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[–] [M] 2 points 1 month ago

Hey everyone, let’s keep the discussion constructive. This topic is important, and diverse perspectives are valuable. Remember, long reply chains rarely change minds, but they often escalate tension. If a conversation isn’t productive, consider stepping back. Let’s focus on sharing ideas, not winning arguments. Thanks for keeping it respectful!

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  • [–] 69 points 1 month ago (17 children)

    Germany is giving israel weapons to exterminate Palestinians

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    [–] 56 points 1 month ago (26 children)

    Can't make this shit up. Germany needs a better army because Russia is actively attacking it, so what do they do? Sell their shit to Israel.

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    [–] 44 points 1 month ago (25 children)

    Germany always manages to be on the wrong side of history

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

    I think Germany has a special relationship with "whiteness" that makes it especially vulnerable to fascism, especially in how Germany is perceived and treated by other groups of white people.

    Also though, Germany is a culture bursting with contradictions, within a year of Mein Kempf being published another novel was published The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann by an originally German author who moved to the US.

    The Magic Mountain is firmly cemented in German culture... and is indisputably one of the best novels ever written in German or English and is certainly one of the most humanist and openly accepting of humanity in all its "failures" of any great novel of the 20th century. The Magic Mountain is the most supremely antifascist novel imaginable and it is equally allergic to racism and discrimination.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Mann

    With the start of the Cold War, he was increasingly frustrated by rising McCarthyism. As a "suspected communist", he was required to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee, where he was termed "one of the world's foremost apologists for Stalin and company".[19] He was listed by HUAC as being "affiliated with various peace organizations or Communist fronts".

    Being in his own words a non-communist, rather than an anti-communist, Mann openly opposed the allegations: "As an American citizen of German birth, I finally testify that I am painfully familiar with certain political trends. Spiritual intolerance, political inquisitions, and declining legal security, and all this in the name of an alleged 'state of emergency'. ... That is how it started in Germany."

    As Mann joined protests against the jailing of the Hollywood Ten and the firing of schoolteachers suspected of being Communists, he found "the media had been closed to him".[20] Finally, he was forced to quit his position as Consultant in Germanic Literature at the Library of Congress,[21] and in 1952, he returned to Europe, to live in Kilchberg, near Zürich, Switzerland. Here he initially lived in a rented house and bought his last house there in 1954 (which later his widow and then their son Golo lived in until their deaths).

    He never again lived in Germany, though he regularly traveled there. His most important German visit was in 1949, at the 200th birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, attending celebrations in Frankfurt am Main (then West Germany) and Weimar (then East Germany), as a statement that German culture extended beyond the new political borders.[22] He also visited Lübeck, where he saw his parents' house, which was partially destroyed by the bombing of Lübeck in World War II (and only later rebuilt).

    History is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (16 children)

    I think Germany has a special relationship with “whiteness”

    No that's the US. Racism in Germany and Europe as a whole, has always been about cultural and ethnic differences more than skin color. The persecuted slavs or jews were just as pasty as any German, unlike the "honorary Aryans" in Japan.

    Germany is a culture bursting with contradictions, within a year of Mein Kempf being published another novel was published The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

    Two different authors with different backgrounds writing different books? What a uniquely contradictory culture Germany is.
    Disregard that one of them is lauded for its literary and cultural significance while the other is basically as important as the art of the deal.

    And of course the explanation for contemporary German culture and its problematic relation to Israel can be found in the literature of 1924.
    Nothing significant happened since then, right? Everyone was on vacation in the 30s and 40s. Occupation, the Cold War, the literal formation of the country of Israel? Surely none of the could have any relevance.

    I do agree that the Magic Mountain is a great book.
    But although some of its themes do go against aspects of fascism, calling it "the most supremely antifascist novel imaginable " seems a bit of a stretch.

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    [–] 30 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    We are part of a genocide... i can't believe our government approves this...

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    [–] 26 points 1 month ago (25 children)

    Ffs Germany, why do you do this

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    [–] 24 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    We have a major global oligarch problem.

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    [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    Rich ppl making money is a universal threat to all nations.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    WTF are you doing Germany? up to your old tricks i see

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    [–] 14 points 1 month ago

    That's so sad... 😑

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

    > Gives Israel a billion dollars, because they're so sorry.

    > Still elects Nazis.

    Edit: Although, Jesus, people are big mad at them in here. Russia and "Belarus" are still the problem, and Germany is still a valuable member of the EU.

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    German people in power dont do a genocide, challenge level: IMPOSSIBLE.

    tho tbf it seema most other governments in eu have this brain bug as well. Bibi really got the boomers in a stranglehold

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    I think it's time for the German elite to let it go. That's it, it was awful, but it was almost a century ago. No living German was part of it. It's time to move on.

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    What the actual fuck? It seems like no world government is actually carrying out the will of its citizens anymore. I eagerly await a global revolution where we all make it stop.

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Would be much cooler if they also sold 2 billion dollars worth of arms exports to their neighborsto keep everyone happy...

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