Absolutely fascinating (and rather concerning): just spoke to some classic educated German middle class boomers - the ones who still read the newspaper and listen to public broadcast radio - and they had NEVER HEARD THAT AI HALLUCINATES!!
Like, they didn’t even know the concept 🤯
Like, they didn’t even know the concept 🤯
February 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Absolutely fascinating (and rather concerning): just spoke to some classic educated German middle class boomers - the ones who still read the newspaper and listen to public broadcast radio - and they had NEVER HEARD THAT AI HALLUCINATES!!
Like, they didn’t even know the concept 🤯
Like, they didn’t even know the concept 🤯
I'm German. I've been schooled in my country's history & crimes all my life.
I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US.
As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment.
A 🧵
I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US.
As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment.
A 🧵
January 28, 2026 at 5:53 AM
I'm German. I've been schooled in my country's history & crimes all my life.
I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US.
As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment.
A 🧵
I'm also a political scientist, educated in Germany, the UK, & US.
As the comparisons betw the situation in the US & Nazi Germany are increasing to frequent, allow me to comment.
A 🧵
Engels had brain worms about nationalities, the way only an educated 19th-century German man could.
April 20, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Engels had brain worms about nationalities, the way only an educated 19th-century German man could.
The "abundance" debate is the sort of exercise that middle-left, well-educated Democrats love best but also has a distinct the-German-opposition-offers-its-plan-to-reduce-inflation-by-1940 vibe at the moment.
March 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The "abundance" debate is the sort of exercise that middle-left, well-educated Democrats love best but also has a distinct the-German-opposition-offers-its-plan-to-reduce-inflation-by-1940 vibe at the moment.
Born Austrian here, albeit well post end of WWII
But as e born German speaker will tell u, pre, during & post WWII history was drilled into our heads & e’thing that is happening in the US now is 1930s Germany incl the capitulation of the educated, case in point lawyers, sr business figures etc
But as e born German speaker will tell u, pre, during & post WWII history was drilled into our heads & e’thing that is happening in the US now is 1930s Germany incl the capitulation of the educated, case in point lawyers, sr business figures etc
April 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Born Austrian here, albeit well post end of WWII
But as e born German speaker will tell u, pre, during & post WWII history was drilled into our heads & e’thing that is happening in the US now is 1930s Germany incl the capitulation of the educated, case in point lawyers, sr business figures etc
But as e born German speaker will tell u, pre, during & post WWII history was drilled into our heads & e’thing that is happening in the US now is 1930s Germany incl the capitulation of the educated, case in point lawyers, sr business figures etc
Reminder: "Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder... was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
July 6, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Reminder: "Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal cofounder... was educated in a southern African city in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
happy bday German aritist Gabriele Münter, b.1877.
“I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.”
“I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.”
February 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
happy bday German aritist Gabriele Münter, b.1877.
“I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.”
“I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.”
“I would not advise my children today to go to the US, get educated there or work there, simply because a certain social climate has suddenly developed there.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...?
German leader Merz repeats criticism of US: ‘I would not advise my children to go’
German chancellor says he no longer views US as land of opportunity amid ‘deeply polarising’ social climate
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
“I would not advise my children today to go to the US, get educated there or work there, simply because a certain social climate has suddenly developed there.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...?
The essential fact of Polish politics is this: whether you come from legacy-German Poland or legacy-Russian Poland is usually determinative of your politics. Legacy-German Poles are better educated, more prosperous and orient center-left. Legacy-Russian Poles are less well educated and orient right.
February 5, 2026 at 5:30 PM
The essential fact of Polish politics is this: whether you come from legacy-German Poland or legacy-Russian Poland is usually determinative of your politics. Legacy-German Poles are better educated, more prosperous and orient center-left. Legacy-Russian Poles are less well educated and orient right.
“Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist…was educated in a southern African city [in the former German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia] in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated.”
More about the roots of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk:
More about the roots of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk:
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
Elon Musk grew up with the privileges of a stratified racial order and Peter Thiel lived in a city that venerated Hitler
www.theguardian.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“Peter Thiel, the German-born billionaire venture capitalist…was educated in a southern African city [in the former German colony of South West Africa, now Namibia] in the 1970s where Hitler was still openly venerated.”
