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IT student has to pay fine of 1500€ for calling Germany "dirty state" on Twitter
- actionfromafar 3y agoIf it is like the article says, it really is a shit state... of affairs, that is. I wouldn't want to be fined 1500€ by fine Germany!
- logicchains 3y agoNominative determinism strikes Doucheland again!
- readney 3y agoby changing the spelling you have saved some euros
- Simulacra 3y agoBe careful, the dirty State of Germnay will fine you!
- ur-whale 3y ago[flagged]
- logicchains 3y ago[flagged]
- etothepii 3y agoHitler was never even close to a majority.
- almatabata 3y agoIndeed he only had 33% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_elec...). A sizeable portion of the votes but nowhere close to a majority.
- ghusto 3y agoThe very page you linked to shows he had the majority vote at 33%!
- db48x 3y agoDifferent definitions. He (or rather the Nazi party) had the largest share of votes, and thus the majority by one definition. But that share did not comprise >50% of the votes, and thus wasn’t a majority by another definition.
- ghusto 3y agoThere's the "more than 50%" definition, sure, but doesn't "majority" in a political context always mean the party with the most votes? Anyway, okay I get where the confusion is. Just thought it was funny that the very same link seemed to contradict his point :P
- etothepii 3y agoI am not aware of any definition of majority that is not 50% + 1. I think you are referring to a plurality.
- almatabata 3y agoThe comment above said that the average german did not understand not to vote for hitler so in that context i understood majority as more than 50% of the german population. I probably should have clarified it in my comment.
- 23B1 3y agoThe average German citizen has a poor track record on a number of issues.
- arein2 3y agoBut why can't he express his opinion? Is it illegal to think a state is dirty?
- db48x 3y agoNo, but in Germany it is illegal to _say_ that it is dirty. They’ve decided that it’s terrorism, in fact. This is why our First Amendment is so important.
- flohofwoe 3y agoGermany still has a couple of outdated laws left over from the turn of the (last) century, the Nazi years, or the hyper-conservative 50's and 60's, and sometimes bureaucrats and police take this stuff a bit too serious. Browse the other "stories" on that news portal and it becomes clear that it is a right-wing populist click bait portal which tries to incite rage against the German state by hand-picking stories and amplifying them similar to tabloids like Bild. I wouldn't be surprised if half of the stories on that portal are mostly made up or half-thruths. PS: it reads exactly like Bild because apparently this is the new project of Julian Reichelt, former head honcho of Bild, who was kicked out because of (TL;DR) being a bigger asshole than even Bild would tolerate.
- gruez 3y ago>Browse the other "stories" on that news portal and it becomes clear that it is a right-wing populist click bait portal which tries to incite rage against the German state by hand-picking stories and amplifying them similar to tabloids like Bild. Isn't that literally the job of the media to "hand pick stories"? How is this any different than media outlets "hand picking" stories that involve police interactions going badly, when most police interactions end up fine?
- flohofwoe 3y agoImHO a somewhat serious media outlet should report such stories of course but otherwise remain neutral and refrain from "coloring" such stories with opinion and rage-bait. Maybe I'm just old fashioned, but this new thing reeks too much of Buzzfeed, Fox News, RT or Bild.
- flohofwoe 3y agoI never heard of this Nius newsportal, but browsing the front page it looks like a collection of right-wing populist click bait trash. Wikipedia seems to agree: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nius https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nius As well as TAZ: https://taz.de/Rechtes-Medienportal-Nius/!5945019/ https://taz.de/Rechtes-Medienportal-Nius/!5945019/ ...and digging deeper it probably gets dirtier. Make of that what you will.
- ghusto 3y agoK, but is the story accurate or not?
- fatih-erikli 3y agoBeing "dirty" is so subjective to the person who claim somewhere/something is dirty. Public spaces in Germany probably much more cleaner than student households this is for sure.
- fatih-erikli 3y agoI like what germans do. False accusations must have a price to be paid.