The 35 Faces that explain GERMAN POLITICS

Politics is more than just parties and lawmaking! It's also the diverse people around it! Let's take a look at who exactly is shaping our politics in the center of Europe! Everything you need to know about German political culture, explained in just 35 little cartoons! #educational #culture #politics #politicalcompass
🇨🇦 35 tribes of Canada, @JJMcCullough
• My "35 Tribes" that ex...
⚛️ 8 types of Atheists, @GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic
• The 8 Types of Atheist...
CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
01:02 Left-behind East German
02:25 Anti-German Pessimist
02:55 Pro-German Narcissist
03:44 Climate Doomer
04:59 Bavarian Exceptionalist
07:38 Social Christians
08:46 Russia-Understander
10:58 The Center
12:21 Erdoğanist/Putinist/Orbánist
13:15 Union Man
14:32 Eastalgic
17:41 The Rich
18:37 Conspiracy Theorist
20:09 EU-Megafan
21:45 Social Justice Warrior
23:29 Anger-Citizen
25:26 Rural & Urban Vote
26:58 Young & Old Vote
28:57 Migration-Background
31:55 Uninterested
32:59 Auto über alles
34:35 Pacifist
36:10 Haven’t we heard enough?
38:21 Mittelstand
39:58 Esoterics
41:18 Community Politician
42:02 Extremists
42:46 Grey Mouse
44:48 Ancient Elite
46:22 ÖRR Enthusiast
48:31 Transatlantic
49:55 Data-Protector
50:50 Party-Soldier
52:54 Tribe 36
53:43 Final Thoughts
Special thanks to Ana for her knowledge, my roommate Greta, for lending Ana her voice and to macagil on Instagram, whose figure I traced for the Eastalgic section.
-----------------------------------
IMAGES
All the cartoons were hand-drawn by me. The other pictures used are either in the public domain, logos or were aqcuired via pixabay.com. The rest was sourced from:
- Berlin wall by Frederik Ramm www.remote.org/frederik/cultur...
- Berlin wall by National Archives via catalog.archives.gov
- Kanzler der Mitte SPD-Poster via www.hdg.de
- Deutschlands starke Mitte by CDU via • Wir sind Deutschlands ...
- AfD-Anhänger-Post by AfD via alternativef...
- Die Mitte entlasten via www.designtagebuch.de
- Grüne erobern politische Mitte by Focus www.focus.de/politik/deutschl...
- Plakat aufhängen by Piratenpartei Deutschland/ Michael Brückner via flickr, BY SA 2.0
- Obama Bumper Sticker by Tony Alter via flickr, BY SA 2.0
- Rosette by gratuit via freeimageslive.co.uk, BY SA 3.0
- Postkarte: Köln Straßenbahnlinie 12 auf Hohenzollernring by Henrik Boye de.sporvognsrejser.dk/foto/po...
All the following via Wikimedia Commons
- Climate activist by Stefan Müller, BY SA 4.0
- Greens hugging by Raimond Spekking, BY SA 4.0
- Brandt und Stoph by Bundesarchiv, BY SA 3.0
- Sandmännchen by MB Custom, BY SA 4.0
- Ost-Produkte by Ralf Roletschek, GNU Free Documentation License upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
- Rainbow flags fly over Washington, DC by Kingofthedead, BY SA 2.0
- November Pogroms by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, BY SA 2.0
- Guttenberg by Dirk Vorderstraße, BY SA 2.0
- BR-Logo by BR-Unternehmenskommunikation, BY SA 4.0
- Podiumsdiskussion: Partei der Zukunft: Partei in Bewegung by Martin Heinlein / DIE LINKE, BY SA 2.0
CC BY-SA 2.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/...
CC BY-SA 3.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/...
CC BY-SA 4.0: creativecommons.org/licenses/...
SOUND EFFECTS
- Most Sound effects acquired at www.zapsplat.com! But shoutouts to the following:
- Retro 8-bit game, hit 01 by Little Robot Sound, BY SA 4.0
- Retro 8-bit game, hit 02 by Little Robot Sound, BY SA 4.0
- Retro 8-bit game, collect point 01 by Little Robot Sound, BY SA 4.0
MUSIC
- [8-bit] Auferstanden aus Ruinen by SINA
• [8-bit] Auferstanden a...
- 8 Bit Think by HeatleyBros
• "8 Bit Think!" Calm Pu...
- 353: Greek Zeimpikiko Karsilamos Music | Vlog 6 No copyright by Faris Al Orfali
• 353: Greek Zeimpikiko...
- Music: “Army March by Thor Oach"
Free download: filmmusic.io/song/11241-army-...
Licensed under CC BY 4.0: filmmusic.io/standard-license
- "Sinfonia Number 5" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
- Music: Morning Stroll by Steven OBrien
Free download: filmmusic.io/song/10523-morni...
License (CC BY 4.0): filmmusic.io/standard-license
- "Vibing Over Venus" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
4 plants died to make this video.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Thank you to everyone who stuck around since my last video! It's been really sweet to see so many returning faces! 🖤❤️💛 Obviously, I could only fit super short caricatures of these identities into one video. But you COULD write full books about every single one! So feel free to expand on anything I've said in the comments. Just be sure to remain friendly and grant other people the freedom of having their own opinion. 🫶

[@johnpijano4786]

Ngl. The russia bear picture would have been perfect if you added a tiny Ushanka with a Russian Flag on top of its head.

