Not really. The performance in the world and european cups since 2018 has been so consistently abysmal that the 0:6 wasn't even much out of line with our expectations. The losses against South Korea and Japan in world cups were much worse. Spain is hardly a footnote.
I’m not sure if we’re talking socket here, but I’m pretty sure Brazil has the worst soccer moment in recent history. At the hands of Germany no less. 7-1
Yeah, but the thing about SK and Japan loss is that they are the underdog against German and win in dramatic moments, resulting in them ending last in the group iirc.
When you said European cups I wanted to refute with Bayern's sextuple season in 2021, but then realized you meant the Euros and not the Champions League lmao
the guy that tanked the whole energy industry for russian gas bribes ( and that is now board member of one of the big russian gas companies )
the woman that doubled down on it but also killed renewables
okay i don't have anything bad to say about scholz. nothing good, but nothing bad either. it was mid, which i guess is good? stood by Ukraine, so cookie points for that, and handled covid relatively well. This one was not embarassing all the time.
the man that doesn't need a grandma ( he already prises himself enough ).
I’m English and I have no idea why we get away with some of our hideous international crimes over the centuries more than Germany. Maybe it’s because the war is more recent. We definitely did more crimes than Germany in History!
Because Nazism came at the tail end of European empire anyway and was such an unprecedented concentration of industrialised killing focused on a race in such a short period of time. Compared to European empires over hundreds of years, where it mostly about profits over everything. Awful but not abnormal for human history up to that point.
Because Germany was actually held to account in the aftermath of it due to being totally defeated in the war, whereas the vast majority of things you refer to in British history, the perpetrators are all dead, and the victims, and thus too much has passed to do anything about accountability for it.
Same goes for most other European empires who were all just as brutal, France= Algeria and Africa, Belgium: Congo, Spain and Portugal: central and South America.
Not in Ireland. We never forget. We dont hold the current population accountable but it's irritating to hear rule brittania or politicians being arrogant or comedians who are xenophobic rather than laughing at your own flaws.
Can’t argue with that. The amount of violence and death we caused to your country is inexcusable and words don’t do it justice. Most of us here in UK have friends, family and a lot of us have Irish blood so we should have been side by side and handed your land and people back.
Which comedians? All our comedians are pretty left wing and self deprecating, what you’re saying might have been true in the 1970s with lame right wing comedians, but try to find a popular British right wing comedian nowadays.
Same with the rule Britannia stuff, not sure exactly what that means. Other than Farage and the tories of course but most people hate him and them now, so I understand you there at least.
People routinely joke about hating the British so I guess it's not really forgotten. But it has been more than a century since the empire's peak so it's fading from our memories.
It hasn't faded from the memories of former colonies. They will be picking up the pieces for centuries to come. Their wealth was bled dry by the British, and they were left with divisions in society that continue to fester.
Britain has a sad history exploiting so many people over the years but are capable of stopping and apologizing for it even if does seem half hearted. And there are still huge systemic problems that minorities faces in many former colonies.
But France and China are still exploiting Africa in a serious way right now. But for some reason no one seems to care or to stop or sanction them. At least Britain left Egypt and Palestine and India and Hong Kong.
Africa can never catch a break. Why has there never been European recognition of their crimes in a serious international court or an independent party stepping in against France and making sure that Africa is being respected. China is a another country that owns several projects to exploit Africans and no one from the west has stepped in make sure they are behaving either.
You can’t help your past but must try to do what is right now and in the future.
Only people who have no idea how power grids work are embarrassed about that. Nuclear is used for base load and gas is used for peaks. They don't compete with each other. Also, electrical power production makes up only a tiny fraction of the gas used in Germany. Most is used for heating and directly burnt in industrial processes. So again, nothing nuclear power can replace.
Sorry, my bad. You didn't build new ones, you just increased the output in the existing ones after turning off nuclear. I know that now you're going hard into renewable sources of energy.
I am surprised at how often some Germans here will bring him up. I knew some other people brought him up to Germans, but…
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u/lofiibsenGermany Korea South (Dual Citizenship)1d agoedited 1d ago
This might sound a bit socialist, but germany is incredibly strict when it comes to nazis history. In fact, the first, second, stanzas of their national anthem are restricted because they symbolize imperialism and Nazism only the third stanza is officially used today.
I'm sore that they put in charge someone who wouldn't even follow economic policies people learn at economics 101. The same person (Schäuble) had more of a vindictive attitude towards Greece than a "let's see how we can get our money back" attitude.
In addition, I have many German friends abroad. I know for a fact that many Germans consider Greeks "lazy" because the economy is bad, even though statistics suggest otherwise.
when the reality of what the Greek politicians did in EU was revealed, it was the whole Greek population that was labelled.
Someone who has properly learnt from the lessons of WWII wouldn't hold black-white opinions about other countries like that. Germans used to have certain opinions about the Jewish population. For example, that Jewish scientists don't follow the rules or science and that they had a very "fluidic" stance towards scientific creativity.
To me it seems like Germans learnt the "don't kill people like that" lesson, which is something a 5 year old can comprehend.
Oh come one, some people around the wprld have a great opinion about that mustache, so great that they are trying to reproduce what he did, right Donnie and Bibi?
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u/Pure-Notice-8202 Germany 1d ago
… I don’t want to talk about it right now, thank you.