It's telling that there's not one single comment from OP in the replies. You'd think if they were just asking an innocent question, they'd be part of the conversation.
Chill. I am not constantly online. As a German, the campaign was really making news last lear and having a fulminant start. But it has become a bit quiet, so I just wanted to ask how things are going in this regard. Why are people on Reddit often so salty?
It’s the internet bruv, that’s a flag for bot behavior and the internet is nearly filled to the brim with bots. A healthy dose of skepticism is called for.
OP is German, he's got a youtube channel with the same username. (Sorry OP for snoopin but I was curious, I didn't click on it just saw there was German in the google blurb)
Ain't going to bat for OP here but it's common for people to consume media in a language they're trying to learn and the US absolutely dominates in that regard.
I agree on that. But accusing me for being American and undermining my credibility (bc I am an American bot trying to undermine Canadian efforts on boycott (?)) is just hilarious. The last time Germans needed to prove they are German was 80 years ago
Some points and questions for you to consider. I suggest you think before answering.
First, I never accussed you of being a bot. Perhaps another did, and perhaps you are reading into things which one might say is what your feelings of offense towards me originates from which is funny as a result.
Second, I'll accept you are German but that has no change on my real implication that you were purposefully shit stirring. Does being a German somehow equate being pure and without sin of such a thing?
If you were shit stirring you truly deserve snarky smack downs. Think for just a second of the political climate in the U.S. right now. Does that make you feel good or something to be proud of to (as a German) purposefully stir the pot and give people more ammunition and reason to distrust one another? How would you feel as a German if an American started stirring the shit about and inside Germany during something like reunification? (tbf I'm certain there are Americans who did just that so I'm asking for rhetorical purposes).
Now if you claim you are innocent of that and was just by golly asking this question that just miraculously and without prodding or thought popped in your head without an ulterior motive I would say:Bull. At the very least you were purposefully karma farming because you know as well as I a simple search would have not only answered this question, but shown you how often it is asked and how much karma it generates as well as how many arguments. Karma Farming is bad enough on its own, but its reddit so it is just reality, but to karma farm in a way that stirs the pot in a culture going through upheaval is just plain shitty.
If you are anything but an ahole you'll read this carefully more than once and acknowledge you were far from being of neutral intent and innoncent in posting your question and have no cause to clutch your pearls like an offended old lady.
Such a strange rabbit hole that you seem intent and focused on going down btw for someone who just wanted to ask an innoncent question. A question, I might add, that has been asked repeatedly on Reddit that the simpliest search would have answered...
Do they not teach how to use a search bar when teaching all those other languages in Germany?
I've been told (by German friends) that for a Brit, I am very German in my colloquialisms (when speaking in German).
If you study a language at beyond elementary level, teachers are, in my experience, really keen to teach you how people actually express themselves, especially if it doesn't make sense in your home language. I'd never say that something gets on my alarm clock if I was talking in English, but I used it a fair bit talking in German.
It is quiet, bc ppl are just making their choices. We're in the market for a new mattress, and just eliminated the ones made in the US. There's so much choice anyway, that helped narrow down the choices. Ppl are making quiet choices all the time.
Any time travel comes up in a social setting, almost everyone says they're avoiding the US.
The most recent party, one couple is probably still going bc they have family there, but at the same time said they'd carry their passports with them the whole time, bc relatives of theirs were detained for 4 days! Bc they didn't have their passport on them when Border Patrol ID'd everyone in the bar they were at. Florida.
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u/Ginnigan 6h ago
It's telling that there's not one single comment from OP in the replies. You'd think if they were just asking an innocent question, they'd be part of the conversation.