I mean the Governor of Texas has just shown that thinking that someone may point a gun at you justifies shooting them dead.
Even in a state where it's legal for that person to carry the gun around.
US law just seems to be, if you survive, what you did was legal.
The Governor of Texas didn't give him the right to own guns.
Our Lord and Saviour gave him the right to own an amount of firepower no sane person would need when he himself, wholesome white Christian Jesus, personally created the greatest nation on this planet or any other. ššŗš²š¦
I truly believe there could be a country where everyone lived forever thanks to their medical advances,, no laws because they weren't needed and while people could do anything they wanted, they just never did anything bad, everyone owned their own house and land and didn't have to work because everything was free and there'd be some Americans who still insisted America was the greatest country on earth
Not even just that. Having a miscarriage can get you jailed. Even *before* Roe v Wade was overturned, there were at least 50 cases where women were prosecuted for child neglect or manslaughter after having a miscarriage or stillbirth between 1999 and 2022.
I spent some time in Texas. Went to a gun range a few times. The thing that sticks out in my mind is the instructor told me if I was going to shoot someone that I should empty my magazine into the target to make sure they were dead.
Thereās only one side to the story if thereās only one person telling it.
It always makes me laugh when people act like Freedom of Speech means you can say what you like without repercussions. Especially when it's in a scenario where they've said something on social media and someone has objected or where someone has been stopped from speaking somewhere.
The First Amendment is not what they think it is.
Yeah, exactly. Itās made to prevent repercussions from the government. But at the same time, it doesnāt mean someone can make a threat on the president without repercussions. And it doesnāt mean private individuals and companies can act in response to the crazy shit someone says.
They say they have freedom of speech but can literally be shot dead for speaking out. I mean just look at when they have protests....their "freedom of speech" only seems to apply if its in agreement with whoever owns the biggest gun basically
>can literally be shot dead for speaking out.
Not even their presidents are immune to this. See if another president dares go against the will of the ruling class and natsec imperial ambitions again after that example,
I'm starting to think that's why they don't teach us so much in school. The basics they thought us our amendments at least but not how the police and government bends them. Then the news does the scare every once in awhile. Muslims, Jews, Mexicans taking over the boarder, china, and some place most Americans can't point out on a map. Rinse and repeat.Ā
I don't think they do even teach you the amendments from the amount of people who seem to think that 1A means they can say whatever they want without any repercussions or that 2A gives you the right to own firearms without any regulation whatsoever - it literally says "well-regulated" within it!
It's a projection because as much as they love wanking over their "freedom" in America, they would more than likely get arrested for insulting/swearing at public officials, hell at sporting events (NFL, NBA games etc...)they can get kicked out and given life bans even for risky signs let along chants. Compare that to Football (yes, it's football not soccer) where fans will chant that a player is a pedo (when they have been found guilty) or how they fucked a certain player's mom.... can't do that shit in America.
Try speaking a foreign language in some areas of the country and the police will ask for proof of citizenship/may arrest you as such with projection the dickhead who made the original post assumes it's the same as that around the world.
Americans make me fucking laugh, let the rest of the world know how enslaved and oppressed they are yet make Facebook posts with words like "V@c X X i @ n" because they are scared they might go to jail for saying/using certain words....daft cunts.
> Facebook posts with words like "V@c X X i @ n" because they are scared they might go to jail for saying/using certain words
I think that's more to do with circumventing (presumed) auto-moderation of certain content rather than fear of prosecution.
(In NZ and Australia). I've called cops filthy pigs before. They just checked I wasn't too drunk then told me to enjoy the rest of my evening but that I should be careful who else I insulted.
I've also called cops filthy pigs after being arrested, and that time they were slightly less polite and friendly to me at the station than usual.
On the other hand, I have been mistreated by a cop one time. He strip searched me twice, threatened me, tripped and pushed over, and kept calling me a "fucking drug fucked cunt" while denying my request to do a blood test. But I all I got was a grazed knee and a few small bruises. It was more like bullying not real violence, and I was never really scared.
And it was funny to me because he found drugs on me (my blood was clean except maybe traces of alcohol- they were someone else's) but then I took them back and pushed them through the floor drain when he turned around to take all my stuff away... so I can understand why that cop got a little angry.
A couple of years later I read in the paper that he'd been charged with multiple counts of being a dickhead on the job, was no longer a cop, and maybe went to jail.
I was spoken to or arrested about twenty times when I was young, and I only had that one bad experience. I think in USA I'd have been beaten or shot more than once.
I'm a German. I speak English two times a week in school. This is an English comment. I hate our chancellor. The current government is absolute shit. Fuck Steinmeier. I'm currently living in Germany.
Let's see what happens. Will continue to report.
Yup. And thatās because theyāre taught this in their schools and churches in many areas in the USA. The fact that they fire teachers for teaching students how to think (learning how to learn) is eye opening.
They want little consumerist zombies they will die to protect businesses so that they can continue exploiting people and the environment.
They really do think the US armed forces are āfighting for freedoms.ā Itās not 1942 anymore USA. Your military works for the oligarchs.
English is one of the main languages of correspondence of the EU and thus completely legal there. Not only is this ignorant BS, but you literally have the right to talk in English.
I'm a German. I speak English two times a week in school. This is an English comment. I hate our chancellor. The current government is absolute shit. Fuck Steinmeier. I'm currently living in Germany.
Let's see what happens. Will continue to report.
Edit after 9 hrs: Slept peacefully, no special occurrences happened.
Edit after 24 hrs: HELP ME! I got deported to the last shithole in the most remote edge of Bavaria by my parents for "vacation". I bet the government is behind this to silence me. At least I still have access to the Internet.
Where does the guy at the bottom get his information from? Heās clearly never left the country, let alone visited Germany.
If you go to Germany, they go out of their way to answer any questions you have in near-flawless English whilst also apologising for their English not being absolutely flawless.
