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fukk off corona, just fukking fuckk off
Trying to explain irony and empathy to my German boyfriend is like trying to explain to a fish how to climb a tree. He simply doesn’t understand.
Can someone explain to me why the EU has criticized Trump's temporary travel ban? Maybe I'm a blind, ignorant sycophant but what is the issue? He is effectively closing access to the US from a continent with 20k caronavirus cases. Why does the EU feel its citizens have the right to enter the US?
I swear the EU has the cringiest official responses of any serious geopolitical organization. Anyone remember how they responded to Trump's tariffs on Airbus (which had been ruled permissible by the WTO)? Look it up if you missed it because it's totally hysterical.
Retarded German boomers at work today who've achieved nothing in life (because they're basically doing the same job I am which is probably the most retarded office job in the whole city) crying about the US travel ban and laughing about all the Americans who are going to die because their "healthcare is shit." Once Germany is forced to publish the real death statistics I am sure they'll reconsider their ffucking barbaric instincts. Nothing's changed here in 80 years. Full of inhumane nazis.
I just don't get it. Norway announced they're not allowing anyone in the country unless they self-quarantine for 14 days (except people from other Scandinavian countries!). The EU didn't make an official statement about it. Haven't heard anyone at work talking about it. Only even found it in the news by reading every story about travel restrictions I can find. If Germans want to hold the US to a higher standard than they hold themselves then they should at least admit that they see their own country as inferior. German smugness is such an off-putting trait.
I am honestly trying to understand the logic in this country and try to be fair but It is impossible.
The population of this country is aging and they need people to work in various areas. ( IT, health care etc ) Which is fine but they offer really really laugable salaries for the jobs where supposedly they need massive workforce.
I work in IT. I have masters degree from Germany + 3 years of experience for the position I applied +2 years of IT project management experience and I also hold couple of job related certificates. It is needless to say I can speak English + German. I also have 2 years of international internship experience in UK and Netherlands.
I am not software developer but I could define myself as sysadmin + developer for one of the well known enterprise ITSM solution.
Anyways. I recently, couple hours ago, got offer from 50.000 Euro Brutto ( 1000 Euro net bonus per year ) from very well known global company in IT consultancy (platform consultancy) area. Is It joke. ?
What makes you think that, I would work for this amount of salary ? You offer barely 2500 euro net because of your ducking taxing system and you think you can attract compotent people ? I am not the only case. I talked with couple of my friends and they told me similar stories ( Company names are also well known, global )
This county does not make any sense. I have started to plan my exit in maximum following 2 years. ( I have to save some money up to support my move )
I'm an American. While we do have some obvious perceived cultural differences, your tax rates in Europe make us cringe. How can so called free men accept a 42-45% tax rate? That's like almost half your income. Yeah I get it, roads, pensions, blah blah. But there comes a point where you might as well call it financial rape. We don't understand that here and consider it a form of economic slavery. You are basically working half the year for nothing. Maybe you'll get to see the benefits of your social insurance if you live long enough...
"Maybe you'll get to see the benefits of your social insurance if you live long enough..."
You have to live 20 years beyond retirement to just break even on what you pay in (not even taking inflation into account). The average will never see even that and it's robbery in plain sight. The whole system can't help but collapse under its own weight soon, especially if another 1m refugees are heading our way.
Glad to see r/Berlin has stopped with the "it's just the flu" and is growing up. 100% sure this comment from there was written by one of you guys:
Berlin is going to be really really bad, in comparison to most other places in Germany. It doesn't help that this city always seemed to attract a lot of people fleeing responsibilities (whether they were justified or not) as well as "Nach mir die Sinnflut"-Hedonism which will cause a lot of troubles for everybody involved. In my opinion, everybody who can afford should leave Berlin while they still can. The medical system is going to collapse really soon, there is a real threat of social unrest and the population density mixed with horrible hygiene habits will explode real soon. This is not fear-mongering, but a realistic assessment of the situation.
But come on, give me them downvotes, I stand by my point that everybody who doesn't take this situation seriously is either really stupid or completely in denial. In the age of digital information flow, Ignorance is a choice!
www.thelocal.de/20200310/what-explains-the-low-coronavirus-death-rate-in-germany who else thinks they're basically covering up the real numbers?
