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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Carnival float from yesterday's parade in Cologne

Edit: Düsseldorf, apparently. But Kölsch is still better than Alt

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here's another one of the Carnival floats:

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh Germany, you really get us. Can we let Germans vote in the next US election? After all, we're already letting Russia take a hand.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually, we have about as many Nazi fuckwits by percentage as the US. The difference is that we don't let them leverage 30% into an electoral majority.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

And again I call for Germans to vote in our general election. :)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Germany is more familiar than most about what the GOP has become.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ye, you could say we have insider information

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course, It Can't Happen Here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To backstab someone as a metaphor for betrayal is as common in German as it is in English. So while the origin of the Dolchstoßlegende and this float are linguistically the same, I don't think this is a play on the Dolchstoßlegende.

Edit: I'm confident that they explicitly used a spear instead of a dagger to avoid a direct comparison.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bold of German to assume that this guy could use a pair of scissors

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wish he would run with scissors :)

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well stumbling and falling face down on the scissors is fine with me

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

A "great Weird Al album" is a bit redundant, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Instead of tearing this down after yesterdays' carnival, maybe they should send it on a tour through the US.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

Everyone already knows. His supporters like it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

That would get him just more votes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually that's from the parade in Düsseldorf

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Oops. Posted a correction.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Me, a fucking dumbass apparently:

  • Okay so he cut out the Austrian flag. Why?
  • White-red-white is an old Belarusian one. Still not getting this
  • Who has a flag that's all blue with white stars?
  • Oh holy shit it's a swastika
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The artist failed to capture his fatness/femininity

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Hands are too big

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Hands are too big and he’s back on safety scissors after a court order.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But Kölsch is still better than Alt

Have you had hefe weizen? Stupid small glasses of Kölsch that comes with a subscription service

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Doppelbock is where it's at. hic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

We all know that Hefeweizen is the best beer in the world, but don‘t change the subject. This man needs to be disciplined for his horrendous taste!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought it was illegal to display anything Nazi related in public?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only if the display is meant to glorify or show support for Nazis, which can but doesn't have to be displaying a swastika.

This is clearly criticism and satire, so it's covered under artistic freedom.

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