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Re: Leipzig: A walk around a city reborn

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Post by yhoneycomb » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 1:36 AM UTC

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #46

bakuninsbart wrote: post #44

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A great look with a lense at what is going in Berlin is the documentary "Punks vs. Billionaires" by Vice. [0] The bar in question was truly like the guys in the video were describing it: A living room for people who didn't have one at home. And it isn't the only one, so many of the essential spaces for working class people in my neighborhood died in the last few years. Rents exploded and people get pushed out of the…

>A great look with a lense at what is going in Berlin is the documentary "Punks vs. Billionaires" by Vice. [0] Don't know why, but I stopped being shocked by the things I saw in that documentary a while ago. "Super rich corporate entity buying properties in soon-to-be hotspots while avoiding taxes through complex foreign based shell structures, with the working class squeezed to death by higher rents and taxes, all w…

I think the powers that be feel a lot more secure nowadays in their ability to stop a violent revolution since they can track everyone online.

Re: Leipzig: A walk around a city reborn

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Post by TedDoesntTalk » Sat, Nov 06, 2021, 4:15 PM UTC

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #46

bakuninsbart wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A great look with a lense at what is going in Berlin is the documentary "Punks vs. Billionaires" by Vice. [0] The bar in question was truly like the guys in the video were describing it: A living room for people who didn't have one at home. And it isn't the only one, so many of the essential spaces for working class people in my neighborhood died in the last few years. Rents exploded and people get pushed out of the…

>A great look with a lense at what is going in Berlin is the documentary "Punks vs. Billionaires" by Vice. [0] Don't know why, but I stopped being shocked by the things I saw in that documentary a while ago. "Super rich corporate entity buying properties in soon-to-be hotspots while avoiding taxes through complex foreign based shell structures, with the working class squeezed to death by higher rents and taxes, all w…

> just wonder when we'll have the next violent revolution or civil war and radical regime change as inequality

Didn’t communism have its chance in Leipzig?

Re: Leipzig: A walk around a city reborn

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Post by DemocracyFTW » Sun, Nov 07, 2021, 7:15 AM UTC

pell wrote: post #48

mmoll wrote: post #33

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Yup. German is really weird because you have both „die See“ (the sea) and „der See“ (the lake)

Then there's the Ostsee (Eastern Sea (Baltic Sea)) and the Nordsee (Northern Sea).

And the Mare [ma:rə], round crater lakes (near Bonn), and a few lakes called Meer like Steinhuder Meer (which looks like Steinhude Sea but really means Steinhude Lake), das Kaspische Meer, das Tote Meer. Then you have das Eismeer, die Weltmeere, die Ozeane, die Sieben Seen (Sieben Meere) (ambiguous as mentioned, the first could refer to seven lakes or all of the world's oceans). And the fact that the sea to the top left of Germany is the Nordsee but the one to the top right is the Ostsee is puzzling. Fun fact: the moniker 'North Sea' has only in the 20th c become commonplace among all the languages surrounding it; on old Dutch maps, back when the IJsselmeer was called the Zuiderzee, it's more commonly marked up as De West Zee (also occ. Nord Zee, Duitse Zee / Oceanus Germanicus).