News / Poles say a big YES to our European Union [996]


Nothing new for a German! That's what we get told whenever there is some wondering why we have to pay so massive to everybody else to support their economies, their poor, their whatever whereas we have so many own problems and will never get any support from them....

Latest examples supporting the rent systems of Greeks and Italians....both countries whose population is comparable richer than Germans (more residential property etc.)

*shrugs*

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....slowly doubts are rising....true....

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Maybe a idea better kept in books....not so much for the real life...

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Yeah....I don't recall any GDR leader whose popularity survived the loss of party power....

It isn't that the common GDRian was ever asked for their opinion either...so I think we can throw them safely all in the bin of history.

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Adenauer....Brandt.....Schmidt....maybe it's the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia but people tend to glorify these leaders (now)....

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A Turk wanting to become a Chancellor in Germany has to be more German than a native....not a chance for a turkish identity!

It's abit like with Merkel....she never, during all her 16 years in power, has done sh'it for East-Germany....Germans totally forgot about her eastern german upbringing. For the integration of East Germany she was a total loss!

The moment someone is seen as "breaking the barrier" for his or her minority he/she looses all the chances to become the leader of all Germans...*shrugs*

For a leader, a Chancellor in Germany, he needs to be seen as a unifier for ALL Germans, not a presenter of a sex or a skin pigmentation or a heritage or some identity or the other....I doubt Germany will ever work that way. Just my personal opinion.

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Understood....but wasn't that the idea also behind the cheers and the joy after Obama's election?

A honest serious question....did it work?

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....or a bad one!

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Just because someone is of turkish or chinese origin doesn't make him a good Chancellor....isn't that racism?


Do you think the US is now better off thanks Obama? Less racism and more unity thanks to more diversity and all that?

Somehow it doesn't look like that at all....at least from afar as in Germany....

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Why?


Özdemir blew his chance....there is a reason (actually two reasons) the GREENS didn't even nominate him for their current team...

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonusmeilen-Aff%C3%A4re

taz.de/Verspaetete-Meldung-von-Nebeneinkuenften/!5769735/

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....yeah...*gets all nostalgic* :)

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....and the whole topic about Doping! To many winners had been later found out to be cheaters....or the men who win womens competitions....and countries buying foreigners to win medals for them etc.

It just isn't the same anymore...the only ones who still "feel the spirit" of the Cold War are the Chinese, who still seem to believe producing winners and records en masse in their children-torture-camps is somehow winning them international respect and sympathy! 🙄

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Everywhere else....of course! (There isn't any)

But we are talking "red Berlin" here...where the crazies have taken over the asylum....they are even talking about to go to the Bundesverfassungsgericht about that.

On the other hand with Berlin the whole country can see what happens when red-red-green gets to rule in reality....I nurture the thought that was a reason for the massive underperformance of the GRÜNEN and the LINKE party's during the recent election....

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I really don't think they will go through with it.....there must be something in our basic law against dispossession by referendum. Not to forget you are talking about Leftists here...whenever have Leftists be able to make anything work??? They are ever always full of promises, needing other peoples money (or homes in this case)!

The last time Leftists offered cheap housing the people were forced to live in totally run down, broken, dirty homes.....till they run away for capitalist homes....

google.com/search?q=Ost+Berlin+Wohnungen+DDR&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQ7uGMzbXzAhUMqaQKHYKmC0AQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1239&bih=653&dpr=1.5#imgrc=MzNyTcuSMqu5RM&imgdii=c-ACO-rWsk4oQM

....the same Lefties btw....who can't even organize an open and fair election should be tasked with something like that??? I don't see it working, sorry...


That is all so embarassing! *facepalm*

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....not to mention that Berlin is totally broke and the whole of Germany would have to pay for it!

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Give....I can find only some news from 2019, as one Berlin Senator Geisel (not AfD) said it would be a great sign for Berlin to host the Olympic Games again in 2036....hundred years after 1936...

german-times.com/why-berlin-should-apply-to-host-the-2036-olympic-games/

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Do you have a link for that?

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HE LIVES!!!! :)

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Well...if they do it's all thanks to your woke USians....

A student-run Minnesota newspaper, The Concordian, had suggested a "white-washing" of the composer's legacy, citing descriptions of the composer as having a "wide, thick-lipped mouth, short, thick nose, and proudly arched forehead"....

Well... thank you! What would we do without you....

On the other hand I find the idea of Jesus looking like a typical middle eastern Arab much more logical than the caucasian projection hanging in most churches....

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Scholz is the male-Merkel.....only her "Raute" is still missing.

It doesn't matter anymore what is CDU (once seen as conservative) or SPD....the leaders have become exchangable....the party programs alignable...

