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0 pointsjacquesm2y ago0 comments

That doesn't make the joke less dumb.

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It's not my joke. Perhaps the joke makes some people feel uncomfortable. Jokes can be like that.

If a NATO member had only 4 (four!) fighter jets ready for use out of a fleet of 128 (one hundred and twenty eight!)[0] we should also feel uncomfortable. That's not something to joke about.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-luftwa...

jacquesmOP2y ago

It's you posting it here, not your friends from the RAF.

As for flight readiness: that has nothing to do with how many children von der Leyen has.

logifail2y ago

> As for flight readiness: that has nothing to do with how many children von der Leyen has

Indeed not. Perhaps that's the reason the joke is funny?

We could sanitise the joke to become "Germany's defence minister had more fingers than working fighter aircraft" I suppose. Would that be better?

The real issue is VdL's history of failure, not the jokes about it.

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PaywallBuster2y ago

And one of the biggest

We gonna find ourselves looking very much like Russias army

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logifail2y ago

It's not my joke. Perhaps the joke makes some people feel uncomfortable. Jokes can be like that.

If a NATO member had only 4 (four!) fighter jets ready for use out of a fleet of 128 (one hundred and twenty eight!)[0] we should also feel uncomfortable. That's not something to joke about.

[0] https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/bundeswehr-luftwa...

jacquesmOP2y ago

It's you posting it here, not your friends from the RAF.

As for flight readiness: that has nothing to do with how many children von der Leyen has.

logifail2y ago

> As for flight readiness: that has nothing to do with how many children von der Leyen has

Indeed not. Perhaps that's the reason the joke is funny?

We could sanitise the joke to become "Germany's defence minister had more fingers than working fighter aircraft" I suppose. Would that be better?

The real issue is VdL's history of failure, not the jokes about it.

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PaywallBuster2y ago

And one of the biggest

We gonna find ourselves looking very much like Russias army

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse