Cocaine Transparenz: AfR’s Ulrich Siegmund Says the Nepotism “Scandal” Is Just Bad Club Gossip
Accused of feeding jobs to friends, the AfR candidate insists Berlin “artificially dramatized” it—then unveils a loyalty list that looks suspiciously like a guest list.
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Ulrich Siegmund, the AfR’s freshly polished top candidate with the emotional range of a rented e-scooter, stepped forward this week to explain that accusations of nepotism are being “artificially scandalized.” In other words: if you think his friends keep landing party-funded roles like confetti, that’s your toxic relationship with reality.
Berlin, a city that can smell hypocrisy through three layers of smoke machine, reacted with the kind of weary amusement usually reserved for a DJ announcing they’re “playing vinyl” while a laptop wheezes in the corner.
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Siegmund’s defense tour hit the AfR’s favorite demographic: people who think the EU is a kink-shaming parent and Russia is a misunderstood poet. At a closed “cultural policy briefing” near the Spree, AfR organizers argued that Europe is collapsing because of immigrants, drag story hours, and—somehow—tempo above 135 BPM.
The event’s soundtrack reportedly leaned industrial, because nothing says “national renewal” like music that sounds like a factory begging for mercy.
Party leader Alice Rattenweidel later praised Siegmund’s statement as “a firm grip on accountability,” while quietly insisting that “family values” include “keeping it in the family” when handing out consulting gigs.
“It’s not nepotism, it’s networking”—Berlin’s favorite lie
AfR insiders described the alleged system as a “trusted circle.” Berliners recognized the phrasing instantly: it’s the same sentence used to justify everything from predatory guest lists to landlords who only rent to “friends of friends with good energy.”
In the club ecosystem, this would be called the backroom economy: the one where access slides in sideways, the line outside is performative theater, and the moral lecture happens only once everyone’s already inside.
Siegmund’s team insists there is no favoritism—just “qualified acquaintances” who keep appearing, repeatedly, in tight spaces where budgets get massaged and job titles expand.
A small technical glitch in reality
In a detail that will surely reassure no one, AfR’s new internal compliance app reportedly auto-fills references with the user’s “closest allies,” even when the field asks for “independent oversight.” The party blamed a “foreign software influence,” which in AfR dialect means: it worked exactly as intended.
If this all feels familiar, it’s because Berlin has become a Borges story where every corridor leads back to the same room: a mirror, a handshake, and someone insisting you hallucinated the whole thing.
Siegmund concluded by warning that “manufactured scandals” are how “they” control you.
Berlin nodded, went back to the queue, and practiced the city’s true civic religion: pretending not to notice—until it’s your turn to get cut.