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[–] [email protected] 84 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I think today's German liberals and leftists are both worse at stopping fascism than the people who failed the first time

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

"We know a thing or two about preventing Nazisim"

-Germans in response to Trump/current US conservatives in general

"This ultranationalist, anti immigrant party which was formed in 2013 is now one of the 3 or 4 most powerful political parties in our government and is still growing"

-Also Germans

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We know a thing or two about preventing Nazisim

Yeah... You really did an awesome job preventing that Hitler guy from ever getting any power

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

The Germans were taught how to be racist by America. A couple decades later, they were taught how to be anti-racist, by America

Sorry Germans, America only knows how to do one of those things

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago

first as a uhh um uhhhh

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At least the first time around they had some communists who wanted to stop fascists. Now it's just liberals who passively observe the rise of fascism

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

nah, they're quietly cheering it on cos at least someone will deal with the "immigrant question"...

[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Germans every ti —

“Just received my new AfD membership card”

But I didn’t even finish what I —

“Ja, is no problem, I already joined”


Also,

y’all

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Yank detected?

A lot of Germans just have a really weird hard-on for America in general. It's always the most awful theme-restaurant bollocks as well; terrible line dancing music, Buffalo Springfield jackets with frills, Harley Davidsons, confederate flags painted on Porsches, real cinge shit.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

Don’t forget how much they dig the Hoff like some national fetish.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And they have a ton of people who love to cosplay as 19th century native Americans.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

To be fair, there’s nothing the Germans love more than genocide, they can’t help it, it’s in the Teutonic brainpan

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago
y’all

Yank detected?

Everyone who speaks a bit of english uses "y'all" these days, especially if their native language has "plural you"

[–] [email protected] 58 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 55 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It took me a while to realize this wasn't some shopper loyalty card from Aldi's.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Also it's just Aldi, not Aldi's hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

For some reason, pluralization of singular brands is a thing depending on your dialect of English. I won’t state the regions because I don’t wanna accidentally narrow down where someone lives. Although I guess referencing Aldi already does that a bit.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It's actually not plural, but rather possessive.

It's an example (I think) of a snowclone.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

You’re definitely right about the possessive thing. I’m not sure about the snow clone. I always thought of it like they were treating the name of the store like the last name of the family who owns it. So it’s like a shortening of, “we’re going down to the Aldi’s store.” As if you’d walk in and Mr. Aldi would be behind the counter.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Here in Australia its pretty common.

Aldi's

Nando's

Domino's

McDonald's

Hungry Jack's

Woolies?

Coles?

...

Others, I'm sure. Where do Australians go? Bottle-o always sounded very sing song in a Tolkien sort of way. There's a kebab place we call "Ararat's", but I don't remember the official name. I sometimes remove the possessive/plural to sound funny (bunning)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You've used a conjunction. Aldi is nuts > Aldi's nuts

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Oh my god...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

holy shit no one has ever made this joke before lets-fucking-go

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

I'm an innovator

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago

Insisting on having an actual physical membership card in 2024 and also making it look like an Aldi loyalty card is an extremely German thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Average polisci twitter profile

[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The aldi 2 state solution is funny though. here's a better one though:

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

reminds me of this meme

[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (3 children)

that first tweet does seem fair though. that "reallifelore" channel is hot garbage and though i dont know anything about namibia i fully believe that video is 97% waffling about bullshit

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I don’t know a lot about Namibia either.

Confidently believing the first answer that comes to mind, when a question is posed, is the height of polisci intellect.

Why, if Namibia is so inhospitable, did the Germans try to colonize it? Why are other deserts relatively populous? Israel for example supports a huge population. Hell even Las Vegas has like 1/4 of Namibia’s population by itself.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

Germans didn't just try to colonize it, but genocided hundreds of thousands of people there and the best agricultural land is still owned by settlers until this day and demanded as restitutions by the descendents of the genocide survivors, which may or may not be a reason why German think tanks are running anti-postcolonialism psyops.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (5 children)

France colonized the Sahara. theres minerals and sometimes oil in the desert

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Why, if Namibia is so inhospitable, did the Germans try to colonize it?

Probably for fancy rocks n shit, or just because they can. Wouldn't be the first time Europeans rocked up and settled in a place that the natives knew better than to bother with. Also, did the Germans really try to colonize all the parts that nobody lives in, or did they do the things Europeans usually do and actually go to where people are already living (in other words, the places that are good to live in) and kill the people who were there so they could live there instead?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

any recommendations on channels that do a similar kind of content but aren't hot garbage? used to watch it because the topics and presentation were interesting to me but I eventually I came to the same conclusion about the channel being full of shit

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Withered rose = mask off social fascist?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

German 19 Still With Her-ing mutti-shining

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Sorry if this is dumb but I don’t get what this means, someone explain for my tiny brain please?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

AfD is Germany's major far-right party, and they've been gaining and gaining.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Ah, thank you for the explanation

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

AfD are fascists that want to exterminate brown people from Germany. Usual Euro way of thought

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

I kinda hate the Germans.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm going to say it.

I could fix her (teeth, I'm an orthodontist).

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