The 35 Faces that explain GERMAN POLITICS

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  • Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
  • Politics is more than just parties and lawmaking! It's also the diverse people around it! Let's take a look at who exactly is shaping our politics in the center of Europe! Everything you need to know about German political culture, explained in just 35 little cartoons! #educational #culture #politics #politicalcompass
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    CHAPTERS
    00:00 Intro
    01:02 Left-behind East German
    02:25 Anti-German Pessimist
    02:55 Pro-German Narcissist
    03:44 Climate Doomer
    04:59 Bavarian Exceptionalist
    07:38 Social Christians
    08:46 Russia-Understander
    10:58 The Center
    12:21 Erdoğanist/Putinist/Orbánist
    13:15 Union Man
    14:32 Eastalgic
    17:41 The Rich
    18:37 Conspiracy Theorist
    20:09 EU-Megafan
    21:45 Social Justice Warrior
    23:29 Anger-Citizen
    25:26 Rural & Urban Vote
    26:58 Young & Old Vote
    28:57 Migration-Background
    31:55 Uninterested
    32:59 Auto über alles
    34:35 Pacifist
    36:10 Haven’t we heard enough?
    38:21 Mittelstand
    39:58 Esoterics
    41:18 Community Politician
    42:02 Extremists
    42:46 Grey Mouse
    44:48 Ancient Elite
    46:22 ÖRR Enthusiast
    48:31 Transatlantic
    49:55 Data-Protector
    50:50 Party-Soldier
    52:54 Tribe 36
    53:43 Final Thoughts
    Special thanks to Ana for her knowledge, my roommate Greta, for lending Ana her voice and to macagil on Instagram, whose figure I traced for the Eastalgic section.
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    IMAGES
    All the cartoons were hand-drawn by me. The other pictures used are either in the public domain, logos or were aqcuired via pixabay.com. The rest was sourced from:
    - Berlin wall by Frederik Ramm www.remote.org/frederik/cultur...
    - Berlin wall by National Archives via catalog.archives.gov
    - Kanzler der Mitte SPD-Poster via www.hdg.de
    - Deutschlands starke Mitte by CDU via • Wir sind Deutschlands ...
    - AfD-Anhänger-Post by AfD via alternativef...
    - Die Mitte entlasten via www.designtagebuch.de
    - Grüne erobern politische Mitte by Focus www.focus.de/politik/deutschl...
    - Plakat aufhängen by Piratenpartei Deutschland/ Michael Brückner via flickr, BY SA 2.0
    - Obama Bumper Sticker by Tony Alter via flickr, BY SA 2.0
    - Rosette by gratuit via freeimageslive.co.uk, BY SA 3.0
    - Postkarte: Köln Straßenbahnlinie 12 auf Hohenzollernring by Henrik Boye de.sporvognsrejser.dk/foto/po...
    All the following via Wikimedia Commons
    - Climate activist by Stefan Müller, BY SA 4.0
    - Greens hugging by Raimond Spekking, BY SA 4.0
    - Brandt und Stoph by Bundesarchiv, BY SA 3.0
    - Sandmännchen by MB Custom, BY SA 4.0
    - Ost-Produkte by Ralf Roletschek, GNU Free Documentation License upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
    - Rainbow flags fly over Washington, DC by Kingofthedead, BY SA 2.0
    - November Pogroms by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, BY SA 2.0
    - Guttenberg by Dirk Vorderstraße, BY SA 2.0
    - BR-Logo by BR-Unternehmenskommunikation, BY SA 4.0
    - Podiumsdiskussion: Partei der Zukunft: Partei in Bewegung by Martin Heinlein / DIE LINKE, BY SA 2.0
    CC BY-SA 2.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/...
    CC BY-SA 3.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/...
    CC BY-SA 4.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/...
    SOUND EFFECTS
    - Most Sound effects acquired at www.zapsplat.com! But shoutouts to the following:
    - Retro 8-bit game, hit 01 by Little Robot Sound, BY SA 4.0
    - Retro 8-bit game, hit 02 by Little Robot Sound, BY SA 4.0
    - Retro 8-bit game, collect point 01 by Little Robot Sound, BY SA 4.0
    MUSIC
    - [8-bit] Auferstanden aus Ruinen by SINA
    • [8-bit] Auferstanden a...
    - 8 Bit Think by HeatleyBros
    • "8 Bit Think!" Calm Pu...
    - 353: Greek Zeimpikiko Karsilamos Music | Vlog 6 No copyright by Faris Al Orfali
    • 353: Greek Zeimpikiko...
    - Music: “Army March by Thor Oach"
    Free download: filmmusic.io/song/11241-army-...
    Licensed under CC BY 4.0: filmmusic.io/standard-license
    - "Sinfonia Number 5" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
    creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
    - Music: Morning Stroll by Steven OBrien
    Free download: filmmusic.io/song/10523-morni...
    License (CC BY 4.0): filmmusic.io/standard-license
    - "Vibing Over Venus" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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    4 plants died to make this video.

Комментарии • 1,2 тыс.

  • @LucasBenderChannel
    @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +153

    Thank you to everyone who stuck around since my last video! It's been really sweet to see so many returning faces! 🤗
    Obviously, I could only fit super short caricatures of these identities into one video. But you COULD write full books about every single one! So feel free to expand on anything I've said in the comments. Just be sure to remain friendly and grant other people the freedom of having their own opinion. 🫶
    //Edit: I love that I've already been called a right winger, a leftist, a liberal and a socialist. Anybody wanna call me a Georgist to complete my bingo card? 😂

    • @johnpijano4786
      @johnpijano4786 Месяц назад +4

      Ngl. The russia bear picture would have been perfect if you added a tiny Ushanka with a Russian Flag on top of its head.

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper Месяц назад +1

      I live in Alsace and really love Germany. I'm disappointed by how much worse France currently is in many ways (security, cleanliness, industry, culture) compared to France.

    • @conorbolger9441
      @conorbolger9441 Месяц назад +4

      Lucas, I loved the video i think i enjoyed it more than jj mcculloughs one. But I wished you would have talked about the Red Army faction in the extremists section because they are a unique part of the german extremists section and their pretty unknown to lots of people outside Germany.

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +5

      ​@@conorbolger9441 If I ever make a video on Helmut Schmidt and the 1970s, I'm definetly going to cover them!

    • @chaosPneumatic
      @chaosPneumatic Месяц назад +1

      Just want to say that I think a full video about Germany's extremists would be very interesting!

  • @illjabludov1534
    @illjabludov1534 Месяц назад +929

    A tribe that died literally this month is the weed activist. They were almost everywhere

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +186

      R.I.P.

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek Месяц назад

      what? no they didn't. because germany got a really sh°°ty pseudo-legalization that is absolutely not going to work. it's basically meant to touch the black market as little as possible to then say "look, legalization doesn't work", even though it's not a legalization at all, it's a somewhat expansive decriminalization with uniquely severe constraints on production, which is only permitted in non-profit licensed clubs that sell at cost to a number of members limited to 1000 in order to require an absolutely enormous mountain of paperwork. and homegrowing is only permitted up to three plants (or three flowering females, not sure), which is the lowest limit I have ever heard of being permitted, other jurisdictions do 5-10. but then one is only permitted to have 50g of product at home, which is certainly less than one should expect to harvest from three plants (more like 100g per plant, or for a nice healthy big one outdoors up to 500g, in ideal much warmer climate like california a few kilos are possible), and for a lot of people that means that they're not allowed to just grow outdoors and store enough from the regular autumn harvest to last a year. indoor growing is a huge waste of electricity and money for equipment. the limits are set at absurdly paranoid low levels - commercial grows consist of dozens to many hundreds of plants at a time, you don't give cover to commercial growers by allowing 8 plants and 300g or something like that. beside the fact that decriminalization over legalization is nothing but a gift to organized crime because the market stays illegal, there is no reason to push those limits anywhere near that low.

    • @Xenu321
      @Xenu321 Месяц назад +10

      Yeah true!

    • @MrCalhoun556
      @MrCalhoun556 Месяц назад +31

      One shall not forget Christian Ströbele's legendary "Gebt das Hanf frei!" speech.

    • @oida10000
      @oida10000 Месяц назад +23

      Well the CDU wants to revive them.

