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Cake day: August 5th, 2024

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  • I disagree with the monument itself, but to also remember the victims of the socialist dictatorships (Holodomor, big leap forward, red Khmer, and many others) is not a bad thing. And why there? Because the places where it happened might not want to remember them, e.g. look at Russia and how it handles it Soviet Union past.

    While it’s on the fascist side instead of the socialist, Berlin for example has a monument to the forced prostitution during Japanese colonialism. And Germany was not involved there either, but it’s still worthwhile to remember it, since Japan tries to hide it.




  • I really like Karambolage, it is a lets call it documentary which shows german-french peculiarities, like food, history or just how certain expressions developed. It is always with a little wink about our local uniqueness and tries to explain one side to the other. If you speak german or french, I highly recommend it.

    One example from memory which always get used as example by our family if we try to explain it:

    There was once a german-french kindergarten and in the winter the children were told to form groups and build snowmen. The groups made up of only german children played nicely and the groups of only french children played nicely, but the mixed groups somehow all got into an argument. The teachers then found out why: in Germany, the snowmen is made up of 3 snow balls, 1 for the legs, 1 for the torso and 1 for the head. But in France, a snowman only has 2 snowballs: 1 Torso and 1 Head. And the children tried to explain to the other ones, that of course they were right and the other side wrong.

    I always hoped that something like Karambolage comes from every country and then they get shown to the others. This way we all learn about each other. And most imporant thing to learn: we are all human and not so different in the end.







  • To have a proper justice system.

    As the main comment explained: this is not saying “you got the wrong result”, this is saying " the way you reached that result is not the proper way for our justice system".

    So they are just saying that the lower court didn’t do it’s due diligence and needs to look again at the case, this time considering the parts they missed the first time.

    It is not uncommon in Germany that cases like this end in the same result

    To try and explain it in an easier to understand way:

    Person X murders Person Y

    Court A says “Guilty, because you suck”

    Court Higher B says: “Suckiness is not a proper judicial term, do the whole thing again”

    Court A says “guilty, because here is the witness testimony, your finger prints on the murder weapon and the video footage of you killing person Y”.

    Same result as before, but this time in a proper manner fitting a proper judicial system.




  • Again: where is the forcing?

    They are ASKING people to donate their pets corpses. That is so far removed from forcing, I don’t know how to explain it, if you think that is forcing people to do something.

    If somebody asks for something, you are free to NOT do that thing. But those who want to not just put their pets in the ground, can use the offer.

    And regarding “not part of our culture”: you know that the act of putting cat babies in a sack and drowning them, because you couldn’t care for all of them, isn’t out of style that long, right? So that shows you 3 things: caring for pets means different things for different people, not everybody is opposed to killing pets and lastly: cultures change.