Source: https://rivals.space/@deuxnise/115032733056555001
transcript
Peter Griffin at a traffic stop - the cop uses a skin color chart to tell if Peter has "schengen / freedom of movement" or if he has to submt to an "anti-terrorism border check"
The rascist/nationalist fuckery around internal borders is peak EU hypocrisy. I’m from Eastern EU, and drive a lot between Germany and my home country, so I see this often on my trips.
Cars are slowed to a crawl first at the Austrian border, where me, a white guy driving a newish car with German plates is waved through, but e.g. Romanian license plate cars are stopped often. Then a bit after crossing the German border, cars are slowed again to 10 km/h, but it is technically not a border crossing, just a random checkpoint on the highway staffed by policemen with rifles.
This shit adds hours to the trip of any commuter, is pure performatory right-wing bullshit, and goes against every value that the EU preaches.
I wonder how they handle cross-border train rides...
I don't remember ever being delayed or stopped on swiss /french or swiss/german crossings in a train.
Isn't Switzerland also in Schengen? Also I think the additional border checkpoint are relatively recent and OFC riddled with racial profiling (their whole justification being racist too)
Yes, it is. The whole point of this thread is useless bullying within schengen, no?
whole point of this thread is useless bullying within schengen, no?
Exactly, but I am confused by your tone or rather I don't get what you mean >.<
(tut mir leid LOL)
I was saying that my experience with trains hasn't been bad concerning these... issues.
random searches. they stop the trains in the middle of nowhere and armed police walk through to check the passport of anyone they deem suspicious.
at least that's how they did it in germany. in denmark the old mustachioed conductor did it with the ticket check as the train was in motion. much smoother
Damn that is brutal... :/ (but unfortunately not at all out of character)
I'll have to seriously inform myself on this topic, thanks for making me (more) aware of it!
The train from Italy to France stops for 20(?) minutes just across the border and police walk through that carriages and look for "suspicious" people. They never made it up to 1st class where we were sitting. Then the train continues at 300km/h
But Germany caught 460 illegal migrants, deporting them illegally back over the border and that for a mere 80mio € within about 10 months!
(No exaggeration, BTW)
460 migrants for 80 million? What’s that, 173k per person? It would cost less money to pay for them to be set up well to, you know: help the economy, contribute to the pension of the aging population.
Hell, just give them the money directly to go somewhere else lmao.
That is one of the most bizarre things IMO: even to a right-wing populist it must be apparent that immigration to European countries is an objective necessity for the economy
even to a right-wing populist it must be apparent
I think the fault in your logic is glaringly obvious here :)
"I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. - John Stuart Mill
I think your mistake was expecting rightwing anything to make sense. I mean hell, the origin point of these guys is clowns defending Ancien Regime France*; pushing for economically suicidal policy in worship of power is par for the course.
*Oversimplified for the meme.
From the various experiences people close to me made with the German apparatus. If a refugee or migrant stands behind them, they would ram a sword through their own belly as long as the tip pinches the person.
If you are "brown" many parts of German society fall over backwards to make sure that you never ever feel like you are accepted. This includes your children and their children and their children. People whose grandparents came from Turkiye, whose parents grew up in Germany, and they themselves grew up in Germany are still considered "the Turks".
There is refugees who are kept in a limbo since 30 years including their children. They have to get their status re-approved every three month, being prohibited from ever arriving in Germany, even if the children have been growing up in Germany.
Last year there was a case of a Syrian refugee who got a job offer after finishing his apprenticeship. The office handling refugees and immigrants denied the work permit, arguing that letting him take the job offer would help integrate him and that would make it more difficult to deport him later.
Germans speak of Turks like Americans speak of Latinos, but without having nearly the willingness to offer citizenship.
I'd say it's not really that bizzare - logically yes, it doesn't make sense if one is some liberal always preaching about "le nation" (with anti-immigration basically crippling economic growth), but it's a good move when we're talking about opportunism. A lot of people nowadays are reactionary, you can sway a lot of them to vote for you or continue supporting them if you commit to xenophobia, fearmongering and so on.
"Immigrants are taking YOUR JOBS and will make you UNEMPLOYED, so vote for me to get them all out and give the jobs to national volk!" "Immigrants are all CRIMINALS, look at this one crime they committed so vote for me to get the vile scum out!"
First you list all the issues people have. Cost of living, housing, energy prices, unemployment... The left generally doesn't like to talk too much in these concrete terms so it draws a crowd. People like it when their life's struggles get acknowledged. Get them people really riled up for the reveal.
Then you pull out the hate speech and blame it all on migrants, other races, women, gays, furries, the poor, the lazy, the left, ... Hating and banning their favorite group gets sold as the one stop answer to all their problems.
It never works, but it's a good time to get rich and get power for as long as it lasts.
The left generally doesn't like to talk much in these concrete terms [...] <
"Die Linke", literally "The Left" is a German party which did exactly that. During the last election cycle they focused on all these points, specifically on the housing crisis and released an app where you can compare your rent to see if it's against the law. After years of not making the 5% mark, Germany's threshold to join the parliament, they got in! They "only" got 9%, but it's a start.
hey, you screwed up the formatting here.
Try to put two spaces at the end of the line to end the quote.
And that's just the direct costs to the police. The indirect stuff, supply chain issues, waiting times, etc. aren't even included.
It's like always with right wing/proto fascist politics: optics over function.
For real though, "You can't stay here, but we'll buy a ticket for you to literally anywhere on earth" at the very least would be infinitely better, cheaper and more humane
To be fair, the dark figure must be far higher and without trying to find them or making it legal, it will be more again. So at the end this will still be cheaper overall, but of course without immigration it can't work long term.
No. That's the official number.
The "controls" are extremely sparse in reality. So they're only getting the honest refugees and stupid illegals. The former shouldn't be rejected, the latter wouldn't have caused much harm anyway.
Yeah, but in the future AI will do that and you won't even be able to dispute the charges brought against you because you have the wrong skin color or some wrong mentality lol.
You like old gangster rap and you watch crime movies and you have a gun at home and you're not white? Your bank account is blocked you can't buy anything in stores.
Just imagine that you are being beaten and you have no right to respond because you have some wrong social profile or your parents did something in the past, for example criticized the government, otherwise you will be arrested.
This will be fun.
Tbf they also pull out all rental cars. Those usually are registered to the same area with tax benefits so they pull out all cars with that area code. At least that's what friends with company cars tell me, they always get pulled out at the german border. Which is just great, business travel to neighboring countries is just the kind of thing we want to crack down on 🤡.
I'm ~~interested in seeing how this one does~~ monitoring the situation very closely 😈
it's doing surprisingly well.
Yeah I'm kinda surprised, is it because of the time posted or because it doesn't "insult" the EU directly (from the lib POV)? 🤔
What is this meme in reference to? I mean, I know what the Schengen area is, but is there some news or something circulating to suggest this racism is taking place? It's not hard to believe, but I'm just out of the loop on the issue.
The source is a thread with more context.
tl;dr, you get checked to make sure you're european at some schengen borders, but white people mostly get left alone since they're "obviously" european.
Just look at the poland- germany circus border situation.
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