There is much less criticism in this subreddit against farmers blocking roads compared to when the Last Generation was blocking roads. Why is that?

the farmers actually have leverage and berliners know it. last generation was blocking traffic in neighborhoods where people already walk and bike, which just pissed everyone off. farmers block the autobahn and suddenly produce isn't getting to markthalle neun or the rewe on torstraße, people feel that in their wallets. also farmers aren't getting dragged off by berlin police in under 10 minutes like the climate people did at otto-braun-straße

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Part of it is that farmers have a very clear target: the government cutting their tax breaks on diesel. People understand a direct financial hit, even if they don't love the roadblocks. Last Generation was asking for abstract long-term policy shifts that felt impossible, so the disruption seemed pointless. Also, the farmers blockaded for a few days and then went home, not the weeks of daily chaos at Invalidenstraße that made people truly hate the climate protesters.

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It helps that farmers have a tangible economic grievance tied to real policy changes, while Last Generation's message was more abstract and their methods more disruptive to individuals without the same broad sympathy. People can see why a farmer would block a road over subsidies or diesel rules, even if they don't agree with it. With Last Generation, a lot of Berliners just saw inconvenience without a clear connection to their own lives.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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