  • @Bubim1
    @Bubim1 Месяц назад +431

    I think a group you missed is the Bildungsbürgertum. The (educational) petty elite.
    Teachers, professors, highly skilled proffesions like doctors, engineers and architects, civil servants or, as I notice as one myself, journalists. Usually university educated and from a family with a similar level in education. They are generally not rich, but with a good and reliable income.
    Concered with public matters and the 'less fortunate', they are often disconnected from people who struggle on a daily basis or only meet them in professional relationships. They are often active in local politics, church or social organisations, wanting to help in a well meaning, but patronising way.
    They are well informed about local and global politics. Newspaper readers, with full bookshelfs. Despite this they always are surprised when they learn that people don't concern themselves with politics or why someone would not vote in an election.

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +78

      Absolutely! A very good addition! 💪

    • @gargoyle7863
      @gargoyle7863 Месяц назад +6

      keep the doctors an engineers out. They are teachers and retired teachers! ;-)

    • @DoctorNicolasGames
      @DoctorNicolasGames Месяц назад +13

      I feel described 😅

    • @christopherstein2024
      @christopherstein2024 Месяц назад

      This is also where the Gutmensch lives. A person that wants to improve the world through virtues but doesn't really need to care because they themselves are well off. Basically the boomer version of the SJW. Because they are well off they don't have the drive to get deeply involved in politics. They want to be political to the point where they are part of the good guys and not so far that they lose their optimistic world view. Because they have decent wealth they are not interested in the left wing radicalism that their college kids lean towards. Because they don't have too many problems of their own they are mostly concerned about other people and trying to be virtuous to the point where they consider "less fortunate" an offensive expression. Because they have formal education they are immune to facebook rage bait or right wing populism but since they are too happy and educated to consume anything but mainstream media there is basically no chance for them to deviate from the moderate leftist norm.
      They are the arch enemy of the frustrated, uneducated and rightist Wutbürger.

    • @dittikke
      @dittikke Месяц назад +2

      ... Until they realise they're in another one of Germany's tribes, the precariat.

  • @PakBallandSami
    @PakBallandSami Месяц назад +588

    the real faces of the German politics where the friends we made along the way

  • @fanta-cool7532
    @fanta-cool7532 Месяц назад +826

    This guy is one of those RUclipsrs where he doesn't upload a lot but when he does upload it's an instant classic.

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +31

      That's very sweet. Thank you :)

    • @Tony-Anderson
      @Tony-Anderson Месяц назад +5

      Could not agree more. He's like a German hbomberguy, in regards to video quality and frequency. And as expected from a German version of hbomberguy, he's calm and collected, instead of being... Well English 😂
      P.S. I am a big fan of hbomberguy's work and am in no way attempting to cause disrespect or insult of his character. I was committing something, which Americans seem to struggle with, called banter.

    • @alisagman362
      @alisagman362 Месяц назад +3

      Like Oversimplified

    • @monke1340
      @monke1340 Месяц назад +1

      YESS

    • @DemonetisedZone
      @DemonetisedZone 11 дней назад

      A classic, You're easily pleased, are you his mother or some other relative by any chance?🤔

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o Месяц назад +497

    5:07 Bavarians trying not to mention Bavaria: 💀

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +254

      💙🥨🍻🔷️🔷️🔷️🔷️🍺🍺🍺🥨🦁🦁🔷️💙💙💙🥨🥨🥨🥨⛰️⛰️💪💪💪💰🎓🎓🎓👑👑👑OIDAAAA💙💙🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🚭🌿🚭🌿🚭🌿🚭🌿🚭⚽️⚽️🍺🍺GRINTIGER HUND ELENDIGER !!1! 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

    • @thelemonking69
      @thelemonking69 Месяц назад +15

      Impossible

    • @Ratchet4647
      @Ratchet4647 Месяц назад +43

      ​​@LucasBenderChannel I love how RUclips offers a translation for this that really translates nothing but takes everything to the left of the 2 soccer balls and turns it into a yellow heart!
      Oh, and hund becomes hound!!
      😂

    • @iah7264
      @iah7264 Месяц назад +2

      Haha, love your humor

    • @Sophiebryson510
      @Sophiebryson510 Месяц назад +2

      Ich liebe Bayern!
      (Ich bin ein Englischer)

  • @edwardsheehan1564
    @edwardsheehan1564 Месяц назад +413

    Seems like the Speed Limit debate in Germany has much in common with the gun debate here in the states.

    • @Conartist666
      @Conartist666 Месяц назад +171

      Yeah, the difference just lies in liking things that go boom and liking things that go vroom.

    • @gamermapper
      @gamermapper Месяц назад +30

      ​@@Conartist666 we could even say OK vroomer to them 😂

    • @Ass_of_Amalek
      @Ass_of_Amalek Месяц назад

      it may or may not be germans clinging on to the last thing they think the austrian man did right...

    • @generellconfusion2592
      @generellconfusion2592 Месяц назад +7

      That is completly accurate.

    • @dave_sic1365
      @dave_sic1365 Месяц назад +13

      Guns are a constitutional right in America, driving fast isnt in Germany.
      Theres no really good comparison actually.
      Imagine you like grilling big beefsteaks and your neighbour is summoned by the smell and starts to warn you about healthrisks of eating beef and starts to calculate passive agressively how much vegetebales could have been grown on the land that was used to feed the cow that is on your barbeque...

  • @isarsnitkovsky3987
    @isarsnitkovsky3987 Месяц назад +339

    2 YEAR UPLOAD SCHEDULE, WE ARE SO BACK

    • @beans00001
      @beans00001 Месяц назад +3

      so true

    • @True_NOON
      @True_NOON Месяц назад

      Wir sind so zurück , desweiteren deklarieire ich als deutcher die antworten dieses kommentares als eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

  • @benp.865
    @benp.865 Месяц назад +282

    If my math works out, given the current rate of videos and the increase in length, we can expect a 5:14:58 long video in approximately 2 years

  • @uberlandleitung
    @uberlandleitung Месяц назад +118

    The speed limit debate in Germany, is the German version of the banning firearms debate in the USA.

    • @purge5273
      @purge5273 Месяц назад +1

      Both are useless because banning something doesn't hinder criminals from doing something it only takes away freedom from the people.

    • @cantinadudes
      @cantinadudes Месяц назад

      Not entirely as there is nothing to suggest it would make anything safer. The only actual benefit would be minimal reduce in emmission but thats negligable. Theres really no reason to change the way it is rn other than leftists being upset

  • @prussianboi1859
    @prussianboi1859 Месяц назад +127

    He remembered the password

  • @connormclernon26
    @connormclernon26 Месяц назад +134

    Bavaria is German Texas

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +31

      Yee-haw

    • @NisarKhan-jm1uh
      @NisarKhan-jm1uh Месяц назад +12

      I 100 percent agree with that analogy.

    • @germanmemerboi3157
      @germanmemerboi3157 Месяц назад +5

      Fits better than anything I could think up of.

    • @dittikke
      @dittikke Месяц назад +3

      Nah. Bavarians are on a different level of trying too hard.

    • @germanmemerboi3157
      @germanmemerboi3157 Месяц назад +8

      @@dittikke Eh, True.
      Texas doesn't need to try nearly as hard to be the "Big Boy" in the Federal republic.
      Bavaria is basically Tryharding

  • @jkitty542
    @jkitty542 Месяц назад +283

    Lucas. With only two, now three videos, you've cemented yourself as one of my favorite political commentators on RUclips. I've watched your videos numerous times and I'm sure this new one will be no different. Please make more.

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +66

      That's super kind and also ridiculous. I appreciate it!^^

  • @luisdergroe8944
    @luisdergroe8944 Месяц назад +143

    An interesting addition to the Bavarian is the fact that the three women shown as examples here are conservative, green-progressives and liberal respectively. While Bavaria is a conservative state, a very obvious one at that, this kind of Bavarian identity is compatible with basically every political ideology. By itself it’s not really a political statement at all.
    Conservatives tend to lean into their Bavarian identity in a different way though. Especially talking down to other states is more or less exclusively a conservative thing.

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +39

      That's exactly why I chose them! Thank you for pointing it out! 🤗 The CSU might like to imagine that it has a monopoly on the Bavarian identity, but no - it's embraced all throughout the political landscape!

