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What a disgraceful cover photo. Not everything is perfect in Germany, on the contrary. But that goes for every country on earth. But a middlefinger to the Bundestag? It's disrespectful to the German people as a whole...

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As a German, I could not care less about such things, and I would claim that in that respect I'm rather typical. Such a non-issue.

Also German here, if you've worked through our robotic bureaucracy you know that there is some valid criticism here.

Germany is criticized all the time. You can read it, you can ignore it, you can disagree with parts of it, but I don't think anybody should be above criticism. Lest they think they might be #1 in everything.

> The Germans might be the only people who are truly the furthest from a sense of humor. This could be the result of their deep reverence for rationality. Just look at Berlin Airport or the advertisements for Mercedes-Benz cars — you start to feel that their lack of humor has become a kind of immense humor in itself.

Germans definitely do have a sense of humour. They're not much different from the English in that respect. I'm not sure about Mercedes drivers, though.

> The Germans might be the only people who are truly the furthest from a sense of humor.

Of course there's only one people furthest away from anything. Jeez.

> Mercedes-Benz cars

You'd also sober up if you saw the bill for taking your Mercedes ownership lightly.

As a German I can tell you that as for the cost of Mercedes ownership, those who do it are fully and intentionally on board with it. The price is the point. And it's not like people don't deride them, they've been doing that at least since the Wirtschaftswunderdays if not longer.

The dude should go to comedy standup in Berlin more often.

he never bothered to learn German.

Ah no worries, that’s not a limiting factor at all.

Especially the Germans mocking ourselves perform in English to cater to a significantly larger audience than were the Show in German. :D

There's a great comedy bit about a comedian's first stand-up in Germany. His backstage handlers laugh, but then quite seriously explain to him after the show that <reason the punchline isn't quite true>.

It's very good.

See I couldn’t care less about that picture.

We’re a free country after all. ;)

Let the man speak his mind, you can choose to ignore him if his opinion doesn’t please you.

I never said he isn't allowed to do it. But I am also free to critize him, right?

Totally

If the picture offends you, just wait until you read the essay.

The essay is fine and has some truth in it. I don't fully agree with it though.

If the essay offends you wait until you see the picture.

Since 77% are discontent with the current government, I doubt you would find many that would be offended.

https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/2953/umfrage/...

Only being discontent is too easy. What do they agree upon?

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