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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.
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
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Lauren Southern - www.youtube.com/watch
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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
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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