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@Sunhawk
@TarElessar
@Alpha218

You know what they say: first the worst, second the best ;)
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You know what they say: Alles hat ein Ende, nur diese Topic hat keins.

Do you guys think Germany will take a hard turn to the alt right when merkel steps down?

I doubt it, personally. Either things will stay as they are, or they'll swing to the left. Maybe even the environmental left, if the greens can transfer their state-level momentum to the federal level
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Gutten tag
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This seems like a flopix. Nothing much happening.
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Its because we havent had your enlightening questions Sunhawk
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Sunhawk, you were the heart and soul of the previous topic

Without you, this topic doesn't stand a Geist of a chance :(
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teepan95 posted...

Sunhawk, you were the heart and soul of the previous topic

Without you, this topic doesn't stand a Geist of a chance :(

Do you think that might be true of all topics?

Alright. Here are some trabant jokes.

What's the best feature of a Trabant? There's a heater at the back to keep your hands warm when you're pushing it.

What is the longest car on the market? The Trabant, at 12 meters length. 2 meters of car, plus ten meters of smoke.

A man driving a Trabant suddenly breaks his windshield wiper. Pulling into a service station, he hails a mechanic. 'Wipers for a Trabi?' he asks. The mechanic thinks about it for a few seconds and replies, 'Yes, sounds like a fair trade.'

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I can't believe people had to wait roughly 10 years, after ordering their Trabant. I don't think it was worth it.
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LOL at the Trabi jokes. I still see every once in a while a Trabi on the streets here in Erfurt.
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@Math_Murderer

I never knew you were German, MM. o_O

All those years, posting together on CE, and I thought you were a, you know...American.

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Fun fact: in Germany you open your presents and wish everyone merry Christmas on the 24th
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What happens if you travel into Germany with the book Mein Kampf?
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myzz7 posted...

What happens if you travel into Germany with the book Mein Kampf?

It's actually legal now

So nothing
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Sunhawk posted...

I can't believe people had to wait roughly 10 years, after ordering their Trabant. I don't think it was worth it.

I've had experiences like that with eBay.
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@Sunhawk

Yes, I am German. But I lived in Chile during the years that I was posting more actively on CE.
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Why did you come back to CE, now? I expect you haven't been a regular here in, what...10 years?

Also, wtf were you doing in Chile? That's not even in the same hemisphere.

@Math_Murderer

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I haven't really left. I just stopped posting as much, only doing so in topics that would interest me.

My parents separated when I was 11, my mother took me to Chile.
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@teepan95
@ALIEN_WORK2HOP
@Math_Murderer
@TarElessar

Hey, here's something I was thinking about recently. A lot of people are familiar with the theory that Hitler rose to power largely based on bitterness about WW1, i.e. getting beaten by the French, but also the huge reparations.

WW1 ended in 1918; Hitler rose to power in 1932. Isn't 14 years a bit much to still be bitter and messed up about losing to the French, and particularly about the reparations? I mean, the economy had actually been pretty good for quite a few years, by this point. I know the economy crashed in 1929, but that was just because of the Wall Street Crash. Can people really hold in their bitterness and resentness for 14 years, then express that by electing a leader as questionnable as Hitler?

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Sunhawk posted...

Can people really hold in their bitterness and resentness for 14 years, then express that by electing a leader as questionnable as Hitler?

I don't know, I hear some people still post nonsense on CE after more than 14 years, so it doesn't sound that far-fetched to me.

TarElessar posted...

Sunhawk posted...

Can people really hold in their bitterness and resentness for 14 years, then express that by electing a leader as questionnable as Hitler?

I don't know, I hear some people still post nonsense on CE after more than 14 years, so it doesn't sound that far-fetched to me.

Yeah, but that would only be analagous if they were still annoyed about something that happened on CE in 2004.

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Hey, I'm meant to be getting 2 German history books in just a couple of days' time. One on the Nazi regime (this is like 1,000 pages long), and another on German history in general (a few hundred pages).

I own so few non-fiction books. ;_;

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Names? I'll probably add them to the list of books I should read but will never get around to doing so
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I can't remember, lolololol.

Have you got anything to say about my Hitler post, though?

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Brexit is happening because people are salty about having joined the EU in the first place

And that was ages ago

So shrug
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_culture

Quite a lot of interesting stuff about Weimar Republic, there.

