Kinda funny because just recently Sweden canceled plans to build new wind farms because they’d interfere with their radars. https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/11/11/why-sweden-nixed-new-wind-farms-for-fear-of-missing-russian-missiles/

The 70s was before my time, I remember the Canadian flag thing though. But as I understood that’s more about not wanting to be associated with other American tourists who can behave quite obnoxiously when traveling in groups and taking full advantage of strong cheap local beers and the lower legal drinking age. There is and always was some degree of anti-americanism from the left, but on a political level and not something you’d have to worry about as an individual tourist. The headline is also a bit misleading in that sense, this “anti-americanism” is directed at Trump’s shenanigans, not random tourists.

I read a more in-depth analysis some time ago and a lot of them are just desperate people with financial or other problems, and becoming a Reichsbürger is more like a form of escapism from reality than something they really believe in. Imagine you have a crippling amount of debt and/or are about to be evicted for example, and then you read on some nutjob website that the state actually doesn’t exist so you don’t owe them anything and they have no authority to evict you, doesn’t that sound great? All your problems solved by just burning your German ID card and printing out a new one of some made-up country. Of course reality gets them eventually but psychologically it’s easier to bear for some people to believe that they’re the victim of a huge conspiracy rather than face the fact that they fucked up and are screwed.

Reminds me of the time when Switzerland (or was it Austria?) had a huge problem with their air force because the cowbells of all the cow herds running around in the alps were fucking with their radar systems.

Him recognizing shit doesn’t make it so though.

Bring it on then, who gives a fuck at this point.

Will “it would’ve been way cheaper if they hadn’t ignored every single wake-up call in the last 10 years and started investing in defense earlier but it still needs to get fucking done and FAST or there won’t be a democracy with polls anymore and your precious money is taken by Russian occupiers” be an option in that poll?

Relevant research that just won an ig nobel prize.

tl;dr: they don’t live longer, they just don’t report their dead relatives and pocket the pensions.

https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/maybe-its-the-mediterranean-diet-maybe-its-pension-fraud/110766