I hope this guy gets charged for enviromental crimes but also very fucking carbrained to go "welp, nothing to be done about this" and then just fucking dump a gallon of oil on the ground a day

Also, how much ass does Germany have to kiss before they become green?

The ass kissing they do is to Israel, not like, jewish people. Germany doesn't really care about jewish peoples safety as it relates to them being jewish. Given the self-understanding of Israel as the jewish nation and the conflation between israeli and jew that happens a lot I assume it refers to that.

Jury's out on whether whoever made the map correctly identified that gifting israel a submarine is of little help when you get beat up by nazis or whether it follows the very popular that germany of all places now has an antisemitism problem because it was imported along with the too many brown people

as far as I can overlook the situation the official position is "whoops!"

[extremely lib voice]: We need to allow Florida retirement homes to fly flags of convenience

Kitty History, just like ours!

There is a subsection of the population mostly made up of pensioniers that occupy flats with ~30-70 year old renting contracts that mean through a web of interdependent laws they pay reasonable accomodation for their dwellings, close to, sometimes under, maybe slightly over upkeep.

That is entirely a privilege of having moved into a state or workers coop-built appartement in the 60s or 70s at the latest though and is entirely irreproducable to anyone born after that fact. Homeownership in germany is not seen as a goal on account of people having given up on a pipedream they'll never reach anyways for the most part. It's basically not possible for large swathes of the population born in the 1980s and onwards.

Incidentally, germany is a hotbed of money laundering and storing for organized crime in the EU because the laws around buying and selling houses are set up in a way that makes it incredibly easy to basically nullify any search and discovery or building enforcement on them because as it stands it pits, if I transliterate to an americanized audience, Cletus the slack jawed Yokel from Nowhere, PA against Shadow Housing Dealings S.A.R.L. (registered to a cyprese postbox that currently resides at the deep end of the mariana trench). Nothing will ever be done about this because the same laws also benefits people like former health minister / organized crime head Jens Spahn when he is gifted a multimillion flat that not even convicted journalists can get info on

Shame we'll never find out because forced friendly firing an aircraft would be such a windmill slamdunk of embarassment for the USAF that they'd never admit it

In it's 2024 budget, the Biden administration requested $70 billion for management consulting, aka “professional services,” which is 5% of all discretionary spending. The Defense Department alone asked for $32.9 billion.

I feel like you have to be kind of a rube to believe the DoD is spending 33 billion on McKinsey Lanyard people

The AfD is basically if you take the NSDAP and cross out even the semblance of a workers party or welfare state they liked to portray.

Honestly considering how fascism is it boils down as to whether Auschwitz is a state run genocide project that also serves IG Farben or whether it's an IG Farben run business that also serves the state mandated genocide. I know, again, that the lines are blurry in Fascism but the point I'm geting at is imagine how your average AfD voter is going to react to the AfD being in charge, doing all the nazi shit and then still not having any material improvements in their lifes. I don't even know what comes after that, I don't know what the even more Nazi-Nazi-Party looks like, except of course that it will be even more horrible than historical examples

An average German employee, for example, works more than 20 percent fewer hours than their American counterparts.

Not that the USA isn't very much terrible but I'm assuming this guy picked up the ever popular "hours per job" metric instead of "hours per person" metric.

Schröders neoliberization effort introduced the mini job, where you could opt out or "opt out" out of social securities, costing you and your benefactorial employer way less money. THe purposed idea was that a mother of 5 could use her spare 5 hours a week to contribute some househould income, what actually happened of course is that 5 full time employees with all the admittedly "strong" social services benefits (compared to the USA) got replaced by 20 mini job employees who have none of those.

This drags down the "hours worked per job" average down a whole fucking bunch, since any given job is going to be like 20 hours a month max. It's just that people mostly have 2 - 5 of those, so more like a 100 hour workweek. Or they just do undeclared work a lot, which means more necessary money in their pocket, it also means 0 pensions since it's not in the system.

Why do you figure this is a false flag?

Listen, it's called Recon by Fire and had it worked the Navy could've claimed to have eradicated the Houthis Airforce by 50% (they have at least that one Mi-8)

Don't @ me about footprint but this is on the way to having the personal CO2-Footprint of the actual cruise ship by going so often all the breakdowns per passenger just end up at 100% again

You speak english, so:

West of the former GDR border: spanish
East of the former GDR border: german

I don't mean this as an attack but one could write books about how much cars retroactively shaped perception of transport and city planning before cars. It's insane. The usual thing seems to be to assume that because everybody has a car now everybody just used to have an individual horse, commuting from their suburbian slash peasant dwelling living place on horse roads with horse congestion to downtown (centrally planned around 50.000 horses to the detriment of 8 cranks that walked). For 99% of history and for 99% of people your options to get anywhere were:

a) walking b) public transport of some sort

Then came train, bicycle, automobile at around a 50 year timeframe. First one revolutionized public transport, second one revolutionized individual transport and then for another 50 years cars were hated by everybody but the rich dipshits that could afford them endangering anybody else.

You ever hear someone say "roads [or roadspace] was always for cars"? Yeah, it's that. It's assuming that because the world is the way that it is now, it used to be that way forever, except horse.

This honestly feels more like medieval lord brain, which I also think is a big part of car brain

Share a space with the commoners? By god, what if I catch the poor off of them?

Also very popular with the bicycle crowd, just to note

Honestly I don't think cruises and disneyland qualify you to be "well traveled" in any sense of the word other than "has technically been to many places" and even that's only from the cruises.