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Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

DominoDancing posted:

Is joining a Burschenschaft or Verbindung REALLY going to help you that much? By this point, their reputation is so tainted that I would seriously question employing someone who was a member if I had the choice. Then again, I'm probably moving in the wrong circles and work in the wrong field in the first place. I don't think I knewa single member of a Burschenschaft when I went to university.

I was honestly surprised when recently (months ago?) Burschenschaften appeared in the news because of some sort of Nazi-scandal. The last time I heard about them was in history books - I thought it was something of the distant past! Man, apparently I'm living in the modern part of the country. :v:

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Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Randler posted:

No. I'm saying that it was Schr�der's left-wing administration who made the initial decision to participate in Kosovo war. And without that administration's decision to deploy troops the matter would not have been entered the Bundestag at all.

For what it's worth, I think that decision was less about what the USA wanted and more about cleaning up in our own European backyard. I was actually astonished a coalition of Greens and Socialists was capable of making an unpopular, but necessary decision.

# ¿ Jul 13, 2014 15:31

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Landsknecht posted:

You can understand Germany a lot better (why the government does what it does, GEMA, large companies, etc.) by realizing that after WWII the Americans got rid of not just the NSDAP, but also removed many of the things that benefited the German rich/elites, especially the breaking up of the industrial cartels. Much of the government/regulatory activity since then has been to empower the elites/large companies at the expense of consumers and minor economic actors. If you're Sony or Universal Music then GEMA is loving great for you; if you're a minor artist then good luck with anything to do with GEMA. Consumers have the VZBZ, but it's pretty ineffective compared to the courts which usually benefit businesses. A good example of this is subscription contracts; in DE the requirement to cancel can legally be "in writing, received by post min. 6 weeks before contract renewal date" where as in the USA or the UK you can usually get away with a phonecall even after the fact. I'd really wonder what would happen in Germany if credit cards were more popular, because in the USA a chargeback is a fairly regularly used mechanism to get out of predatory/unfair deals.

My favourite story is how the allies after the war just straight up plundered our entire capability for producing magnetic tape. Germany before World War 2 was leading world producer in magnetic tape. After war the production fell to zero thanks to entire factories disapearing into the east and west.

Another story, unrelated to those shenannigans, is the disaster of the Telefunken-corporation just going "We don't need no stinking personal computers" and riding the train of huge-gently caress off mega computers right into ruin. But hell, in an alternative history the German-produced Orion might have become the premium personal computer, instead of that heap of poo poo produced by IBM at the time.

# ¿ Jul 23, 2014 11:35

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

3peat posted:

I have an odd request, could ya'll tell me how good this guy's german is? Like does he sound native or does he have an accent? (he's most probably the future president of Romania)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rklXnZsMH-4

He is understandable. His accent sounds like Saxon to me. Would be funny to see a Saxon becoming prime minister (not president) of Romania. :v:

# ¿ Jul 26, 2014 15:18

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

e X posted:

You can say a lot of things about the German bureaucracy, most of them not very nice, but you can't deny that they have a sense of dry wit occasionally. Some lot of BGH and BVerfG judgments are the same.

That said, I kind of hope that there will be some kind of action against goggle eventually. Their market dominance make Windows in the '90 look like a joke and they have a freighting grip on the most important social and technological development in recent history.

Market dominance unwaveringly leads to gently caress ups, we just have to wait until Google-managers start confusing "having a monopoly" with "are omniscient". Then they'll crash and burn.

In the meantime, I'm relaxing while typing stuff into Google, using YouTube, GoogleMail and whatever else they've bought up I don't know about. I start being concerned when Google raises their own private army or starts inventing their own religion. :v:

# ¿ Sep 4, 2014 14:14

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Zohar posted:

You probably haven't seen many (or indeed any) political compasses then

Even the exceptionally tedious old favourite http://www.politicalcompass.org puts the SPD in the right wing

According to that weird question thing I'm a slightly more anarchic Gandhi. That can't be true, considering I answered a lot of questions about the military in a positive manner. Well, I guess you can be like Gandhi and have nothing against shooting people sometimes. :v:

Edit:

Looks like the Greens line up best with my line of thought, which explains why I stopped giving my votes to other parties a long time ago.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2014 15:31

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Landsknecht posted:

I think the NPD dying out is also a result of Einheit and the EU expanding eastward. For a time there were a fair amount of West Germans who were revanchivist as all hell and honestly believed that Germany had good claims to all of Pomerania, Ostpreussen and Silesia. Some of these people are still elected (Erika Steinbach in the CDU is a prominent one), but I don't think it's really all that popular anymore to think that the )Oder-Neisse Grenze is wrong, for the aforementioned reasons. While it's kind of a shame that Prussia doesn't exist as a culutral/administrative unit anymore, I think most people (excluding putin) have realized that central European empires are over.

