glorkon

I'm a German guy from Berlin, next year I'll be 50. My dad was born in 1944 and it's pretty safe to say he survived being cut off from food supplies by the Soviets only because Americans pulled off the Berlin Airlift. These brave pilots helped save the lives of people they had considered enemies not much earlier.

So I would not be alive were it not for Americans. Am I indebted to America? Fuck yes, of course I am.

Having said all that, it's so painful to see America turn to fascism - the very thing those GIs you mention fought against. A country I love, people I love, losing their minds and their hearts. Literally turning evil, led by a criminal lunatic who so obviously follows the demagogue playbook...

Edit: Ah, f*** it.

1. It's a rather lame joke. The premise has been used a thousand times already.
2. It's at the expense of someone's disability. Ask yourself how often Peter Dinklage has seen this joke in his life.

You can joke about everything, but at least make a fucking effort.

You can make jokes about absolutely everything. But if you do it at the expense of others, and the touchier and more sensitive the subject, the funnier the joke has to be - so you better make sure it's fucking hilarious and original.

People tend to miss that part. Especially the one about short people is always the same old punch line - the one along the lines of this post.

I'm not offended that OP made a joke about Peter Dinklage. I'm offended that it was a lame joke that I've seen a thousand times before.

Make jokes at the expense of the disabled, races, transgenders, gays or religious people, and you will be rightly criticized and shamed for it.

Make jokes at the expense of people who are ugly, fat or short in stature, somehow that's still okay with way too many people...

Of course Christians are absolutely fine with people being gay.

After all, they're the ones down on their knees hoping for a man to come for the second time.

Well, I think you'll find that it really does matter if you use dried jalapeños or dried Carolina reapers.

Ooh, shots fired.

Your comment is very insightful and I agree with your observations. As a European one tends to focus too much on the places around the world which keep doing things right. Latin America truly is an unsung hero, what with the kind of economical troubles they have been going through. One would think they would be far more susceptible to demagogues and propaganda than nations of the so-called "western hemisphere".

Let's face it: The EU is the last remaining democratic global power. Russia is a dictatorship, so is China, and America is only a democracy on paper since they elected Mango Mussolini.

Here's the dark future that could very well happen if we allowed these right wing fucks to succeed with their plans:

• Their first goal: Get a majority of European countries to vote for authoritarian, alt-right, pro Trump, anti EU governments. Russia has been working towards this for decades.
• Actually dissolve the EU so Russia, China and America remain as the only relevant global powers.
• Authoritarian European nations become hostile towards other nations. As hostile as America is now already.
• National particular interests within the EU are cause for dangerous tensions again.
• International relations become much more volatile.
• Nations suddenly don't give a fuck about multilateral contracts anymore.
• Some weaker, paranoid nations secretly develop nuclear weapons programs.
• Radioactive shit is going to hit the fan sooner or later.
• GAME OVER.

Only democratic nations working together and people who strongly oppose demagogues and fascism have a chance to prevent that from happening. The EU is a fundamental building block to ensure this for Europe.

Have we not learned from WWII and 60 million deaths? Are humans really so dumb? If that's really the case, we deserve to go extinct.

I'm a fucking snob so I spend way too much money on expensive single malts and gyokuro green tea.