@Kamitoto4 @MuKuDk2 Ever since industrialisation actually, "Ostflucht" was a recurring issue.
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BenKent6
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BenKent6
@Kent6Ben
PhD student in Spacecraft Engineering @UoM_SPACE
Manchester Katılım Mayıs 2019
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It is so funny to me that Vertriebene were such a big organised voting block that the SPD had to do shit like this because my father was a child refugee from Eastern Prussia (I'm not that old he just started a family old) and his opinion was "Nah, I don't want to go back.".
Alejandro🌹🇪🇺@Alejandro_SocEU
This is the era the SPD must return to if it wants to recover. Late 1950s — Party congress, 1958.
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@dasblinkenlght @cremieuxrecueil Historically "Germany" was more likely to be invaded than doing the invading. The 30 years war devastated the region and mentally scarred them for centuries.
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@cremieuxrecueil Do you have any doubt that whoever came up with this 💩 meme has German background?
For centuries, the formula for Germany has been
Problem ➡️ War ➡️ Solution
until in the 20-th century they lost 2:0 at their national passtime.
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@PaleoWenus @cremieuxrecueil At some point you guys have to get over your inferiority complex, it's seriously not healthy and frankly you don't need it; Poland is now a prosperous country.
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@krzysioactuary @SlawomirDebski German defence policy isn't up to you
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@SlawomirDebski No German rearmament! No German military occupation of Europe! Never again!
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German-Polish relations are burdened by a lack of trust. It’s worth starting to address this problem. No, not everyone will like it, but political leaders are meant to lead… it’s worth remembering that.
My take on the issue:
"The Polish-German relationship sits at the center of Europe’s security - and at the edge of its fault lines. German rearmament is indispensable, but rearmament without political anchoring may eventually collide with the unfinished business of World War II. The choice before Berlin is stark: let its growing power rest on legal arguments and fragile trust or convert its historical debt into concrete investments in Poland’s defense and NATO’s eastern flank. Only the second path turns memory from a liability into a strategic asset." CC: @ischinger @LianaFix @ClaudMajor @ulrichspeck @HRadziejowska @ZalewskiPawel @RauZbigniew @jgotkowska @pawelkowalpl @RKupiecki
War on the Rocks@WarOnTheRocks
Germany is rebuilding its military and seeking a larger role in European security. But an unfinished World War II reckoning still complicates trust with Poland. ow.ly/JHOO30sUxeu
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@JohnD_CZ I agree it was a horrible atrocity, but it basically make Czechia a viable state. Separatist Germans were a third of the country
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Czech anticommunism is so stupid, they blame it for everything wrong with their country (which is objectively still pretty fine), but never credit it for stuff like the Sudetenland expulsions or rebuilding Prague
Trad West@trad_west_
The Czech Republic has approved a law that criminalizes the promotion of communist ideology. From January 1, 2026, it has been law that anyone who creates, supports, or disseminates communist movements may face 1 to 5 years in prison.
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@Alonso_GD Do you believe this right should also be given to the other ethnic groups that were ethnically cleasned in the period after ww2?
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Not absorb. Restore. These are families who had a home in Palestine and were expelled from them by a political project that built Israel on top of their dispossession. “But I already got rid of you” is not really a valid reason to avoid responsibility
Eylon Levy@EylonALevy
That’s just not true. They offered Israel normalization if it absorbs millions of Arab “refugees” and changes its name to Palestine. That’s the meaning of the “right of return” condition that gullible Western observers assume is just rhetoric.
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@eichel_robert @thorstenbenner Ba-Wü always had a higher AfD vote than most other old states.
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@thorstenbenner Quite a high AfD vote for a western Lander?
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A very bad day for CDU/CSU-SPD governing coalition in Baden-Württemberg elections.
Merz' CDU loses to Greens after year-long polling lead.
SPD at disastrous low of 5.5%.
Expect pressure to increase on both Merz & SPD vice chancellor Klingbeil from within their own parties.
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@krzysioactuary @BrunoTertrais You appear to have serious issues with your western neighbour. Go visit Berlin, I promise you they are ok.
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@BrunoTertrais Hahahahahahaha ... you poor child, Germans have only one partner and that partner is in Moscow, for over 500 years now.
