26-02-2022, 02:30 PM
(26-02-2022, 01:20 AM)Tigger Wrote:(26-02-2022, 12:35 AM)thomil Wrote: Thank you very much Necro, I'll be giving this place a wide berth then, given your welcoming attitude!What's going on are you Russian or German or Italian or something.
I don't think people mean the people when they talk about teb countryes like Irish people always give out about Irish govt so theybareent one thing. And American forgien policy is bat shitvcrazy but Americans and their culture is cool .
Ans Israel forgien policy is boarderline psychology but the Israel's wonenrem are rediculiouslyblovlet and the people have contributed massively to Western culture and the arts .
So stay
Or don't but tell me what's going on cos I never understand what's going on these days 😅
Apologies, Those were two days of VERY late nights posting there. Yes, I am German, though I've lived in Cork for coming up to ten years. I can tell you, the vast majority of Germans are just as horrified about the Russian invasion and our government's completely idiotic response to it as many abroad are. Olaf Scholz is rapidly turning out to be an absolute embarrassment as a leader and is single-handedly tearing down any international reputation that Germany might have left. From this crisis to the COVID response, German government actions have been vacillating, effete, incompetent, self-serving, and utterly hare-brained, and that's me being kind! At this point, I'd gladly take Varadkar, Martin, hell, even MaryLou McDonald over the current herd of blooming thundercunts in the Reichstag, because Ireland has consistently outperformed Germany by a significant margin in responding to any single of these major crises!
I know that the war is sucking a lot of us into a doom-scrolling black hole, I've been up until 2AM myself over the last three days, despite working a full day as well. So I know how easy it is for emotions to get away from ourselves, hell, it just happened to me as well, as demonstrated above. However, I believe we should take extreme care in these circumstances to differentiate between the people of a nation and its government and to express said differentiation.
As for Germany, I shudder to think what would be happening now if the conservative party had won the last election instead of Scholz because as bad as Scholz is, his main rival would have been worse by several orders of magnitude still!
Money talks. Mine always says goodbye!