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BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

DominoDancing posted:

That's why his nomination by the opposition in 2010 was such a genius move.
A genius move that backfired this week.

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BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

StrangeRobot posted:

Also, regarding the soon to be president, 'freedom' and 'individual responsibility' is neo-liberal code for 'Abolish the welfare state!'(the 'freedom' to starve and the 'individual responsibility' of being born into poverty).
He is just rather unpopular with the German leftists since he dared to claim such outrageous things like the DDR being a dictatorship.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

The Real Foogla posted:

Also why the gently caress do I need to read this in an english paper, I have heard nothing about this here.
I have heard about that here, about seven years ago, when that article was written.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
In other news, Islamists have started stabbing police men who were protecting demonstrators. This isn't exactly helping their cause.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

hankor posted:

This doesn't really hurt them, the salafists are pretty much the poster child for radical religious extremists in Germany. They don't aim for acceptance, they seek controversy so they can cry about being discriminated against when their demagogues are thrown out of the country or the Verfassungsschutz raids their offices.

So those violent clashes are in the best interest of both pro NRW and Salafists. Fun.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Vote for Die PARTEI.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
One of the members of the pirate party has taken down websites offering pirated versions of her book due to copyright infringement. Considering where the party got its name from, and how heavily they oppose copyright laws, it is kind of ridiculous. So stealing is okay, as long as it's not from me!

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

niethan posted:

Well do you find it fair that political refugees and asylum seekers aren't allowed to work and are kept in what amounts to prison cells?

They are not allowed to work during their first year. Which is only necessary to prevent asylum seekers from being abused and exploited.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

Hip Flask posted:

It always utterly confuses me how the American right wing has red as its colour.

Yeah because obviously the colour red was invented by the socialists.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

Hasardeur posted:

something that I read a while ago in The Spiegel that really surprised me is Germans seem to spend more money for vacations/traveling than any other nation in the world, including the US (not %, but total). You know, that's 80 million Germans compared to 315 million Americans.

unfortunately, I can't find the article right now

I work in the travel business and that would REALLY surprise me.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

Deceitful Penguin posted:

Oh casual contempt for the Turkish, how I missed you, almost as much as the Spaetzle and mousebags. :allears:
Tell me more about how this dude talking about how putting a religious symbol in a house of secular justice is totally cool because Turkey is mean to, uhh, Armenian Christians and how this means that such claims are "stupid" in a completely different, secular country.
Feeling threatened by a bunch of wooden sticks on a wall is stupid.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

DominoDancing posted:

drat, that's the kind of poo poo I expect from the CSU, not from the party whose own (former) chairman is out and proud. What the gently caress is happening with the FPD?

That's probably the FDP's own Sarrazin. Every party has one.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Yes, because donating to a party is worse than molesting children.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
36 persons shot at is really low considering that 1762 policemen were injured last year.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

ufarn posted:

What's a good place to follow live poll results online?

ARD and ZDF.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
According to the latest predictions from ARD, the CDU/CSU actually has a majority on its own now.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

Cingulate posted:

The results also provide a reasonable argument for the 5% rule: two parties that many see as dangerous and extreme were prevented from entering the parliament.
What? The Linke and Grüne are still in.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

icantfindaname posted:

This talk of evil leftist career politicians is giving me flashbacks to the wonderful world of American AM talk radio. From my cursory searches the CDU people are career politicians too, getting a math degree or whatever doesn't count. It has very little to do with left vs right, it's just the way things work in countries with tens or hundreds of millions of poeple. Of course, to make the AM radio hosts happy we can just staff the government entirely with former bankers and executives, and not ever allow the evil demoncratsSPD members with their worthless political science and history degrees to touch power. What could possibly go wrong?

Everyone who made a career as politician is a career politician. However, I'd still trust someone more who has at least a little bit of experience in the real world over someone who spend their entire life in a school or other government institutions.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
We had a government run entirely by the Linke for forty years, and it wasn't too popular with the people.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

Teron D Amun posted:

except that it wasn't run by Die Linke
Same poo poo, different name.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

Randler posted:

Also, Burschenschaften and Studentenverbindungen are different organizations with a different historical background and therefore mindset. Confusing the two might result in a very long and unpleasant rant by a Studentenverbindungs member who really does not like to be called a Burschenschaftler.

It also should be mentioned that every Catholic Studentenverbindung is a non-fencing one, due to the Catholic church disapproving of university fencing. And anecdotally, all Studentenverbindungs people I've met have been pretty chill guys. While the Burschenschaftler organizations were usually to incompetent to wear their own uniforms properly even on their promotional photographs.

Judging from some of their CVs they are also a bunch of pinko commie conscious objectors, which I find extremely hilarious from a group which likes to point out their patriotism.

Burschenschafter, not Burschenschaftler.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

GaussianCopula posted:

Are you telling me that there are no schools that are no longer serving Pork because of Muslim children or that the fact that they exist is not a problem?

Are you saying the fact that Muslim children exist is a problem?

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
If everybody is equal, nobody has the liberty to be different.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

Libluini posted:

Nice to see not every Bavarian is completely evil. (That bus driver was Bavarian, right? I did not just dream that?)

No, he's Franconian.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
lmao at people that vote.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Ampel befiehl, wir folgen!

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Köln is full of Nazis, news at eleven

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Düsseldorf is pretty cool to live in, yes.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
It will come back with a different name.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
remember that Hitler was an artist

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Welcome to the best city in Germany!
Medienhafen is rather expensive to live in.
Bilk is close by and has some cool areas. Pempelfort is also a good place to be, but a bit further from Medienhafen (15-20 minutes by tram).

send me a message once you arrived and I can give you a tour through the Altstadt

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Man muss schon ein Österreicher sein, um frisch gestrichene Bauernhöfe für ein Zeichen wirtschaftlichen Wohlstands zu halten.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003

System Metternich posted:

Nix da, ich als bayerischer ....

Sag Ich doch ... Österreicher

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
My keyboard doesn't have your stupid letters

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Yes, I too had nothing better to do on 11.11. at 11:11:11 than to post on the something awful dot com internet forum

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
As a Nonautobahnuser I am a bit more pissed by the Braunkohlelüge. What the gently caress

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Schuuuuuuuuulz

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Funny enough the SPD is the only party pretty much guaranteed to be part of the government next term

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
Nitpicking doesn't help anybody here. I think the point is that a 25 year old university student thinking he knows the plight of the poor is laughable.

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BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
I don't want siggi pop to be our next Chancellor. In order to prevent that my only option is to vote CDU

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