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  • Corporate media and billions in oligarchy money.

    It is sad that we keep having to repeat the same thing over and over again yet people refuse to learn. The Democratic party and the Republican party are both tools of the same oligarchy and they both fight against the normal people in different flavors. The Democrats happily gave the last election to Trump instead of stopping an US backed genocide and since then they often cooperated to help Trumps fascist power grab.

    Unless the party is fundamentally changed and all its current and past leaders ousted and disgraced, it cannot be a means for bettering society.




  • We live in a society and you can’t have it all your way.

    Social norms are necessary when people come together.

    Someones interest in not wearing pants needs to be weighted against other peoples interest not wanting to see their hairy balls halfway falling out of their slip. Imagine if that coworker whose “jokes” are just short of sexual harassment now gets to run around naked and rub his balls on your desk and you are not allowed to tell him to fuck off, because that would violate his “no-pants”-rights.


  • Jein. Mein Eindruck ist, dass die Bereitschaft Menschen auszubilden, und das gilt insbesondere für Leute, die gerade aus dem Studium kommen, abgenommen hat. Wer frisch aus dem Studium kommt und noch nicht in der Form gearbeitet hat, muss eben Vieles erst noch lernen.

    In einem Panel zu Ingenieurys mit IT und “KI”, damals noch eher Machine Learning allgemein als LLMs, Fähigkeiten meinte auch ein Personaler, dass die Firmen lieber Stellen ein Jahr unbesetzt lassen, als interessierte Mitarbeitys ein Jahr lang weiterzubilden. Die könnten sonst ja nach der Weiterbildung woanders hingehen.

    Alle wollen irgendwo vom Markt die perfekt fertigen und einsetzbaren Mitarbeitys, aber immer weniger wollen sie ausbilden.

    Die duale Ausbildung, mit Berufsschule und Betrieb gilt international als Erfolgsmodell und immer wieder kommen Leute von außerhalb um zu lernen wie das aufgebaut ist, und es in ihren Ländern umzusetzen. Und statt das System zu pflegen und wertzuschätzen bekommen Berufsschullehrer oftmals mieße Gehälter, die Materialen sind veraltet und das Geld der Azubis reicht nicht um über die Runden zu kommen.



  • I used to oppose private weapon ownership over the time i have come to see that it is indeed an important tool to defend against totalitarian takeovers.

    It is by no means a sufficient tool by itself, and people can manage to overcome a totalitarian government without in some historical examples, but often this meant a lot of bloodshed and ultimately gaining weapons through overrunning police/military sites or defecting army units.





  • Note that Germany hasn’t reinstated the wealth taxation since more than 30 years and the inheritance tax is designed in a way to protect rich inheritors, so people who inherit hundreds of millions or billions usually pay no or a rather small percentage of inheritance tax, while people who inherit a few millions pay upwards of 30% on it.

    Because of the lacking wealth taxation, there is no proper knowledge of how rich the rich in Germany actually are. The 1970s marked the end of the “Wirtschaftswunder” the time of rapid economic growth. Nonetheless since 1980 the real economic output has increased by 230%.

    It isn’t a matter of affordability for now that the social security is being attacked. It is a matter of political prioritization to enrich the rich and fight the middle and lower income people. In the longer run we will also see a huge demographic issue as there simply won’t be enough people to keep working in the industries, but more importantly for social security in the healthcare and eldercare.

    All of this was and is predictable. It has been matter of “discussion” since more than 30 years. Every government since then chose to remain inactive or work to make things worse. Doesn’t matter if led by the CDU/CSU or SPD and doesn’t matter if the coalition partners were Green or FDP (ultra-neoliberals). They all worked together to bring us here and now they get to reap the reward of neoliberalism in the form of rising fascism.


  • Imagine you are from an non EU country, have ten years of working experience in a relevant field, speak German at B2/C1 level. You apply for a residency permit with work permission. Sounds reasonable?

    Wrong! Your school education, higher education and trade certification aren’t recognised. You can apply for a trade certification course and residency permit, but only when you can proof to have about 10,000€ in the bank account for each year of the course. You are not allowed to engage in any form of employment on the side except for 10hours a week and <450€/month.

    After you get your arbitrary certification you have to rush to find any job that is within the scope of your certificate. You will need to beg companies that they will sign the contract and risk waiting three months or more until your residency permit is approved. If it works out now for the first two years you are beholden to that company as your permit is tied to that job. If you want to change jobs you need to have a new company ligned up and initiate for a change approval, with the new company again willing to wait multiple months for the procedure.

    If you don’t abide by that process, get laid off, etc. your residency is invalid and you could be deported easily.

    These were the experiences people close to me made under the supposed progressive government before the current one. German administration absolutely hates foreigners and the processes are made to make them sufder as much as possible and keep showing them that they should feel like servants kissing the boots of their masters.

    It does not make sense economically, socially or in any other capacity. It is pure systematic racism, using the illogical and cold blood bureaucracy as a front.



  • Die RND-Abfrage in den Bundesländern zeigt, wie groß die Belastung der Gefängnisse durch solche Ersatzfreiheitsstrafen ist: Aus den Angaben von 14 Ländern (Berlin und Hessen erheben dazu keine Daten) geht hervor, dass am Stichtag 31. März 2025 jeweils zwischen vier und elf Prozent der insgesamt Inhaftierten wegen einer Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe einsaß. In Bayern waren es zum Stichtag 5,1 Prozent. Schätzungen zufolge handelt es sich um bundesweit rund 50.000 Menschen.

    Da passt doch was nicht. Wenn bundesweit 50.000 Menschen wegen einer Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe im Gefängnis wären, und das zwischen 4-11 % darstellen würden, dann säßen in Deutschland rund eine halbe Million bis eine Million Menschen im Gefängnis und Deutschland wäre härter als die USA, China, Iran, Russland und die anderen Länder mit absurd hoher Rate an Gefängnisinsassen. Die 50.000 scheinen eher die Gesamtzahl aller in Deutschland aktuell Inhfatierten zu sein.



  • Again, where is the difference to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos?

    Actually talking about personal brand, we need to add Elon Musk to the mix. We see that Tesla is strongly dependent on the brand of Musk, while not providing anything unique in their products. Thereby by your logic Musk deserves all his billions and the workers at Tesla got compensated the same way that the people at Swifts brand got compensated.

    You retain the logic that the capital owner is right to be the billionaire, because he or she generates the billions off what they own with minimal work put in, while the workers are compensated much less for what they work.

    You cannot criticize the US oligarchy without including people like Taylor Swift. It is the same oligarchs working in the same way, favored by the same system and exploiting workers in the same way.