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F.B.I. Arrests Volkswagen Executive on Conspiracy Charges in Emissions Scandal:
www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/business/volkswagen-diesel-emissions-investigation-settlement.html
Ah, "German engineering" or "it's not bad if we're effing over non-germans". I can already feel the butthurt locals responding to this in the only ways they can:
- but GM/Chrysler/Ford did X in 200x and were not prosecuted! Unfair!
- but but USA bombed Hiroshima!
- but but but americans are fat!
- but but but but Iraq!
The absurd thing that happens a lot in this city is that people think they are open and friendly and when you react obviously with bounderies and distance they act like you think of yourself as higher.
One of the most racist comments I heard in de, from my ex berliner employer (architect): " I would rather hire a disabled german, than a foreigner who speaks badly german" ..." however we need ausländer, for our economy ..." Like we hate you, but we need you...So no hypocrisy at all, there' s no humanistic, progressive approach to it ...and Berlin as an international city is a myth, or worse, a fraud.
Left Berlin 3 years ago - its a depressing dump - why on earth do people move there? its not like there are any good jobs either.
Believe it or not, Berlin has actually restored my faith in God.
Because there's no way Darwinism is true after seeing some of the people on here.
the thing is, with the economic downturn soon in Germany refugee problems, Berlin will deteriorate even more but the Berlin-tards wont notice, 'poor but sexy' indeed
What is your criticism? It's absolutely noncontroversial that fiscal spending, with all other things being equal, increases the GDP. OP stated there will be an economic downturn because of refugees, and since GDP is currently the non plus ultra in economic indicators, I mention the effect.
You can question the sustainability of the refugee experiment or its effect on real growth for Germany, but you can't question indisputable fact.
Not them, but you can question anything :).
Also, I doubt that refugees are having a big impact on the financials of the city. I would expect that all the kindergeld, all the people attending university for Feminist Folk Dancing, all the afd supporters on hartz iv, all the bureaucrats, all adult-children in the their early 30s that live off their parents etc. are a much bigger burden on the city. At least the refugees are easily identifiable, they came in one big wave whereas everything I mentioned just now - this builds up over years and decades.
These people hate innovation and progress (theyre deathly afraid of drafts!), they can only refine technology that someone else has created, the whole high-tech scene here is a cargo cult - oh, lets build incubators and create meetups, then we will have innovation! Nope, all you got is Rocket Internet and their super pooping rip-offs of American companies.
yes it is like tourism will be hit especially in Berlin after the truck attack, tourism accounts for 40% of spending revenue there, if Mama Merkel raises taxes that will further depress Berlin spending and deter tourism, who wants to vacation is a hellhole, especially an expensive one? yes government spending increases GDP, but then that debt must be paid back and inflated away, if debt spending generated GDP why couldnt Syria and Afghanistan just do it to increase their GDP's???
Considering the numbers in Paris, which suffered two attacks with more than 10x the casualties, have decreased only about 10% (during more than a year of an official state of emergency) I really doubt tourism in Berlin will face any serious problems. And I don't foresee taxes being raised, as the government deficit is ridiculously close to 0% of GDP. Moreover and contrary to what you've stated, the only notable changes in taxes in the short-term is that they are being lowered this year. And even if they weren't, it's unclear how most taxes would affect tourism at all.
And I'm sure you know this, but for the sake of answering your rhetoric, German 10-year bonds (unlike Syrian and Afghan bonds, which I am certain do not even exist) have an interest rate close to 0%. Even if the country increases its debt to finance refugees (or whatever other fiscal measures), it's not paying a premium to do so, especially if _any_ inflation can be achieved in the coming years.
We can still argue that other indicators that actually matter are terrible here, like median income, PPP, GINI before taxes and transfers and general standard of living.
the overall German national debt is 80% of GDP, last year due to the export boom and tourism, the budget deficit was 0, actually a surplus, much of the refugee costs get thrown back to the lander states, so 80,000 refugees in Berlin with family reunification will be 500,000 just in Berlin and 90% live off welfare, yet no higher taxes or debt???? yeah, makes sense
Fück all the extremists who've recently posted on this board.
