Carnival float from yesterday's parade in Cologne
Edit: Düsseldorf, apparently. But Kölsch is still better than Alt
Here's another one of the Carnival floats:
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2024
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Oh Germany, you really get us. Can we let Germans vote in the next US election? After all, we're already letting Russia take a hand.
Actually, we have about as many Nazi fuckwits by percentage as the US. The difference is that we don't let them leverage 30% into an electoral majority.
And again I call for Germans to vote in our general election. :)
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Germany is more familiar than most about what the GOP has become.
Ye, you could say we have insider information
Of course, It Can't Happen Here.
I'm guessing it's a play on the Dolchstoßlegende? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
To backstab someone as a metaphor for betrayal is as common in German as it is in English. So while the origin of the Dolchstoßlegende and this float are linguistically the same, I don't think this is a play on the Dolchstoßlegende.
Edit: I'm confident that they explicitly used a spear instead of a dagger to avoid a direct comparison.
No, no it isn't. Read about that topic, and reflect why this has nothing to do with the float.
Bold of German to assume that this guy could use a pair of scissors
Wish he would run with scissors :)
I doubt he can run.
Well stumbling and falling face down on the scissors is fine with me
They say being struck by lightning is an act of god.
Do you think the secret service would notice, if I set up giant Tesla coils near his rally podium?
If you paint his face on it or even a mirror in front he would probably even touch it
Instead of tearing this down after yesterdays' carnival, maybe they should send it on a tour through the US.
Everyone already knows. His supporters like it.
That would get him just more votes.
Actually that's from the parade in Düsseldorf
Oops. Posted a correction.
Me, a fucking dumbass apparently:
- Okay so he cut out the Austrian flag. Why?
- White-red-white is an old Belarusian one. Still not getting this
- Who has a flag that's all blue with white stars?
- Oh holy shit it's a swastika
Ha ha ha that was a long way to get there
I saw it in an other post where the perspective made it less obvious and I thought it was about how Trump is tearing the states apart, I guess it's both.
The artist failed to capture his fatness/femininity
Hands are too big and he’s back on safety scissors after a court order.
Femininity?
The makeup
Makeup, high heels, general softness, delicate hands
So like Putin?
hmm...
I dunno. Float rental fees might be helpful.
We could maybe set up a thing with UK's Diaper Trump, too.
I thought it was illegal to display anything Nazi related in public?
Only if the display is meant to glorify or show support for Nazis, which can but doesn't have to be displaying a swastika.
This is clearly criticism and satire, so it's covered under artistic freedom.
Interesting, danke! 🙂
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