[ahoka]

"And in Germany, you would have gotten jail time (§ 86a StGB), have your car confiscated and likely destroyed, and probably would have lost your driving license because you have demonstrated that you lack the adequate character to safely operate a vehicle.

And I would have been ok with that."

And no german would see the irony in this...

[KozmoNau7]

German laws and authorities have very little tolerance for Nazis, for damn good reason.

[azeotropic]

No, this was the ironic part: "As a German citizen, I trust my authorities to uphold the laws."

[lifeisstillgood]

We all do - we just watch very carefully when those laws are being written down.

This is something we are learning in the UK as sweeping powers "necessary to implement Brexit" are getting pushed through Parliament. Only so very principled MPs are preventing really sweeping executive powers being granted - they are referred to as Henry VIII laws to give an idea how retrograde we are getting