The Off Topic Topic

[Josquius]

Welcome to Britain

[Syt]

Nutters who don't consider Germany a legitimate country in its current form protesting in front of the US embassy in Berlin and calling for an official peace treaty:

https://twitter.com/felixhuesmann/status/1299629586469265409?s=20

[Tonitrus]

So they want to surrender again? 

[Syt]

It's a sideshow of a (supposed) large demonstration of Covid deniers and people unhappy with the government measures against Covid. There's expected to be a large number of the following:
- Qanon followers
- the extreme right
- Reichsbürger (i.e. people who reject the Federal Republic as legitimate government of Germany)
- esoteric nutters (viruses don't exist, anti-5G, etc.)

There's obviously an overlap between those groups.

The last large demonstration had ca. 20k participants, though the organizers insisted it was well over 1 million people (which became a bit of a meme).

[Syt]

Austria's Kurz joined federal politics before he got his degree. He turned 34 the other day.

[Josquius]

This is why Germany is best?

[celedhring]

Nutters who don't consider Germany a legitimate country in its current form protesting in front of the US embassy in Berlin and calling for an official peace treaty:

https://twitter.com/felixhuesmann/status/1299629586469265409?s=20

You made me check on these nutters. From wikipedia:

In one instance, Wolfgang Ebel's KRR issued an "excavation permit" to the Principality of Sealand (a micronation), who then had men dig up a plot of land in the Harz region in search of the Amber Room for two weeks, until the landowner hired a private security service to drive them off.[20] Similarly, in 2002 Ebel's KRR "sold" the Hakeburg [de], a manor in Kleinmachnow south of the Berlin city limits that had been owned by the German Reichspost (and therefore, according to Ebel, by his KRR) to one of the two competing governments of Sealand, thus creating, in their view, an enclave of Sealand in Germany.[21]

Several attempts to prosecute Ebel for threats, impersonating a public servant and so forth have failed because, according to German prosecutors, all courts have found him to be legally insane.[20]

[celedhring]

Also, when I read "two competing Sealand governments" I dived further into the rabbit hole of nuttery:

Attack in 1978 and the Sealand Rebel Government
In August 1978, Alexander Achenbach, who describes himself as the Prime Minister of Sealand, hired several German and Dutch mercenaries to lead an attack on Sealand while Bates and his wife were in England.[8] Achenbach had disagreed with Bates over plans to turn Sealand into a luxury hotel and casino with fellow German and Dutch businessmen.[19] They stormed the platform with speedboats, Jet Skis and helicopters, and took Bates's son Michael hostage. Michael was able to retake Sealand and capture Achenbach and the mercenaries using weapons stashed on the platform. Achenbach, a German lawyer who held a Sealand passport, was charged with treason against Sealand[8] and was held unless he paid DM 75,000 (more than US$35,000 or £23,000).[20] Germany then sent a diplomat from its London embassy to Sealand to negotiate for Achenbach's release. Roy Bates relented after several weeks of negotiations and subsequently claimed that the diplomat's visit constituted de facto recognition of Sealand by Germany.[8]

Following the former's repatriation, Achenbach and Gernot Pütz established a government in exile, sometimes known as the Sealand Rebel Government or Sealandic Rebel Government, in Germany.[8]

[Syt]

It's less funny that there's been cases of Reichsbürger stockpiling weapons, or that there seem to be sympathizers among the police and military.

[Sheilbh]

David Icke's anti-mask protests in London today truly is a gathering of all the nutters:

BUF flag....perfectly normal.


London branch of QAnon


Wut?

[The Brain]

Why are Canadians always nuts?

[Duque de Bragança]

David Icke's anti-mask protests in London today truly is a gathering of all the nutters:

BUF flag....perfectly normal.

No Reptilians, no party.

[Habbaku]

Austria's Kurz joined federal politics before he got his degree. He turned 34 the other day.

What is that supposed to be showing? The most common degree in the country? Degree of the head officeholder?

[Syt]

Austria's Kurz joined federal politics before he got his degree. He turned 34 the other day.

What is that supposed to be showing? The most common degree in the country? Degree of the head officeholder?

Right, sorry, degree of the head of government.

[Syt]