One person ignoring the statistics offered by another to roll in the manure of their own smugness.

If you look deep enough, pretty much every city’s name is actually some banale description of the location or some guy who was relevant to it’s founding.

These drugs already exist. But they have a bunch of side effects.

Rebound effects from thinking you can eat more because of the drugs and fat stool are the most obvious ones.

Yeah, that’s bullshit.

Poverty isn’t exactly helping, but there are more than enough people with enough resources and excessive body weight.

In the US, ¾ of the population is overweight, are you suggesting ¾ of the population is poor?

I used to be fat. It’s not a monetary issue. In fact, I lost weight when I moved out and had very little money.

Just ask anyone with gallbladder problems…

And again a strawman.

Seriously, I specifically criticize your argument. There’s no mention of you as a person.

Per month.

And it already was so expensive before that most customers were those who had (more expensive, regional) tickets before.

It seems like they want to drive up the price until hardly anyone uses it anymore and then drop it for lack of demand.

Ok, cool. That proves what? That you still don’t have an argument?

I mean, that sometimes did happen.

Germany propped up the Commerzbank after 2007 by essentially buying a large part of it, and managed to sell several tranches with a healthy profit.

Same is true for Lufthansa during COVID.

And yet another strawman.

The mastodon devs decide what to merge, though. If they don’t see the value of a feature, they won’t merge it.

If you want to extend the protocol, sure, go ahead. But you’ll be alone on it, since no one outside of your protocol island can use that specific feature.

And another strawman.

Cows must love your trail of failed arguments.

That’s a strawman and you know it.

Just to reiterate: that guy came to Germany because he’s atheist and militant anti-islam. He warned Europe would be run over by Muslims.

He is Germany’s far right trapped in the body of an Arab.

There’s “doing drugs” and “doing drugs”.

Weed and alcohol were omnipresent in my school, and almost all of my old class have a university degree today.

Especially during the late teens/early twenties, a lot of my peers experimented with MDMA, speed or LSD. Most of them are well adjusted adults now.

These statistics are not about heroin or crack.

Germany just raised the nationwide ticket from 49 to 58€, awesome.

The problem is, that the AfD slowly drifted from very conservative to far right, and for a pretty long time, they managed to seem sufficiently “bürgerlich” not to be legally extremist. It was perfectly clear that they were nazis, even years ago, but not provable.

Add to that the two unsuccessful attempts to ban the even more right and NPD. They were afraid to fail again.

Regarding the current 19%, Germany’s political, economic, and media system somehow paint itself into a corner. The politicians are largely out of ideas, they’re all fighting about petty conflicts, there’s hardly anything being done. Not that bad laws are enacted, nothing happens. The country runs on autopilot into a very obvious wall, and the politicians fight who can sit in the pilot’s seat. It’s a simulacrum.

The economic system is eroding away. The old German model doesn’t work anymore, and the old conglomerates just switched to subsidies and rent seeking, no investment, no changes. Volkswagen wants to scale back EVs in favor of ICEs.

The media are dominated by public access outlets, who are largely afraid to be critical, because someone could call them biased, and private media spreading hate for clicks.

So, Germany is currently in a pretty bad situation and many many people see that, but don’t see anyone actually doing anything about it. But because they are bombarded with hate, they choose AfD. Absolutely stupid decision, but these people just lost every bit of trust in the system. And honestly, I blame the system.

Und die Medien greifen das derzeit quasi noch nicht auf.

Gerade eben hat die Tagesschau noch von “Motive unklar” geredet, dass er aus Saudi Arabien stammt wurde aber sofort genannt.

Yes, which is exactly what I wrote above.

That’s absurd, 1km/h is not the correct unit for acceleration.