There's a lesson in here somewhere, but it will go over the same heads shrieking for diversity and compassion the same way it always does, even as we watch Germany collapse in real time from every single progressive-induced ill they'd impose on us - all of this welcoming windmills to world wanderers to take over and consume your country.
At least we can still complain about it. The Germans have allowed themselves to be muzzled and terrorized in their own homes for expressing an adverse opinion of the government's invited dependents, as one German citizen recently found out when he made the mistake of taking to X to complain about the imported 'parasites' sucking his country dry.
Besides one unfriendly term, the Xweet noted correctly that, while consuming huge amounts of resources, they contribute nothing in taxes. Unfortunately for him, in addition to the immigrant hordes, he had also included public officials under the umbrella of the parasitic adjective for leeching off the backs of working folks. In essence, taking tax dollars without paying any.
Calling immigrants parasites was bad enough, but German officials are very fussy about being impugned, even when a public whine is so tiny it receives only a couple of hundred views. So the fellow was called on during an early-morning visit from the Polizei.
GUTEN MORGAN, MEIN HERR
For this post on X in Germany, police raided the poster’s home, seized his phone, took his biometrics, demanded his DNA, and warned he’s under now police surveillance. https://t.co/toNTLOtlrL pic.twitter.com/CBsLkQh7FX
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) November 19, 2025
- Despite the post’s obscurity, police arrive at Damian’s home at six in the morning.
- He says they did not show him the warrant and did not leave documentation of what they seized.
- Police pressured him to unlock his phone, confiscated it, took photos, fingerprints, and other biometric data, and even requested a blood sample for DNA.
- One officer reportedly warned him to “think about what you post in the future” and said he is now “under surveillance.”
- The entire action was justified under Section 130 of the German Criminal Code, which is meant to prohibit inciting hatred against protected groups.
- Government employees are not such a group, which makes the legal theory tenuous at best.
- Damian’s lawyer says the identification procedures and possibly the raid itself were illegal.
That is the sequence. A low-visibility political insult becomes a criminal investigation involving home searches, device seizure, and biometric collection.
Now, the process becomes the punishment. Technically innocent, he's been raided, he's permanently without his phone, and has been told the government is watching him from this point forward. Every bit of his information is in government hands - they've got it all - even if they were ever to say, 'Sorry.'
They've made their point.
...Early-morning raids create psychological pressure. Collecting biometrics raises the stakes further. None of this is about public safety. It is about creating friction for saying the wrong thing.
The legal mismatch is the tell. Section 130 protects groups defined by national, racial, religious, or ethnic identity.
There is also the privacy angle, which becomes impossible to ignore. Device access, biometrics, DNA requests: these are investigative tools built for serious crimes.
Deploying them against minor online speech means the line between public-safety policing and opinion policing has already been crossed. Once a state normalizes surveillance as a response to expression, the hard part becomes restoring restraint.
His point about the class of public officials, elected or state workers?
It is true - they do pay income tax and such fees as German citizens do. However, they do NOT pay the Social Security taxes that regular citizens are required to pay and which support the entire German state pension system. This is where the friction comes from. Officials already have higher take-home pay thanks to fewer deductions, and then literally live off taxpayers for their pensions, as they've never once contributed to them.
Euggypius calls it a 'pension apocalypse.' Where once there were six working Germans paying handsomely into the system for every one pensioner, now it is two to one and, he says, by 2050, it is estimated to be 1.3 workers to 1 pensioner. 'Workers' supporting the pension system, again, does not include the entire public sector.
...As apocalypses go, this one is very simple: In 1960, six German workers supported every pensioner. After reunification in the early 1990s, that ratio fell to about three. Today, it is around two, and by 2050 it will stabilise at around 1.3. Things are not nearly as bad as they will be, and still today 25 cents of every Euro collected in taxes is spent to keep the pension system afloat. This is in addition to the mandatory annual contributions from 35 million workers, which in 2025 will total around 300 billion Euros. These numbers will get worse and worse, until the Federal Republic becomes a Pension Republic – a strange political form in which the state will finance the life of pensioners from the earnings of workers in an almost one-to-one ratio. In this world, state services, infrastructure projects, national defence and everything else will take a backseat to the terrible burden of pension funding, while most individual pensioners – despite the incalculable costs – will receive monthly allowances ranging from the extremely bleak to the very modest.
