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For the offence of tweeting three thumbs-up emojis, a 64 year-old German woman has been fined €1,800

Zohran Mamdani, Die Linke and the Reconfiguration of the Left

German police conduct coordinated nationwide raids for the pseudo-crime of "hate posting" in their ongoing battle against freedom of expression

MARSHMALLOW MINISTER MASHED: Leipzig court overturns Nancy Faeser's ban on the AfD-adjacent magazine Compact

Operation Midnight Hammer, or: The United States Strikes Iran

The weather is nice so we have to freak out about heatwaves now

Why establishment political discourse is so vacuous, dishonest and oblivious to reality

Stefan Niehoff, the German pensioner famous for a meme calling Robert Habeck a moron, is found guilty of five criminal retweets and one criminal reply and fined €825

We have established an autonomous, self-reinforcing censorship regime that serves no real purpose other than its own propagation

No, I do not think Israel's strike on Iran portends a broader regional war or imminent Armageddon

On the Mostly Peaceful Los Angeles Riots

The Curse of Government by Committee

The European Union is paying NGOs millions of dollars to conduct what amounts to soft economic warfare against its own member states

German YouTuber faces €16,000 fine for mispronouncing the word "quality" in the latest insane speech crime prosecution to hit the Federal Republic

How asylum advocates, a corrupt Green judge, some Polish NGO and three Somali migrants collaborated to attack Friedrich Merz's new border policy

On the hollow moral pleas and novel tabus deployed to prevent you from criticising or even describing the obvious looming catastrophe of mass migration

How an unemployed middle-aged transsexual man calling himself "Alina" has used lawfare to extort employers in NRW out of at least 250,000 Euros

On Free Expression: Answers to Some Questions

German pensioner receives 75-day prison sentence in latest speech crime scandal to hit the Federal Republic

No committee chairmanships, ongoing threats, inadequate facilities: The legal case against the AfD has collapsed but the cartel parties continue their dirty tricks undeterred

Biden's cancer diagnosis is very strange, and a medical cover-up is the least of it

European Rearmament, the American Empire and Donald Trump

Spy agency report on the alleged "extremism" of Alternative für Deutschland turns out to be so stupid that it destroys all momentum for banning the party

The campaign to ban Alternative für Deutschland is not going well

Merz promised an end to mass migration, but so far he has delivered primarily messaging chaos. Could this be some kind of insane strategy?

Kanzler-Krimi: Who stabbed Friedrich Merz in the back and what does it mean?

BREAKING: New Merz government orders the pushback of all illegal migrants at the German borders, effectively abolishes asylum as a path into Germany

German political class gleefully planning the wider persecution of Alternative für Deutschland and its supporters, because Hitler

Domestic spy agency declares Alternative für Deutschland to be a "confirmed right-wing extremist" organisation, as authorities inch closer to banning the party

Towards a Theory of Political Stupidity

German prosecutors charge woman for reproducing Nazi symbols after she publishes an image of Health Minister Karl Lauterbach raising his arm at suspicious angle

CDU set all of their political capital on fire for debt brake overhaul, literally forget about EU fiscal rules that prohibit their spending orgy anyway

Banning Alternative für Deutschland

Friedrich Merz once promised to cut AfD support in half. He has doubled it instead.

The NGO Menace

Spring Open Thread

Incoming German government from hell enthusiastically promises to artificially inflate energy prices, regrets that the social welfare state must absorb ever more of our income

Why the Liberation Day tariffs were faintly terrifying and why it is probably good that Trump has walked the greater part of them back

German journalist sentenced to seven months of probation for a Twitter meme poking fun at the Interior Minister's lack of commitment to free speech

TARIFF CRAZY OPEN THREAD: Trump escalates towards nuclear trade war with China, EU Commission in a rare fit of sanity offers the Americans a zero-for-zero tariff deal on industrial goods

GLEICHAUF: Alternative für Deutschland in historic first pulls dead even with CDU/CSU in latest INSA poll

Liberal democracy was once a form of government. Now it has become a shallow civic religion and it really sucks.

