There’s a famous Reagan joke:
"Two men, an American and a Russian were arguing. One said, in my country I can go to the white house walk to the president’s office and pound the desk and say “Mr president! I don’t like how you’re running things in this country!” The Russian said “I can do that too!”
“Really?”
“Yes! I can go to the Kremlin, walk into the general secretary’s office and pound the desk and say, Mr. secretary, I don’t like how Reagan is running his country!”
This lemmitor did the joke completely unironically with Germany’s “free press” being able to attack Germany’s opponents.
There’s also that joke where the Soviet Russian commends the westerner for being superior at propaganda, and the westerner says “But we don’t have any propaganda?”
A CIA agent and a KGB agent are having a drink together, the CIA agent says, ‘Soviet propaganda is so blatant and obvious, I don’t know how it works for you guys.’
The KGB agent says, ‘You’re right, we’re looking to make new propaganda that’s more subtle. Like your American propaganda.’
The CIA agent says, ‘What propaganda?’
Imagine being this far up your own ass. Bet that free press breathlessly reported on saddam’s nukes too.
that press was so far up the US state dept ass that you had german reporters on german television “reporting” in german about “iraqi” this or that and not the actual german word “irakische”/“iraker”.
Is that real?
yeah I saw it live here is “Der Spiegel” lamenting it https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/zwiebelfisch/zwiebelfisch-abc-iraker-irakis-a-315118.html
Oh shit lmao that makes Dune feel even MORE on the nose: Arrakis = Iraker/Irakis
Thanks
Wow. Just wow.
It’s like they wrote it for us
Can’t wait to read what that FreePressTM said about the Gaza genocide all these years
welcher genozid? du antisemit! /s
The Free Press said Germans are experts in genocide, so you can’t criticize Israel
If the mark of a free press is its willingness to say bad things about the state’s enemies, then every country that ever existed has had a free press.
Germany literally places sanctions on people and media organizations in their country that support Palestine:
https://thered.stream/eu-sanctions-red-media-founder-for-covering-germanys-pro-palestine-crackdown/
By far the biggest challenge for Germans will be to understand that in order to decouple from the USA, it is not enough to simply stop buying their stuff. You have to stop unconditionally believing what American persons and institutions claim, and this especially applies to claims of the past.
Because how can you be truly free from your old master when they can still control your thoughts through past lies? But Germans, by and large, aren’t even cognizant of the origin of their beliefs. They hold their assertions true to their hearts like immutable laws of nature, imprinted on them since childhood. To them, these claims about China, about North Korea, about Iran and Russia, might as well be the word of god. Unshakeable axioms.
And as long as this remains the case, they will never truly be free.
the DDR was the only legitimate German stateDecouple from ze USA??? Zen whai are we learning ze englisch wort für “Anschluss”!
mhm the smugness of a regular tagesschau reader. i love how germans scream ‘propaganda’ while being hardliners when it comes to state santioned opinions.
I have yet to see the free press here report about Germany currently being accused of facilitating genocide at the Court of International Justice. Downplaying Germany’s transgressions strongly smacks of German propaganda.
And they say Germans have no humor
The smug aura mocks but I can’t stop laughing.
We really need a jokerfied
How do you think it would look? Tough to read as Joker without a mouth, but it does seem like a good bit
One side of the mouth has the cables twisted slightly upwards into a joker grin and the colour scheme is shifted slightly to be akin to the joker. I don’t have the skills to do it and I don’t want to make AI slop, but that’s how I would do it.
Please tell me someone grilled them about Palestine
Click Lonk and you can go look
Pls lonk
In comments here lonk is there, looks like green guy, got sword, pretty hat
you didn’t include a link…
Sorry, it’s in the comments hidden as a green guy with a sword. I’ll add it to the description. I kept it out originally because I just wanted us to point and laugh, not create a massive dogpile. But I won’t deprive the people of its wants
Ah thank you, I added my own dunk on this dipshit.
Thank you for your service
“crude links” and “pseudo-lessons”
ah truly they make the liberals more fun in
How dare you ask me to read?!
The saxon prince elector of the 30 years war was mostly famous for drinking himself into unsciousness in a badly-lit cavernous hall while a brass band was playing the stuff Germans mistake for music. He was nicknamed Beer John (Bierjörg). His father was John Sausage (Hanswurst). He was considered the rule, rather than the exception.
It is safe to say that Germans have only gotten worse since than.
It is safe to say that Germans have only gotten worse since than.
You described the two raddest dudes possible, it can only go downhill from there
Yeah, to be fair, they were at least having some form of good time. Germans need to go back to being politically fractured farmers obsessed with eating and drinking. They clearly cant handle modern civilization…
Where’s the apology form…
This comment is tagline material
Fix my typos pls tho
The mind wants to stay in the cave and watch the shadows on the wall, for it is all it knows and has ever seen.
It’s true, Chinese media conglomerates can only dream of the freedom we enjoy here in the west of being able to publish warmongering propaganda whenever we want.
