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[-] seven_phone@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

I am not sure 1.5m Germans all deciding on a single course of action is something to be happy about.

[-] weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de 60 points 1 month ago

We have passed the torch of a fascist dystopia to another country.

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

During WW2, there were multiple

[-] FelixCress@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, German=Nazi reference, how original.

[-] alleycat@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

You have Trump now. It'd be our turn to make jokes, if we had any humour.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 10 points 1 month ago

Nah, making fun of germans is always ok, especially now that at least 1 in 5 voters are voting for literal Nazis again in Germany.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nearly 100 years on time to move on and focus on the ones that carried it on I think

[-] Obelix@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Why? Can you explain a little bit?

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 24 points 1 month ago

*hurrdurr* Germany! Hitler! *hurrdurr*

[-] seven_phone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I am not sure if you are a student of history but twice before the Germans decided to go to war and have as their foe the world.

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago

We happily take the blame for WW2, but WW1 is on Austria!

[-] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 month ago

Don't know about "happily". "Readily" might be more accurate.

[-] einkorn@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

On second thought... yeah.

[-] seven_phone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It was a quote from Norm Macdonald, comedy - look it up if German search engines lower themselves with such humourous returns. The Germans are what they are, today they fought against appeasement and led a European announcement of greatly increased defense spending to support Ukraine and the world more widely, a difficult and noble decision. Filling the gap left as the US falls ever further into shame.

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

And how is that related to balcony solar?

[-] muelltonne@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

And does this have anything to do with generating power from solar panels on your own balcony?

[-] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

A mere drop in the bucket when 77m have decided on a much worse course of action in another country.

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