45
AmErika! (hexbear.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

I thought this tagline was funny cuz they say AmErika. Erika is a shitty German war song about your sweety. As far as war songs about your sweety go, Erika is both fascist and pales in comparison to Katyusha, the best sweety war song.

all 22 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is sort of incidental but whenever I come out as trans I fully plan on including the line "I'm Erika, FUCK YEAH"

That said it was annoying how R*dditors felt the need to repeatedly remind me that there is a shitty German war song about one's sweety that happens to share my name... I would frankly just like for that song to be lost to the sands of time because I sure as Hell ain't gonna spell my name with a C.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
    • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Can't even get it right, It's Amerikkka. God, do liberals need us to correct them every time?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
    • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    They call it AmEriKa because it’s a reference to the Nazi song Erika. Never let the tankies fool you into thinking they’re communist otherwise they would’ve called it AMoniKa, referring to the East German song.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    pales in comparison to Katyusha, the best sweety war song

    Damn straight

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
    • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Dark eyed Cossack girl is my favorite sweetheart song because it isn't even about his sweetheart, it's about some girl stealing his horse. I love the commentary of the artist saying "oh wow she is charging so low for her labor, that's awful" then she runs off with it

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
    • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Serious question, where does the amerika spelling come from? I get amerikkka, and that's fun to type. Is amerika just a shortened version of amerikkka intended as a sort of dogwhistle for it, or is there a separate origin of that spelling?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    I believe the German spelling for a lot of things that - in English have the letter ‘c’ in it - use the letter ‘K.’ For example, America and Africa is Amerika and Afrika. The Germans also use K’s in a lot of their own words (Freikorps). And Germany is associated with white fascism and Nazism which also coincides with the KKK, which historically used vocabulary with Ks in it (Klan, Koran, made up words).

    I don’t know when it became popularly used as a pejorative against the west, but the most recent example I can think of is Settlers by J. Sakai. However, I’ve seen non Marxist/left black supremacists also use the K variant of spelling so it’s not exclusive to anyone.

    In essence, it’s comparing America (and any other western country with a C/K in its name) to the KKK as well as Nazi Germany.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Literally just because Amerika is the German spelling and German = Nazis

    It always felt kinda weird to me, because there are in fact a lot of other languages where America is spelled with a K, and German was also the language of Marx and the DDR

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Oooh, of course. Yeah I see what it's going for, it does seem kinda toothless though.

    Side note: I love referring to it as the DDR and not the GDR because DDR is also a fun game snom

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
    • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Libs invent new Maoist dialect

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
    •
    [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Personally I'm a Monika enjoyer

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •