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reaper_cushions [he/him, comrade/them] @ reaper_cushions @hexbear.net
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  • Might just be me knot knowing Germany very well, but where do you live that people around you don’t speak English well? In any city I have ever lived in (which is only three, tbf), most people were at least conversational and international friends of mine actually complained about not being able to practise their German because everyone would always speak English with them.

  • Higher ups of the army literally protested the reintroduction of conscription because the army lacks the infrastructure and personnel to train such a high number of new recruits. But Material reality never stopped the German government from passing asinine legislation.

  • Tbh, I had to look up the English term for this kind of instrument myself. It’s not exactly a word that comes up in casual conversation, English class in school or… any kind of literature, really. And since I generally prefer British English anyway, I decided to use the funnier sounding word for it.

  • It doesn’t even have to make a difference! Remember 2016, when Dems blamed Jill Stein voters for Hilldawg’s loss? Even if every single Green Party vote had gone to the Dems instead, the electoral result would have been the exact same, most Green Party votes coming from blue states anyway. Nevertheless, libs blamed the 2016 loss squarely on Stein and the Fraternal Order of Bernard Brethren.

  • I completely stopped watching the most left wing satire show in German TV, Die Anstalt, because they brought up “forced expropriations” under Stalin when covering the Ukraine War. My brothers in Christ, have you ever seen a “voluntary expropriation”*? You arseholes argued for the expropriation of Deutsche Wohnen etc. before, do you think they’ll just hand over 100,000 apartments because you asked nicely? It’s good expropriation when we do it but “forced expropriations” when they do it. There was other fuck ups in terms of bad historiography (like categorising the “holodomor” as a genocide even if the source they listed literally contradicts that classification) but not understanding your own ideology to such a degree is just irredeemable to me.

    *Fidel doesn’t count, he’s different.

  • It is possible to recognise that the Al-Aqsa-Flood was an act of terrorism and also that terrorism is a means available to an oppressed people to fight its oppressors. These means can (and should) be viewed critically, but comparing this act of terrorism to the holocaust is obviously ridiculous.