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow Месяц назад

      Bavaria is the Quebec of Germany.

    • @JJSogaard
      @JJSogaard Месяц назад

      Which three women are you referring to? I can’t find them in the video.

    • @JJSogaard
      @JJSogaard Месяц назад +1

      Which three women are you referring to? I can’t find them in the video.

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +6

      ​​@@JJSogaard At 6:35. They're all politicians but from different parties.

  • @lukasfinzel7609
    @lukasfinzel7609 Месяц назад +115

    Where are my "railway enthusiasts/infrastructurists"? 😂

    • @miranda8636
      @miranda8636 Месяц назад +10

      Literally me

    • @_jpg
      @_jpg Месяц назад +14

      "Railway enthusiast" sounds like an oxymoron, given the sad state of our privatised rails 😢

    • @gamingchamp6728
      @gamingchamp6728 Месяц назад +5

      #tribe36

    • @19torch86
      @19torch86 Месяц назад +5

      ​​@_jpg true. I think ranting on the state of the railway is perhabs the most unifying aspects of German life. I can't think of another topic with more potential for agreement. Maybe the weather, but that could escalate into a climate debate.

    • @dave_sic1365
      @dave_sic1365 Месяц назад

      We had the Transrapid supporters but they got destroyed by the esoteric enviornmentalists (Transrapid track looks too ugly in the Landscape[ Wind turbines apparently dont])

  • @kaynight64
    @kaynight64 Месяц назад +161

    In Portuguese, "Justiça Social" (Social Justice, literally) has the German rather than American meaning - it's about people having the income to live with dignity, fighting hunger, providing public education and healthcare...
    A famous quote by left-wing economist Maria da Conceição Tavares: "If you are not concerned with justiça social, with those that have to pay their bills, you are no serious economist - you're a technocrat!"

    • @adelinod.5568
      @adelinod.5568 Месяц назад +4

      I would say it´s similar in the whole of Europe compared with the US or Brazil.

    • @DiamondKingStudios
      @DiamondKingStudios Месяц назад +4

      Even in the US I went to a Catholic school and the teachers there used that definition for the term in the context of relevant classes.

    • @MarkWhiley
      @MarkWhiley Месяц назад +3

      ​@@adelinod.5568 I would say that it has a more expansive meaning in the UK and refers more to human rights and minority rights. It would not be uncommon to use social justice and economic justice next to each other, the latter meaning more of what is being described here around wealth and class.

    • @kennethferland5579
      @kennethferland5579 Месяц назад

      I think this is more about the poverty of intelectual discourse in the US, without an actual economically left party (we have a center-right party and far-right party)it leaves the only space for progressive politics to be mainstreamed in the US is if it is focused on identity. We see the Democratic party leaders activly push back at any attempt to link economic equality with racial equality. Most famously epitomized by neo-liberal Hillary Clintons critique of Socialist Bernie Sanders hostility to the Banking sector by saying "But if we broke up the Banks, would that end Racism!?".

    • @thelakeman2538
      @thelakeman2538 Месяц назад

      ​@@MarkWhiley wouldn't that also be the meaning in USA, whenever a liberal or a progressive talks about social justice it's kinda implicit that they refer to both human rights (minority rights being a part of it) and economic inequality, just that for the more intense social justice types that economic inequality is also primarily correlated with identity (blacks are poorer, women get paid less, etc). Idk I'm not American.

  • @kaanyasin3733
    @kaanyasin3733 Месяц назад +46

    >Drops a vid
    >Banger
    >Leaves for a year
    >Repeat

  • @TABSman1
    @TABSman1 Месяц назад +53

    3:30
    As a greek myself, I totally agree.
    Fun fact: The Greeks are not actually THAT lazy, in fact, they're the people who have the most work hours a week in all of europe...
    Though that probably just shows we arent payed nearly enough and we need to resort to working a lot😎💪😎🇬🇷💪😎💪

    • @LuluTheCorgi
      @LuluTheCorgi День назад

      the problem wasnt that nobody in greece worked its that nobody paid taxes
      the problem isnt laziness its culturally engrained tax fraud

    • @LarthV
      @LarthV 21 час назад

      The thing with these working hours is that the statistics is misleading. At least in Germany, it does not distinguish between full time and part time jobs, and thus a lot of part time working single mums make the values ... murky. No idea about the situation in Greece though...

  • @user-nn8cw6nv6g
    @user-nn8cw6nv6g Месяц назад +62

    5:30
    So many of the stereotypes of Gemany today, are Bavarian, mainly because the American occupation zone was mainly in Bavaria. The soldiers brought the ideas they saw back home, and the US is, of course, the dominant influencer of world culture.

  • @LucasBenderChannel
    @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +35

    🔖 *CHAPTERS* 🔖
    00:00 Intro
    01:02 Left-behind East German
    02:25 Anti-German Pessimist
    02:55 Pro-German Narcissist
    03:44 Climate Doomer
    04:59 Bavarian Exceptionalist
    07:38 Social Christians
    08:46 Russia-Understander
    10:58 The Center
    12:21 Erdoğanist/Putinist/Orbánist
    13:15 Union Man
    14:32 Eastalgic
    17:41 The Rich
    18:37 Conspiracy Theorist
    20:09 EU-Megafan
    21:45 Social Justice Warrior
    23:29 Anger-Citizen
    25:26 Rural & Urban Vote
    26:58 Young & Old Vote
    28:57 Migration-Background
    31:55 Uninterested
    32:59 Auto über alles
    34:35 Pacifist
    36:10 Haven’t we heard enough?
    38:21 Mittelstand
    39:58 Esoterics
    41:18 Community Politician
    42:02 Extremists
    42:46 Grey Mouse
    44:48 Ancient Elite
    46:22 ÖRR Enthusiast
    48:31 Transatlantic
    49:55 Data-Protector
    50:50 Party-Soldier
    52:54 Tribe 36
    53:43 Final Thoughts

  • @jessevandeinsen4202
    @jessevandeinsen4202 Месяц назад +52

    I am dutch, but today i learned that indeed we are just swamp germans

    • @Schampu4000
      @Schampu4000 Месяц назад +5

      Hey, at least you're not Belgium

    • @Judah132
      @Judah132 Месяц назад +1

      or maybe Germans are just Highlanders

    • @jessevandeinsen4202
      @jessevandeinsen4202 Месяц назад +4

      @Schampu4000 its the small victories in life

    • @jessevandeinsen4202
      @jessevandeinsen4202 Месяц назад

      @@Judah132 more Heide-landers then Highlanders.

    • @Judah132
      @Judah132 Месяц назад

      @@jessevandeinsen4202 Yeah .. but since the common liberal "German" doesn't believe in nationhood anymore, it should just be "Federal Citizen" (Bundesbürger or just Bürger).
      The common German patriotism wich you might find is just based on silly little stereotypes, and being "thankful to live a wealthy democracy"... so there are even immigrants who will identify themselves as "german", but it's just a shallow facade.
      ... and the Neonazis and Trumpists who see themselves as German patriots are just really dumb, and don't even know their own history in most cases.

  • @einfachJordan
    @einfachJordan Месяц назад +54

    I'm German myself and as soon as I saw JJ's Video I desperately wanted this type of video for German politics. Thanks dude!

  • @malegria9641
    @malegria9641 Месяц назад +41

    My German teacher is definitely the pro-German narcissist 😭 like I’m a dual French-American citizen and she’ll just take a dig at the French for no reason every now and then and then just stare directly at me

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +4

      Oh nooo 🙈 I'm so sorry! 😂

    • @egggge4752
      @egggge4752 Месяц назад +1

      🗿 lmao sedanstag

    • @TheAmericanAmerican
      @TheAmericanAmerican 10 дней назад

      Meh, I have french ancestry and even I take random jabs at the French, as is tradition ;)

    • @LarthV
      @LarthV 21 час назад

      Well at least I assume that it would not be too hard to find a French teacher taking a dig at the Germans for no apparent reason, either. 70ish years of alliance is just not enough to erradicate three centuries of mutual dislike further than preventing each other from the occasional invasion...

