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Not so fun fact about Julia Klöckner. When she was minister for agriculture and nutrition she advertised Nestlé by saying on video during a meeting with the head of the company in Germany that she'd like to thank the food processing industry for making the food "the people like to eat".

If you think a bar is low, prepare for the German CDU to limbo below it with ease.

For the most part it can be great entertainment and i used to enjoy it for many years. Thinks started to become slightly weird for me, when i learned about the regime in Azerbaijan and not remembering anything to that extent being said in the mainstream media in Germany (or at least that i noticed) when it was there in 2012. Then things got more weird as Russia had annexed Crimea but was still allowed to participate, with there being some mention of it at least.

So i remember many years where politics did not play as much of a role and the "drama" was about the acts themselves or the national preselections. The preselections are always a drama in Germany as the German broadcasters work hard to get the most bland, boring and forgettable acts on instead of having any chance at winning.

It is a lot of fun, if it isn't tainted by criminal regimes using the stage to get legitimacy. In that sense ignorance can be a bliss and i don't know if i was just blissful because of that in the earlier years or if there was "a good old time".

I agree with what you are saying, just drawing the line earlier.

In my eyes even the most naive person would understand this to be intentional. Or well, if we take children as the example of the most naive in the world there is many things where adults think they need to give a level of benefit of the doubt that a child would not give.

I wouldnt put it past companies to make "consoles", that only have one shitty game to play, but just the perfect layout and components for something like operating drones if retrofitted.

In Germany it isn't just Gen Z. Ten years ago there were also thousands of arson and other attacks on refugee shelters or families assumed to be refugees living in flats.

In the 00s a Nenonazi terror group likely supported by the interior intelligence went around murdering "foreigners" in their shops and planting bombs.

The 90s are infamously called "baseball bat years" because of extensive Nazi violence, beating up people in the streats, arson, bomb attacks, murdering people.

In 2022 there was a bomb attack on the party office of the Left Party in a town in western Germany. Police wanted to stop the investigation and only with strong pressure went to investigate again.

Between 2010 and 2020 there was a series of arson and other attacks in Berlin, among other things a local politician luckily escaping death with his family as his car was torched in the garage. Again the police and prosecutors showed to have ties to the terrorists and investigations remained lackluster despite local activists and the press knowing the likely suspects.

In 2019 a Neonazi tried to massacre Jewish people in a synagogue in Halle and instead went to a kebab store to murder two people as the door of the synagogue was locked.

In 2016-2019 there was multiple scandals with police officers stealing ammunition and funneling it to Neonazi terror groups....

This has nothing to do with Gen Z. Fascism and violent Neonazism are an issue in all generations in Germany.

Israel is currently starving 2 million people to death and openly advocating for genocide and ethnic cleansing. It is unacceptable to give them a stage and legitimize them that way. If it was Russia still allowed to participate in Eurovision we would have the same outcry.

Franklin said she spent the night handcuffed at a police station. After she was released, she said the city gave her wrong information on her court date and even her attorneys couldn’t figure out the right place for her to show up.

The city initially won the case by default due to her absence. But a judge later overturned that judgment, siding with Franklin. Now, the city is fighting that decision, Franklin’s attorney said.

Steinbruegge made headlines during the protests when he got arrested in his “skimpy little” bike shorts after taking a ride from his Lake View home to peruse the area, he said, out of curiosity. He was arrested for trespassing by a Homeland Security officer who turned him over to Chicago police. Police accused Steinbruegge of ignoring signs deeming the area off-limits and refusing to leave despite multiple police orders. He spent the night in jail and was released at 4 a.m.

But he says the city failed to give him or his attorneys the proper hearing information, too. He spent “hours and hours” driving around to multiple county courthouses and municipal buildings looking for his court hearing to no avail, and he lost his case by default.

Parking receipts at all of the stops he made trying to find his hearing helped bolster his case, and a judge ruled in his favor. The city is now fighting to overturn that decision.

Olga Fedorova was on assignment for a wire service called European Pressphoto Agency when she was arrested. Fedorova said her Chicago Police Department-issued press credential was confiscated as she was attempting to photograph a person being carried away by their hands and feet by police.

Like dozens of others, Fedorova was charged with disorderly conduct for failure to obey a police order, a violation that carries no jail time, according to the city’s municipal code. But she said she was placed in a dark van with protesters for hours before being moved to a police station cell where she spent the night.

“There’s no sleeping in that cell whatsoever. It’s just like a stinky, disgusting place where there’s no food, there’s no shower,” Fedorova said.

Fedorova was able to get her press credentials back shortly after. But it wasn’t until a couple months later before the city dropped the charges against her, she said. In one case, she had bought a flight to come back to Chicago for a hearing, only to learn a day or two before that it would be on Zoom.

Yeah, this is just designed to waste everyone's time and resource to punish them for merely existing and shining light to people opposing the DNC. They know they have nothing on the people and are authoritarians who made arbitrary arrests and impeded the work of the press. Just like Eric Adams in New York, Brandon Johnson shows that being part of the Democrats does not come with an intention to uphold the law and basic decency, when there is political elites and oligarchs to pander to.

This isn't negligent. There is no way that "i pay you for not transferring a person to a hospital that needs a hospital" isn't intent.

That is certainly a much better "good stuff"/weight ratio than washing machines. Would be interesting to see which products it are specifically and what components are relevant exactly.

With gaming still being a hobby most popular with young men it is certainly not plausible that the demand spikes while the customer bases is rapidly dying or getting maimed at the front.

Die "Haft"entschädigung für KZ Überlebende hatte den gleichen Tagessatz wie zu unrecht in regulären Gefängnissen inhaftiert zu sein.

https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/entschaedigung-von-holocaustueberlebenden-der-lange-kampf-100.html

Andere Ansprüche wurden erst später geregelt und oft mit hohen Hürden versehen, etwa durfte man kein Kommunist sein, es gab Höchstsätze für geraubtes Eigentum und zahlreiche Gruppen von Verfolgten wurden erst Jahrzehnte später überhaupt als Opfer anerkannt. Dabei galt lange Zeit, dass nur "Deutsche" einen Anspruch auf Entschädigung hatten.

Wenn der Staatsschutz die Aufklärung rechtsextremer Anschläge verschleppt oder wie im Fall der Anschlagsserie in Neukölln persönliche Verbindungen zu Tatverdächtigen hat, dann werden damit rechtsextreme Straftaten ermutigt, wodurch der Staatsschutz zur Unsicherheit von "linken" und demokratisch ziviligesellschaftlich Engagierten beiträgt. Dabei scheint die Aufklärung von mutmaßlich "linken" Straftaten eine höhere Priorität zu haben als die Aufklärung mtumaßlich rechter Straftaten. Da fällt mir als Beispiel noch der Sprengstoffanschlag auf ein Parteibüro der Linken 2022 ein, wo es auch erstmal erheblichen Druck brauchte, damit die Polizei vernünftigt ermittelt.

It wasn't that long ago that women wearing pants was considered to be wrong. Wome used to be arrested in the US for wearing pants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trousers_as_women's_clothing#United_States_and_Europe