Komrades! As ('tis!) the season of Bible-tinged bourgeois sentimentality barrels towards its climax, the global progressive fight for tolerant inclusive diversity must shift into overdrive, by any means of inter-, trans-, and multiculturalism necessary!

Particularly so here, in the Germanosphere, since centuries smitten with Weihnachten, Weihnachtsmann's, Weihnachtsmarkt's,... - uh, sneak peek.
Bavarians add: and Christkindlmarkt's, too!

[for geeks: Weih- is a linguistically evolved form of an Old Germanic (and likely pre-Christian) term for Holy, and so Weihnachten means Holy Nights.]

And, everybody knows, Weihnachtsmann = Heiliger Nikolaus = Santa Claus, and his Tannenbaum, Knecht Ruprecht & Co became (over the recent two centuries) globally iconic...

Smash white bourgeois idolatry!

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... plus a darling of 'Tis the Season industry, chocolatiers included.
Aha! Here we go!


Regenbogen: rainbow, Liebe: love, Regenbogenliebe. Ab Montag: starts Monday (yesterday, yep).

[PENNY: German discount supermarket chain, operating Europe-wide. Builds its PR-image by bowing to the zeitgeist: sustaina-mania, vegano-philia, trumpeted eco-correctness, in short - the full progressist bandwagon.]


Ah, all kids flock here!
Weihnachtsmann? diminutive, Weihnachtsmännchen?


Nope. Zipfelmännchen. Zipfel: tip (like e.g. that of a jelly bag cap, but also...) uh, Komradettes, look! a squirrel! there, over there!
(Now, Komrades, between us: that "tip", Zipfel. Every German - lil' kids included - knows it stands for pecker, peter, prick, vernacularly. See the humor? chocolate - kiddies - Zipfel - putz, and no "Hl. Nikolaus", ha-ha-ha-ha, a knee-slapper, ain't it?)

But it gets even better, progress-wise. (How was the squirrel, Komradettes? cute, uh?)
Jahresendfigur. Raw prosa. Year-end-figure. That's it. Just so. December-vertical-sweet.


[NOT Lindt's idea. Lindt, since 1845, top class Swiss chocolatier. Progressive labeling chipped in by marketer - maybe a leftish hater of traditions, or someone not yet, um, fully familiar with German customs and language, or both.]


So, we see progress in deconstructing effervescent Germanness and crusader "tradition", don't we?
But, but - where do we find, buy, degust all those sweeties?
Why, of course on a Weihnachtsmarkt Christkindlmarkt Wintermarkt!



[mind you: It's from a townlet, population ca. 7000; remains of the castle of 13th century; Frakturschrift - ancient German Gothic letters; it's in Altmannstein, in the very heart of Bavaria.] [ok, it's not a full-blown Weihnachtsmarkt - goes just for 3 days (tiny municipality, plus tourists); yet still - why not call it by name???]

Maybe this micro-glimpse helps to imagine an answer:


Süddeutsche Zeitung - reactionaries mock it Alpen-Prawda, Pravda [from the] Alps (and just moving it from Munich to Berlin would fully upgrade it to Germany's NYT) - in 2015 (and before, and after that), on Weihnachten topic:

Year-end-market instead of Christkindlmarkt -
that would be the solution in the naming controversy

[Christkindl: Bavarian for Christkindchen, Christ-baby-child.]


That (and closely related) "naming controversy" pops up since a decade or so, heroically pondered by our progressive betters, be they of fundamental green hue, or marxist red shade. Indeed, Komrades - shouldn't the (German) kollektive strive for, like, open societism and inclusive communitism plus multicolored multicolorism? And become more tolerant, by erasing all its germanophone conquistadorial references? Trustfully Islam-tolerant, above all?

The Weihnacht.. → Winter../Jahresend../Zipfel../etc.. conversion isn't just a German thing, that spectre is haunting Europe, all (Middle- and Western-)Europe, since a decade or so.


From Amsterdam. The logo is in Dutch (januari). Yet the Dutch-reactionary term is Kerstmarkt.

