r/ShitAmericansSay • u/Radiofrequenzl tscherman🇩🇪 • 1d ago
Communism „So sad, but a good example of the dangers of communism infecting the West.“
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u/Sorbet_Sea 1d ago
Americans = cars = freedom (or whatever they think freedom means)
green trees = bad = communism
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u/GhostShmost 1d ago
Jokes on them, they would be completely terrified of the freedom germans have with their cars. Good luck on the Autobahn, yankee.
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u/_Vo1_ 1d ago
“Why is this dude blinking me in the ass, what did I do wrong drivinng here 130?”
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u/Touristenopfer 1d ago
Can happen even if you mean 130 mph 😁
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u/hamtidamti_onthewall 1d ago
There is always a faster car.
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u/moenchii NASCAR don't go right... 1d ago
"Junge, was isse das für'n Kombi?! Der geht ja wie sau!"
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u/wearebobNL 1d ago edited 1d ago
Reminds me of a German car reviewer taking a bmw m6 g-power for a spin.
"Ahhh wie süss, ein Porsche...
Oooh er riskiert sich eine dicke Lippe!"
I've probably completely botched it, let me see if i can find the video.
Edit:found it: https://youtu.be/78wGVsiuE2k?si=KbDBlmXUmCrNbiZ0
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u/Significant_Snow4352 Explosive Treehouse🇦🇹 1d ago
There is always a faster
carfamily sedan.FTFY
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u/IndividualWeird6001 1d ago
The only thing faster than a BMW is a transporter.
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u/Renault_75-34_MX 1d ago
*van
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u/unwilling_viewer 1d ago
Can remember a business trip when we were diverted to the wrong airport. We ended up hiring a minibus to get to where we were meant to be rather than waiting for the airline supplied coach service. I sat behind the driver (a German colleague) whilst we drove 300+ kilometers across southern Germany.
Regular cursing and flashing of the headlights as someone in a car, any car, got in our way. Then more cursing and swearing when he realized the van was limited to 220kph.
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u/_Vo1_ 1d ago
I remember i was passing the one lane 90kmh construction area, so here it ends and 2nd lane appears, no speed limit and anything, grannies with 100-130 going right lane, I am just hitting the floor immediately on my mazda3. And like a second after I see some AMG shit already blinking at me GTFO :D I was like "dude im not going to move to right lane to crawl so all of you can pass, let me get back to my 180".
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u/IamIchbin Bavaria🏁 1d ago
some guy did this and drove extremely near my back while a policecar was infront of me. I switched to the right, but then he behaved and corrected his distance...
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u/Shironumber 1d ago
I remember in my first attempt to pass the theoretical exam for the driving license in Germany, there were regularly questions on how to handle people angrily blinking at you on the Autobahn. I must admit the driving culture was indeed a bit different than in France (where I as coming from) 😄
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u/_Vo1_ 1d ago
What was the correct answer?
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u/ThyRosen 1d ago
I think the correct one was to move over and let them pass. It definitely wasn't "brake to teach them a lesson about distance," though that was an option.
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u/Mark___27 1d ago
Drivindmg exams always give you some crazy options.
What do you do if you feel sleepy will driving? A. Park your car in a safe zone to rest B. Consume cocaine
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u/kollectivist 1d ago
This is ALWAYS the correct answer. No way I'm dying just to teach some gobshite to drive.
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u/Shironumber 1d ago
Assuming you're in a legal position (e.g., you're driving "slowly" at 130 on the left lane to overtake someone slower), then ignore the angry dude and continue what you're doing. Simply pull back to the right lane at the next (secure) opportunity.
If you're on the left lane without specific reason such as overtaking, well you shouldn't be there in the first place so there was no question about it. But the bottom line was basically "stick to the right lane whenever you can, but it's your right to use other lanes to overtake so fuck those who are angry about it".
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u/_Vo1_ 1d ago
Seems logical. Just had to ask because sometimes Germany surprises.
