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  • I guess it’s the same in England with the benefit that if you’re born here, you get a UK passport and all the rights that come with it. I’d argue that Germany played both sides of the “Europe means Europe” passport game to both include and exclude people from being naturalized citizens (i.e. yes you can live here, yes you can kinda vote here, no you’re not german)

    Plus the racism obviously, but every country has a large racist overbelly. England is easier in the sense that english media is everywhere, already diverse, and you can communicate in whatever pidgin english you know. German is much much harder, and I do blame the language being the main barrier to easier integration.


  • My ex was like that; 3rd generation, no German pass.

    Her grandad worked the factories, her mum was born and grew up in the workhouses next to the factories (apparently they’d hand him lunch through the wall), and her mum had no formal education other than sunday school.

    Fiercely proud of their heritage and shunned/mocked by previous generations of Germans, they didn’t see the need to get German citizenship. Even my Ex.

    When I saw the way things were going in Germany, I begged her to get her German passport before it was too late. I hope she did.







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    I have this fantasy often. Aliens come in, and are like

    Whilst we find the creative potential of your species commendable, the Gini Coefficient of your Planet is too high for you to join our Federation. Please rectify.

    And then every month they just post the names and active addresses of all the wealthiest people on the planet, until the Gini Index goes down. The implementation of this transition is left as an exercise to the reader.










  • Oh I think I get it, after reading the required text. Essentially human’s are assholes and have been mistreating electrons since time immemorial, but we were always covert about it. With the rise of the far-right, we’re now empowered to be superliminal about our deranged tendencies towards charged particles