I don’t get it either. I have watched one and a half Woody Allen films, one was Mighty Aphrodite and the other was Midnight in Paris. The former was just not very funny and the latter was about Americans in Paris, thus super cringey by default.

VW is like a spouse who got caught cheating and is now legitimately working on becoming a better person. Electric rear wheel drive Beetle? I am intrigued.

On the one hand side I love following the misadventures of FF. On the other hand side though, I am a bit saddened because I think their car looks actually great... much better than what the competition has to offer.

Don’t worry, she didn’t defame an upstanding brand because there is no such thing.

You’ve been to one museum in Germany and now you are an expert on how we deal with our history. Wow. Please, never come back.

I do resent the rich for doing it, because it’s them who use their influence and power to shape the tax code according to their needs. In Germany a group of hotel owners successfully lobbied to have the VAT on reservations reduced, which cost the tax payers €1bn and allowed the hotel owners to quietly raise their…

You know why there are these deductions for poor people? Because they are poor, because any money they get extra is usually transferred right back into the economy through consumption.

Foodie culture is the worst.

The most libertarian, anti-government, anti-social security friend I’ve had lived below the poverty line and had to rely on welfare in order to pay his bills. He also believed that costs of employment are too high for employers, that’s why they only make safe bets and employ people with a proven track record (rather…

You’re right, we all do it. But when Joe Schmoe and I do it, it doesn’t decrease our tax rate below average. Also, what happens to the little money that regular folk save through such schemes? It’s being put right back into the economy through consumption.

Commentariat on article about millionaires and billionaires setting up shell-companies for the sole purpose of avoiding taxes that Joe Schmoe has to pay: “I empathize with the rich, I would do the same. This is not illegal. Blame the government.”

Who knows. A lot of angry brown men were influenced by the Nice attack from last year and maybe that trend moved stateside. Let’s wait and see who is responsible. The thing that strikes me as weird (in the US context) is that the perp carried fake guns rather than real ones.

Islamic terrorists have been ploughing through quite a lot of people with big cars lately, so I don‘t know what you mean by „this doesn‘t seem to be islamic terrorists style“.

This statement is more than problematic. You act as if a real person, whose story and face became known around the world, is a country’s cultural landmark/ property. I agree that naming a train after Anne Frank is very tone-deaf, I disagree that the Dutch or anybody else “owns” her.

Me too. The current 911 is just a stunning, stunning looker!

No, that’s not the GDR flag. The GDR Flag had the emblem in the middle, without it it’s the flag of the Federal Republic of Germany... and before that, Black, Red, Golden was the flag of the Weimar Republic and before that, it was the flag of the republican pro democracy movement of the 1848's.

Wow. I mean I knew that the Chrysler brand wasn’t in a good place right now, but that is worse than I expected.

Usually, I don’t go to Kotaku at all - but I saw the little preview picture and thought “Wait a minute, is that an Erzgebirge Aue crest?”

I just blue myself...

I’m sadly having to miss the Formula One United States Grand Prix race day to fly out to Crete, where Porsche is doing its first drives of the Cayenne.