Listened to a radio segment with a dr from Charité about the virus a few days ago. He basically said that Germany is trying to stagger the cases of the virus so that the whole healthcare system doesn't collapse like in Wuhan, and he's hoping young people don't start to get it in huge numbers until summer. He didn't say they're under reporting deaths but I think it makes sense. The entire media here is saying it's "just another flu" and ridiculing preppers for buying up canned goods and flour. Of course they'd massively downplay deaths - what choice do they have? The only down side is that you can't do that for long and soon there will be thousands of dead 60-80 year olds. Germans smugly think to themselves only 2 people have died because of their "superior" healthcare system but don't forget this: The annual flu death rate in Germany is 10% higher than in the US where people are much more likely to just tough it out without dr supervision. Critical mass will be reached soon.
I hate how smoking is so normalized here. I can't hang out with anyone outdoors because within 2 minutes they're lighting up and blowing disgusting smoke in my face. I hate smelling smoke on so many people- and yes, smokers, we non-smokers can actually smell it on you from 5m away when you think you're clean- you goddam fuckking stink!! I hate walking outside on a nice day and smelling so many smoke clouds. I hate going to a cafe only for the employee to hang around the door for a cigarette break and send all their smoke back inside where I'm sitting. In the US we outlawed smoking to protect employees. In Berlin they're supposedly sooo worried that no employee ever work on a Sunday but nobody cares if they have to suffer secondhand smoke from customers. People have known for decades that smoking is bad for you; this is just another way that Berlin is deliberately trying to be grungy and behind the times.
Also I hate getting headaches from some junkie's heroin smoke in the Ubahn stations. It's happened a few times that I'm on the platform and there is a sickening sweet smoke, I get dizzy and look around and there are some fuckers lighting up on tinfoil right there in full view. It's always on the U8. Tell me again Berlin is not racist- I guess it's okay that only Turkish moms have to push their baby strollers past that junkie shit. I'm sure the white people in prenlzberg don't have to see that on their way home from the kita.
Well in the US the lawmakers were also smart enough to make it illegal to smoke directly in front of buildings opened to the public as well. For my part smoking doesn't bother me that much here except at home in summer when it's 30 C and no aircon so you HAVE to open a window and some idiot smokes all darn day. But that's probably more or a hatred of living in a tiny showbos stacked atop 100 other tiny shoeboxes.
Suffering racism in Berlin for Turks is still 100% better then living in Erdoganistan Turkey! Sad but true, they drown their own kids and send them off alone to Greece to be molested by German pedos all for the chance of free housing and a welfare check
Filthy left-wing Berlin scum, so glad I'm out of that lunatic asylum.
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The crazy thing is that this has been going on for years and no sane person can understand why the police aren't doing anything. They're arresting people for posting their opinions online about mass shooters but they aren't arresting people crimes that are actually violent. I'd assume it is a right-wing conspiracy to make leftists look like lawless thugs but if you ask a Berliner about Rigaer they either say "Oh they're harmless" or they don't even know about this place. Thanks for sharing.
Everything in this country is censored or filtered or curated or run through five gatekeepers before you can read or see it. Wikipedia DE requires mod approval for ALL edits (not just protected articles like in other countries). The comments section on all news sites are all heavily moderated. R/Germany is moderated and half the stuff that gets posted there is deleted by mods. The government controls all mainstream media and the journalism codex prevents any worthwhile news from making it to print (cannot report on suicides, cannot report convicted criminals names, cannot report on a criminal's nationality). Investigative journalism is basically non-existent. It's illegal to record conversations. Dashcams can't be used as evidence.
Pretty sure Germans saw and understood that controlling the flow of information controls the people. When I moved here I legitimately believed this would be a good place to live (good apaying jobs, workers rights, cheap apartments, upwards mobility, low crime) but it's almost all a lie. If other first world countries like UK, France, US seem worse by comparison then it's because they are more transparent with their official statistics.
