Germans Told to Stop Whining and Wear 2 Sweaters in Energy Crisis

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  1. Because Ukraine is more important , I’m waiting for the Germans to be asked to give their apartment and car to help Ukraine

  2. Luckily that the western companies from Germany, France, Austria etc. are still allowed to keep the Russian industry running with spare parts and new machinery, to fill up the westerns supermarkets in Russia with western products.

    F*cking calls for solidarity with 3-4x times higher energy bills while the same f*cking companies who pushed for cheap Russian resources keep cashing their Russian profits.

    They keep f*cking telling me that import sanctions will affect Russia in time, not now.

    **Why the f*ck do you keep the Russian industry alive while you f*cking ask me for solidarity?**

    While the Ukrainians are paying with their lives and us with our f*cking energy bills, the f*cking genocidal criminals are cheering every missile hitting the civilians and mocking us with the abundance of western products in the western supermarkets.

    **F*ck all the politicians and their fake high morals which are not banning the all the exports in Russia !**

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    >**Three-quarters of top-earning multinationals remain in Russia**, even after 200 days of Russian aggression, war crimes, and mass atrocities against civilians in Ukraine. **To date, only 105 companies have exited the Russian market completely**. At the same time, **more than 1610 international companies**, generating at least $171 billion of local revenue annually, **continue to do business in Russia**

    [https://businessforukraine.info/actions/200-days-into-russias-war-on-ukraine](https://businessforukraine.info/actions/200-days-into-russias-war-on-ukraine)

  3. Pretty cynical considering he:
    – joined the Bundestag in 1972, aged 30 and is still a member
    – was Minister of Finance from *2009 – 2017* and had other Minister positions before
    – was party and faction leader for his CDU/CSU
    (who was providing the Chancellor from *2005-2022*)
    – he gets ~10.000€ a month

    I feel really represented by him…I swear

  4. 80 year old man who for 50+ years is a politician – and a corrupt one. He has no connection to people with real live and real jobs.

  5. It’s all fair to acknowledge it’s going to be a hard winter, no one is saying otherwise. But there is a limit to how many op-eds, Tweets, and night news programs I need to watch of people pretending this is going to be some impossible to overcome convenience.

    Toughen up, everyone had 6 months to prepare for this winter and let’s get on with it. There is no time machine, there is no avoiding this so at some stage people have made their anger known, so what is it really achieving?

    Let’s get to renewables from domestic or friendly sources asap and never be exposed to totalitarians like this again.

  6. “If we suggest to people that everything is unlimited, we are overexploiting. Then people get the impression that the state can do everything – that is not sustainable,” Schäuble told Bild-TV.

    In other words, the power not stopping for a few hours a day or having a decent temperature in your home are not just basic human needs, they have become luxuries in 2022. That would be acceptable if it started with the top 1% earners. Something tells me Schäuble won’t need much clothing though.

  7. The government cant fix everything ? How about they fix the fucking shit that they caused with their own asinine policies. The fact that we are in an energy crisis is a direct result of the nonsensical nuclear exit, combined with the decision to establish reliance on russia for gas and oil.

    This disgusting moral high ground that our politicians claim to inhabit with their idiotic decisions on the grounds that they are “morally correct” without seemingly ever considering long term consequences is sickening to me.

  8. I’m really pissed off at our politicians acting holier-than-thou and asking us to change our habits, as if the majority of us wouldn’t try our best to get through the crisis already. The fact that it’s coming from Schäuble doesn’t surprise me at all, I’ve always hated this guy.

    You’re cold? Just wear two sweaters bro.

    Your energy bills are too high? It’s fine, just don’t take a shower but use a wet washcloth. (suggested by another crusty old man, Baden-Württemberg’s prime minister Winfried Kretschmann)

    Did you know you can save 50% more water by installing a modern toilet flushing system? We will not cover the high installation costs by the way!

    I’m just tired of all these “clever” suggestions from people that won’t have to worry about a thing during this crisis.

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