I mean in a polyrelationship where one person is named Logan that is kinda cute

Fossil lobbyist talks to fossil lobbyist paper about the words of a fossil the chancellor who looking at his policies has no idea about much of anything.

Interesting to compare that to the ILGA Rainbowmap which just contains Europe.

The european countries from the list above rank as follows:

• Netherlands 13th
• France 15th
• Austria 16th
• UK 22nd (below EU average)
• Ireland 14th
• Iceland 3rd
• Switzerland 18th

Now obviously they use different scoring (‘travel’ vs ‘living there’) but I think it is interesting that they differ that much. Also the groups differ and the one from the article seems pretty broad. I would hope everywhere with substantial progress in LGBTQIA+ rights would also have proper womens rights and protections as well, since it is the same side of the (manysided) equality-coin. Imo racism is still pretty bad and widespread across europe, so not sure how much that factors into the list (though if it would be a strong factor I would be surprised to see Austria and Switzerland on this list).

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Absolutely. Many people have never put thought into either and most do not intend to start now. To break that cycle longterm school curriculums would have to be improved to be more inclusive and for some reason we cannot have that either.

(Among other veritable measures, this is just the first that came to mind, as everything my school taught about homophobia/racism is that “No, it is bad” - no explanation, no highlighting why courage to stand up against it is important or highlighting lives of minorities which had an positive impact on the world [e.g. Turing]. History lessons in Germany focusses a lot on the damages done during WWII and yet barely anyone knows here that it wasnt just jews that were killed in concentration camps, and even less people know that the homosexuals were not freed after WWII came to an end. Even less people know about magnus Hirschfeld and his revolutionary work at that time. There is such a focus on the topic WWII and yet the schools fail to create a whole before/after picture of it - it honestly is a travesty.)

I really hate that “We are not as bad as X” mentality. That should not be the baseline. We have hundreds of countries worldwide, we can see what works for the people and what does not. We could look at every topic, be it equality, education, infrastructure, local governments or whatever and look for the ‘best’ country and then look what we can copy to make things better here. But no, that would be to easy and scientific and what about my profits/religion/bigotry.

Hi, German here (even born in Dessau, the city mentioned in the article).

Personally I doubt that the youth thinks their parents/grandparents had it easier. I mean my parents grew up in Eastern Germany and while some things were better a lot of other things were way worse. My grandparents are the generation which rebuild a destroyed nation.

One of the key problems in Eastern Germany is they got screwed over and over again (e.g. by the red army, then by the sovjiet regime and then by the German reunification). Each time they had to rebuild with less ressources than before. That means like 90% of industry in Eastern German was destroyed.

So growing up here the goal for many, including me, was to leave. There are not many good jobs there and Western Germany pays better for the same jobs. None of my friends stayed in Dessau. And that is a phenomenon going on since the reunification - Dessaus inhabitants are notably older on average. I still live in Eastern Germany, in a bigger city though - and I work remote for a company in “Western Germany” as it pays roughly 20.000 € more than equal positions locally.

So a lot of the people who stay, stay because they can’t leave. And thus social circles shrink and diversity gets erradicated - no LGBTQ* person or person of color will want to stay as there is nothing for them. So now you have a bunch of young pissed people with no voice against them. Perfect breeding ground for Nazi ideology. And then they get older and angrier and get kids themselves and “suddenly” you have a nazi youth.

And the politicians do not help. At. All. This is a problem 75+ years in the making but it still gets ignored. There is no perspective for a lot of small German towns.

And I am really glad they did. They often brought some cool stuff on the stage.

Meanwhile a lot of governments worldwide:

Okay, but why is the same happening in other countries?

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VW is flailing currently. Honestly? They should just get rid of the of the factory as it should not have been build in the first place because it is in a water protection area and they require about as much water as a 40000 people, which the area cannot handle longterm. And it didn’t take a damn month for the paint shop there to spill 15,000 liters of chemicals for the first time.

The East was never really invested into after reunification

Gee, I wonder why, after having been screwed by the sovjiet regime for decades (first by complete destruction of all industry, then in regards to fair voting process) and then getting screwed by west Germany by complete destruction of all industry & a lot of scams running wild, thus leading to high unemployment, thus leading to all kind of fun things, like widespread drug abuse, which then leads to domestic abuse and poorer education, digging the hole even deeper.

This is a problem 75 years in the making and there is no help in sight.

Good catch, thought of the wrong translation apparently. To be fair, even deepl was confused.

I condemn burning books in general. But I disagree that this should be punished. Yeah, people feel strongly about the qur’an. Others feel strongly about the bible and others feel strongly about Harry Potter. Just because it has some sentimental value to some as long as it is his own copy I don’t see an issue.