I understand the words used here, but am not familiar with the characters or have a deep political understanding of German. Can anyone explain what this sticker is about?

If this is somehow extremely provocative, I will remove it. I am an American living in Germany atm, and do not have a very deep understanding of the politics so I am not trying to be provocative just curious.

by BlackhawkBro

3 comments

  1. Unless I’m mistaken, that’s Boris Pistorius, the current defence minister. The caption says: “The main enemy is in our own land! Fight German imperialism!”

    There’s no indication of who designed that sticker. Judging by the language, it sounds like the far left, which is always ideologically opposed to anything that looks like imperialism; but it could just as easily be from the far right, and is specifically complaining about Germany’s opposition to Russia in the Ukraine conflict.

  2. This specific one is basically accusing Germany of imperialism by way of military force. (Which is laughable, but that’s not the point of the post, I suppose.)

    Mostly, I just don’t think these stickers ever convinced anyone of anything.

  3. Unfortunately for Boris Pistorius, in every single photo of him (really every single time) I first mistake him for Armin Laschet. Poor guy.

    This is either some Tanki nutcase deeming everything that has to do with (specifically the German) military as a) fascist and b) imperialist and either tries to demonize the military generally or the current stance on military cooperation and help for Ukraine specifically. (Germany being an American puppet… Russia is always right because whatever they fuck they think). Or it is some Nazi who deems Pistorius (SPD, Woke left; Altparteien blahblahblah) and the government it serves as the true enemy of Germany. And probable the current stance on military cooperation and help for Ukraine specifically (Germany being an American puppet… Russia is always right because whatever they fuck they think)

    But judging from the “Imperialismus” part – which is not really a vocabulary of the far right for something *bad* – I would assume it is the first option.

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