Germany’s alliance with the United States has proved incredibly expensive.

But they still love the United States because loving the United States is very moral and Germany is a very moral nation that does what they’re supposed to do.

CNN:

Germany’s economy, the largest in Europe, contracted for the second year in a row in 2024, official data showed Wednesday, underscoring the challenges facing the region as it tries to get economic growth back on track.

Germany’s gross domestic product fell 0.2% last year, according to the country’s Federal Statistical Office, following a contraction of 0.3% in 2023.

It’s the first time since the early 2000s, when Germany was grappling with high unemployment, that the economy has shrunk for two years in a row, according to Carsten Brzeski, global head of macroeconomics at pan-European bank ING.

The data comes just weeks ahead of a crucial snap election, called after Germany’s governing coalition collapsed late last year over disagreements about how to bolster the country’s weak economy.

“Hope is that any new German government would decide on a longer-term plan for economic reforms and investments,” Brzeski wrote in a note.

The troubles facing the German economy are captured by the crisis at the country’s largest manufacturer, Volkswagen. In December, the automaker announced sweeping changes to operations in its home country, including more than 35,000 job cuts and plans to shift some production to Mexico.

…

Data from the European Union’s statistics office Wednesday showed that industrial production in the 20 countries that use the euro increased slightly in November compared with October. Still, it remains 9% below its level seven years ago, partly as a result of energy prices kept high by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to Capital Economics.

The interesting part is that there is no timeline on which Germany turns this thing around.

They would have to fix the relationship with Russia, which they are never going to be allowed to do.

The United States decides what Germany is allowed to do, because Uncle Sam is the big boss, and they are not going to let Germany be friends with Russia.

They won’t be allowed to turn their nuclear plants back on either.

Because of global warming.

Or no, actually not because of global warming.

Because of Fukushima.

Because Germany is a serious earthquake zone, you know? And after all, Fukushima killed everyone in Japan.

Germans are the most productive people in the world, and their entire history is about getting sabotaged and then apologizing for being sabotaged.

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I will never forget that brief period in 2022 when I was allowed on Twitter (before being promptly banned again), and people laughed at me when I said “Germany is being de-industrialized as a part of the American war effort against Russia.”

They’re not laughing now.

Deutsche Welle:

German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe on Monday announced a plan to shrink its workforce from the current 27,000 to 16,000 within six years.

The Duisburg-based company blamed an increase in cheap imports, especially from Asia, for putting an increased and “significant strain on competitiveness.”

“Urgent measures are required to improve Thyssenkrupp Steel’s own productivity and operational efficiency and to achieve a competitive cost level,” a statement from the firm said.

Some 5,000 jobs in its European steel operations would be cut by the end of 2030 through “adjustments in production and administration,” it announced.

A further 6,000 jobs are to be outsourced or stripped away in business sales, according to the plan.

Women experts are still opposing reopening the nuclear plants

To address overcapacity in the market, the company plans to reduce production capacity from the current 11.5 million metric tons to a future target level of 8.7 to 9 million tons.

…

The steelmaker said it hoped to avoid lay-offs, and would instead aim to reduce staff through voluntary departures.

However, trade union IG Metall, which represents much of the workforce, described the plan as “a catastrophe” for employees.

IG Metall is at the same time in negotiations with German carmaker Volkswagen following the announcement that it also plans to cut thousands of jobs in Germany.

Germany got rid of its nuclear plants and was buying all of their energy from Russia, then the US blew-up their gas pipes.

The country is no longer viable as an industrial nation.

Now, the US is telling them they’re not allowed to partner with China to produce the things they can’t produce in Germany anymore, because the US wants a war with China as well.

Germans won’t buck the US ever because the US is Jewish and Germans have been brainwashed – by the US occupying force, mind you – to believe they were really mean to Jews in the 1940s (they weren’t, this is another Jew lie).

Snake Baker contributed to this article. 

This is smart as hell.

The government always has infinity money, so they can just give people money, and no one will know the country is bankrupt.

Remix:

The German government is increasingly unable to paper over its growing industrial crisis through increased hiring of government workers. Instead, the consequences of German economic policy are coming home to roost for the ruling government, with the number of companies either cutting or moving to cut workers growing to alarming levels.

While Germany has a record number of employees, reaching 46 million, the unemployment rate has steadily risen since 2022. All new hiring is obscured by the fact that nearly all jobs in recent years have been created in state-related sectors. Many of the workers being hired are also foreign workers.

🇩🇪 AfD co-leader Alice Weidel calls German Chancellor Olaf Scholz the “chancellor of decline” to his face.

