GER politics thread

[Skybird]

More high-flying plans and proud announcements. Right now the situation is that the forces are so depleted of literally everthing that just bringing the stocks of equipment and platforms as nominated by their on-paper-structure should be priority and most likely will consume most of the finances pouring in.



And even when the plan they now announced would work out like it is on paper, it would still be an army that due to its low numbers will find it hard to compensate serious losses, or even for longer maintenance intervals if damages pile up due to combat action.



What currently is not needed so much is the utmost top of the hightech systems available for hilarious much money, but simply much higher base numbers for IFVs, tanks, bridging tanks (which all were given up on after 1990s...) combat and transport helicopters, interceptors, submarines, and of course, the never-ednign drama with the A400M.


And more personell, and troops.

An army that cannot afford losses, soon will get into trouble if war breaks out. May it be too low numbers, may it be too high dependencies and lacking redundancy.

[Skybird]

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The slogan "fight against the right" draws a sharp line - consciously and deliberately - anyone who is not left is per se suspicious of being a right-wing radical, a racist or a Nazi.

Left Social Democrats, many Greens and last but not least the Left Party are not only resisting right-wing extremism. At the same time, in demagogic intent, they equate conservative with right, right with right-wing extremisms and AfD with CDU and CSU . The lofty goal of defending oneself against right-wing extremists is being instrumentalized in this way.

When the left-wing mob raged in Hamburg a year ago and challenged the legal sowing, left-wing social democrats like Ralf Stegner had refused to speak of "violence from the left" because the leftist was in no way capable of violence. According to this interpretation, Stalin and Mao were not leftists, a grotesque and ridiculous approach.

However, political sanitation requires to carefully distinguish between left and left extremists, between democratic socialism and communism. But compared to the right-wing part of the political spectrum, the leftists do not attach any importance to differentiation. With their defamation strategy against the "Right" they have even won the battle for terms: "fight against right" has prevailed in the media largely; is differentiated only when looking to the left.

Nobody can deny that "right" and "democratic" do not have to be a contradiction. Who is against the EU or for the abolition of the individual right to asylum, is politically undoubtedly right of the middle; But is not per se a right-wing radical or neo-Nazi. The Union has always sought to politically cover the "center right" too. But even there, some of the left-wing propaganda terminology has adapted, and some Union politicians march in the "fight against right", because he just wants to be considered progressive.

The left-green camp knows what it does; after all, most of the media are sympathetic to this demagogic trick. It is no coincidence that the fighters "against the right" have no fear of contact with left-wing extremist groups, towards the always violent "Antifa" or against bands, which are observed because of their state-disdaining, violent lyrics by the constitution protection. Shoulder to shoulder with extreme left-wing extremists to fight the far-right is undoubtedly a strategy - just not believable.

[Skybird]

News from the German toy-army.


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I should not be surprised. Münster is seat of logistical and planning headquarters of the Bundeswehr and the German-Dutch Corps. Most of these facilities, if under German administration, get guarded not by the warriors themselves, but by private security. The only facilities that I saw being guarded by Dutch and British soldiers, are the Dutch barracks and were the former British barracks.



An army that needs to be protected by private security guards. Potential enemies like terrorists or the Russian army must piss their pants in fear.



Mängelverwaltung, thats how I call it in German.

[Jimbuna]

That must be quite worrying if things are that bad

[Skybird]

I am saying this since years: migrants are not all the same, the differences between culturally different origins of migrant groups makes - well, all the difference. We let in too many Muhammedan migrants from societies with strong middle-east patriarchalic family structures, contempt for women and infidels and supremacist Islamic self-understanding of one'S own peer group's superior stand in the world, whio by this culture and value system are in natural confrontation to our value system in the West, we care too little for getting more of those other groups who indeed are an enrichment and due to their own cultural heritage fit in much better and willingly.


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Cultures may fit better or worse, and it is quite obvious that the Confucian-Buddhist culture of the Vietnamese fits well with the Christian-secular performance societies in the West. Better than about the Muslim one. The two German sociologists Gillmeister and Fijalkowski were the first to speak of "cultural compatibility" in 1999, which makes integration easier or more difficult. Ethnologist Frank Weigelt, who wrote his dissertation on the Vietnamese Diaspora in Switzerland, also tends towards this thesis.

