Now WE’RE the ones who say sorry all the time.
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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Worked pretty well for us Germans. Im sure in 80-100 years everyone will have forgotten about your egomaniac fascist starting a world war because there will be a new even worse fascist somewhere else.
I dunno, Japan makes a point to not apologize and they get less flak than Germany
Though I guess the last PM they had who was a dick about it got some flak, rapidly accelerated from a doohickey
Japan only gets less flak from western countries. They get a lot of flak across Asia.
PM only got doohickeyed after retiring.
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Look on the bright side: Germans will soon no longer be associated with Nazis.
Unfortunately, it'll just have moved to Americans.
Unfortunately, I think theyre on the rise just about everywhere. The US was just the first to go all in full fascist.
Sorry
Soorry.
Sorry.
Any people from the states who want to send money over to me also appreciated
Sorry, all my money is about to be tied up in tariffs. If you could send me money, that would be swell.
How about eggs. You can pay for shipping?
We've moved on to turtle eggs. They're not too bad. Pre-salted.
Tariffs and unemployment.
Of all countries the US should apologize to, I don't think Canada makes to the top 50, but I'm not gonna lead a gift horse to water
The US needs to apologize to the whole world at this point. It's an absolute embarrassment
I’m not gonna lead a gift horse to water
What a joyously adorable mix of proverbs. This made me smile.
I beleive that's called a Malapropism A favorite malapropism of mine is "We'll burn that bridge when we get to it."
It's close, and malapropisms are great too, but they rely on a similar-sounding incorrect word being used in place of the correct word, usually resulting in hilarity. Your example is also hilarious, but I don't think it counts as a malapropism, not to get all linguistically technical (okay, I will lol). Rick Perry saying states are "lavatories of innovation and democracy" instead of "laboratories" is a perfect and awesome example.
The genius of @[email protected]'s comment was that they combined two relevant proverbs into a single equally relevant but hilarious one: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink" + "Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth" = brilliance
Why not? While our government is treating other countries and their people worse, it’s not as uncalled for. While most of the chaos is self-instigated for very little reason, there’s just no logic to attacking Canada and so many reasons not to.
It’s like saying we have a nice neighbor who we’ve always got along with and who always helps out, but it’s not worth apologizing for spitting in their face for no reason, because we started a fire at that house down the street with the family whose customs we don’t understand
I didn't mean an apology isn't owed, I meant there's a very long line of people waiting.
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I'll pay for my own - go and fix your country
How funny, that's what they tend to say to immigrants.
The immigrants who are picking up the cheque, or the immigrants whose leaders are threatening to take over the country?
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Wonder if there's a Ukrainian restaurant in that town.
Yup.
Unfortunately that got taken over by Russians a couple years ago.
Well that sucks. :/
I have a couple of American boomers friends and they sent a few messages apologizing and saying they didn’t vote for Trump and they don’t agree with his policies etc.
Slightly less than a third of registered voters actually voted for him. The majority sat the election out.
Truly our greatest tradition
A nice gesture.
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