🔺500,000 jobs lost since Scholz became chancellor
🔺Auto supplier ZF will cut 14,000 jobs
🔺SAP will cut 10,000
🔺Ford 4,600
🔺Bosch 3760

And the list goes on… pic.twitter.com/cxbTQ8NPOx

— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) September 15, 2024

As German newspaper Welt notes: “The number of job advertisements is plummeting, short-time work is making a comeback: Germany’s job market is hit by a crisis that has long been completely overlooked. In several sectors, this is leading to the loss of thousands of jobs — and permanently. Political help seems to be coming too late.”

In the productive economy, which includes manufacturing and construction, but also in the trade sector, job losses are increasingly alarming. Since 2018, employment levels have declined, job advertisements have cratered, and many companies say they have no plans to hire. Unemployment is also rising, while industrial production has remained flat.

The recent headlines show the trend line. The auto parts company ZF Friedrichshafen plans to cut 14,000 jobs, BASF 2,500, Bosch 1,200, Miele 1,300 and ThyssenKrupp probably several hundred. All of that pales in comparison to planned job cuts at Volkswagen, which could go up to 30,000. Many smaller construction and manufacturing companies have already laid off workers over the last few years.

At the same time, there were 50,000 employees added to the health sector, another 50,000 in nursing, and 48,000 public sector jobs were added compared to last year. Meanwhile, in the metal and electrical industry, 22,000 fewer people are working, 62,000 fewer in manufacturing, and 27,000 fewer in the construction industry.

Many of these industries are seen as the core of Germany’s wealth and economic power — and also tend to pay higher than other jobs. It is now possible that due to soaring energy prices, regulation, and high taxes, Germany is losing its status as a global industrial superpower.

It’s a shame what happened to Germany.

They just wanted to stay peaceful and make products, but the government told them it was time for war.

I blame women.

Where are those faggots from Twitter who were saying I was schizo for saying Germany was entering “deindustrialization”?

You little fairies were obsessed with me. Frigging weird queers.

Where are you now?

Come talk about how everything is normal and the Ukraine war is good, faggots!

Remix:

Volkswagen is preparing to do something that has never been done before in the company’s 87-year history. To cut costs, it is closing two of its plants in Germany, a large car factory and a parts plant.

Remember when Germany gave up nuclear power because of a tsunami in Japan? That was probably a bad idea.

While it is not clear yet which plants will be affected, Saxony has been rumored as one location.

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Industry analysts had previously predicted the closure of two of the company’s plants: Osnabrück in Lower Saxony and Dresden in Saxony. The state government of Lower Saxony is Volkswagen’s second largest shareholder and opposes the plan.

Volkswagen, which employs 680,000 people and is Germany’s largest industrial employer, also wants to suspend its job security program, in force since 1994, which would have prevented redundancies until 2029 by making them subject to the agreement of the workers’ council.

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The company has lost nearly a third of its value in the past five years, making it the worst-performing European carmaker.

Yeah, I mean. Maybe this is partially a VW problem and not purely a Germany problem.

But it is definitely also a Germany problem.

The German economy continues to sink like a rock, and as long as this war is ongoing with Russia, there is no reason for it to ever get any better.

Why do the Germans allow the Americans to bully them into a war with Russia?

Is it because their own women are so obsessed with having a war with Russia?

Not related, but how the hell does this video have only a few hundred views when the channel has over 13 million followers?

It almost seems like the Chinese are beating the West at literally everything.

It almost doesn’t even make sense how the West believes it has any chance at all in competing with China in the long-term.

I guess it would make sense, if you knew that, that you would be trying to start a war or otherwise collapse the Chinese system in the short term, huh?

CBS News:

Walmart is the world’s largest company by revenue for the ninth consecutive year, and for the 17th time since Fortune magazine began ranking companies by size in 1995.

Fortune on Wednesday released its annual Fortune Global 500 list, a ranking of the largest and most profitable corporations worldwide. Saudi Aramco, the sixth-largest company in the world by revenue, is now the globe’s most profitable company, with $105 billion in earnings, according to Fortune.

In 2021, businesses of all sizes faced an uphill climb overcoming financial setbacks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, they face new challenges, including inflation, looming fears of a recession and Russia’s war in Ukraine.

“A rebound from the worst depths of the pandemic created a huge tailwind for the world’s largest companies by revenue,” Fortune list editor Scott DeCarlo said in a statement. “Aggregate sales and profits hit record levels in fiscal year 2021 for the Fortune Global 500.”

Fortune editor-in-chief Alyson Shontell also warned of the challenges ahead for businesses as the economy slows.

“For businesses of every size, the real test will be who can survive and thrive in tough conditions like these, especially if — or when — a recession of unknown length and depth settles in,” she said.

Walmart, the nation’s largest retailer, saw its shares slide last month after the company told investors to expect lower profits for the rest of 2022 as high inflation limits consumers’ ability to spend on discretionary items, like furniture and electronics.