[@gamermapper]

I live in Alsace and really love Germany. I'm disappointed by how much worse France currently is in many ways (security, cleanliness, industry, culture) compared to France.

[@conorbolger9441]

Lucas, I loved the video i think i enjoyed it more than jj mcculloughs one. But I wished you would have talked about the Red Army faction in the extremists section because they are a unique part of the german extremists section and their pretty unknown to lots of people outside Germany.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

​@@conorbolger9441 If I ever make a video on Helmut Schmidt and the 1970s, I'm definetly going to cover them!

[@chaosPneumatic]

Just want to say that I think a full video about Germany's extremists would be very interesting!

[@fanta-cool7532]

This guy is one of those KZbinrs where he doesn't upload a lot but when he does upload it's an instant classic.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

That's very sweet. Thank you :)

[@Tony-Anderson]

Could not agree more. He's like a German hbomberguy, in regards to video quality and frequency. And as expected from a German version of hbomberguy, he's calm and collected, instead of being... Well English 😂 P.S. I am a big fan of hbomberguy's work and am in no way attempting to cause disrespect or insult of his character. I was committing something, which Americans seem to struggle with, called banter.

[@alisagman362]

Like Oversimplified

[@monke1340]

YESS

[@illjabludov1534]

A tribe that died literally this month is the weed activist. They were almost everywhere

[@LucasBenderChannel]

R.I.P.

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

what? no they didn't. because germany got a really sh°°ty pseudo-legalization that is absolutely not going to work. it's basically meant to touch the black market as little as possible to then say "look, legalization doesn't work", even though it's not a legalization at all, it's a somewhat expansive decriminalization with uniquely severe constraints on production, which is only permitted in non-profit licensed clubs that sell at cost to a number of members limited to 1000 in order to require an absolutely enormous mountain of paperwork. and homegrowing is only permitted up to three plants (or three flowering females, not sure), which is the lowest limit I have ever heard of being permitted, other jurisdictions do 5-10. but then one is only permitted to have 50g of product at home, which is certainly less than one should expect to harvest from three plants (more like 100g per plant, or for a nice healthy big one outdoors up to 500g, in ideal much warmer climate like california a few kilos are possible), and for a lot of people that means that they're not allowed to just grow outdoors and store enough from the regular autumn harvest to last a year. indoor growing is a huge waste of electricity and money for equipment. the limits are set at absurdly paranoid low levels - commercial grows consist of dozens to many hundreds of plants at a time, you don't give cover to commercial growers by allowing 8 plants and 300g or something like that. beside the fact that decriminalization over legalization is nothing but a gift to organized crime because the market stays illegal, there is no reason to push those limits anywhere near that low.

[@Xenu321]

Yeah true!

[@MrCalhoun556]

One shall not forget Christian Ströbele's legendary "Gebt das Hanf frei!" speech.

[@oida10000]

Well the CDU wants to revive them.

[@PakBallandSami]

the real faces of the German politics where the friends we made along the way

[@isarsnitkovsky3987]

2 YEAR UPLOAD SCHEDULE, WE ARE SO BACK

[@beans00001]

so true

[@True_NOON]

Wir sind so zurück , desweiteren deklarieire ich als deutcher die antworten dieses kommentares als eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

[@realhawaii5o]

5:07 Bavarians trying not to mention Bavaria: 💀

[@LucasBenderChannel]

💙🥨🍻🔷️🔷️🔷️🔷️🍺🍺🍺🥨🦁🦁🔷️💙💙💙🥨🥨🥨🥨⛰️⛰️💪💪💪💰🎓🎓🎓👑👑👑OIDAAAA💙💙🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🚭🌿🚭🌿🚭🌿🚭🌿🚭⚽️⚽️🍺🍺GRINTIGER HUND ELENDIGER !!1! 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

[@thelemonking69]

Impossible

[@Ratchet4647]

​​@LucasBenderChannel I love how KZbin offers a translation for this that really translates nothing but takes everything to the left of the 2 soccer balls and turns it into a yellow heart! Oh, and hund becomes hound!! 😂

[@iah7264]

Haha, love your humor

[@Sophiebryson510]

Ich liebe Bayern! (Ich bin ein Englischer)

[@edwardsheehan1564]

Seems like the Speed Limit debate in Germany has much in common with the gun debate here in the states.

[@Conartist666]

Yeah, the difference just lies in liking things that go boom and liking things that go vroom.

[@gamermapper]

​@@Conartist666 we could even say OK vroomer to them 😂

[@Ass_of_Amalek]

it may or may not be germans clinging on to the last thing they think the austrian man did right...

[@generellconfusion2592]

That is completly accurate.

[@dave_sic1365]

Guns are a constitutional right in America, driving fast isnt in Germany. Theres no really good comparison actually. Imagine you like grilling big beefsteaks and your neighbour is summoned by the smell and starts to warn you about healthrisks of eating beef and starts to calculate passive agressively how much vegetebales could have been grown on the land that was used to feed the cow that is on your barbeque...

