They seem to have messed that article up by naming the perpetrator but disguising the name of the victim as if he was the suspect.
From what I could tell from the radio, the police were largely there because Stürzenberger has a long history of incitement. It sounds like a completely avoidable incident because “freedom of speech”.
And now Stürzenberger is a martyr for the far-right who says he’ll continue, while radical German muslims are over the internet praising the stabbing of people. Dead is the one who had fuck all to do with any of that.
Urlaubs Spass!
I thought Klopp was a huge fan of Sylt? Maybe he could join in the fun?
What’s everyone doing in terms of football on TV next season.
I had an email from Telekom today regarding this offer:
Now, on the face of it, it looks insanely expensive, but the best I have seen Sky for (our league games and Bundesliga) is 25€ pro monat and the DAZN at 35€ per month for a year or 45€ per month on a monthly basis.
I suppose the question is how much am I likely to need DAZN for our Champions League games. I would hope to at least make it to the knock out stages but I am not expecting us to win it. Would that be 6 or 7 months worth?
This is becoming an increasingly expensive passtime. I suppose that there is aways the dodgy stream option but I find that drains the joy out of everything.
German friends, is this a good idea politically or just more idiocy from Scholz?
They do have border checks on occasion. The last time I saw them was during Euro 2024. That was on a back road going between the Netherlands and Germany. We were travelling cross border yesterday and there was no sign of them at all.
Mostly the other times you see border checks are during international meetings (G20, NATO etc). Generally, they take one look and wave you on. I didn’t even have to show my ID card during the Euro 2024 thing, even though I speak German with a very strong foreign accent.
I was asking more about the political impact. From the outside looking in, it feels like it’s just appeasement to the far-right, and it’s not like it would persuade many voters to vote for the traffic light anyway. At this point if they vote for the traffic light and get the far-right policies anyway, why would anyone vote for the traffic light? The far-right voters will still vote for the far-right anyway, and the traffic light voters won’t like (I’m guessing) these policies anyway.
In general it is not worth appeasing the far right (or far left for that matter) as they will never be happy anyway.
Of course, this supposes that this is to stop irregular migrants (i.e. non-EU nationals without visas) rather than to pick up on potential security risks.
It’s supposed to be random checks isn’t it? It can’t be anything other than political purposes. Not sure how you’ll really stop irregular migrants (apart from a supposed deterrent value), nor security risks with that.
Yes, all of Germany’s land borders are with countries that are in the Shengen area so they will have already passed border controls before they reach the German border. They either need the border countries to beef up their controls, or to improve the monitoring internally.
I think some of them have been coming via Poland which has been related to a hybrid warfare scheme from Belarus (effectively a Putin puppet state):
Nothing new really, e.g. Denmark has been continuously doing this for 8 years.
It’s largely ‘Symbolpolitik’, sure. But I wouldn’t necessarily pin this on Scholz, don’t think he has much of a choice here tbh. The pressure isn’t just coming from the ‘far-right’, but from the CDU and FDP and even parts of the SPD’s own base as well (and whatever the BSW is politically).
I noticed that the fucking Nazis are having ago at the Bauhaus movement again:
The AfD must have adapted their whole philosophy from the “What would Jesus do?” concept: Was würde Hitler tun?
Wankers
Well, given what many of them are like, maybe if they wanked once in a while they wouldn’t be such Nazis.
The lyrics to this never get old
Klassiker 
Just been reading up on the government situation. For non-German based Reds, there is a reasonable explainer on DE:
I’m wondering if Scholz would stay on as Kanzlerkandidat for the SPD if there is an election. He fills me with absolutely no confidence. He even manages to make things that he has coped well with look like a disaster.
I don’t think he should have ever had anything to do with the FDP. They have acted the whole time like a party of opposition. I couldn’t even tell you what they are for, aside from having no speed limit on the Autobahn.
Would Boris Pistorius do any better electorally for the SPD?
Surely his time in jail would be a disadvantage.