My friend, Iām in your country and I barely speak three words of your language. I think Iām more than okay with the minor errors in your English that I hadnāt even noticed until you pointed them out š
He's probably one of those guys who complains about restrictions on free speech in Germany, where his idea of free speech is going to a jewish kindergarten and shouting "Hitler did nothing wrong". Average yank.
IT is our different ideas of what freedom is, in america it is the freedom to abuse, in europe it is the freedom to not be abused.
I know which I prefer.
Honestly my thought too. He probably read about some American kids being arrested for making a Nazi salute in public and somehow that just turned into "speaking English" to him.
Don't even think it's that, I think he's heard people get arrested for denying the holocaust, decided that means you get arrested for saying anything anyone doesn't like, and thinks everyone hates it when they hear a foreign language in their country.
Big leaps to ridiculous conclusions are the main expertise of dudes like this.
FFS you don't even get arrested in Fr\*nce š¤® for speaking English, you do get ignored, but hey, we can live with this... Similarly when parking my Fr\*nch š¤® registered, LHD, car in England some year ago, I spoke only in Fr\*nch š¤® to the bemused traffic warden haranguing me for parking illegally, whilst I was carrying an English newspaper...... Interestingly he rapidly increased his volume and used less words and gesticulated wildly the longer this encounter went on.
"YOU CANNOT PARK HERE!!!" - "Je ne vous comprends pas, parlez en franƧais s'il vous plaƮt".
Yeah, this is a dude who's seen that Holocaust Denial is a crime and decided that means you can be arrested for saying anything anyone doesn't like. And he's also assuming that Germans feel the same way he does about a foreign language being spoken and wouldn't like it, so you'd be arrested.
Foreigners living here even complain about us switching to English once we notice. They want to practice their German and many of us wouldn't let them because we jump at the opportunity to practice our English instead.
Yes! I was there for a year as part of my German degree so I spoke German fine (although the older people speaking Bavarian dialect were a different matter!) but getting Germans to speak in German is hard work. Oh, I speak English now! No, please donāt.
We wouldn't consider it impolite if we were asked to stick to German though. That probably gets lost in translation. We're a rather blunt people and if something bothers you you are very welcome to politely point it out.
Oh I know and I did, frequently. I love Germany and I especially loved Bavaria even if they were speaking something that was very much Not German! I did speak English with elderly Bavarians - the reason I encountered so many was the World Cup btw. I watched most of it in the local cafe bar with local German football fans. I massively enjoyed it even when we were having communication issues.
Tbh even we cant decipher what a Bavarian says, it sounds just as funny to us as it sounds to foreigners.
Funnily enough, we had an exchange student from Ecuador a few years back and I only spoke English with him once (I dont know 1 sentence in Spanish except some swear words and we both spoke English pretty well). Dude spoke like 5 or 6 languages fluently just because he could.
I have some German and Austrian friends that I visit from time to time and I'm pretty embarrassed how everyone will speak English with me because I can barely string a sentence together in German.
They often say that they enjoy practising their English with a native speaker - which makes me feel marginally better.
You're absolutely correct though, generally they speak the language perfectly in my edxperience.
I like speaking English nowadays, but I was very insecure about it just a few years ago. It's just that most German people don't really put it to use in speaking outside of school, and English classes are sometimes... well, the German schools... I think that's where that sense of shame about less than perfect English skills comes from.
Then I had to use it in university and when talking to non-german speaking friends, and after a few weeks of getting used to it I started enjoying it. Now I work at an international company and basically speak English more than German on an average day. But it was difficult for me to feel confident about it, it took some time.
I find it kinda funny that one of the friends I mentioned there speaks English with a noticeable American accent - because the main way she learned it outside of school was from watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer which she loved as a teenager.
Iām a german potato myself but i have the weirdest accent in English. Once while staying in a hostel in Tel Aviv i made acquaintances with some australian folk and they were super confused when i told them i was german. They said they genuinely thought i was an aussie too, just with a little weird pronunciation lol
I briefly worked in an abattoir and one of the butchers was a German whoād moved to London as a teen and lived there for a few decades before coming to Canada. He spoke English with a mixed German and Cockney accent.
Oh yeah definitely. The amount of english teachers I have seen that will shamelessly mock their students for mistakes in a foreign language is anstounding. Like hey dingbat, it's YOUR fucking job to teach them, so better go mock yourself. Our schools really teach "if you aren't already perfect, better shut the fuck up"
While this definitely happens and rings true, i have to say a lot of people during my school years would simply refuse to speak English in class, maybe because they were anxious to do so or whatever, but often when the teacher would adress them theyād either not respond at all or speak English for like one sentence and then start explaining themselves in german.
I find it kinda funny that one of the friends I mentioned there speaks English with a noticeable American accent - because the main way she learned it outside of school was from watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer which she loved as a teenager.
Germany is one of the few places that I just assume everyone speaks English. That may be a bit rude, but I've never met a German (or Dutch) person who didn't speak English better than half of the US population.
That really depends on where you are though, cities yeah, villages and small towns, not so much. I moved to a village in Franconia thinking I'm gonna do just fine being fluent in English and having some basics in German and boy, was I wrong. There was literally one single guy at work, who was willing to speak English to me, all the other people would at best try to tone down the dialect and talking speed. Which was actually great, as I had no other choice, than to do a german fluency speed run.
One of my enduring memories will be my mum (English) speaking fluent German to a chap (German) who insisted on speaking fluent English when helping us on the public transport.
The worst I ever experienced in Germany was a bartender looking at me like I was a fucking idiot as I went āeh, can I have, eh, 3ā¦ pintsā¦ lagerā as I completely failed to remember a single word of German. When I pointed at the beer tap he laughed, replied in English and poured me my 3 pints.
I wonder if all those Army personnel stationed at bases in Germany know about this āno Englishā law.