I want to read about people bashing this shítty city which contains shítty people.
This place is an escape from the utter mentalists which hold your extreme views in this God forsaken city. Extremism from both ends of the political system isn't cool. Read some books instead.
I enjoy /pol/ as much as the next person, but there's a huge mismatch between what this site is attacking and what /pol/ considers bad. There's no left/right thing here - it's all about venting about how miserable life is in berlin. Berlin's far right is made up of the same stunted and damaged individuals as the far-left. I don't know what to do with them - laugh or cry? It's sad to see "skin heads" that are every bit as inhuman as the PC/SJW folks, except they have different hair styles/jackets.
Eh, came back from holidays a few days ago, couldn't even get off the bus with my luggage because all the ber-droids just storm in. Doesn't matter, young or old, no politeness to speak of at all. Glad I'm leaving this place soon.
My issue with /pol/ is that a lot of the users are try-hard right-wingers with no real ideological foundation. Me? I am just a fascist trying not to go insane amidst so much degeneracy and decadence here in Germany, especially in Berlin.
/Pol/ is right in one thing: the best Germans either died during the last great war or emigrated to America. The ones remaining are just drones willing to work themselves to death for some small luxury and a pointless vacation in Thailand. You take a look at pictures from WWII and you see tall, strong, handsome, masculine German men, gorgeous German ladies with nice hairstyles...you walk around Berlin or any German city of your choice nowadays and all you see are gremlins. I am glad I am leaving soon.
Cucks, as far as the eye can see.
Relationships in this city are so screwed up, too many people messing around with experimentation to keep their options open, no commitment, this is not healthy and many are suffering from it.
Way too much drug taking here as well. You even have Africans openly selling drugs on street corners. Something odd going on in Berlin and I think Soros is behind it in some way, he's so sneaky, in the way he funds lefty groups to destabilize nations.
Sorry all you little alt-Left snowflakes, but multi-kulti doesn't work. Want proof, look at the USA.
See 4chan, /r/the_donald/, or the Russian online propaganda team found this board apparently. They're using the exact same language and tactics they used to recruit people to support Trump and the alt-right on American boards like Reddit and in Youtube comments. Most likely none of them live in Berlin or the EU. F*ck off!!
>Russians
>capable of posting in proper English
I can assure you that pretty much none of the comments on this website has been written by Russians. In my experience, Russian immigrants in Germany are quick to adapt and even go as far as to lick German *ss in order to integrate.
Alt-Left snowflakes can't take anyone challenging their propaganda, and that is one of the main reasons Berlin is so f'd up, the pathetic alt-left scene is full of real deplorables. It's OK for them to go on about Alt-Right opinions, which are anything they don't agree with, but when anyone challenges them, OMG, all hell breaks lose. Berlin is full of them.
Yes, that's what happens when half a generation of Germans was propped up by the West, the other half by the East, and people who were by all accounts completely non-extraordinary were able to make very good money. They spawned German Millennials that not only have all their bills paid by their parents, but also still receive "child money" well into adulthood. And somewhere between 18-25 they move to Berlin, because they can stretch their Euros here even further than they could in a decent city (Munich, Hamburg, basically anywhere else). But they never have to work or learn the meaning of humility. And then these jokes go to things like "Zug der Liebe" where we can see the collective infantilism of Germans under 35.
>every German seems to be dependant on some drug.
>German girls ruin their bodies by getting useless, unnecessary body modifications (tattoos, piercings). At times it seems like every girl (usually the uglier ones) has a nose ring.
