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Hello and welcome to a new edition of the digression.
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Where I sometimes deviate from the actual topic.
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Yes, today's topic.
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This is the culture of discussion on social media.
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Briefly about the story.
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I have noticed that in the years of the pandemic and actually before
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it was not so easy anymore, reasonable discussions in the comment areas of several posts,
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whether it be mass media or private opinions,
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To make discussions in the comment section that this is actually no longer possible.
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You get radical answers, you get insulted, you get ridiculed,
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you are called a boy or a girl if you have a different opinion than those,
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who have commented or the creator of the post.
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And sometimes you just get a laughing smiley as a reaction,
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Which means making fun of the person or the statement.
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I have especially noticed this the last few days,
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because it is currently the discussion about the behavior at the aftershow parties or pre-show parties of the group Rammstein
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Especially the frontman Till Lindemann.
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Really a big topic right now.
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And I don't want to go into it that way,
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But for those who haven't seen it yet,
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There have been several reports of young women.
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who report that they have been invited,
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practically recruited and then with alcohol or with knockout drops
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made docile to have sex with them.
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So much for classification.
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I remember the discussion,
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how vaccination was introduced for kindergarten children and primary school pupils,
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As far as measles is concerned.
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And that was already a damn hot discussion at the time.
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Many people then came up with "My daughter had a serious vaccination damage at the time"
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and then it was hotly debated the patronage of the state and so on and so forth.
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It started somehow, that one could no longer discuss rationally and objectively.
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No other opinions were allowed.
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And I have to say, at that time I was often simply blocked.
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What you can see on various social networks,
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You don't see the answers or the mail from them anymore.
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This is a worrying development, so for me,
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because this also shows that a normal discourse is no longer possible with other people,
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but only the people live in their bubble and only allow the opinions and the views,
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which are in accordance with their opinion.
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At the time of this measles discussion, I also came up with quotes from doctors,
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Ask them if they had to vaccinate all their children.
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A doctor once said,
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You only need to vaccinate the ones you want to keep.
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That actually says it all.
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So for me now, because it shows the need,
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that there are certain possibilities and methods,
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to protect children from the most serious illnesses or complications.
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I want to catch up a little.
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I have always met my paternal grandfather as a nice, dear man.
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He had a problem with running.
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And I learned later that this was a retarded paralysis of polio,
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of polio.
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And that my grandpa was actually quite lucky,
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The only thing left is the paralysis in the leg, or in the foot.
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And he was not one of the candidates who came into the iron lungs as a child.
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Of course, he's experienced a lot of bad things.
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As a child, discrimination and exclusion.
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Later in the Second World War, there was severe discrimination.
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And I think the man will still be drawn for the rest of his life.
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And these days, people just forgot
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because these diseases only exist in isolated cases,
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how bad and how life-changing damage caused by this disease,
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Those who are left are for life.
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Yes, children's diseases, as cute as the names are sometimes,
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Rubellas, womms, are a completely different house number to go through as adults.
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And even if you think about measles, what complications it brings,
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If you are pregnant, what malformations and danger there is for the newborn child.
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It is not for nothing that girls become girls before they have had sexual intercourse for the first time,
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vaccinated against measles or other diseases.
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There is also a vaccine against HPV.
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against the virus that ultimately causes cervical cancer.
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In girls and boy owners, brossertab cancer is caused.
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You have to keep that in mind. This is the same virus.
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And it makes sense to vaccinate girls and boys before they have sexual intercourse.
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I know a lot of parents who don't vaccinate their children anymore.
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And you hear the same thing over and over again.
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Mostly something as funny as "you get autism from it" and so on.
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Today we also know that there is a predisposition and also neurological problems,
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This leads to the disease of autism.
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This is no longer autism, but a disorder in the autism spectrum.
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As far as so many aspects are concerned. There are also several diseases,
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They all express themselves differently, but ultimately have the same origin.
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Yes, of course, the current discussion about the Rammstein group always brings to mind,
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In recent years, nothing has really changed.
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And what I find so bad is these constant attempts at relativization.
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As a young woman, you have to know what happens when you go to a party like this.
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This is as much a relativization as if you had such a short skirt, a short dress,
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Wearing such a deep neckline, you don't have to be surprised if you get raped.
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This is also a trivialization, a normalization of the situation,
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What do you think of the media houses' postings?
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I would also be concerned about how many women are protecting this group in an unbiased manner.
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and say that it can't be at all and such a great group and so on and so forth.
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One thing must be borne in mind, these are all human beings.
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There are other people who are now all reporting more and more of these incidents.