  • @KingMagenta
    @KingMagenta Месяц назад +104

    I knew this subscription would pay off eventually

  • @goldholz
    @goldholz Месяц назад +71

    I am guilty of being an EU Megafan. you hit the nail on the spot with everyone

    • @artalius5398
      @artalius5398 Месяц назад +6

      me too

    • @mmcworldbuilding5994
      @mmcworldbuilding5994 Месяц назад +6

      Me too🫡🇮🇪🇪🇺

    • @dittikke
      @dittikke Месяц назад +4

      Yep me three.

    • @Bl2ckout7556
      @Bl2ckout7556 Месяц назад +3

      me too. I was born in Germany and grew up in Ireland. So I see myself more as European than any nationality

    • @misimaromemes5172
      @misimaromemes5172 10 дней назад

      I find myself between EU enjoyer and Peace enthusiast

  • @FairyCRat
    @FairyCRat Месяц назад +46

    French guy here, I'm also an EU megafan, which is definitely unusual in my country. You're definitely right about our motives, considering my experience with Volt Europa (who are definitely part of that tribe) a lot of us simply want to be part of a great superpower that shares more in common than it does today, like a large federation.

    • @fr4rq236
      @fr4rq236 Месяц назад +6

      May I ask how EU megafans are seen in France?

    • @FairyCRat
      @FairyCRat Месяц назад

      @@fr4rq236 I would say the majority doesn't really care about us, they may see us as an eccentric odd bunch. Then you have a growing number of euroskeptics influenced by populist parties, who see us as morons who are being used by the system.

    • @FairyCRat
      @FairyCRat Месяц назад

      @@fr4rq236 The annoying euroskeptics see us as agents of a terrible system, whereas the bulk of the population probably doesn't care much about us, they might just think we're weird.

    • @nutsbroker5687
      @nutsbroker5687 14 дней назад

      leftists hate them for being collaborators of the capital/imperialists and rightwingers hate them for being rootless cosmopolitans

    • @berserkeroflove
      @berserkeroflove 6 дней назад

      @@fr4rq236 Isn´t Macron like the "highest ranking" EU megafan in the EU? Why is it then that it is unusual in France?

  • @Mackaiin
    @Mackaiin 11 дней назад +8

    "The other parties don't court the anger citizen, quiet the opposite actually" meanwhile at CDU/CSU central: "How much more racist do we have to become to get more votes"

  • @JuliaGarbe1
    @JuliaGarbe1 Месяц назад +95

    "High Budget Background" haha

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +16

      Totally not stolen from @NALFVLOGS ;)
      Really happy to see you here Julia! 🤗

  • @simmi5646
    @simmi5646 Месяц назад +16

    #tribe36 The Vereinsmensch: The people that spend most of their free time working for the Verein (club). Those people are the ubsung heroes that are holding communities together. Especially in rural areas.

  • @m3morizes
    @m3morizes Месяц назад +27

    I don't know if I would say the cause of the EU-Megafan's love of the EU is simply "insecurity". The point you brought up about being overshadowed by the US or China is a real concern. Having a large union which can negotiate things like trade policy as a bloc is simply the practical approach.

    • @arnoldszwarzenegger6832
      @arnoldszwarzenegger6832 Месяц назад +2

      i feel like in my country the EU-megafans are just people that really appreciate eu funds and want to feel "european", also being in EU means not being on the other side (so usually pro russian if we look at europe) hence any sort of anti eu rhetoric is instantly deemed a russian propaganda

  • @Macion-sm2ui
    @Macion-sm2ui 11 дней назад +10

    As a Polish person what shocked me the most is the fact, that you can actually talk normally about politics without hating each other - in my country political polarisation get so far, that it is even common to break relations with some family members because of opposing views. This is probably because we do not agree about principles on wchich our country should be built. But speaking about Germany - in Poland we have many stereotipes of german politics. For example for us all germans are like EU-Megafans. For many people Germany and EU are synonymical - for many right wing people subordination to EU is literally new german occupation. Also AFD is highly unpopular in Poland because their resentiment to "eastern Germany" (Danzig, Breslau, Stettin etc.). Other stereotype about german polititians is "Haven't we heard enough?" man, or similar - many polish people believe, that germans falsifies their history to look less evil or just to relativize their guilt "mabe we commited some crimes, but others also".

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  11 дней назад +1

      That's really interesting!
      Can I ask: If you yourself had to make a video about the Polish tribes, what are interesting faces you could talk about, that are special to Poland? 💜🇵🇱

    • @krisradowski
      @krisradowski 6 дней назад +2

      ​​@@LucasBenderChannel - Janusz Korwin Mikke worshippers
      - People Republic nostalgics
      - Church ladies
      - Coal miners (clinging desperately to their dwindling work)
      That's 4; 31 to go xd

    • @berserkeroflove
      @berserkeroflove 6 дней назад

      I always thought of it as quite sad that people of countries east of Germany think Germany is falsifying its history and overlook Germany´s pretty big efforts to take responsibility for the crimes and learn from the mistakes that lead to the third reich. Its especially sad to see a lot of hatred towards Germans in comment sections of videos about the third reich. How much percent of the polish people you know think like that?

    • @Macion-sm2ui
      @Macion-sm2ui 6 дней назад +1

      @@berserkeroflove Most of people intrested in history that I know. Those who doesn't care about history also doesn't care about historical narrations. What we don't like the most is tries to share the guilt of Holocaust with rest of Europe, making distinction between nazi and Germany (like Angela Merkel saying about ally "liberation" of Germany, like German people wasn't responsible for war, but was also victims, and Germany was occupied by nazis). The third think is that it seems like in Germany crimes against other nations than Jews are forgotten. For example Polish nation was also planned to be exterminated, over 6 milion Polish citizens were killed and our country was totally devastated. So after all I think that people in Poland just have different perspective than in Germany. While for most of the world "bad Germany" started with Hitler, for us nazis are only continuation of Germany doing bad things. Very often historians start our conflict with medieval times, when Germans expanded into Slavic lands and often invaded Poland. But in fact modern conflict started with partitions of Poland in XVIII c., which was initiated by Prussia. In next century Polish people were second category citizens of Germany. Germans wanted to germanise us, some laws discriminated Polish people, for example it was harder for us to buy land. Finally we've got independence, but even Weimar Republik wasn't a big fan of Polish borders and was making moves in international politics to recover at least some of lands lost to Poland. So for us WWII and nazism are only prelongation of conflict. Some people even extrapolate it - there was first reich, which wanted to subdigate Poland, second reich that controll much of Polish teritory directly and wanted more, third reich that everybody knows what did, and now we have the fourth reich - the EU, which also want to rule Polish people. Last year we had important parliamentary elections, and pro govermental newspaper had big thumbnail "third cadency or fourth reich", wchich suggested, that if oposition win the elections, they will subdigate Poland to the EU.

  • @jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659
    @jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659 Месяц назад +28

    19:00 On Reichsburgers.
    I know at least two other movements of similar sort, in the US and Russia.
    American ones call themselves ‘sovereign citizens,’ and they believe that the US is a corporation, the Articles of Confederacy is the real constitution and is still an active law, cars operate according to maritime law, and, most famously, that the police is obliged to let them free if they ask ‘Am I being detained’?
    In Russia, those are citizens of USSR. They also believe USSR still exist, that Russia, Kazakhstan, etc. are corporations, but they also have extensive lore on jewish reptilians that govern those corporations, and on interterrestreal origin of all Slavic/White people.
    I wonder whether other countries have similar conspiracy theories and, if yes, what are they like.

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +13

      Interesting right? There must be a very specific human urge in these folks to rebel against the given circumstances in that way. Cause it really isn't unique to any nation.

    • @jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659
      @jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659 Месяц назад +1

      @@LucasBenderChannel Yep, a fascinatingly hyperspecific kind of schizophrenia. At least, I’ve seen no evidence that these theories are somehow inspired by each other. And the bio of the founder of Soviet citizens seems to exclude possibility that he knew English or German

    • @easytiger6570
      @easytiger6570 Месяц назад

      The lore thickens

    • @maxmichalik4938
      @maxmichalik4938 16 дней назад

      ​@LucasBenderChannel The internet also lets them cross-polinate massively. Plenty of conspiracy theories already make no sense, but when they get exported to other countries and partially misunderstood they become completely unhinged.

