I think I saw someone say that a regular here tattooed Merkel on their butt, is that true? Wonder if they’re still a fan.
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>A few days earlier, the Swedish Academy of Sciences had awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry to three researchers from Japan, Australia and the U.S. for their “new form of molecular architecture.” It’s really fascinating, says Schüssel – and Merkel, the physicist, begins holding forth.
>She knows the researchers, she says, and is even friends with one of them. She then launches into a detailed explanation of the “metal-organic frameworks” that the three Nobel winners were working on. The group listens attentively. Merkel was able to explain the complex material so clearly and accessibly, a participant would later say, that even he was able to understand. It was clear, the participant said, just how deep her understanding was of the research results.
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>Here, Merkel stands for all that many people believe her successor Merz is lacking. The moderate tone, the reasonableness, the trustworthiness, empathy – qualities that unite. Whereas Merz polarizes, divides and excludes, Merkel embodies the opposite. It is her tone that many people have begun to miss, not necessarily her policies. With every coalition crisis and every verbal gaffe produced by the current chancellor, a wistful yearning grows for the purportedly good old Merkel era. Even among her political opponents.
If they like it so much, why do they vote for divisive politicians?
>Together, they paint a picture of a woman who primarily has herself in mind when she makes public comments. Her public image, her political legacy, her historical role – and little else. A woman who, even in small, intimate gatherings, allows for little doubt that she was mostly – no, almost always – right. That her policies were, as she so often said while chancellor: **without alternative**.
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I think I saw someone say that a regular here tattooed Merkel on their butt, is that true? Wonder if they’re still a fan.
The Greeks will disagree
>A few days earlier, the Swedish Academy of Sciences had awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry to three researchers from Japan, Australia and the U.S. for their “new form of molecular architecture.” It’s really fascinating, says Schüssel – and Merkel, the physicist, begins holding forth.
>She knows the researchers, she says, and is even friends with one of them. She then launches into a detailed explanation of the “metal-organic frameworks” that the three Nobel winners were working on. The group listens attentively. Merkel was able to explain the complex material so clearly and accessibly, a participant would later say, that even he was able to understand. It was clear, the participant said, just how deep her understanding was of the research results.
big nerd
>Here, Merkel stands for all that many people believe her successor Merz is lacking. The moderate tone, the reasonableness, the trustworthiness, empathy – qualities that unite. Whereas Merz polarizes, divides and excludes, Merkel embodies the opposite. It is her tone that many people have begun to miss, not necessarily her policies. With every coalition crisis and every verbal gaffe produced by the current chancellor, a wistful yearning grows for the purportedly good old Merkel era. Even among her political opponents.
If they like it so much, why do they vote for divisive politicians?
>Together, they paint a picture of a woman who primarily has herself in mind when she makes public comments. Her public image, her political legacy, her historical role – and little else. A woman who, even in small, intimate gatherings, allows for little doubt that she was mostly – no, almost always – right. That her policies were, as she so often said while chancellor: **without alternative**.
It’s funny because that’s what macron says too
Wasn’t she Germany’s longest lasting Chancellor