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[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Trump derangement syndrome is also huge in Germany,

I had an Australian tell me recently that their liberal party being frothing fascists is because Trump set a precedent for them or something? It's not like they only legalized gay marriages less than a decade ago.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Erdogan is basically the Turkish Trump"

"Milei is basically the Argentinian Trump"

"Wilders is basically the Dutch Trump"

"Orban is basically the Hungarian Trump"

Wow, could there be material reasons for why all these right-wing figures are popping up with similar rhetorics?

NO, IT MUST BE BECAUSE OF THE ORANGE MAN'S BAD VIBES jokerfied

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The most irritating part is knowing that Erdogan and Orban have been in power long before Trump was.

[–] LeninWeave@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

"Hitler is basically the German Trump"

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

trump forced them to be a settler colony, actually

[–] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I honestly can't fathom a nation being dumber than America. Maybe that's my American exceptionalism talking but we really are dumb.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There is something to be said for being openly and unashamedly dumb. I feel like us Europeans have this holier-than-thou superiority complex while still being dumb and horrible as shit. But then again, could also be my bias speaking. I would still rather live here than in the US for material reasons.

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Europeans really do think that they're better than Americans because they have healthcare, and pretend racism and homophobia are American inventions.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Don't forget bad cops. Only US cops are bad and racist, our cops are wholesome 100. Never mind that just a few years ago it came out that like half of all German police stations had secret far-right Whatsapp group chats, just ignore that bit, our cops have a modicum of trigger discipline and don't blatantly gun down black people in the streets so that must mean they're epic Marvel Avengers.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

to be fair, as a bleak ameroid, if we suddenly got universal healthcare and the cops stopped gunning down minorities in the streets with absolute impunity, i would think the Kingdom of Heaven had arrived.

[–] HumanBehaviorByBjork@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

america number 1!!! U S A! U S A! U S A!

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Americans in the room after reading this be like huh

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

As a Dane, please note that while I am bound by blood to hate the Swede, any differences have long since been washed out and we suck as much as, if not more, than them. Just the other day I had a fellow Dane on reddit-logo tell me that they would happily starve for a while if it meant we could keep giving funds to Ukraine..

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Dane... would happily starve"

Congratulations, You've met the least self-aware person in the internet.

[–] WideningGyro@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it was one of those blessed moments that make me go "wait, this is reddit, why on earth am I engaging with these losers?" and my mental health is better for it

[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months 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

[–] EffortPostMcGee@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

As someone who grew up entirely in the US, had hardly zero contact with my German family members, and who fluently speaks, reads and writes German, I have to say your description of German people (on social media) agrees with a similar thing that I think every time I go read what is happening on "German" social media, namely, that some Germans have a very peculiar way of being smug and wrong, such that it is literally indescribable.

That's why when people I know in the US tell me that they'd like to live in Germany because of how much more "radical" German politics are, it so directly contrasts with my own experience that my brain disassociates for the next 20 minutes to protect my Ego from having heard something so absurd.