I bet that over the next few decades the far right will continue to morph into less 20th century nationalism, and instead we'll just see way more of "kulturfremden Auslaender ausweisen" and "Moslmaenner raus." If you look at groups like the BNP and the Front-National they're hitting a pretty steady message: anti-euro, anti-islam, anti-non-european-foreigners and anti-foreign-companies. Both the AfD and the NDP share these points, but if things don't improve (meaning good jobs and less media panic over Islamic terrorism) Germany might actually see a far-right populist party which does well in elections.

I think it's drat sweet irony that Prussia is dead and gone and has been essentially replaced with the old Kingdom of Hannover (Niedersachsen has the same flag and capital, for example), considering those asshats conquered and annexed it. Good riddance to Prussia, I'll say.

Also I swear if the Greens get stupider in the future, I'll honestly consider founding my own party. But until then, welp. Still better then wasting your vote by not voting.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2014 15:27

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Mightypeon posted:

Hannover hasnt been conquered by Prussia.

The fact that the dukes of Hannover became the kings, later emperors of Great Britain by Marriage made loving with Hannover kind of iffy. Prussia was traditionally more focused on going south (into pretty rich Saxony), South East (Silesia) or East (Poland). Bonus points because Hannover was, historically speaking, not exactly rich or prime real estate.
As a matter of fact, that personal union meant that the French were pretty often trying to invade Hannover in order to gain negotiating Chips in their wars with the British, which sometimes led to Prussia and/or Austria being butthurt at the "French invaders on German/Holy Roman soil" and trying to protect it. The biggest French success against the British was actually in a war where they explictily did not try to invade Hannover.

What got annexed by Prussia following Napoleons demise was the Rhineland (todays Nordrhein Westfalen + some extras) in order to ensure that the Rhein is guarded by an actual army. This was by the way decreed primarily by UK and Russia, Prussia was a second rate actor at that time.

Seriously, the history of Prussia trying to run the Rhineland is pretty hilarious. At one point, Prussia was like "Hej, its a totally great idea to name popular sport clubs after us! Borussia Dortmund, Borussia M�nchengladbach!". Then Borussia Dortmund somehow choose the traditional Yellow and Black of the Habsburgs for their jerseys as a "gently caress you Prussia".
(not 100% certain of that being true, but "wenn nicht wahr so gut erfunden").

Dude, the Kingdom of Hannover was an ally of Austria in the war of 1866, long after Napoleons' death. Prussian armies trapped the Hanoveran army thanks to our king being ungodly stupid and he had to flee the country after the capitulation. Look up the battle of Langensalza. Then the kingdom of Hannover got annexed. The end.

You should know this already, there's a giant rear end statue of our king right at the main train station of Hannover. Ernst August von Hannover. Better known under his full name of Georg Friedrich Alexander Karl Ernst August, or Georg V. of Hannover. Our poor, stupid king. You may remember his latest offspring from his daring attempt to piss all over an installation of the year 2000 fair. (Apparently stupidity is hereditary in his family.)

Edit:

He was also the second duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale, presumably in England.

Libluini fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Sep 13, 2014

# ¿ Sep 13, 2014 20:57

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Landsknecht posted:

I don't think you understand how generally hosed rural Bavaria is (hell, everything that's not Glockenbachviertel is hosed in Bavaria).

Most people never give enough credit to how generally lovely any public is when thinking about why all governments tend to suck.

Thanks to my prejudices, I do understand fully how hosed rural Bavaria is. This is more because I grew up in a town where once a year a symbolic tent in Bavaria-colors is set up so people can drink and celebrate how we stole the actual tent from the Bavarian mercenary army besieging the town then logical thought, mind you. :v:

Every day I'm thankful for not being born in the hellhole that is Bavaria. :smug:

# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 01:09

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

Bavaria should secede for the benefit of the rest of Germany.

