• UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    3 years ago

    As a German: Because we have a lot of Holocaust memorials and are taught a lot about it in school, we love jerking each other off about how much we’ve learned from our past as opposed to say, Japan, who deny the atrocities they’ve committed to this day.

    But of course, all the changes and improvements are completely superficial and meaningless. We are a neoliberal hellhole and maybe the most pathetically loyal US client state in all of Europe, which is saying a lot. Our political parties will performatively decline engaging with the fascist AfD, but still implement all their same policies because we are a capitalist nation in decline.

    Germans think because their newscasters speak in a monotonous, boring voice, that what they’re being presented is completely unbiased and nothing but the truth. They really do believe themselves to be the adults in the room. Trump derangement syndrome is also huge in Germany, our equivalents of Bill Maher or whatever still make fun of him, the president of a foreign country who hasn’t been in office for over 3 years, while self-fellating over how much better our democracy is because instead of 2 identical parties, we have 5.

    Germans think they’re the most reasonable, objective and intellectual people in the West while blindly following whatever the current US propaganda campaign says, so completely deluded, ignorant and pathetically loyal that we will happily shoot ourselves in the leg to serve American interests.

    I fucking hate this country. I hate its self-aggrandizing, pseudo-repentant, pathetic ass-kissing of Israel. I hate how everyone in this country is a staunch defender of the status quo, how everyone loves to dunk on America with a less-than-surface level understanding of why America is the way it is and complete ignorance about how we’re on the exact same track but maybe 3 years behind. Even our “left” loves Israel because there is not a single person in this country who understands literally anything, it’s all fucking vibes. Israel could literally come out tomorrow like "We have decided to rebrand the war against Hamas as “Holocaust 2"” and we would lick their assholes for it.

    Germans are probably the dumbest, most ignorant and at the same time most self-important people on this godforsaken planet. The dumbest American is 10x more curious about the world than the smartest German. If the US told us to, we would happily exterminate the Jews again, our news would tell us that the Jews started it and that would be enough for the average German to feel proud and righteous about it.

      • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        3 years ago

        Be grateful that you can’t read German twitter

        The amount of Israel worship among self-described communists would activate the school shooter gene in US leftists

        Edit: I’ve said before that the reason why the entire world can dunk on the US and the UK is because everyone understands what you’re saying at all times. Nobody outside of Sweden can dunk on unhinged ramblings of random Swedes in TV interviews, because their interviews are in Swedish.

        • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          3 years ago

          Be grateful that you can’t read German twitter

          The amount of Israel worship among self-described communists would activate the school shooter gene in US leftists

          Holy shit. susie-laugh

        • Ho_Chi_Chungus [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          3 years ago

          The amount of Israel worship among self-described communists would activate the school shooter gene in US leftists

          and they say Germans aren’t funny michael-laugh

        • Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          3 years ago

          And this is why I love to constantly throw shit at Europeans. Even if I don’t understand you, I have enough intimate intuition to know you’re an entire continent of filthy swine rolling in the mud just like us.

          Edit: also screw the sweds. All my Danish and Norwegian ancestors on a part of my family tree hate the sweds.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 years ago

      I think there’ll be a split. The, eh, vanilla modern German view would be strongly in favor of it (EDIT: the uprising). But the fringe where the opposite opinion is acceptable starts not that far from it.

  • Cunigulus [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    German libs seem to be the only ones in the West truly enjoying supporting Israel’s genocide. They’re totally convinced that supporting Israeli murder of Palestinians makes them clever/moral good boys who are just better than everyone else. Everyone else is sheepish about it or just doesn’t want to talk about it, but the Germans watch their media blatantly propagandizing them to support this crime against humanity and eat it up like Uncle Sam dripped some lard over their kibble this morning. It really encapsulates everything that is sick and wrong in the German political consciousness. They’ve really got a lot going for them as a society, as loathe as many of us here are to admit it, but it makes them so damned arrogant and blind to their ideological domination.

  • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Germans project and believe an image of themselves as being a self-critical society that acknowledges the evil of their Nazi past and has now moved past it.

    At the same time, they barely even understand who the Nazis were and how they came to power and who beat them into submission so they think it’s just being racist and having swastikas.

    As such, they’re still pretty fash even though they don’t know it and feel they have special brownie points to lecture everyone else about what counts as racist or Nazi even though they’re idiots.