  • @gabkchan
    @gabkchan Месяц назад +41

    Ost + Nostalgie = Ostalgie

  • @eikeklages2361
    @eikeklages2361 Месяц назад +25

    Adding to what you said about the lack of politicians with migration background or, as I would argue, a certain invisibility of persons with a migration background in mainstream culture: I think the self-conception of German society is quite different from for example Canada because the latter sees itself as a society or country of immigration while this is not the case in Germany. Despite a lot of people from various countries came to Germany for various reasons (refugees, guest workers, family members etc), this did not change this idea of German society being a rather homogenous thing. This can for example be seen in the establishment of the Gastarbeiterverträge ("guest worker treaties") in the 1960s. The idea was that the workers come to Germany for a limited time to help mitigating the lack of workforce in that time. It was never planned that they would stay but that they leave Germany. Them staying here was an unplanned outcome. There is a famous quote by Max Frisch: "Wir riefen Arbeitskräfte, aber es kamen Menschen" ("We called for workers, but instead people arrived") which summarises this sentiment. To make it short: I think there is a discrepancy between the idea of not being a country of immigration and the reality

    • @rickbhattacharya2334
      @rickbhattacharya2334 15 дней назад

      To enforce your point wait till you see how much direct and indirect discrimination people from South -South East Asia and Africa faces in daily life.
      The German govt wants skilled people to come over and contribute but the society simply can't accept them even those who tries to integrate into the society they are still treated as outsiders.
      I am also planning to leave here no point of paying 40+% of my income in taxes only to get discriminated against.

  • @jaxteller4978
    @jaxteller4978 Месяц назад +21

    Tribe Suggestion
    Perhaps similar to the Bavarian but universalised: the "Lokalpatriot" (local patriot)
    Politicians/voters that carry sentimentalism about local culture and care about promoting/embodying what region or state they are from. For example this might appear in form of a state politician keeping dialects, and local traditional vocabulary instead of conforming to "high German" (the standard form of German).
    For the Germans:
    The idea came to mind when recalling Björn Höcke and Mario Voigt arguing whether one says "Mettbrötchen" or "Gehacktes-Brötchen" (a bun with minced raw pork) in Thuringia.

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +7

      Was? Deswegen haben die sich ernsthaft gestritten? 😅
      Aber ja du hast absolut recht! Lokalpatriotismus kann man auch in allen anderen Regionen finden. :)

  • @swiftydialogues
    @swiftydialogues Месяц назад +27

    I hope J.J. started a trend. Similar to tier or iceberg videos, I’d love to see more “35 tribes” videos!

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +12

      Absolutely! And non-political ones too! I wanna see 12 kinds of football fans, or 8 types of Chefs or the 20 types of teachers! 😊

    • @misimaromemes5172
      @misimaromemes5172 10 дней назад

      @@LucasBenderChannel 12 types of Rizz Party attendees

  • @djleonard14
    @djleonard14 Месяц назад +25

    28:44 being Italian the Movimento 5 Stelle popping up killed me on the spot (Italy already has this "fluid" state of political parties and the oldest (major)party today was made in 2007)

    • @JJSogaard
      @JJSogaard Месяц назад +5

      That “fluid” party system is basically one of my greatest fears when it comes to politics here in Denmark…

    • @W1ndF4lc0n
      @W1ndF4lc0n 15 дней назад

      @@JJSogaard Why? Fluid means more in tune with the current voting populace.

  • @midnightmusic8354
    @midnightmusic8354 Месяц назад +15

    I actually have maybe #tribe36, as an counterpart of the ÖRR-Enthusiast: the "internet german". Wich are those people who actually accept some german stereotypes (and meme them to death) but are still generally pretty liberal and welcoming. I think its these kind of primarly young people, (for example some big streamers like Papaplatte), who paint a pretty nonchalant/ humerus picture of germany, wich for us also contributes to the german political landscape.

  • @spaghettiisyummy.3623
    @spaghettiisyummy.3623 Месяц назад +51

    Alright, see ya again in the next 2 years!
    The ORR enthusiast struck me as the most odd btw.
    I'm from 🇧🇦 btw.
    Also, #tribe36 should've been diaspora nationalists.
    They're different from Orban/Erdogan/Putin fans, as they actually have family in the country that they're nationalists for.
    And some support smaller ultra nationalist organizations in their "home" country. Like the BPNP for Bosnia.
    Most of their financial support came from the Bosniak diaspora.

    • @rmeherremli
      @rmeherremli Месяц назад +10

      It looks like it goes under the category of the backgrounder tribe (or mb the extremist one).
      With Bosnian BPNP, Turkish Grey Wolves etc. it looks more like they are not the part of the German political landscape but rather than the political landscapes of their respective countries. For example, I am from Azerbaijan and we have several political influencers that reside in Germany. They may have the significance here but I bet almost noone knows or cares about them in Germany itself

    • @spaghettiisyummy.3623
      @spaghettiisyummy.3623 Месяц назад +4

      @@rmeherremli Actually, fair point!
      Maybe I could make a 35 Balkan Political tribes video.

    • @mortuos557
      @mortuos557 Месяц назад +3

      there's a lot of pride in the örr coming from a point of it's intended neutrality, as it's set up in a way to protect against government overreach.
      once again lessons learned from the past.

    • @jorgkunischewski9363
      @jorgkunischewski9363 Месяц назад +3

      I would personally see myself as ÖRR Enthusiast, but in a much different way as described in the video. I couldn't care less about Markus Lanz and other political talkshows, but I think our public broadcasters are one of our most valuable accomplishments. I think the ÖRR gets much too much undeserved hate, especially from bad faith populist actors, who just want to get rid of critical voices.

    • @spaghettiisyummy.3623
      @spaghettiisyummy.3623 Месяц назад

      @@jorgkunischewski9363 Populists generally hate anything impartial.

  • @ster8145
    @ster8145 13 дней назад +4

    The Mittelstand Guy sounding like he comes from Nürtingen ob der Tauber is just sooooo on point 🥹

  • @austinpeterson2289
    @austinpeterson2289 Месяц назад +11

    I’m an American but have lived in Germany for a while. Many of these profiles accurately described many of the people I’ve met and became friends with. Brilliant insight. Danke schon!

  • @user-tv9rx5gi1q
    @user-tv9rx5gi1q Месяц назад +4

    I teach high school German in Kansas and have students who are constantly asking for opportunities to learn more about Politik. I'm certainly sharing this with all my classes. Danke für das tolle Video!

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +1

      Oh that makes me really happy! Thank you! 🥰
      Best wishes to your students! 👋

  • @MDDM_Poseidon
    @MDDM_Poseidon 7 дней назад +2

    47:30 the BILD/DIRT Impression compared to a regular newspaper (is it ZEIT?) is SOO spot on! I love it

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  7 дней назад

      Haha thank you! :D
      And yes, iirc I modelled it after the ZEIT 🤔😄

  • @evilgoose6768
    @evilgoose6768 Месяц назад +9

    We have a similar version of the "Haven't we heard enough?" in the UK. I've been seeing a lot of rhetoric about: "oh well the empire wasn't completely bad" or "it's in the past just forget about it" and it's really disgusting.

    • @fuka1000000
      @fuka1000000 Месяц назад

      Well, who do you think ended the slave trade in Europe?
      Sure, the British empire was a big player in the slave trade, but what other nation/empire would be willing and capable of ending it? If it wasn't for Britain, slavery would go on way longer than it has.
      Even if you believe that it means nothing, since Britain was in major way responsible for it, and this act only corrected one of it's many wrongdoings. Once again, which other nation/empire can claim that it put serious effort into such endeavor?
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_for_the_Suppression_of_the_African_Slave_Trade

    • @evilgoose6768
      @evilgoose6768 Месяц назад +1

      @@fuka1000000 I appreciate that Britain did put effort into stopping it. My problem is I hear people using this an excuse for everything before, which it shouldn't be used for at all

    • @fuka1000000
      @fuka1000000 Месяц назад +1

      @@evilgoose6768 That's fair, I completely agree that most revisionist efforts are based solely on political goals, instead of a fair appraisal of history. It's pretty tragic.

  • @jordan1192
    @jordan1192 Месяц назад +24

    Welcome back! I love these JJ inspired videos always so informative

  • @Waldzkrieger
    @Waldzkrieger Месяц назад +10

    As an American Catholic, "social justice" is still tied up in that more economic meaning in Catholic institutional circles.

