Because, Germany

[seahawk]

4 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

This is apparently bananas wrapped in pickled herring;

 

 

 

 

Can not be from Germany, as the green overlords have forced all of Germany to eat vegan.

[Markus Becker]

25 pounder? 

Cops stopped someone with an old artillery gun he bought for 9k euros in Belgium.  

[rmgill]

OQF, 25 Pounder, looks like. The image seems to be squished in the vertical a bit. 

[urbanoid]

As we know, German government is pretty much kil. 

What does one do when his government is kil? Usually elections, but apparently Germany has problems with paper:

 

Fortunately, Poland is ready to help:

 

 

German industry apparently claims there's enough paper though:

 

 

 

[Markus Becker]

Looks like elections will have to wait a while. Organizational issue like a shortage of paper for the ballots. So says the Chairwoman of the federal election commission.

She was appointed by the interior secretary, who's from Scholz's party. Get's better, a day before she said it could be done, no problems. Then she got contacted.

 

The reasons for the election delaying action is money, money and prosecution.

In January a round of promotions beings in the bureaucracy, by the end of March they are done. So plenty of lucrative positions for loyal party soldiers.

For the politicians staying in office that long means they also get pensions for 2025.

And there's a proposed bill to cut red tape. Part of it would allow businesses to destroy records several years sooner. BTW, Scholz is involved in a tax evasion scandal called Cum - ex. Much evidence is likely to be destroyed if the bill gets passed.
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WRT Polish aid: 

What I, a German really like about that shit post is that it comes from the oh so much hailed center left, not the evil conservatives. It's like even the Polish left doesn't like the German left that likes the Polish left

 

[X-Files]

And to think, this from the country who had everyone shitting their pants twice in the last century.

 

[seahawk]

Seems like re-education worked and such obviously sick persons are no longer disposed off in camps.

[urbanoid]

Based American zoomer girl vs cringe German justice system

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In Germany, a case from June 2024 is being revisited. A 20-year-old American woman has been charged with causing bodily harm resulting in death after stabbing an Eritrean citizen in the heart area at the Kaiserslautern train station who was grabbing her buttocks on an escalator. According to the prosecutor's office, the line of self-defense was crossed because the harasser had already started to withdraw after exchanging words, but was still fatally wounded.

https://x.com/LukaszBok/status/1863904708160548870

[sunday]

27 minutes ago, urbanoid said:

Based American zoomer girl vs cringe German justice system

https://x.com/LukaszBok/status/1863904708160548870

Newspiece on the subject

https://www.stripes.com/ktown/2024-12-02/kaiserslautern-train-station-stabbing-american-charged-16033024.html

[Murph]

When I was stationed there in the mid 1980's there was a sharp divide between the War generation, and the post war generation.  Those pre war types were down right scary tough, the post war types, not so much.  

[Murph]

What does this portend for Germany?  The AfD seems to be gaining ground, and possibly will form a coalition with the ruling party to get things done?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/germanys-rightwing-afd-arrives-february-election-as-major/

[seahawk]

Sadly all liberal parties are refusing to work with the AfD.

[Murph]

3 minutes ago, seahawk said:

Sadly all liberal parties are refusing to work with the AfD.

Not knowing German politics, except the Left Merkle wing, what is the AfD, and why does everyone seem to hate them?

[sunday]

1 hour ago, Murph said:

What does this portend for Germany?  The AfD seems to be gaining ground, and possibly will form a coalition with the ruling party to get things done?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/germanys-rightwing-afd-arrives-february-election-as-major/

The German highest court could annul the election on the basis of Russian interference or something, as the Romanian equivalent just did

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4x2epppego

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Romania's constitutional court has annulled the result of the first round of voting in the presidential election just days before the second round was due to take place.

It means the process will be restarted from scratch, with the government due to decide a date for a new vote.

The first round was won by Calin Georgescu, an almost unknown far-right Nato-sceptic who has previously praised Vladimir Putin.

The court's decision comes after intelligence documents were declassified, suggesting Georgescu benefitted from a mass influence operation – conducted from abroad – to interfere with the result of the vote.

 

[seahawk]

12 hours ago, Murph said:

Not knowing German politics, except the Left Merkle wing, what is the AfD, and why does everyone seem to hate them?