More about the roots of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk:
More about the roots of Peter Thiel and Elon Musk:
Thank you. I am Dutch, so English is my second (third; German was second, since I lived across their border) language.
But you are right.
I am too educated.
Waiving is what one should do with a flag, but USAmericans are trained in waving. My bad. Fuck stupid. Get educated.
But you are right.
I am too educated.
Waiving is what one should do with a flag, but USAmericans are trained in waving. My bad. Fuck stupid. Get educated.
May 6, 2026 at 7:41 PM
Thank you. I am Dutch, so English is my second (third; German was second, since I lived across their border) language.
But you are right.
I am too educated.
Waiving is what one should do with a flag, but USAmericans are trained in waving. My bad. Fuck stupid. Get educated.
But you are right.
I am too educated.
Waiving is what one should do with a flag, but USAmericans are trained in waving. My bad. Fuck stupid. Get educated.
Trump at Davos in Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".
German is the main language of Switzerland.
Trump in Nevada, Feb 24 2016: 'I Love the Poorly Educated'.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
German is the main language of Switzerland.
Trump in Nevada, Feb 24 2016: 'I Love the Poorly Educated'.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
“.. Perhaps you shouldn’t have dismantled the Department of Education so quickly.”
@mediaite.com
www.mediaite.com/online/white...
@mediaite.com
www.mediaite.com/online/white...
January 24, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Trump at Davos in Switzerland: "Without us, right now you'd all be speaking German".
German is the main language of Switzerland.
Trump in Nevada, Feb 24 2016: 'I Love the Poorly Educated'.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
German is the main language of Switzerland.
Trump in Nevada, Feb 24 2016: 'I Love the Poorly Educated'.
bsky.app/profile/carl...
As a German, I got educated in how the Holocaust happened, so that it may never happen again. But here we are
September 25, 2024 at 8:08 AM
As a German, I got educated in how the Holocaust happened, so that it may never happen again. But here we are
My German teacher in high school loved to talk about how the most dangerous thing was a half-educated man, and I thought he was being kind of arrogant, but now that I’ve grown up and seen the damage that dumb guys who think they’re smart guys can do, I gotta hand it to him
February 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
My German teacher in high school loved to talk about how the most dangerous thing was a half-educated man, and I thought he was being kind of arrogant, but now that I’ve grown up and seen the damage that dumb guys who think they’re smart guys can do, I gotta hand it to him
The amount of Arabs, Muslims, Jews, and so many PoCs discriminated against by German institutions since October 2023 can only lead a reasonable observer to conclude that 'educated' German society is, once again, engaging in a barely concealed white supremacist project.
February 8, 2024 at 11:54 AM
The amount of Arabs, Muslims, Jews, and so many PoCs discriminated against by German institutions since October 2023 can only lead a reasonable observer to conclude that 'educated' German society is, once again, engaging in a barely concealed white supremacist project.
2️⃣/2
In comparison, just 250,000 Ukrainians joined German forces (alongside 400,000
Russians). 80,000 volunteered to join the Waffen SS, but only 13,000 reported for duty.
Why do Russian nationalist myths have such a grip on so many supposedly educated people in the West?
In comparison, just 250,000 Ukrainians joined German forces (alongside 400,000
Russians). 80,000 volunteered to join the Waffen SS, but only 13,000 reported for duty.
Why do Russian nationalist myths have such a grip on so many supposedly educated people in the West?
May 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
2️⃣/2
In comparison, just 250,000 Ukrainians joined German forces (alongside 400,000
Russians). 80,000 volunteered to join the Waffen SS, but only 13,000 reported for duty.
Why do Russian nationalist myths have such a grip on so many supposedly educated people in the West?
In comparison, just 250,000 Ukrainians joined German forces (alongside 400,000
Russians). 80,000 volunteered to join the Waffen SS, but only 13,000 reported for duty.
Why do Russian nationalist myths have such a grip on so many supposedly educated people in the West?
When you put it like that 😬
“Your average German in the ‘30’s was a lot better educated and culturally sophisticated than average Trump voters whose minds have been filled with Fox News and Far Right pundits for decades now.”
“Your average German in the ‘30’s was a lot better educated and culturally sophisticated than average Trump voters whose minds have been filled with Fox News and Far Right pundits for decades now.”
