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Do you support workers and farmers?
Ironically some rich folks like Bill Gates do much more for food security and poverty reduction than a thousand of those uneducated fools will ever do. Can someone explain why we should hate rich people who support our common goals and instead side with workers who often rant about criminal immigrants all day long. Am I the only one who's tired of the hypocracy? A lot of the working class sucks, they're uneducated and racist. Many of them have never seen a university from inside.
i think you're right that a lot of the working class has shifted right, but you're kinda cherry-picking here. there's tons of workers in berlin who are unionized at places like the bvg or the charité who are actively fighting against the same shit you prob care about, like rent control and climate policy. they're not the ones honking tractors, that's the brandenburg farmers who are a different beast entirely.
the bill gates argument is tricky cause sure he's done some good, but his foundation's work in africa doesn't really help the single mom working at lidl in wedding who can't afford rent. the real hypocrisy imo is that the left has spent so long talking about global solidarity while ignoring local class dynamics, so now people feel abandoned and turn to the afd. you can't hate the working class for being uneducated and then not support any local education or apprenticeship programs.
if you want to see actual class consciousness, go to the taz kantine or the anarchist bookshop in friedrichshain on a saturday. those folks are doing the work, they're just not on the news.
Yeah the street blockades are annoying, I'll give you that. But you're lumping together the LPG guys from Brandenburg who are pissed about diesel taxes with the actual working class in Berlin who are getting priced out of their own neighborhoods. The AFD voters you're talking about are mostly in the outer districts like Marzahn or Hellersdorf where the left hasn't showed up in decades. If you want to see what happens when you actually organize, check out the Kiezblocks movement or the Mieterverein meetings. Those are working class people fighting for their homes, not fasc
honestly i get the frustration with the street blockades, especially when you're just trying to get across town. but you're mixing up two different things here. the farmers blocking the streets with tractors are usually the big agribusiness guys protesting fuel taxes, not the small family farmers who actually need support. and the workers you're talking about, the ones ranting about immigrants, that's a real thing in parts of east berlin and brandenburg, but it's not the whole working class.
you mentioned bill gates, but look at what actual german foundations do. the robert bosch stiftung or the dietrich bonhoeffer foundation put real money into local food co-ops and worker retraining programs here in berlin. that's way more direct than some billionaire's global fund that never touches neukölln.
the hypocrisy you're seeing is real, but it's also a symptom of how the left abandoned union halls and village pubs decades ago. if you want to change those people, you gotta be in the same room as them, not just complain online.
What is the correct spelling for a street name that appears differently on multiple signs in Charlottenburg?
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.
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
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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