New type of granny dropped

The group allegedly planned to kidnap Karl Lauterbach, the German health minister, who is a hate figure among the far-Right because of his advocacy of strict lockdowns during the pandemic.

The group then planned to carry out sabotage attacks on the electricity grid with the intent of causing a blackout so severe that it would lead to “civil war-like conditions”, the arrest warrant stated.

Four other members of the group were arrested in April. Police found a Kalashnikov gun and a Nazi SS uniform in one of the suspect’s homes.

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According to reports in the German press, she was known as “the countess” inside the Reichsbuerger scene, a loose movement that seeks to bring back the Prussian monarchy.

She appeared to have co-authored long texts arguing that the Treaty of Versailles, which brought about the end of the First World War, was invalid, and that Germany is still legally a monarchy.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Reichsbuerger

    Welcome to Reichsburger, home of the Reichsburger, may I take your order?

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I'll take the Lebensraum meal with Fanta, extra Volkssturm-fries and a Panzer-chocolate flavored McKaiser.

      • CliffordBigRedDog [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        I mean there are definitely Romanovs still around, just that no one takes them seriously

        Also china didnt really kill their royals and their not a real political threat

        • hypercube [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puyi#Later_life_(1945%E2%80%931967) yeah their last emperor became a street sweeper/tour guide. also played a labour MP in a film about the Suez Crisis

        • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          if the chinese royals tried to claim they should own the country they would simply be told to shut up

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The Romanovs still exist and are squabbling along themselves about who has the most legitimate claim to the non-existing Russian throne. The women with the most "plausible" claim is sometimes invited to Russian state ceremonies. Some German nobility guy inherited a more far-fetched claim and converted to Russian orthodox Christianity in order to somehow revive the empire as an artificial crypto/nonce/libertarian island in the Pacific and converted back to Protestantism once that scheme failed. A third line of the Romanovs lives in the US and seems to be completely :grillman: about it all and doesn't claim anything.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          2 years ago

          A third line of the Romanovs lives in the US and seems to be completely about it all and doesn’t claim anything.

          It's like the American Hitlers who are all like dentists and other :grillman: jobs and have no real connection to Adolf except some shared ancestry. I think one of them was a medic in the US Army during the war.

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      They're also the German version of what Americans know as Sovereign Citizens. The only difference is really that they fetishize 1871 instead of 1776 and that Reichbürger usually have smaller gun collections. Otherwise, it's the exact same thing.

  • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    hate figure among the far-right because of his advocacy of strict lockdowns during the pandemic

    They say it like it's over

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      They also say it as if Lauterbach didn't immediately have to tone it down when the SPD came into power and had to account for treat fiends and line go up. Germany still has some rudimental semblance of a covid response, but outside of public transport, almost nobody wears a mask anymore.

      Shows that you can't stop hogs from wanting to do an adventurism on you even if you cave in to their demands.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Someone on twitter said they asked everyone to mask up and compliance on the train was like 95%. Fuck me why can't america have people who understand germ theory? Like we've been using plague to murder the indigenous population for four hundred fucking years but now the chuds pretend not to understand how disease spreads?!

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I don't understand why so many thieves and scoundrels insist on a pretense of legalism to justify their bullshit. If you just believe in yourself, and have a shitload of guns, you don't need dumboes magic feather to do fascism. The power was inside you all along!

    • SoyViking [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They are liberals who believe in the magic goodness and absolute justice of the law. But then they experience a world in which they don't get all the privilege they feel entitled to which contradicts with their liberal legalism.

      For some this contradiction between belief and outcome leads to rejecting legalism, for others it to blaming themselves for not being good enough. But Reichsbürger and sovereign citizens use a different coping strategy. If the law is just and if they deserve privilege but they don't get it, then it must mean that the real and authentic law is not being followed and that the world follows a fake and illegitimate set of rules .

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      2 years ago

      Fascists get into power because the bougie prefer it over socialism, and when forced to either give up power or let their nation turn into a cancer they choose barbarism.

  • kissinger
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