They're espousing horse shoe theory for those that can't read German. Also, not a word in response to the colonialism charge, because Germans don't think they're complicit in colonialism.
Because to them the workings of the "free market" don't constitute colonialism. They have issued the second most foreign debt in absolute terms, but they also think the German republic does not bear responsibility for the colonial actions of a government, which does not have direct continuity with the one that exists now.
I've had earnest debates with Germans that say it's not their responsibility to return cultural artifacts to Benin, because they didn't take them in the first place.
Ok Hanz, if I steal your grandpa's favorite lederhosen and sell them to my buddy for a deutschmark, does he get to keep them? No Fritz, he's gonna have to give them back regardless, and if he knew I stole them, which, by the way, your... frankly awful ancestors totally knew, then he's committed a crime himself. Dieter, isn't this sposed to be a country of laws?
I mean the horseshoes theory is there allright, common opinion is however that is that Greenpeace should be classified as a terrorist organization (because no one there knows what terrorism means) and also that by forcing VW to remake the 1000 keys they actually contributed far more to the enviromental problem than VW ever has.
Guess how /r/de responded to this.
Guess
Most likely in German.
Entirely correct on all fronts :germany-cool:
VERSTANDEN! ÜBERRASCHUNG!
I know all my german from Worms Armageddon
SANITATER!
Achtung! Hauptbahnhof! Stadtbahn!
They're espousing horse shoe theory for those that can't read German. Also, not a word in response to the colonialism charge, because Germans don't think they're complicit in colonialism.
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Because to them the workings of the "free market" don't constitute colonialism. They have issued the second most foreign debt in absolute terms, but they also think the German republic does not bear responsibility for the colonial actions of a government, which does not have direct continuity with the one that exists now.
I've had earnest debates with Germans that say it's not their responsibility to return cultural artifacts to Benin, because they didn't take them in the first place.
Ok Hanz, if I steal your grandpa's favorite lederhosen and sell them to my buddy for a deutschmark, does he get to keep them? No Fritz, he's gonna have to give them back regardless, and if he knew I stole them, which, by the way, your... frankly awful ancestors totally knew, then he's committed a crime himself. Dieter, isn't this sposed to be a country of laws?
It ain't
Nah, they're being way more reactionary.
I mean the horseshoes theory is there allright, common opinion is however that is that Greenpeace should be classified as a terrorist organization (because no one there knows what terrorism means) and also that by forcing VW to remake the 1000 keys they actually contributed far more to the enviromental problem than VW ever has.
Germans? I do not believe this.
Shocking, is it not?
Feel like pure shit, just want August Bebel back.