Cheaper coffee?

December 27, 2025 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: Activists, Berlin, Coffee, Communists, Discount Chains, German, Germans, Germany, Language, LAP, Leftists, Socialists Leave a comment

Why, that’s capitalism!

Or maybe even Raubtierkapitalismus (predatory capitalism)! Or something else like that.

People really are confused these days, don’t you think? Not that they weren’t in the past. I just think they’re better at it now. Being confused.

Berlin’s budget chain cafes attacked by mobs of hard-Left activists – Protesters in Berlin are hurling red paint at outlets for a new chain that offers drinks at nearly half the price of others.

It is at night that the group of angry Berliners hurl red paint at the coffee shop front, scrawling “Boycott LAP” on the walls.

“A Lot to Learn From the German Left?”

February 27, 2025 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helections, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Communists, Die Linke, Leftists, Socialists Germany Leave a comment

Yup. Get a pencil and paper and write this down: They are communists.

Anything else I can help you out with?

Grow a Spine: Democrats Have a Lot to Learn From the German Left – The German elections show we don’t need to moderate fascism, we need to oppose it.

I thought they’d never leave

December 7, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Communists, Germany, Left Party, Leftists, Political Parties, Sahra Wagenknecht Leave a comment

The (communist) party’s over.

Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

German Left Party dissolves parliamentary faction after key member breaks away – The faction was forced to officially disband after a prominent member split off to start a new populist party.

Members of the Left Party will remain in the German parliament, or Bundestag, but will no longer be part of an official faction, or caucus. The disbanding means the party loses financial support and is forced to liquidate assets and fire staff. The parliamentary rights of its members will also be limited.

What’s left of the Left?

October 24, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Communists, Left, Political Parties, Politicians, Sahra Wagenknecht, Socialists, The Left Leave a comment

Not much. The little that is left of the Left is falling apart. Right and left, so-to-speak.

More power to you, lady.

German hard-left icon set to start a new populist party – The new party would further scramble Germany’s fracturing political landscape — and likely peel away support from the far right.

Sahra Wagenknecht, the longtime face of The Left, which has roots in East Germany’s Communist Party, says her new faction will represent the large swath of the German electorate that is deeply frustrated with mainstream politics.