‘Halt die Klappe!’ They Said

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‘Halt die Klappe!’ They Said

Post by Fife » Sun Jul 09, 2017 2:15 pm

H/T to the Instapundit: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/269545/

Halt die Klappe!’ They Said

In re this from the NYT: Germany’s Newest Intellectual Antihero

This is a sign that distrust of authority in Germany has reached worrisome levels, possibly American ones.

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Re: ‘Halt die Klappe!’ They Said

Post by Viktorthepirate » Sun Jul 09, 2017 2:27 pm

Fife wrote:H/T to the Instapundit: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/269545/

Halt die Klappe!’ They Said

In re this from the NYT: Germany’s Newest Intellectual Antihero

This is a sign that distrust of authority in Germany has reached worrisome levels, possibly American ones.
Good article. Same thing is happening here as far as the distrust goes.

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Re: ‘Halt die Klappe!’ They Said

Post by Smitty-48 » Sun Jul 09, 2017 2:36 pm

Seems an odd thing to kill yourself over disillusionment about a nation state, they're not that important in the grand scheme of things, might have considered just moving to the Turks & Caicos for some margaritas and golf instead. This is what comes of the constant rain in Germany, Autobahn is fun, but don't stay too long, lest you get seasonal affected disorder from the perpetual gloom.

People yip yapping about the Western World in the Age of Enlightenment? Well they didn't sit around moping and feeling sorry for themselves, they had shit to do, often in the Carribean in fact, and if there had been luxury golf resorts waiting for them there, they would have ditched dreary old Europa in a heatbeart.

The Golden Age of Western Europe in the Enlightenment? Get real, it was a rain soaked, overcrowded, disease ridden shithole.
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Re: ‘Halt die Klappe!’ They Said

Post by Viktorthepirate » Sun Jul 09, 2017 3:03 pm

Smitty-48 wrote:Seems an odd thing to kill yourself over disillusionment about a nation state, they're not that important in the grand scheme of things, might have considered just moving to the Turks & Caicos for some margaritas and golf instead. This is what comes of the constant rain in Germany, Autobahn is fun, but don't stay too long, lest you get seasonal affected disorder from the perpetual gloom.

People yip yapping about the Western World in the Age of Enlightenment? Well they didn't sit around moping and feeling sorry for themselves, they had shit to do, often in the Carribean in fact, and if there had been luxury golf resorts waiting for them there, they would have ditched dreary old Europa in a heatbeart.

The Golden Age of Western Europe in the Enlightenment? Get real, it was a rain soaked, overcrowded, disease ridden shithole.
If I could make decent money as an expat I'd leave this place and never look back ha ha.

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Re: ‘Halt die Klappe!’ They Said

Post by Smitty-48 » Sun Jul 09, 2017 3:23 pm

Viktorthepirate wrote:
Smitty-48 wrote:Seems an odd thing to kill yourself over disillusionment about a nation state, they're not that important in the grand scheme of things, might have considered just moving to the Turks & Caicos for some margaritas and golf instead. This is what comes of the constant rain in Germany, Autobahn is fun, but don't stay too long, lest you get seasonal affected disorder from the perpetual gloom.

People yip yapping about the Western World in the Age of Enlightenment? Well they didn't sit around moping and feeling sorry for themselves, they had shit to do, often in the Carribean in fact, and if there had been luxury golf resorts waiting for them there, they would have ditched dreary old Europa in a heatbeart.

The Golden Age of Western Europe in the Enlightenment? Get real, it was a rain soaked, overcrowded, disease ridden shithole.
If I could make decent money as an expat I'd leave this place and never look back ha ha.
That was pretty much the doctrine of the Western Europeans, up until the arrival of the welfare state, Western Values were never actually all that loyal to the state, they took the best deal they could get, wherever they could get it, preferably someplace sunny and warm, and they didn't look back.

Sitting around blubbering about Germany not being German enough? First of all, Germany wasn't even a country, but second of all, even if it had been, who had time for that? Shit to do, places to see, money to make, sitting around moping and feeling sorry for yourselves, was never a Western Value.
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Re: ‘Halt die Klappe!’ They Said

Post by Fife » Sun Jul 09, 2017 3:59 pm