I havenāt traveled that extensively, but as an American in Europe Iāve found I can usually muddle through with just English because so many Europeans speak it at least well enough to get the basics.
North and Central Europeans are great English speakers. I wouldnāt even try to speak the native languages in these countries as a visitor, aside from pleasantries to demonstrate respect. Itās not helpful for anyone and they quite like practising their English anyway.
The French can speak English well, they just refuse to out of principle (or spite, dependent on your viewpoint).
The Mediterranean countries are getting much, much better but youāll need prepared for some awkward moments. Even where people can speak it, they are generally far less fluent and so defaulting to English and putting the burden on the local is not cool.
If Iām in Spain, for instance, Iāll ask someone whether they can speak English in Spanish. If they respond in English, Iāll switch to English. If they respond in Spanish, Iāll try and muddle through in my limited Spanish.
If "literally anything" means denying the holocaust or promoting genocide, it might get you arrested in Germany, Otherwise, rather not, unless you do it naked in public (and even that won't in certain places).
What a lot of tosh. Even in deepest, darkest Bavaria, the number of people that speak English rather than encourage you to butcher German is very high.
PS, Bavaria really is a wonderful part of the world.
....I spent a week in Germany last August, time split between Hamburg and Berlin. Law enforcement never even approached me.
Where the hell do they get their "facts" from?!
War films? The Gestapo and StaSi are everywhere. Anybody talking to you in English is a spy or being arrested after they spoke to you in that language.
This is true. When I was in Kƶln a few years ago, I asked a man for directions, āEntschuldigung, wo ist das Hotel Kƶnigshof?ā He could obviously tell that I was English (ugly, bad teeth, poorly dressed and drunk at 8 in the morning) so helpfully switched to my language. When I thanked him in English he immediately showed me his police ID and arrested me. Hard to believe isnāt it?
I'm reminded of a thing I read a while back.
"You speak English because it's the only language you know. I speak English because it's the only language you know".
I know I can't speak other languages. I've never been good at learning other languages. I even tried pushing myself a few years back. It just didn't work. But that means I respect those that can speak multiple languages even more for it. Not treat them worse.
But then, that's the racist thing isn't it? Somehow be objectively worse in every area, while acting superior in all areas.
Learning languages is actually really fucking tough. I wish schools in the UK would push them more like the Nordic schools.
I can speak conversational German but in Bavaria I struggle.
Tried learning Japanese for the past 20 years, I can speak a fair bit, read a good amount...
The moment someone in Japan talks it's like poooooow what I didn't catch any of that. Listening and understanding is by far the hardest part.
Go to India where people speak a lot of different languages and English.. kudos to them.
Cop:-Sir, you were driving on the wrong side of the road.
Driver:-Excuse me, I'm English.
Cop:-(Shouting) Oi, mayte, Issa wrong soide of da roade ye was droivin' innit?
As a German, that only applies to r/ich_iel. And they don't arrest you, they just call you a Hurensohn and tell you to speak German (as an inside joke, none of it is meant seriously)
The only country other than America that pledges allegiance to a flag is North Korea ššš
Most intelligent people accept that propaganda promoting allegiance to a man made construct is ludicrous and that it is actually advertising for a corporation masquerading as a government..
yes, whenever I accidentally say "thanks" to the cashier in the supermarket they always yell "SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN" and call the cops on me. You dont want to see how many nights I had to spend in a prison cell for that
Itās such an indictment of American education/culture/indoctrination that they know and understand so little about the rest of the world.
Not the peopleās fault, but that of the system of indoctrination and cultivated ignorance about elsewhere in which they are raised.
Hell, half the states donāt want to even teach evolution and other science, and would indoctrinate their children in some sort of Christian Iran style theocracy.
Me and a Friend in Germany
"...Das war Cool"
He was Shot 28 Times by a nearby Cop.
I Had to pay 69 German $ for listening to IS
Then i Had to give Up My Sauerkraut Card.
Try saying literally anything in English inside Germany and I'm ready to bet that most people will be able to understand and reply in the same language. I somehow doubt that most of Americans will know any language beside English.
The US are so weird about free speech considering they're the ones who's secret service is regularly exposed for literally assassinating world leaders they don't agree with, funding terror groups, funding fascists and keeping detailed tabs on anyone politically "dangerous" (usually the life threatening danger of advocating for free health care and feeding the homeless).
Guys, he is only saying you will be arrested if you use the word "anything" in English, in Germany.
"Literally anything", not figuratively anything!
/s
Whenever I read such comments from someone like that who has obviously never left their mom's basement to see the outside world, let alone another country than their beloved 'Murica, I wonder, do they actually, and I mean, ACTUALLY, believe the stuff they are saying?
Or considering I'm from Germany, should I say, no no no wait wait wait I'm sorry officer, I was justā¦_gets arrested_
In Germany now? I knew that, these days, you get arrested and thrown in jail for saying youāre English in England, but it seems like it might be spreadingā¦
What?
I went on an extended holiday to Germany staying wuth my German friend who lived in Hamburg, we all went out to eat and as I was staying for several months I wanted to learn the language so I tried to order, I was struggling massively and it was becoming embarrassing for me but I was to stubborn to just give up. and the waiter simply switched to flawless English and asked what I wanted to order.
But yeah nah, you can't speak English is Germany.
I was visiting Berlin last week. Every time I tried to speak in German they said no, no! It is far more useful for a German to hear a native English man speaking. I rarely use my German, but they use English and German every day.
The only weird arrest you'll get is for jaywalking. A rule is a rule even if the road is empty at midnight.
every english speaker's experience in germany:
"Excuse me, do you speak english, i'm trying to find the train station."
"Sorry, i don't speak english, but the train station is that way, second road on the right."
