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Cake day: August 1st, 2023

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  • Oh, no! Their debt rose by 1,x percent… to a total of ~64%. That’s nearly 20% under EU average. And while countries with rates of 100-160% (let’s not even talk about Japan or US as they are playing in another league entirely) take on more debt to push the economy in times of crisis Germany is not spending anything as no new debts (beyond 0,35%) are allowed constitutionally.

    Sure… Germany totally has a debt problem. One of retarded politicians stuck in economic ideas of the 1970s that still don’t understand the difference between a country’s economy and business economy. So they refuse to take on any debt when everyone else does to make their location more attractive for companies via investments.

    And still the German economy is only shrinking if you round rediculous low numbers up to 0,1%. Guess the country will deindustrialise and collaps any day now. I hope someone tells the companies building massive new production sites in Germany that they are wasting their money on lost case they will lose all its industry… somehow…


  • When your government has taken on debt with the assumption that number keep go up, that’s a problem.

    And again, the opposite is true. They have reduced debt constantly for decades, did not spend big sums on stimuli while covid (in fact the recent budgetary discussion was about the unused covid funds) and are still not spending anything on the economy. If they actually would take on debt to invest it into economy boosts like everyone araund them does right now, they would obviously have growth.

    So they sat at ~+/-0 now and everyone loudly cries recession, doom and apocalypse because two quarters in a row had a (rounded down) -0.1% which technically qualifies.


  • Sure… so much common wisdom about Germany. Including their immidiate collaps any day now for the last 20+ years. Or the 5%+ economy loss should they not get Russian gas (after all those people who froze to death of course).

    In reality those massive losses -coming out of covid, still having supply chain issues and with not even a fraction of the stimulus money other countries spend to counteract on top of no more gas- are now what? +/-0? And with some more obsolete techs slowly sourcing out parts for cost reasons while new technologies open up shop there at the same time.

    The only actual risk for Germany (and a lot of other countries) is that people start to believe the bullshit, the outrage farming and doom scrolling trash and all the usual propaganda they are flodded with on a daily basis.





  • No, actually they would have loved to make it easy. Yet the EU is opposed to it.

    So now they are doing it in baby steps to get solid data on every step of the way to show the EU rules are bullshit.

    First step: decriminalisation for limited amounts, home growing and private clubs.

    Next step: licensed distribution in selective model regions, documented as per agreements with the EU commission.

    After that: negotiations with similiarly minded EU countries

    Full legalisation can basically only happen with an EU frame work and that will be a marathon…




  • In several interviews in British media, where he spoke (uncensored) about censorship in the West being more intense and more rediculous than in China. About the fact that he -while freely talking on TV- is somehow not allowed to freely talk about the truth. And about how “the sense of guilt around the persecution of the Jewish people” is weaponized against Arabs via the “Jewish community’s significant influence in the media, finance and culture in the US”.

    The latter btw is the bullshit he originally argued. So he is in fact openly telling us to blame all that evil Jewish influence while at the same complaining that he is not allowed to speak about exactly what he is allowed to repeatedly say in interviews…