[@Bubim1]

I think a group you missed is the Bildungsbürgertum. The (educational) petty elite. Teachers, professors, highly skilled proffesions like doctors, engineers and architects, civil servants or, as I notice as one myself, journalists. Usually university educated and from a family with a similar level in education. They are generally not rich, but with a good and reliable income. Concered with public matters and the 'less fortunate', they are often disconnected from people who struggle on a daily basis or only meet them in professional relationships. They are often active in local politics, church or social organisations, wanting to help in a well meaning, but patronising way. They are well informed about local and global politics. Newspaper readers, with full bookshelfs. Despite this they always are surprised when they learn that people don't concern themselves with politics or why someone would not vote in an election.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Absolutely! A very good addition! 💪

[@gargoyle7863]

keep the doctors an engineers out. They are teachers and retired teachers! ;-)

[@DoctorNicolasGames]

I feel described 😅

[@christopherstein2024]

This is also where the Gutmensch lives. A person that wants to improve the world through virtues but doesn't really need to care because they themselves are well off. Basically the boomer version of the SJW. Because they are well off they don't have the drive to get deeply involved in politics. They want to be political to the point where they are part of the good guys and not so far that they lose their optimistic world view. Because they have decent wealth they are not interested in the left wing radicalism that their college kids lean towards. Because they don't have too many problems of their own they are mostly concerned about other people and trying to be virtuous to the point where they consider "less fortunate" an offensive expression. Because they have formal education they are immune to facebook rage bait or right wing populism but since they are too happy and educated to consume anything but mainstream media there is basically no chance for them to deviate from the moderate leftist norm. They are the arch enemy of the frustrated, uneducated and rightist Wutbürger.

[@dittikke]

... Until they realise they're in another one of Germany's tribes, the precariat.

[@jkitty542]

Lucas. With only two, now three videos, you've cemented yourself as one of my favorite political commentators on KZbin. I've watched your videos numerous times and I'm sure this new one will be no different. Please make more.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

That's super kind and also ridiculous. I appreciate it!^^

[@uberlandleitung]

The speed limit debate in Germany, is the German version of the banning firearms debate in the USA.

[@purge5273]

Both are useless because banning something doesn't hinder criminals from doing something it only takes away freedom from the people.

[@cantinadudes]

Not entirely as there is nothing to suggest it would make anything safer. The only actual benefit would be minimal reduce in emmission but thats negligable. Theres really no reason to change the way it is rn other than leftists being upset

[@benp.865]

If my math works out, given the current rate of videos and the increase in length, we can expect a 5:14:58 long video in approximately 2 years

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Help

[@BritishRepublicsn]

​@@LucasBenderChannel best get to work

[@prussianboi1859]

He remembered the password

[@luisdergroe8944]

An interesting addition to the Bavarian is the fact that the three women shown as examples here are conservative, green-progressives and liberal respectively. While Bavaria is a conservative state, a very obvious one at that, this kind of Bavarian identity is compatible with basically every political ideology. By itself it’s not really a political statement at all. Conservatives tend to lean into their Bavarian identity in a different way though. Especially talking down to other states is more or less exclusively a conservative thing.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

That's exactly why I chose them! Thank you for pointing it out! 🤗 The CSU might like to imagine that it has a monopoly on the Bavarian identity, but no - it's embraced all throughout the political landscape!

[@SamAronow]

Bavaria is the Quebec of Germany.

[@JJSogaard]

Which three women are you referring to? I can’t find them in the video.

[@JJSogaard]

Which three women are you referring to? I can’t find them in the video.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

​​@@JJSogaard At 6:35. They're all politicians but from different parties.

[@KingMagenta]

I knew this subscription would pay off eventually

[@einfachJordan]

I'm German myself and as soon as I saw JJ's Video I desperately wanted this type of video for German politics. Thanks dude!

[@fantuswitt9063]

Same

[@user-nn8cw6nv6g]

5:30 So many of the stereotypes of Gemany today, are Bavarian, mainly because the American occupation zone was mainly in Bavaria. The soldiers brought the ideas they saw back home, and the US is, of course, the dominant influencer of world culture.

[@lukasfinzel7609]

Where are my "railway enthusiasts/infrastructurists"? 😂

[@miranda8636]

Literally me

[@_jpg]

"Railway enthusiast" sounds like an oxymoron, given the sad state of our privatised rails 😢

[@gamingchamp6728]

#tribe36

[@19torch86]

​​@_jpg true. I think ranting on the state of the railway is perhabs the most unifying aspects of German life. I can't think of another topic with more potential for agreement. Maybe the weather, but that could escalate into a climate debate.

[@dave_sic1365]

We had the Transrapid supporters but they got destroyed by the esoteric enviornmentalists (Transrapid track looks too ugly in the Landscape[ Wind turbines apparently dont])

[@JuliaGarbe1]

"High Budget Background" haha

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Totally not stolen from @NALFVLOGS ;) Really happy to see you here Julia! 🤗

[@kaynight64]

In Portuguese, "Justiça Social" (Social Justice, literally) has the German rather than American meaning - it's about people having the income to live with dignity, fighting hunger, providing public education and healthcare... A famous quote by left-wing economist Maria da Conceição Tavares: "If you are not concerned with justiça social, with those that have to pay their bills, you are no serious economist - you're a technocrat!"