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The stories are similar. There may be something to it.
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I mean, we have the presumption of rescheduling in Germany.
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As long as he has not been convicted or even the people who helped with it,
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Let the good man be innocent.
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But the past and, at the latest, since the #The MeToo debate has shown,
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There is always something about such innocence.
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I also find it very bad that a tile man or
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Oh my God, who else is so affected?
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In recent times, there have been such incidents that women
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have reported that they were raped by a celebrity,
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Then his career was destroyed.
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Even a tile man says I read that today on Twitter,
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that he does not want to be called a stop in a procession,
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Because his situation was completely different.
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There was one person who made this claim.
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Even if his actions are to have relationships with several women at the same time,
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is not quite correct, morally speaking, this is a different starting point,
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It's like a bunch of young girls talking about the same thing that happened.
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I also find it super problematic that it is then repeatedly cited there,
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The young women would be horny at clicks, at money.
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I mean, if you think about it, we live in a time when every second woman
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at least once in their lives sexual abuse, sexual hostility
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Or have been sexually harassed, drive again.
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You have to think about it, that's 50 percent.
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And even in a civilized country like Germany, such a thing is commonplace.
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I had talked to my mother on the phone before and there we came up with a topic,
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That I had once looked at a crime scene from the 70s, that was the crime scene in Essen.
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And I found it really strange how the language was there.
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You have addressed young women with dolls and made again and again any sexual allusions.
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And then my mother said, yes, that was normal at the time.
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You have to imagine that.
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It was normal to talk to women like that.
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I had also seen a video for days of the same one that had now made the video,
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where she had spoken of her experiences at the Rammstein concert last year, i.e. in the summer of 2022,
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As a woman, you're always referred to when you have nipples and how corrosive that is.
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I can understand that. I mean, okay, I'm a man.
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I am in the privileged situation that I am a medieval man.
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I'm in my mid-40s, so I don't know such situations.
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I was once caught in the disco a butt and I found this feeling at that time,
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In my early 20s, very strange.
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When I was a teenager, I first noticed a man grabbing a waitress's ass.
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At the time, he was outraged by it.
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And to see that this is more or less normal, I find it really sad.
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And then stop to read the comments, where then males like females say,
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You know that, you have to know that.
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If you go there, I'm really embarrassed because we look at the statistics.
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How Many People Really Report Rape?
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And that's not even that much.
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I don't know the percentage, but the dark figure is much higher,
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Because it is also embarrassing.
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I know how to be a woman when you're out of a violent relationship,
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this happened in my private environment, goes to the police and then just brings this to the report,
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because you no longer know how to defend yourself against the stupid questions you have to answer,
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What a feeling the police are conveying.
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And the young woman who sent the Twitter post two weeks ago,
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who was at the concert in Lithuania, in Viljus,
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She reported that she was with the police and that they had sent her away.
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I asked him to do a blood test in the hospital for drugs.
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If it is positive, then it could come back.
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This shows that the victims are not believed in any way.
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And to avoid this humiliation, which you drive there again, you just don't go there.
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And only when a woman, a man, has found the courage to lead this,
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to show that there has been this problem or this misconduct,
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and you have to say yes, as it sounds, this is a thing that has been going on for a long time,
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Because it is systematic. It already has a routine.
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It has been repeated so many times that one has developed a kind of routine,
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to achieve the best possible result.
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Only then do you have the courage when others have said that,
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that you reveal yourself because you know you get hostility from such a band,
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It's that size, and so are the many fans.
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Even if you say, stop, stop, there must be something to the rumors,
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Because these rumors have been around for so long.
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And with other people, it seems to have been an open secret,
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There were those parties.
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I find all this very, very embarrassing for our society,
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How to deal with it, and most importantly,
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how many people are allowed to pass judgment there,
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who haven't even watched the original video or post.
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Then you think you're just doing it for fame or for money.
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Yes, so it's a really bad development and it shows me again and again,
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How broken our society is.
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And these constant trivializations and relativizations,
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which take place in the comments, show,
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How some people really think and tick.
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And that's amazing.
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My mother sat on the bus today and drove from point A to point B.
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And there sat two men, so beginning, in the middle of 30, she said.
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They were talking about one sitting in front,
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You wouldn't even know what it looks like.
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And the way she sits, you wouldn't even know how old she is, the way she looks.
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You shouldn't be surprised if you get raped.
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And they make a little fun of it.
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And just the fact that this is just so normal makes me stunned.
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You may hear that this topic is very moving at the moment,
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Because my girlfriend is moving around the internet as a content creator.
