Ask rothaer anything

[rothaer]

Do you think Austria should become part of a Greater Germany ?

Yes.

[rothaer]

But if those Slavic admixtured in last 200 years aren't Germans then those Slavic admixtured in 400 or 800 years aren't Germans either, correct?

I maybe expressed badly. It's not about a Slavic admixture in the sense of DNA. It's about recently hailing from ethnic non-Germans. It's about folks having just one or two German grandparents (out of four).

[Zevoos]

Who are your "enemies"?

Do you want to repatriate all ethnic Germans worldwide back to Germany?

Your thoughts on the Sorbs?

Do you live in a homogeneous German town or diverse aka invaded by immigrants?

Would you rather have Eastern or Southern European immigrants in your country?

Just read that you have 8 children. Wow! Are they very time consuming? What about the money?

[gixajo]

Are you going somewhere next hollidays? With 8 children it must be hell to go somewhere as a family.

[rothaer]

I feel incapability to understand the German energy politics. How much I tried I have no clue about it. It is for me magic. You don't need to explain how it works, but you could save me from wasting time in trying to explain it. Why Germany shut all nuclear plant in the situation where Europe suffers from energy shortage. What are the plans? More wind power substituting coal power? EU's plans are high-flying.

Then I maybe can spare you some time. There is nothing deeper to understand. But maybe that the decisions are simply ultimately dumb. And that might be hard to believe.

The explanation is that the political competition is made in front of voters with in average IQ 100 and then ultimately the elected folks will act like with IQ 100 even if they have more. Admittedly, this should be alike in other democracies. So what could explain particularly the German way? I'm afraid that it's the German manner of carrying out things with determination and thoroughness. After both the faschism and the communism became particularly strict in their German variant, now a green and "climate change" ideology will get a respective variant.
This "German manner" is advantagous if you are to carry out a meaningful decision. But if it's about carrying out a stupid decision it gets disasterous.

The actual decision to discard nuclear energy (which theoretically could be undone) was made by Merkel purely populistically in the context of the Fukushima event with the intent to short-term gain more political support (which she did). There are zero factual grounds.

I'm convinced that the current democracy in Germany is no good idea. This system has produced disasters in series the last decades and I see no way out within the current system.

[rothaer]

Who are your "enemies"?

One individual is annoying and hateful to me and a number of others dislike me. The point of my message is that everybody is welcome to put questions and expressly also those who dislike me or disagree with me.

Do you want to repatriate all ethnic Germans worldwide back to Germany?

Indeed, I would promote that to a certain extent. However, it's a pity to lose compatriots that after some generations end up working against their old home country.

Your thoughts on the Sorbs?

I appreciate them as a remnant of the bigger Wendish background of (Eastern) Germans and they are generally also perceived that way.

Do you live in a homogeneous German town or diverse aka invaded by immigrants?

An ethnical homogenous German town. I intentionally selected an environment that I considered good for my children for growing up.

Would you rather have Eastern or Southern European immigrants in your country?

None. I know that the question is not answered by that. I prefer not to do as it would give a wrong impression of what I consider relevant.

Just read that you have 8 children. Wow! Are they very time consuming? What about the money?

Their births are distributed on a period of 21 years, so they were not all children at the same time. They did not consume much time, at least i did not feel it that way. Probably I'm not the best father and as for time I mostly did what I wanted and they could hang on or not. Mostly they were around.

As for the spent money, that will likely add up to some not irrelevant amounts, yes. I do act cost-consciously. Maybe interesting: Except for some mispurchases for the children I've actually never regrettet any spent money on them. For what better purpose do I have my money? are my thoughts.

[calxpal]

What's your favorite and most inspiring song and why?

[rothaer]

Are you going somewhere next hollidays? With 8 children it must be hell to go somewhere as a family.

Yes, to Croatia.

I've only 3 that are below 18, so it becomes technically "normal". I once had 5 at the same time. I at that time used a normal Mercedes estate that had 2 extra children seats in the back, making it have 7 seats in total.

[rothaer]

What's your favorite and most inspiring song and why?

I do not have one favourite song but a number. Here are pretty varying off-mainstream examples of music that I do like much. Please don't pay too much attention to the videos. It’s about the music.
The same applies to the German songs that later got great hits. It’s partly their first presentation, that maybe looks a little bit "unprofessional" on TV.

Scott Joplin, Pine Apple Rag (1908):
Harmonic and clear piano composition, what does one want more?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhQvqK67Iwc

Golden Gate Quartet, Go Down Moses (1957):
Every voice a gifted one, great artists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W57Bu2mktcE

Little Richard, Lucille (1957):
Early rock ’n roll, legendary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Ujb6lJ_mM

Lionel Richie, Truly (1982):
Both music and singing is artistical great, a typical Lionel Richie. It’s a wonderful love song. As every tone is good, it can well be listened to loudly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX-uh1MqAI4

Genesis (Phil Collins), Mama (1983):
A weird piece, but impressive as well. Strange athmosphere, that I - which is unusual in that case - can connect to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccs2rt0oSzQ

Tanita Takaram, Sobriety (1988):
Nice harmony, interesting and - though deep for a woman - pleasant voice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s8glZ-efMg

Klaus Lage, Monopoly (1985):
Cool melody and good vibes for pushing me. I understand that the text can not be judged. It’s not really important, but maybe that the singer is a little bit complaining about the world being unjust, but so what?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INCG7zTJsog

Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Finden Sie Mabel (first 1986):
I like the melody and the singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvNJu1Dt_Mg

Marius Müller-Westernhagen (1989)
The music is motivating and pushing me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5yqaGBEyKU

[rothaer]

As someone with Swedish and German ancestry, do you think I may be a visual display of your lost generation, if you had stayed in Sweden?

You know that you are cute so this is a tricky interpretation. As for "lost" please note that this is from my personal perspective as a German. Btw. there are closer "visual displays" for that as siblings of mine in Sweden do have such children. So I can perfectly study that "alternative history". As my points were not about a look they are also not easy to visualise in a meaningful way.

Hope I got off your hook there, lol.