• TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I took a year of German in high school but this guy keeps popping up on loops so I’m out of the loop so to speak. Anyone care to let a non Deutsch speaker in on who this is and what he’s about?

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      12 days ago

      This is Friedrich Merz, inner-party arch-rival of Angela Merkel, ex-BlackRock functionary (big bank) without previous governmental experience, who holds speeches and enacts laws against workers, unemployed, sick et al, calling them lazy, unaffordable, untrustworthy/cheating, spoiled, while being generally racist, sexist and classist.

      He’s famous for many bad things, but one incident examplifies this: He once lost his notebook with important data in a public place and a homeless person found it and gave it back to him - Merz gives him his book about starting a business as thanks.

      The text in this picture says: “Why are you not at work?”, the you is quite formal.