@mat1_u Been to all of Western France, but not BW or Bavaria????
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@privmatu Her extended family somewhat openly runs a huge welfare fraud operation in Cologne. The joys of multiculturalism.
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@privmatu My German grandparents have a housekeeper from Albanian Macedonia, whom I've known since I was born, keeps telling me how horrible it is there
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@yslenjoyer Really not an expert on internal Russian aerospace dynamics, but there should've been a post-Soviet way for them to retain at least one Airbus style company capable of producing competitive civilian and military aircraft. It's been such a shitshow of half-hearted DOA projects.
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I'm sorry, but the SU-57 doesn't look good as a two seater
@Rupprecht_A@RupprechtDeino
With the unveiling of the two-seat variant of the Su-57- aka the Su-57D (?) - it appears that, following the J-20S (AS), there is now a second 5th-generation aircraft available in a two-seat configuration. 1.
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@ntrickett16 Very popular among old guard left politicians in Europe in the first weeks of the war. Then mostly an American online phenomenon afterwards.
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Was this ever popular or just a talking point among tech bros who hate Europe?
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Strange to remember how popular the view once was that we had to enforce a surrender on Ukraine for the Ukrainians’ own good.
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@mat1_u He was an OK leader, Germany probably would’ve been a bigger shit show post-Bismarck under other monarchs. Just a terrible strategist, but that's more of a German thing in general. Germans are tacticians, not strategist.
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@actsmaniac It's no surprise that the AfD was founded in 2013 after CDU/FDP finally secured a majority for a term, but largely continued doing SPD style politics. It's hard to see German political outcomes being very different if the SPD had won a majority in every election since 1998.
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At this point I think many people vote AfD simply as an anti-SPD vote.
They voted FDP and CDU before and still got the SPD in government blocking big changes. But AfD is the biggest current party that will definitely not form a coalition with the social democrats.
Wahlrecht.de@Wahlrecht_de
Sonntagsfrage zur Bundestagswahl • INSA/BamS: AfD 29 % | CDU/CSU 22 % | GRÜNE 14 % | SPD 12 % | DIE LINKE 10 % | BSW 3 % | FDP 3 % | Sonstige 7 % ➤ Übersicht: wahlrecht.de/umfragen/ ➤ Verlauf: wahlrecht.de/umfragen/insa.…
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@nobodyknows2322 The left wing of the German FDP is pretty much the closest proxy you get to the American Democratic Party. Socially liberal, with market liberal convictions, but willing to make a lot of SocDem concessions.
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Most centrist to moderately liberal Dems and non-Trumpy Republicans would, too. It's the most 'Anglo' style German political party
Bird on Fire 🔥@nobodyknows2322
Now if I were a German myself--remember, the Continental political spectrum is so vastly different from ours so it involves some hard choices for an Anglo of any mainstream political stripe--I'd likely vote FDP
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@yslenjoyer Most European navies consist of a couple of capable ships that are however unable to do much on their own. I could totally see a scenario where they’re integrated into UK-led strike groups. Don't think there’d be much opposition to that in Germany for example.
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@commanderbrks Also, one could argue that Britain cannot possibly shift to a US-like role in NATO without further integration with European naval structures.
Also, the naval construction and procurement situation for the RN is somehow one of the worst on the planet rn.
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@yslenjoyer Imo, the UK should just totally neglect its land forces and focus primarily on its navy. In a couple of years, European NATO will have plenty of land and air capabilities against the only plausible foe. Having one nation with reliable, US navy-like capabilities would be amazing.
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@commanderbrks They can't, and they've had multiple crises over increasing MOD spending. This has been a discussion topic for like 15 years at this point.
In my opinion, it's fiscally irresponsible, but the MOD desperately needs it, and putting it off for so long has made the situation worse.
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@Borderlander_P @nikicaga East German industry was technologically stuck in the 50s-60s. Nothing that wouldn't have been at the significant expense of the West German taxpayer (who was already spending enormous amounts, and still is, by taking all East Germans into their welfare state) could've been done
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@commanderbrks @nikicaga There was a lot of shit going on with the Treuhand but I think a lot of Eastern German boomers and GenXers just couldn't comprehend how severely underdeveloped the local evonomy was.
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East Germany was already much poorer (and regardless of socialist successes, the transition was bound to suck) and the people mostly wanted the culture and institutions smashed more than West Germans did
It sucks for the 10-20% hardline socialist there, but they were a minority
chimera@chimeraxmachina
What’s it called when two countries merge but only one of the two has its culture and institutions smashed, its people thrown into poverty, and a decades long crusade is waged to convince everyone it was evil in all regards because “unification” doesn’t seem quite accurate
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@PunishedRWR "Anti-imperialists" complaining about NATO admitting Eastern European states that voluntarily decided to join is ironic because it assumes Russia has an inherent imperialistic claim to decide the foreign policy of these countries
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Russia's Invasion of Ukraine is about ''NATO Expansion'' in a sense,
Because Russia resents NATO as an obstacle to it's own imperialist wet dreams over Eastern Europe
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@eugyppius1 German boomers dumping millions into saving a practically dead whale is kind of like German boomers voting to kill the German economy to supposedly save the environment
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The whole whale rescue was basically an op to ship Horst off to die in the Atlantic while assuring childish naive Germans he was swimming free on uncle’s farm next to that childhood Bernese their dad totally didn’t put down when they were seven.
eugyppius@eugyppius1
A dead humpback whale has washed up on the shore of the Danish island of Anholt. It is most likely the corpse of Horst the Whaletard - 200km south of where he was freed. He was making his way stubbornly back towards the Baltic.
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