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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Diplomjodler@feddit.de to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
 

Carnival float from yesterday's parade in Cologne

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

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[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Here's another one of the Carnival floats:

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 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.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 44 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.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ye, you could say we have insider information

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of course, It Can't Happen Here.

[–] onion@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 19 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.

[–] Treczoks@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

No, no it isn't. Read about that topic, and reflect why this has nothing to do with the float.