[@adelinod.5568]

I would say it´s similar in the whole of Europe compared with the US or Brazil.

[@DiamondKingStudios]

Even in the US I went to a Catholic school and the teachers there used that definition for the term in the context of relevant classes.

[@MarkWhiley]

​@@adelinod.5568 I would say that it has a more expansive meaning in the UK and refers more to human rights and minority rights. It would not be uncommon to use social justice and economic justice next to each other, the latter meaning more of what is being described here around wealth and class.

[@kennethferland5579]

I think this is more about the poverty of intelectual discourse in the US, without an actual economically left party (we have a center-right party and far-right party)it leaves the only space for progressive politics to be mainstreamed in the US is if it is focused on identity. We see the Democratic party leaders activly push back at any attempt to link economic equality with racial equality. Most famously epitomized by neo-liberal Hillary Clintons critique of Socialist Bernie Sanders hostility to the Banking sector by saying "But if we broke up the Banks, would that end Racism!?".

[@thelakeman2538]

​@@MarkWhiley wouldn't that also be the meaning in USA, whenever a liberal or a progressive talks about social justice it's kinda implicit that they refer to both human rights (minority rights being a part of it) and economic inequality, just that for the more intense social justice types that economic inequality is also primarily correlated with identity (blacks are poorer, women get paid less, etc). Idk I'm not American.

[@TABSman1]

3:30 As a greek myself, I totally agree. Fun fact: The Greeks are not actually THAT lazy, in fact, they're the people who have the most work hours a week in all of europe... Though that probably just shows we arent payed nearly enough and we need to resort to working a lot😎💪😎🇬🇷💪😎💪

[@FairyCRat]

French guy here, I'm also an EU megafan, which is definitely unusual in my country. You're definitely right about our motives, considering my experience with Volt Europa (who are definitely part of that tribe) a lot of us simply want to be part of a great superpower that shares more in common than it does today, like a large federation.

[@fr4rq236]

May I ask how EU megafans are seen in France?

[@FairyCRat]

@@fr4rq236 I would say the majority doesn't really care about us, they may see us as an eccentric odd bunch. Then you have a growing number of euroskeptics influenced by populist parties, who see us as morons who are being used by the system.

[@FairyCRat]

@@fr4rq236 The annoying euroskeptics see us as agents of a terrible system, whereas the bulk of the population probably doesn't care much about us, they might just think we're weird.

[@kaanyasin3733]

>Drops a vid >Banger >Leaves for a year >Repeat

[@LucasBenderChannel]

🏌‍♂️

[@connormclernon26]

Bavaria is German Texas

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Yee-haw

[@NisarKhan-jm1uh]

I 100 percent agree with that analogy.

[@germanmemerboi3157]

Fits better than anything I could think up of.

[@dittikke]

Nah. Bavarians are on a different level of trying too hard.

[@germanmemerboi3157]

@@dittikke Eh, True. Texas doesn't need to try nearly as hard to be the "Big Boy" in the Federal republic. Bavaria is basically Tryharding

[@goldholz]

I am guilty of being an EU Megafan. you hit the nail on the spot with everyone

[@artalius5398]

me too

[@mmcworldbuilding5994]

Me too🫡🇮🇪🇪🇺

[@dittikke]

Yep me three.

[@Bl2ckout7556]

me too. I was born in Germany and grew up in Ireland. So I see myself more as European than any nationality

[@malegria9641]

My German teacher is definitely the pro-German narcissist 😭 like I’m a dual French-American citizen and she’ll just take a dig at the French for no reason every now and then and then just stare directly at me

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Oh nooo 🙈 I'm so sorry! 😂

[@egggge4752]

🗿 lmao sedanstag

[@gabkchan]

Ost + Nostalgie = Ostalgie

[@LucasBenderChannel]

🔖 *CHAPTERS* 🔖 00:00 Intro 01:02 Left-behind East German 02:25 Anti-German Pessimist 02:55 Pro-German Narcissist 03:44 Climate Doomer 04:59 Bavarian Exceptionalist 07:38 Social Christians 08:46 Russia-Understander 10:58 The Center 12:21 Erdoğanist/Putinist/Orbánist 13:15 Union Man 14:32 Eastalgic 17:41 The Rich 18:37 Conspiracy Theorist 20:09 EU-Megafan 21:45 Social Justice Warrior 23:29 Anger-Citizen 25:26 Rural & Urban Vote 26:58 Young & Old Vote 28:57 Migration-Background 31:55 Uninterested 32:59 Auto über alles 34:35 Pacifist 36:10 Haven’t we heard enough? 38:21 Mittelstand 39:58 Esoterics 41:18 Community Politician 42:02 Extremists 42:46 Grey Mouse 44:48 Ancient Elite 46:22 ÖRR Enthusiast 48:31 Transatlantic 49:55 Data-Protector 50:50 Party-Soldier 52:54 Tribe 36 53:43 Final Thoughts

[@jaxteller4978]

Tribe Suggestion Perhaps similar to the Bavarian but universalised: the "Lokalpatriot" (local patriot) Politicians/voters that carry sentimentalism about local culture and care about promoting/embodying what region or state they are from. For example this might appear in form of a state politician keeping dialects, and local traditional vocabulary instead of conforming to "high German" (the standard form of German). For the Germans: The idea came to mind when recalling Björn Höcke and Mario Voigt arguing whether one says "Mettbrötchen" or "Gehacktes-Brötchen" (a bun with minced raw pork) in Thuringia.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Was? Deswegen haben die sich ernsthaft gestritten? 😅 Aber ja du hast absolut recht! Lokalpatriotismus kann man auch in allen anderen Regionen finden. :)

[@swiftydialogues]

I hope J.J. started a trend. Similar to tier or iceberg videos, I’d love to see more “35 tribes” videos!

