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German Democracy is DEAD.  The Conservatives, CDU/CSU (what would be very, VERY moderate Republicans in the US; yeah, I know an oxymoron  ) collaborated with – or better chanced their yay votes – the Nazis = AfD to push through their controversial migration policy. The LAST hope for my country to even remotely stand up to Donald Trump (= who he might remotely respect), Friedrich Merz, is officially burnt / unelectable for ANY decent democrat in my homeland. Herzlichen Dank für NICHTS, Fritze!  |
| I'm coming to Berlin in March. It's going to be a wild week listening to the disaster. |
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Annette - Oh, Schei–, er, yes, I suppose it will be. I hope the rest of the German democratic spectrum can prevent something, uh... worse, and history won't repeat itself.  |
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| Guys, I rarely come forward as especially political, and I hope I'll never again as I REALLY suck at finding the right words. My career as a Political Neutralist ended when I witnessed something that not only left a foul taste in MY, but surely in my (especially jewish) fellow country peoples mouths, too. I think y'all agree with me that EVERY democrat MUST speak up against something like THIS: Lieber Herr Musk, for the public display of the Hitlergruß you can be sentenced with up to three years in jail and/or a fine – no matter if it's as obviously coming from the  as yours. You might want to know that UNIMPORTANT detail before your next trip to Grünheide. Wait, what! Oh-kay? Hm!  ... Ah!  My, GOOD that I looked at that video more closely again! Otherwise, I might've got completely misled by Nationalstolz But: All-Clear! That wasn't a Bad Salute, only a casual Heil Five among friends at a party that reeled at bit "off course", and was accidentally leaked to the internet. But here something you may really want to abstain from in the future as... you DO know that the Epitome of German Democracy you're fandoming so profusely, the AfD, is the modern-day NSDAP, right? No, that's not fake news but very real: I lost a friend to them. We've always been on different sides of the political continuum, which was never a problem... But: do you know how unsettling it is when overnight you're a "linksgrünversiffte Kommunistenhure" that shall be 'remigrated' to Auschwitz? No. Of course not. How should you, as a white South-African born into the Apartheid-Regime? And even though you fled for your Mum's native Canada – and, thanks to recent changes in immigration laws then, became a citizen – with 18 to evade military service for that Apartheid-Regime, the Apartheid-Regime obviously is still ingrained in you. Right. WHY would I disrupt a PERFECTLY FINE day with THAT? Well, here we're back at Auschwitz and it being freed, 80 years ago today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. NIEMALS WIEDER |
LOOK what a literary "Schmankerl" I saw this morning at a local bookstore.  Classic case of: A picture says more than a thousand words.  Oh, while I'm at it: Let me stress that we Germans are a VERY welcoming people and always happy to greet foreign travelers in our beautiful country and show you around.  However – so the experience is as rewarding as possible for either side – here a CUSTOMIZED travel tip for our FAVORITE do-gooder. He shall rather refrain from doing THIS (again). Do WHAT again? => "Re: Is the former USA now a fascist regime?"  (C'mon, we all love a shrieking headline, right?) |
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Sorry, I'm so late, but CRAZY day! Here some LAST MINUTE-Christmas Cookies. These I gave to my friends here, and will take to the friends I'll spend Christmas with tomorrow. "44. Christmas Cookies II." FRöHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN / HAPPY CHRISTMAS, WDC!    |
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