I’d use it as toilet paper, but it wouldn’t actually make my butt cleaner.

the country’s last factory able to make steel from scratch

Daft cunts. If you neither have any redundancy, nor the bloody sense to guard your single point of failure, you deserve the pain.

The people probably don’t though. That’s always the tragedy with these things.

That’s probably the point: “Nobody forces us to recognise them, so we don’t”

Eurydike I was a boss bitch. Not only was she unusually prominent in politics for a queen, she also engaged in foreign policy on her own, successfully negotiationg with a foreign general to have him protect her late husband’s throne against a pretender, apparently without any participation from her son-in-law, who served as regent at the time.

The youngest of her sons, Phillip II, would go on to reform the military and secure hegemony over Greece, laying the groundwork for the invasion of Persia that he never got to carry out. After his assassination, that invasion was instead performed by his son, Alexander III, later dubbed “The Great” for this feat.

It should be noted that, with Alexander being on campaign for basically all of his reign and generally not too interested in domestic rulership, his mother Olympias of Epirus was the de facto ruler of Macedonia. Behind the successful general are two powerful women that first protected his father’s throne, then took care of the actual ruling so that he would be free to hunt glory.

Das war eher als Korrelation gemeint. Wer Amerika verlässt hat eine gewisse Vernunft, was meiner Meinung nach eher gegen Dummheit spricht. Trifft natürlich auch nicht auf alle zu.

Unfortunately, the German bureaucratic clusterfuck does tend to hamstring good intention with stupid regulations carried out to the pedantic letter. It’s a bit of a lottery at times whether you’ll find yourself dealing with a human or with a relentless rule fetishist, and the more complex a process is, the more people it involves and the greater the chance someone will obstruct.

I’d hope things have improved and I hope they’ll improve further. Shame that it’s too late for you.

Ich spreche nicht für alle, aber ein “dummer einsprachiger Amerikaner” der nach Europa abhaut verliert (meiner Meinung nach) zumindest das erste Attribut und mit dem zweiten kann ich ganz gut leben.

I don’t speak for everyone, but a “dumb monolingual American” that to Europe runs off loses (in my opinion) at least the first attribute and with the second I can quite well live.

The awkward word order of the translation is intentional to more closely mirror the German word order. I promise you, I can also good English speak ;-)

The detailed and nuanced answer would take into account the exact crime, but the short answer: No.

A democracy must guard itself against usurpation by demagogues that rally people through deceitful rhetorics and appeals to passion with the intent to break the order of that democracy. That order, among other things, contains laws restraining what politicians are and aren’t allowed to do. A candidate with clear disregard for these laws is a threat to that order, such that this democracy must protect itself by not allowing them to hold powers they are likely to use irresponsibly.

Put differently, someone who shows clear contempt for democratic rules is no longer entitled to democratic rights either. Note the distinction: democratic rights doesn’t mean human rights.