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lumpenproletariat“Actually Israel is defending itself and you’re antisemetic”
It really depends on what they’re talking about. Engineering? Pretty valid unless you care about maintainability. Israel? Not valid. How many seeds should bread have? They’re basically a bird so take it as you will. Weird sex or clubbing? On a scale of Berlin to Bavaria…
It’s not wrong per se to be from Germany, nor to tave pride in where you came from. But displaying nationalism is that way is a surefire indicator of having bullshit opinions. No matter which country.
Tbh I don’t associate having a country flag on your profile with nationalism. As someone who attempts to not assume everyone on the internet is American I find them generally useful so I can better attempt to meet people where they are rather than exclusively use American examples.
Now if they’re out there waving german flags irl for no reason, then I’m side eyeing them.
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macnielBeing prideful of your country means that you have nothing done or are nothing that you are proud of.
ratsnakeThey might just have the flag in there to indicate their account is in German language
Or that their English may not always be great. Or just “please stop assuming I’m from your hemisphere”
Malle_YenoI really wish there was a pictoral way to indicate preferred language without tying it to a country or making people think I like the values of said place.
We could always do (ENG) or (DE) or something but that doesn’t offer much more clarity to the difference, and it reads as less scrutable than 🏴 or 🇩🇪 to me . Maybe something like (🗣️:🏴🇩🇪) would work?
And it’s not like there’s a rule about not being able to be proud about something you’ve done nothing for. If your Parent does something cool, are you not allowed to be proud of them?
They might, but it’s usually used by AfD supporters or far-right conservatives. Because of Germany’s history with nationalism, most sane people don’t use or show the flag all that much.
Funnily enough, the most extreme Neo-Nazis, those who don’t even try to appear moderate, reject the German flag because it’s the flag of the Federal Republic. The German Reich they so desperately want back had a different one.
I think it’s actually “Georgia”.
Can’t remember whether it refers to the state or the country, though 🤔
Why did the Germans make their flag so similar to the pride flag anyway?
RamenJunkieThere are more gay Germans than Straight Germans, but many are in the closet still. But they decided it was just easier.
AeonFelisThey thought that’s what the G[^1] stands for.
[^1]: Yes, I know - but AFAIK there is no D in the pridephabet. I think. Yet.
We could always choose to unify the prefixes. We have pansexual which is a Greek prefix but bisexual which is a Latin prefix. If we swap it for Greek it becomes disexual. That implies a grouping of straight, gay, and lesbian as either monosexuals (Greek) or unisexuals (Latin) which I don’t think I’ve ever seen used.
Looking at this table on Wikipedia you could come up with some funny (and nonsensical) derivations en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeral_prefix
The thing I really hate is how this shorthand dismissal of people’s opinions based on their gender identity or sexuality has become normalized on social media. Yes, the joke is funny, but it’s saddening that this has become acceptable behavior as it encourages discrimination in the real world too. It also makes me wonder how we can continue to function as a society without deprogramming individuals that have gotten radicalized by online hate.
The things people joke or lie about can say a lot about the way they think. My favourite example is the wife of Octavian Augustus, who was claimed to have woven his Toga herself. Whether or not it’s true or just propaganda made up to make her look good, it tells you something about Roman culture that even the elites would praise a woman for doing diligent manual labour.
Transferred to this: Even if it was a joke, the fact it’s a thing that people come up with at all indicates the underlying sentiment you describe. The joke wouldn’t work if it didn’t reference a known phenomenon. It would just be a monkey out back with a ladder to us.