[highlight=#f8f8f8]Ah, while at that...
Holland, and from here in just one step to the West - Belgistan, Dar al-Brusseliyah, and there the most equal kubicle of Komrade Minitrue, I mean, esteemed Brother Al-Minitru al-Belgiki. Now, their - Belgians and Dutchmen - "controversy" is not so much about "names", but about, uh, "colors" and "blackface", whew! Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet, a UN-level incorrectness! See Minitrue's most drammmatic report![/highlight]


But hey, no limits for progressive ingenuity!
Visit Elmshorn, a North-German town of ca. 49.000 people, 3 mosques.


Wow, Lichtermarkt - Lights Market. Sure, various lights are a signature feature around Weihnachten, no?
And Lil' Kaepernick [cute kid, not his fault to pop up as a prop] - another progressive tribute to zeitgeist, ain't it?
[Bürgermeister - town's mayor - provided an explanation, invoking multiethnicism and open-societism, alias 120% argumentum ad zeitgeistum.]


Needless to say, all the Weihnacht.. things - across Middle-/West-Europe, not just Germany - got lately a gloomy aura of a concrete stronghold.


[Berlin, Potsdamer Platz - not Breitscheidplatz of last year's Islamic massacre.]
And it's not just big cities, or cities in general - the cement bunker flair besieges the Weihnachtsmarkt's even in small towns and townlets...


Ah, for relaxation, a warming ray of Weihnachten gaiety?


Glossary:
Sperre: barrier.
Geschenk: gift, present.
Bochum: yet another (bigger) city, Germany's No. 16 by population.

And no chocolate Jesus? (Speaking of live in Amsterdam).

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:
Ah, for relaxation, a warming ray of Weihnachten gaiety?

Ah, Comrade, uh, Comrade. Your educations leave me breathless! You should be promoted from being just equal to Commissar of Current Enlightenment!

Still, I am saddened. I really thought the Germans were smarter than that.

- SK

Merry Christmas to Islam and muslims everywhere!

When is the Mohammed-markt open? Gluh-wien will be hard to come by, but the "petting zoo" (sheep and goats mostly) will have private rooms...

The report didn't mention Britain, so here's an update from today's newswire:

Car explodes into flames at Christmas fair in London


Will as much rage be directed at the perpetrators as it was towards Trump's "hateful" retweets of Islamic violence in Europe?

The answer is NO. Because in the prog-narrative, this is a case of "loving" terrorism vs. Trump's "hateful" tweets.

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Sometimes I think Trump is a clairvoyant. The Brit govt. made a big fuss yesterday, and here's the car bomb. Last year he said about the situation in Sweden, followed by a similar media outrage, and shortly after followed by terrorism in Sweden.

Red Square wrote:Car explodes ... Christmas fair ... London

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Just to illustrate the fragility: last weekend, sometime between Friday and Monday, an as good as new semitrailer like the one below, vanished (in Swabia):


Of course, it may be "just" a "usual" theft, and the rig will (or did already) land somewhere east or south-east of Schwobaländle. With (at best) only spot checks on the borders, no big problem.

Otherwise... who knows what interesting scenario is in the making, without crossing the border?

Chief Designer wrote:... I really thought the Germans were smarter than that.

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Sigh... Three decades of (exponentially increasing) "green" indoctrination, plus eagerly imported PC, and "march through the institutions" (media, bureaucracy, academia, educayshun, "culture", lately "activism" via a dizzying plethora of NGOs) by 68ers ‒ lunatic and juvenile "radicals" then, journos-pols-profs-educators-"artists"-"organizers" now ‒ all that produced a mutually supporting and influential "elite", paternalistic and increasingly going dictatorial (as its time is up and it clearly loses ground).

Structurally the same as in Amiland, only specifics differ: instead of "eternal stigma and guilt of slavery", the "everlasting blame and penance for Nazism"; instead of PC lunacy and expanding (until MAGA) statism, "green" mania (even before PC madness) and a socialistic, centralizing EU kraken.

