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When returning to Berlin after a while:
1. Week: full of energy with a clear mind about your goals. Actually getting some stuff done.
2. Week: getting let down, set back, pissed off, best case: ignored by everyone and everything
3. Week: depression
I hate when people generalize about others.
Why this became a USA propaganda against Germany? As far as I'm concerned, the thing here is about Berlin!!!
Sorry, I'm just more upset then usual when berliners throw shi* at my country never even having been there. I'm sure that if I were British/Polish/French etc. I'd be doing the same, as most of my expat friends from these places have the same beef with Berliners...
So yeah, I'll reign it in now.
My German ex came to the states for 2 weeks once, it was the winter during the depression years and we didn't have much money so didn't see much and it was a bit colder than usual
But NOW she knows all about it and can tell anyone what an overblown place it is and speaks with authority about every detail of the place... I lived in Berlin for ten years but everything I say about that poop hole is discounted.... LOL
Guys, when I've posted here in the first place I didn't meant to be defending any country.. it's just that if you want to complaint about the States or Germany this is not the place, this a Berlin hating place and there is already enough to hate about the city, why talking about countries?! Isn't there anything else to complain like idk the fact that everytime you go to the post you get ripped off if the guy knows that you don't speak German?! fornicate those guys
The same people (far right and the Russian government) who have brainwashed people in the US and UK and have taken over popular discussion forums, comments sections, and social media all over US and UK websites are now targeting German, French, Dutch, Swedish citizens using the same tactics. It certainly doesn't help this forum is now on their radar thanks to the owner(s) setting up "trump-hater.com" recently.
Germans whining about tanks being transported through Germany.
Such simple minds.
Germans whining about:
- America funding around 50% of all NATO stuff
- Germany's NATO contributions are less than agreed to, something like 1.5% GDP (agreed to amount is 2%)
- America keeping over 60k strong deterrent force in Europe...
- ... So Germany doesn't have to spend so much money on their ~120k troops in total...
- ... which means that US tax payer money is effectively going towards protecting Europe...
- ... which means Germans have more government money for education, health, 5 weeks vacations, etc.
But still they whine about US forces being transported through Germany and US bases in Germany.
I hope that the US will pull out their troops one day and force Germany to pull funds away from The German Lifestyle™ and invest in their army. Maybe then they'll appreciate the free ride theyre getting.
People in Berlin usually do not work in global companies or organisations despite living in a big city. Global-reach startups and firms hire just as many or more foreigners than Germans, and certainly the smallest share of their employees are Berliners. That's why Berliners don't know a lot about the place of Germany in the world or in Europe. They do have a lot of opinions about the world but little concrete experience of working with strangers or, poetically put in the words of Kwame Appiah, living in a world of strangers. This plays into why they are ignorant about foreign policy but also a lack of interest on the part of the German elites to popularize their opinions on foreign policy. But this might change in the next 20 years.
Being arrested for posting fake news.
place is so bad people are so rude there is not much to do but stand and look at crap
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.