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>Industry in Germany and much of the EU about to grind to a halt. It's been striking how little discussion there is of this in /r/europe and /r/germany. (The l
by TMWNN 4y ago
>Industry in Germany and much of the EU about to grind to a halt.
It's been striking how little discussion there is of this in /r/europe and /r/germany. (The latter has pinned a megathread for the topic, the classic way of killing discussion.) /r/de is slightly better, if only because of the absence of the constant "I don't know German but want to move to Germany and get a job" posts.
I don't mean to say that there's been nothing, along the lines of the 100% censorship that happened at /r/news the day of the 2016 Orlando mass shooter. There has been some. But there is far, far, far less. Just this week we've had
* a German minister stating that becoming dependent on Russian gas was a "grievous mistake", and that his country is begging for turbines from Canada "with a heavy heart"
* His government stating that entire industries might "collapse"
* Rationing of gas announced
* Local municipalities planning warm buildings that those without heat in their homes can visit during the winter
This is the greatest German catastrophe in 80 years. It is an existential threat to the German (and, thus, European) economy and nation. Any other topic half as serious would occupy far more of these subreddits' front pages.
- FlyingSnake 4y ago> It's been striking how little discussion there is of this in /r/europe and /r/germany. I suspect it's because most Germans don't hang out there and those forums are populated mostly by expats.
- TMWNN 4y agoI am aware of that regarding /r/germany (thus my mention of the constant "I want to move to Germany" posts); that said, there is no shortage of English-language news coverage of the issue. Same for /r/europe. While I do not have personal experience with /r/germany's moderators as I do with /r/europe's, if they are similar (likely, given how much inbreeding there is in big subreddits' mod teams), I suspect that submissions of said news coverage is being suppressed to avoid blurring The Message(TM).
- 01100011 4y agoWow, looks like you got quite a lot of downvotes. I'm guessing it's just an emotional reaction because your post is accurate. The Germans will have to cozy up to the Russians and/or burn one hell of a lot of coal and trees to make it through the winter. They'd be doing better if it wasn't for the major accident which took out the main US LNG export terminal a month ago.