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How did a country with so insufferable, inefficient, miserable, lazy people managed to have such a reputation abroad? Stasi at work? How on earth! It’s INEFFICIENT nothing works here! People are insane and take advantage of others and like seeing others suffer. They’re totally deranged! What kind of culture is that? Why am I still here?
That's honestly something I ask myself almost on a daily basis.
It's the biggest economy in Europe, so they must do something right ... but it's difficult to see what it is.
They got plenty of multinationals, like Dhl for example abroad works fine but here it's a nightmare and can't really see why would anyone export that.
Internet at home... it's mind blowing how bad it is considering it's the capital of a rich western nation.
person: invents ac
ac: makes lives of everyone better
german: VERBOTEN
www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/o2tk4i/30_c_in_my_apartment_is_this_normal/
Gonna kill one of these german banshees one day.
www.bussgeldkatalog.org/news/wespe-toeten-droht-ein-bussgeld-oder-ist-das-erlaubt-645445/
5,000 to 65,000 Euro fine for killing a freaking bee in Germany.
ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php
Highest electricity prices in the entire EU and the Green and the SPD are planning to raise the price of CO² certificates even more. I swear to God these people would all vote to cut of their own balls if a politician told them it would save one polar bear on the other side of the world.
How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb?
None, they use GASLIGHTING.
can someone please give an example of foreigners who are old here, I seem to only know people my age, and I wonder what will happen to them. nobody seems to have a plan or goals here
This is a pretty good point and it's almost still an actual upload.
m.youtube.com/watch
www.exberliner.com/features/zeitgeist/does-germany-have-a-rape-problem/
"The defendant, a 26-year-old Algerian man, was accused of having encircled a woman with a group of other men and groping her genital area – which would be characterised as sexual assault in most countries, but not necessarily according to German law as it stands now. “If the offender didn’t use force or threats, then it’s not liable for punishment. It’s not even coercion,” says family law specialist Theda Giencke. The men’s actions could potentially be prosecuted as “attacks” or “insults”, but not sex offences. “Just groping somebody is not enough to qualify, and that was the case in Cologne most of the time.”"
Germany 5 years ago, folks.
Of course Germany's a pedo paradise. Don't know who downvoted that. Just google any of the following terms for a bunch of true news stories that sound like Reichsbürger conspiracies:
Kentler Experiment
- Rote Freiheit afterschool program
- Körper, Liebe, Doktorspiele government literature
- BAG SchwuP
- Daniel Cohn-Bendit
- Boystown darknet page
- Lügde camping site
- Sebastian Edathy
That's what I was able to come up with off the top of my head. No doubt there's waaaay more that could be shared.
www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/germany/
"Crime statistics indicate approximately 43 children became victims of sexual violence daily in 2019. The number of child pornography cases processed by police rose by 65 percent in 2019, to approximately 12,260.
In June police uncovered a child abuse ring in Muenster, NRW. The main suspect was a 27-year-old man suspected of sexually abusing the 10-year-old son of his partner; he also produced pornography of the abuse and sold it online, and offered his foster son to others. As of September there were 11 suspects in custody.
In October 2019 a 43-year-old man was arrested in Bergisch-Gladbach, NRW, for severe child abuse. The case evolved into a large-scale investigation involving 400 police detectives and a network of at least 30,000 suspects. As of August authorities had identified 87 suspects. In the first case to go to trial, a 27-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the network. On September 11, the regional court sentenced a man from Krefeld for 13.5 years’ and a man from Viersen to 14.5 years’ imprisonment. The two 39-year-old men were convicted of serious child sexual abuse and of possession and distribution of child pornographic material. Investigations continued."
From the 2019 report:
"On July 12, a parliamentary investigating committee opened an investigation into possible failures, omissions, misjudgments, and misconduct of the NRW state government in the child abuse case. Problems with the investigation included the disappearance from the local police station of 155 USB drives containing child pornography, the placement of a foster child with one of the main perpetrators, and concerns that authorities did not follow up on an earlier suspicion of child abuse. As of November the investigation was ongoing."
Not related to children, but in Germany it is permissible to forcibly touch a woman's genitals as long as you are at a street party:
"In February a Cologne judge dismissed sexual assault proceedings against a defendant who allegedly grabbed a woman under her skirt in November 2019. The judge argued the alleged assault was minor and took place at the start of the carnival season. A local advocacy group against sexual violence criticized the decision in a public letter and protested in front of the court."
You cannot make this stuff up.
Is it possible to make real friends here? Except weirdos who are on alcohol, drugs, bad to worst sex, and people laughing at you, talking behind your back, and make company to you just to compare their lives with yours? Answers would be pretty much appreciated. Thx!
Someone below said the Berlin DJ's are good. Good for what, switching their iPods on and off and twirling a few dials here and there. They're not even musicians, and the crap they play is masquerading as music. For the last time, IT'S NOT MUSIC, IT'S NOISE. A three year old could make it with a computer and software. Whenever anyone says they love the techno scene, I never talk to them again because I then know they're moronic airheads..
Berlin has one major problem. What they call Techno here is just fu*king EDM! For example, House Music is better in London and the whole London dance scene is a thousand times better than what Berlin has to offer. You don't like Techno, or you hate Berlin? Techno originated in the US, just like House. Why do people think Berlin = Techno? I'm convinced Berlin = Hipster stinking *hit, not Techno.