>German guys grow a beard, put on a beanie, walk around with a Starbucks cup of coffee and feel like they are in New York, even though they live in the nastiest corner of Kreuzberg
>living in Kreuzberg is "cool"
>Germans seem to be ticking time bombs. They act nice in one moment, but say or do the wrong thing, and BAM! They explode with rage and anger that is unjustified and at best, childish
>Too many beggars
>Ugly women with too much makeup and too little femineity
>People seem to be a copy of some sort of prototype. Everybody drinks Club Mate, listens to pooping music off the charts, wears hipster glasses and thinks being bi-gender, queer, homosexual and/or flat out deviant is modern and "progressive"
>There are not as many jobs as you thought there would be
>The Berliner dialect is awful and is undoubtedly one of the worst types of German I've ever encountered.
Tl;dr: F*CK this city.
This is really weird. Berlin Hater just replaced Les bian with homosexual, how bizarre is that. Berlin PC culture has even struck BLN HTR. Seems about right these days.
OMG and Cheeses H Kryst, how could I forget the mentally ill men-hating homosexual feminists, Berlin is full of them, they want to take all the benefits their straight white fathers and grandfathers etc provided for them, but they want none of the responsibilities, unlike these women (95%), check them out you will get a nice surprise.
Karen Straughan (Karen’s a 1st class genius, feminists sheet their pants when they see her coming)- www.youtube.com/watch
Also time.com/3028827/women-against-feminism-gets-it-right/
Christina Hoff Sommers - www.youtube.com/watch
Cassie Jaye - www.youtube.com/watch
Camille Paglia - www.youtube.com/watch
Janice Fiamengo - www.youtube.com/watch
Karen De Crow -
www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/the-now-president-who-became-a-mens-rights-activist/372742/
Dr Warren Farrell - www.youtube.com/watch
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Milo Yiannopolis - www.youtube.com/watch
Hannah Wallen www.youtube.com/watch
Kate Andrews - www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
Lauren Southern - www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
Toni Airaksinen quillette.com/2016/05/29/confessions-of-a-recovering-tumblr-feminist/
Barbara Kay - www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/whos_oppressing_who/
Alison Tieman - www.youtube.com/watch
Janet Bloomfield - www.avoiceformen.com/featured/feminists-dont-know-jack-about-feminism/
Helen Smith - www.youtube.com/watch
Erin Pizzey - www.youtube.com/watch
Suzanne Venker - www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/10/22/suzanne-venker-is-unwelcome-at-williams-college/
Anne Cools - www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/feminist-governance-feminism/canadian-senator-anne-cools-ongoing-battle-against-gender-feminism/
Anna Cherry - www.youtube.com/user/AnnaCherryOnTop
Hannah Wallen - www.youtube.com/watch
Marina Fennicia - www.youtube.com/watch
www.youtube.com/watch
Diana Davidson www.youtube.com/watch
Rhonda Rousey - www.youtube.com/watch
Diana Davison - www.youtube.com/watch
Sargon of Akkad www.youtube.com/watch
What about the ridiculous cult that puts those huge earrings in their lobes, what the F is that about, I'm sure it's a symptom of a bigger mental imbalance. So many weirdos in Berlin and that's fine, but when they complain they are discriminated against because of the way they appear, duh, yeah.
I saw a guy pissing in the street last night, with no concern of children passing by that area, he looked like one of the people flooding in from a third world country where that is probably the normal behaviour.
Black africans openly selling drugs on the street, making the police look like Keystone Kops, they just laugh in their face. It's a joke.
The stupid building design of apartments, that are like having a huge bass drum over your bed.
They tax you 19% on everything you buy, so if people are spending all their money every week, they are in effect being taxed 19%, before they pay income tax. Then on top of that, huge insurance fees.
I think there must be signs up in tourist offices around the word, that say "Berlin Welcomes Al Sociopaths".
Haven't they realized hat drugs are so yesterday, so passe. And the amount of people who can't even go from one station on the smelly U-Bahn to another station without a beer in their hands. And I'm not talking about the constant stream of homeless alcoholics who smell the carriages out, when they come around with their filthy begging paper cups.
The extreme multi-culturalism is very stressful, as it would be for anyone from third world countries if huge numbers of white Europeans started filling up their neighbourhoods with totally different customs to what they are used to. I don't give a rats butt what race someone is, but for god's sake, leave your customs where you d=came from and respect the local culture of their hosts, in other words, be quiet in public, stop shouting at each other and disturbing the peace on U-Bahns where people are trapped with your anti-social behaviour. .
