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tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

genericnick posted:

lmao, Germany

lol

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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:
germany is the england of europe

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
I was assured it was the Alabama of Europe, in many ways.

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I was assured it was the Alabama of Europe, in many ways.

that’s austria

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Y'all wollt den totalen Krieg?

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

Zodium posted:

that’s austria

Nah, it's Switzerland.

tazjin
Jul 24, 2015


Horseshoe theory posted:

Nah, it's Switzerland.

Is Alabama a particularly wealthy place?

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

tazjin posted:

Is Alabama a particularly wealthy place?

for the upper caste, sure

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021


A grant for entrepreneurs, known as the "Ich-AG" (Me, Inc.).

lmfao

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

lobster shirt posted:

A grant for entrepreneurs, known as the "Ich-AG" (Me, Inc.).

lmfao

that's deutsche for crack-ping

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

ich ag = i, a gay. wake up.

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be

Ghost Leviathan posted:

dexit already means something, this might get confusing

deutchit

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

this shall be humorous
So, because a former coworker of a friend did something really loving stupid cuz he forgot that online stuff is still real, and is now in prison:

Please do not call for the assassination of the president of the country you live in publicly online. It won't produce any results, and will get you in deep poo poo without achieving anything.

e: A certain kind of liberals are obssessed with Vučić because they like the liberal order he's preserving in principle, but don't like that they aren't the ones on top

my dad has issued a correction as of 20:06 on Jan 23, 2024

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

tazjin posted:

Is Alabama a particularly wealthy place?

brother you dont need material wealth when you got the crimson tide football program

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

my dad posted:

So, because a former coworker of a friend did something really loving stupid cuz he forgot that online stuff is still real, and is now in prison:

Please do not call for the assassination of the president of the country you live in publicly online. It won't produce any results, and will get you in deep poo poo without achieving anything.

Serbia taking assassinations surprisingly seriously.

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

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.

this has the incidental effect of also hollowing out the bargaining power of labour and it's wild that this was headed by a guy from the german labour movement

i genuinely thought hartz was an SPD apparatchik lol

my dad
Oct 17, 2012

this shall be humorous
copy pasting a short summary I posted elsewhere:

tl;dr: of Serbian politics is that Vučić is a piece of poo poo who is renting us out to the West on the cheap, and his biggest liberal opponents are people who generally like the whole arrangement except for the part where he's on top and they aren't - and so there's this hyper focus on the persona of Vučić instead of... anything he's actually doing. And they have a history of selling us out even faster than he does when they get their hands on the levers.
I hope the guy gets released after the media shitstorm is over, he's just a harmless idiot.

We're in some deep poo poo as a country, and the West is basically slowly digesting us as we dismantle the remaining national ownership laws from the socialist days, piss away our ties to NAM countries one by one, and burning bridges with Palestine to suck up to Israel more.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

V. Illych L. posted:

this has the incidental effect of also hollowing out the bargaining power of labour and it's wild that this was headed by a guy from the german labour movement

i genuinely thought hartz was an SPD apparatchik lol

Labour movement?

The dude was VWs top HR manager. If you think HR is on the side of labour I've got a bridge to sell you.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Orange Devil posted:

Labour movement?

The dude was VWs top HR manager. If you think HR is on the side of labour I've got a bridge to sell you.

If you first reaction to hearing of Peter Hartz is, that's some SPD guy, isn't he, then that's entirely fair to everyone involved.

ModernMajorGeneral
Jun 25, 2010

genericnick posted:

lmao, Germany

lol this is unbelievable

https://www.theleftberlin.com/the-german-government-is-attacking-jewish-life-in-germany/

quote:

Germany has Antisemitism Czars – have they spoken up about this wave of government attacks against Jews? The opposite: These non-Jewish bureaucrats regularly accuse Jewish dissidents of antisemitism. They don’t say a word about the billionaire heirs of Nazi war criminals, nor about modern billionaires spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories – instead, they claim that antisemitism has been “imported” by foreigners.

