JensSpahnpasta

If you want police data on this and not what people are feeling:

https://www.polizei.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Publikationen/PolizeilicheKriminalstatistik/2024/BundesdatenDelikte/14_StrassenkriminalitaetBRD.html

It's totally infuriating how that goes. Every few years some serial killer is exposed working in hospitals or care homes. Sobody really cares. This news about a serial killer killing 10 is not even headline news. Others have killed over 80 people and nobody really cares, nobody is trying to improve the situation so that people like them can't kill. But if some migrant harms someone with a knife, everybody totally freaks out.

The wiki principe of multiple people editing articles and articles integrating multiple viewpoints based on good sources totally fails if there is no common ground left for people to agree. You can't write an article if some editors are accusing the subject of the article of commiting genocide while others think that they are waging a justified war of defense. Or if some people think that Donald Trump is the saviour of the United States that will make it great again and other people have more sensible views on him.

Ignore the big cities and the popular markets. You want to visit one in a small town, where local groups have set up their stands to support the local sports team, where the football club is selling bratwürste and everything has a kind of uncommercial vibe. It's better than just having bigger commercial vendors selling stuff.

If you're coming from Germany and want to go there via local train: Don't even think about it. That train is too full even on normal days and is extremly horrible when everybody wants to visit the christmas market

The dropshipping boom has brought those products everywhere. They are on Amazon. Amazon doesn't care. They are on Ebay. Ebay doesn't care. They are on all of those other platforms. They do not care. And they are even starting to show up in physical retail locations.

There really is a difference between german police and what ICE is doing. Masked is not the perfect word for that, sorry. One of the big issue with ICE is that they are totally unmarked. They are wearing no uniforms. They do not identify themselves. German police is not perfect and their riot police especially is a band of assholes, but they are far from ICE.

And yes, Germany and Europe have their problems. But they are still great places to live. And yes, one of the reasons is that other places are even worse for minorities or queer people.

Let's be honest: I'm living in a small town in Germany and the quality of life is awesome here. No problems with street criminality. It's secure as fuck. I can buy everything I want in the stores. I have a job with vacation days and I have health insurance. I can't be fired at will. I'm not getting arrested by masked ICE agents. And migrants are also not arrested by masked agents. We bitch about our roads and traffic, but they are safe and one of the bests in the world. I have reliable public transportation (yes, really! The bus comes on time and I had two occurances where he was late in the last 5 years). Nature is great and not polluted as fuck. I have high speed internet, clean water, reliable electricity and a rich cultural environment. It's awesome and that is something you really do not have everywhere.

Real patriots do not vote for agents of foreign powers!

After the US sanctioned the ICC and Microsoft blocked the mail account of its chief prosecutor, that is totally necessary

Actually, I do.