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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s even worse, it’s Austrian culture.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Austrians are just Germans pretending to be civilized.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

As old joke goes: The most important historical success of Austria was to convince everyone that Hitler was German and Beethoven Austrian.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yep funnily enough gunther is also from upper Austria

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

The crappy joke I came up with is: If the devil had to name his asshole he’d call it Vienna

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Mozart was Austrian though, born in Salzburg, even though Salzburg was only incorporated to Austria after his death, but it was always more tied to Austria than Germany.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

True, but I think the fact that Salzburg was technically a different polity than the archduchy of Austria is what the saying refers to. I might be misremembering it and it might actually be Beethoven thoughedgeworth-shrug

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well Mozart himself probably did consider himself German in broader and probably rather cultural sense, especially that he lived before the rise of modern idea of nation when that question was redefined to what we mean today. Not to mention Austria was always somewhat peculiar about it too.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If I had to generalise it I’d say we’re a weird mix of eastern europeans pretending to be Germans

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

So theyre just germans?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Victoria 3 rules: if you can form Germany, you're Germany.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lol not beating the tiki torch whites accusations.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

To be fair fackelzuege are a thing the left also does in this part of the world.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, I'm never fair to Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

this part of the world.

Russia?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Nah Edit: But honestly they might do them there as well.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago

WTF are they going to do? Throw bodies at Russian artillery right before winter?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

Wrong way lads

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago

Westoids have been like this about Russia for over a century and then wonder why Russia has never liked them

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago

pictured here: defeated and humiliated NATO SS-Sonderkommando, leading the formal withdrawal from st. basils towards an abandoned quarry to be permanently demobilized.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’ll never forgive tech bros for giving the cringiest idiots on the planet the tools to create cringe on a level never thought possible. Our eyes did not evolve for this, we were not meant to see this kind of cringe. We haven’t had time to adapt!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Techbros are yearning, hoping, even kind of praying for those cringe generators to become sapient enough to proactively serve them (and as helpmeets to gross nerds, to suffer) but for now they'll settling for ease of cringe posting.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was expecting them to light the nazi rags on fire ngl

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah same. Probably didn't want people to breath the Hitler fumes

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe it's apocryphal but in one of the episodes of Soviet Storm (Russian Great Patriotic War documentary series, you can find an English dub on YouTube) they claimed that they gave gloves to the men carrying the Nazi banners since they didn't want to touch the hitlerite rags lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

No, it is correct, you can actually see it in photos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

Just need the white hoods to complete the picture

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago

Pictured: Some very fine people a-little-trolling

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love how this loser is a celebrity here.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He's just so unhinged that it becomes super funny.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

It is, it's really fucking funny. Every post I see of him is bound to be a banger, and they always are.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Peak gunther moment

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago

Intimidating your geopolitical opponent with awkward AI generated images of soldiers. Allow me to inarticulately mumble about Guy Debord.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

Oh fuck, Gunther got his hands on the AI slop generators. Does this mean he will stop hand making balkanisation maps?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Finally we have arived at dark Gunther!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

We were warned when boomers starting using facebook, but we didn't listen. We had a chance to ban them from the internet before it rots their brains. Now look at them, all using the AI slop generators.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

This ain't it chief!!