The DB was great (albeit a little bureaucratic), while it still was the Bundesbahn, a public institution, run by public servants like every other government office. But when they became the DB AG, a shares based for profit company (still held by 100% by the government), they became a shitshow, because now their mission of providing reliable public transportation changed to making maximum profit and paying their C-suite (typically former politicians or their buddies) ever increasing bonuses for doing fuck all or even less than that.

That’s the way many German public institutions went thanks to rampant privatisation caused by all mainstream parties adopting the neoliberal agenda. They are now a shadow of their former self, delivering sub par service for outrageous prices while making a few individuals very rich.

And occasionally delivering free intelligence to their opponent while doing so.

Didn’t they rather think he was mad?

Scottish bagpipes were considered a weapon of war rather than a musical instrument for a good time of history.

Drums are loud, so they could be used for signalling over relatively long distances in a time where there were limited options for conveying messages further than you could yell.

Audible signals do have the added benefit that in order to receive them, you don’t need to look in a specific direction, so you don’t cause any undue distraction with your signalling.

Also, in the time of line tactics, keeping the movements of your units uniform and steady was extremely important, and keeping them in step using drums was a big part of that.

Also you need to know about this and find it first. Try doing that in the middle of the night, on a car that has been deformed by a crash, and is on fire.

You have to understand them, they need to ensure steady flow of donations from big businesses to political parties.

He had to, because that’s the only way to get his name mentioned in the same sentence with the word “intelligence” without causing the universe to collapse from a logic error.

The “global South” is a stupid pipe dream of people with little to no grasp on reality. The term even lacks a clear definition, so it can be anything and everything.

Why do all those energy drinks smell exactly the same as the stuff they put into chemical toilets?

It unfortunately is, but at this scale? The only European case I can pull out of the top of my head where a convicted criminal, who had been involved in an attempted coup, and had announced that he would dismantle the state if he got the power to do so, was made head of government in an European democracy, was when Adolf Hitler became German chancellor in 1933.

But even if this boil bursts, the US are still rife with the same pestilence that brought about that particular boil on their arse.

The Italians have a proud tradition of anti-fascists hiding in the mountains and hunting Nazis…

Not if you make them yourself.

Puppet government forgot how 2 puppet already?

And Macron’s unbelievable idiocy when it comes to the domestic French situation has me worried they’re gonna open the door for RN (their far right) to snag a win in the next election.

The German government is doing exactly the same thing with the German far-right AfD.

Some local crime in the bumfuck of nowhere

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It’s not only money, it’s global influence and ability to project power. The USA wouldn’t be able to do that without countries all over the world tolerating US bases on their soil. That’s likely going to change. The US will degrade itself from a global to a regional power due to giving some rich idiot with the mind of a toddler virtually unlimited powers.