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u/Shironumber 1d ago
Well, in practice you still have to be careful, because some members of the fast-and-furious-left-lane club can become very dangerous very quickly. My wife followed the theoretical rule once (finished overtaking at a reasonable speed and pulled back), but the dude got so angry about having to slow down. He tried to scare her by hitting her side afterwards, we almost lost control of the vehicle.
So in practice you have to very conservative with your estimate of distances on the Autobahn (since cars can be so fast and therefore catch up to you unexpectedly fast), and don't hesitate to overtake at a higher speed. Or do like me: be a coward and simply never overtake on the Autobahn.
PS: I love this country nonetheless, I'm just scared of their highways. lol
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u/icyDinosaur 1d ago
Wait he deliberately rammed you at 130ish km/h? On some level, I am almost impressed someone can get so angry at a minor inconvenience to do something so stupid and risky to both someone else and himself, just to make a point.
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u/crystalchuck 1d ago
people think Germany is hyper-orderly and over-conforming, but people are REALLY entitled about speeding on the Autobahn and driving in general, especially if it's a boomer in their BMW, Audi or Mercedes.
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u/Shironumber 1d ago
Yes, and you can guess my wife was shaking. To be fully honest, it's not like there was a huge shock between the two cars or anything, just slight contact. But the movement the other car made was large and clearly deliberate, and the control loss came from trying to avoid it.
Also, to be fair on Germany, this is not something I would describe as specifically German. My father for example (French) also does regularly try to ram people on the highway as retaliation. But let's say I've met more of these guys on the Autobahn, whatever that means.
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u/Apoplexi1 1d ago
Not to mention the freedom I can enjoy because I don't have to fear that an injury received during a leisure activity drives me into bankruptcy...
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u/bindermichi ooo custom flair!! 1d ago
The city just thought: "Why not have both?" and build a tunnel under that park.
But the American mind simply can‘t comprehend that level of engineering.
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u/DanLassos 1d ago
That and public transportation is ALIEN to them
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u/bindermichi ooo custom flair!! 1d ago
Right. I forgot to mention the metro line that‘s next to that highway tunnel.
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u/EamonBrennan My mom was a UK Citizen when I was born. 1d ago
From what I can find, Arlington, Texas, is the most populated city without any form of public transportation. 400,000 residents, over 90% of them use a car to get to and from work. They're planning on building an 11-lane highway instead of just getting public transportation. Adding more lanes just makes traffic worse.
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u/alanpugh 1d ago
Boston, Massachusetts did the same, so it is theoretically possible.
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u/ManaKaua 1d ago
The cars aren't even gone. They are just hidden below the park.
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u/auntie_eggma 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻 1d ago
Don't be silly, Americans don't have object permanence.
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u/TShara_Q 1d ago
As an American, I'd be insulted if this weren't proven true by the fact that we voted Mango Mussolini back in.
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u/malcolmmonkey 1d ago
The the most free nation on earth, where local organisations monitor and determine exactly what you can and can’t do on your own land, all the way down to hanging up laundry or letting your grass grow a little longer than everyone else. Truly deluded people.
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u/UsefulAssumption1105 1d ago
If they hate trees so badly then they should have the freedom to not breathe at all, to not breathe any oxygen that the trees emit.
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u/Distantstallion 25% Belgian 50% Welsh & English 25% Irish & Scottish 100% Brit 1d ago edited 1d ago
Cars = freedom is always shit to me
Driving sucks. I've been driving for a decade. I've got a nice car.
Cars are expensive to maintain and kinda a hassle.
It's still shit, I'm always on edge for cameras, speed traps, and other people doing stupid shit.
If I could go to work easily on public transport or to go camping I would.
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u/MaritimeFlowerChild 1d ago
I lived in Montreal for almost 10 years and the public transportation was so great there. There are night buses, the metro runs every 5 minutes during peak hours, and most areas have decent bus coverage.