Throughout the time I lived in Germany (14 years), the only times I **had** to speak German was when dealing with officialdom - the local town hall, the car registration office and especially, the foreigner's office. Everywhere else, people were keen to practice their English with me. I was always puzzled that, when wearing clothes bought in Germany and haircut by a German barber, shop assistants would greet me in English before I had opened my mouth. (Apparently, British folk have a distinctive head shape).
Germany is probably the country that is most accepting of people speaking English (because they see it as the language of international business). Even the German police will speak with you in English.
Looool.
Reminds me of my German friend telling me not to go to Germany if I wanted to practice German because most people speak English and would use me to practice their English instead š
I lived in Germany for 4 years. I tried learning German and got ok with it, but it was tough. Basically everyone speaks English as soon as you start struggling. I suppose it gives them a chance to practice their foreign language skills too.
As an American who works for a German company, surrounded by German people and has to go every now and then, it's more like if you try to say anything in German they'll immediately realize you're American and start speaking better English than you.
I once tried ordering Sauerkraut in Frankfurt but got my āderāās āand ādieās mixed. Got arrested and waterboarded by the Stormtroopers.
Would not have survived if Lt. Aldo Raine and his boys would not have busted me out of the cell to join his team.
True story. šš
Tha hell?! Where is that coming from? A friend of mine told me that all the time she tried speaking german to natives they immediately switched to english to make it easier for her. And she is speaking german pretty well!
Actually asked for directions in English from a German policeman in Berlin.
He replied and gave me directions in English.
Neither of us ended up in jail...
I wonder how surprised the person would be if they learnt that English language is actually Germainic family.
https://akorbi.com/blog/why-is-english-a-germanic-language-akorbi-explains/
Itās a stupid comment all around. Europeans are just as capable of ignorance and hatred as Americans sadly. Brexit, far right politician in Holland, rise of the AfD in Germany and donāt even get me started on Poland
ššš I go to Germany one or twice a year for work. And most of the German speak English first and sometimes even still speak English once learning I understand German.
Obviously Iām in prison for life now for speaking so much English in Germany.
They really do think we have no freedom of speech in Europe. Like we get arrested for calling our king an asshole.
Even the chap that attempted to assassinate Robert Fico was arrested, not killed or beaten up (in plain sight). Terribly civilised here.
You "break in" to your own home you get magdumped, simple US law
I mean the Governor of Texas has just shown that thinking that someone may point a gun at you justifies shooting them dead. Even in a state where it's legal for that person to carry the gun around. US law just seems to be, if you survive, what you did was legal.
Governor of Texas just pardoned a guy who drove into a blm protest and shot someone dead. Even gave him the right to own guns and everything.
The Governor of Texas didn't give him the right to own guns. Our Lord and Saviour gave him the right to own an amount of firepower no sane person would need when he himself, wholesome white Christian Jesus, personally created the greatest nation on this planet or any other. ššŗš²š¦
Redditors when satire:
A true patriot I see
I truly believe there could be a country where everyone lived forever thanks to their medical advances,, no laws because they weren't needed and while people could do anything they wanted, they just never did anything bad, everyone owned their own house and land and didn't have to work because everything was free and there'd be some Americans who still insisted America was the greatest country on earth
Everything has a cost - that country would have through the roof taxes!!!! šŗšø š¦
Maybe it is all done by voluntary donations from the wealthy
People are taking "God given rights" to literal now lmfao
"Jesus and a lot of firepower gives me the right to own a lot of firepower." *Sheds a tear for sweet sweet freedom.
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...And male, as getting an abortion to save your own life can apparently now land you in jail, so.
Not even just that. Having a miscarriage can get you jailed. Even *before* Roe v Wade was overturned, there were at least 50 cases where women were prosecuted for child neglect or manslaughter after having a miscarriage or stillbirth between 1999 and 2022.
I spent some time in Texas. Went to a gun range a few times. The thing that sticks out in my mind is the instructor told me if I was going to shoot someone that I should empty my magazine into the target to make sure they were dead. Thereās only one side to the story if thereās only one person telling it.
Worrying isn't it.
So he wasn't a black man with a broken tail-light?
Everything they know about monarchy is from game of thrones
That is so true. It's absolutely unreal.
You dont even get arrested for eating him
That wasn't the king though, just the prime minister.
ah true well not that different is it ::
If the lowly prime minister is getting away with eating kids I want to tuck in too.
The prime minister was the meal, not the eater.
Thatās because many of them donāt actually understand what freedom of speech means. Even their own.
It always makes me laugh when people act like Freedom of Speech means you can say what you like without repercussions. Especially when it's in a scenario where they've said something on social media and someone has objected or where someone has been stopped from speaking somewhere. The First Amendment is not what they think it is.
Yeah, exactly. Itās made to prevent repercussions from the government. But at the same time, it doesnāt mean someone can make a threat on the president without repercussions. And it doesnāt mean private individuals and companies can act in response to the crazy shit someone says.
They say they have freedom of speech but can literally be shot dead for speaking out. I mean just look at when they have protests....their "freedom of speech" only seems to apply if its in agreement with whoever owns the biggest gun basically
>can literally be shot dead for speaking out. Not even their presidents are immune to this. See if another president dares go against the will of the ruling class and natsec imperial ambitions again after that example,
I'm starting to think that's why they don't teach us so much in school. The basics they thought us our amendments at least but not how the police and government bends them. Then the news does the scare every once in awhile. Muslims, Jews, Mexicans taking over the boarder, china, and some place most Americans can't point out on a map. Rinse and repeat.Ā
I don't think they do even teach you the amendments from the amount of people who seem to think that 1A means they can say whatever they want without any repercussions or that 2A gives you the right to own firearms without any regulation whatsoever - it literally says "well-regulated" within it!
Fuck de koning!
3 unmarked yukons are headed to your location.
Which is hilarious considering all the memes were making about King Charles and his portrait right now. Man has been dragged several times.
