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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

754 to go It's a long time that something really shocked me that much, & we are living through shocking shite. I wonder how we will come back. It's not just accountability. It's education, it's media, it's respect for the society you live in, respect for other human beings- basic moral stuff.

theguardian.com

‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to Washington

When the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hours later, the story lingers. Who wanted this? Who feeds of this? Who enjoys this? And why. One life. One effin life to bring misery to the people. I do understand a League of Wonderwomen or Gentlemen. But to pursue to be a member of the League of Sociopaths?

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One of the most appalling stories I have read. Authoritarian banana republic. This is what it is. How can this be reversed and then safeguarded in the future? Besides that the people responsible need to be hold accountable!

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Just started to read the article and I am already so pissed ….

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

All comes to my mind is - the loudest voices talking about “their” freedom always forget “Freedom is always, and exclusively, freedom for the one who thinks differently.” (Rosa Luxemburg in 1920)

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

They need to rewrite LOST

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We use “diddle“ when we just want to scroll on our phones. For instance- question after seeing a show at night- are we diddling or do you want to watch something else?

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🤣 In kook-y-ville …

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Marie Antoinette would like to have a word. One more guy that completely lost touch with reality. Cannot fathom the most rudimentary things everybody deals with on a daily basis - like a zip code for making sure that your CC payment goes through. We are led into the future by the phoniest quacks.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It’s not really possible to teach current events, but we should be able to compare. And comparing demands knowledge. These parents were afraid of loosing what they define as the correct knowledge. One parent said that they needed to set their kid straight afterward. After a 15 min talk?

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I also went to talk in person with the teacher, to make sure that he knows that his teaching of current events is necessary and appropriate. I am (East)German after all, stuff likes this hits home hard.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I am so sorry to hear & read about this. Bc I was concerned that the loud people would push the teacher out, I wrote the admin as well, just with an opposite opinion (which I believe is the silent majority’s view, maybe I am naive believing it).

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Some parents started a witch hunt by complaining to the school admin about the teacher bc a history teacher should not talk about current events. It was one of the most bizarre things I have experienced.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When the US bombed the school in Iran, my son‘s middle school history teacher had a discussion with his students about it. My son said it was all about facts and everyone discussing the event and implications. Well, the WhatsApp chat of parents blew up afterwards.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

792 to go Here we are. Nobody should be shocked by the election. And my home state is next. Es ist grausam. Die Ostdeutschen, die blieben & bleiben, haben das gefunden, was am meisten Schmerz verursacht. Die Demokratie verarschen. Und ich bin Teil vom Problem als Teil der "Davonläufer" Gen.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

One wonders: do they look at art? Do they talk to artists? Bc artists do look at archeology.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

800 to go So many talks I had about this. ... This article sums it up & leaves me with the sadness I feel when I am home. The emptyness. And the smell of rape and hay and harvest .... I finally figured out the name for my generation that left after the wall came down. We are the runaway generation.

zeit.de

Altmark in Sachsen-Anhalt: »Wir Ossis fühlen uns auch als Verlierer, obwohl hier alles okay ist«

Das Land ist endlos, wild und leer. Von der AfD erwarten die Leute dort eine Art Wiedergeburt. Im Norden Sachsen-Anhalts zeigt sich, wie einsam ein Bundesland sein kann.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Good to know this map in case we want to move one day. And we are a normal cis couple. If my neighbors cannot live, love and marry as they want (as consenting adults), we cannot live there. Oregon??? Wtf

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

While destroying books, they also adding massively to why we have climate change. Instead of SF to Las Vegas, the books fly to Milwaukee and then get a final tour through the country via a truck to Nevada. Make that make sense. Amazon can pay for that ….

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

What does he mean with „European colleagues“? Which diseases? I.e Germany has since 2021 a measles vac law, you need to be vaccinated as a child or teacher working with kids or immigrant coming to Germany. Otherwise herd immunity is not reached. Only with herd immunity you can relax rules.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Thanks for being my audience. I always wanted to look into this and never made time. You beat me to it, and now I always can go back to the data! *Still need to figure out how to deal with this all, if it’s spite, economics or lazyness. How did people got disillusioned by democracy?

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

My American family is solid Republican, and partial Born again. Except my husband. I don’t understand voting to worsening my life or the lives of my neighbors. I also would not vote bc of one single issue. [Eventhough, I admit voting w/ my 2nd for Angela Merkel in her last term.]