Also think about the fact that 8 or 9 years ago when they did the census data collection they finally "noticed" that more than 1 million fewer people live here than previously thought and they have no idea who they are or where they ended up. A lot of prostitution-related human trafficking goes on here - especially in Berlin which is home to the largest brothel in Europe. That place keeps getting raided for trafficking women from eastern Europe. Add to that all the deaths you can read about on Polizeimeldung Berlin where they rule oit murder a priori.
Germany has the best funded state-controlled media in the history of the world. That's not reconcilable with free press and it's how the mass sexual assaults in Cologne went unreported for nearly two weeks. Germany perhaps isn't jailing journalists like they're doing in Turkey, but there are other, more subtle ways to coerce members of the press.
I am sure there are secret official blacklists for journalists that get too close to reporting away from the party line, curious that suicides are not reported, not surprising that there would be many suicides in the in land of gut und gern leben! what a miserable place, like a high rent North Korea in some ways
It's simple - journalism with a leftist agenda goes unmolested, journalism laying out facts that go against the narrative, right or independent, are either silenced or ostracized and harassed into oblivion. You guys live in a totalitarian police state...don't doubt it for a minute.
God really must have a special love for Germany. 1200 cases of coronavirus and still not even one death.
Top news (17.07 hrs): Of the 48 known coronavirus infections in Berlin, a large part is related to an evening at a club, according to the authorities. After a positive test on a guest of the club "Trompete" in the Tiergarten district, 16 more infections were detected in people who had been in the club the same evening, according to the Senate Department for Health on Monday. It is possible that further cases, not yet known, will be added.
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Forgot how weird it gets on the weekend. Crowded trains, weirdos, beggars asking for change and filth everywhere. Stay home, kids.
Why do people here keep asking if other german cities are any better. Did you not see enough already, dafuqs wrong with you? entire germany is crap, regardless the city.
I wrote here before about this and I want to sum it up. I make it an extra post, copying the one from a page back. Man you just don't get it. It's about valueing a feel bc it is there. Of course there is so many other feelings, I am talking feelings that were repressed. Often stuff you don't even want to look into bc you already feel. By not feeling you don't value yourself. All you see is that it was crazy but tell me is thunder crazy? Surely if you question it you can't actually feel, if you try to judge it. It's not that you don't want to. It's there so wtf wud it be. It lightens you up it's like love or also is, where the fuk do you think all the love is, gotto be somewhere. Not bout to tell sb to shut up. refers to the post before. There is many things to say, how it expresses It not even need selfconsciouness but even if, all it wud do, is connect you back to life and feeling. You can anyway only do one.
Yes, true it can be not there or realized. Don't think about how it might make one act. I'm saying simple things, because life actually helps us to feel. Idk how many times I punched a table, never hurt my hand, or shouted "for sexual act sake". It's a unnecessarily avoided topic because it initially seems so serious, so the opposite of how it is then. Often I already feel light when shouting. It comes from this confidence to know it's good to feel. If you don't feel, it goes away for the moment. It doesn't wait but I do sing also if things accumulated. It makes you see things clearer actually, things you never could resolve by thinking. You just need to make this experience of catching yourself back. How much nonsense came from the thoughts of not in touch with oneself...It's life you know, there is no other way to live.
Now just minus the selfconsciouness since there is areal page. While often we purely do stuff so we can feel. It clicks back in then. If you go with how you feel, then non of this shud bother. It's for example the stuff that not work out, little things, they are supposed not to if you're not feeling well. Depression also literally tells you what it's about, the name of it.
And finally I wouldn't call it anger necessarily. It's light too, life force. Eventually it is love or light. There is relief from feeling it. Stuff often is dumb or overly serious so there is the big problem with looking into it but you still wanna feel as it did. Because it was there. See?
Lastly, it cannot land on oneself. Notice how this is not feeling..One gotto stay with the feel, mainly comes from valueing yourself that no feel without good reason, no matter if you know it. There is nothing to know because it's already there. Later you'll see also. Analyzing is a problem, but not makes sense. Could even see good intention of it.
