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“P.S. We also don’t eat cats and dogs,” Berlin’s foreign ministry taunts Republican presidential candidate.

Germany’s foreign ministry hit back Wednesday at former U.S. President Donald Trump after he criticized the country’s energy policy at the presidential debate against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump slammed Germany in his closing remarks, claiming Berlin regretted its decision to transition to renewable energy.

But the German foreign ministry took umbrage at that, blasting Trump in an unusually blunt statement on social media.

“Like it or not: Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with more than 50 percent renewables,” the ministry wrote. “And we are shutting down — not building — coal and nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest.”

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[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago

Thats hilarious they're throwing his own bullshit back at him. Fuck du, Drompf

[-] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 27 points 6 days ago
[-] roboto@feddit.org 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

*Fick deine Mutter du elender Hurensohn, Trumpf

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Scheiße, I knew it was dich plus it looks like dick. But I think his surname was definitely with a "d". It looked very much like it rhymed with frump-y

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[-] middlemanSI@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

Where does 'clapping back' fit in?

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 27 points 6 days ago

This was a waste of electrons.

Their God-Emperor gave them the holy gospel that Germany is the promised land, of rolling coal F-450s asnd diesel-powered cell phones, you filthy heretics dare question the word of the Emperor?!

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

Please don’t refer to trump as the god-emperor. The 40k community has a hard enough rejecting idiots with no media literacy without people helping them associate the 40k world with their conservative delusions

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago

God dammit, this is just depressing.

[-] TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Too late for that. There are some spectacular images of Trump as the king fascist emperor of man out there with no hint of irony. It's quite something to see how much people don't get it.

[-] eunieisthebus@feddit.org 6 points 5 days ago

God-Emperor

Pardon, you meant holy and all knowing God-Emperor, Sun Overlord and Reincarnated Jesus, Messias and *checks notes* greatest leader of all time.¹ Please adress him with his proper title you mortal filth!

¹ I wonder where I have heard that one before...

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

I've always grouped gamers into two factions.

Form over function and function over form.

Personally, I prefer low mechanics to great graphics. My friend on the other hand could care less what the graphics look like as long as the mechanics are sound.

I would assume for most gamers since most people aren't really into dissecting the mechanics of video games like really strong graphics.

Which is why most AAA titles have really good graphics with very simple mechanics. There are of course exceptions to the rule.

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 25 points 5 days ago

Wrong thread, I think.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 points 5 days ago

Wrong thread, but I want to push back anyway. AAA games prioritize graphics because it's easier to market. Discussing mechanics is complex and opinionated. Saying "we have the most realistic graphics" is easy to showcase and objective. The average gamer isn't educated on the concepts enough to have a discussion about mechanics, but they would understand good mechanics when they experience it.

However, they often aren't even presented with the choice. The games with the largest marketing budgets are the bland "realistic" (and uninspired) looking games that don't do anything new because it's a risk. The games with a focus on good mechanics generally take more risks and have smaller budgets. Its similar to the problem with Windows VS Linux. The average user thinks they prefer Windows, but they've never been presented with the choice. When you buy a computer it comes with Windows, and they never venture further than that. They assume the thing they know must be the best option because they are familiar with it, and the one without marketing isn't given a chance by those people.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Wrong thread. Was this in response to the report that 75% of PS5 owners prefer performance mode, maybe?

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 days ago

I thought this was some big brain 4D metaphor. XD

[-] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I was totally ready for "green energy is good graphics and oil is good mechanics". But then the comment ended. I'm so lost

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