One Shop in Frankfurt after the protest officially ended.
Nothing turned violent, this is a giant nothing-burger.
And even if it hadn’t been, what? Was my heart supposed to bleed for some supermarket chain? In the words of Emma Goldman, from “Anarchism and Other Essays”:
“Ask for work. If they don’t give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”
I thought they give you bread in Germany.
Someone else’s shop was a sacrifice you were willing to make.
A famous mexican once said, “stealing from the rich isn’t theft, merely irony.”
Corporate conglomerates loot the people all the time. I’m not shedding tears for these vampiric entities.
I was the one there? Huh. That’s news to me.
I’m just talking about your general principles.
Great, that makes two of us.
What is their solution for bringing down the cost of living? Remember Hitler rose to power because the Democratic Weimar Republic couldn’t control inflation.
Their plan is to violently quash protests under false pretense after demonizing protesters, and to continue to let the oligarchy seize control, while they institute total information awareness, age controls allowing them to connect every person to everything they have said or done or looked at online, and along with all other information sources, including from data brokers, to create secret social scores on us to determine everything about our lives with no way of challenging them, or knowing of it for sure.
It’s not great.
They were paying huge war repetitions after WWI. So in a way, if they weren’t forced to do so, WWII wouldn’t probably happen because people would simply not vote for him.
But things were completely different, back then they had hyper inflation.
Reparations wasn’t the only reason and the price of payment was actually brought down to a more generous level. I would argue that what actually caused the proverbial fire is when the United States, the one that was actually investing and providing credit to Weimar Germany in order for the latter to pay the reparations, experienced Great Depression. With the US bankrupt, Weimar Germany has had no other way to pay back the reparations even if it’s reduced to a more reasonable level. And even with that, the bad genie is out of the lamp because of built up resentment by the Germans as perceived national humiliation and the rest is history.
I can somewhat see something similar happening again. The current German government is too chicken to look inward towards more European investment to decouple from the US, but instead is still too beholden to Washington.
Yes, but the AfD is gaining popularity. People might be fooled into thinking the AfD has a solution to the high cost of living.
Unfortunately in times like these, populist parties gain traction. But this is not only on the times but also on the CDU/CSU who didn’t really prepare Germany for the digital age.
He claimed control because the then CDU+SPD were sure they could control him.
Basically same same with today’s CDU, nothing really changed, apart from the Führers gender.
But they have a lesson from the past.
Which they refuse to acknowledge.
are you saying merkle is hitler?
How is Merkel relevant to this.
We attack each other instead of attacking up. Working as intended.
