Carnival float from yesterday's parade in Cologne
Edit: Düsseldorf, apparently. But Kölsch is still better than Alt
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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Here's another one of the Carnival floats:
Oh Germany, you really get us. Can we let Germans vote in the next US election? After all, we're already letting Russia take a hand.
Actually, we have about as many Nazi fuckwits by percentage as the US. The difference is that we don't let them leverage 30% into an electoral majority.
And again I call for Germans to vote in our general election. :)
Germany is more familiar than most about what the GOP has become.
Ye, you could say we have insider information
Of course, It Can't Happen Here.
I'm guessing it's a play on the Dolchstoßlegende? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
To backstab someone as a metaphor for betrayal is as common in German as it is in English. So while the origin of the Dolchstoßlegende and this float are linguistically the same, I don't think this is a play on the Dolchstoßlegende.
Edit: I'm confident that they explicitly used a spear instead of a dagger to avoid a direct comparison.
No, no it isn't. Read about that topic, and reflect why this has nothing to do with the float.