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Absolutely! And non-political ones too! I wanna see 12 kinds of football fans, or 8 types of Chefs or the 20 types of teachers! 😊

[@djleonard14]

28:44 being Italian the Movimento 5 Stelle popping up killed me on the spot (Italy already has this "fluid" state of political parties and the oldest (major)party today was made in 2007)

[@JJSogaard]

That “fluid” party system is basically one of my greatest fears when it comes to politics here in Denmark…

[@dr.victorvs]

Point 1 is the reason there has been so much authoritarianism in former Warsaw Pact countries. You talk to those people and they were SO NAIVE about capitalism. They thought they were joining developed nations as siblings, but they were being bought up for pennies on the dollar.

[@midnightmusic8354]

I actually have maybe #tribe36, as an counterpart of the ÖRR-Enthusiast: the "internet german". Wich are those people who actually accept some german stereotypes (and meme them to death) but are still generally pretty liberal and welcoming. I think its these kind of primarly young people, (for example some big streamers like Papaplatte), who paint a pretty nonchalant/ humerus picture of germany, wich for us also contributes to the german political landscape.

[@jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659]

19:00 On Reichsburgers. I know at least two other movements of similar sort, in the US and Russia. American ones call themselves ‘sovereign citizens,’ and they believe that the US is a corporation, the Articles of Confederacy is the real constitution and is still an active law, cars operate according to maritime law, and, most famously, that the police is obliged to let them free if they ask ‘Am I being detained’? In Russia, those are citizens of USSR. They also believe USSR still exist, that Russia, Kazakhstan, etc. are corporations, but they also have extensive lore on jewish reptilians that govern those corporations, and on interterrestreal origin of all Slavic/White people. I wonder whether other countries have similar conspiracy theories and, if yes, what are they like.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Interesting right? There must be a very specific human urge in these folks to rebel against the given circumstances in that way. Cause it really isn't unique to any nation.

[@jerrymacctheukrainanlorema7659]

@@LucasBenderChannel Yep, a fascinatingly hyperspecific kind of schizophrenia. At least, I’ve seen no evidence that these theories are somehow inspired by each other. And the bio of the founder of Soviet citizens seems to exclude possibility that he knew English or German

[@easytiger6570]

The lore thickens

[@Waldzkrieger]

As an American Catholic, "social justice" is still tied up in that more economic meaning in Catholic institutional circles.

[@jordan1192]

Welcome back! I love these JJ inspired videos always so informative

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

Alright, see ya again in the next 2 years! The ORR enthusiast struck me as the most odd btw. I'm from 🇧🇦 btw. Also, #tribe36 should've been diaspora nationalists. They're different from Orban/Erdogan/Putin fans, as they actually have family in the country that they're nationalists for. And some support smaller ultra nationalist organizations in their "home" country. Like the BPNP for Bosnia. Most of their financial support came from the Bosniak diaspora.

[@rmeherremli]

It looks like it goes under the category of the backgrounder tribe (or mb the extremist one). With Bosnian BPNP, Turkish Grey Wolves etc. it looks more like they are not the part of the German political landscape but rather than the political landscapes of their respective countries. For example, I am from Azerbaijan and we have several political influencers that reside in Germany. They may have the significance here but I bet almost noone knows or cares about them in Germany itself

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

@@rmeherremli Actually, fair point! Maybe I could make a 35 Balkan Political tribes video.

[@mortuos557]

there's a lot of pride in the örr coming from a point of it's intended neutrality, as it's set up in a way to protect against government overreach. once again lessons learned from the past.

[@jorgkunischewski9363]

I would personally see myself as ÖRR Enthusiast, but in a much different way as described in the video. I couldn't care less about Markus Lanz and other political talkshows, but I think our public broadcasters are one of our most valuable accomplishments. I think the ÖRR gets much too much undeserved hate, especially from bad faith populist actors, who just want to get rid of critical voices.

[@spaghettiisyummy.3623]

@@jorgkunischewski9363 Populists generally hate anything impartial.

[@eikeklages2361]

Adding to what you said about the lack of politicians with migration background or, as I would argue, a certain invisibility of persons with a migration background in mainstream culture: I think the self-conception of German society is quite different from for example Canada because the latter sees itself as a society or country of immigration while this is not the case in Germany. Despite a lot of people from various countries came to Germany for various reasons (refugees, guest workers, family members etc), this did not change this idea of German society being a rather homogenous thing. This can for example be seen in the establishment of the Gastarbeiterverträge ("guest worker treaties") in the 1960s. The idea was that the workers come to Germany for a limited time to help mitigating the lack of workforce in that time. It was never planned that they would stay but that they leave Germany. Them staying here was an unplanned outcome. There is a famous quote by Max Frisch: "Wir riefen Arbeitskräfte, aber es kamen Menschen" ("We called for workers, but instead people arrived") which summarises this sentiment. To make it short: I think there is a discrepancy between the idea of not being a country of immigration and the reality

[@m3morizes]

I don't know if I would say the cause of the EU-Megafan's love of the EU is simply "insecurity". The point you brought up about being overshadowed by the US or China is a real concern. Having a large union which can negotiate things like trade policy as a bloc is simply the practical approach.