March 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
When you put it like that 😬
“Your average German in the ‘30’s was a lot better educated and culturally sophisticated than average Trump voters whose minds have been filled with Fox News and Far Right pundits for decades now.”
“Your average German in the ‘30’s was a lot better educated and culturally sophisticated than average Trump voters whose minds have been filled with Fox News and Far Right pundits for decades now.”
The German government’s next round of “we want to keep the poors from getting educated.”
Die Reform war fest eingeplant – doch sie wird wohl nicht kommen. Forschungsministerin Dorothee Bär verteidigt den möglichen Stopp der Bafög-Erhöhung. Und erklärt Studierenden, es sei kein Drama, nebenher zu jobben.
Ministerin Dorothee Bär zweifelt an baldiger Bafög-Reform
Die Reform war fest eingeplant – doch sie wird wohl nicht kommen. Forschungsministerin Dorothee Bär verteidigt den möglichen Stopp der Bafög-Erhöhung. Und erklärt Studierenden, es sei kein Drama, nebenher zu jobben.
www.spiegel.de
May 31, 2026 at 9:45 AM
The German government’s next round of “we want to keep the poors from getting educated.”
Do you really believe that Mikhail Kalashnikov, a poorly educated man, designed alone the most iconic assault rifle of the 20th century while working as an apprentice alongside some of the best German gunsmiths?😆
September 25, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Do you really believe that Mikhail Kalashnikov, a poorly educated man, designed alone the most iconic assault rifle of the 20th century while working as an apprentice alongside some of the best German gunsmiths?😆
I suspect Musk's ridiculous views on German politics will impact more on the reputation of Musk and X with Germans than it would influence Feb election. X had 15 million German users: younger, more educated, more urban than the population at large. He will seem a fool to many & a danger to some
December 22, 2024 at 9:58 AM
I suspect Musk's ridiculous views on German politics will impact more on the reputation of Musk and X with Germans than it would influence Feb election. X had 15 million German users: younger, more educated, more urban than the population at large. He will seem a fool to many & a danger to some
Hitler’s German Nazis were educated people. They invented intercontinental ballistic missles & almost had the atom bomb. They came from a well educated society. They were organized & lost.
MAGA is a failed TV game show host at the top with TV Talk show host lieutenants. A Keystone Kops Karnival.
MAGA is a failed TV game show host at the top with TV Talk show host lieutenants. A Keystone Kops Karnival.
August 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Hitler’s German Nazis were educated people. They invented intercontinental ballistic missles & almost had the atom bomb. They came from a well educated society. They were organized & lost.
MAGA is a failed TV game show host at the top with TV Talk show host lieutenants. A Keystone Kops Karnival.
MAGA is a failed TV game show host at the top with TV Talk show host lieutenants. A Keystone Kops Karnival.
I am German. As a well educated citizen, I know what a Nazi salute is. That was a Nazi salute. Period.
January 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I am German. As a well educated citizen, I know what a Nazi salute is. That was a Nazi salute. Period.
#BOTD 1868
Magnus Hirschfeld: German physician, sexologist, and LGBTQ advocate whose German citizenship was revoked in 1933 by the Nazi government. Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology, and medicine.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Magnus Hirschfeld: German physician, sexologist, and LGBTQ advocate whose German citizenship was revoked in 1933 by the Nazi government. Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology, and medicine.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
May 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
#BOTD 1868
Magnus Hirschfeld: German physician, sexologist, and LGBTQ advocate whose German citizenship was revoked in 1933 by the Nazi government. Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology, and medicine.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
Magnus Hirschfeld: German physician, sexologist, and LGBTQ advocate whose German citizenship was revoked in 1933 by the Nazi government. Hirschfeld was educated in philosophy, philology, and medicine.
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
I know the German people are a lot more educated than most of the U.S. population. I don't know much about German politics, but voting for the AFD is like voting for the wolves to eat you alive. A majority voted for Nazis here in the U.S. and now we're getting dismantled. Do not make that mistake!
February 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
I know the German people are a lot more educated than most of the U.S. population. I don't know much about German politics, but voting for the AFD is like voting for the wolves to eat you alive. A majority voted for Nazis here in the U.S. and now we're getting dismantled. Do not make that mistake!
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