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His jokes about Germany and being German gets repetitive, but i can’t deny that he still makes me laugh everytime!
I dunno, The last time we let Germany march places it didn’t go well.
He’s a comedian.
Also, there’s no place for people to pull over.
He’s exactly what I’d expect of a German comedian.
I’ve seen some videos of his act. IMO he’s not very funny, his comedic style is mostly the one where it’s shitting on everything. So it’s not surprising to see him picking a situation like this and shitting on it.
Also, there’s no place for people to pull over.
Because USA is a shithole.
Huh? How is there not? At least on the video there is. People just are not using that place.
Exactly. He’s criticizing the country, not just those drivers. We keep voting for people who want our cities clogged with excessive cars.
That in built up areas the times are not so different. That is evident in many studies. Rural areas are incomparable as the US has rural areas at a level Germany can’t understand
This guy is a fucking donkey.
I really wish Germany would pay us back for that little getting rid of the Nazis thing that happened last century.
After you sort your current situation out, we can talk about it
We tried that after WWI, let me know how that reparations turned out.
Stop begging for someone else to save us and do something about it yourself. Organize, get to know your neighbors, save your money outside of the American economy.
Oh, don’t worry friend, history rhymes, and you’re going to get your “payback”. In fact, you’re getting it right now, only not in the way you were expecting. This time around the Old World is going to be coming to the rescue of the New. Rescue it from the same fascist ideology.
Let me know how you plan on paying us back. But don’t worry - we’re not going to blackmail you into it. Europeans are more decent than that - nowadays we prefer the negotiations table. Which doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten how to use guns. We’re the ones who taught you how to wage war, after all.
By the way, Europe used to have its own ICE thing going on but we decided to disband it in 1945. Not sure why, but I’ve heard Americans had something do with it. Ironic, isn’t it?
I wish I could downvote this twice.
Reparations are a thing. Also you should really read up on denazification and how it stopped being useful to the US (and thus was ended) once the Communists became the new enemy.
Did we get rid of them or just bring them here?
It’s a little from column A, a little from column B (dossiers of both held together by a rather flimsy paperclip).
“No one moves out of the way!”
(Cuts camera as people start moving out of the way)Yup, but they mostly did not. That’s why the ambulance got stuck so far behind.
Also, their making way is reeeally sluggish!
Rural areas have problems. And it’s hard to compare them as they are so different : Montana is bigger than Germany and only had like 100,000 people. Other places are not so different between the countries are not so different despite what the guy in the video is asserting.
What point are you trying to make? That rural areas which were once built as spots of closeness were eventually turned into sprawling towns? Or trying to saying things aren’t so different despite the fact that we can literally see, with our own eyes, how the differences are pretty bad? He’s not asserting anything in the sense that he’s not just talking out his ass, it’s video proof.
That is just america in general
Is he German? I couldn’t tell, ja?
Achtung! Snel! Snel!
The stereotypical Indiana Jones German 😁
US drivers do not understand the Rettungsgasse. +1 Deutschland!
Not just NYC. I see the same kinda shit in California too.
We have entirely too many entitled fuckfaces in this country and all of them drive.
All of them are forced to drive. Some people admit they are terrible drivers, but have no options if they still want to have a life not revolving around commuting.
Being a terrible driver and not making way for emergency vehicles aren’t necessarily mutual.
Like, using another example, a bad driver might park a little over the line. An entitled asshole will purposely take up 4 spots or use the handicap space when they are not handicapped.
This is Mario Adrion right? A stand up comedian.
So he’s saying “send a German” but what I’m hearing is “tow a gurney with a bike.”
I’ve never been to New York, but as somebody born and raised in Southern California, lived in Portland, Or, and is currently living in Minnesota, I have never seen this. You always move over to the right. Immediately and without question. In California, Oregon, and Minnesota, at least, it’s the law, and you can be fined for not complying.
As an NYC resident, cars will move over if there’s space, but there’s so much congestion that you physically can’t move, there’s no shoulder or anything.
And there’s also idiots who are fighting congestion pricing that helps with these kinds of problems by reducing the number of cars on the road. You can’t widen these roads without getting rid of sidewalks which just means even more cars and traffic so the only option is reduce the number of cars.
the right lane cars move to the right the left lane cars move to the left the ambulance goes down the middle, its interesting your brain only imagines moving right but not process the goal of creating a path
My brain can imagine the process of creating a path, wtf, that’s literally what I’m talking about. Just moving over to the right is what is written in the law in most places. Chill.
I live right outside NYC and have to drive through on a semi-regular basis. People generally do move out of the way of emergency vehicles. BUUUTTTT, traffic is completely fucked in NYC. Watch the video again, cars are trying to move but literally have nowhere to go. This happens daily, if you’re not out off Manhattan by 3pm your travel time is now at minimum doubled on an average day. Some days its 3-4x worse.
I think the difference in Germany is that you are required by law to make space beforehand. When you are in a traffic jam on the Autobahn, there are rules for how to make a “Rettungsgasse” (rescue alley). A few years ago they bumped the penalty up to 320€ and suspend your drivers licence for a month. This penalty isn’t only applied when you actually hinder an ambulance or the like, but when your actions could affect them in theory. I love that.