[@arnoldszwarzenegger6832]

i feel like in my country the EU-megafans are just people that really appreciate eu funds and want to feel "european", also being in EU means not being on the other side (so usually pro russian if we look at europe) hence any sort of anti eu rhetoric is instantly deemed a russian propaganda

[@SamAronow]

Why weren't car manufacturers in Germany able to eradicate public transport to the degree they did in the US and Canada?

[@mrcool7140]

I am no expert on this topic by any means, but I have a few ideas: Things in general are a lot denser. Cities are closer to each other, and are built up denser within themselves. Kids and older people use public transport to get around (and older people make up a big part of the voter base due to demographics). Also, and more broadly, it's just very hard to change anything in this country. Both the state's bureaucracy and the people's behaviours are very allergic to change. Even extreme amounts of money often can't change that. In the case of the auto industry eradicating public transport this may have worked in our favour, but it may also explain why 80% of German businesses still use fax machines.

[@ivanskrypov4030]

Another reason is that Germany has no oil resources and gas prices are very high in comparison to other countries (and are expected to grow even further with a possible introduction of a CO2 tax). It's also generally expensive to own a car because of car tax, limited and expensive parking, yearly mandatory check-ups (which can cost you a small fortune if they find some minor issue with your vehicle that needs to be fixed), insurance etc.

[@GigaRoman]

YOOOO HES BACK

[@tintim85]

There’s an online game called the New campaign trail that lets you play different elections, it has a really good one about the 2021 German elections.

[@simmi5646]

#tribe36 The Vereinsmensch: The people that spend most of their free time working for the Verein (club). Those people are the ubsung heroes that are holding communities together. Especially in rural areas.

[@lllluka]

I KNEW IT WOULD BE WORTH IT TO STAY SUBSCRIBED

[@kaynight64]

Oh wow!!! An amazing new Lucas Bender video - eager to learn more about German politics with this. I mostly knew the info on the parties, but here it's all new to me!

[@SabreVDM]

New Lucas Bender video was a brilliant thing to see on my homepage this evening!

[@fatmand5920]

A pleasant surprise

[@stepanotrisal1512]

I feel like every country has: -the excentric part which is about to declare independence any day now, just you watch -the economicaly depressed "forgoten" part -the urban part, which is (at least in imagination of more rural people) expensive, ignorant, crime ridden and full of foreigners -some movements which are just transplants from America, but locals feel like this one is unique because of some rather arbitrary distinquishing mark

[@adamscholze]

28:21 The ticker reads "J.J McCullough video wins another award"

[@DeadSpecimen]

I literally found your channel yesterday and loved your only two videos. Must be divine intervention you upload today :)

[@Aronax507]

Juat noticed your Magdeburn Green party joke from last the video and it being the "recommended party" by the App 😂

[@MPHJackson7]

I just found your channel yesterday, now did you suddenly upload a new video today?? What a coincidence!

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Great timing! But don't worry: I can make you wait for an eternity as well. :*

[@austinpeterson2289]

I’m an American but have lived in Germany for a while. Many of these profiles accurately described many of the people I’ve met and became friends with. Brilliant insight. Danke schon!

[@Lawarch]

Definitely worth the wait! Love it

[@mongeeses7112]

I legit let out a little “aAaHhh~” squeal when I saw you posted. I’m not transcribing the sound of joy the best, but I thought you should know lol. Also, should we expect that “high budget background” to get JJ-ized?

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Definitely not! All the love to J.J. but that maximalist background of his would drive me nuts irl! 😂🫶

[@gabby4558]

Yay, finally more plants in the background. Really shows that the production value is going up ;)

[@LucasBenderChannel]

High budget 💚

[@Duck-wc9de]

When I was a teenager, I was a portuguese european mega - fan. But mostly because we were out of the Eurocrisis and then the party of the _problematic_ prime minister Sócrates formed a government in 2015 and governed until... Last month. So, basically my adolecence and first years of adulthood. I was like: WE NEED A STRONGER EUROPE! I DONT TRUST LISBON.

[@gargoyle7863]

I'm sorry to say it, but I believe the opposite: we need less of this undemocratic and un-checked and balanced EU-technocrats. Hand over back power to Lisbon, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Berlin (...ok, not Berlin ;-) etc..

[@_jpg]

​@gargoyle7863 Unchecked you say, while vdL has to deal with corruption charges, even though she won another term as commission president?

[@cantinadudes]

​@@gargoyle7863why not have a strong european union that is also more democratic? Why not push for a system that allows only the best parts? I dont understand why people think that the current state of the EU is permanent

[@noidea2568]

Literally re-watched the other 2 videos on this channel like a couple days ago, lol. Great to see you back! I can see the heavy JJ influence in this video (because I do watch his videos), which I liked! I hope we as an audience won't have to wait 2 more years for another video, lol.

