Slop.

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.

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

Can't wait to read what that FreePress^TM^ said about the Gaza genocide all these years

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.

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/

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

"crude links" and "pseudo-lessons"

ah truly they make the liberals more fun in

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.

And they say Germans have no humor

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.

The saxon prince elector of the 30 years war was mostly famous for drinking himself into unsciousness in a badly-lit cavernous hall while a brass band was playing the stuff Germans mistake for music. He was nicknamed Beer John (Bierjörg). His father was John Sausage (Hanswurst). He was considered the rule, rather than the exception.

It is safe to say that Germans have only gotten worse since than.

Please tell me someone grilled them about Palestine

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.

The smug aura mocks but I can't stop laughing.

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.

It's true, Chinese media conglomerates can only dream of the freedom we enjoy here in the west of being able to publish warmongering propaganda whenever we want.

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

:lonk:

😤

"You're just not a free thinker like me"