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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the caption was way more than that, it started with a quote of the beginning of a popular German proverb on Schadenfreude:

"Wer den Schaden hat..." - "Who has the damage..."

The latter part of the proverb exists in two versions, the more benign one ends in "...braucht für den Spott nicht zu sorgen" - "...doesn't have to ask for ridicule", the more cynical version ends in "...spottet jeder Beschreibung" - "...is ridiculous beyond description". Adding appropriate ending was left to the reader.

To be honest, I was surprised of seeing such a sense of humour in Scholz and his PR team, the jogging accident must have scraped off some of the Teflon he is usually coated with.