  • @scottscottman8354
    @scottscottman8354 10 дней назад +2

    Thank you for making your videos accessible in so many languages!!! It's such a rare find since youtube removed the community captions programme. Again, thank you for the effort!!! It's greatly appreciated!

  • @tintim85
    @tintim85 Месяц назад +8

    There’s an online game called the New campaign trail that lets you play different elections, it has a really good one about the 2021 German elections.

  • @kaynight64
    @kaynight64 Месяц назад +9

    Oh wow!!! An amazing new Lucas Bender video - eager to learn more about German politics with this. I mostly knew the info on the parties, but here it's all new to me!

  • @GigaRoman
    @GigaRoman Месяц назад +62

    YOOOO HES BACK

  • @SabreVDM
    @SabreVDM Месяц назад +38

    New Lucas Bender video was a brilliant thing to see on my homepage this evening!

  • @SamAronow
    @SamAronow Месяц назад +17

    Why weren't car manufacturers in Germany able to eradicate public transport to the degree they did in the US and Canada?

    • @mrcool7140
      @mrcool7140 Месяц назад +15

      I am no expert on this topic by any means, but I have a few ideas:
      Things in general are a lot denser. Cities are closer to each other, and are built up denser within themselves.
      Kids and older people use public transport to get around (and older people make up a big part of the voter base due to demographics).
      Also, and more broadly, it's just very hard to change anything in this country. Both the state's bureaucracy and the people's behaviours are very allergic to change. Even extreme amounts of money often can't change that. In the case of the auto industry eradicating public transport this may have worked in our favour, but it may also explain why 80% of German businesses still use fax machines.

    • @ivanskrypov4030
      @ivanskrypov4030 Месяц назад +10

      Another reason is that Germany has no oil resources and gas prices are very high in comparison to other countries (and are expected to grow even further with a possible introduction of a CO2 tax). It's also generally expensive to own a car because of car tax, limited and expensive parking, yearly mandatory check-ups (which can cost you a small fortune if they find some minor issue with your vehicle that needs to be fixed), insurance etc.

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow 17 дней назад +2

      @@mrcool7140 American cities were also much denser prior to the 1950s. I also suspect that the state having any involvement at all was a factor. Most American transit operators prior to the Second World War were entirely private companies who just got bought up, either by oil/car companies or by local governments expecting a replacement system of monorails or whatever.

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow 17 дней назад +3

      @@ivanskrypov4030 The US just demolished most of its city centers to make room for parking. And gas prices are now very high in the US. The people who complain about gas prices the most are in fact those who drive the biggest pickup trucks and would consider any other mode of transport effeminate/beta.

    • @WolfHagenSdW
      @WolfHagenSdW 12 дней назад

      In the beginning: They also sold the trucks and busses. They still do, but they love to lobby for the car, rather the mass transport.

  • @Lawarch
    @Lawarch Месяц назад +10

    Definitely worth the wait! Love it

  • @lllluka
    @lllluka Месяц назад +25

    I KNEW IT WOULD BE WORTH IT TO STAY SUBSCRIBED

  • @gabby4558
    @gabby4558 Месяц назад +10

    Yay, finally more plants in the background. Really shows that the production value is going up ;)

  • @nicolascampos1442
    @nicolascampos1442 Месяц назад +9

    as a nerd american political scientist it’s fascinating to me how disloyal germans are to parties. Here political behavior is so tied to one’s identification with one of the two parties it’s almost impossible to conceptualize how anyone who even decide to vote in Germany. Here even people who know a lot about politics still tend to follow the party.

    • @julianachilles8555
      @julianachilles8555 Месяц назад +7

      Propably one reason is your voting system. Majority vote systems tend to lead to two party systems because any dissent would only lead to the other party winning everything. Im proportional Systems the need for loyalty is lower because you're going to have a coalition anyway I'd say

    • @alexanderkraft4616
      @alexanderkraft4616 Месяц назад +3

      German here. Even as a 25 year long party member I don't always only vote for my party candidate.
      I'm a proud and free citizen in a democratic federal welfare state.

    • @cedricappleby2006
      @cedricappleby2006 Месяц назад +4

      This is partially because German parties overlap so much in their politics, I think. Say I'm a progressive centrist who usually votes for the SPD, but I'm dissatisfied with the candidate they're running. In that case I can just cast my vote for the Greens instead, without wasting my vote or "crossing the aisle" so to speak. If I was American instead, then as a progressive centrist, I probably vote for the Democrats. If I'm dissatisfied with their candidate... well, then I probably have to vote for the Democrats anyway, because it's not like I agree with the Republicans on anything.

  • @blakebauman9654
    @blakebauman9654 Месяц назад +4

    I discovered your channel literally yesterday. Then I checked your uploads and realized you create a new video like once every 2 years. Then, 24 hours later, you release a new one. How is that even possible?

  • @lucastanciu2567
    @lucastanciu2567 Месяц назад +3

    i’m romanian - the eastalgic character definitely exists here too! often with the exact same arguments that your friend ana described. your video and JJ’s kind of inspire me to do something similar for romania, but i sadly would probably lack the production quality to be able to see it through

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +1

      I honestly think production quality should not worry you at all! 🤗
      J.J.'s version barely included any animation and I struggled with sound and video quality. We all lack something. So don't worry about any of that! I'd love to see more videos like this and I'd recommend you give it a shot!
      Just maybe don't go for 35 tribes right away! 😅 haha
      This was a LOT of work. Instead of 35, maybe try making one about 10 or 12 special characters, that are super unique to Romania! That'd be enough to start with and a really interesting watch! :)
      If you do decide to work on something like this, you can always hit me up on Instagram for advice!
      💛🇷🇴

  • @AFNick
    @AFNick Месяц назад +7

    As an American, this is a great way to learn about the metapolitics of a country that I am not a native to. JJ helped me better understand Canada's political tension and you have for Germany.

  • @mjr_schneider
    @mjr_schneider Месяц назад +5

    I've waited so long for this video and it was really worth the wait. As someone who (despite my name) is not actually from Germany, I was able to recognise most of these tribes in the Germans I've met. Especially the Bavarian exceptionalists. They're very easy to spot.

  • @DeadSpecimen
    @DeadSpecimen Месяц назад +6

    I literally found your channel yesterday and loved your only two videos. Must be divine intervention you upload today :)

  • @Jonas_M_M
    @Jonas_M_M Месяц назад +9

    German myself, and I wanted to do this kind of video ever since JJ's

  • @mariosin3256
    @mariosin3256 Месяц назад +40

    I find it goofy the AfD calling themselves "The Center" considering it's the AfD

    • @Conankun66YT
      @Conankun66YT 14 дней назад +4

      theyre doing the classic far-right thing where they claim to speak for "the silent majority"

  • @adamscholze
    @adamscholze Месяц назад +6

    28:21 The ticker reads "J.J McCullough video wins another award"

  • @freakishuproar1168
    @freakishuproar1168 Месяц назад +4

    That thirty-five tribes video is one of my favourite videos by J.J. :D I'd thought to myself at the time that this would be an interesting and creative trend for other cultural/political RUclipsrs to follow, so I'm glad to see this video pop up in my feed. I'm glad you gave them their own Banjo-Kazooiesque voice lines like in the original video :3

  • @Poenizz
    @Poenizz Месяц назад +7

    As an East german, I agree with most the things said about the east, but with one big exception: In the video your friend said that east germans do not appreciate press freedom, however, I would say they couldnt care less. In my family everybody is fully east german (even in the advanced family which is approximately up to 40-50 people) and I cant think of anything that angers them more then the press (may it be newspapers or ÖRR) not giving all information, being biased or straight up patronizing. They get so furious when they feel any of these described. The best examples of this are debates whether certain words are allowed, their opinions on migration and in general their political views. I would love to know from other east germans reading this whether they agree more with me or your friend from the video

    • @Poenizz
      @Poenizz Месяц назад

      They want all the information to make their own opinion out of it and not someone who tells them that everything is okay and good or that they should behave in a certain way. And this is also why freedom of press is so important because they want to see things from other perspectives and backgrounds rather than relying on one source or only state run media

    • @JonasPonass187
      @JonasPonass187 Месяц назад

      Agree

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +1

      That's fair and a very common desire. 👍 The wish that media overall should be less opinionated. Less value-driven. But would you describe that view as "Eastalgic"? Remember, I wasn't talking about all East Germans, but about the specific set of people who would see the current state of the media and go: "It was better in the GDR"

    • @Poenizz
      @Poenizz Месяц назад +1

      ⁠@@LucasBenderChannelI would consider them to be part of the eastalgic‘s but with this exception. They fit into the narrative described in the video but with this exception on the media. Actually I have not experienced someone not valuing freedom of press here

  • @MPHJackson7
    @MPHJackson7 Месяц назад +13

    I just found your channel yesterday, now did you suddenly upload a new video today?? What a coincidence!

