Southkraut
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Southkraut
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3d ago
Germany's military in particular was just in a disastrous state before the war that it would have been more of a liability than an asset.
Has this changed?
Southkraut
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5d ago
Just doing my ethnic duty.
Southkraut
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5d ago
It's never absolutely too late, but the earlier the relatively better.
Southkraut
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5d ago
Spatzel
Spätzle.
I'm failing to muster enough motivation to go and vote.
Edit: Went after all.
Southkraut
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13d ago
Conservative papers like Welt tend to go easy on the culture war. Not sure whether it's to avoid alienating moderate readers, to uphold standards of objective journalism, or because "one crow won't peck out another's eyes", as we say - journalists probably want to avoid becoming non grata by taking the wrong side of history.
Openly rightist media like Junge Freiheit or Tichys Einblick may say the quiet part out loud, but have barely any readership and reach at all. So alright, I may have phrased it poorly - they do call it out, but nobody hears it.
It's publicized enough, and you get the usual political angles. Left-wing papers run an article or two that mostly revolve around the plight of the stabbed policeman, right-wing papers give us some additional details, but none really call out the story for the blatant failure it is every which way. In the great scheme of things not much is made of it; the largely left-leaning media won't run an outrage campaign on this like they do for violence against "minorities", for obvious reasons, and there's not much else that's done at all about such incidents anymore.
Also, the story doesn't get buried so much as drowned. Southern Germany has been experiencing a lot of rainfall, and there's a lot of country under water right now. This dominates the news and largely crowds out other news.
Southkraut
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15d ago
You seem to be arguing that it's a barber pole. I'm pretty sure it's not a barber pole.
I'm not even sure what the barber pole represents.
It's the election theft being discounted as a minor offence compared to yonder verdict that prompted my comment.
Southkraut
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15d ago
"Last thing they did was tolerable, but current thing is beyond the pale!" seems like an ever-popular rhetorical device on all sides.
Things have always been horrible and will forever continue to be so in novel-seeming but probably recurring ways. We just get used to what we've already witnessed.
Southkraut
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16d ago
Yes.
My point was about disrespecting figures of authority related to the old country in favor of respecting the ones of the new country, and nothing more. I had no intention of making any statements about the actual qualities of those people or the relationship between our countries during their times.
Legality, no, I don't think so. I am certainly not a lawyer, but for all the stories of this or that platform being banned, I don't think the Motte fits the pattern.
But you certainly could end up in hot water in every sense other than legal if your name showed up next to some Motte quotes taken out of context.
Southkraut
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17d ago
What I would wish for is for them to jettison their entire cultural heritage, language faith and all, sever ties with their homeland and family and take German names as soon as they set foot on German soil, followed by which they trample pictures of Erdogan and Ataturk into the mud while parading around the streets singing our national hymn and holding aloft saintly effigies of Adenauer and Merkel. After which they go home and crack open some beers with their ethnically German neighbors. Later they tell their children traditional German fairy tales before eating a hearty pork dinner and washing it down with a Schnaps. Let them do that and alright, they are more German than most Germans.
But obviously the most assimilation we can expect is "speaks German without obnoxious 'migrant' patois" and "pays taxes in Germany". German as a culture is unattractive, and Turkish immigrants seem ethnically rather cohesive.
So here's a less ambitious standard: If they speak German and not Turkish, have abandoned Islam, have integrated into German society around them rather than into some Turkish enclave, and would support Germany over Turkey, then that's probably as close to German as can be expected. Even that is exceedingly rare though.
Any less than that and they're still a fifth column as far as I care.
Stagnant rather than growing. Fairly sure about that one.
Feels like decay rather than stagnation, but I may be wrong.
I've been worried about the fresh-meat-pipeline since we migrated, and AFAIK so far we don't really have one beyond word of mouth. But I don't have any good proposals on how to fix it either.
Southkraut
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17d ago
Because they make things sound big while making the speaker sound smart.
Southkraut
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17d ago
Depends on whom you ask.
For much of German society, it's just a question of passport.
For the left-leaning parts of it, it's a question of residence.
The Right is divided on the issue.
Southkraut
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17d ago
Well, it didn't. There was no split. The militant atheists appeared, most disappeared, and the ones that remained seamlessly converted to postmodern progressivism.
Southkraut
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18d ago
A handful of German party-goers privately wanting Germany for the Germans and no foreigners
-> inacceptable, punish severely.
Thousands of islamists publicly demanding the transformation of Germany into an islamic caliphate
-> that's freedom of opinion, we are a democracy.
I think it's safe to say that by revealed preferences, German society doesn't give a shit about the gays and our priorities are elsewhere. Probably somewhere in the broad region of the moral apex imperative of "be good people, good people punish nazis and tolerate foreigners".
Southkraut
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18d ago
It is and it is. Individuals may deviate, but they can do so only in very private, and any public dissdence is punished by deplatforming, fines, job loss and being forever smeared by all media, social and otherwise, as being either a neonazi or a useful idiot for whatever nebulous forces of evil are currently blamed for the existence of non-leftist thought (nowadays it's usually Putin). The exact level of enforcement varies wildly, but one is never safe to make any public statements that could be construed as "völkisch".
Southkraut
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18d ago
Maybe? Going outside in that kind of heat hasn't killed me yet, but I suppose the humidity must've been lower than 100% then. Or, I suppose, I make enough use of wind, shade and bodies of water to keep my temperature viable. Either way the 40°C alone are doable, at least here in the German summers.
But really, it's the sun that matters the most, not the heat. The heat is just a useful additional factor that allows me to dress light, and keeps the outdoors largely depopulated so I have it to myself. But what really makes good weather to me is the blue sky. I can tolerate a few tasteful clouds here and there, but by and large I want that giant open void overhead.
Southkraut
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19d ago
Maximally sunny. That brilliant blue sky with absolutely everything bathed in light. I don't care if it's 40°C and the land is sere, baking and withering, or it's wet and humid and everyone sweats even at rest in the shade. Give me a good wind on top of it and that's my day. Just the sky and me. I put on my floppy hat and shorts and a backpack full of water, and off I go for a day of hiking, alone with the world.
Maybe I just enjoy heat stroke.
Southkraut
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25d ago
My life is a farce.
Tell you what, if ever you stumble into Southern Germany, the drinks will be on me and we can have a dick-measuring contest on whose life is more farcical.
Your family cares about you. Be glad.
Apart from all that, what is your family's opinion on you moving to Scotland?
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26d ago
I'll grant you it's been a while, but this game does exist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/19900/Far_Cry_2/
Southkraut
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1mo ago
That's a bit of a loss for us.
I didn't care about his topics, but I liked his thoroughness.
Southkraut
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1mo ago
It is a very niche game that demands a lot from the player. It's neither pretty nor streamlined. The UX is tolerable but far below par. You really have to want to play this game to get your fun out of it.
That said, if you do commit, here's a shameless plug of my guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3195937264
Yea, the Federal Minister of Defense has made a proposal to that point, but I wouldn't count on it going anywhere. I's the kind of thing that gets shot down regularly.
So far there have been no tangible, substantial changes that I am aware of. 100 billion € were provided to the military as a special fund, but I'm not aware of anything that would have come of it. Given our MoD's reputation for rampant grift and wastefulness, money alone will probably not fix anything.
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