Attending the local pride #ColognePride together with @moppi

@rubberdogs @moppi Dang that's a cute hood 

Someday I really really hope I can see pups in the wild. ​ Would be wild to just be walking over the river and see some cute pet-able pups.

@Rusty @rubberdogs come over 🤗 was a very big group of pups on cologne pride
@moppi @rubberdogs Too dangerous, if I ever came there I'd never come back to the states 
@Rusty @rubberdogs 😱 why that?
@moppi @rubberdogs *gestures vaguely at the state of things here* 
@Rusty @rubberdogs ah you mean trump would you not let in back
@moppi @rubberdogs Nuh uh I mean I don't like it here. We don't have healthcare, we don't have any public amenities, nothing is walkable unless you overpay for it, etc. Every time a car backfires I wonder if I'm about to get shot. Every time you meet someone new you immediately wonder if they're one of the bad ones that voted for the orange Nazi guy and whether or not you'll be safe around them. It sucks here. 
@Rusty something is still better here, but we have the same problems here. more and more European states drift to right wings and also, germans who it should know better, votes more and more for the new nazi party called afd.
@moppi Yeah I know about the AfD, but the fact that you actually have constitutional protections in place to monitor them and treat them as an extremist party is a lot better than, like, having them control every aspect of your government.  Plus your government wasn't literally designed as a compromise so half of the states could ensure they get to keep their slaves. It's why it literally took a civil war to get rid of slavery here.  And why fixing our democracy here would take another one.
@Rusty I'm just not sure how long the surveillance of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution will last. If they get the majority of votes in the next elections, things will look different again.
Yes, it's different to Putin or Trump, but unfortunately the direction is the same here.