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

are just pissy that the world did not work out the way we wanted it. We react to what is fed to us in the news & don’t question it.” Don’t ask me how to change that. I wonder enough how my generation of Techno, Raves and Love Parade became the hater generation.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Last, this is for all of Germany again. I think the kids are alright. It’s effin Generation X. And now I am rephrasing my dad who is in the red bracket. I think "we are too fat, & own too many things that are worthless, & are bored, &

Bundestagswahl 2025
General data showing which age group voted for which party

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Now to the Zweitstimme, same Generation X shite 🤮 I added the Green Party, I mostly vote for them so I was curious where they stand.

Bundestagswahl 2025 Zweitstimmen Mecklenburg Vorpommern

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Look at the Erststimme here, it seems to me that the old generation votes mostly left (which makes sense, their life was lived in the GDR), while my effin generation X shows the finger. Remember, we were the ones leaving … and who is left?

Bundestagswahl 2025 Erststimmen Mecklenburg Vorpommern

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Die Zweitstimme is more important. If needed, people split their vote, i.e. you can vote for your fav being in your area, and still vote against her/his party in general.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Last, my home state. Short explainer for voting in Germany (not sure if you know), each person has two votes. Erststimme, your first vote goes to a person in your area directly. If one wins her/his area, one goes directly to the Bundestag. Zweitstimme (more important), this is for the party you like

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Third, general data showing it a bit better- women vote less traditional (black), less libertarian (yellow) and right (blue).

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Second, general data by gender (men are on left in this one). This shows things a bit even, except men are more traditional and right.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

First, general Germany data for 18-24 by gender, see women vote left, men vote right. Again, this is for all of Germany.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

my home state while voluntary joining the German Empire in 1870 was only allowed bc it abolished serfdom (all landowners owned the people that were born on their land). What happened next? A lot of the former slaves left for the States.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I finally had some time (and looked up the lyrics, A+), the question about women and voting. Found a bunch of interesting statistics, and … young men are NOT the culprit. At least in my home state. Which is Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, least amount of people btw, agriculture & tourism only. Fun fact,

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I did not go deep into the young men category, bc I think this is were most of the parallels to MAGA can be found. They want a cult, it’s easier to accept simple answers than hard questions.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

But nobody saw that and told them how great they did. (They really did, Die Zeit run an article years ago about how much more East Germans are resilient.) Young men are … no different than young men in America. I know I cannot give you answers. I just hope to show you that there is so much more-

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

this hamster wheel of time. How can I feed my family? In East Germany it’s mostly - young men and my parent’s generation. The older generation is more of the (sarcastic) “bored, nobody after me” generation- older East German’s are economically ok. Bc they always figured a way out of misery.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

problem solver. People also don’t travel and are barely exposed to other cultures. I have thought a lot about the whys and have not found answers. And I agree, there are parallels to MAGA. Democracy is not a given, it is hard bc one needs to find common ground. People are tired after being in

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My parents live in a 20 house village - my father always tells me when you asked the neighbors, nobody votes AFD. But miraculously they get 65% (!!!!! ). So. Who. & Why. My guess- economics, showing the finger to West Germany and education/knowledge paired w/ seeing an authoritarian regime as

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is not an excuse to vote AFD, who are assholes & ride on polemics. Young women in East Germany do not vote AFD, and there are still a lot of people in East Germany that do the hard work and try to change people’s mind. This is a band from my area that walk the walk. Heck, I vote from far away!

feinesahnefischfilet.de

Band - Feine Sahne Fischfilet

Alles über die Band Feine Sahne Fischfilet

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

different German state came in and discovered that it was all fraud. Dutch company, fire etc. … that did not help all the employees. The story of my parents is not unusual. There is a lot of grief, especially as East Germans were also declared as dumb, and lazy. A second tier of Germans.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The company my father worked for survived several years w different “west” managers. The last company was Dutch, they became a “daughter” of them, & needed to pay for the use of their inventions bc the copyrights went to the Dutch. Then came a factory fire, and the white collar crime unit of a

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I can now see that the most qualified and educated left to try their luck somewhere else. The generation of my parents was left alone, haunted by the Treuanstalt. The factory where my mom worked was sold to one of their competitor’s, they happily paid the fine of sending 1K people into unemployment.

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Franka @thefranka.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Now a bit more re East Germany- my generation of being around 18 when the wall came down left East Germany. We were the first ones that could travel & live abroad, so we did. When I did my MA in Architecture in Vienna, my uncle pleaded to come back. I was like “?”, there is nothing to do for me.

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