China flexes corporate musclesChina, including Hong Kong, had 136 companies on Fortune’s largest companies list — the most of any nation. The U.S. ranked second, with 124, while Japan was third with 47. And for the first time in the history of the rankings, the aggregate revenue of listed companies based in Chinese-speaking countries surpassed that of U.S. companies on the list.

The total combined revenues of Fortune 500 companies rose 19% over last year to $37.8 trillion — the equivalent of more than one-third of global GDP. Cumulative profits were up 88% over last year, reaching a record $3.1 trillion. The listed companies have a total of nearly 70 million employees around the world.

It’s sad, really.

I think we could have a cooperative spirit of free and fair competition with China (if competition is free and fair, it has to be cooperative – if it’s not cooperative, people cheat, so the competition is no longer free and fair), and it would make both whites and Chinese better, and just generally better for the people of earth.

But no.

No.

The US is obsessed with crushing both its own population and its enemies – they just want to crush everyone – so you get this thing we have going on now. The US government has done so much to destroy its own population there isn’t any more time left. They have to break China or they are going to lose. They don’t any longer have a population they could use in competition – everyone is fat, drug-addled, and/or nonwhite.

Sad.

The horror… The horror…

Everything is gay and stupid now, and we’re just gonna have to get used to it.

Or we could, you know, just gas the kikes.

CNN:

An advertisement juxtaposing male astronauts with a woman sitting by a stroller, and another depicting two hapless dads, are the first casualties of a British ban on gender stereotypes in advertising.

The ads, for Volkswagen and Philadelphia cream cheese, were investigated by the UK Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) after viewers complained they perpetuated gender stereotypes.

New rules that came into force in June prohibit depictions of gender that “are likely to cause harm, or serious or widespread offense.”

Imagine living in an open-air Moslem rape camp, and this being your main preoccupation.

BTW, you guys ever tried typing “Rotherham” in the JewTube search bar?

Literally every result is about their shitty football team whose videos mostly get a few thousand views.

Meanwhile, there’s no mention of the Moslem rape jihad happening there, even though videos about that have hundreds of thousands or millions of views.

I’m sure that’s just an (((accident))).

The Volkswagen commercial shows a number of primarily male people taking part in adventurous activities — two male astronauts in space, and a male athlete with a prosthetic leg doing the long jump — before cutting to a mother sitting on a park bench next to a stroller. It prompted three complaints from viewers, and the ASA found it showed a woman “engaged in a stereotypical care-giving role.”

“We acknowledged that becoming a parent was a life-changing experience that required significant adaptation, but taking care of children was a role that was stereotypically associated with women,” the body added in its ruling.

All it took is 3 “people” – probably old childless women, not real human beings – to get a commercial that probably cost hundreds of thousands of dollars banned?

Yes, I like it.

Big corporations are part of what got us into this mess, and I hope they suffer.

It goes without saying that if you’re a Brit and you’re not abusing this law as much as humanly possible, and making as many complaints as you can… Well, you’d probably still be a cuck anyway, but you’d be lower on the scale.

And BTW – women taking care of children comes from eons of evolution, not “stereotypes.”

A second commercial for Philadelphia cream cheese showed two dads looking after their children at a restaurant with a conveyer belt.

The men become so distracted by the food that they lose sight of their babies, who end up circling the restaurant on the belt. “Let’s not tell mom,” says one, after rescuing his child. Over 125 viewers complained.

“We acknowledged the action was intended to be light-hearted and comical and there was no sense that the children were in danger,” the ASA said in its decision.

“We considered, however, that the men were portrayed as somewhat hapless and inattentive, which resulted in them being unable to care for the children effectively,” they added. “We did not consider that the use of humour in the ad mitigated the effect of the harmful stereotype.”

Neither ad can appear in its current form following the ruling.

This is so idiotic I can’t even get angry over it.

The new rules follow a review by the ASA, published in 2017, which found that harmful stereotypes reinforced by advertising “can restrict the choices, aspirations and opportunities of children, young people and adults.”

A public furor over a 2015 poster on the walls of London’s subway system, showing a woman in a bikini with the words “Are you beach body ready?,” prompted the regulator to look into all gender portrayals in advertising.

Ah yes, that catastrophic incident that triggered 99% of all the ugly women in the world.

These bitches whine about misogyny and “hatred of women,” but 99% of people who hate women are other – usually childless and/or ugly – women.

The ad — for a weight-loss product — was not initially banned by the ASA, as it did not explicitly break any rules, but the regulator eventually took action due to its health claims.

“Our evidence shows how harmful gender stereotypes in ads can contribute to inequality in society, with costs for all of us,” Guy Parker, chief executive of the ASA, said in a statement in June.

The ASA said commercials will still be allowed to show “glamorous, attractive, successful, aspirational or healthy people or lifestyles.”

Ads that show men or women carrying out tasks with which their genders are sometimes associated, such as women shopping, will also be permitted.

