That is not German humor, that is German anger.
Tbf, german humor and german anger are hard to distinguish by people who aren’t used to both.
Genau.
Proof: [email protected]
I’m actually impressed you created that one 2 years ago, I assumed you just did it for this joke.
We Germans have a very good humor actually we wrote the book aboud it. A whole compendium. Thousands of pages. The most comprehensive work you’ll find. It’s just not a funny book.
I can picture this very German explanation of what humour is. A technical manual on it and how to be funny, and yet not a single “lol” was had in the reading
German humour is no laughing matter.
You don’t get a “vroom” from reading a car manual, either.
You call it what it was, a Nazi salute.
Because if he cries defamation and wants to sue, stand there in court and give the judge the finger. The judge shoukd either accept that hand gestures have commonly accepted meanings or endure the whole case while you give everyone the finger. Probably make a few wanking motions with your hand for good measure…
Tbf, he did win a defamation case for calling someone a pedo by arguing it was South African slang.
His response kinda confirms it was exactly what it looked like:
“Frankly, they need better dirty tricks,” Musk wrote on the social platform X, responding to a post describing the “salute hoax” as “just another part of the ‘dirty tricks campaign.’”
“The ‘everyone is Hitler’ attack is sooo tired,” Musk added, with a sleeping emoji.
Yeah, it’s not like the Germans would have any special insight into Hitler and not invoke him lightly.
The only response to that should be
Straw man: Nobody accused you of being Hitler
Not a meme. Do we really need politics on every-single-community?
Sorry, next time I’ll wrap it in a nice "nobody:
The Germans:"
german news media reports this is fake picture? Is that true?
No, it’s real. It was an art installation at the Tesla Factory Berlin.
Damn you are right, this rbb (german funded media) article in german reports this in detail https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025/01/tesla-gruenheide-led-by-donkeys-zentrum-fuer-politische-schoenheit-beamer-projektion-fassade.html
German police started investigating the activists for showing “Verwendens von Kennzeichen verfassungswidriger Organisationen” (I will roughly translate this to “usage of unconstitutional symbols”) . Are they serious, like showing images of Musk doing this is unlawful?
Are they serious, like showing images of Musk doing this is unlawful?
Potentially, which I guess might have been the entire point. The ZPS is no stranger to provoking law suites, and since Musk did this in the US this might be their attempt at baiting the German jurisdiction to take a stance on it.
That said the article you linked says the police talks about having an “Anfangsverdacht” (initial suspicion), which basically means “we have heard about it and will look into it”.
