Leandros posted:

No it's much worse. This demon cracker nation doesn't want to let in nonwhite refugees so the liberal government has been criminally underfunding and undersupporting the central organisation for asylum seeker affairs, and moving them to a hellhole on the border with Germany, with atrocious circumstances. People sleeping in tents in the dead of winter, not enough water in summer, etc. I think Doctors Without Borders had to come in to provide medical care and a baby died from entirely preventable issues at some point.
It's an utter poo poo show and many other (rural mostly) municipalities are not doing poo poo to alleviate it. The law (wet) was supposed to allow the government to force/coerce (dwang) municipalities to accept some refugees. The ruling parties eventually agreed on it, until after the elections the party of the current PM reversed course. Now they've re-reversed course and Geert is angry.

i say swears online posted:

oooo, "saluti romani" sounds so suave and italian. i wonder what it means

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIzhArtSeCY

Orange Devil posted:

Sinterklaas is literally Saint Nicholas, so that's originally a catholic thing too.

Weka posted:

Surely you mean orthodox?

AnimeIsTrash posted:

the reveal itt that women only got the right to vote in the 90s made me laugh so hard

Homeless Friend posted:

[Europe] we hebben een serieus probleem

Truga posted:

https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1748199120760922112/pu/vid/avc1/756x720/hC3DfhR8ikFO6XWK.mp4?tag=12

SplitSoul posted:

Nonsense posted:

germany leaving the EU would actually make it a much more accelerationist body, which I require for my plans.

V. Illych L. posted:

germany's trajectory has been very divided. there's a lot of losers under the present arrangement in germany, especially in the east which was basically looted and is kept afloat by pecuniary transfers rather than their own industry. there is a real difference between having a functioning economy and having to beg and wheedle for transfers from the metropole - add to that the clear (and often rose-tinted) memory of a time when things were very different, and you get a lot of disgruntled people who haven't really gotten the message that they aren't actually political subjects.

Honest Thief posted:

For the longest time I figured the deal countries like in southern europe got was to keep germany industry going but that they even do it to themselves lol

crepeface posted:

oh my god dexit would be even funnier than brexit has been

Honest Thief posted:

For the longest time I figured the deal countries like in southern europe got was to keep germany industry going but that they even do it to themselves lol

Junkozeyne posted:

One of the main intended effects of SPD's "Agenda 2010" reforms was to create a massive low wage sector in Germany. You could work a full time job and make less money than unemployment benefits and instead of hanging the rich the state just paid the difference, subsidizing low wages.

Neoliberalism, not even once.

webcams for christ posted:

this is the UBI future MMTs dream of

genericnick posted:

UBI is the other one, no? Job Guarantee?

webcams for christ posted:

they're for both. almost all MMTs agree that unemployment insurance shouldn't be abolished, but they hate admitting it

genericnick posted:

Yeah, but UBI isn't unemployment insurance, no? It's unlimited(?) basic income and I'm pretty sure they hate it.

quote:

German Elites Are Redefining Antisemitism so They Can Be the Victims | Portside]German elites have convinced themselves that they “get” antisemitism in a way that Jews simply can’t. They seem to have gained enlightenment through genocide. An example: When Der Spiegel did a bizarre takedown of Greta Thunberg, the only climate activist in the entire world they could find who didn’t support Palestine was Luisa Neubauer, a leader of Fridays for Future in Germany. Neubauer was ready to accuse the entire climate movement of antisemitism. How does she know? Is she particularly close to Jewish culture? Has she been a scholar of anti-Jewish discrimination? No, the only qualification she referred to is that her great-grandfather from the Reemtsma dynasty was an SS member who donated huge sums to the Nazi party. Inheriting a ton of money from Nazis seemingly offers a unique education in liberal humanist values.

Junkozeyne posted:

One of the main intended effects of SPD's "Agenda 2010" reforms was to create a massive low wage sector in Germany. You could work a full time job and make less money than unemployment benefits and instead of hanging the rich the state just paid the difference, subsidizing low wages.

Neoliberalism, not even once.

Orange Devil posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept

Seriously for anyone interested in what Germany has done over the last 20 years (and how it absofuckinglutely started at home) read up on the Hartz reforms.

For bonus laughs, read who wrote the Hartz reforms over on the German wikipedia page: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz-Konzept

I'll save you the trouble scrolling.

Zusammensetzung
Am 22. Februar 2002 wurde die Kommission für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt eingesetzt. Zu den Mitgliedern gehörten (mit ihrer damaligen Funktion):

Peter Hartz (SPD und IG Metall), Mitglied des Vorstandes der Volkswagen AG, Vorsitzender der Kommission
Norbert Bensel, Mitglied des Vorstandes der DaimlerChrysler Services AG
Jobst Fiedler, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
Heinz Fischer, Abteilungsleiter Personal Deutsche Bank AG
Peter Gasse (SPD), Bezirksleiter der IG Metall Nordrhein-Westfalen
Werner Jann, Universität Potsdam
Peter Kraljic, Direktor der McKinsey & Company Düsseldorf
Isolde Kunkel-Weber, Mitglied des ver.di-Bundesvorstandes
Klaus Luft, Geschäftsführer der Market Access for Technology Services GmbH
Harald Schartau (SPD), Minister für Arbeit und Soziales, Qualifikation und Technologie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Wilhelm Schickler, Präsident des Landesarbeitsamtes Hessen
Hanns-Eberhard Schleyer, Generalsekretär des Zentralverbandes des Deutschen Handwerks
Günther Schmid, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Wolfgang Tiefensee (SPD), Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Leipzig
Eggert Voscherau, Mitglied des Vorstandes der BASF AG

quote:

Peter Hartz - Wikipedia]

kickbacks to Volkswagen managers from bogus companies doing real estate business with Volkswagen, especially at the Czech subsidiary Škoda Auto;
favours to members of the works council (Betriebsrat), which are illegal under German law (the chairman of the VW works council, Klaus Volkert [de], had resigned 30 June 2005).
The contracting of prostitutes at the company's expense, sometimes in company-owned apartments and under the influence of Viagra, which had been prescribed by the company's medical service.