But unfortunately:

For a few years, there is evidence that the school success of the Vietnamese again diminishes, as well as Beuchling knows. Paradoxically, this could be a consequence of successful integration. Because as soon as Vietnamese take over the patterns in their class and find it cool, which is what cool people think - as soon as they integrate themselves culturally fully - their notes will sink, if not dramatically. If they stay - and marry - on their own, then the Vietnamese environment promotes school success and, as a consequence, economic integration.

[Catfish]

Real criminal activities versus perceived criminality and security, in Germany

No doubt that criminality has risen within certain circles, especially certain big family clans with hundreds of members, which alreday have their own battles with the long-established Mafia clans here. There is a threat system working, against police members – "arrest my brother and me and my other brothers will come at your family" and so on.. The police really has a problem with big clans.
However the overall statistics show a falling trend in criminality, including immigrants.
The perceived situation is different though, no doubt because of those outlandish looking people and the media hype that has raised the general awareness towards especially immigrant criminality, while at the same time omitting own criminals.

[Skybird]

Fact remains that in severla crime statistics like physical violence-relate crime, rape and sexual harassemen, antisemitic hate crimes and offences, the oh so welcome d newcomers are overrepresented by several factors, usually in the ranger of facotre 5 to 8. Thnat there are biuo-Ger,man rpaiosts as wlel doe snot chnage the fact that rape and assdault is committed severla tiumes as often in a matching group of migrants form africa and the Middle East. When migrants in general form lets say 15% of a population, you woudl expect a mean of around 1 in 6 or 1 in 7 of suspects in a crime vcatregory being a migrant. When instead in tzotla there are as manay migrant suspects as there are German suspects it merans the miorgasn t are overrepresented by severla factors.



In Sweden they reported on the crime numbers in the preparation of the recent elections. The number of rape incidents have climbed by a factor of 6, or was it even 7, in total. But the number of native Swedish men committing rapes, have stayed the same, stayed relati8vel ylowl, compared to othe rEuropean countries . Which means the raise in incidents has been caused by the "new Swedes" arriving. Impressive. Stockholm some years ago was called by some Europe's rape capital.


That has nothing to do with "anti migration hype" (there is none, just yesterday they released a statement on a not uirther described new study that claims the Germans are even more pro-migrant than before [they call migrants refugees in general] and want even more of them to arrive in Germany) and media awareness, even more so when the tax-paid state media are mercilessly reporting the wanted political propaganda newspeak.

[Skybird]

Ten days ago, the Bundeswehr practiced a live-firing exercise. A helicopter shot a live missile into a summer-dry forest area with peaty underground. Clever idea. A fire developed. The Bundeswehr sent a fire-extinguishing engineer tank, which happened to break down. They sent a replacement, which also broke down. No further such tanks were available.


Initially, it were 6 hectars that were in flames. Yesterday the fire burnt for one week now in the underground, and an area of 800 hectars is in flames. Several villages and communities got early alarm for evacuation. The smoke is to be smelled in cities north of the place, over 100 kilometers away.



Baracks-Barbie Ursual von der Leyen says Germany should engage heavily in Mali, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, icreasing the efforts there. why that is necessary after telling us for over a decade now that thing sgo well and evertyhing is on a good path, remaisn her mystery. And why Mali, Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan should have priority over the Bundeswehr'S home capacities - like trivial things like for exmaple beign able to manage an intiially small bush fire - also remains without answer.

[Jimbuna]

^ I appreciate the tone and seriousness of what you have posted but there remains a part of me that sees the humour and futility of the situation.

[Skybird]

Dripping with black humour is the only way life can be endured when living amongst modern Germans. You may however die early by pneumonia, due to the heavy moisture in the air from all all that humour dripping. But at least you die laughing .



And get rid of those Germans as well.

[Skybird]

Germany abolishes itself, part - well, I lost track.



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Its member of parliament Karl-Heinz Brunner called hastily in a press release to introduce the so-called "mother presumption" . In other words, the partner of a lesbian mother would automatically be recognized as the second mother of the child born in marriage, thereby circumventing the lawful successive adoptive procedure. The biological father of the child then played no role. He would be legally eradicated from the biography of the child.

