#german tag

[steffen-dilfrael]

*verbreitete

Schreiben ist schwierig Freund*innen. Ich bin auch nur am prokrastinieren und sollte an meinem Kolloquium arbeiten

[holocrone]

Böse Hexen gibt es nicht!

BIBI BLOCKSBERG (2002) dir. Hermine Huntgeburth

[salvadorbonaparte]

Recently moved back to the US after living in germany for a bit, but I've been trying to keep up with german politics. Unfortunately I speak german at like an A2 level and don't have the reading comprehension to understand most news/memes/general conversation online. Would you be willing to just briefly explain the whole thing going on right now? I've sorta got the general idea from some American news outlets but I'm still quite confused.

Okay I'm probably missing a lot of Nuance as well but:

The current German government is a three party coalition between SPD, FDP and Green Party (traffic light coalition). Christian Lindner was minister of finance. As a FDP member he was a neoliberal piece of shit. He kept blocking government budgeting because he wanted to lower taxes for millionaires, lower retirement and unemployment benefits etc.

In a surprising turn of events our chancellor fired Lindner on Wednesday evening. He gave a speech that was absolutely scathing - for his standards. Our chancellor is known to have zero backbone or charisma and a monotone voice that puts you to sleep.

Now people find this pretty hilarious because 1) Lindner is a piece of shit 2) we've never seen our chancellor act like this. There's been plenty of memes about him being unemployed and several journalists have already asked him things like "will you apply for unemployment benefits" and "what do you think about people calling you Germany's cheekiest unemployed person".

But unfortunately the FDP didn't find this funny so now all other FDP ministers stepped back - except for one who left the party to save his job. This was also really unexpected and is also leading to lots of memes. Without the FDP, the coalition is broken and there's no longer a ruling majority. The current government will spend some time taking care of urgent stuff now and then in the beginning of next year there will be a "vote of confidence". A strategic vote of confidence will trigger a general election, which will happen next spring.

Unfortunately² the current coalition was not very popular in the first place and conservative and right wing parties are gaining lots of influence. We also have a new party called BSW funded by a former Leftist party member who is singlehandedly proving the horseshoe theory by being so leftist she's right wing. So there's a good chance the election will have pretty bad consequences.

But since it's been a really hard week for everyone we're all just enjoying making fun of Chrissy Lindner losing his job #unemployed.

If you want I can translate some of the memes as well.

Hope this helped!

[phoenix-is-still-here]

happy pride from a german nonbinary icon

[littlechameleonguy]

live in such a way that the AfD (German right-wing party) would have something against it

[grayjoy15]

Day 16: Rotrude, daughter of Charlemagne. As a child, she was engaged to Constantine VI, the son of Byzantine Empress Irene Sarantapechaina, and educated by a Greek monk. The betrothal fell through, and she never married as Charlemagne then forbade all his daughters from marrying in order to prevent any claimants to the throne. Still, she was allowed to take lovers and have children, and she was very well educated and a counselor to her father.

[rogue-bard]

I think we should change the proverb.

[rachedurst]

realistically i know that bitch emil as a certified german boy is NOT having beautiufl golden locks. He has strassenköterblond hair most likely lets be real. Lets be true to ourselves. The chicken theme is irrelevant hes a little german boy first and foremost

[ben-learns-smth]

I'm about to break a law in the most boring way

[dreamdancerdotfile]

Deutsche Bahn is when every single passenger starts cheering at the train moving

[lilyliveredlittlerichboy]

anyway this reminds me of this WILD concept that's been adopted in German cities which they call "Grüne Welle" (green wave) where they coordinate traffic lights on long roads so that if you go about as fast as the speed limit, all your traffic lights will be green and you won't have to stop. this is to aid traffic flow, reduce emissions and it also makes driving so much less frustrating.

the uk has never heard of this concept and is allergic to implementing anything that would make the lives of its citizens easier. you WILL stand at every traffic light. it is faster and easier by far to navigate cities here by bike (but quite unsafe). if you're used in any way to user-friendly city design, you will fucking suffer driving in uk cities

please tell me if this green wave is a thing in other places??? or if its a german exclusive??? thank you

[4077thswamprat]

I'm rewatching some Mash in the German translation but with English subtitles, because I am curious about the difference and it's hilarious. I started with Welcome to Korea and it's even worse (affectionate) than I thought. Apart from the atrocious choice of voice actors, whoever wrote this translation had no idea what they were doing, apparently. Funniest bits include:

Hawk's "You've heard of a military post? Our's is a compost." got translated to "You know what an MP is? That's how they introduce themselves." Which makes absolutely no sense in context

Radar's Grape Nehi constantly gets called Grapefruit juice despite obviously being purple. So did germans in the 70s not know what Grapefruits were? I'm confused.

the very quick muffled sentence from Hawkeye about how they should start duzing each other before they get used to 'sie'. Love to see it.

[buildarocketboys]

Top 5 German things? (not asking out of 'national pride' because that's nonexistent, but because I remember you spent time there a while ago)

- how much the grammar makes sense!! it's why I got so much further with German than Spanish haha

- the food! honestly I feel like German food gets a bad rap and maybe it's just bc I'm British and our food also gets a bad rap, but most of it slaps imo

- Christmas markets! Especially shout-out to the medieval Christmas market in Esslingen, that was so good

- pretty buildings in the old town part of many cities

- cheap university costs (and cheap semester bus passes that you could also use to get the train to Stuttgart and a bunch of different places in badem Württemberg although I realise that might be specific to my experiences at Tübingen)

[zeilenkrieg]

coldmirror liefert wieder ab

Tag yourself ich bin homosexuell flip-flop

[flodaya]

girl math or like Germans have been saying for decades milchmädchen rechnung

[miss-shirley]

30.04.23 - Day 14/100

Walpurgis night is celebrated in Germany tonight, marking the day all the witches meet on the Brocken mountain, the highest peak of the Harz mountains (also called Blocksberg) to dance and bond with the devil 🧙‍♀️ There's lots of small festivals around the Brocken and I usually love visiting but with my exam prep, unfortunately I couldn't swing it this year. Instead I took a peak into one of my favourite childhood novels 'The Little Witch'.

spent the weekend making the materials for the exam

finally finished up the summaries for the oral exam

prepared my other lessons for the week