[@blakebauman9654]

I discovered your channel literally yesterday. Then I checked your uploads and realized you create a new video like once every 2 years. Then, 24 hours later, you release a new one. How is that even possible?

[@Mtioo1]

I did not expect him to actually upload. Amazing

[@freakishuproar1168]

That thirty-five tribes video is one of my favourite videos by J.J. :D I'd thought to myself at the time that this would be an interesting and creative trend for other cultural/political KZbinrs to follow, so I'm glad to see this video pop up in my feed. I'm glad you gave them their own Banjo-Kazooiesque voice lines like in the original video :3

[@Frohckan]

A few days ago i watched your german political parties video and enjoyed it. Then scrolled around your channel, but so disappointed because i believed you were inactive. This video made me happy that you are still making videos. Keep it up with these, Gut gemacht!

[@lucastanciu2567]

i’m romanian - the eastalgic character definitely exists here too! often with the exact same arguments that your friend ana described. your video and JJ’s kind of inspire me to do something similar for romania, but i sadly would probably lack the production quality to be able to see it through

[@LucasBenderChannel]

I honestly think production quality should not worry you at all! 🤗 J.J.'s version barely included any animation and I struggled with sound and video quality. We all lack something. So don't worry about any of that! I'd love to see more videos like this and I'd recommend you give it a shot! Just maybe don't go for 35 tribes right away! 😅 haha This was a LOT of work. Instead of 35, maybe try making one about 10 or 12 special characters, that are super unique to Romania! That'd be enough to start with and a really interesting watch! :) If you do decide to work on something like this, you can always hit me up on Instagram for advice! 💛🇷🇴

[@delzerui4975]

Quality over Quantity level 1000

[@rijuaavara4549]

Great Video :D Happy to see another upload on your channel

[@luminous.Johanna]

FINALLY! I was wondering when you were finally going to post this 😊 but now it‘s done! HOORAY! 😁

[@mikaelmerilahti]

We are so back!

[@Jonas_M_M]

German myself, and I wanted to do this kind of video ever since JJ's

[@Ana-pl9hs]

The video turned out so amazing. Since I saw a little preview of the eastalgic part I've been extremely excited. So, excited that I couldnt wait to get home and watched the first half on my way home in the tram. 🙈 Also, very happy about the pitti platsch. Ironically it was my favourite plushie as a kid 😂😊

[@LucasBenderChannel]

❤❤❤

[@thechunguses]

It's a good day seeing Lucas posting after so long

[@xxpvpmasterskillerproskyen514]

Ich habe mit tatsächlich erst vor ein paar Tagen erneut dein Video zu den deutsche Parteien angeguckt und mit gedacht, dass der Zeichenstil doch stark dem von JJ ähnelt :D

[@mariosin3256]

I find it goofy the AfD calling themselves "The Center" considering it's the AfD

[@mjr_schneider]

I've waited so long for this video and it was really worth the wait. As someone who (despite my name) is not actually from Germany, I was able to recognise most of these tribes in the Germans I've met. Especially the Bavarian exceptionalists. They're very easy to spot.

[@AFNick]

As an American, this is a great way to learn about the metapolitics of a country that I am not a native to. JJ helped me better understand Canada's political tension and you have for Germany.

[@nicolascampos1442]

as a nerd american political scientist it’s fascinating to me how disloyal germans are to parties. Here political behavior is so tied to one’s identification with one of the two parties it’s almost impossible to conceptualize how anyone who even decide to vote in Germany. Here even people who know a lot about politics still tend to follow the party.

[@julianachilles8555]

Propably one reason is your voting system. Majority vote systems tend to lead to two party systems because any dissent would only lead to the other party winning everything. Im proportional Systems the need for loyalty is lower because you're going to have a coalition anyway I'd say

[@alexanderkraft4616]

German here. Even as a 25 year long party member I don't always only vote for my party candidate. I'm a proud and free citizen in a democratic federal welfare state.

[@cedricappleby2006]

This is partially because German parties overlap so much in their politics, I think. Say I'm a progressive centrist who usually votes for the SPD, but I'm dissatisfied with the candidate they're running. In that case I can just cast my vote for the Greens instead, without wasting my vote or "crossing the aisle" so to speak. If I was American instead, then as a progressive centrist, I probably vote for the Democrats. If I'm dissatisfied with their candidate... well, then I probably have to vote for the Democrats anyway, because it's not like I agree with the Republicans on anything.

[@Gwahlur]

You presented a very interesting topic in a very clear and thoughtful manner - subscribing for sure! Please do make more videos about German politics. :)

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Thank you! Sure will!^^

[@jordengg3629]

Just a couple of days ago I rewatched your videos and wondered if you will ever upload again

[@transparent6842]

European federalism is nationalism. I feel European. I will die for Europe, not Sweden, not Germany not France. But only Europe.

