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BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Slop.@hexbear.net ·
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Germany has a free press

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Germany has a free press

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  • RNAi [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Can’t wait to read what that FreePressTM said about the Gaza genocide all these years

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      welcher genozid? du antisemit! /s

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      The Free Press said Germans are experts in genocide, so you can’t criticize Israel

  • BeanisBrain [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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    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/

    https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/12/23/in-germany-critics-of-the-government-are-losing-their-bank-accounts-and-more/

  • FortifiedAttack [any]@hexbear.net
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    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.

    • bunnossin [she/her, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      germany-cool germany-cool germany-cool the DDR was the only legitimate German state

    • mathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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      Decouple from ze USA??? Zen whai are we learning ze englisch wort für “Anschluss”!

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    mhm the smugness of a regular tagesschau reader. i love how germans scream ‘propaganda’ while being hardliners when it comes to state santioned opinions.

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    Germany was “united” in the wrong way. We must split it and then unite it back in the right way.

    Maybe add Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein in too while we are on it.

    • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      Maybe add Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Liechtenstein in too while we are on it.

      dean-sussy Hexbear… H… hank-realization Habsburg.
      dean-frown You almost got away with it

    • ThunderComplex@lemmy.today
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      A little Netherlands and Poland too while we’re at it

      • asdasd201@lemmygrad.ml
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        Why not add Alsace-Lorraine too?

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her, kit/kit's]@hexbear.net
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    “crude links” and “pseudo-lessons” data-laughing

    ah truly they make the liberals more fun in germany-cool

    • SevenSkalls [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      How dare you ask me to read?!

  • SmithrunHills [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Please tell me someone grilled them about Palestine

    • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      Click Lonk and you can go look

      • Flaps [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        Pls lonk

        • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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          In comments here lonk is there, looks like green guy, got sword, pretty hat

      • Johnny_Arson [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        you didn’t include a link…

        • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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          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

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            Ah thank you, I added my own dunk on this dipshit.

            • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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              Thank you for your service rat-salute

  • DasRav [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    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.

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    once again, whenever the revolution happens, the lemmy users are to be reeducated first

    • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      First they came for the posters…

  • JoeByeThen [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    zenz

  • TheBroodian [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    “You’re just not a free thinker like me”

    • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      You don’t know about tiananmen square and no I don’t want to hear what you know about it.
      Alternatively: Me going into a physics convention knowing nothing about physics: UMM DON’T YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE THEORY OF RELATIVETY?? (except in this case the theory of relativety is actually some crank thing that isn’t real)

      edit: Me going to the soviet union botanics convention in the 80’s: UMM DONT YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT LYSENKOISM? JUST TRAIN YOUR PLANTS

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Go with string theory, that is bunk

  • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    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.

    • EveningCicada [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      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?”

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        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?’

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    Imagine being this far up your own ass. Bet that free press breathlessly reported on saddam’s nukes too.

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      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”.

      • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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        Is that real?

        • mathemachristian [he/him]@hexbear.netM
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          yeah I saw it live here is “Der Spiegel” lamenting it https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/zwiebelfisch/zwiebelfisch-abc-iraker-irakis-a-315118.html

          • Johnny_Arson [she/her]@hexbear.net
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            Oh shit lmao that makes Dune feel even MORE on the nose: Arrakis = Iraker/Irakis

          • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            Thanks heart-sickle

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            Wow. Just wow.

    • BanMeFromPosting [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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      It’s like they wrote it for us

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    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.

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