The AfD is a classic conservative party. They are against immigration, against wokeness and in favour of traditional and Christian values like classic families. They also do not want to waste money on the war in the Ukraine and see a Russian-German partnership as beneficial.

For that they are branded as Nazis and are unfairly attacked in the media and by the NPC parties.

I would say their stance is probably like the centrist part of the US Republicans or even right wing Democrats. In the US their positions would be absolutely mainstream.

Edited December 8, 2024 by seahawk

[rmgill]

On 12/3/2024 at 10:23 AM, Murph said:

When I was stationed there in the mid 1980's there was a sharp divide between the War generation, and the post war generation.  Those pre war types were down right scary tough, the post war types, not so much.  

They made it through the Allied Bombardment. They had sand. Anyone of lesser stuff would have folded in on themselves. 

[lucklucky]

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1867190438941061429

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Sweden Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy Ebba Busch stated today that "she's furious with Germany" for dismantling its nuclear power plants, causing a spike in energy prices in Sweden. Southern Sweden has record-high energy prices today due to having send electricity to Germany via undersea power cables today. Cold weather coupled with no wind has driven up the demand in Germany from other sources than wind. EU regulations force Sweden to send that electricity to Germany, driving up prices in southern Sweden today to be nearly 200 times higher than they are in northern Sweden. A 10-minute shower in southern Sweden costs around USD 5 during today's price spike. Ebba Busch added that Germany's decision to dismantle its nuclear power plants has also other detrimental effects for Europe: "I'm furious with the Germans. They have made a decision for their country, which they have the right to make; it's their right to decide. But it has had very serious consequences, also for the EU's competitiveness because we see that German competitiveness has dropped significantly." She said that Germany's actions have also reduced its ability to help Ukraine.

 

[rmgill]

Electric showers? What about natural gas for heating water? 

[urbanoid]

16 minutes ago, rmgill said:

Electric showers? What about natural gas for heating water? 

Sweden generally electrified heating for private homes since the 70s, they also use heat pumps on mass scale - and those require electricity. 

[sunday]

2 hours ago, urbanoid said:

Sweden generally electrified heating for private homes since the 70s, they also use heat pumps on mass scale - and those require electricity. 

Lots of hydroelectricity in Sweden, not much gas...

[urbanoid]

Hydro + nuclear is some 70% of their generation, the rest is mostly wind.

[rmgill]

2 hours ago, urbanoid said:

Sweden generally electrified heating for private homes since the 70s, they also use heat pumps on mass scale - and those require electricity. 

Ohh. Single source. Ick. 
 

I have gas heat with an electric blower. I can run that easily with a generator. I have a natural gas water heater as well that is NOT dependent upon electricity. So if I have a power outage I can have warm showers and if needs require, I can run the heat with the generator set during a protracted outage. 
 

Sounds like Sweden has real time pricing on electricity too for consumers. That has to suck. 
 

 

And heat pumps in winter, in a northern climate, WTF?!?!?

Edited December 12, 2024 by rmgill

[urbanoid]

7 minutes ago, rmgill said:

Ohh. Single source. Ick. 
 

I have gas heat with an electric blower. I can run that easily with a generator. I have a natural gas water heater as well that is NOT dependent upon electricity. So if I have a power outage I can have warm showers and if needs require, I can run the heat with the generator set during a protracted outage. 
 

Sounds like Sweden has real time pricing on electricity too for consumers. That has to suck. 
 

 

And heat pumps in winter, in a northern climate, WTF?!?!?

Scandinavia likely has the largest number of heat pumps per capita and also a ridculouis amount of cheap electricity from hydropower. When they don't need to help ze Germans, that is. 

[seahawk]

11 hours ago, lucklucky said:

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1867190438941061429

 

She will be more pleased when Germany also turns off the coal plants in the next few years. The simple solution for the other European nations is to not deliver any electricity to Germany. Cut it from the grid and let it sit in the dark.

[urbanoid]

5 minutes ago, seahawk said:

She will be more pleased when Germany also turns off the coal plants in the next few years. The simple solution for the other European nations is to not deliver any electricity to Germany. Cut it from the grid and let it sit in the dark.

Some in Norway have precisely that idea.

https://montelnews.com/news/930ef5a6-0306-416b-9a0e-5b3331d6c223/regional-norway-officials-oppose-renewal-of-denmark-power-link