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Alpha218 posted...

Gutten tag

gluten free
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@teepan95
@ALIEN_WORK2HOP
@TarElessar
@Math_Murderer

Here's a question for you all. How would you describe the situation in Germany, in the days and months following 9/11? Did it affect Germans very badly, or did it not bother them *too* much? Were people constantly talking about the terrorists and Afghanistan, or was it more in the background? Did people suddenly become really patriotic, like in America? Also, did Germany contribute to the invasion force? I thought I read it didn't, but I'm not sure. Do Germans consider it to be the biggest event of the 21st century, like many people around the world do, or not?

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Bump.
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Here's another couple of questions.

I know I've claimed quite a lot that mothers are discriminated a lot against in the German workforce, during the modern era for the country, but in general, are women treated badly in general? I mean, sexist remarks, not being promoted because they're women, people trying to force them to sleep with them, etc.?

Also, have you all heard about that scandal involving the guy who worked for Der Spiegel? He seems like the German Stephen Glass or something. If you've heard about it, what do you think of him?

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SchoolForAnts posted...

Do you guys think Germany will take a hard turn to the alt right when merkel steps down?

It'll be a hilarious irony when Germany does the opposite of invading Europe.

Uh....not invading Europe.

@SchoolForAnts

I didn't think to call him to the topic. I'm not sure if he's actually German or not.

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Sunhawk posted...

Uh....not invading Europe.

Or, you know, isolationism.

Like Brexit.

To be fair, America's pretty isolationist. I mean...they're building a huge wall on one of their borders. That's what isolationist countries do. Build walls, to stop people getting in. Trump is a pretty bad president.

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I wasn't really aware for 9/11 since I was 5 at the time.

The way I see it, women are treated well in the workplace. But you'd be better off asking one

Merry Christmas
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Bump.
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Sunhawk posted...

How would you describe the situation in Germany, in the days and months following 9/11? Did it affect Germans very badly, or did it not bother them *too* much? Were people constantly talking about the terrorists and Afghanistan, or was it more in the background? Did people suddenly become really patriotic, like in America? Also, did Germany contribute to the invasion force? I thought I read it didn't, but I'm not sure. Do Germans consider it to be the biggest event of the 21st century, like many people around the world do, or not?

I wasn't living in Germany after 9/11, but I got the impression that it didn't affect Germans too much. While Germany did send soldiers to Afghanistan, they also stayed out of Iraq, so by the time I came back to Germany in 2006 terrorism wasn't at the forefront, and there was a sense of security until 2016 that it wouldn't happen in Germany (the large attacks between 9/11 and 2016 didn't occur in Germany: Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels, Nice).
Also,

> Germans
> Really patriotic

Choose one.
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Math Murderer posted...

London

That's one I remember in vivid detail. I was at my granddad's for a few days, and on that day we were planning to go into London. As we were about to leave, my mum phoned and told us to check the news

I was so scared
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Math Murderer posted...

Sunhawk posted...

How would you describe the situation in Germany, in the days and months following 9/11? Did it affect Germans very badly, or did it not bother them *too* much? Were people constantly talking about the terrorists and Afghanistan, or was it more in the background? Did people suddenly become really patriotic, like in America? Also, did Germany contribute to the invasion force? I thought I read it didn't, but I'm not sure. Do Germans consider it to be the biggest event of the 21st century, like many people around the world do, or not?

I wasn't living in Germany after 9/11, but I got the impression that it didn't affect Germans too much. While Germany did send soldiers to Afghanistan, they also stayed out of Iraq, so by the time I came back to Germany in 2006 terrorism wasn't at the forefront, and there was a sense of security until 2016 that it wouldn't happen in Germany (the large attacks between 9/11 and 2016 didn't occur in Germany: Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels, Nice).
Also,

> Germans
> Really patriotic

Choose one.

Why aren't Germans really patriotic? Is it because of the perception that, on previous occasions, German patriotism has led to some very bad things happening? Or am I overthinking things? Is it just that they don't give a fuck? To be fair, I wouldn't say that modern Britain is that patriotic.

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Sunhawk posted...

Uh....not invading Europe.

@SchoolForAnts

I didn't think to call him to the topic. I'm not sure if he's actually German or not.

Me? Nah not German but I know a bunch of German guys, theyre my friends ^_^