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To: critical_mass who wrote (120304)	6/22/2016 4:29:10 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Respond to of 218131

I've been told by an American living in Berlin that this recent skit broadcast on "Saturday Night Live" was actually a devastating satire of German foreign policy in Eastern Europe and Asia. The commentary on German foreign policy is hidden inside a story about girls disinclined to play with a Barbie Doll bearing a passing resemblance to Hillary Clinton. But this skit is definitely all about German politics, one of the little girls is of course playing the despised Angela Merkel character present in most television shows around the world. - That is if Germans were inclined to project their own nation's internal issues onto all global media, as many Americans do. If you run the correct algorithm on the time-code of this skit, I'm told it reveals the entire 2017 budget of the state of Hesse.

To: critical_mass who wrote (120304)	6/24/2016 12:20:54 AM
From: koan	Respond to of 218131

" the conformity of thought becomes a bit creepy though Berlin is still a great place to live." Interesting you should say that. I once read one of the most brilliant analysis of how the Germans decided to go along with Hitler and the author said it was their military history and their blind conformity. Interestingly, you could say the same thing about Japan at the time. Two peas in a pod. I read a review a while back of Himmler's granddaughter's book on him. She said the most disturbing thing to her was that no one in her entire family challenged Hitler. I find conformity in this country creepy enough. I can't imagine it being even more creepy. And I am of German heritage. Having said all that, you have to give them credit for the way they bounced back after being utterly destroyed during World War II. Both the Germans and the Japanese for that matter. Within 20 years of World War II Japan was the second largest economy in the world as I recall in Germany was the third. Or vice versa. And they often comment that after World War II Russian the United states divided up there rocket scientists as they were the best in the world.