Germans borrowed it from us, rode it hard, and then cleaned it off hoping that we wouldn’t remember that they still had it.
But then we saw it sitting in the corner and offered to help them fix it up. They said nah, let’s just forget about it. We said that we really wanted to fix it and that it would be a fun project to work on together. They told us to take our drunk asses home, so we got mad and dragged it back home.
But here we are! We’ve got it back and we finally fixed it! Now we’re practicing donuts while the tech crew is building the ramp. We keep talking about how we’re gonna do the biggest jump ever with a triple backflip, and everyone said that we’re gonna chicken out. The extra-concerning part is that we never bothered with a landing ramp.
Nah man, we’re gonna jump this thing straight into the stadium seats. We’re revving that engine and y’all better hope that we loosened the nuts enough for the wheels to fall off, or that the sugar people are putting in the gas tank works so that we crash out halfway.
Especially those idiots who paid extra for front row seats.
then cleaned it off hoping that we wouldn’t remember that they still had it
They said nah, let’s just forget about it.
Except Germany has a rather unique culture of remembrance about it. I’ll never forget the school trip to the Bergen-Belsen memorial site, that historical video where they used shovel loaders to push hundreds of corpses in mass graves which we just stood in front of is permanently engraved in my head.
This culture is one of the reasons US Jews who once fled from Germany, or their descendants, are now increasingly getting out of the US and regain german citizenship through Article 116 of our constitution with a simple letter to the Embassy (usually followed by an apology letter including an invitation from said Embassy). It’s quite the irony.
i’ve always been conflicted because germany clearly seemed to be really all in on the culture of remembrance thing but then stuff like what happened to philipp auerbach in “reformed” germany and a ton of nazis joining nato and the tolerance of afd makes me reconsider
Hmmm good point that shows a couple of the numerous flaws in my analogy, so allow me to use mental gymnastics to support my analogy.
Germany continues teaching how it was used and the dangers of anyone using it. They’re not pretending like they never used it, they’re just hoping that by hiding it under a tarp and only showing the damages it caused will prevent anyone from peeking under the tarp and going, “you sure? It looks pretty cool, still.”
I am half tempted to research my family tree and see if Germany would take me. But I am too poor to move, and…well, I kinda want my homeland to not suck. If my blood can help the tree of liberty…well, maybe I can overcome cowardice and fight.
Cannot know who I really am, until the call for enlistment has arrived.
Actually, today’s Germany is quite happy to take anyone with some sort of qualification, no matter your family tree. If you are Jewish or not, that won’t really make a difference to immigration requirements, as far as I know.
However, there is quite a bit of antisemitism going on in the Muslim communities, I’m afraid. As a German I’m really proud that our country is so open and welcoming to refugees and immigrants, but unfortunately people don’t just drop all of their own prejudices when crossing the border.
Also, the rise of the extremist AfD party is a very worrying development. These Nazi thugs basically want to copy Trump’s policies and they also want Germany to leave the EU. If they somehow get voted into power, you would definitely regret having moved here.
Depending on your pov, the US has always been in its nazi phase. Ask the natives or people of color.
So much so that the US inspired the Nazis
Germans borrowed it from us, rode it hard, and then cleaned it off hoping that we wouldn’t remember that they still had it.
But then we saw it sitting in the corner and offered to help them fix it up. They said nah, let’s just forget about it. We said that we really wanted to fix it and that it would be a fun project to work on together. They told us to take our drunk asses home, so we got mad and dragged it back home.
But here we are! We’ve got it back and we finally fixed it! Now we’re practicing donuts while the tech crew is building the ramp. We keep talking about how we’re gonna do the biggest jump ever with a triple backflip, and everyone said that we’re gonna chicken out. The extra-concerning part is that we never bothered with a landing ramp.
Nah man, we’re gonna jump this thing straight into the stadium seats. We’re revving that engine and y’all better hope that we loosened the nuts enough for the wheels to fall off, or that the sugar people are putting in the gas tank works so that we crash out halfway.
Especially those idiots who paid extra for front row seats.
Except Germany has a rather unique culture of remembrance about it. I’ll never forget the school trip to the Bergen-Belsen memorial site, that historical video where they used shovel loaders to push hundreds of corpses in mass graves which we just stood in front of is permanently engraved in my head. This culture is one of the reasons US Jews who once fled from Germany, or their descendants, are now increasingly getting out of the US and regain german citizenship through Article 116 of our constitution with a simple letter to the Embassy (usually followed by an apology letter including an invitation from said Embassy). It’s quite the irony.
i’ve always been conflicted because germany clearly seemed to be really all in on the culture of remembrance thing but then stuff like what happened to philipp auerbach in “reformed” germany and a ton of nazis joining nato and the tolerance of afd makes me reconsider
Hmmm good point that shows a couple of the numerous flaws in my analogy, so allow me to use mental gymnastics to support my analogy.
Germany continues teaching how it was used and the dangers of anyone using it. They’re not pretending like they never used it, they’re just hoping that by hiding it under a tarp and only showing the damages it caused will prevent anyone from peeking under the tarp and going, “you sure? It looks pretty cool, still.”
I am half tempted to research my family tree and see if Germany would take me. But I am too poor to move, and…well, I kinda want my homeland to not suck. If my blood can help the tree of liberty…well, maybe I can overcome cowardice and fight.
Cannot know who I really am, until the call for enlistment has arrived.
Actually, today’s Germany is quite happy to take anyone with some sort of qualification, no matter your family tree. If you are Jewish or not, that won’t really make a difference to immigration requirements, as far as I know.
However, there is quite a bit of antisemitism going on in the Muslim communities, I’m afraid. As a German I’m really proud that our country is so open and welcoming to refugees and immigrants, but unfortunately people don’t just drop all of their own prejudices when crossing the border.
Also, the rise of the extremist AfD party is a very worrying development. These Nazi thugs basically want to copy Trump’s policies and they also want Germany to leave the EU. If they somehow get voted into power, you would definitely regret having moved here.
Fascism is just capitalism in crisis, imperial boomerang shit.
It’s just visible now to Americans now that the guns are being turned inward