Delusional media ask whether a new wave of American refugees will flee Trump's pending "fascist dictatorship" for that bastion of freedom and democracy known as the Federal Republic of Germany

Paris court strips Marine Le Pen of the right to run for public office – at one stroke disqualifying the highest-polling candidate from the 2027 French presidential elections

Higher taxes, more political repression, no solutions: Germany's next government will be from hell

In which the cartel parties of Germany make a literal communist and alleged Stasi collaborator the Senior President of the Bundestag to keep the office away from Alternative für Deutschland

Debtpocalypse

Ghost Bundestag votes to dismantle the German debt brake, as Friedrich Merz succeeds in his scheme to authorise thousands of billions in deficit spending against the wishes of his own voters

Retard German political establishment responds to Donald Trump with the ultimate checkmate – a constitutionally-anchored pledge to deindustrialise in the next 20 years

On the manifold fractal screwups of Chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz

Eurotard hysteria achieves new heights as Ursula von der Leyen unveils her new Goatse-branded defence initiative and Friedrich Merz reacts to literal fake news with a massive deficit spending plan

In which the United States suspends military aid to Ukraine and impotent childish Eurotards lose their minds and say a lot of foolish things

Two dead and 10 injured in Mannheim after Alexander S. – reportedly a 40 year-old native German with no migrant background – drives his Ford Fiesta into Carneval crowds

"You don’t have the cards right now" – "I'm not playing cards Mr President" – "Oh you're playing cards, you're gambling with the lives of millions of people"

CDU and SPD condemned to betray their voters in the next Coalition of Failure, as Germans continue to abandon the cartel parties in droves

POLLS CLOSED: First Election Prognoses Too Close to Call on Most Important Questions

A German Political Primer Ahead of Tomorrow's Elections

Tweedle-Dum, Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Three: Musings on the German Speech Police Courtesy of 60 Minutes

J.D. Vance was right that "there is no room for firewalls," and if the CDU are not careful, they may well prove his point with their own destruction

"There is no room for firewalls": U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance denounces the closed and exclusionary European political elite to their faces

Farhad Noori, rejected asylum seeker in Germany, runs down 28 people at a trade union demonstration in Munich

Open Thread Because Book

In Soviet Germany, the government protests YOU

Why pervasive media propaganda is ultimately self-defeating and destructive to the political class that wields it

German political crisis deepens as protests against the CDU continue and suddenly no major party wants to govern with anybody else

Why racism is a stupid and incoherent concept that you should not worry about and that Western society must sooner or later discard

Anti-migration bill fails German Bundestag after Merkel denounces CDU cooperation with AfD and the left break out in widespread protests

THE CORDON SANITAIRE HAS FALLEN: In Historic First, Anti-Migration Resolution Passes the German Bundestag with Support from Alternative für Deutschland

CORDON SANITAIRE ON LIFE SUPPORT: Merz bows to pressure, pledges to bring anti-migration legislation to the Bundestag on Friday and hopes to pass it with AfD support

Cordon sanitaire against Alternative für Deutschland begins to crack, as desperate CDU say they are open to AfD support in passing proposals to stem mass migration

Aschaffenburg: Illegal Afghan migrant kills two and wounds three in the latest knife violence to afflict open-borders Germany

Despite Everything, Trump

Germany: The Land of Stuck Politics

Hessen Interior Minister announces measures to combat "unfiltered opinions" on social media, state media expert calls for the regulation of internet memes, and other insanity from the Federal Republic

In latest effort to deny reality, leftist German word police announce that a standard colloquialism for 'ethnic German' is racist, exclusionary and antidemocratic

As Alternative für Deutschland continues to rise in the polls, the centre-right CDU find themselves out of options and in a self-destructive messaging spiral

Leading journalist calls Zuckerberg's free speech announcement "an invitation to genocide," EU parliamentarians petition for actions to mitigate the "systemic risk" of Elon Musk, and other lunacies

New Polling Data Confirms Musk Effect on Support for Alternative für Deutschland

Arab tourist in Berlin provokes outrage by firing a rocket through a child's bedroom window on New Year's Eve, later complains to the press that he is a victim of German racism

Elon Musk, undeterred by days of German political hyperventilation, continues to promote fascism and undermine democracy by tweeting things and scheduling interviews with people