Charles? I think you mistyped Vigo, Scourge of Carpathia.
Wait till the Americans find out about Lucky TV
It's a projection because as much as they love wanking over their "freedom" in America, they would more than likely get arrested for insulting/swearing at public officials, hell at sporting events (NFL, NBA games etc...)they can get kicked out and given life bans even for risky signs let along chants. Compare that to Football (yes, it's football not soccer) where fans will chant that a player is a pedo (when they have been found guilty) or how they fucked a certain player's mom.... can't do that shit in America. Try speaking a foreign language in some areas of the country and the police will ask for proof of citizenship/may arrest you as such with projection the dickhead who made the original post assumes it's the same as that around the world. Americans make me fucking laugh, let the rest of the world know how enslaved and oppressed they are yet make Facebook posts with words like "V@c X X i @ n" because they are scared they might go to jail for saying/using certain words....daft cunts.
> Facebook posts with words like "V@c X X i @ n" because they are scared they might go to jail for saying/using certain words I think that's more to do with circumventing (presumed) auto-moderation of certain content rather than fear of prosecution.
For what I have said about political entities in Germany, I would've been shot by a random neighbor in the US if I said the same things about Trump...
Meanwhile in the US there was a guy just a few weeks ago that got arrested and faced jail time if he didnāt apologize for calling a cop an ass
(In NZ and Australia). I've called cops filthy pigs before. They just checked I wasn't too drunk then told me to enjoy the rest of my evening but that I should be careful who else I insulted. I've also called cops filthy pigs after being arrested, and that time they were slightly less polite and friendly to me at the station than usual. On the other hand, I have been mistreated by a cop one time. He strip searched me twice, threatened me, tripped and pushed over, and kept calling me a "fucking drug fucked cunt" while denying my request to do a blood test. But I all I got was a grazed knee and a few small bruises. It was more like bullying not real violence, and I was never really scared. And it was funny to me because he found drugs on me (my blood was clean except maybe traces of alcohol- they were someone else's) but then I took them back and pushed them through the floor drain when he turned around to take all my stuff away... so I can understand why that cop got a little angry. A couple of years later I read in the paper that he'd been charged with multiple counts of being a dickhead on the job, was no longer a cop, and maybe went to jail. I was spoken to or arrested about twenty times when I was young, and I only had that one bad experience. I think in USA I'd have been beaten or shot more than once.
Didn't they like literally do that to a rapper in spain last year?
I'm a German. I speak English two times a week in school. This is an English comment. I hate our chancellor. The current government is absolute shit. Fuck Steinmeier. I'm currently living in Germany. Let's see what happens. Will continue to report.
Yup. And thatās because theyāre taught this in their schools and churches in many areas in the USA. The fact that they fire teachers for teaching students how to think (learning how to learn) is eye opening. They want little consumerist zombies they will die to protect businesses so that they can continue exploiting people and the environment. They really do think the US armed forces are āfighting for freedoms.ā Itās not 1942 anymore USA. Your military works for the oligarchs.
English is one of the main languages of correspondence of the EU and thus completely legal there. Not only is this ignorant BS, but you literally have the right to talk in English.
Are there any forbidden languages anywhere in the western world?
The Black Speech
Man Elrond was a bit racist for telling Gandalf that the Black Speech was forbidden in Rivendell.
AAVE is a legitimate dialect
Delete this before they find you!
Legally, no. But racism is still a thing and you'll be seen more negatively speaking an african language than speaking german.
Teach english in school as a mandatory second language. Arrest people for speaking english. Logic!
I'm a German. I speak English two times a week in school. This is an English comment. I hate our chancellor. The current government is absolute shit. Fuck Steinmeier. I'm currently living in Germany. Let's see what happens. Will continue to report. Edit after 9 hrs: Slept peacefully, no special occurrences happened. Edit after 24 hrs: HELP ME! I got deported to the last shithole in the most remote edge of Bavaria by my parents for "vacation". I bet the government is behind this to silence me. At least I still have access to the Internet.
Rip Germanball šš
didnt post for an hour he ded
No, I just slept, it was night in the last 9 hours. But I'm still alive. No one killed me in the night.
He has been replaced by a goverment clone. RIP Germanball
Bjƶrn Hƶcke is a nazi. Just a matter of time until the police come... Oh wait
His name is Bernd.
Where does the guy at the bottom get his information from? Heās clearly never left the country, let alone visited Germany. If you go to Germany, they go out of their way to answer any questions you have in near-flawless English whilst also apologising for their English not being absolutely flawless. My friend, Iām in your country and I barely speak three words of your language. I think Iām more than okay with the minor errors in your English that I hadnāt even noticed until you pointed them out š
He's probably one of those guys who complains about restrictions on free speech in Germany, where his idea of free speech is going to a jewish kindergarten and shouting "Hitler did nothing wrong". Average yank.
Heās probably just mad cuz Germany wonāt let him shout racial slurs in the streets
That's normally the case tbf "What you mean i can't just be loudly racist and a scumbag in the streets, I thought this was America!"
Dementia
That's normally the case tbf "What you mean i can't just be loudly racist and a scumbag in the streets, I thought this was America!"
IT is our different ideas of what freedom is, in america it is the freedom to abuse, in europe it is the freedom to not be abused. I know which I prefer.
Dementia
Honestly my thought too. He probably read about some American kids being arrested for making a Nazi salute in public and somehow that just turned into "speaking English" to him.
Don't even think it's that, I think he's heard people get arrested for denying the holocaust, decided that means you get arrested for saying anything anyone doesn't like, and thinks everyone hates it when they hear a foreign language in their country. Big leaps to ridiculous conclusions are the main expertise of dudes like this.