OMG, don't start me on dumbasfuck rappers, the future derelicts of Berlin. The rest of the world was over techno many years ago. If you need to take drugs to be able to stand listening to monotonous noise because everyone else is listening to it, you have to question these people's emotional health.
Listen to these albums, and compare them to techno or rap 'artists'. Rap 'songs' all sound the same. What's your favourite 3 albums that that have real singers and real musicians.
Tanya Donnelly - Whiskey Ghost Tango
A Fine Frenzy (Alison Sudol) - One Cell and The Sea
Sixpence None The Richer - Sixpence None The Richer
Sarah Blasko - What The Sea Wants - or the best of on Youtube etc.
Ricki Lee Jones - Ricki Lee Jones (1st album)
The XX - XX album
If you hate the clubs and DJs here, just imagine how disappointed you'll be when you grow out of your clubbing phase and desperately search for ANYTHING about living here that is worthwhile. Then again, if you're living in Berlin, then you'll probably never grow out of it.
I will pay you 100 EUR in the cryptocurrency of your choice if you can find anyone complaining about public urination in any park on a Google Maps review.
The phases of moving to Germany
Phase 1 - Naiveté: Eager, curious, motivated. You jump through the bureaucratic mess to get a job, a visa, an apartment, a bank account, health insurance, an account with the TV tax authority. It's a lot of work but you managed it. You start learning German. You feel like this will be good.
Phase 2 - Denial: You've been here a while. You've improved your German a lot. You've stagnated in your job but it's probably your fault. You're just not German enough yet, i.e. you still occasionally apologize for mistakes and accept guilt when you've not been perfect. You begin to notice the small annoyances in Germany but dismiss them as trivial: the tiny supermarkets, the unfriendly locals, the lack of privacy, the poor soundproofing in apartments
Phase 3 - Maturity/ Acceptance: You have now noticed that everything about Germany is nothing but advertising/brainwashing and cognitive dissonance. You accept that nothing in Germany works efficiently. You expect everything to go wrong unless it is extremely carefully planned and you now understand why Germans are so against any form of "Vorfeiern" - because nothing ever turns out right here. You realize that the people here are incompetent and yet somehow arrogant about it. You notice the filth in this city. You notice that the German internet is heavily censored. You notice things will never get better. You realize that none of your expat friends (because you still won't have any German friends) has lived here longer than 5 years. You notice all the weird 40-something year old in milling about parks with no real reason for being there. You notice the real need for public toilets. You notice that somehow you appear to be the only person in your apartment building with overpriced rent who actually has a job. You don't feel like trying to talk to anyone about this anymore because most of your expat friends are defending Germany. You'd lock yourself in your apartment all the time, but you can hear your neighbors watching TV and peeing and sneezing and the sound begins to drive you insane. You look at real estate prices outside of the city and realize that the cheapest home on the market is still the equivalent of 35 years' worth of a median German salary. You grow used to opening your mailbox to find random surprise bills. By this point, day to day life feels pretty much like closing the "accept cookies" popup on every single webpage now for 18 hours a day.
Germans* even gaslight other Germans. Check this:
www.spin.de/forum/msg-archive/3/2017/04/680362
There is no such thing as a "privacy curtain" in German hospitals. If you've ever had the misfortune of being treated in one, you know that no hospital in Germany has a track for privacy curtains. Literally zero hospitals here have them. But that won't stop Germans from bullying anyone here who has somehow managed to survive childhood with any remaining desire for privacy or modesty.
*Just to clarify, I am not even sure that these weird kinds of people in online discussions are "normal" people. I am about 99% sure that there's a leftover program in the German government that pays ex-Stasis to discredit anyone criticizing Germany by any means possible.
www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/nylqw4/i_am_leaving_germany_after_3_years_to_return_home/
Read the comments.Typical.
"I was actually laughing and dismissed everything you said, because I can not believe someone living in Germany for three years studying business science saying German is a socialist country."
That must German equivalent of Godwin's Law. Maybe we should call it Stefan's Law.
“As an online discussion criticizing Germany grows longer, the probability of anyone not blindly praising German to be labelled as American approaches one.”
Also this:
" Literally all your problems can be solved by learning the language. Are you at "deutschkurs B2" or a TRUE B2 level? Those two are worlds apart."
When I had only been here for 2 years I also believed this. After 5 I thought that maybe it was just my accent. After 10 I realized it's just part of German culture. I speak German at C2 level and people often tell me that they can't even hear that I have any discernible accent anymore. But any time I ever say anything that isn't 100% in compliance with an opinion you would read on Spiegel.de I am reduced to my nationality. During reviews at work supervisors say I am good at my particular line of work because of my nationality.
If you're a foreigner in Germany you completely cease to be an individual because the German psyche simply cannot accept that not everyone is a xerox copy of every other member of their identity group.
Noticed this one guy from that thread. He is a freaking boss at humiliating Germans RE: their own country. I am surprised he hasn't been banned from r/Germany yet.
www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/o0psab/can_someone_eli5_how_the_school_system_in_germany/h1y2ugm/
Can't help but notice a LOT of people complaining that the guy called Germany socialist. It's actually creepy to me that so many people are saying "GERMANY ISN'T SOCIALIST!" while at the same time saying "AMERICA IS 100% CAPITALIST". Not really sure how one can have such a nuanced understanding of what socialism is but still consider the US capitalist when taking into account pretty much every economic and fiscal decision in the US over the past 20 months.