POV you are German in 2026 and you just got back from the World Cup match. Germany was humiliated by Paraguay (there are more Germans on their team than on yours). The next day, at 6:45 in the morning, you head back to work, with a 60% tax to fund the energy transition, gender change, and social assistance that your government hands out to Eritrean immigrants who declare themselves gay to fit into the system.

This summer, you're sweating through 38-degree heat without air conditioning because your Green Party labeled it a weapon of mass destruction.

At the supermarket, your favorite sausages have been replaced by cricket ones, subsidized with your taxes to save the penguins and you may get stabbed while waiting in line.

At work, you declared yourself non-binary because it's the only way to snag a promotion, thanks to affirmative discrimination.

Hot water costs you 18 cents a liter ever since they cut off the Russian gas. You shower in three minutes, and the government sends you legal notices because your usage exceeds the federal energy limit. You cry under the lukewarm water.

At 16, you protested against nuclear power plants and voted for Angela Merkel, who put those measures into place. Now, Russian gas is cut off, the internal combustion engine industry is tanking, and electricity is a luxury: you're even thinking about burning your IKEA furniture to heat your place this winter.

Meanwhile, your distant cousin in Paraguay, pays 0% taxes, fires up his 5-liter Ford V8 pickup, and gets ready to celebrate with a barbecue and German beer. It's gonna be a shitty summer, and tweeting about it won’t change shit. But at least you’re not racist. Cheers.