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Gooden talk from Germany the country
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that needs saving according to Elon Musk
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but don't worry we know what we are
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doing and we know who we are we are
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Germans we are good at inventing long
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complicated words and we are really cool
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and relaxed but of course there's
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something else we Germans were really
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good at inventing Nazis Germany may have
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lost one or two world wars but we
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successfully turned it into a win and we
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became we are world champions at
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confronting our history a title we've
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held for 80 years in a row we won this
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title by virtual signaling but with a
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German twist we are not just signaling
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virtue to others but also to our own
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guilty conscience living in Germany
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means being constantly reminded of our
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past every day
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24/7 for now 80 years we've been telling
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ourselves never again remembrance of the
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Holocaust is everywhere in Germany a
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country stacked with memorials memorials
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memorials memorials just in case we
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forget to never forget unfortunately
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never again didn't come with a manual on
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how to never again our German extreme
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right party the afd is projected to win
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almost every every fifth vote in our
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national election this February the
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party is called the alternativa forand
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which literally means alternative for
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Germany and they will probably become
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the second largest party in German
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Parliament out of around half a dozen
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here is what one of the afd's leading
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figures thinks of German never again
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I know it's subtle but afd's B hucker
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might sound a bit hitleresque which is
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French for slightly concerning hucker
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recently won a state election in Eastern
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Germany securing the first far-right win
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in a state election since World War II
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he by the way can legally be called a
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fascist as the German court has ruled in
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one case so should the rest of the world
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be worried about a big German fascist
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comeback
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yes you should be worried let me explain
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why and since I'm German my explanation
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of course will be pointlessly
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complicated and inspiringly brutal like
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our traditional German bedtime stories
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for instance the one about a boy named
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Conrad who wouldn't stop sucking his
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thumbs until they were cut right off
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just for educational purposes of course
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so the afd was founded in 2013 and it
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primarily opposed EU policies then it
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quickly radicalized anti-Semitism
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anti-muslim anti-migrant
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anti-establishment
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anti-mainstream media the afd worked and
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works the authoritarian Playbook and now
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they are twisting the truth by hijacking
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our world-renowned beautiful German
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language F
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in a spec of birdshit in German history
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that's what one of the afd's founders
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called Germany's Nazi past meaning the
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Holocaust was just a speck of birdshit
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in our overall successful history
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success of course meaning constantly
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losing world
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wars so
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far when Elon Musk the man who would
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never salute Nazis recently interviewed
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afd's chairwoman Alis Vel on X she gave
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another vibrant example on how afd
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mastered blatant truth twisting the
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biggest success after that terrible era
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in our history was to label Adolf Hitler
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as right and conservative he was exactly
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the opposite he wasn't a conservative he
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wasn't a Libertarian he was a communist
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socialist guy why not try a 100 180°
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turnaround from the truth let's try but
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these obvious little rhetorical tricks
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are actually effective thanks to one
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special German way to cope with our past
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g g forenight means actively forgetting
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our let me put it this way ambiguous
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past despite the endless memorials
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because honestly having to confront your
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own history can be really really
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exhausting for us Germans but forhide is
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not a concept the afd just recently
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invented in 1952 for instance Conrad
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ardau one of the founding fathers of our
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modern democratic Germany signed a
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v a reparations agreement yet another
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beautiful accessible German word and did
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you know also a pretty common girl's
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name in Bavaria ah there little V up
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look at her cute blonde pigtail
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come
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over is ready in the oven
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vcom was our post-war reparations
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agreement with Israel but most modern
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democratic Germans have conveniently
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forgotten real motives
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in other words beware the Jews are still
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powerful even though we try to kill them
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all so from now on we better be nice to
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them and then all is V good again thank
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you Conrad ARA but n
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never really went away in both germanies
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in the 2000s a Neo-Nazi terrorist group
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murdered at least 10 people their racist
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crimes continued for years because the
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German public and police could not even
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fathom that neo-nazis could be
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responsible instead they just publicly
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blamed immigrants for supposedly killing
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each other why are we Germans so
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blatantly dismissive towards the
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collective affection for the farri
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partly because in Germany there's a
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discrepancy between Collective memory
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and individual guilt we acknowledge our
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Grim past never again yada yadada yada
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but our ancestors like personally our
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families ourselves we had nothing to do
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with it whatsoever yes my
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great-grandfather was in the vaff SS but
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he was a cook and the lasagna he made in
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Stalingrad tasted like shul Al so
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basically he tried to destroy the vaff s
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from within where's his memorial H by
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virtue signaling to our own guilty
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conscience we got rid of our Nazi past
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Germans have sworn to never again so
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many times that it became an empty
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phrase and when a new right-wing leader
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calls for a 180 degree turnaround on
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never again we also don't take it
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seriously because it somehow feels empty
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as well because no matter what we do
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Germans can't be Nazis again that's the
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space in which the afd operates they can
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say and do Nazi things as long as they
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aggressively deny that anyone was ever a
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Nazi it's like giving the Hitler salute
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in front of a large crowd of right-wing
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extremists while denying being a
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Nazi it's a narrative that seems to be
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successful all over the world we aren't
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Nazis we just don't fully support
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Liberty equality and the rule of law we
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aren't Nazis we just want white
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supremacy the afd is not the new Nazi
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party they just want Germany to be great
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again and that's why now in Germany the
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Kaka is unum
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