The far-right party AfD has taken the logical step and named their own Antisemitism Czar. Who did they pick?

https://afdbundestag.de/beatrix-von-storch-alle-terrorunterstuetzer-und-gewaltverherrlicher-sofort-abschieben/

quote:

The anti-Semitism commissioner and deputy chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group, Beatrix von Storch, explains:

“The Islamic anti-Semitism imported by Merkel and Scholz has no place in Germany. But saying that is not enough. Action must follow: every Hamas supporter who does not have German citizenship must be deported immediately. The same applies to every individual who celebrates or publicly condones the brutal violence against Jews on our streets. Those would be actions. Everything else is just empty phrases.

quote:

Her maternal grandfather was Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk,[2] who served as finance minister from 1932 in the Weimar Republic until the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. After the death of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels he additionally served as the Leading Minister and foreign minister of the short-lived Flensburg Government of Karl Dönitz – and so as the de facto last head of government of Nazi Germany announced on 7 May 1945, via radio Reichssender Flensburg the unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht, thus ending the war in Europe.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Truga posted:

isn't it technically treason to swear an oath to a foreign state? lol

I've posted about the Canadian government doing this, but affirming that Dual Loyalty exists but is good and that Jews aren't part of the nation but temporarily embarrassed Israelis seems incredibly dangerous, but here we are.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
I've long held that the standards of living in america's vassal states in europe are too high. They need to start getting the latin america treatment, that they've walked into the beginning of this process willingly by cutting themselves off from cheap energy supplies is pretty funny

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

one of the few good things about europe is how mad we make americans

mortons stork
Oct 13, 2012

mila kunis posted:

I've long held that the standards of living in america's vassal states in europe are too high. They need to start getting the latin america treatment, that they've walked into the beginning of this process willingly by cutting themselves off from cheap energy supplies is pretty funny

Well theres also the underwater pipeline that mysteriously blew up and has never been addressed ever again...

the heat goes wrong
Dec 31, 2005
I´m watching you...

mortons stork posted:

Well theres also the underwater pipeline that mysteriously blew up and has never been addressed ever again...

Nord steam 2 is operational, its just no one wants to buy anything from them.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

the heat goes wrong posted:

Nord steam 2 is operational, its just no one wants to buy anything from them.

One of the Nord Steam 1 pipelines is potentially operational, the other 3 pipelines have big old holes in them. They are mothballed at this point.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!
A pipeline is supposed to have a big hole in it.

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Orange Devil posted:

A pipeline is supposed to have a big hole in it.

it's supposed to have two :dadjoke:

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Zodium posted:

it's supposed to have two :dadjoke:

It's one big hole bitch.

webcams for christ
Nov 2, 2005

Zodium posted:

it's supposed to have two :dadjoke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-PQ-pUVeho

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Orange Devil posted:

It's one big hole bitch.

Tell your mom I said hi.

Lin-Manuel Turtle
Jul 12, 2023

Zodium posted:

one of the few good things about europe is how mad we make americans

I hate to tell you, but I don’t think a non-Russia European country has gotten an emotional response from an American since the Iraq war. Honestly I kinda forgot Europe existed for a few months until I just accidentally clicked this thread.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002
Yeah, Europe is gradually fading to myth and legend. Did it even really exist....

Honest Thief
Jan 11, 2009
https://www.project-syndicate.org/o...fevlSEb6nyuY%3d

Varoufakis new article on the shaping of the Eu was really interesting with some insight how this poo poo show got up

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

Orange Devil posted:

It's one big hole bitch.

drat ..

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Danish Ministry of Defense sat on classified reports for 13 years showing that its bombing missions killed civilians in Libya.

Ardennes
May 12, 2002

SplitSoul posted:

Danish Ministry of Defense sat on classified reports for 13 years showing that its bombing missions killed civilians in Libya.

Thankfully, Gadaffii was killed and Libyan society collapsed on itself into civil war.

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Punished Turtle posted:

I hate to tell you, but I don’t think a non-Russia European country has gotten an emotional response from an American since the Iraq war. Honestly I kinda forgot Europe existed for a few months until I just accidentally clicked this thread.

If England counts, the royal wedding was a thing. And Eurovision made a few memes.

SplitSoul
Dec 31, 2000

Ardennes posted:

Thankfully, Gadaffii was killed and Libyan society collapsed on itself into civil war.

NATO is a force for good prices on slaves.

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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Punished Turtle posted:

I hate to tell you, but I don’t think a non-Russia European country has gotten an emotional response from an American since the Iraq war. Honestly I kinda forgot Europe existed for a few months until I just accidentally clicked this thread.
All part of the plan. Europe fades into the background until everyone forgets it exists and kill each other in a nuclear war.

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