I want to be a hell of a lot more than "friends" with this delicious, delicious man!

Do you?

One seat. The NPD got one seat, and the EU elections had the lowest turnout ever, so the results are not representative of the majority of Europeans. The EU elections have always been kind of all over the place, people often make polemical choices to simply punish the larger parties. I know it's not smart of people,…

Meh, don't bother - any time an article on Jezebel mentions anything about racism in Europe American commenters will start to congratulate themselves on how awesome it is that racism doesn't exist in the US, at least not as excessively as in evil Europe, blah blah blah. I have been called all sorts of names when I…

Germany has freedom of speech, it is a guaranteed constitutional right just like in the US. There are simply restrictions to it when it comes to our nazi past. The restriction is understandable considering what happened back then, and for you to say we don't have freedom of speech shows how little you know about my…

How the fuck do you know that she doesn't take care of herself? Maybe she walks to work every day and doesn't drink, take drugs or smoke; maybe she loves to eat salad with her steak - how the fuck would you know just from looking at her? Let's repeat what has been repeated a thousand times : we cannot possibly know…

And you're our favourite Islamophob here. You always come out of the woods the moment Islam is mentioned, do you have a google alert for this or something?!

He's probably signing up for the PUAhate forum as we speak! I wonder how I, 35 year old straight cis female virgin, have somehow managed to exist without joining hate forums and contemplating shooting all men on sight? Apparently that is simply what happens when you don't get to have sex with whoever you want to, no?

It is very tempting to see yourself as the exception to the rule - the rule being that people have an irresistible urge to survive and will murder, steal, kill, betray and sell their souls to do it. We aren't all able to be Sophie Scholls or Oskar Schindlers (or Malalas, for that matter), sadly.

Well....yeah... These people were killed so... Not sure where that contradicts what I said. If you were one of the many "undesirables" (the German "Untermensch", applicable to not only Jews but also Romani, homosexuals, people with disabilities, etc. etc. etc.) then you weren't considered a German citizen and thus…

Nope, long before the fall of the wall, but nice try. My grandparents both lost their fathers in the war, plus my grandmother lost her brother. They all hated the nazis. Not everything is black and white, and neither you nor I have a right to judge the people who lived through WWII, no matter which side they had to…

The bar was indeed set as low as possible without touching the ground by the previous pope! ...and the one before that. And... Yeah, he is indeed pretty much the bestest pope since St. Peter was given the job really.

Um, in 1943 EVERYONE in Germany who was able-bodied had to contribute to the war effort. My grandmother's brother was 15 when he had to become a soldier and fight in Russia in 1944, where he was killed. He was the most peace-loving, kind-hearted boy you can imagine, raised by a father who refused to join the Nazi…

Yes, that is exactly what I mean, thank you for understanding! We all like to believe that we would be active members of the resistance movement during a time of tyranny, but the reality is that we would probably pull our heads down and do nothing. We live a pretty cushy lifestyle with stable democracies today, so we…

You didn't live during that time, a time where people were shot openly on the streets if they did as much as crack a joke at the regime, so kindly stfu with your smugness. People do a lot of looking away in order to, ya know, not get shot in the head.

I am a German citizen, yes. Would love to move somewhere else though, preferably back to NZ - I have never felt happy in Germany. I am merely back here because I had no other choice financially. I really hope the hostility calms down, I have many Muslim friends and feel so ashamed when I listen to their negative…

My sister was bullied by her midwife into breastfeeding even though she had infected nipples, my niece wouldn't latch on properly, and the pain and stress over it all were unbearable for both of them. It took her a lot of courage to basically throw out the midwife and start bottle feeding, and she was looked down upon…

"Walks around"???? Are you MAD - body armour or not, any woman who leaves the house is CLEARLY asking for it!

I was forced out of New Zealand after 8 years of living, studying and working there, so I know a thing or two about asshole immigration officials from that time too. And I'm white, so I suspect that POCs in NZ are treated far, far worse. AND NZ is officially an immigration country, which Germany isn't, so getting into…

I have a Phd in English and have no idea where to put commas...