I’m shocked that this cuck lied…

Making ads GREAT AGAIN is just another thing to do after we eradicate the Semitic infection.

And we will.

Germany had everything.

That is, almost everything.

The one thing that it needed: more Jewish organizations monitoring the thoughts of the German people, to ensure that they aren’t thinking about rising up and stuffing all of these filthy kikes into gas chambers and making lampshades out of their skin again.

A Nazi car company has come to the rescue.

JTA:

Volkswagen is joining with the Anti-Defamation League to fund a Berlin-based office that will research and combat anti-Semitism in Europe.

“The initiative will focus on assessing the root causes of anti-Semitism, extremism, and bigotry in society and develop programs to counter it through advocacy and education,” ADL said in a release Tuesday.

A spokesman for the German car manufacturing giant told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the Berlin office will be the first ADL presence in Europe in more than a decade. The funding, over the three years, is set to be in the low seven figures, the official said, with an option to expand and continue the initiative thereafter.

Herbert Diess, CEO of Volkswagen Group, the largest car manufacturer in the world, announced the bid Monday at the ADL’s annual Washington conference. In an interview with JTA, he said he was concerned about the recent spike in anti-Semitism in Europe, and that Volkswagen had a special obligation to combat racism because of its origins in Nazi Germany.

“We have more obligation than others,” he said. “The whole company was built up by the Nazi regime.”

Yes.

You are all Nazis.

Which is why you must fund the greatest thing ever: another Jewish organization in Germany.

It’s the only way to be safe.

As I’ve always said, there are only three things in this world you can never have too many of:

1. Blowjobs
2. Ice cream sandwiches
3. Jewish organizations monitoring the thoughts and behaviors of the goyim to make sure they’re not planning on doing that lampshade thing again

May Yahweh bring prosperity to the Nazi car company Volkswagen for ensuring that no harm will ever come to the blessed chosen ones.

Also, in honor of the Jews, Goyswagen has vowed “to make cars that are just as ugly as our masters, the Jews.”

The new Golf literally looks like a big ugly Jew nose:

Good on you, Volkswagen.

Good, good goyim.

#VW world premiere in China: following the I.D. and I.D. BUZZ, the third member of the I.D. family will be revealed today. #AutoShanghai pic.twitter.com/JZrMGg324I

— Volkswagen News (@vwpress_en) April 18, 2017

I think electric cars are a retarded concept and the fact they are such a retarded concept is no doubt why no one other than the retard Elon Musk even cares about trying to make them.

But now with the Germans coming in, Musk is going to be pushed out.

And that is a good thing.

Because I hate Elon Musk.

RT:

German carmaker Volkswagen (VW) which plans to roll out four affordable electric vehicles in the coming years, has unveiled a battery-powered crossover at the Shanghai Auto Show.

A mix between a four-door coupe and a sports utility vehicle, the new I.D. Crozz SUV is the third model which will be sold under the I.D. sub-brand.

A full charge gives the car a range of more than 300 miles. The I.D. Crozz can be charged up to 80 percent capacity from a fast charger in just 30 minutes.

The vehicle can switch to an autonomous driving mode with a push on the VW badge in the middle of the steering wheel, which then folds automatically into the cockpit.

The car then maneuvers around based on signals it gets via laser and ultrasonic scanners, radar sensors, and cameras.

The crossover is said to compete with Tesla’s Model X, which the US manufacturer started delivering in 2015.

According to the head of the VW marque’s electric car project Christian Senger, the company has made “huge progress” in reducing production costs of its all-electric vehicles.

VW has pledged that the I.D. line will cost about the same as its diesel models.

“Offering our electric cars for prices similar to combustion engine vehicles really is a game changer,” Senger said. “We’re using the need to step from combustion engine to electric cars to reinvent VW brand.”

Seriously though.

Electric cars use electricity that comes from… fossil fuels.

They are less energy efficient than gasoline-powered cars, if you care about the alleged environmental effects of energy production.

Why are we even talking about this?

Robots have begun murdering humans.

Everyone knew this would happen eventually, so don’t look so surprised.

A robot uprising is the last thing we need right now… either that… or it’s the first thing we need right now.

The Local:

A worker was setting up a robot at a Volkswagen factory when the machine grabbed him and pressed him against a metal slab, causing lethal injuries.

The incident occurred on Monday as a Volkswagen factory in Baunatal, Hesse, when the 21-year-old man from another company was working on assembling the robot for a new electric motor production line.

When the robot started up, it grabbed the man and thrust him against a metal slab. The employee, from a company from Meissen in Saxony, suffered severe contusions in his chest area. He was resuscitated at the scene, but then died at the hospital.

Some questions here:

Did the man do anything to anger the robot? If so, what exactly?

Was the man a Moslem immigrant or a German national?

Did the robot make any statements?