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My perennial advice to my UK and US friends: underestimate the strength of the German-French partnership at your peril…
Sophie Pedder@PedderSophie
Just when the Franco-German tie looked strained… “In the spirit of their close partnership…France and Germany have decided to enter into closer cooperation in the field of deterrence in response to the evolving threat landscape”
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@adam_flis87 @Linahuaa Meh, it was primarily based on the Weimar constitution with the weaknesses removed.
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@Linahuaa Germany is a funny country because it is an industrial powerhouse, the world's third largest economy, and at the same time, several generations have grown up in a country with a constitution written somewhere on the back of an envelope in the US.
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NO, MIGRANTS DID NOT REBUILD GERMANY!!!🇩🇪
I’m sick and tired of our government’s lie that migrants rebuilt my great homeland after WWII.
Our GRANDPARENTS worked tirelessly while MILLIONS of Germans were persecuted, r@ped, kiIIed.
The CDU should be ASHAMED.
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@RaphLopoukhine @yuanyi_z Quebecois aren't beaten at School for not speaking English....
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Speaking as a certified Charles de Gaulle hater - difficult to be otherwise when he cheered on the breakup of a country which shed blood to rescue his - I have felt this a lot recently.
The Economist@TheEconomist
Donald Trump’s America makes Gaullism respectable again economist.com/europe/2026/02…
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@RaphLopoukhine @yuanyi_z Oppressed in the same way Bretons, Alsatians, Basques etc were in France.
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@yuanyi_z Francophones in Canada, as well as Metis and First Nations were oppressed for centuries. They still are. A free Quebec does make sense, if that's what the Quebec nation wants. If Quebecers want to remain in Canada, good for them, but you can't hate a man for standing for them.
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@pegobry_en @yuanyi_z Same way Bretons, Alsatians, Basques etc were opressed.
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@yuanyi_z He cheered on the liberation of an oppressed people
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@NicholasTyrone Indeed. See how tankies talk about the Baltics for an exhibit.
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The oddest thing about the left clinging to “No state has the right to exist” is that it is the perfect justification for colonialism, which they supposedly hate (although they only hate it when the “bad guys” do it, to be fair).
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Well, tbh if you kick Germany out of Europe 4/5 institutions will have to close because they run out of money.
And that’s not an exaggeration but the net contribution of Germany is 3 times that of France 🇫🇷.
NordStream 3🦈@PaleoWenus
@FalkTG If you want to make EU efficient, Germany should be kicked out from this organization. Because of being the main source of the infeffciency.
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@nickhillman How come the parental earning threshold has been frozen so long? This cannot be sustainable surely.
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This is true. It’s a story about 30somethings; it’s not a story about today’s younger students. Yet the financial position of students is worse than the financial position of graduates (and their loan terms are worse too - eg a 40-year repayment term):
hepi.ac.uk/reports/a-mini…
oh i give up, Glenn it is@jivetolkein
@aedison Not being mentioned is how pathetic the amount you can borrow at crappy terms is - max outside London is 10k and capped for households earning beyond the unbelievable riches of 25k 10k for a years rent food bills travel study materials ? Hall fees typically that alone.
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@TheDealMakerGuy @Michal6h The German minority in Poland is an indigenous minority, what remains of the post ww2 ethnic cleansing. The poles in Germany are largely recent migrants.
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@Michal6h which does not apply to Polish minority because it does not have a formally recognized minority status in Germany
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At the same time, German minority in Poland is formally protected and has long had a seat in parliament.
Poles in Germany? No formal minority status.
Christoph Breuer@chribreuer
Same in Germany. Poles are invisible. I can't remember a single film or tv show with a Polish character.
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@Simon_Nixon Because it was never intended to be logical but instead to exploit a loophole in the governmental budget rules.
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Incredible stat. How can anyone have ever thought this was a good idea?
Institute for Fiscal Studies@TheIFS
@KateOgdenEcon Many borrowers will see their outstanding loan balance increase year-on-year in cash terms, despite making monthly loan repayments. Someone with an outstanding Plan 2 student loan of £50k would need to earn around £63k this year for their repayments to offset the interest added.
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Was ist das schönste deutsche Bundesland und warum ist es Hessen?
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@simonmontefiore Yeah, and the world remembers what happened the last time it awoke
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