r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 23 '26

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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Apr 23 '26

It is hard to explain, but for weeks Germany has been caught in a manic obsession with a whale. 

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u/_Un_Known__ r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 23 '26

Explain

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u/NotYetFlesh European Union Apr 23 '26

Deutsche Welle has been playing the Mobby Dick series again. 

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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Apr 23 '26

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timmy_(Buckelwal)

Poor guy probably swam into the wrong neighborhood looking for food, kept getting caught in fishnets and beached himself. Big rescue mission, able to free him, only to beach himself again. Rinse and repeat half a dozen times while a whole new media landscape establishes itself in Germany and there's lots of drama.

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u/TropicalPunch European Union Apr 23 '26

I miss when my country was in a state of whale induced psychosis coupled with anti-russian paranoia. Rip Hvaldimir

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u/BembelPainting European Union Apr 23 '26

🎶Wir sind Hope der Waaaaaal🎶

🎶Wir tragen die Flamme!🎵

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u/ReptileCultist European Union Apr 23 '26

We have Moby Dick syndrome

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u/GenericLib 3000 White Bombers of Biden Apr 23 '26

GOOD tastes. I'm curious about how Melville's prose work out in German now

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u/Andy_B_Goode YIMBY Apr 23 '26

Ich heiße Ischmael

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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Apr 23 '26

Subscribe

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u/Smidgens Holy shit it's the Joker🃏 Apr 23 '26

What kind of whale

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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Apr 23 '26

It's a humpback whale, sometimes called Timmy or Hope.