Some protesters against the Stuttgart21 project would probably disagree (as well as German courts.)
How German Police Do Police Brutality
Submitted 4 months ago by skeezix@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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johny@feddit.org 4 months ago
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Is this an ad? Because everyone in that photo is unreasonably attractive.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I actually have had a theory since my teens (as an autistic kid with idiots for parents, disgusting school and so on, so some need to escape that), that German music and German visual design feel so clean and attractive in a very vanilla way, because that’s what was the prestigious kind of culture for the British Empire in its prime and till WWI, and that survived by inertia even a couple decades past Germans having their teeth kicked in during WWII.
What we feel to be most classical is German music, German philosophy, German perception of military history, German ideological approaches to politics (today’s left-wing movements are still mostly that or at least track their lineage to that, and today’s right-wing movements may have kinda diverged, but still like to fuzzily hint at one Austrian painter), and German visual design (what’s considered “neutral” today, fonts like Helvetica, the way accents are made, etc).
What I’m coming at - common perception of human beauty in the West may be kinda affected by typical German appearance, that specifically, more that by typical French or typical British or typical Italian appearance.
BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
That’s dense and clearly something you’ve thought about deeply. Still wrong tho:
German cultural and intellectual influence is super significant, esp during the 18th/19th centuries (think Goethe, Beethoven, Kant), the perception of beauty and aesthetics in the West has way broader roots. Western beauty standards largely come from antiquity—Greek and Roman ideals (symmetry, proportion, harmony). This gets revived during the Renaissance, primarily by Italian and French artists, not German ones.
German musos, philosopers, and designs, their prominence peaked in different eras (e.g., Enlightenment, Romanticism, Bauhaus) but didn’t shape Western standards of beauty or culture.
Visual design like Helvetica became iconic due to functionality and simplicity. Re physical beauty, Germanic traits might contribute to regional preferences, but broader Western standards remain influenced by Mediterranean archetypes.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I don’t know much about German music but Rammstein is good
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I find a much higher percentage of people outside the US as being more attractive. I think it has a lot to do with just being healthier and eating better. Every time I visit someplace, it’s the first thing I always notice. That and how much cleaner they keep places.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Being healthy, of course, does contribute to one’s attractiveness.
But human beauty is really too subjective.
We may dislike people seeming familiar. We may like people seeming familiar more.
We may like people similar to us in appearance. We may particularly dislike people similar to us in appearance.
Also clothes affect people’s appearance quite a lot. If people in the area you do shopping for clothes are in average less like you in appearance and weight and everything, and people in some other area more, you might find them more attractive simply because the choice of clothes is a bit better, and the habit of wearing better fitting clothes.
And another very important component is what you expect to see. I mean, “how much cleaner they keep places” … which countries have you visited?
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Think Pepsi is trying to solve racism again lmao
rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 4 months ago
When have Germans ever been racist?
Zetta@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Maybe my perception of average is off, but they seem like normal attractiveness people
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Did you see the cops that arrested Greta T when she was protesting in Copenhagen recently?
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I found the picture!
Greta Thunberg being arrested in Copenhagen by unreasonably handsome cops
finley@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Wow. wtf. Why are these cops so damn hot?
FelixCress@lemmy.world 4 months ago
horse@feddit.org 4 months ago
When German cops do police brutality they burn you to death in your cell
schnapspraline@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Explanation: www.youtube.com/embed/IB2PxDyGvqw
technopagan@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
That’s what happens when you rehire the local DVP during reunification.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Don’t they beat anti isntreal protestors?
slice@feddit.org 4 months ago
Yes
mlg@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Haha now show the ones where they stomped out anti Israeli protestors with impunity
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Does look like ai NGL, the face is too perfect and the background too perfectly blurry
ysjet@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This picture has been around way, waaaat before ai was ever a thing.
deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de 4 months ago
Straight lines don’t have artifacts (car door, walkie talkies). Text, including off-axis text, is perfectly fine (“POLIZEI” on the right guy’s uniform). The compression around the hair looks normal. Last time I checked, Even “generative” AI couldn’t get those things right.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 months ago
The perspective is correct on all the the obscured people, which is rare. The people in the background have different heights as well, which seems to coincide with the distance to the curb on the street.
Europeans can be more attractive, they have better or free dental, orthodontics, more strict laws on food quality/ composition and sometimes better personal health habits.
Sure they are all pretty, but if they were 9s in Michigan they would be 7s in Germany.
Anivia@feddit.org 4 months ago
^ These are the guys that tell you they can always tell if a picture is AI generated 😂😂😂
lugal@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
I heard other stories as well…
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 months ago
[deleted]skeezix@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s understandable that as an American this is inconceivable to you. But if you tin eye search the photo you’ll see it’s real.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Nah, that’s the hat of the dude behind the guy.
To me it looks like awkward “you’re on TV” expressions.
slice@feddit.org 4 months ago
As a German I can say that this is absolutely not true
doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
As a German I sadly agree.
Gladaed@feddit.org 4 months ago
Also, more recently, the barely legal extradition of Maya to Hungary.
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Its true more often than in burger land but still not very often.
Tiptopit@feddit.org 4 months ago
At least here people less often get shot.
tomhg@programming.dev 4 months ago
As a German I onced smoked a joint in 2004 with the Police while trespassing.
The majority are studied people who receive way to few credit for their service.