That's just what they want. As long as we suffer, they should suffer too.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 22:46

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

GaussianCopula posted:

Well the process takes about a half year and about two out of three people that try to get asylum are not eligible for it. It seems to me that it's okay to keep these people in camps and dont let them integrate into the German society until their fate is decided, to prevent them from being uprooted again.

This is a post from someone who never read a news article describing how those people live in those camps. Hint: It's less camp and more concentration camp.

And there are some cases where the process can take years. Years in which those people are forbidden to work. Or do anything except sitting in a slowly rotting camp, often hidden away from sight so other Germans don't notice them slowly wasting away.

That our laws allow this to happen is a travesty.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2014 12:54

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Randler posted:

I know a lot of you bleeding heart lefties love voting for the Greens and care about how we treat asylum seekers. Also possibly Stuttgart 21.

I'm just gonna leave this here.

(Don't trust Greens.)

Looks more like "don't trust Kretschmann" to me. What kind of idiot sabotages his party's negotiations from the get-go and ends up the only one voting for the exact opposite everything else in his party wants? Is this Kretschmann some kind of spy working for the CDU or something?

Edit:

After reading some more about this compromise, it turns out it doesn't look too bad. Most changes are actually good. Now I'm kind of stumped. Huh.

Libluini fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Sep 19, 2014

# ¿ Sep 19, 2014 18:06

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Omi-Polari posted:

To me, this sounds a lot like Germany.

It's more the opposite of Germany. If you want Germany, think of cranky old men grumbling "Why are all those people coming to us? What's wrong with them? They should stay in their own countries and stop bothering us."

# ¿ Oct 3, 2014 16:49

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

icantfindaname posted:

I'm saying that you're fast approaching post 9/11 America levels of disregard for civil liberties

That's not possible we would have to use necromancers to resurrect Hitler to make that happen

# ¿ Oct 20, 2014 21:48

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Cingulate posted:

I know being a white guy I'm on the sunny side of almost all of these situations, but I've heard the same from for example black american friends - that they feel better in Germany.

I'm not saying Germany or the EU are utopian paradises, that's really not a fair representation of what I said, of course there is so much bad stuff going on on the continent. But just comparing the US to Germany, I feel Germany is somewhat more of a civil society.

e:f,b

Yeah, for one thing black people in Germany don't have to fear some random schmuck walking before them suddenly drawing a gun and shooting them down because they felt "threatened by this obvious criminal".

Fake Edit:

As long as they don't have a nasty run-in with Neo-Nazis of course, but at least not every German has a gun and the will to use it, is what I'm getting at.

# ¿ Oct 20, 2014 23:34

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

System Metternich posted:

Well, after the Bundeswehr being poo poo, German intelligence being busy helping out the NSA, "extremists" losing their passport and the CSU even demanding that they lose their citizenship, what is left to say but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXs6-cgOP88

And still, hundreds of American soldiers have deserted and gone into hiding in Germany. Fancy that. :v:

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 17:14

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Smirr posted:

I started looking up which countries would get to keep their governments if only Bundesregierungen were deposed, but it turns out I'm too lazy. The guy is certainly not making a very well thought through demand, though.

Germany and Austria. Interestingly, Switzerland's government is called Bundesrat, which is something I didn't know until reading it on Wikipedia. (Also Switzerland is neutral, like the poster just before me pointed out.)

# ¿ Oct 21, 2014 19:26

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

The first minister-president by Die Linke. This is the end of Germany. (According to idiots.)

To be fair, if Wagenknecht ever becomes Bundeskanzlerin, I would indeed think the end of Germany has come -and the long history of the new westernmost province of the Great Russian Empire will have begun. :unsmigghh:

On the regional level, I'll be lenient and assume not every possible minister-president the Linke could set up is secretly a spy for mother Russia.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2014 11:56

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

blowfish posted:

Easternmost province? Well if ~~when~~ once Russia extends all the way around the northern hemisphere

Holy loving poo poo, I took less then half a minute to correct that error, how could you respond that fast, you machine?

# ¿ Dec 5, 2014 12:13

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

I'm half Chinese, but I have never been checked by the way. I probably dress German enough.

There have been a lot of immigrants from Asian countries like Vietnam long ago. Maybe they just assumed you're one of their descendants? :v:

# ¿ Dec 5, 2014 19:40

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Dackel posted:

I'm half chinese too. I speak english with my american fiance. Whenever we go anywhere together and someone approaches us to speak german, they always go to him first. Then I usually answer back and they double back stare at me.

