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Funny how Germans are all up in arms about the black guy in Minneapolis but fail to realise Germany's really weird statistics involving excessive police brutality. But let me quote the U.S. Department of State lest ye think I am making this up:
An ongoing study by researchers at the University of Bochum estimated police used excessive force in approximately 12,000 cases annually, of which authorities investigated approximately 2,000. The study’s head researcher told media many cases of police violence are not reported, in part because social groups frequently affected by police violence, including the homeless and refugees, rarely report such violence. Investigations were discontinued in 90 percent of the cases, and officers were formally charged in approximately 2 percent of the cases. Less than 1 percent of the cases resulted in conviction of the accused officer.
The only difference is that it's virtually illegal to film a German police officer while arresting someone and if you do post such a video online they'll throw your butt in jail. For a country that's shown the world how utterly corrupt their police force is (Dönermord anyone?), these people don't have a leg to stand on. But like everything in Germany: Good marketing and bad access to statistics means no one here is living in reality.
Every darn time I go out in public to do anything I always see at least one person standing out in the open just freely pissing. What the hell is wrong with this city?
Is It only me or did you also realize that people do wear same clothes with the no taste of fashion style ?
Berlin is full of trash penis
These guys put zero effort into anything, from work to romance. They just expect women to fall into their lap, and they do, because the women here are just as desperate to “experiment”.... uh, how about having some standards? These idiots are being taken advantage because “it’s Berlin”, then they cry they cannot find a boyfriend
So much for German “efficiency”
To be honest, I feel like German women respond best to blunt statements like "Want to have sex?" much better than they do to wit and charm and the kind of social massaging normal women normally like. These people probably expect you to fill out a form that states all intentions in detail.
New York City is an empire. Berlin is a circus
Loves environment hates humanity.
Well unless you are german, then you are the best, not a gross culture at all
Tired of being excluded and forgotten about. I’m a ghost here.
Berlin takes credit and becomes pompous for “culture” that foreigners brought in and then tells foreigners that their “culture” isn’t as great as what they brought to Berlin. It also says “go home tourists”, but without tourists, the entire economy wouldn’t exist.
Soon all the tourists will leave due to your hate, only the idiots will remain, the place will become an even more Disneyland , you’ll be priced out and have to be homeless. I would feel sorry for you but I don’t, I can’t wait for this place to burn
So. My two weeks where I have to go back to Berlin are approaching. Trying to think of things I would enjoy to do in Berlin during that time. Everything else I enjoyed such as partying is closed. The saunas are closed. I finally have some money now that I can do some things. What are your favourite parks around the city? Where is good to go? Please don’t say “nowhere” as I know some places are fine... main problem with living in Berlin is the stupid system and difficult racist people ... just trying to think of how to spend my time
I love when germans say "our genocide was not as bad as yours with the natives". Yes, because my great great great great ancestors were colonialists and my grandparents didn't move from Ireland to new York because of colonialism.
these people are seriously uneducated. They do not understand concepts like immigration and nationhood. I would never raise a kid in this country. They don't get an accurate perspective of the world nor global issues. it's just germany this, germany that...no flexible methods of thinking.
and you know what ? irish people faced discrimination for a minimal time before being "American". such as, my parents being raised in new York, they're not irish, maybe by blood, but they are American so.... germany you can go back 3 generations and are still "Turkish". stupid
Don't waste your time arguing with them about this or feeling bad about their trite insults. These kinds of incoherent arguments are a symptom of defeated master race syndrome. It's like when Germans make weird flexes about preposterous things. I can't remember how many Germans have tried to school me on how German was ALMOST the "official language" (whatever they think that means) of the United States (Muhlenberg legend). Or, when coronavirus first hit, how proud Germans were to say that all the tests being used here were developed in Germany. Or how they always call themselves "Export World Champion" (well then what's China?).
When Germans talk poop about America they usually stick to topics they know nothing about like people working multiple jobs (the number is something like 325,000 in the US versus Germany's 3,000,000!). Sometimes they talk about minimum wage (weird how a median income is higher in every single US state is higher than a median salary in ANY German state). Sometimes they talk about hate crimes (quoting the FBI here "Relative to the size of the population, [there is in Germany] an eightfold higher rate of hate crimes than reported in the US during [2006]." They complain about American "censorship" (the German government has consistently coerced social media networks to remove more posts per year for the past 7 years than any other country - hell they even lobbied the entire EU to implement the Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz which pretty much auto-removes anything reported, in Germany you cannot make certain movements with your arm in public without breaking the law, Germany is still putting books, movies, video games and CDs on an index that basically makes them unsellable.
The difference between Germany and America is that the American identity isn't based on accent-free speech and an unequivocal denunciation of ones home country's culture. Funny how in America there's no nationwide debate on forced integration but that's all they ever talk about here. Also pretty telling that 1. You have to renounce your old citizenship when you get German citizenship (I choose not to call it "becoming German" for obvious reasons), and 2. You're still considered a person with "Migrationshintergrund" unless you are the CHILD of two parents who were born in Germany and had German (and only German) citizenship.
You're still considered a person with "Migrationshintergrund" even if you’re the child of two parents who were born in Germany and had German (and only German) citizenship. If their parents come from other countries, for example. Even their grandparents! It’s crazy! You’re not German no matter how many generations of your parents live or have been born in Germany.
Somebody here recently wrote you can take 2000€ overdraft at your bank... so then. If I do that and try to abmeldung... isn’t abmeldung meaning I have to have all debts paid before I can do it? I HATE THIS SYSTEM
Tell a German that, you are going to move to another country because you find life there
Then watch the German is being triggered. I don't know why but It seems they are being triggered by this one so much
Because people leave constantly. Usually the cycle is new expat LOVES Germany, then starts to notice the problem, then criticize, then leave. Usually at the criticize point they ghost you. And a criticism can be anything minor such as setting a boundary
Everytime I walk thru Berlin it's like being in the movie shindlers list. They all have this special kind of face and mimics....creepy