I feel so validated.

I understand the photo to be real, and it’s bad. I would say in fairness she doesn’t always look quite so much like Majora’s Mask as she does in this photo but yeah it’s an atrocity and so is she.

Well and you have partition and reunification as well, which must play into it. Postwar Germany seems to have been partially defined by a series of unique and almost absurd culture shocks as Germany encountered successively different versions of itself.

I hope this discussion doesn’t offend the Germans among us. My interest is earnest and genuine, and as an American in 2024, more than simply academic.

Honestly, as a cope, I find this infinitely INFINITELY more satisfying than the “3 on 1 debate” weak sauce.

Oh yeah. That was a very nice choice of words.

Yeah but I think I’m okay with Germany’s stance on it, as I understand it at least.

It isn’t avoidance or denial, it seems to me, as much as total repudiation.

It strikes me as an appropriate response for a nation that is host to such an abomination, and worthy of emulation by any other nation that should ahem manage to make any similar mistakes.

She had so many good lines, clearly well prepped and practiced, and deployed flawlessly at just the right time.

And the way she looked at him, pointed at him, and the tone she used on him…we aren’t talking about this enough yet: she made the supposed strongman look so dopey and small. Like a cuck.

It is interesting to experience my own increasing openness to this kind of humor as time passes.

For context, I’m an American, I was an adult when this happened, and have worked for one of the involved airlines since before the attacks, but was nowhere near NYC and didn’t know anyone directly impacted.

But even still, probably 5 years ago I’d have been a little skeeved out my this. Now I chuckle.

Just interesting.

You can’t reference eating someone for dinner and omit one of the best attacks of the whole night.

“Why don’t you tell the 800,000 Polish Americans right here in Pennsylvania how quickly you would give up for the sake of favor and what you think is a friendship with what is known to be a dictator, who would eat you for lunch.”

Fuck yeah. Kamala was all of us that night. The pity and scorn that she injected into that line was just simply perfect.

Wow, that’s a lot.

You can dispute what he did and make the case that it had some kind of impact but I think you’re simultaneously (a) ignoring a bunch of other factors and (b) vastly overestimating how plugged in the average voter was to that drama. Hanging the election on Comey is wild.