[@jamesdulak3108]

What a wonderful video, emulated JJ's concept so perfectly with so many great little personal additions. The art, animations, little sound effects, the skits with several versions of yourself, really fun. I feel like I learned a nice bit about Germany based on this. It's cool getting a feel for "regular" politics of a country that aren't just geopolitics or wars and that kind of stuff. Great work! I liked the "ʜᴏᴡ ᴄᴀɴ I ʜᴇʟᴘ" blurb for the Transatlantic, that reminds me of RTS games when you click on a unit. Also I like how you used JJ's Twitter background of the bald eagle and Statue of Liberty for that, yeah he's for sure a Canuck version of that.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

I love that you picked up on so many details! Thank you for watching! 😊

[@albertmiller2electricbooga897]

The yodel sound effect for Bavaria sent me lmao

[@aliarslan748]

Been waiting for this for more than a year

[@user-tv9rx5gi1q]

I teach high school German in Kansas and have students who are constantly asking for opportunities to learn more about Politik. I'm certainly sharing this with all my classes. Danke für das tolle Video!

[@LucasBenderChannel]

Oh that makes me really happy! Thank you! 🥰 Best wishes to your students! 👋

[@worldlyemo2290]

Love your look ^^ Thx for the video :)

[@user-nn8cw6nv6g]

Oh wow, I only saw the thumbnail, and I was 100% sure that's a new JJ video! Haha.

[@queenvitamin21]

very good video. funny, interesting, educational--even at its length wished it could have gone longer!

[@samuelhatchrestrepo1983]

Yes 🙌🏽 I wanna see way more of this. Been a big fan of JJ for a while but as a Canadian political junkie I already know a lot of what he’s saying, getting to learn more about global political culture is what I wanna see

[@fiffi5318]

The biyearly content I need

[@lobachevscki]

I hope you upload more often because I just moved to Germany and this is so helpful while I learn the language. Any other German political creator like yourself you can recommend?

[@LucasBenderChannel]

That's very kind, thank you! I really don't consume any German political KZbinrs I'm afraid. But I CAN recommend MrWissen2Go, who's really pleasent to listen to.

[@jessevandeinsen4202]

I am dutch, but today i learned that indeed we are just swamp germans

[@Schampu4000]

Hey, at least you're not Belgium

[@jml732]

or maybe Germans are just Highlanders

[@jessevandeinsen4202]

@Schampu4000 its the small victories in life

[@jessevandeinsen4202]

@@jml732 more Heide-landers then Highlanders.

[@jml732]

@@jessevandeinsen4202 Yeah .. but since the common liberal "German" doesn't believe in nationhood anymore, it should just be "Federal Citizen" (Bundesbürger or just Bürger). The common German patriotism wich you might find is just based on silly little stereotypes, and being "thankful to live a wealthy democracy"... so there are even immigrants who will identify themselves as "german", but it's just a shallow facade. ... and the Neonazis and Trumpists who see themselves as German patriots are just really dumb, and don't even know their own history in most cases.

[@Will0398]

So many things in America that we think are German are just Bavarian 😂

[@Real_MrDev]

EU Socialist fan boy here, everything that you said was real literally everything. (And I am not German)

[@BeryAb]

Endlich ein neues Video! :)

[@speedcontrol21]

very professional content, keep up the good work.

[@Maussiegamer]

i watched 2 of your videos and was ready to binge the rest of your channel, turns out you are a small youtuber without a massive backlog of videos, just a few high quality ones

[@laiphone8972]

11:00 ironic in France the three big parties want to differenciet themselves with the centrist (even the macronists) because it's seen a party who change nothing and people want many things to change (the things to change change in function of the political orientation)

[@fantuswitt9063]

As far as I know french are really into radical politics in general since radical french philosophers are talked about vewry much in frnace right?

[@laiphone8972]

@@fantuswitt9063 i don't know who you talk about but the radical are mainstream since the collapse of the two main party the PS and the républicains in 2017

[@alisagman362]

5 million in 6 months ❌ 3 videos in 4 years ✅

[@Kamarovsky_KCM]

Fitting to use a 7-year-old dead meme considering this upload schedule lmao

[@bulbainquisition9590]

I remember watching your German political parties video and really enjoying it and this is an interesting way to look at politics in a nation to break it down into "tribes". It's a refreshing way to look at it. A lot of people trying to make parties monoliths when they are just coalitions. I tried doing this for America as a thought exercise but when I realized, I was getting close to 100 I decided I was doing it wrong.

[@LucasBenderChannel]

I mean, I'd watch that 😉🇺🇸

[@hasansalihaktas]

Welcome back❤❤

[@nnhoffingg]

YES! a new video

[@Txkato]

i think another group might be the verry vocal ÖRR critic. these really exist on all sides of the political spectrum, from alot of younger people who find the ÖRR outdated and find they don't represent the youth (often also quite vocal funk critics aswell), people who simply don't wan't to pay that much and often want to abolish ÖRR along with other measures for a smaller government, to the far right and conspiricy theorist types who view the ÖRR as government propaganda really good video btw

[@LucasBenderChannel]

True. I almost wanted to include that in the ÖRR segment! But there are many different shades of how much people dislike the ÖRR. From moderate reformists to those calling to outright abolish them. And their reasons are multi-facetted as well. Explaining all that would've made the segment too long. 🙉

[@Cetarius_]

OMG! You are back! Love your channel... Let's wait another 2 Years for a new Video xD

[@lokhimtam7933]

the 3:29 moment is really emblematic of how JJ does things. Good job!