When angry it surely doesn't feel light, that was nonsense. And it's not important to know any of this because you already are, normal life. .. I only mentioned it to not falsly think of it the wrong way. Expessing a feel also is an effortless thing, by default. We don't get angry so easily. Don't push :) unless you are doing music, it has benefits there, otherwise it's nonsense, stuff people might hv said, "gotto be really tough there", "gotto show him", stuff like that. It's up to one, value one's feel or believe the weak frames others viewed it. Don't mean to pressure anyone. Just a topic. There's other things connected to it but I really felt there is so much misunderstanding so yeah maybe it is inspiring, if not then not.
while often the feel here is häh? when interacting with people here. I was just buying something. She asked me: the receipt? I said Häh?, I need this for my order. Did I mention to watch this movie from the 80ies, it takes place in a holiday camp. Watch the scene where the children make the supervisor or whatever cry. The blonde girl, the scene with the pens. But you see, it's kind of a different topic. I don't really know why I bother, but aside the assholes here, maybe it's good for someone. But don't expect me to care if you don't care. I really don't. I view this as a topic that I shared and that's it.
I mean that it's hilarious, I didn't mean to say to like learn from it. You know häh? shud be the main word to use here. If you actually want to get in the tune of it, and I guess that's what I meant, there is a video on youtube, tricking scammers, something with the PC, but the scammer is actually really good at saying häh haha. from India. The guy calling is German. It can be so out of tune to say such a thing, it's amazing.
But it doesn't mean that it's all bad for the main point what feelings are. The thing was that I came from below with something above and it undermined everything. Actually just makes me angry seeing it being written like that which is clearly due to the influence of not valueing it by people like you. At the same time, it cannot be below so this view is not actually real.
I only found one way out releaseeffect.com I did it on Skype
Are you fukking stupid. I literally just wrote about to feel a feel when it's there. And how to actually express it. That might sound weird but it's not. There is no extra effortlessness, I didn't write how to. You freaking debile donkeys wanna tell me that you know to express anger? And that it feels better then? You wanna tell me I was out of my mind for writing the only sane thing, Feeling. YOUR FUKKING REPLIES ARE THE LITERAL CONFIRMATION!! THAT YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH THAT!! You don't know powerful anger and yet there is thunder and then there is rain and then there is sun and yet YOU WANNA TELL ME I WAS OUT OF MY MIND?!! You are the fukkkng idiots who pathologize anger as if it was STUCK!! Which is ridiculous HaHaHa
I mean I admit, it's a bit weird because it's so focussed on like one moment. I can't actually tell you exactly what is up with that but there are these moments where you just feel to slam that door or such things. And then your mind goes like hmm but this but that, but smth good happens when you just feel. It being against sb is not feeling.
but also could be, I mean who am I to pick that all apart. I don't mean this arrogantly, that wouldn't make any sense. I cannot put this picture right or clear with your kind of attitude. It's just silly. All I was doing is looking at something and normally others would have something to add to it or supportively contribute. Your behaviour is just Idk what to say. How do you expect to get to anything with such an attitude. And I'm sorry if I offended anyone, of course I didn't mean it literally.
I actually got something the wrong way with this powerful anger. Something was definitely off, also if I read between the lines of your responses. No need to look into it. As always your feedback sucked hard (:)) but okay. I am very sure I saw something overly serious and also from a kinda lost pov. I am from planet earth dude just, get over it. Of course you can read everything, why the fukk would you not.
The focus on the feels is what was off to be more precise. And it's just not actually it, at the same time it also is. If you take your feel, be it an inuition or a feeling, if you take that as 'ok that must have a reason, if you take it serious you''ll get a better clue. But it's not easy always. Let's say you are sick of something, feel it because it stands for what you love. Lets say you feel like poop and somebody speaks outside in this shouty way, you might feel I hate people like you who shout like that. Because he's not feeling. It's asocial. Or you might feel like Why don't you get yourself a fukking megaphone? it's like love within, it's how it feels. Yet still, more anger might come up so one might punch the table or a folder, paper. I just wrote it a bit off like it was sth technical, which with singing it kinda would be.
all i can say is gott sei dank für die ausländer
Jesus Christ it is unbelievable that this kind of poop is actually real.
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