"Immigrant youth crime": from campaign theme to blowback for the German Right | 23 comments (23 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Tips, Troll Ratings (4.00 / 9)

A lot of pink and green! We should join dvx in his profession...

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Wed Jan 16th, 2008 at 10:10:34 AM EST

Re: Tips, Troll Ratings (4.00 / 2)

If we are here: what would be the best English equivalent for "von Herzen froh" (used by Struck in his initial "mean suggestion")?

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Jan 16th, 2008 at 11:36:17 AM EST
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Re: Tips, Troll Ratings (4.00 / 2)

"Overjoyed" would work pretty well. Or, a little longer: "In his heart he must have rejoiced that..."

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed Jan 16th, 2008 at 11:43:05 AM EST
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UPDATED (none / 1)

Thanks; I tried to apply that one.

Also, I noticed that somehow a central part of the story went amiss: Koch's bundle of proposals for tougher youth criminal laws. (Which will only underline how Koch was stealing from the CSU.) So now you'll find an added paragraph.

Also added: the 'reason' for the Munich subway attack.

Finally, I add only in this comment the results of another poll I just found. Though it was released on 9 January, before the big escalation between SPD and CDU, it should give reason for hope that

only 25% think that Koch's push re foreign youth crime is motivated by honest concern;
even in the CDU+CSU, 54% view Koch's move as a campaign tactic;
in Hessen, 65% think it is a campaign tactic;
only 18% want an increased role for Koch at the federal level (Wulff: 34%),
even in the CDU+CSU, only 23% want increased federal role, 37% are against.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Wed Jan 16th, 2008 at 01:24:56 PM EST
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Re: Tips, Troll Ratings (4.00 / 2)

You could write "in [his] heart, [he] was happy [that]", I'd guess.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Wed Jan 16th, 2008 at 11:44:54 AM EST
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Re: Tips, Troll Ratings (none / 1)

It certainly keeps one at the computer, doesn't it?

Nice work, guys!

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed Jan 16th, 2008 at 11:40:12 AM EST
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"Immigrant youth crime": from campaign theme to blowback for the German Right | 23 comments (23 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)