending like the Challenger.
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