The planned nebulization of the genetic origin and thus of the natural family relationships is the goal and intention of the left green-colored anti-family front in the Bundestag. But they are still a law of the Civil Code in the way, whose wording miraculously remained intact despite the ideologically motivated language intervention in the Civil Code. Paragraph 1591 BGB on Maternity "The mother of a child is the woman who gave birth to it". The brevity of this succinct phrase should not deceive its legal power. But this natural fact of our genesis, cast into a law, prevents the basal biological process of conception and birth from having fallen prey to the cold exploitation logic of modern industrial societies. The automatic legal attachment of the mother to her born child prevents legal surrogacy as well as the law legally averts claims of third parties to the child. The SPD, the Left, the FDP and the Greens can not get past this law - but they are working on it.

Some consumers think milk and vegetable come from the supermarket (as observed by Steve... ) And certain ideologists think babies come from special interest lobbies and political parties.


Retards, all of them.

[Skybird]

Contemporary German sensitivities.

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But you can also minimize dangers to the point of denial and prevent their open debate as much as possible. For companies, this quickly leads to bankruptcy. Unlike politics, denial of dangers and postponement of debates on another track is often a successful business model for client politics and securing power.

[Skybird]

1st state propaganda channel ARD. The so-called Sunday's question - "What if there would be national elections this weekend?"



Even the state propaganda's polling cannot hide anymore that this government is in free fall.



I expect that in the comign years the fraction-community of CDU and CSU can fall apart. And the grand coalition ther eis today is most busy with jst keeping its bosses in office even at the cost of most absurd manouvers. Titanic is sinking, and they send one band after the other on deck. The coaltion has no majprity anymore, and is still dropping.



Yesterday I talked to a young man, around 19, 20 years, in a bicycle shop where I bought spare parts. He noticed that I paid cash, and more jokingly I commented jokingly with something like "This transaction must not be tracked by them, I am too dangerous when driving a bicycle." To my surprise and amusement the young man immediately started a standoff lecture about plastic payment preventing him to keep an overview on his monthly finances, and that preventing cash money means a decline of civil freedom and more state control and power and and and - the Austrian stuff that usually I am preaching. He ended with a full broadside about the intention to create more inflation artificially. Wowh!



Its the third time this year that something like this happens to me. Gives me a small, maybe irrational hope that the young generation maybe has started to wake up and refuses to be taken as a fool by the Merkeliotics and the likes anymore.


But then, it were just three voices, so I probably will get disappointed again. But for the moment, it were pleasant experiences.

[Skybird]

This is not just scrappy methodology. It is intentional abuse of methodology for propagandistic purposes.

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I am a fan of proper statistics and proper scientific methodology. Its easily the most influential, benefittary, intellectual tool that man has ever invented. Abusing it or accidentally misusing it, does not speak against the value of these methods. It only illustrates that man can abuse the positive for the sake of wanting to realise something negative, or can be sijmply incompetent. It only illustrates the corruptiveness of man, and the degree to which corruption has hijacked our positive potentials.



Even in the academic and science circus. The problem is not the science and its analysis tools. The problem is its actors.

[Skybird]

After last national elecitons one year ago, I said Merkel is done. That she still is there, means nothing. She loooses influence and power by every day. And she still seems to be unwilling to realise how far her cause already has degenerated. Now another broadside from the unsuspected has delivered against her. By her own party.

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She is a lame duck, foreign polically, inner political, party-politically. Since last elections it has been demonstrated with shamelss frankness that her business has just been about not being driven off the feeding through. She accepted "compromises" by her her party for that goal that are absolutely self-destroying to that party. The impacts fall with ever higher frequencies, and the noise is constantly moving closer.

Absolutely possible that she will not make it through the next months. And who knows: maybe its just even weeks. Absolutely possible.

Also possible that the provocations by the CSU in past weeks and months just aimed at bringing Merkel down before the full term of this coalition has been spend. The CSU never was happy that Merkel gave so much to the SPD just to stay in the office, though without power and influence left. Especially giving the finance ministry to the SPD was something that caused shock and awe. And the SPD finance minister indeed runs a policy worse than what had to be feared.

Its Merkeldämmerung, definitely. Mark my words, she is as good as gone. For the time she still stays glued to her chair, she is just a lame duck. And the hunt has been opened - by her own party, and her arrogant ignorrance. Considering the amount of damages she has brought over Germany and the amount of weaknesses and new dependencies she has pushed Germany into in the past decade, her fall cannot give satisfaction at all. The negatives will live on long after she has formally been driven out of office. A bombed country after a war just can be cleaned up and rebuild again. What Merkel and her EU allies have done, cannot be that easily repaired. Probabaly cannot ever be repaired. That makes her the worst political desaster in Germany since 1933 and the 12 dark years that followed '33.