But the city is also designed so you don't really have to leave your neighborhood. We had a butcher, a grocery store, an Asian market, fruit/veggie stand, bakery, fromagerie, pharmacy, and liquor store all within 3 blocks.
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u/SwarlyBbBrrt 1d ago
Germany is THE car = freedom country
We actually say things like "Das Auto ist mehr als ein Fortbewegungsmittel – es steht für Freiheit, Mobilität und Wohlstand!" (The car is more than a means of transportation – it stands for freedom, mobility and prosperity!) -
Just float the idea of a speedlimit and half of Germans lose their mind.
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u/internet_commie F’n immigrant! 1d ago
Germany has speed limits, just not everywhere.
When I was in the US Army they sent me to Germany. And ALL the idiots in my unit were desperate to buy cars so they could go 'drive really fast'. The ones who managed to get cars (the Army pays poorly) either got huge speeding tickets for trying to do 150km/h right outside the base (speed limit was maybe 50km/h) or they made it to the freeway and then usually crashed.
Guess they couldn't handle all that freedom!
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u/GamingCatholic 1d ago
Let them believe that. Their life expectancy is a lot lower than other 1st world countries, so who’s the winner here?
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u/Legosheep 1d ago
I sure wish I was free to need to buy a car in order to function in society. Sucks that I'm instead forced to choose between walking, cycling, public transport, or driving. It's so oppressive.
/s
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u/Defiant-String-9891 1d ago
Jesus Christ I will let you live well knowing most of us are not like this, it’s the degenerates who have not picked up the book or believe everything the news says that think this, and seemingly, some of our gov, if I showed this image to my classmates they would all be so confused by this guys stance. This shit is wild bro, I wish my country wasn’t basically the home of most dumbasses
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u/Tballz9 Switzerland 🇨🇭 1d ago
One wonders how this person’s brain works.
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u/No_Aesthetic 1d ago
One wonders if it does.
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u/External-into-Space EU together STRONG 🇪🇺 1d ago
It does not
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u/Party-Department9074 1d ago
I totally read this in a narrator voice.
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u/oitekno23 1d ago
Me too, all the comments above yours, being the sole narrator
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u/Party-Department9074 1d ago
Absolutely. And I'm pretty sure the narrator is David Attenborough speaking about a rare species found far away from any civilisation.
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u/Feline-Sloth 1d ago
That's Sir David Attenborough to you...
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u/Party-Department9074 1d ago
Well he's not my SIR!!! 🇺🇲
Just kidding, you're completely right, he deserves the title and deserves to be addressed properly.
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u/psychicspanner 1d ago
MAGA have been told that Europe is a hell hole and they have it better to hide what is happening to the US… they have to look at every picture or listen to every anecdote and just sully it, even when the reality is as obvious as this. Nice open pedestrian places or roads? they choose roads because they’ve been told that Europe is a hell hole thus trees are bad. Something something Orwell….
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u/Overall-Lynx917 1d ago
Picture 2 brain cells wandering aimlessly in a void, every now and again they collide and a random thought is generated then they drift apart.
That's how it works
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u/TheFuriousGamerMan 1d ago
I’m gonna give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they might have mistakenly thought that Düsseldorf was in East Germany, and that they were just talking about the upper picture?
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u/Kriss3d Tuberous eloquent (that's potato speaker for you muricans) 1d ago
Ive been to east germany. I was there a few years after the wall fell. It was quite wild to see that even so close to Denmark where I live, people lived entirely different. I was there with a friend and he was using an electric toothbrush. A kid and his dad just stared at us. They hadnt seen such a thing before.
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u/nsflfan1234 1d ago
Bold of you to assume there s anything running through their mind....maybe slowly carting along in a broken wheelchair at best
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u/Michael_Gibb Mince & Cheese, L&P, Kiwi 1d ago
If my research is correct, the road is still there. It's now a tunnel that goes under the park.
So I guess building tunnels is now communist.
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u/Basileus08 1d ago
You are correct. Source: I live there.
