but you’re looking at things at way too short of a time scale here.

Am I? Democracy died within months in Germany when the Nazis took over.

I get that building up a movement takes time, but it’s not like Trump or Project 2025 are new things. Nothing he does is surprising, is it? And still, it seems the opposition is rather unprepared and unorganized. I really hope this changes quickly. Defeatism or doomerism don’t help, that’s true, but I also don’t see the sense of urgency necessary to build up an effective opposition. Then again, I’m also an ocean away, so maybe I don’t have all the insights.

Protest movements take time to grow

To be honest, that doesn’t fly. Our conservatives voted with the right wing party in parliament once on a proposition and on a law that didn’t even pass a couple of weeks ago. That was announced on Tuesday, voted on on Wednesday and Friday. Over a million were on the streets by Sunday, distributed over the whole country with some protests exceeding 300.000 people.

While in the US, things are a lot worse and it’s been weeks and it’s been known to be coming for months. I would have expected millions on the streets by now, hell, I would have expected there to be huge protests on day one.

Of course, that’s not on those who try their best to get things organized. But it’s shocking to me, that there are so many people still remaining passive, and that’s not only on the media, other groups are dropping the ball here, too. First and foremost of course the Democrats but also local businesses, sport clubs, charities, unions, churches, they all join in when big protests like that are organized in Europe.

Nationalizing under that administration? Who would that help?

You can always find someone pressuring for anything. I’m not a huge fan of the incoming government coalition but there’s no doubt of their support for Ukraine. They are currently negotiating how far they will extend the support, nobody is talking about reducing it - at least not in the negotiating parties.

The only thing called into question is the extent of monetary support for Ukrainian refugees. They currently have a similar status to EU citizens, there are talks to reduce that status to the same level as other refugees. We’ll see what the results of the negotiations will be.

Children born in Germany to non-citizens can get German citizenship under certain conditions only since January 2000. I’d assume your mother is older than 25, which means she wouldn’t have the right to German citizenship just because she was born in Germany and therefore neither would you. Do you know for a fact that your mother has dual citizenship?

Germany was very positive and trusting of Obama and the US during that time and we started regaining some trust under Biden, but it definitely never has been the same after Trump first took office

As for Germany they are undermining the fight for Ukrainian borders because of their love of Russian oil ad gas.

WTF? Are you making that shit up or are you that misinformed?

But there’s also the assumption that one wants US citizenship which often means giving up any other citizenship you have

should be a US citizen

No? You can marry foreign nationals in the US I’d hope

You’re still operating under the assumption that this administration will stay within the confinement of the constitution. Even then, his impact will be felt for years. He’s destroying international relations far faster than they can be rebuilt and he’s destroying the bureaucracy of the US on a fundamental level

Not enough, they are net importer

No, they already mostly imported much of their energy from the EU

Ah, you just wanted to provide a source?

I don’t know what your point is? The numbers from the meme are right in your source?

Dude Person, you are delusional, there are only two genders, binary and non-binary! And sex is also binary, either you have it or you don’t, duh!

Well, we have our fair share of “red states” in the EU unfortunately…

We would have to change it already if we cared

It’s mostly majority Muslim countries in red with the exception of the Philippines, South Korea, and the US

I had to google it, undergrad dissertation apparently means bachelor thesis. It’s a joke to give a bachelor thesis the same name as a real dissertation.

First off: nobody will cite a bachelor thesis in a well regarded publication. In fact, even real dissertations will rarely be cited. They are not considered peer-reviewed. If you can write a paper based on your thesis and get it accepted at a journal or conference, that’s where you get citations. Usually, that requires a major overhaul of the thesis, though. This definitely requires a support network in the form of a research group. Look into what your university is researching and contact the research groups that look interesting to you.

I guess that’s all I needed to know about your expertise in the matter