Comments by "Game Hero" (@Game_Hero) on "They Rebuilt Germany's Versailles And It's GLORIOUS" video.

if they are to be ashamed of something, be of history, not of present german culture and identity, you might even help prevent these dark chapters of history from happening again by doing popular decisions like this making people love their democracy and not alienating people desire for belonging, connection to their surroundings and reassurance by continuity, otherwise it would help lead them right into the arms of autocracy simps again.
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it can work, just not with residential buildings
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@gary Here comes the start of what these ways of thinking you mention start from with that "lunatics" bit : dehumanization. They have good reasons to feel ashamed those things went on to happen (there's only two centuries to chose from here, not that hyperbole "tons of them") by those who's descendants founded your country, it still happened on your land and pretending there is nothing shameful about it, denying it ever happened or lessening it is unamerican utter disrespect for the human victims of these moments and not taking responsability to honour their memory since its your turn in 2024 to do so, both of these things seems against all the values that your nation say they care about and is thus a negation of them. Not to forget it can still teach things today about when people chose to turn their right of others to humanity and functional empathy button "off", even in spite of their claimed ideals, calling today to be consistent in them. Pride is not a salad bar where you can chose what you want and ignore what you don't, you have the accept the whole baggage of what you chose to be proud of, and if it's blindly an entire country from A-Z, it's the whole of it and that's not something I'm sure you'd be comfortable with for good reasons (unless you're proud of the bad things of the past too, which seems not like you to do). And here's the thing, just blaming a government for things civilians can do as well is nothing short of cowardice and not taking act of responsability for what happened in respect of the human victims, which happened also after the founding of your country. Who elected these governments, these officials? "Normal" people. Who constituted that army? "Normal" people. Who chose back then to do nothing about, even being opportunistic about it, even if they knew it happened? "Normal" people. No ones gets and should get a pass, like you yourself said, even if I'm not sure you realize that you didn't apply it all the way with your gov pointing fingers thingie. If some similar evil happened today, but which didn't have any symbol, no mustached guy at the top, no armbands and 1930s military uniforms, no parades, a different kind of vibe and way of wording things, would you still recognize it for its actions and call them out, oppose them, even if it targeted those you don't like? "Lunatics", perhaps? Youtube, stop censoring my comments.
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@dschmid8845 From my degree and own efforts. I know all part of that, didn't know East Germany, the 18th century conquest and assimilations efforts against Poland or the venturings in Africa were in the 1930s, you're teaching me something new. What you're not teaching me is how germany culture and identity is old and has many great things (hence my original comment would make no sense if you thought about it a little longer), because that is exactly what my comment was going for. When I say, be ashamed of history, it's to be ashamed in what there is to be ashamed in it, duh (if you don't blindly love everything about it like another dude here). History reffers to actions, not culture, it evolves along with it but is a separate concept for a reason.
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@resireg Defending the nazis, what a hill to rest upon. Especially since the rest of the world didn't need that (so they didn't either) to recover out of poverty.
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@resireg The rest of the world had other treaties and problems and yet all managed still to get out of it without being fasceests and without falling for imaginary takeovers from marginal groups. Autocracy is autocracy, don't fall for it, you're better than this.
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@cartercasias6318 I mean, are these actions good or not? If not, let them be called that, else it's relativism and you don't actually oppose them. If those actions made people back then live horrible lifes as a consequence of it, it's no different from now, same homo sapiens, same horrible consequences for the victims, then or now. It's sort of basically refusing to be brave enough as a nation to take responsability for it, like all brave enough nations can do. Unlike a certain country you mentionned in your last comment (that I can't mention else I'll be fed to the wolfes) which is the definition of cowardice on that point for not only denying it ever happened, but making it a point of national pride to deny it, betraying any sort of dignity and humanity as a result in what is actually an anti-patriotic act, soiling the honour of the nation, betraying any possible values it has for it wouldn't want that to happen to their own people. Being brave enough to say the past is bad is not "attacking" anyone, but a demonstration of the greatest form of national courage to be able to say the hardest thing and being rightfully applauded for that courage : "We were wrong, we're sorry, we're going to make up for what we've done and take responsibility for it without pointing fingers elsewhere for our own acts". Functionning empathy toward others is supposed to have been a thing since we became homo sapiens, not something "recent".