And of course, they couldn't even get the airport right within 6 years of opening target :o))))))
Don't get me started on that boring sheethole, Berghain, what a pathetic joke.
"" LilyWhitePride" - alt-right what a joke. Go back to praying to a meme frog (FYI. The alt-right actually do believe in Kek a meme frog that supposedly is an Egyptian deity)."
The alt-right is indeed a joke. They believe Trump to be some sort of superhuman that will save Western civilization. This, regardless of the fact that the guy is just another millionaire narcissist who only cares about himself.
Oh yes, they do worship a stupid frog (kek). Most alt-righters are laughable.
Most groups become laughable when they are portrayed as xenophobic, racist, uneducated ne'er-do-wells by the overwhelmingly liberal media (which, coincidentally, I don't consider a conspiracy - there are plenty of studies that show that people who get degrees in journalism are more likely to be liberal). The thing is, depending on the poll you look at, upwards of 65% of white males voted for Trump. If you occasionally leave that ivory tower you've so carefully erected, you'll see that, aside from the jokesters on reddit and 4chan, there are plenty of people who are intelligent and support Trump.
One recurring claim I see is that he has made a platform on helping the poor and middle classes, but that he won't follow through now that he is president and that things for them will be even worse. I honestly don't see how things could get worse. Income inequality is at almost the highest point now that it has been in 30 years (data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI). Trump at least recognizes that the equity market is a powder keg right now that literally only benefits the rich. Economists are all predicting an upswing in the economy in the US. When the interest rate invariably is increased to something decent, stock prices will fall and this ponzi scheme for the rich will at least die down a little. Of course I can't say for certain, but a Clinton win probably would not have had this result.
But of course we can harp on him for his xenophobia, racism and mocking of the fat and disabled. Unless you're capable of researching the topics and forming a nuanced opinion. At, for comparison's sake, at least he isn't on a platform for severely crippling religious freedom in the United States by banning face scarves. And at least his party isn't on record saying that, even at home, immigrants in America should be forced to speak English. And, last time I checked, his party doesn't support legislation that blacklists people from employment based on their religious beliefs. Boy, a country that did that would REALLY be xenophobic and intolerant.
No, you all are literally laughable. This literally comes from an alt-right / neo-nazi website, the Daily Stormer (i.e. one of the alt-right sources):
"Kek is the apotheosis of Pepe, who at some point in the future will travel back in time to become an Egyptian god of trolling. I am not going to elaborate much on it here, as the subject is too complex and esoteric, but the Alt-Right is in the process of forming an actual religious doctrine around the god Kek, who is believed to be the spiritual root of meme magick."
What you are doing is hazardous to the public. Not only are you spreading Trade Secrets™ but you're basically inviting the uninitiated to try out the most dangerous thing on the face of this earth. I recommend you message admin and ask him to delete your post.
The biggest problem is that Berlin's young people have been indocrinated into George Soros's Ultra alt-Left. They are like little robots running around saying all the "right" things, read; "left" things.
Berliners seem to think that because a woman has sexual act with another woman or a man likes to insert his male genitalia into another man's poop-hole, this in some way makes them special or superior or better than straight people. I spoke to a young student couple recently who were wearing No White Pride t-shirts and I said, "What's wrong with being proud of yourself if your white, and they replied "there's nothing wrong with being white, but you shouldn't be proud of it" I replied "so, do you support gay pride". That shut them up for about 5 seconds before they came back with a hate-filled retort about white heterosexuals. Left wing extremists in Berlin are the moronic dregs of the earth.
That's rich from an alt-Left robot, parroting what you were taught in leftist Soros controlled universities. It wouldn't surprise me if you attend Women's Studies courses. Good luck in the real world. It's PC people like you who have totally f'd up Berlin. Alt-Lefists are even worse morons than Alt-Right.