I once played video games at a friend’s place and we were smoking lots of weed. He had told me a friend was going to come over later. So later that day the door bell rings, I can see him opening the door from where I’m sitting. Female cop stands in front of door and I briefly panicked.
“Hi Julia, come in.” (to me) “Let’s order pizza.”
I’ll never forget this image of a German cop in uniform smoking a bong.
That is all true, but desperation combined with a bad understanding of scientific facts and the unwillingness to at least make sure injecting your own semen isn’t a very bad idea, that’s no excuse.
Okay, so, I like humanism, I don’t want people to die and all that.
But am I an asshole for secretly wishing they’d just let Darwin Award winners like this one remove themselves from the gene pool?
In America, this mindset saying that “what the government tells us is wrong” by default seems to be way more prevalent than in other countries. Combine that with subpar education and you got some really dumb fucking morons who believe crazy shit, even about WW2.
As a German native speaker I can read all the historical sources down to the smallest Gestapo police report, or the death sentences handed out to regular citizens who only made the mistake of publicly stating that they thought “the war could not be won”. I’ve listened to all the speeches, read so many documents.
I also wanted to find out what my family did during the Nazi regime, enquired at the Bundesarchiv about NSDAP membership of my grandfathers and -mothers. I’m 49 yrs old so I knew them, and when I was a kid one of my grandmothers once shouted at me for saying Hitler was a criminal - she said I knew nothing about the times and how dare I have an opinion about that and I should shut up. What I found out about my family in my quest for documents wasn’t nice.
What I’m trying to say is this in a nutshell: I think I have a level of knowledge about the Nazi regime almost on par with that of a historian.
And let me assure you, they were even worse - WAY worse - than the contemporary American History Channel audience believes.
As much as it pains me to say this as a German - the Nazis needed to be stopped by all means. If that took killing civilians, even doing things that could be considered war crimes - very regrettable, but no German could or should blame anyone else than the Nazis for everything that happened.
The fifth of my country who vote for the AfD are historically illiterate and uneducated people by and large. I reckon most of them couldn’t even tell you the year the Dresden bombing happened. Many of them would find OP’s pills hard to swallow only because they’re too dumb to find their own mouth.
Also, Berlin is a progressive island surrounded by a sea of assholes, that’s why I prefer staying here.
I really didn’t know there were this many people in America holding that belief. Despite Trump and MAGA I still kinda hoped that this would be a fringe view held by only the most delusional people over there.
It’s really disconcerting to find myself to be more accepting of reality than the people whose ancestors freed us from tyranny.
Yes, but who are these people?
I’m German and except the small minority of backwards thinking neo nazi pricks I don’t see and hear much of these “great many people” you speak of. Granted, I live in liberal minded Berlin so my perception of this may be a little less objective. I’m not trying to contradict you, I’m genuinely interested who you refer to exactly.
I would be interested to know who exactly OP thinks would find these pills hard to swallow.
Oh, I didn’t fact check the headline, I merely rephrased it to include OP’s correction, yet still somehow make it about the economy. Which conservative newspapers like doing. That was my only point.
I guess you’re right, 4°C won’t kill everyone. But it sure as hell won’t make life easier for us.
As a German, I will never understand how there can still be Germans left who keep glorifying these two.
I mean, any normal and civilized person must abhor war and the crimes that were committed in the name of the Kaiser and Hitler. For 99% of civilization, this should be more than enough to hate them.
But even if, for some reason, you’re a German nationalist prick who is somehow okay with the notion of conquest and attacking peaceful nations - you should still hate these two assholes for all the damage they caused to Germany. Just looking at the map, all the German territory that was lost.
My point is - it’s completely illogical and bizarre that Nazis even still exist. Their existence violates all principles of reason and humanity.
The economy will shrink by 100% if world warms by 4°C.
Do you think it’s hip to be square?