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +7

      Great timing! But don't worry: I can make you wait for an eternity as well. :*

  • @lulloa47
    @lulloa47 3 дня назад +1

    I’m not German, I don’t even live in Germany but I enjoy these videos so much for its overall balance (humor, informative, animations, use of language and tone). Liked and subscribed!

  • @xxpvpmasterskillerproskyen514
    @xxpvpmasterskillerproskyen514 Месяц назад +10

    Ich habe mit tatsächlich erst vor ein paar Tagen erneut dein Video zu den deutsche Parteien angeguckt und mit gedacht, dass der Zeichenstil doch stark dem von JJ ähnelt :D

  • @Txkato
    @Txkato Месяц назад +10

    i think another group might be the verry vocal ÖRR critic.
    these really exist on all sides of the political spectrum, from alot of younger people who find the ÖRR outdated and find they don't represent the youth (often also quite vocal funk critics aswell), people who simply don't wan't to pay that much and often want to abolish ÖRR along with other measures for a smaller government, to the far right and conspiricy theorist types who view the ÖRR as government propaganda
    really good video btw

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +7

      True. I almost wanted to include that in the ÖRR segment! But there are many different shades of how much people dislike the ÖRR. From moderate reformists to those calling to outright abolish them. And their reasons are multi-facetted as well. Explaining all that would've made the segment too long. 🙉

  • @hits_different
    @hits_different 6 дней назад +2

    Trying to relate this to italian politics is quite interesting. The biggest difference I’m noticing is the absence of an equivalent to the german center. “The center” doesn’t exist on a national level, every region has its own definition, which can be extremely diverse

  • @mongeeses7112
    @mongeeses7112 Месяц назад +11

    I legit let out a little “aAaHhh~” squeal when I saw you posted. I’m not transcribing the sound of joy the best, but I thought you should know lol.
    Also, should we expect that “high budget background” to get JJ-ized?

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  Месяц назад +6

      Definitely not! All the love to J.J. but that maximalist background of his would drive me nuts irl! 😂🫶

  • @mikaelmerilahti
    @mikaelmerilahti Месяц назад +12

    We are so back!

  • @aliarslan748
    @aliarslan748 Месяц назад +5

    Been waiting for this for more than a year

  • @Frohckan
    @Frohckan Месяц назад +2

    A few days ago i watched your german political parties video and enjoyed it. Then scrolled around your channel, but so disappointed because i believed you were inactive. This video made me happy that you are still making videos. Keep it up with these, Gut gemacht!

  • @TheMaloo424
    @TheMaloo424 16 дней назад +2

    Normalerweise rege ich mich immer ein bisschen über stark simplifizierte Videos auf, aber ich finde du schaffst es jedes mal gut die Kurve zu kriegen und kritisch anzumerken, dass Dinge wie Erinnerungskultur vll nur ein Image sind und nicht unbedingt gelebt werden.
    Really appreciate ya :)

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  16 дней назад

      Das ist sehr lieb, danke! Ja, man riskiert bei diesen "Edutainment"- Videos immer sehr schnell eine Linie zu übertreten. Was ist zu stark verkürzt? Was verfälscht die Fakten durch einen saloppen Gag? Ich selbst finde vieles in diesem Video im Nachhinein vieeeel zu unausgegoren - also freut mich der Kommentar umso mehr! :)

  • @user-nz8ol3hf3v
    @user-nz8ol3hf3v 15 дней назад +3

    55 minutes flew by very quickly, it's just very interesting (greetings from Tyumen), thank you for the work done.
    I hope that we will also have democracy in Russia someday, and we will still build our beautiful Russia of the future, a country where one person will not hold power for a quarter of a century, where there will be no wars, political assassinations and repressions.
    It occurred to me - why not tell us about the political groups of Russia in the nineties (then we still had democracy).
    1) Moscow liberals, in many ways their ranks consist of young people and intellectuals.
    They supported Yeltsin's course, the course of market reforms.
    In the presidential elections of 91 and 96, they voted for Yeltsin, in 93 and 95 for the democratic choice of Gaidar, and then they would vote for Yabloko and the SPS.
    They were unhappy with the invasion of Chechnya and other saber rattling.
    2) The left liberals and moderates are the electorate of Yabloko and partly of Chernomyrdin's NDR, they are also for the market, but not for the bazaar, for reforms, but also for social policy.
    They were largely a reaction to the radical market reforms of the Gaidar government, which initially led to a sharp drop in living standards.
    When the Congress of People's Deputies dismissed Gaidar, Yeltsin decided to nominate Chernomyrdin, who has a reputation as a "strong business executive," as the new prime minister.
    The Communists from the congress hoped that he would start rolling back market reforms, but unfortunately for them the reforms continued, just much slower.
    Later, Chernomyrdin created the party "Our Home Russia", this party, according to Yeltsin's idea, was to become the party of power instead of Gaidar's party, which failed to win the 1993 Duma elections (15%)
    The Yabloko is the party of Yavlinsky.
    He was as liberal as Gaidar, but his program of economic reforms (500 days) was more moderate.
    Well, in general, Yabloko is a group of liberals dissatisfied with Yeltsin's authoritarian ways.
    3) Ice cream lovers, nostalgic for the USSR.
    These were mostly representatives of the older generation, workers who lost their jobs due to the collapse of industry.
    Therefore, they hate liberals and want the country to become "great" again, and for ice cream to cost 5 kopecks as before, and for communism to return.
    They voted for the Communist Party and Zyuganov.
    Among the leftists, agrarians (allies of Zyuganov's communists) can be distinguished.
    The agrarians were a party of "rural workers".
    4) People who also suffered greatly from market reforms and the collapse of the USSR, but did not support the Communists.
    These are mostly residents of Siberia and the Far East, many of them had ancestors who went through the GULAG, and therefore these guys did not vote for the communists.
    They voted for the LDPR, the Zhirinovsky party.
    Zhirinovsky was an incredible speaker and a right-wing populist.
    He talked about the problems of the Russian hinterland (Russia differs from Germany in that we have always been a unitary state, all power and money are concentrated in the hands of Moscow, and therefore an incredible amount of money poured into Moscow. And all other Russians dislike Muscovites and envy their standard of living).
    While liberals looked at the hinterland from a high point of view, they simply did not understand what the hinterland was thinking, what it wanted.
    Zhirinovsky understood this, and actively used it.
    He spoke from an imperial, chauvinistic position, he can even be called a fascist (this man said that "a Russian soldier will wash his boots in the Indian Ocean," and of course Zhirinovsky was against the independence of the former Soviet republics)
    And his party won the elections in 1993 with 23%.
    It is also worth highlighting Russian nationalists separately among the right-wing.
    In many ways, they had a common electorate with Zhirinovsky.
    They voted for General Lebed in the 1996 presidential election, and in 1995 they voted for the Congress of Russian Communities.
    5)Naturally, there were extremists in Russia then, both left and right.
    To our left were Anpilov's Trudoviks.
    Unlike Zyuganov and his party, who dreamed of returning the USSR from the time of Brezhnev, the Trudoviks wanted to return the USSR from the time of Stalin.
    The right was literally represented by the Nazis from the RNE, led by Barkashov.
    Surprisingly, the left and right radicals fought side by side for the Supreme Council during the "Black October".
    Another confirmation of the horseshoe theory.
    6)The nineties were a very difficult time in Russia, as I have already said, Gaidar's market reforms made many Russians impoverished,
    After many crises, many Russians who are not particularly versed in politics simply wanted stability to return to the country, so that "a strong ruler would come who would fix all their problems by governing the country with an iron hand."
    And at first, this electorate voted for the "Fatherland of All Russia", which was led by Primakov and Moscow Mayor Luzhkov.
    Then these people elected a KGB agent, Vladimir Putin, as their president.
    In 2003, Russia lost democracy, like Germany, where the NSDAP seized the Reichstag, in Russia United Russia (a party created from Putin's "Unity" and the FAR) seized the Duma without letting the liberals from Yabloko and the Union of right forces enter (with the help of falsifications).
    The politics of the nineties was very interesting, in Russia there were not five spoiler parties in parliament, but more than 10.
    There was, for example, the women's party, a lot of small liberal parties.
    And even the beer lovers' party participated in the 1995 elections (how do you like Germans? Here you don't have a party of beer lovers)
    I am interested in German politics, I think, among other things, because we have a similar history.
    Our nineties are your Weimar.
    The first Russian democracy lived for 12 years, the Weimar Republic lived for 14 years.
    Both you and we then had a presidential republic, which eventually fell under the influx of populists.
    The Great Depression and the default in Russia in 1998 led to one result - the Democrats lost power.
    And giving all these analogies, I want to hope that we will be waiting for the same as Germany - that Russia will become a free and democratic country, part of a united Europe.