There is hope that the CDU will find it's true conservative core again during the coming 5 years in the opposition...with Merkel gone for good!


I'm not so sure about that Lyzko....the biggest difference is the two-party-system in the US compared to the x-party-system in Germany.

Trump had to infiltrate one of the two parties in the US to make a political career....I read he once tried it with the Democrats first (donated even billions) before he found a better way in with the Tea Party inside the Republicans...so a Republican he became and influenced this party like nobody else did.....he had to change the Republicans and he did!

In Germany Trump could and probably would had founded his own party....a new one from scratch and would had started what we call the "march through the institutions"....similiar to what the AfD is doing in Germany since their foundation 2013. Or Macrons "La République en Marche" in 2016.

That doesn't mean that people generally have different opinions about conservatism....it's just that politics/conservatism works differently in our countries.

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So....now I think I will re-watch the final from 2014 in Rio again....

'night all :)

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There are people for whom the german flag and also the word "patriot" is probably "Nazi".....but for most it is not!
(These people HATE Fußball and the german Mannschaft winning....because that makes for 80 million flag waving patriots in an instance:)

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That wasn't sarcasm but serious!

I don't think that when I would immigrate into the US or Canada would get the kind of support like in Germany.

That's the main reason we attract mostly the have-nots from all over the world in the first place, people dream of Germany where they believe they get showered with free money, and gifted with houses and cool jobs for nothing....whereas the people with money and education go elsewhere!


Yeah...I'm known for agreeing to everything that happens here, I would never criticize my government! (THAT was sarcasm!)


You would probably end up in jail....running around with a WMD....not a good idea...

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I thought only Germany gives out welfare to immigrants...

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The government has asked thousands of Germans residing in the UK to drive lorries to assist with the HGV shortage, even if they have never driven one before.

A letter was sent by the Department for Transport, signed by transport minister Baroness Vere, asking Germans who live in Britain to "consider returning" to the HGV driving sector.

The letter states: "Your valuable skills and experience have never been more needed than they are now.....

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hgv-lorry-driver-shortage-germans-b1930558.html

Oh boy! I just HAD to.... The Return of the King



reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/pz2ns3/the_return_of_the_king/

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"Lesser evil"? Immigration is not necessarily bad...Poles for example have immigrated into Prussia/Das Deutsche Reich/Germany for centuries....half of the Rhein-Ruhr with it's mighty Coal and Steel industry has been powered by Poles...who later became bonafide Germans....half of Berlin has somehow polish roots or connections, polish sounding names are totally "german" today...

The whole US is the best example....it wouldn't exist like that without massive immigration from Europe.....

I can't see anything "evil" in that! What I don't like in Berlin are the african drug dealer from the Görlitzer Park....or the muslim Clan families who rule the organized crime...we truly can do without these "enrichments".


Yeah well....it is what it is....there is no point in discussing that...


What happens now is a war for the "best" immigrants....a war countries like Australia or Canada are winning and Germany is losing...as we get mostly the sheepherder and they get the best educated academics...

So...yeah...my hope is the technology!


If a robot earns me my comfortable rent or a Pablo or Julio....what do I care....but someone has to!

I just doubt a Mohammed or an Ismail will be able to....

Again not what you want to hear? Sorry!

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I would prefer immigrants from Europe....people who are closer to us culturally....with a similiar education....Germany is in dire need of additional workforce since the homegrown demographics don't look good for the future.

But to import a muslim sheepherder with only two years of koran school under his belt is not helping! He will not be able to integrate into our way of living and also not fill some of the many vacant work places...

I guess the technological advance will have to save us...again....the one which makes human work redundant!

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Let's see....leftist Scholz can't be worse than the "rightist" Merkel-CDU and the desaster that was 2015....

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I doubt that.....

That migrant-question was actually a non-topic in this election....the only two party's who want to officialy "expand refugee rights" and even have that in their programs have been the GREENS, who massively underperformed with not even 15% instead of the dreamed 25% to everybody's surprise and the LEFT who actually didn't even made the 5% hurdle and only got "in" for some fine print in the law but who is otherwise now declared dead!

No gov who isn't suicidal will "expand refugee rights".....

And the main topic of the GREENS has been the climate...and not refugees....actually that program point might have cost them alot of voters!


Nothing! As long as someone can wave with a law...and one of the famed UN at that...he should be safe.

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I try to explain some "Germany" to you...when you only want affirmations for your already formed opinions you better "ask" Dirk....

Are you actually really interested in what I or Tacitus have to say?

Fits to the german elections....."How to revive a social democratic party":



reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/pz67m1/how_to_revive_a_social_democratic_party/