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We will not forget, indeed. And we should not forget! This was not only isolated to Germany, I was in the Netherlands at that time and it was very much similar. Most of the western world had it. And people lined up to get the experimental injections... obeyance, such a phenomenon! Some cared what they eat, but did not care what they are injected with? They just wanted their 'freedom' back so badly: to be able to travel, go to the gym and the restaurant... People who were not injected become outsiders from the society ... enough of the highly praised 'western' values... toleration towards the individual gone in a second!

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I would also maybe suggest this is a further interesting example of the odd Germanic tendency to establish direct 1:1 equivalencies between disparate and non congruous things, somewhat akin to:

"Wir sind die Hauptstadt"

"Wir sind Papst"

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Being a German-speaker myself, I suppose it has to do with 'our' post-1945 desire to be 'part of the cool gang' (the West), hence we must, of course, do anything to re-affirm ourselves constantly lest 'others' begin thinking ill of us.

It's the expectable consequence of decades of brain-washing, courtesy of the Western victors of WW2; note that the Russians also lie about WW2, but their lies aren't as pervasive in German-speaking Europe.

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Thank you for the reminder. And the photo. How soon they forget. Submission never equals freedom

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Exactly.

Never forget, never comply.

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"Niemals schlafen, alles lügen, staubiges vergnügen..."

For some reason the image made me think of the tune "Yü Gung" (aka "Fütter Mein Ego") by Einsturzende Neubauten.

Maybe it's a "me"-thing. But "Fütter Mein Ego" does seem apt for the vaccinators.

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