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There's a state pension. And there's also the pension scheme through employers - the employer should match the employees contribution. You can set up private pensions funds to be accessible once you're 55, and get 25% of that tax free. Or get an annuity which is basically a sum you continue to get for the rest of your life.

So even more shrimps? Challenge accepted

Here you're wrong you can't go to a German school without hearing about the Nazi regime at least on three different years in history courses, as well as in German language courses, as well as in politics courses as well as in elementary school.

As Stan say's you can have a private pension and if you are working and do one in the workplace they have to match whatever you are putting in to it... I have both, A private pension and a work pension.. The government pension is determined by your contribution throughout your working life, The more you have worked/paid then the greater the level of pension given to you when you retire..

But you have heard of him!

For faster colour change don't forget to add a side dish of algae and brine fly larvae.. Yum!

First of all, this is exaggerating alot. Second, both insult and hate speach were always illegal and prosecuted in Germany. Third , this comment about a board to denounce others was already false, when you spread it for the first time, repeating it doesn't it making correct. And finally comparing it to the 30's only shows you either haven't got the slightest idea what the Nazi regime was like or you want to bring the government in discredit because they don't fit your agenda, or, most likely, you're are right wing activist wanting to revise history by playing down their atrocities.

Billy Basic over here but I cannot see the logic in it at all. If you want the economy to improve you need people to spend money. If you give members on this forum £100 we will spend it. Not because we want too, but with the cost of living we no choice. A person making 150k+ a year are more likely to save that money. If Labour do not win the next election then they may as well fold. The difference in quality of living our generation experiences as opposed to what our parents did is absolutely astonishing. What do the Tories have to do to lose power and stop voting for them.

On the one hand, I can understand why western Europe's put so much reliance on the US for defense. WW2 ended and the Cold War began - no European country was really quite in a position to properly defend itself from Russia. And honestly, seeing what the US (and NATO, but a lot of the heavy lifting has been done by the US) has been able to do to Russia by arming Ukraine to the teeth... I'd say Western Europe can look at that and quite comfortably say relying on the US for defense is a pretty sound decision. Russia's only gotten to experience a fraction of first hand experience seeing why the US doesn't provide it's citizens healthcare... and it's made the "might" of the Russian military look a lot less mighty in less than a year. I think it's pretty mental actually, they've managed to make NATO look like it has a purpose again after the end of the Cold War... and not too long after pretty prominent politicians had publicly questioned the purpose of NATO. And now it's pretty clear if Russia did want to start shit with a NATO country, they'd have to be prepared to get nukes otherwise they'd get humiliated on the battlefield. I still think it was most evident that Europe needed to do something about its energy dependence on Russia in 2014. Or even before that, when Russia rolled into Georgia. That was really all the evidence needed to show that Russia is a European power that has aims of expansion into the rest of Europe. But rather than actually address that, Europe remained reliant on Russia. A big problem, for Europe... but really everyone in the world.... is that there's a hell of a lot of issues with any of the big energy producers. None are really ideal to do business with. There's a tradeoff between maintaining dignity, morality, and standing up for "western ideals" and keeping energy affordable.

I don't even know what you're referencing regardint the spec-ops gear shit but I think it's funny to paint what the federal government, who has jurisdiction over migrants in federal custody, to a governor telling people he's flying them one place... and then flying them elsewhere to score political points with the MAGA idiot crowd. Gotta say though, it's impressive how willing you are to fight a culture war for a country that you don't even live in.

Hope you like donuts.

Finally installed and started playing Star Wars: The Old Republic after I've been meaning to do it for years... Only did the first mission to get the general feel, but find it really enjoyable so far... Will see how it develops, might well be worth a subscription...

They're not any more.

3 months later........

and groom kids, if you watch it they are actively campaigning reeducation by convincing children to attend. kids don't go to strip clubs, they don't need to go to drag queen events and they certainly don't need to be conditioned against standard societal practices. If you want to dress up fine no problem but stop trying to convince people that it's normal.