    • @user-nz8ol3hf3v
      @user-nz8ol3hf3v 15 дней назад +1

      I apologize if there are mistakes in my comment, I don't know English well and used a translator.

  • @stepanotrisal1512
    @stepanotrisal1512 Месяц назад +4

    I feel like every country has:
    -the excentric part which is about to declare independence any day now, just you watch
    -the economicaly depressed "forgoten" part
    -the urban part, which is (at least in imagination of more rural people) expensive, ignorant, crime ridden and full of foreigners
    -some movements which are just transplants from America, but locals feel like this one is unique because of some rather arbitrary distinquishing mark

  • @pinotpinotpinot
    @pinotpinotpinot 14 дней назад +2

    I think you shouldn't underestimate the position former nobility plays in contemporary german society.
    For example all the biggest private forest owners are noble. And in general they still occupy a pretty influential position not only in this regard, but also when it comes to the wealth they inherited over generations.
    Besides the direct economical power it's also a cultural thing. In certain sections of upper society having a noble title is still seen as something extremely beneficial and associated with prestige. Heritage opens doors very much.
    We really should have been a bit harsher with them imo

  • @Ana-pl9hs
    @Ana-pl9hs Месяц назад +7

    The video turned out so amazing. Since I saw a little preview of the eastalgic part I've been extremely excited. So, excited that I couldnt wait to get home and watched the first half on my way home in the tram. 🙈
    Also, very happy about the pitti platsch. Ironically it was my favourite plushie as a kid 😂😊

  • @luminous.Johanna
    @luminous.Johanna Месяц назад +3

    FINALLY! I was wondering when you were finally going to post this 😊 but now it‘s done! HOORAY! 😁

  • @Aronax507
    @Aronax507 Месяц назад +7

    Juat noticed your Magdeburn Green party joke from last the video and it being the "recommended party" by the App 😂

  • @noidea2568
    @noidea2568 Месяц назад +2

    Literally re-watched the other 2 videos on this channel like a couple days ago, lol.
    Great to see you back! I can see the heavy JJ influence in this video (because I do watch his videos), which I liked!
    I hope we as an audience won't have to wait 2 more years for another video, lol.

  • @GreatCdn59
    @GreatCdn59 7 дней назад +2

    when I first watched JJ's "35 tribes" video, I really loved it, but since I'm Canadian, I knew a lot of that information so it was a bit of "preaching to the choir".
    Since then, I really hoped that someone would make a similar video about THEIR country, since I loved the concept so much.
    so, when your video popped up in my recommendations, I clicked instantly - and it was really fascinating! Even more since I get to compare the two countries/videos and see how similar or different we are. subscribed! now I need to watch your other two videos, as they both interest me as well lol

    • @LucasBenderChannel
      @LucasBenderChannel  7 дней назад

      That makes me really happy! Thank you for checking it out! ☺️

  • @fiffi5318
    @fiffi5318 Месяц назад +10

    The biyearly content I need

  • @Mtioo1
    @Mtioo1 Месяц назад +3

    I did not expect him to actually upload. Amazing

  • @NALFVLOGS
    @NALFVLOGS Месяц назад +1

    High Budget Background looking so so good.

  • @Hrafnskald
    @Hrafnskald 7 дней назад +1

    Thank you for shedding light on this :). As someone who lives in the US, I remember when we used to have a strong pull towards the center. Sadly, nowadays politicians here compete to be more extremist than their opponents. Who can hate their own party more, who can promote more violence or intolerance, who can go further off the deep end. I wish we could import some of German politics' center-pull. We need more balance right now.

  • @BeryAb
    @BeryAb Месяц назад +7

    Endlich ein neues Video! :)

  • @albertmiller2electricbooga897
    @albertmiller2electricbooga897 Месяц назад +10

    The yodel sound effect for Bavaria sent me lmao

  • @Nschulze18
    @Nschulze18 20 часов назад +2

    Hey hey, great video, one tribe I think maybe looking at the European elections result is maybe "Bauchwahler" or Stomach voter.
    People who are kind of apolitical generally but maybe come out as fiercely political when their personal standard of living drops (bread, energy, kepap prices) I realise this kind of describes everyone alive in a democracy to an extent but yeah.

  • @SidonZeklar
    @SidonZeklar 3 дня назад +2

    A shoutout to GMskeptic from a German channel.
    A surprise to be sure. But a welcome one!

  • @merobo5066
    @merobo5066 Месяц назад +8

    Great to see you posting a video again.
    Your take on Russia Understanders disappearing is one I sadly have to disagree with. As somebody living in Saxony, a state in which there'll be elections this year the three strongest parties according to polls in AfD, CDU and BSW are all known for their affinity towards Russia on either a federal or state level. In case you're wondering about CDU being listed there, MP Michael Kretschmer is a prime example of a Russia Understander.

    • @Michael-sh9ci
      @Michael-sh9ci День назад +1

      I have to agree. I'm living in RLP but im still seeing a lot of them

  • @thechunguses
    @thechunguses Месяц назад +3

    It's a good day seeing Lucas posting after so long

  • @samuelegovoni2732
    @samuelegovoni2732 10 дней назад +1

    This thing of the 35 tribes/faces should become a trend. I feel like it would help the comprehension of other countries politics/social spectrum, even if you just planned to travel to that place for fun

  • @bulbainquisition9590
    @bulbainquisition9590 Месяц назад +2

    I remember watching your German political parties video and really enjoying it and this is an interesting way to look at politics in a nation to break it down into "tribes". It's a refreshing way to look at it. A lot of people trying to make parties monoliths when they are just coalitions.
    I tried doing this for America as a thought exercise but when I realized, I was getting close to 100 I decided I was doing it wrong.

  • @alisagman362
    @alisagman362 Месяц назад +11

    5 million in 6 months ❌
    3 videos in 4 years ✅

    • @Kamarovsky_KCM
      @Kamarovsky_KCM Месяц назад +1

      Fitting to use a 7-year-old dead meme considering this upload schedule lmao

  • @laiphone8972
    @laiphone8972 Месяц назад +6

    11:00 ironic in France the three big parties want to differenciet themselves with the centrist (even the macronists) because it's seen a party who change nothing and people want many things to change (the things to change change in function of the political orientation)

    • @fantuswitt9063
      @fantuswitt9063 Месяц назад

      As far as I know french are really into radical politics in general since radical french philosophers are talked about vewry much in frnace right?

    • @laiphone8972
      @laiphone8972 Месяц назад +1

      @@fantuswitt9063 i don't know who you talk about but the radical are mainstream since the collapse of the two main party the PS and the républicains in 2017

  • @samuelhatchrestrepo1983
    @samuelhatchrestrepo1983 Месяц назад +1

    Yes 🙌🏽 I wanna see way more of this. Been a big fan of JJ for a while but as a Canadian political junkie I already know a lot of what he’s saying, getting to learn more about global political culture is what I wanna see

  • @Odrikah
    @Odrikah День назад +1

    The realization that Bavaria is basically just German Texas has rocked my world to its absolute core.