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And what she sometimes gets from news,
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mainly by men, but sometimes also by women,
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This is sexually eradicated at the highest level.
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Especially so over the years, a true Dickpic collection has emerged on her phone.
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How often they are asked by fellow players, viewers, followers,
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Just ask for a photo like that.
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And how normally it is handled.
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And then, among colleagues, that more or less,
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Yes, you have to live with it when your face is stretched out on the Internet, is dismissed,
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It is frightening and clearly shows a shift in boundaries.
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I really thought that after the great #MeToo debate
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Something would have changed.
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There was a huge outcry on Twitter and all the media have reported on it.
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At the time, I realized that many people said,
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That something needs to change now.
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But the discussion about Rammstein's at the moment clearly shows me,
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That this hasn't changed.
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It can't be because I'm someone's idol, a great musician,
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What I'm a fan of, I don't trust them to pick young girls,
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To be drunk, to be drugged if necessary
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and then abuse her unconscious body.
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It cannot be said that this is considered normal.
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I also don't see it as normal.
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that when I go there, I must reckon with it,
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to have sex against my will or to be coerced into sex,
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Because I am in a privileged situation,
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They were chosen for such sexual acts.
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No, that's something I can't understand for myself
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And it's really dramatic when something like that is considered normal nowadays.
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With this in mind, I wish you a nice day, a nice evening and a good morning.
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Meal, depending on when you hear this and say thank you for being there
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and until the next issue of the digression, where I like to deviate from topics.
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Today it is about discussions on social media and what has actually changed since the corona pandemic and also about the comments among the contributions to the current events about the band Rammstein as well as about Till Lindemann.
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A fascinating phenomenon that demands our attention today is the change in the culture of discussion on social media. The focus is particularly on the question of how these discussions have changed since the devastating corona pandemic, even before its outbreak. Interestingly, exciting parallels and correlations can be discovered here, which have a profound influence on the interactions in the virtual vastness of digital communication.
Particularly eye-catching are the comments that emerge from the contributions to the current events around the renowned and controversially discussed band Rammstein as well as their charismatic frontman Till Lindemann. This commentary landscape not only reflects fans' dedication and passion, but also provides insight into the diversity of opinions and emotions channeled through social media today.
There is no doubt that the coronavirus pandemic acted as an incisive event that had a significant impact on the dynamics of social media discussions. The far-reaching effects of this global crisis have led to an increased need for information exchange, solidarity and exchange. But at the same time, they have also amplified the dark side of the digital world by fueling uncertainty, fear and frustration in the discussions.
As one of the most influential and provocative bands of our time, Rammstein have a loyal following that defends their messages with passion and enthusiasm. Recent events related to the band and its frontman have opened up new levels of discussion and generated different points of view expressed in the form of comments on social media.
In fact, it can be said that these discussions on social media have become a reflection of our society today. They show the range of opinions, emotions and also the potential for polarization that exists in the virtual spaces. It is a world where people from different backgrounds and perspectives meet to share their views and enter into dialogue with each other.
However, we should also be aware that this culture of discussion on social media presents both opportunities and challenges. It is up to us to promote healthy and respectful communication based on constructive exchange and mutual understanding. Only in this way can we use the full potential of social media to develop as a society and to appreciate the diversity of opinions and ideas.
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What Really Happens at Rammstein Afterpartys - YouTube
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Allegations against Rammstein: Why the Reports Matter | ZAPP | NDR - YouTube
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RAMMSTEIN revelations: Is Till Lindemann in jail? | lawyer Christian Solmecke - YouTube
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Rammstein - Wed$$bedarf, Macht & K0-Tropfen (All allegations & Statements) - YouTube
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Kayla Shyx: Youtuber describes experiences with Rammstein and the "Row Zero" | STERN.de
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Rammstein: Why everyone is silent... - YouTube
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Rammstein: Meet & Greet (2022) - My Experiences | Objectification, Sexualization and Groupies
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Playing time: 0:22:19
Date of admission: 07.06.23
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Sascha Markmann is a creative mind with a moving biography – and a person who has rediscovered life after a stroke. After working as a paramedic and elderly caregiver, Sascha found his way into creative expression. As a blogger, podcaster, musician and visual storyteller, he brings together things that just don't fit at first glance: He combines his keen enthusiasm for technology – from self-hosted servers to electronic music production – with emotional depth and an oblique sense of humor. His contributions are somewhere between borderline, acid basslines and assistance – honestly, directly and with a wink. Guiding principle: “Audio-visual dullness with no usefulness – but perhaps that's why it's so valuable.” View all posts by Sascha Markmann
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