Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

....hmm....I think she tries to resurrect the "old" Left....before wokeism took over, and without the "international" part...If so she could go far, very far IMHO!

Political commenters try their hardest to not use the "national socialist" label, so burned that is...but "social nationalist" is seemingly okay, heh:)

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]


How so? The wall was to keep people IN, not OUT!

Actually, when I see the current mass demonstrations, supported by the government and much of the media, against the strongest opposition party, wanting to ban them....you know...an old Ossi is getting uncomfortable thoughts...

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]


I wondered about that recently.....did you read about Texas in the US right now?

....At issue: Texas is continuing to erect razor wire across a 29-mile stretch of the riverbank in Eagle Pass, despite opposition from the Biden administration and a January U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing federal officials to cut down the wire.....

eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/03/us-mexico-border-controversy-is-now-a-standoff-in-eagle-pass-texas/72447521007/

Germany is a federation as is the US....what if one or more of the east german Bundesländer, now after the regional elections in September with a very strong AfD influence (they don't even have to be part of the gov to pull strings), act purposely against orders and laws made in Berlin? Especially against immigration and asylum-seeker? Not quite a secession, but still.....

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


How so?

You don't like Germans....okay....but some more direct clear allegation would be nice!

It's just hard to discuss or counter a "You Germans are ****!"....*shrug*

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


....that photo has still the same effect, it has become an icon in some way here in Germany.

People like Brandt aren't born anymore....

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

....well....I like a good 'ol grumble myself now and then....wait....whom do you call OLD!!!!

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

....yeah....our chancellor loves verbal grandstanding, but still...I would like you to acknowledge now and then that Germany DOES actually help alot, with military and humanitarian aid....outside of the US and the EU we are the biggest "helper"....just only to be fair!

usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2023-02-24/these-countries-have-sent-the-most-aid-to-ukraine

statista.com/chart/28489/ukrainian-military-humanitarian-and-financial-aid-donors/

And what do you mean with "undercut Poland economically"? Germany isn't Polands enemy, hasn't been for a long time!

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

Fits somehow...

reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1ace8v9/military_exercise/

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News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


The perfect weapon against any enemy propagandists....they will faint trying to work that out! :)


I'm sure the US is watching them....the Saudis can't stand them either, btw, so the money shouldn't run out!

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

....and I guess in the end I bet nobody cares if the one in uniform saving your wife and children is black, muslim or trans!

(Or a black muslim trans-zombie!:)

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

I so wish Germany hadn't given up on the Bundeswehr for so long....it will take time to get all up and running perfectly again, not to mention the lacking personal.

For the first time experts are thinking loudly about to allow foreigners to serve in the Bundeswehr! IMHO that is more realistic than to reinstate the draft again....

(It would be nice if Putin would wait a few years though)

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]


That's the Grundgesetz....

sgb2.info/DE/Themen/Buergergeld/Fragen-und-Antworten-zum-Buergergeld/buergergeld-faq.html

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]

...thing is we are free falling right now, if nothing will be changed, drastically, we will fall far deeper then "only" place 27!

PS: What do you mean with high earnings? People are pissed off because the new Bürgergeld (the official minimum necessary for existence) is sometimes higher than the earnings for hard, regular work!

PPS: What do you mean with low prices? Remember the price shock of a few months back because of the inflation? Now energy prices and gastro prices will rise again...not to mention the steadily rising rents for the inavailable appartements....and so on...

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]


Hopefully!

The ECONOMIST put the former broke Greeks on top of their economy ranking list...whereas Germany is now far at the bottom with place 27....

We will need to borrow money soon!!!

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]

....lotsa work still, even with lotsa machines....

Off-Topic / Will German Farmers change the EU policy? [45]

They are supported by two thirds+ of the Germans too (as all polls show), the local population even going so far and offering them sandwiches in between breaks and such....

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Wow....that's nice! :)

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

....and it works! Jordan is a peaceful, well working country....neither a religious nutcase nor an economic/violent mess, quite moderately successful...

The same pali arabs...but the difference to the Hamas ruled strips just across the border couldn't be more extreme...astounding!

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

....what I always found interesting is the fact that Jordan has quite amiable relationships with Israel....they have even treaties and such, maybe not friends but for sure not enemies!

A sure sign that "Palestinians" in Jordan have no problem with the Jews...can live with them peacefully....with the right leadership!

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]


If you don't want me to partake in certain threads you just should had said so from the beginning! Maybe in the header...

Gute Nacht :)

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]


....but not as Palestinians....they had many names during their long history, as you yourself presented, and today one of their names is Jordanians....and I think that would be a way out for all parties, a chance for peace!

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

What would you think about the FFK? You know, the "Freedom for Königsberg" movement?

PS: I better take my helmet now, my English detoriates by the hour...:)

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

Na ja....Poland was very much in existence before the partitions, wasn't it? Or otherwise there wouldn't had been a thing to dissect....

There never was a real country Palestine whose liberation has to be fighted for and freed! The country Palestine will be shiny and new no matter how it comes into being...

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

Just look at that map....lots of historical Palestine is actually todays Jordan!

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Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

Maybe we should start calling them "Jordanians"...it would clear alot things up!

After all the Jordanians are the same people just outside of the contested borders....

Off-Topic / Has Palestine ever existed? [70]

The country Palestine is still a plan, since 1947, a plan made by the UN which destroyed the Arabs with a war themselves...

The region Palestine is much older.....and I doubt a sympathetic recognition of a plan of a future country cements or proves it's existence!

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]


I guess there you have your answer....there is no such thing as hereditary characteristics if they can vanish only due place of birth!

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]

Question....what about the many Poles with german heritage??? Or the other way around, Germans with polish heritage....there are so many of them!

German stereotypes or polish stereotypes? Which would you assign them?

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]

Hitler was an Austrian!

That's a main fail about nationalist stereotypes, putting it into ever changing borders....as if a community only a few metres left out of current borders can have totally different/even contrary characteristics!

Germany's borders changed so often, the old HRE was so much bigger, only for example....but somehow most of it's then citizens would never be compared to german stereotypes today...just because they don't fit into modern, actual german borders.

That way lays madness!

History / Can a nation totally change its characteristics and national character throughout history? [79]


You managed with Germans, didn't you? Abit at least?