> the ones who fought the Russians
… were generally the ones who’d first fought on the western and other fronts. German soldiers were transferred back and forth all the time.
It was never the case that the most barbaric ones were sent to the Soviet Union and the (allegedly) less brutal one weren’t
Ja, McAllister! Ich wusste doch, dass ich irgendwen vergessen hatte!
Wer war bisher eigentlich Staats- oder Regierungschef eines deutschen (Glied-)Staates mit dem meisten Migrationshintergrund? (Den Österreicher zählen wir mal nicht.)
Lothar de Maizière (der letzte DDR-Ministerpräsident; wegen seiner hugenottischen Vorfahren)?
#Özdemir 💚 #representation
»Aber die Schulform ist doch egal. Du kannst überall Abi machen und dann studieren!« 😵💫
(Ich würde echt mal gern wissen, wie viele in 🇩🇪 aufgewachsene Ärztys nicht auf dem Gymnasium waren.)
It’s the same as talking to Germans who aren’t Nazis about WWII. Unless you have a guilty conscience, neither topic is “sensitive.”
> We deliberately didn't bring up politics with a US couple we met in Norway last summer.
Why not, though? Let’s make all those fuckers uncomfortable!
Klar, nicht allein und vor allem nicht in dem Schulsystem. (Das Hauptübel ist, dass SuS überhaupt auf verschiedene Schulformen aufgeteilt werden.)
Aber kann unsere Antwort an die, die den »goldenen« Weg nicht schaffen, ein Schulterzucken sein? »Selber schuld, hättste dich mehr anstrengen müssen…«
Und sofort im Anschluss hat Frau F es aber geschafft, den Schüler trotzdem dazu zu motivieren, im Rest des Schuljahres nicht aufzugeben …
Oder? 🤨
stories of utter disasters.
discussions. That needs very dedicated teachers not every school has.
Poorly prepared visits can all too easily devolve into extremely counterproductive narratives, which less-than-excellent teachers aren’t prepared to counter. If you talk to Germans who have been on such trips, you’ll eventually ↘️
And while Germany certainly must continue to educate its youth about the horrors Nazi Germany inflicted on humankind, I’m not sure camp memorial visits SHOULD be mandatory.
They’re only useful when visits have been meticulously prepared and are being supported by very rigorous lessons and ↘️
I don’t think visiting a concentration camp memorial is or ever was mandatory for school students throughout Germany. Some states have it as part of their curriculum (many around 9th grade), but not all do.
In pre-1990 East Germany, it was not mandatory. ↘️
And the unequal application of federal law by state and local authorities is a disaster for immigration and naturalization.
For all the 🇺🇸 government’s flaws: federal functions are only performed by the federal government, so at least people know who to praise (or blame.)
One thing that really sucks about the German system is how it commingles local, state, and federal functions. If your local or state government sucks, people are likely to blame the entire government — not a good thing for people’s trust in democracy and federalism! ↘️
U.S. 🇺🇸 passports aren’t the cheapest ($165 USD for the first one as an adult, $130 to renew), but online renewal (a 2024 Biden administration program!) is incredibly fast (as little as a week from submission to holding it in your hand) and convenient.
Schon wieder!? Das hat er doch schon letztes Jahr irgendwann gemacht, irgendne Geburtsurkunde es rheinländischen Vorfahren?
🍊💩: “When I hear that sound [of construction noise], it means money.”
So who exactly is profiting from this? 🤔
Die Schwarz-braun-Borris-Koalition ist stabil. 😭
Unfortunately, the premise that American voters wouldn’t vote for Trump or his party because a local candidate was too extreme has no basis in reality.
moderate-vs-extremist distinction gets totally lost. And in a contest between ridiculous and cringe, the former is more interesting.
of the movement going up against an establishment perceived as elitist and hypocritical.
In a contest between a cringe moderate and a ridiculous extremist, the ridiculous extremist will win these days, because the demise of traditional media and advance of social media removes all nuance, so the ↘️
a positive, uplifting vision that sounds authentic and doesn’t copy the right. In other words, the complete opposite of what Starmer’s been doing.
To circle back to the U.S., yes, voters have voted for Congressional candidates even crazier than Trump, as long as they perceived them to be part ↘️
hoped that Trump’s policies would hurt them less than those of an “establishment” that they felt had betrayed them.
That’s the driving force behind all populist and extreme right movements, many of which succeed despite having no charismatic leaders.
The only way to counter this is to put forth ↘️
At best, this picture is incomplete. To see MAGA as a cult of personality is to deeply misunderstand it.
Yes, of course there are core R voters who deeply love Trump. But they’re not who decide elections. Many (perhaps most) voters who swung to Trump in 2024 saw him as utterly ridiculous, but ↘️
Ah. Different tweet, then. I thought you meant x.com/mtgreenee/st...
(But let’s not dwell on MTG being right twice a day these days.)
That’s not what millions of evangelical, CUFI-supporting Christian Zionists believe.
So what’s the other word (beside “MAGA”)?
(Yeah, you made me look up the tweet. 😢)
I hated the homicidal East German totalitarian regime and, as a mutinying army conscript, actively participated in its overthrow.
I never would have supported bombing East Berlin or Dresden to bring down the regime.
It’s possible (and morally imperative) to oppose dictatorships AND illegal wars.
Nur damit das mal klar ist:
Ich habe das mörderische SED-Regime gehasst und war als meuternder Zwangswehrdienstleistender aktiv an seinem Sturz beteiligt.
Ich hätte nie befürwortet, Berlin, Rostock, Magdeburg oder Dresden zu bombardieren.
In which way? Please be specific.
