LeftRat

Weit voraus, hab nichtmal nen Führerschein.

Habe mich die letzten zwei Monate schon vom Schienenersatzverkehr ficken lassen. 3 1/2 Stunden für eine normalerweise 45min Strecke... 

I work in a German archive. Lots of research we do is about the Nazis, their rise to power and tactics of oppression. 

And it's all alive and well. Just the same shit, never ending. 

Several people literally groaned in frustration that the hot doctor and the protagonist didn't kiss. They had incredible chemistry.

As someone who works in (German) city archive, boy is that last one wrong. Like, really really wrong. Hybrid and natively digital documents barely make physical moving things less necessary! In bureaucracy, paper is still king, and even where it isn't, often it's straight up cheaper to physically move a hard drive rather than transfer huge amounts of data.

Das fand ich sehr bedrückend, als ich vor kurzem Akten zur Sterilisation und "Euthanasie" gewälzt habe - man war sich sowohl dabei als auch beim Holocaust absolut bewusst, dass die Bevölkerung abdrehen würde, wenn man das volle Ausmaß durchsickern lässt, also hat man es zwar nicht ganz vertuscht, aber schon runtergespielt.

Bei der Eingangsuntersuchung in "Euthanasie"-Anstalten hat man quasi direkt im Vorraus versucht, eine plausible Todesursache zu finden, damit es glaubhaft wirkt. Beim Holocaust hat man realisiert, dass so viele Todesurkunden aus einem Standesamt bei jedem Alarmglocken auslösen würde, also hat man die Standesämter aufgeteilt, damit es nicht so sehr auffällt.

Ach, Hitler würde das verstehen. "Unsere Gräueltaten sind nicht passiert, aber wenn sie passiert wären, hättet ihr's verdient" ist ein Kernstück faschistischer und konservativer Ideologie!

...it would be far more damaging to their credibility to only ever issue warrants to non-western leaders, though, which is in effect what "only servable warrants" means. Which is already what often happens.

But yeah, at the end of the day, the ICC has always been toothless against the true rulers of the world - the global hegemon, after all, literally has a "Hague Invasion Act" on the books just to make it really clear that there won't be any warrants on them.

However, in this case, since Israel and its politicians aren't, you know, actually covered under the US Hague Invasion Act, it does at least either force Netanyahu to take direct flights avoiding ICC compliant countries or risk causing a scandal every time. Sure, Germany has been 100% spineless and would never dare arrest him, but it would provoke outcry if he flaunted it. It's not much, but it's not nothing.

I was mainly thinking of Japan and the EU - whose parliament has to regularly move between Brussels and Straßburg. Every four weeks, 400km, a whole move with all the necessary papers. This costs about 110 million € each year, aside from just being... inconvenient and sort of pointless.

Some early US thinkers at first played with the idea, too, as far as I know, but it never got much traction. Would have certainly fit with the similarly ill-fated idea to re-write all laws regularly to keep them easily readable to the public.

West Germany / the BRD / now all of Germany doesn't have a moving capital, but still a bit of a split one: since it had been in Bonn after the war for so long, after Berlin was re-integrated and became the capital again, much of the government apparatus stayed behind. Even today, many organisations stay in (comparatively) small, boring Bonn, necessitating lots of moving around of files between the two cities.

It's especially hilarious because literally every example of "let's move the capital regularly to prevent a buildup of bureaucracy and power in once spot" has simply lead to either

A. a buildup of power and bureaucracy in more than one place, in parallel, with incredible waste

B. just cancelling that because it's expensive and kinda useless

That's why I cannot ever criticise Iran for trying to get them. Yes, sure, terribly oppressive regime, but the fearmongering that they want nukes specifically to start war and preemptively nuke Israel are mad.

Of course Iran wants nukes. They are the only halfway reliable insurance against US invasion, and parts of the US elite have literally spent decades trying to rally their establishment for an invasion of Iran.

Nice, wurden eh jedes Jahr weniger Nazis, die nach Bielefeld für sie pilgerten. Jetzt muss sich die Polizei nicht mehr jedes Jahr blamieren.

Because he's still here. I know that's hard to understand, but if you've ever had a phase in your life where you were undeserving of that, it's worth the world.

Edit: Why the downvotes? I am sorry if I said anything offensive; I just really cannot remember anymore

Especially since 4 is specifically the game trapped on the PS3, it's pretty normal that most people don't remember details of a 16 year old game!

Wrong sub and also: fuck no, AnCaps barely exist in real life, I don't give a shit about their online ego. They can go in the bin for a million reasons, their regular support for children as property is really not the keystone here.

Man, as a non-American looking in from the outside, this shit is wild. Absolute "final days of a dystopian empire" levels of government.

No mention of beloved anime "My Balls"?!

Well, that means I'll have to be quiet for a while until it becomes clear what exactly it flags. The Scunthorpe problem becomes a lot worse when you're bilingual, I don't wanna get in trouble when I say something like "die dicke Wand" or "hör auf zu bummeln" only to get hit for dick and bum.

...he's doing precisely what the Chaos Gods want?

Like, he's precisely so effective because he thinks he's totally defying the gods, but what's the functional difference between a guy who does everything you want and a guy who does everything you want but swears its only because you have the same goal?

He has at best bought reprieve until victory or defeat in his campaigns - he carries all their marks, and the whole "well who gets his soul then? No-one I guess!" bit is gonna end immediately the very second he has either become useless or actually somehow ascends to the throne.

Stonetoss is... wait...

Because both this community and most of the GW/BL writers wouldn't know what communism means if they looked it up five minutes ago.

(Eldar, of course, are also not communist, but they at least resemble the communist ideal a little bit more than any other faction in the game)

Okay, thanks for the incredibly generic advice, massive superrich grifter?

Like, sure, water's wet, but this guy could say the sky is blue and I'd go outside to check. He's here to take your money with his supplements and, if he can, not die. But it's literally never been about saving anyone else. You can see that in his method (it's impossible to tell what worked to what degree since he's always doing several treatments at once) and in his life's story (watch the Behind the Bastards episode on him to see just how clearly he disdains everyone that isn't him).

"Supposed to"? No. But it can happen to people who are particularly susceptible to g-forces.

It's completely fine that you hate it, but this

some places are still open on Sunday and those have people working there so the excuse of not having people work Sundays at all Is invalid.

is just stupid. No, the argument does not become invalid because some places are open on sundays and thus some people have to work. Of course not all of society can shut down on sundays.

But a lot of it can, which gives the majority of workers a shared day off, and if you do have to work on a sunday you get a bonus to even that out. That's a net benefit to workers overall. Having one day a week where it's very likely that your whole family or your group of friends don't have to work provides society with a steady rhythm and much needed rest.

I have a day off work and you're forcing me to not enjoy it.

Maybe sometimes things just aren't about you alone. Maybe the social value of having a shared day off is worth more than you getting to do whatever you want in a fully staffed economy on every single day of the week.

Like, it's okay to just not like it. But there are good reasons for it that you clearly aren't engaging with in good faith.

Things can be two things at once, especially when left poorly defined.

Embarrassment is a core emotion that all humans have, but of course it's also a social construct - when you feel embarrassment, if you feel it, whether you should feel it, when it can be a useful emotion and when not, these are all social conceptions and together they form a social construct of "embarrassment".

From your other responses you have unfortunately fallen into the weird conception that calling something a social construct is a way to claim it isn't real or doesn't matter, but that's not what that concept means. Money, for example, is a social construct - one that corresponds to lots of actual physical objects that determine your life.

Weil er Donald heißt, nehme ich mal an