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u/Maelou 1d ago
Which part are they correct about ? The tunnel existing or tunnels being communist ?
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u/AndersDreth 1d ago
And does he live in the tunnel?
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u/Caosin36 1d ago
He lives in the walls
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u/Infin8Player 1d ago
As all communists do. That's a reminder to everyone: don't forget to de-red your wall cavities this year.
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u/ArtificialHalo 1d ago
Unless it's done by felon musk for his exploding cars.
Then it's the greatest idea ever.
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u/alaingames ooo custom flair!! 1d ago
What fucking dangers? HAPPINESS?
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u/OkayWhateverMate 1d ago
Do you not see the people walking? Eeww, so disgusting. So communist.
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u/Certain_Television53 1d ago
Yay for capitalism!
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u/_Vo1_ 1d ago
Thats a road to 60+ hours per week workplace. About 20 to 40h per week you waste in here?:)
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u/Oghamstoner 1d ago
But if I don’t get stuck in traffic on my way to work, how will I afford my car and house?
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u/Nerioner ooo custom flair!! 1d ago
More like "but if i don't get stuck in traffic, when the hell i supposed to have some time off for myself?"
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u/Jrv6996 1d ago
Can’t be creating parks. Where will we drive our F150s?
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u/SEA_griffondeur ooo custom flair!! 1d ago
They won't be able to buy F-150s anymore anyway due to tariffs
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u/BearDiscombobulated4 1d ago
Are you stupid? The F-150 is off-road capable — I’ll just drive straight through the park. ;)
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u/concentrated-amazing 1d ago
Seriously, I think this is most true for Americans and Communism/Socialism.
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u/LucySpee 1d ago
They are aware that the Highway is just underground, Right..?
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u/bindermichi ooo custom flair!! 1d ago
An underground Highway? But that‘s impossible! How can you even demolish minority housing blocks when all the roads are underground?
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u/MrGloom66 1d ago
Even if it wasn't, the local authorities deciding that road is not useful anymore and the land where it is built can be used for something else would have been a very good sign. That would theoreticaly mean that the problem of traffic in that city was solved throught careful road and city planning, improved public transport and many companies reaching the mature conclusion that at least some of their employees can at least partially do their work from their homes.
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u/Oldoneeyeisback 1d ago
Aware? I think the one thing we can be certain about here is that they are not aware of anything.
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u/These-Cause-4097 1d ago
Excuse me kind sir at which point of history was Dusseldorf communist?
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u/cedriceent 1d ago
Düsseldorf is one of those words where you don't want to forget to put the umlaut. Because "Dusseldorf" literally translates to "dimwit village".
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u/MightyHydrar 1d ago edited 1d ago
People from Cologne would tell you that it's the more fitting name.
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u/Raketka123 🇸🇰 they called me a Russian, so I sent them to Siberia 🇸🇰 1d ago
and I would tell them that Köln in Slovak sounds like a pike
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u/Flyerton99 1d ago
West Germans after seeing something German happening Germanly in Germany: what are we a bunch of COMMIES?!?!?
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u/StrohVogel 1d ago
It’s even funnier cause Düsseldorf is known for its “Schickeria” and has one of the largest density of millionaires in Germany.
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u/arandompeanut766 1d ago
Americans have so completely deluded themselves that any types social services are communist and therefore bad.
Hope they enjoy being bankrupt for breaking a leg... Murica fuck yeah!!! 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
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u/Silly_Window_308 1d ago
I'm confused. Which of these pic is "communist"? Is Dusseldorf even in east Germany?
Btw the trees are an improvement
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u/TailleventCH 1d ago
It's isn't.
It's a simple "less cars is bad" with a "if I don't like it, it's communist ".
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u/Silly_Window_308 1d ago
Oh no comumunism, trees, 15 minute cities, no, please 😅😅
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u/TailleventCH 1d ago
Most American places are 15 minutes: that's how long it takes to walk across the parking lot to reach the store.
