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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:12:25 +0200

GottaLaff@mastodon.social

Mensch in Chief

President #Biden: "I'm extremely proud of my son, Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He's one of the brightest, most decent men I know."

He says he will "abide by the jury's decision."

Biden did not attack the justice system or the outcome of the trial.

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Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:44:10 +0200

That Nonproductive Guy

nonproductive@mastodon.social

@GottaLaff /Sarcasm On

“Biden did not attack the justice system or the outcome of the trial.”

Proof that he is weak! He should have immediately gone on Threads and trashed the judge, the prosecutor and the jury! The Biden DOJ has been weaponized against his political rivals! We all know Hunter was planning on running in 2028!”

/Sarcasm Off

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:09:41 +0200 zuletzt bearbeitet: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:10:03 +0200

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

HistoPol@mastodon.social

@GottaLaff

Didn't know you knew German, Laffy. ?

I agree.

https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112610898434056243

Thu, 13 Jun 2024 23:43:03 +0200

brashke

brashke@mastodon.social

@GottaLaff Amen

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:01:08 +0200

Myrion

myrion@infosec.exchange

@HistoPol it's not German, though.

Sure, it's the same word as the German word for human, but it's not used that way in German. This meaning and usage is specifically from Jiddisch, and came from there into English.

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 07:06:48 +0200

𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not a poet"

Lana@beige.party

@GottaLaff it's actually very funny watching the right scramble after their weird conspiracy theories about the "Biden crime family" have come, suddenly and obviously, into direct conflict with reality.

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:00:38 +0200

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

HistoPol@mastodon.social

@myrion

Laffy is still ill, so NFL

Ok, if it is Jiddisch, what does it mean, if not "Human Being?"
I do speak German, and the wordplay, Commander in Chief (Oberbefehlshaber [der Streitkräfte]) and "Mensch in Chief" (I presume,) was quite nice.
It would only not work in German, because the "in chief" doesn't exist. It is translated by the prefix "Ober-", which means "upper-" generally speaking but "supreme" in this context.

(And we don't want to make it sound like Nietsche' "Übermensch," 2)

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:23:39 +0200

Alexander Goeres

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@HistoPol (#HP) the yiddish and the german word are the same, nearly the same meaning but yiddish puts more emphasize on the meaning "guter mensch"

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:24:41 +0200

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

HistoPol@mastodon.social

@jabgoe2089

#German

I guess you mean "guter Mensch" literally, i.e. "good person," right?

Because "Gutmensch" is nowadays used only in an ironic/sarcastic or even pejorative way, often in conjunction with political correctness. Most often, it is used to degrade a political opponent.

I would not actively use the term. A lot of German people still think it is a Nazi term, a notion that was debunked only about a decade ago [12].

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutmensch [12]

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:44:01 +0200

Alexander Goeres

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@HistoPol (#HP) right, it's definitively not gutmensch, not pejorative

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:53:16 +0200

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

HistoPol@mastodon.social

@jabgoe2089

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