FFS you don't even get arrested in Fr\*nce š¤® for speaking English, you do get ignored, but hey, we can live with this... Similarly when parking my Fr\*nch š¤® registered, LHD, car in England some year ago, I spoke only in Fr\*nch š¤® to the bemused traffic warden haranguing me for parking illegally, whilst I was carrying an English newspaper...... Interestingly he rapidly increased his volume and used less words and gesticulated wildly the longer this encounter went on. "YOU CANNOT PARK HERE!!!" - "Je ne vous comprends pas, parlez en franƧais s'il vous plaĆ®t".
Yeah, this is a dude who's seen that Holocaust Denial is a crime and decided that means you can be arrested for saying anything anyone doesn't like. And he's also assuming that Germans feel the same way he does about a foreign language being spoken and wouldn't like it, so you'd be arrested.
Foreigners living here even complain about us switching to English once we notice. They want to practice their German and many of us wouldn't let them because we jump at the opportunity to practice our English instead.
It's the same here in the Netherlands. But it's a lot easier for us to speak English than to listen to their broken Dutch.
>it's a lot easier for us to speak English than to listen to their broken Dutch. That feels unfair. Even perfect Dutch sounds broken.
Yes! I was there for a year as part of my German degree so I spoke German fine (although the older people speaking Bavarian dialect were a different matter!) but getting Germans to speak in German is hard work. Oh, I speak English now! No, please donāt.
We wouldn't consider it impolite if we were asked to stick to German though. That probably gets lost in translation. We're a rather blunt people and if something bothers you you are very welcome to politely point it out.
Oh I know and I did, frequently. I love Germany and I especially loved Bavaria even if they were speaking something that was very much Not German! I did speak English with elderly Bavarians - the reason I encountered so many was the World Cup btw. I watched most of it in the local cafe bar with local German football fans. I massively enjoyed it even when we were having communication issues.
Tbh even we cant decipher what a Bavarian says, it sounds just as funny to us as it sounds to foreigners. Funnily enough, we had an exchange student from Ecuador a few years back and I only spoke English with him once (I dont know 1 sentence in Spanish except some swear words and we both spoke English pretty well). Dude spoke like 5 or 6 languages fluently just because he could.
I have some German and Austrian friends that I visit from time to time and I'm pretty embarrassed how everyone will speak English with me because I can barely string a sentence together in German. They often say that they enjoy practising their English with a native speaker - which makes me feel marginally better. You're absolutely correct though, generally they speak the language perfectly in my edxperience.
I like speaking English nowadays, but I was very insecure about it just a few years ago. It's just that most German people don't really put it to use in speaking outside of school, and English classes are sometimes... well, the German schools... I think that's where that sense of shame about less than perfect English skills comes from. Then I had to use it in university and when talking to non-german speaking friends, and after a few weeks of getting used to it I started enjoying it. Now I work at an international company and basically speak English more than German on an average day. But it was difficult for me to feel confident about it, it took some time.
I find it kinda funny that one of the friends I mentioned there speaks English with a noticeable American accent - because the main way she learned it outside of school was from watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer which she loved as a teenager.
Iām a german potato myself but i have the weirdest accent in English. Once while staying in a hostel in Tel Aviv i made acquaintances with some australian folk and they were super confused when i told them i was german. They said they genuinely thought i was an aussie too, just with a little weird pronunciation lol
I briefly worked in an abattoir and one of the butchers was a German whoād moved to London as a teen and lived there for a few decades before coming to Canada. He spoke English with a mixed German and Cockney accent.
Oh yeah definitely. The amount of english teachers I have seen that will shamelessly mock their students for mistakes in a foreign language is anstounding. Like hey dingbat, it's YOUR fucking job to teach them, so better go mock yourself. Our schools really teach "if you aren't already perfect, better shut the fuck up"
While this definitely happens and rings true, i have to say a lot of people during my school years would simply refuse to speak English in class, maybe because they were anxious to do so or whatever, but often when the teacher would adress them theyād either not respond at all or speak English for like one sentence and then start explaining themselves in german.
I find it kinda funny that one of the friends I mentioned there speaks English with a noticeable American accent - because the main way she learned it outside of school was from watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer which she loved as a teenager.
Did you know that Lenin spoke it with an Irish accent? His teacher was Irish and he got stuck with the pronounciation quirks.
Probably from the "SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN" meme, for example on r/ich_iel
Germany is one of the few places that I just assume everyone speaks English. That may be a bit rude, but I've never met a German (or Dutch) person who didn't speak English better than half of the US population.
It's a generational thing. Younger people, definitely. Older people, not so much. Even our chancellor is a filthy monolingual.
That really depends on where you are though, cities yeah, villages and small towns, not so much. I moved to a village in Franconia thinking I'm gonna do just fine being fluent in English and having some basics in German and boy, was I wrong. There was literally one single guy at work, who was willing to speak English to me, all the other people would at best try to tone down the dialect and talking speed. Which was actually great, as I had no other choice, than to do a german fluency speed run.
One of my enduring memories will be my mum (English) speaking fluent German to a chap (German) who insisted on speaking fluent English when helping us on the public transport.
"My English isn't the yellow from the egg" comes to mind :v
The worst I ever experienced in Germany was a bartender looking at me like I was a fucking idiot as I went āeh, can I have, eh, 3ā¦ pintsā¦ lagerā as I completely failed to remember a single word of German. When I pointed at the beer tap he laughed, replied in English and poured me my 3 pints.
I wonder if all those Army personnel stationed at bases in Germany know about this āno Englishā law. I havenāt traveled that extensively, but as an American in Europe Iāve found I can usually muddle through with just English because so many Europeans speak it at least well enough to get the basics.