Now, Germans ‒ Vee ze Pipl... "Since ever" a bit too obrigkeitshörig, subservient to state authority. Since (at least) end of Nazism, a bit too eager for "stability": once persuaded/pushed towards some purpose, tend to "stay the course", reality be damned. With such ‒ broadly embodied ‒ attitudes, and "elite" massively pushing a "green" zeitgeist, you get disasters like that Energiewende, a "total transformation" along with deindustrialization.

But the 2015 catastrophe of "open border", accompanied by a top-down engineered zeitgeist of "Willkommenskultur" ‒ that opened some eyes and activated even more brain cells. A part of Vee ze Pipl, including a portion of our Millennials, start to gather their wits. However, lots of last decade's "hopeful changes" are likely irreparable.

Captain Craptek wrote:... Weihnachten gaiety ...

huh, Bavarian/Alpine brother of your Weihnachten Gaiety Lightworker? :

BTW, he certainly fits your fæææshion scene , eh?

Ivan the Stakhanovets wrote:When is the Mohammed-markt open? Gluh-wien will be hard to come by, but the "petting zoo" (sheep and goats mostly) will have private rooms...

Well...

Here a Munich offering:
Märchenbazar Weihnachtsmarkt auf dem Viehhof in München
Same bazar, advertised in Moozlim-friendly layout!



... exotisches indisches Essen, selbstgemachter Falafel mit Hummus, auch klassische Bratwurst ...
... exotic meals of India, homemade falafel and humus, but classical Bratwurst too ...

(ok, don't despair: it's a sideshow, a bit Moozlimic, a bit old-hippie, a bit prog-left-wellcommers...)
(and I guess, for now you get even Glühwein [Illesheim memories?], and no, still no "petting zoo")


And when done with Moozlim program - and still in Bavaria - just visit:
Deutsch-Amerikanischer Weihnachtsmarkt in Pullman City in Eging am See!



P.S.
And right in Munich's airport, for all the tourist crowds, Weihnachtsmarkt Wintermarkt.

"Wintermarkt"? YES or NO? _ (endless controversy, since more than a decade)

YES: See, we are an international airport. Especially here we must show respect to diversity.
NO: See, we are an international airport. Especially here we can show our tradition and folkways.

Your choice.



P.P.S.


Compare the two pics - that of 16th century, and that of Bazar-2017. _ Iconographic questions?

While at that ‒ "alternative" X-Markts ‒ here a selection, off-the-cuff
(but remember ‒ these are really "sideshows", 95% are still traditional).

Glossary: Schwul = gay, lesbisch = (DIY), Umwelt = enviro, Öko = eco.

Schwul-lesbischer Weihnachtsmarkt pink X-MAS in Lübeck
Schwul-lesbischer Weihnachtsmarkt CHRISTMAS AVENUE in Köln
Pink Christmas - der Schwule Christkindlmarkt in München
Lichtermarkt in Berlin-Lichtenberg und in Berlin-Lichtenrade
Weihnachts- und Umweltmarkt in Berlin-Mitte
Weihnachtsbasar des CJD in Berlin (CJD: Christian nonprofit, surely part of "refugee industry"*)
Öko-Adventsmarkt in Berlin-Pankow
HOLY SHIT SHOPPING Adventsmarkt in Berlin.


* That's an extra chapter: vast "refugee industry" (welfare workers, caretakers, organizers, pedagogues, psychologists, lawyers, administrators, pastors, run-down hoteliers, cooks, housekeepers, accountants, overseers, guards, housecleaners, extra teachers, "traumatologists", personal "guides", general unspecific "nannies", ... , you name it), all on taxpayer's dime, and of course with a vested interest in expanding (anyway, not shrinking) the influx of their clientele. Good riddance, Germoney.....

Just 2 hours ago: Potsdam Christmas market evacuated.
Package found:
Cylindrical object, nail-filled, with cables and batteries. Staatsschutz (think FBI) investigates.

