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Why I'm embarrassed to be German
Youtube ^ | 6 july 2024 | Sabine Hossenfelder

Posted on 07/06/2024 9:03:29 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Germany is not the well-functioning, environmentally super-conscious, high-tech nation

it used to be. You go to a train station, half the trains are cancelled, the other half is delayed,

the escalators are broken, the announcements are barely audible, and in the unlikely event

that you can connect to the wifi it’s so slow that by the time the news is streaming it’s become a historical documentary. Or maybe it’s quantum wifi, collapses the moment you touch it

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Science
KEYWORDS: baddecisions; centralplanning; collapse; europe; germany; sabinehossenfelder; trainsontime; youtube
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Amazing! When I was in Germany 50 years ago, I traveled everywhere by train, and only once was a train late, and that was for only 15 minutes. By contrast, when I rode on Amtrak, they were usually late, sometimes by as much as 14 hours.


21 posted on 07/06/2024 9:51:54 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: shanover

“The West is dying. People vote for their destruction”.

Correct. Most are ignorant of history and what’s going on and as long as they’re fed come “bread and circuses”, they’re complacent and normalcy bias takes over.


22 posted on 07/06/2024 9:53:42 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

[My sister and brother-in-law lived in Germany for many years, he was a civilian NATO employee.

Their house was one of the few with a landline, the wait time was YEARS for a phone line.

His boss, the base Commander was on the wait list, they enjoyed telling him he could use their phone in an emergency.

Cell phones have become very popular in Germany for some reason.]


What’s interesting is that Deutsche Telekom is T-Mobile’s (Sprint’s successor) controlling shareholder. And T-Mobile is arguably the most dynamic of the Big 3. Of course DT is perhaps a big upgrade over Deutsche Bundespost, which broke up around the same time as AT&T.


23 posted on 07/06/2024 9:58:09 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Stolz bleiben.


24 posted on 07/06/2024 10:29:11 AM PDT by 353FMG
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To: DUMBGRUNT

25 posted on 07/06/2024 10:34:19 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: Pilsner

Lol


26 posted on 07/06/2024 10:40:51 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Germany is the outcome of the liberal philsophy.
Every nation that adopts liberals will become like Germany, and worse.


27 posted on 07/06/2024 10:41:59 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Did the people really vote for millions of dangerous, Muslim invaders? I’m of the belief they vote for people with certain policies, and the leaders (like Biden here) took everything to a level naive liberalsh for destr could not have imagined.

I partially blame the Osama Obama Regime for killing Kaddafi and Bush gor killing Saddam. Trying to remake the Middle East are destroying the West. All the fake “refugees” are “fleeing” what the USA put in moyion.


28 posted on 07/06/2024 10:42:13 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

“..Why I’m embarrassed to be a German”…

This wouldn’t have anything to do with that “concentration camp” stuff, would it?..

I was in Germany nearly 10 years ago and my buddy met a girl who seemed very nice until the day wanted to show him the handmade lampshades that her grandfather had made… She was so proud and had no clue!


29 posted on 07/06/2024 10:46:23 AM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: PghBaldy

They were lied to and they were too stupid to understand the true nature of liberalism. I don’t call liberalism the most evil and murderous philosophy in the history of mankind for not reason.

But you tell the liberal this and he laughs, because he really cannot figure it out.


30 posted on 07/06/2024 10:46:38 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The entire West is collapsing. Few have the courage to say why. Even fewer have the courage to do what need be done.


31 posted on 07/06/2024 10:46:58 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Pilsner

LOL! “Chasing away” all the bagel-makers will do that!


32 posted on 07/06/2024 10:50:31 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Fiji Hill

—”By contrast, when I rode on Amtrak, they were usually late, sometimes by as much as 14 hours.”

I rode Metra into downtown Chicago for many years, mostly during inclement weather.

I have few complaints except for the loud talkers on cellphones, and I’m hearing impaired.

A few times each winter the doors would freeze open in extreme cold, but then the loud talkers would move to another car.

Most, but not all sounded like Arabic.


33 posted on 07/06/2024 10:54:42 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Pilsner

According to Jerry Seinfeld, it is the same reason that they don’t have good comedy in Germany, either.


34 posted on 07/06/2024 11:01:26 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Germany is not the well-functioning, environmentally super-conscious, high-tech nation

it used to be. You go to a train station, half the trains are cancelled, the other half is delayed,

the escalators are broken, the announcements are barely audible, and in the unlikely event

that you can connect to the wifi it’s so slow that by the time the news is streaming it’s become a historical documentary
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It sounds like they need new leadership, somebody who’s a real take charge kind of guy. That’ll make German society more efficient. 🙄


35 posted on 07/06/2024 11:06:35 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: PghBaldy

—”Did the people really vote for millions of dangerous, Muslim invaders?”

For some major population segments, YES!

The demographics for most of Central Europe are not good for manufacturing, and that pays the bills.

Germany had been happy with the many Turkish immigrants, good workers who learned a trade and the language.

Many are retiring and the need for workers to refill the coffers.
But many in the newer generation of immigrants are not interested in working or learning the language... just the welfare check.

A friend’s BMW is assembled in Africa!

We should have picked our own damn cotton!!!!


36 posted on 07/06/2024 11:12:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: Ancesthntr

—”they need new leadership, somebody who’s a real take charge kind of guy. That’ll make German society more efficient.”

Someone with the power to make the trains run on time?


37 posted on 07/06/2024 11:20:30 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Sabine is just having to learn what living in an islamic country is always like...

It is about time that she spoke out...
She should have taken the opportunity, many years ago, to accept a position in the U.S.


38 posted on 07/06/2024 11:32:13 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Sabine is a wonderful YouToob presenter of science
just great!

(leaving aside her penchant for global warming bullkrap)

it is well that she is awakened to the decline of life in Germany

she needs now to connect the dots and discover the prime reason for this decline

namely, that the German ruling elite has sold out the country to the Islamicist invasion

the entire morals and ethos of a country is destroyed from within when the enemy secures entry to attack or undermine the nation from inside its borders

we see the very same deterioration in USA, Canada, UK, France, Belgium, Italy, ....
from the very same causative factor

What is amazing is that it has happened, is happening in of all places, Germany. A nation where the citizenry could have been expected to bar mass-scale invasion of such a well-recognized (and openly articulated) enemy culture


39 posted on 07/06/2024 11:49:48 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s odd. A neighbor has been working in Germany and came home for the 4th. He insists Germany is in stellar shape and a wonderful place to be.


40 posted on 07/06/2024 11:51:33 AM PDT by LouAvul (DEI = Didn't Earn It. )
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