Some decades ago, we could’ve at least tried to do something. We could’ve put money into investment funds and accepted some risk with the promise of returns that would help us through the bulge of retiring baby boomers. We could’ve folded our overcompensated civil servants into the standard pension system and we could’ve used contribution and tax relief to ease increases to the retirement age. Instead, we poured billions into economically draining prestige projects like the nuclear phaseout and the energy transition. These insane policies have driven up energy costs and hamstrung our economy, and so we are burning the candle at both ends: As our population ages and ever more pensioners rely on ever fewer workers to fund their retirement, the state finds itself presiding over a stagnating economy and dwindling tax revenues. Our rulers did not only ignore the pension apocalypse and they did not merely content themselves with minor patches. They made everything vastly worse than it had to be.
To the poor unfortunate Xweeter's 'parasite' point, neither do those paying taxes include the immigrant class, and they are only slightly less protected from online insults, earned, implied, or otherwise, than German public officials.
What the cost of succoring and nurturing these invaders is doing to the German economy, and at a local level, German cities, is hard to ignore. Probably for hardworking German taxpayers, it's just as hard not to feel the teensiest bit resentful about the immigrant populations' lack of contribution to their own upkeep.
The mayor of a town called Essen, Mayor Thomas Kufen, who is also a member of the ruling Christian Democrats' (CDU) federal executive board, made some waves recently when he bluntly said
'Almost every German city is now on the verge of bankruptcy.'
I'm assuming it's going to be harder to bang on his door in the early morning dark, so he felt freer to lay it out there.
...In North Rhine-Westphalia alone, only 10 out of 396 cities and municipalities can present a balanced budget, and these alarming figures from Germany’s largest federal state can be applied to the “entire country,” he said.
And why is that? Well, the windmills haven't helped, but there's one simple, very expensive reason budgets are being blown to smithereens, even in cities that were 'formerly considered wealthy.'
THE WELFARE STATE
...Kufen emphasized the need for a national discussion on affordability: “We have to talk about what we can do so that our welfare state itself does not become a social case. This means: What do we want to afford and what else can we afford?”
However, he noted that cities cannot make these crucial decisions themselves; only the federal government can
Kufen illustrated the crisis with figures from his own city, Essen, which has a population of nearly 600,000. The city had planned a balanced budget for 2025. “But instead of a slight increase of €1.7 million, we currently have a deficit of €123 million,” he calculated.
Once again, refugee accommodation and integration are near the top of the list for reasons why the city is seeing a budget shortfall. Far from being a solution to Germany’s budget and pension crisis, they have become a massive financial burden for the country, costing at least €50 billion a year in social integration, housing, and benefits.
The debt required to sustain the immigrant population - not the native population - is spiraling out of control as the arrivals suck up ever more resources while contributing next to nothing to help sustain themselves.
There is no assimilation. There is no becoming German.
The newcomers remain wards of the state generationally.
...However, there are also many more hidden costs to mass immigration, including rising housing prices, healthcare costs, education costs for an increasingly foreign student population, and housing a huge number of foreigners in German prisons and psychiatric institutions. Just like Essen, even major cities like Berlin are seeing “spiraling costs” due to mass immigration, leading to large-scale debt required to keep the cities running.
Some research studies have indicated that the overall cost of immigration has already cost Germany trillions and could reach €20 trillion if migration numbers do not fall.
Feckless chancellor Friedrich Merz has made some half-hearted efforts in the face of rising public anger over the intolerable state of affairs to 'shut' the borders, or begin returning the occasional Syrian or North African to their home country.
But between the European Union dictating that borders will remain open, Merz's milquetoast obeisiance to Brussels Brahmins, and the German Court system's dogged adoration of the Merkel 'Wir schaffen das' immigration doctrine...
‘Disaster for immigration authorities’: Court ruling set to hamper deportation efforts
A ruling of the Federal Constitutional Court’s may seriously hamper the efforts of the government of Chancellor Friedrich Merz to bring down the number of illegal immigrants in Germany, says those in law-enforcement.
Germany’s highest court has ruled that police need to obtain a search warrant before they can enter the residence of an asylum seeker slated for deportation.
The ruling came on September 30 but has only just been made public.
...the average, taxpaying Frau und Herr look to be in for a miserable time ahead of them.
Without even the relief of being about to bitch about it into the ether online as a sorry consolation prize.
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