That is indeed an accurate analogy, considering the desperate desire of both groups to be viewed by others as being educated and enlightened.
Posted on 10/15/2022 7:45:08 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne
PS:
My great grandparents came to the US through Ellis Island in the 1890s.
They came from Germany.
Me, I've never been there.
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Wie geht es dir?
Schön, Ihre Bekanntschaft zu machen.
Yes, it's just like Russia. Why mimic that? America and Canada are a pretty good ways down that same path. Again, why mimic Russia? Why mimic the EU? Why mimic Soros? Why mimic the WEF? All of these governments and elitist groups want US all dead. Why support any of it with words or deeds?
Any proof to that? Rhetorical Q ... because you are a trashbag who makes stuff up.
Why is everyone - literally everyone - from the Canadian $***hole like you?
Never met one who didn’t deserve to be smashed.
The seemingly forever reign of Merkel didn’t help things.
Stationed there three years in ‘60’s. Maternal side came over in late ‘90’s (18 that is). Wife had cousin in Wehrmacht who died at Stalingrad.
Tschüss!
I never heard that when I lived there both times or in Austria when I lived there. It was always either “freut mich” or the more formal “es gefaellt mir Ihnen zu treffen”.
With the development of supercomputers, and AI, central planning could work. The lethal fault is, it destroys men’s souls. Read The road to Serfdom.
Sehr, sehr glücklich, wieder in den Vereinigten Staaten zu sein. Wir werden diesen Winter warm bleiben. Prost! A bissel spät aber....
“Russia/USSR has a long history of doing this...there’s ample evidence out there of Russia artificially trying to manipulate European public opinion”
Your post alluded to the recent rallies against the sanctions. Do you have links on that or do you just figure that Europeans don’t mind paying 5X for power and still risking freezing to death, for a war that didn’t need to affect them?
Your observation is partially true and partially incorrect, unless you have "your self-selected group of friends" in Germany telling you something else. Have you such personal connections? If so, what is their testimony?
As to "susceptibility to government propaganda," one could be writing about almost anywhere in the West, including these United States.
As to "non-player characters," I highly recommend Milton Mayer's "They Thought They Were Free, the Germans, 1933-45." A University of Chicago pub from 1955, with a reprint in 2017.
This has been my view, up close and personal. The pretty flag and often perky Ursula are the mask over an interior face which scowls and threatens all who would disobey its diktats.
Glad you’re back!
Es freut mich ausserordentlich zich kennenzulernen.
“The German population has a long history of susceptibility to government propaganda and control. They are a nation of non-player characters.”
Ever listened to NPR?
Correction: Es freut mich ausserordentlich Sie kennenzulernen.
Je parle Français comme une vache espagnole.
(I speak French like a Spanish cow.)
For the decades we were there, we had two completely avoidable English language stations -- CNN International and BBC -- which we never watched. We had German, of course, as well as French, Italian and even one Nederlande sender, as well as Polish and Turkish, neither of which I gained any proficiency. Mostly we got our news from internet sites, including this one.
We've been back now for about two years, and I have managed to almost never listen to NPR which I rename National Political Radio, all Left all the time. In the vehicles, we listen to music on CD and at home we still don't have a television with any local or national news stations. Luddites by choice, when the choice is to avoid the non-stop and one-sided political messaging.
That is indeed an accurate analogy, considering the desperate desire of both groups to be viewed by others as being educated and enlightened.
Me, too.
You will make quite an impression upon a German woman if, when meeting her for the first time, you take her hand, smile, and look her in the eyes while saying, “Es freut mich ausserordentlich Sie kennenzulernen.” She might even giggle.
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