r/facepalm Jul 11 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Mom needs to go back to school.

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u/CasualObserverNine Jul 11 '24

So you went to war so your state could set their own speed limits?

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u/Keith_Kong Jul 11 '24

People really don’t give Texas the freedom credits they deserve. You may not be able to smoke weed, be an immigrant, or control what you do with your own body… but damned if those roads don’t give you the freedom of speed. Pretty sure I was on a 90mph freeway at one point driving through that cowboy theme park.

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u/H4mb01 Jul 12 '24

I'm german and must say that you don't even know what freedom of speed means

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u/PervertedPineapple Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24

I agree and I live in the US.

People lose their minds over 70 mph limits when states like Texas and CA have higher.... But you go to another country and it's essentially Mario Kart.

Looking at you Central, South America and Southeast Asia.

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u/Pendraconica Jul 12 '24

Kraftwerk intensifies

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u/kfbrgr75 Jul 16 '24

Americans would screw up freedom of speed because they don’t know how to get out of the farthest left lane on an interstate. They also don’t understand what flashing your lights mean and will interpret it as road rage and respond in kind. How I wish American highways and interstates would operate like an Autobahn! We would have to redo driver education across the board, and actually give tickets to those drivers that slow traffic down because they don’t like speeders.

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u/H4mb01 Jul 17 '24

I never said it is a good thing how we do it in germany btw

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u/kfbrgr75 Jul 17 '24

Guess you didn’t but I have lived there and experienced it and I think it’s better than what we have in the US in my experience.

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u/H4mb01 Jul 17 '24

Probably both has its pros and cons.

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u/Keith_Kong Jul 12 '24

Idk, middle of nowhere Nevada is basically without speed limit for all intents and purposes. But yes, I’m sure the autobahn is glorious.

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u/H4mb01 Jul 12 '24

I doubt you ever gotten the feeling of someone in your neck giving you flashing lights because your 130+ mph were way too slow for him lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '24

No, that happens in Houston. It’s not super common, but it does happen. Now, having an F350 that weighs 7000lbs start flashing his lights at you and waving a gun at you because you are only going 90mph in the far right lane? That’s just Tuesday.

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u/MainResearch1941 Jul 12 '24

Ich kenne das Gefühl nur zu gut. heh …

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u/WayneKrane Jul 12 '24

I was on a stretch in Wyoming doing over 100 and a corvette doing well over that blew past me like I was stopped. That was astounding.

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u/H4mb01 Jul 12 '24

Even my small little opel corsa can go faster than that lol

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u/Heavy-Possession2288 Jul 12 '24

If you’re German you’re probably thinking in kph, while Americans use mph. Unless you’re saying your Opel has no problem doing well over 160 kph in which case I’m impressed but a bit skeptical.

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u/H4mb01 Jul 12 '24

I converted to mph for the american. 180km/h is no problem, even 200+ not that much, just gets expensive.

And it happened often enough that even if you go 200km/h you have someone in a Porsche behind you wanting to go 250+

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u/--StinkyPinky-- Jul 12 '24

Oh look at the Kaiser of Speed here! Lol.

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u/Sure_Trash_ Jul 12 '24

I don't care. I don't even want to go that fast

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u/indignant_halitosis Jul 12 '24

It’s pretty fucking obvious the context is in comparison to other US states. But sure, let’s make this all about you.

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u/H4mb01 Jul 12 '24

You don't say

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 12 '24

I’m American and must say that you don't even know what freedom of speech means.

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u/Legitimate-BurnerAcc Jul 12 '24

We don't even know what freedom of speech means either. Unless thar speech lines up with the current political agenda.

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 14 '24

I can threaten our President.

Sit down and be quiet.  You have the right, but not the intelligence.

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u/Legitimate-BurnerAcc Jul 14 '24

Lol threatening the president gets people put in prison for "terroristic threats"

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 15 '24

You don’t even know the legal definition of terroristic threatening.  I’ve literally had someone cited for the very crime, so please fuck off and quit pretending you know anything.

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u/H4mb01 Jul 12 '24

freedom of speech

Germany: 10/180 USA: 55/180

Jup, i know what freedom of speech means, do you?

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u/Ocbard Jul 12 '24

Oh, man, that's glorious!

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 12 '24

Yup.  Go yell “Heil Hitler” in the Munich town square.

I’ll wait.

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u/Legitimate-BurnerAcc Jul 12 '24

You get punched here in America too unless you're In Wisconsin

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 14 '24

Repercussions don’t make something illegal.

Spend less time making a fool out of yourself and go get something more than a GED.

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u/Zaurka14 Jul 12 '24

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 12 '24

and you di?

Yes, I “do”.

Assertively thrust your hand/arm straight out in front of you, at about a 20* angle above parallel, in the middle of Germany, and let me know how it goes.

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u/H4mb01 Jul 12 '24

That has nothing to do with speech lol

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 12 '24

If you really want to argue the semantics of whether a gesture or action “speak”, then fine:

Go around yelling “Heil Hitler!”

I’ll wait.

(Really wish Deutschland had a better public education system…)

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u/H4mb01 Jul 12 '24

Yeah, in school a lot of funny kids do it all the time.

But i don't even want to say something to praise a dude who was responsible for the worst era of german history, millions over millions innocent deaths and overall the almost destruction of the whole european continent.

I could just do the same about the US. Walk around certain neighbourhoods calling people the n word...

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 13 '24

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_stgb/englisch_stgb.html

We have more freedom of speech than you.  Even your own government says so.  Please get an education in a country that can provide one.

P.S. I’m glad we stopped the Nazis before you could lawfully become one. 😘

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u/Zaurka14 Jul 12 '24

All you are saying is that Germany has the same level of freedom of speech as US. We can't throw Nazi signs, you can't say the nword.

You claimed that we would not know freedom of speech here, but I'm just saying that you wouldn't know it either.

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 12 '24

Lol, yes we can say the “nword”.  That’s not illegal at all.

(The quotes are not literal; they are mocking.)

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u/IgnoramusTerrificus Jul 12 '24

Unfortunately, there are many parts of the US where you can say the n word while throwing a nazi salute and suffer no consequences :/

I'm always happy to acknowledge the broken parts of America that are misunderstood or misrepresented by our people, but the strength of our freedom of speech is pretty hard to argue against. We currently have a convicted rapist/felon/pedophile/grifter named Don getting national airtime to talk about electric boats vs. sharks.

You need only look to the 100% biased "news" stations or the death threat-laden politics threads to see just how ironclad our freedom of speech really is.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24

Yes you can. There’s just stipulations to when and where. If you do it in the presence of a demographic that can take offense, you can be charged for a hate crime but you can’t say it in the middle of a field and someone hear it and call you in like you just shot someone🤣

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u/Zaurka14 Jul 12 '24

But being suspended at work for it is totally not limiting the freedom of that person?

Mkay

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '24 edited Jul 12 '24

A business and your government might just be a lil different. sound like you need to learn the difference between workplace expectations and federal law. They can fire me for being lazy too, is that a federal offense?

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u/bryant_modifyfx Jul 13 '24

Hate speech is not protected speech.

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u/Omniverse_0 Jul 14 '24

Bad words != hate speech

Do better.

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u/bryant_modifyfx Jul 14 '24

According to Germany, it is.

Do better