"Wow, du sprichst ohne Akzent! Woher kommst du?"

You should answer "Von der Venus nat�rlich.", just to see what happens.

# ¿ Dec 5, 2014 20:23

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

http://www.wahlrecht.de/umfragen/

How the hell did the FDP end up losing even more votes? Did everyone forget about them the instant they were out of the Bundestag? Not that I'll miss those crazy guys, but wow, I think I should start to pity them now.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2014 01:27

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Drone posted:

Republicans like Bloomberg or Huntsman would probably be FDP if they were in Germany.

And would be completely marginalized and forgotten. :v:

# ¿ Dec 6, 2014 12:56

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Lucy Heartfilia posted:

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/bayern/integrations-papier-der-csu-die-csu-ist-in-absurdistan-angekommen-1.2255363
http://www.br.de/nachrichten/csu-integration-sprache-100.html

Every time I think Bavarians can't get any dumber or more insane, something like this happens and I get a little bit more cynical.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2014 22:24

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

At this point I think the CSU-leadership is made up of demons badly impersonating human beings. Or they're alcoholics and drunk 24/7. Take your poison.

# ¿ Dec 6, 2014 22:53

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Kidney Stone posted:

Und Gartenzwerge zu besitzen!

Nein. Holzwichtl. Gartenzwerge sind bereits veraltet.

# ¿ Dec 7, 2014 15:39

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Randler posted:

Maybe we could revoke citizenship from undesirable elements of German society to change that, ja?

Better idea: We should build prisons in every little Kaff in Germany, so we can transport every criminal back to the place he/she came from!

# ¿ Dec 7, 2014 22:12

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

posh spaz posted:

My point was more generally about "The War on Islam," culturally and militarily. Is it the right thing to do? I think so. Tolerance doesn't mean being a doormat. I believe you should stand up to what you believe in. We just have to admit that standing up for what we believe in inspires others to hurt us.

I absolutely agree if you're in a country you should respect their rules, and if you want to emigrate to a country, you should have to support their values. I'm pretty sure most countries require you to pledge your allegiance to democracy/federalism/the rule of law/whatever to obtain citizenship.

I object to the term "The War on Islam", since there are a lot of shitheads in other religions, too. And those shitheads also don't like things like basic human rights or equality of men and women. Let's call it "The War on Shitheadism", this is less racist and far more accurate.

# ¿ Dec 8, 2014 19:57

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Mightypeon posted:

IIRC, the German border was also "Milit�risches Sperrgebiet". While unlawfully entering this in the BRD is also just a misdemeanor, in the GDR this iirc was also a felony. Even today, a soldier on patrol is, in theory, supposed to shoot at tresparsers (if they dont stop when called to stop, and at the very end of the escalation ladder after warning shots etc.).

One warning shot. But we were supposed to aim for the legs in case someone somehow went the entire escalation ladder without getting smart at the last minute, so it balances out again.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2014 21:23

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Mightypeon posted:

Got trained the same way in 2003/2004, but the instructors said that aiming for the legs pretty much doesnt work because, unless its really close, you need to be a pretty decent shot for that.

Yeah, we were told we should do our best and always state at the inquiry afterwards that we really did aim for the legs, even if we missed correcting for the recoil and accidentally nailed him through the heart. (I faintly remember shooting instructors telling me about this and I myself did gently caress up some shooting exercises when I forgot recoil exists and suddenly shot far above the targets. So it's plausible. I guess our instructors didn't want to tell us "aim for the ground just before them" just in case too many of us were good shots.? :v:

)

Then again, I faintly remember someone telling me to aim at the feet, so a shot would have a better chance at hitting the leg. This could have been a joke, though! My time in the military was eight years ago and basic training almost ten years, so I may be misremembering this last part.

# ¿ Dec 10, 2014 22:00

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

waitwhatno posted:

Guys, this happens all the time with people visiting Germany and seeing how awesome we are and how well our trains are run. Give him a break, it will pass.

The secret of our trains: The Deutsche Bahn defines a "Versp�tung" as a train coming late by more than five minutes.

Turns out if you use special German train time your trains will always be on time! (No, really.) :shepface:

Edit:

In welcher Jahreszeit hat die Deutsche Bahn die meisten Versp�tungen?

