Comment by jacobolus | Hacker News Reader

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I'm lost. Can you be more explicit about which "unhinged and narcissistic people" you mean? If not the Jews, was that supposed to refer to the German ruling party? German business elites? Other Europeans? NATO? Foreign immigrants to Germany? I really have no idea what you are getting at.

> "what has been done to the German people for 80 years now and seemingly for the foreseeable future as they are very psychologically and emotionally broken people"

Germany is a highly developed and successful economy which is a center of power and wealth in Europe. Its population is well educated, healthy, with a high standard of living, and generally content. From my position in the United States (so: not an expert), I don't see much evidence that modern Germans are held responsible for the events of 80–90 years go. Maybe you can include more detail for those of us who lack the context to guess what you are talking about. Who is it who has done this supposed damage to the German people, and what precisely do you think they did?

Can you elaborate about what you think makes Germans "psychologically and emotionally broken"? Do you mean because they have been economically dominating less-developed nations of Europe, and you think they should instead aim for more continent-wide integration and development? Or like, you were hoping for a German military invasion of Austria or France?

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You seem to have mistaken me for a supporter of the Israeli government. You may want to redirect your misplaced lecture someplace else.

Yes, I understand you don't see it. That is precisely part of the effect from being psychologically and emotionally broken. But just mull this over, why did the "German" government just last week plunder "modern Germans" to pay another €1 billion to the supposed 200,000 remaining holocaust survivors, when they've already pay €90 billion since 1945 for things none of them did? Or did you do the holocaust and therefore you should pay?

Another point, I you are not psychologically broken, why would you otherwise tolerate a foreign government maintain 40 colonies within your boundaries with ~200,000 of their colonists? It's the level of rationalization and excuse making that is common among abuse victims, like battered wives. But like I said, I understand why you don't understand it, even though every movie and every video game you have ever watched has some kind of reference of or to nazis and often some belittlement of germans. Why is no other war ever used to belittle and degrade any other people? The US committed war crimes from 2001 to 2021. Far longer than the Nazi regime even existed in total, not to mention Vietnam, which is celebrated in many ways and people who participated in it are looked up to, and those are far more recent conflicts... yet only Germans have been abused as they have been for 80 years. I just heard a German/Nazi reference from a boomer the other day. Of course he is an idiot, but that's someone that was not even alive when the war was going on at all, yet here he is just parroting the things he was trained to do.

> foreign government maintain 40 colonies within your boundaries with ~200,000 of their colonists?

Instead of speaking in riddles, can you be more explicit? Which foreign government are we talking about, and who are "their colonists?"

> no other war [besides WWII is] ever used to belittle and degrade any other people [than Germans]

This is an absurd claim.

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