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:

Red Square wrote:Car explodes ... Christmas fair ... London

Just to illustrate the fragility: last weekend, sometime between Friday and Monday, an as good as new semitrailer like the one below, vanished (in Swabia):

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Of course, it may be "just" a "usual" theft, and the rig will (or did already) land somewhere east or south-east of Schwobaländle. With (at best) only spot checks on the borders, no big problem.

Otherwise... who knows what interesting scenario is in the making, without crossing the border?

Genosse (=Genius) Dummkopf (=Duh-Um-koff) - Your post is very encouraging as it illustrates excellent global progress.

Did you ever see the original Beverly Hills Cop? If you have or have not - within minutes of the opening, you know what one of those missing ground WMD's can do to an urban setting.

Imagine infidels in place of garbage cans, barriers in place of cars...God Willing. Praise Allah.

JosephStalinthe3rd wrote:... what one of those missing ground WMD's can do to an urban setting ...

yep, regrettably.

It's also been tested, the scientist/engineer way: measurable variables, repeatable results.
Parameters:

barriers (Merkel-LEGO): 0.8 x 0.8 x 1.6 m (2.6 x 2.6 x 5.2 ft), weight 2.4 mt
vehicle (motortruck): weight 10 mt (only!), speed 50 km/h = 31 mph (only!).

See summary (frontal actions only), just 1 minute (though in German, it's self-explaining).
For geeks, full 10 minutes (sideways action added, and LEGOs go quite kinetic).

Only massive fixed bollards (cylindrical, fixed or retractable) stop a car/truck (while heavy sharp-edged debris plus cargo still rushes forward). And retractable ones are costly.

Two crash-test overviews: 20 min. Avon Barriers and 3 min. FAAC Bollard.

Bah Humbug!

All this Christmas stuff is anti-Islam and counter progressive. It must stop.

We should tolerate Islam, but cannot expect them to tolerate us. Remember, turn the other cheek.



When Muslims smash and urinate on craven idols, it is good for integration and cultural enrichment.

Evil Smiley wrote:

Komrades - in case you think this is, oh, just some caricature, or sumptin viral in the "nets".

Nope, that was a most equal message, muezzin-like trumpeted (around end of 2016) by DITIB of Germany from its electronic minaret.

DITIB? Yep, DITIB: Diyanet İşleri Türk İslam Birliği, Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs.
Diyanet? Yep, Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı, Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs.

Plaintext: Islamic/Ideologic (Ad)Ministration for Turks worldwide. A state organ, charged with upkeeping, representing, and spreading the one and only, state-blessed (Sunni, of Hanafi hue) Islam - inside Turkey and abroad.

Diyanet (staff: 150.000) duties: Mentor and supervise mosques (85.000 inland, 2.000 abroad), expand that basis, train and certify imams, organize and control Islamic education in schools (inland, and - as possible - abroad). Since 2010 (and Turkey of AKP/Erdoğan going hard-Islamic) Diyanet also issues state "guided" fatwas. In short: Diyanet is a hard-Islamic kraken, with a Koranic-usual urge for control and escalation, oriented "worldwide".

And so, DITIB = Diyanet, quasi-Directorate "Almanya".

The list of Diyanet "controversies", add DITIB ones (espionage included), goes from here to ... (well, not exactly infinity).


Now, around Weihnachten 2016, this here appeared on DITIB's website:

(krEatiVe turkorthography aside, it says:)


It came to (broad) public attention in early January (sample).

DITIB honchos tried whitewashing - "isolated cases", you know. Yet such - institutional - Islamic "counterculture" agitprop swirls in Europe's "nets" (and pretty suddenly) since 2013.


DITIB-al-Amriki? Not yet. (You don't have those massive, already 4th-gen crowds of Turks, ja?)
But, insha'Allah, you may wish to visit Diyanet America.

December 6th? Hl. Nikolaus? Nikolaustag? Nikolausfest?

Kümrades, rümümbür!


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(looking especially at you, Komrade Minitrue, I mean, Brother & Messenger Al-Minitru al-Belgiki!)