There’s a nonogram / minesweeper game with this painting called “Proverbs” which separated the painting in it’s different proverb areas. Whenever you complete an area it shows you the corresponding proverb with a more detailed version from the original painting.

Next headline: burglar says too much security is hindering!

But before that: let’s throw as much tax money at this dying market as possible!

The Merz led government dropped the last pieces of the mask when they voted with the AfD in 2025.

Indeed! All we have is redscare and Nazis ⊙⁠﹏⁠⊙

That’s not true? He’s an asshole in general, talks down and has no actual clue, but is convinced it’s everyone else that is wrong. People didn’t like the so called reforms they’re planning for the health and care sectors

There are people claiming he’s not far right enough, but that’s definitely not the majority of people who don’t like him. The hate in Merz is actually one of the rare unifying topics in Germany. Nobody likes him.

I live in a city where they buy existing flats and houses and rent the to citizens. City is also buying building ground to tie the sale to investors to conditions like the amount of social housing in the new building area.
Works like a charm. The rents are okay (even from other landlords since they have to compete) and we don’t have “problem areas” in the newer parts of the city since people live in mixed areas.

Fingers crossed Berlin works out. It would be a welcome change for a lot of friends of mine to finally have an affordable flat that doesn’t rot away.

Doubling down, when being wrong, doesn’t make it better…

I live in Germany. A lot of investors like to keep their flats empty to reduce supply in lower income brackets. They use this to force people into flats they can’t afford so the investors can get more money.
They love building luxury flats, people still have problems finding affordable housing. The way things currently are proofs you wrong. No matter if you like it or not.

That’s not how reality and greedy investors work.

There is a German joke with a similar punchline:
There’s a grandma sitting behind a bus driver and offering him some nuts every know and then. After a while the driver wants to know if she doesn’t want any herself. And then she explains: “you know: I love these bonbons so much, but I can’t chew the nuts anymore. So I gave them to you”