[ileri62]

Not to mention that germany did absolutely fucking nothing against VW when dieselgate happened. Still waiting to see Winterkorn & friends under the guillotine for scamming the entire world.

What happened instead? Normal engineers got blamed instead of executives. Fucking capitalism and fucking CDU, SPD and FDP. The sole reason for their existence is to sack money from lobbyists.

When you have people like Schäuble, a piece of shit that was convicted for corruption in 1999, who was the minister of finance for the past couple of years in germany, it makes sense that germany does nothing against big corporate.

[Tomte]

> Not to mention that germany did absolutely fucking nothing against VW when dieselgate happened.

VW (and Audi etc.) top executives are under criminal investigations. Their houses and offices have been searched multiple times.

> Still waiting to see Winterkorn & friends under the guillotine for scamming the entire world.

Sorry, we don't have capital punishment. And the guillotine is a bit too French for our taste, anyway (also, it was used by the GDR, so not a good role model).

[eveningcoffee]

This is not surprising when you have corruption on the highest level and nothing happens about it - Schröder.

[ahartmetz]

And Riester, who received a lot of money from the insurance industry.

[ahartmetz]

While it is true that Germany has legalized and not so legalized corruption in politics, it makes no sense to single out VW. All large companies have "government affairs" departments which sadly provide great return on investment. If only the people had a government affairs department...

[ileri62]

>it makes no sense to single out VW.

merely giving an example that fits this thread (automotive).

[solarkraft]

I don't think you're fully wrong, but you might be missing the massive economic interest we have in VW (and the rest of the pack) surviving.

[sudosu-]

> When you have people like Schäuble, a piece of shit that was convicted for corruption in 1999

Do you have source on this?

[turbinerneiter]

Schäuble is literally the worst.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble#/CDU_Part...

He failed to do anything about cum-cum/cum-ex. He came up with a tax on fuel for nuclear power plants, that I am convinced was deliberately designed to be in violation of the constitution, leading to a 7 billion tax-revenue loss.

Not to speak of his views law and order and how the wrecked Greece because he doesn't understand economics.

[sudosu-]

I cannot find any source on his 'conviction'

[ileri62]

The greece part was nothing but blackmail anyway. Hundreds of thousands, possibly millions are worse off in greece just because schäuble.

If greece were governed by a right wing party, I'm sure he'd have been most generous. Germany put pressure on them to get rid of the leftists.

[ileri62]

The entire case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDU_donations_scandal

[sudosu-]

And where does it say that he was convicted?

[ileri62]

oh right, even though he also lied to court they suspended the procecution. Good old democratic germany