Natanox

How the fuck do you manage to be so confidently wrong when everyone tells you you’re wrong, and a single Google Search would prove that. The anthem starts with “Unity and right and freedom”.

This is the national anthem, translated:

Unity and right and freedom For the German fatherland! Let us all pursue this purpose Fraternally with heart and hand! Unity and right and freedom Are the pledge of happiness; |:Flourish in this blessing’s glory, Flourish, German fatherland!:|

I think part of the reasoning also was the “Germany, Germany above everything, above everything in the world” is quite literally incompatible with our modern constitution and the desire for redemption in the time after the war. The idea of a nation state being above anyone was consciously rejected, which is why the very first words of our constitution literally reads:

(1) Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority.

(2) The German people therefore acknowledge inviolable and inalienable human rights as the basis of every community, of peace and of justice in the world.

Literally nothing can stand above human rights and human dignity, including Germany itself.

I think my “politics” filter list on Mastodon is at 250 words by now, with additional lists for “AI Slop”, “Corposcum” and “Mental Wellbeing”.

Might seem too much, but I’ll definitely never get out of depression if I constantly see stuff going to shit. If something really bad is going on I see that through memes anyway.

For decades millions of (mostly very young) people have tirelessly worked to achieve this and failed…