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@garyjackson3531 Here comes the start of what these ways of thinking you mention start from with that "lunatics" bit : dehumanization. They have good reasons to feel ashamed those things went on to happen (there's only two centuries to chose from here, not that hyperbole "tons of them") by those who's descendants founded your country, it still happened on your land and pretending there is nothing shameful about it, denying it ever happened or lessening it is unamerican utter disrespect for the human victims of these moments and not taking responsability to honour their memory since its your turn in 2024 to do so, both of these things seems against all the values that your nation say they care about and is thus a betrayal of them. Not to forget it can still teach things today about when people chose to turn their right of others to humanity and functional empathy button "off", even in spite of their claimed ideals, calling today to be consistent in them. Pride is not a salad bar where you can chose what you want and ignore what you don't, you have the accept the whole baggage of what you chose to be proud of, and if it's blindly an entire country from A-Z, it's the whole of it and that's not something I'm sure you'd be comfortable with for good reasons (unless you're proud of the bad things of the past too, which seems not like you to do). And here's the thing, just blaming a government for things civilians can do as well is nothing short of cowardice and not taking act of responsability for what happened in respect of the human victims, which happened also after the founding of your country. Who elected these governments, these officials? "Normal" people. Who constituted that army? "Normal" people. Who chose back then to do nothing about, even being opportunistic about it, even if they knew it happened? "Normal" people. No ones gets and should get a pass, like you yourself said, even if I'm not sure you realize that you didn't apply it all the way with your gov pointing fingers thingie. If some similar evil happened today, but which didn't have any svastikas or sickles, no mustached guy at the top, no armbands and 1930s military uniforms, no parades, a different kind of vibe and way of wording things, would you still recognize it for its actions and call them out, oppose them, even if it targeted those you don't like? "Lunatics", perhaps?
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@cartercasias6318 the descendants of these things do rightfully call for shame, for they still deny with an unprecedented level of zeal and aggressivity (like, people calling them out not being alive anymore levels of it, building monuments to denying it levels of it) they ever happened or lessened them, calling their ancestors liars or responsible somehow for other people doing the choice of destroying them when they could have not done that, centered exactly on that "harming their existence" nonsense argument. There is no political game in having the simple demand of stopping to teach a fairy tale version of what happened and take responsability and maturity for what happened, like brave people do. There is no conspiracy, only trauma asking to be healed by recognition and amends.
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@resireg And so did every democratic system prevented communist takeover, without the ultimate form of infantilization to their people as stripping away their political rights and agency which you are enjoying right now.
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@IcelanderUSer It is unbelievable, yet we must lead by exemple, show them that, unlike what they say, they are not dehumanized, or risk lowering ourselves to what we criticize in others.
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@LETMino85 And you rightfully should be proud in how you talk about it, you're a model country and is on point about others thinking liking their culture means blindly liking all the history behind it even if the actions depicted go against the current values of your nation (if this very comment section isn't an exemple of it, I don't know what is)
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@cartercasias6318 I mean, are these actions good or not? If not, let them be called that, else it's r e l a t i v i s m and you don't actually oppose them. If those actions made people back then live horrible lifes as a consequence of it, it's no different from now, same homo sapiens, same horrible consequences for the victims, then or now. It's sort of basically refusing to be brave enough as a nation to take responsability for it, like all brave enough nations can do. Unlike a certain country you mentionned in your last comment (that I can't mention else the wolves will be after me) which is the definition of c o w a r d i ce on that point for not only denying it ever happened, but making it a point of national pride to deny it, not respecting any sort of dignity and humanity as a result in what is actually an anti-patriotic act, soiling the honour of the nation, not respecting any possible values it has for it wouldn't want that to happen to their own people. Being brave enough to say the past is bad is not "a t t a c k i n g" anyone, but a demonstration of the greatest form of national courage to be able to say the hardest thing and being rightfully applauded for that courage : "We were wrong, we're sorry, we're going to make up for what we've done and take responsibility for it without pointing fingers elsewhere for our own acts". Functionning empathy toward others is supposed to have been a thing since we became homo sapiens, not something "recent". Youtube, stop censoring my comments.
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@cartercasias 6318 I mean, are these actions good or not? If not, let them be called that, else it's relativism and you don't actually oppose them. If those actions made people back then live horrible lifes as a consequence of it, it's no different from now, same homo sapiens, same horrible consequences for the victims, then or now. It's sort of basically refusing to be brave enough as a nation to take responsability for it, like all brave enough nations can do. Unlike a certain country you mentionned in your last comment (that I can't mention else I'll be fed to the wolfes) which is the definition of cowardice on that point for not only denying it ever happened, but making it a point of national pride to deny it, betraying any sort of dignity and humanity as a result in what is actually an anti-patriotic act, soiling the honour of the nation, betraying any possible values it has for it wouldn't want that to happen to their own people. Being brave enough to say the past is bad is not "attacking" anyone, but a demonstration of the greatest form of national courage to be able to say the hardest thing and being rightfully applauded for that courage : "We were wrong, we're sorry, we're going to make up for what we've done and take responsibility for it without pointing fingers elsewhere for our own acts". Functionning empathy toward others is supposed to have been a thing since we became homo sapiens, not something "recent".
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@aaronfitzgerald9109 Don't be ashamed of people seeing their sole life cut short in brutal horrifying ways because the "humanity" button of others was turned off in a betrayal of the fundamental values of a nation? That's a thing to be proud of...I guess?
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@aaronfitzgerald9109 So you shouldn't feel ashamed of civilians seeing their sole life c u t short in b r u t a l horrifying ways in a total non-respect of national values because the "humanity" and "functional empathy" buttons of others were turned off? What?
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