-Fr�hling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter.

(In which season does the Deutsche Bahn has the most late arrivals?

-Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter.)

:v:

# ¿ Dec 11, 2014 12:21

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Mightypeon posted:

I think thats a callback to an Old East German/Soviet joke:

Question: "Which for factors most strongly repress the growth of Communist agriculture?"
Awnser:"Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter."

Just shows how people in East and West aren't that different.

Like minds think alike.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2014 19:19

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Torrannor posted:

Remember that Bavaria is the state that was forbidden to hang crosses in class rooms by the Constitutional Court, and they do it anyway.

I have this giant saw in my backyard and nothing to do today, let's saw Bavaria off from the real Germany already

# ¿ Dec 11, 2014 22:31

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

e X posted:

Is there actually a Greater Austria movement? poo poo, do you have monarchists? Because if 40 odd years are enough, you got to have them.

Eh, they're everywhere, like a pest. At least our own nobles up here in the cold north aren't doing anything to entice them. If you wanted to, you could go visit the Duke of Celle in Niedersachsen, for example.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2014 23:13

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

ArchangeI posted:

I was still a little peeved to find out that the ancient house of Mecklenburg has died out in the male line and that we would now be a part of Prussia.

First the DDR disbands and now this

At least you got to become part of Prussia peacefully. The Kingdom of Hannover for some reason allied with far away Austria and got bitchslapped into submission. Our last king then ran away to Austria and left us to be annexed by the Prussians.

The real sad thing is the descendants of our late king are still around today, doing stupid poo poo liking beating up journalists and pissing at exhibitions at the millenial fair. So we not only lost our kingdom, the last in the line of our kings is a retarded rear end in a top hat.

# ¿ Dec 11, 2014 23:38

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Torrannor posted:

If I recall correctly, in England they define a train coming late as being at least fifteen minutes late, while it's apparently only 1 minute in Japan. So I would say we are fairly mediocre in this regard.

Well, do they also tell people a train needing 15 minutes to enter the station "doesn't count as being late"? :v:

Also let me tell you about that one time when I came back from a funeral in Cologne and my trains started running up more and more delays on my way back until I ended halfway to home in Bielefeld at around midnight, three hours late. Of course in Bielefeld, no train was available until morning, so in effect I was about 8 hours late.

Something like this happened to me three times by now. Nearly every time I'm travelling longer then 1-2 hours by train, the Deutsche Bahn suddenly fucks up, just for me. :shepicide:

# ¿ Dec 12, 2014 15:45

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

Honj Steak posted:

In other news:

http://www.abendblatt.de/kultur-live/article135457312/Heftige-Diskussion-um-AfD-Anzeige-gegen-Kampnagel-Chefin.html

A theatre director from Hamburg gives shelter to refugees from Africa and gets sued by the AfD.

Highlight:

"In einer anderen gesellschaftlichen Form würde Ihnen etwas ganz anderes blühen als diese Anzeige."

Personally, I find it funny to see people like this one always forgetting they could end up on the receiving end, too. Let's forget for a moment someone outed himself openly as a Nazi and enemy of the state by stating this bullshit, If you go by this childish logic the obvious answer would be:

"Und in wieder einer anderen gesellschaftlichen Form w�re ich Herzog und w�rde euch Bauern h�uten lassen f�r eure Frechheit."

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 16:40

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

GaussianCopula posted:

I dont have numbers on it and can't be arsed to search for them but it seems to be a trend that schools try to integrate Muslims better by catering to their wishes and demanding "no pork" when requesting proposals (Ausschreiben) catering.

Or maybe they want schoolchildren to eat healthy food instead of fettes Schweinefleisch, did you ever think about that?

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 17:44

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

icantfindaname posted:

"and ban Pork is wrong"

Twenty years later the heart rebells and ends the tyranny of pork.

# ¿ Dec 17, 2014 19:05

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 02:54

Libluini: May 18, 2012; I gravitated towards the Greens, eventually even joining the party itself.

The Linke is a party I grudgingly accept exists, but I've learned enough about DDR-history I can't bring myself to trust a party that was once the SED, a party leading the corrupt state apparatus ...; Grimey Drawer

System Metternich posted:

Hmm, I don't know. What are your art school credentials?

Remember, he needs at least one rejection to qualify.

Edit:

gently caress, beaten already.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2014 15:01

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