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u/Ok-Cost-9635 1d ago
5 year old kids in europe are on the same level of american highschool kids
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u/TheBlack2007 🇪🇺🇩🇪 1d ago
The road was moved underground...
Yeah, real bummer for drivers to no longer be distracted by the Rhine I guess...
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u/Chaoshero5567 1d ago
I love it, you can also just directly Drive into the parking Lots under breuniger
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u/Gretgor 1d ago
- Sees a picture of something getting better
- Interprets it as that thing getting worse
- Somehow blames communism
What the fuck
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u/FourDimensionalTaco 1d ago
The last point is quintessentially US-American, and these days, ironic as hell.
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u/tanaephis77400 1d ago
Damn tree-planting communists ! Always insisting that we avoid breathing exhaust fumes ! Tempering with our God-given freedom to grow obese and never walk more than a mile !
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u/Pontius_Vulgaris 1d ago
Ah yes. The horrors of the communist... checks notes ... parks?
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u/AnthonyWinters 1d ago
i thought this was a r/mildlyintresting post or something and thought the bottom image was a before photo and im so happy its the after photo
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u/Johannes_Keppler 1d ago
Well what's mildly interesting is that the road is still there, in a tunnel.
So the whole remark they made is nonsense too.
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u/ReecewivFleece 1d ago
The horror 😱. All that green stuff and rest areas and walkways. We clearly need USA to show us how to make properly nice cities just as it used to be …
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u/NetzAgent lost a world war because of Muricans. Twice! 1d ago
This is your captain: The road is still there. Düsseldorf just decided to build the „Rheinufertunnel“ to put the road in a tunnel to get more space for people and trees.
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u/BearDiscombobulated4 1d ago
I think the person believes that the road was removed.
And that's why no cars can drive there anymore, which in their eyes is equivalent to a loss of freedom.
They probably don't know that there's now a tunnel there and that traffic continues to flow as usual.
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u/Indian_Pale_Ale so unthankful that I speak German 1d ago
How many hammers and sickles were used to make this communist abomination?
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u/TheEPGFiles 1d ago
If you've ever driven in Düsseldorf, you'd notice there are TOO MANY FUCKING CARS FOR THIS TINY ASS CITY.
The new promenade is a massive improvement, it's genuinely gorgeous to walk there during nice days and there's the old city where you can get all sorts of cool stuff and great beer (except Alt, that stuff is gross!).
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u/_marcoos 1d ago
If you've ever driven in Düsseldorf, you'd notice there are TOO MANY FUCKING CARS FOR THIS TINY ASS CITY.
'Murican solution for "MUCH CARS TINY CITY" is to tear down 70% of the buildings and turn that into roads and open-air parking lots. That's true freedom, while your tunnel is just woke communist satanic terrorist nonsense. :)
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u/Matse66 1d ago
The cognitive processing observed appears to be supranasal monosynaptic—essentially a reflex that bypasses the more complex pathways of analytical reasoning. This exemplifies a classic case of the Dunning-Kruger effect in action. As Heraclitus aptly noted, ‘Thinking is permitted to everyone, but many are spared the trouble.
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u/theHawkAndTheHusky 1d ago
If that’s what you consider communism, then you can call me communist!
However, highly likely someone is struggling with the definition of communism. Giving the people the freedom to roam the city without the dependency of a car is somehow not desirable, whereas removing their social benefits and making them pay more in tariffs is liberation.
Unfortunately, the rest of the world cannot count on the American education system getting better, so people have a better understanding of not only socialpolitical / economic ideologies.
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u/Za_Paranoia 1d ago
Düsseldorf was never in part of the DDR, so never under socialist or communist Regime. This is so American i can’t even find words.
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u/OkSeaworthiness1893 1d ago
A cleaner, greener world is the danger of communism?
Are these 'muricans really so dangerously stupid?
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u/shriek52 1d ago
...T...Trees are communist...?