• Schmuppes@lemmy.today
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    15 days ago

    The state minister, Till Backhaus, is one of the weirder aspects of the story. At first he said something to the tune of “Yeah it’s a whale, that sorta stuff has always happened in the Baltic Sea. People need to get a grip lol” until public interest grew nationwide and the rich dudes started their campaign to rescue the whale. At that point, minister Backhaus suddenly went like “Yeah I spent the night in the water next to the poor guy, he’s willing to fight and we definitely need to help him!”