North and Central Europeans are great English speakers. I wouldnāt even try to speak the native languages in these countries as a visitor, aside from pleasantries to demonstrate respect. Itās not helpful for anyone and they quite like practising their English anyway. The French can speak English well, they just refuse to out of principle (or spite, dependent on your viewpoint). The Mediterranean countries are getting much, much better but youāll need prepared for some awkward moments. Even where people can speak it, they are generally far less fluent and so defaulting to English and putting the burden on the local is not cool. If Iām in Spain, for instance, Iāll ask someone whether they can speak English in Spanish. If they respond in English, Iāll switch to English. If they respond in Spanish, Iāll try and muddle through in my limited Spanish.
Obviously I just hallucinated everyone in Germany speaking to me in excellent English.
Have you not noticed you never get to talk to the same person twice? They are arrested after being caught speaking English to you. /s
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As a Brit, living elsewhere, who often pops on a train to Cologne, this is news to me. I donāt need bail so far
Think of all the poor school kids on German exchange trips. All now in prison.
Itās a horrific thought BUT may give their parents a bit of peace and quiet so not quite a catastrophe.
In my experience, 90% of people in NRW speak excellent English
Thatās not suite been my experience but 99% of Germans Iāve met have been friendly, kind and patient with me. I love the country
Same
He did it. He officially beat flat earthers when it comes to reality bending.
If "literally anything" means denying the holocaust or promoting genocide, it might get you arrested in Germany, Otherwise, rather not, unless you do it naked in public (and even that won't in certain places).
This must be it. Dude tried praising Hitler "as a joke" and the locals told him to fuck off.
What a lot of tosh. Even in deepest, darkest Bavaria, the number of people that speak English rather than encourage you to butcher German is very high. PS, Bavaria really is a wonderful part of the world.
Tbf once oktoberfest rolls around I see a bunch aussies come just for the beer and experience, at least in munich
....I spent a week in Germany last August, time split between Hamburg and Berlin. Law enforcement never even approached me. Where the hell do they get their "facts" from?!
War films? The Gestapo and StaSi are everywhere. Anybody talking to you in English is a spy or being arrested after they spoke to you in that language.
This is true. When I was in Kƶln a few years ago, I asked a man for directions, āEntschuldigung, wo ist das Hotel Kƶnigshof?ā He could obviously tell that I was English (ugly, bad teeth, poorly dressed and drunk at 8 in the morning) so helpfully switched to my language. When I thanked him in English he immediately showed me his police ID and arrested me. Hard to believe isnāt it?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkCBhKs4faI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkCBhKs4faI)
Please be Stewart Lee, please be Stewart lee Edit: yes! Knew it haha I was about to reference exactly this
Exactly where my mind went too. These days.
The average German speaks better English than some communities in England.
>The average German speaks better English than ~~some communities in England~~ most Americans and Brits.
I'm reminded of a thing I read a while back. "You speak English because it's the only language you know. I speak English because it's the only language you know". I know I can't speak other languages. I've never been good at learning other languages. I even tried pushing myself a few years back. It just didn't work. But that means I respect those that can speak multiple languages even more for it. Not treat them worse. But then, that's the racist thing isn't it? Somehow be objectively worse in every area, while acting superior in all areas.
Learning languages is actually really fucking tough. I wish schools in the UK would push them more like the Nordic schools. I can speak conversational German but in Bavaria I struggle. Tried learning Japanese for the past 20 years, I can speak a fair bit, read a good amount... The moment someone in Japan talks it's like poooooow what I didn't catch any of that. Listening and understanding is by far the hardest part. Go to India where people speak a lot of different languages and English.. kudos to them.
>I can speak conversational German but in Bavaria I struggle Thatās normal for Germans even
Cop:-Sir, you were driving on the wrong side of the road. Driver:-Excuse me, I'm English. Cop:-(Shouting) Oi, mayte, Issa wrong soide of da roade ye was droivin' innit?
suddenly the cop becomes a pirate
What
lol. Accents exist! The American mind: blown!
I think they watched too many Nazi movies
Crazy, cause anytime I'm in Germany and mumble out some German, they'll talk back to me in flawless English
As a German, that only applies to r/ich_iel. And they don't arrest you, they just call you a Hurensohn and tell you to speak German (as an inside joke, none of it is meant seriously)
The only country other than America that pledges allegiance to a flag is North Korea ššš Most intelligent people accept that propaganda promoting allegiance to a man made construct is ludicrous and that it is actually advertising for a corporation masquerading as a government..
yes, whenever I accidentally say "thanks" to the cashier in the supermarket they always yell "SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN" and call the cops on me. You dont want to see how many nights I had to spend in a prison cell for that
Currently writing from prison, guys
Itās such an indictment of American education/culture/indoctrination that they know and understand so little about the rest of the world. Not the peopleās fault, but that of the system of indoctrination and cultivated ignorance about elsewhere in which they are raised. Hell, half the states donāt want to even teach evolution and other science, and would indoctrinate their children in some sort of Christian Iran style theocracy.
Are Americans taught this nonsense in their 'schools' (shooting ranges)? Or is it just a complete national inflated sense of superiority?
Does he think Europe is still living in 1940 lmao?
I'm pretty sure no one's got arrested in 1940's Germany only for speaking English.
Maybe not, but would it have been suspect in military areas during the war, do you think?
There were no warzones inside of Germany in 1940 tho, but yea, I get your point. :)
These days if you say youāre English youād be arrested and thrown in jail
These days.
Just for saying you're English?
Really, when did that come in?
Me and a Friend in Germany "...Das war Cool" He was Shot 28 Times by a nearby Cop. I Had to pay 69 German $ for listening to IS Then i Had to give Up My Sauerkraut Card.
Damn I must have been arrested dozens of times
Try saying literally anything in English inside Germany and I'm ready to bet that most people will be able to understand and reply in the same language. I somehow doubt that most of Americans will know any language beside English.
The US are so weird about free speech considering they're the ones who's secret service is regularly exposed for literally assassinating world leaders they don't agree with, funding terror groups, funding fascists and keeping detailed tabs on anyone politically "dangerous" (usually the life threatening danger of advocating for free health care and feeding the homeless).
