If anything, politicians should be the first people you are protected to critisize. Politicians work for you — the voting citizen — and if they are doing a poor job you have the right to let them know.

It is frankly insane to watch the frog boil in places where you can have your house raided for insulting someone online. There is a wave of government authoritarianism in many places around the globe, and many citizens are happy with these growing nanny states.

It was more like „you’re such a wiener“. The most harmless way of referring to a penis. Pimmelgate made it to Wikipedia.

Do you have some article related to this I could read ?

Germany is really similar to Japan in that it’s exterior seems very different to what’s going on internally.

I don't know of any in English; here's a German one. https://m.tagesspiegel.de/politik/pimmelgate-um-andy-grote-t...

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English version, thanks to Google translate

https://m-tagesspiegel-de.translate.goog/politik/pimmelgate-...