• Mrkawfee@feddit.uk
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    The weird thing is the Germans legitimately think that they’re on the right side of history by arresting protestors, banning demonstrations, cancelling artists and supplying weapons to support a genocide. I

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      It’s frustrating to have to hear the German state media being unconditionally pro-Israel. And sad to try to have a reasonable conversation about this with acquaintances and co-workers. But what really triggers my cognitive dissonance is all those pro-Israel leftist-themed stickers spread everywhere.

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      Yes, we are entirely homogenous over here and any decision ever made by our government represents 100% the popular opinion, similar to how it works in the states

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        Why aren’t Germans protesting the government? Not about Palestine but about their assault on German citizens’ free speech?

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          So many things come to mind. There are protests. We’re in transition right now, this is a brand new government. People are afraid that the alternative (!) is literal, outright Nazis and this is the lesser evil. We’ve been protesting shit for some months but right now I think everybody’s tired. No, these are not “good reasons”. I don’t even know, man.

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    I think of this when Europeans on other threads shit on Americans by saying “come over here if you want that free speech back”. That was never a thing in Europe, and certainly isn’t now in the days of Palestinian genocide. Shit on Americans all you want, but let’s be accurate with those turds shall we?