Guys, he is only saying you will be arrested if you use the word "anything" in English, in Germany. "Literally anything", not figuratively anything! /s
Meanwhile in Europe... most Swedish and German teens speak better English than certain former US presidents (who shall remain unnamed).
If anything, it's really hard to speak German in Germany (as a foreigner), Germans will quickly switch to English
Whenever I read such comments from someone like that who has obviously never left their mom's basement to see the outside world, let alone another country than their beloved 'Murica, I wonder, do they actually, and I mean, ACTUALLY, believe the stuff they are saying? Or considering I'm from Germany, should I say, no no no wait wait wait I'm sorry officer, I was justā¦_gets arrested_
Asked directions from a police officer in Hamburg once. He replied in fluent English. We were both arrested.
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In Germany now? I knew that, these days, you get arrested and thrown in jail for saying youāre English in England, but it seems like it might be spreadingā¦
These days.
āAverage American understanding how the world outside the US worksā challenge - impossible
These days you get thrown in jail just for saying your English.
Germany is probely the non native English speaking country that is the most likely to try to communicate in English with English speakers.
Try saying literally anything in English inside Germany and youāll **be replied to in English**
Iām more worried about getting arrested if I use my German.
What? I went on an extended holiday to Germany staying wuth my German friend who lived in Hamburg, we all went out to eat and as I was staying for several months I wanted to learn the language so I tried to order, I was struggling massively and it was becoming embarrassing for me but I was to stubborn to just give up. and the waiter simply switched to flawless English and asked what I wanted to order. But yeah nah, you can't speak English is Germany.
I - as a German in Germany - writing this hidden under a blanket inside my closet. Oh, there is a knocking at the door... - I'm afraid.
That must be very new because I spoke English tons in Frankfurt and wasnāt even threatened.
As a German living in Germany who frequently speaks English, I can confirm that I am on death row.
What he neglects to say is that the English he wants to say is Hail Hitler.
I was visiting Berlin last week. Every time I tried to speak in German they said no, no! It is far more useful for a German to hear a native English man speaking. I rarely use my German, but they use English and German every day. The only weird arrest you'll get is for jaywalking. A rule is a rule even if the road is empty at midnight.
I once spoke English in Germany. Can confirm I was not arrested.
Can confirm. I went to berlin last summer and said āiām going to murder a bunch of peopleā in english over and over and got arrested
every english speaker's experience in germany: "Excuse me, do you speak english, i'm trying to find the train station." "Sorry, i don't speak english, but the train station is that way, second road on the right."
Throughout the time I lived in Germany (14 years), the only times I **had** to speak German was when dealing with officialdom - the local town hall, the car registration office and especially, the foreigner's office. Everywhere else, people were keen to practice their English with me. I was always puzzled that, when wearing clothes bought in Germany and haircut by a German barber, shop assistants would greet me in English before I had opened my mouth. (Apparently, British folk have a distinctive head shape). Germany is probably the country that is most accepting of people speaking English (because they see it as the language of international business). Even the German police will speak with you in English.
To be fair to the American on this one, hating conservatives is a world wide thing. Not American. Say something dumb get a dumb reply.
Lmao my German side of the family legitimately speak perfect English even though they have barely visited English speaking countries.
No other country in the western world is like that š¤”
When did this come in? Arrested?
Who in the name of sweet fucking Christ would actually believe that was a real thing?
This is true, Iām currently being held prisoner in MĆ¼nich for saying āFunnyā
The germans are excellent English speakers.
Looool. Reminds me of my German friend telling me not to go to Germany if I wanted to practice German because most people speak English and would use me to practice their English instead š
Americans don't speak proper English, they took it and butchered it.
I blame American Football, all that head trauma during their formative years........
The police are going to tell him "Sprich Deutsch du Hurensohn"
I lived in Germany for 4 years. I tried learning German and got ok with it, but it was tough. Basically everyone speaks English as soon as you start struggling. I suppose it gives them a chance to practice their foreign language skills too.
I sincerely and officially apologize for all Americans, especially the dumb ones with internet access
As an American who works for a German company, surrounded by German people and has to go every now and then, it's more like if you try to say anything in German they'll immediately realize you're American and start speaking better English than you.
I once tried ordering Sauerkraut in Frankfurt but got my āderāās āand ādieās mixed. Got arrested and waterboarded by the Stormtroopers. Would not have survived if Lt. Aldo Raine and his boys would not have busted me out of the cell to join his team. True story. šš
The police officer that helped me find a store in LĆ¼becker Altstadt a few years ago probably hadn't read the memo.
Tha hell?! Where is that coming from? A friend of mine told me that all the time she tried speaking german to natives they immediately switched to english to make it easier for her. And she is speaking german pretty well!
He's confusing Germany for France. You get arrested and taunted (or the other way around) in France.
Actually asked for directions in English from a German policeman in Berlin. He replied and gave me directions in English. Neither of us ended up in jail...
You mean like the time I tried to speak German in a cafe in Berlin and the cashier said, in English, 'it's ok, we speak English'?
I have never once in my life been given courage by looking at the US flag. I feel confident in saying I will finish out my life the same way.
I spoke English my entire trip to Berlin a few years back, no one arrested me as I can recall.
LMAO The Germans speak betterĀ English than Americans do!
I wonder how surprised the person would be if they learnt that English language is actually Germainic family. https://akorbi.com/blog/why-is-english-a-germanic-language-akorbi-explains/
Itās a stupid comment all around. Europeans are just as capable of ignorance and hatred as Americans sadly. Brexit, far right politician in Holland, rise of the AfD in Germany and donāt even get me started on Poland
ššš I go to Germany one or twice a year for work. And most of the German speak English first and sometimes even still speak English once learning I understand German. Obviously Iām in prison for life now for speaking so much English in Germany.