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Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by dqpb on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:47PM (#31657009)
The US and Germany are allies. In fact, I believe “German” is the largest ancestry group in the US.

Besides which, it’s extremely common for entities to invest in mutually beneficial agreements with other entities.

Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by qiskit on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:59PM (#31659979)
> The US and Germany are allies.

An ally doesn't firebomb a nation, murder thousands of innocent people and forcibly occupy it. Germany is a vassal.

> In fact, I believe “German” is the largest ancestry group in the US.

Who cares? We are not a german nation. We are an anglo nation. Germans don't have much political power in the US. If they did, we would have been allied with germany during ww2.

Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by astrange on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @01:58AM (#31663786)
Australia is an Anglo nation that thinks they're us. We're a German nation that thinks we're British.

The state we occupied doesn't exist anymore unless you think we're going to re-invade Germany and Japan from our bases there.

Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by qiskit on Sunday June 12, 2022 @11:30AM (#31715241)
> Australia is an Anglo nation that thinks they're us.

No. Australians think they are british.

> We're a German nation that thinks we're British.

No. We are an anglo nation. We speaking german right now? Don't think so.

> The state we occupied doesn't exist anymore unless you think we're going to re-invade Germany and Japan from our bases there.

Re-invade? For what? We already are occupying them.

Yours is the most bizarre and nonsensical comment I've read in a while.

Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by colordrops on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:54PM (#31657111)
This idea that policy should be set based on a grossly oversimplified wrapping up of a huge surface area of agreements into the term "ally" and vague notions of ethnic similarity needs to die.

It gives the ruling class a mechanism to excuse war crimes of our supposed "allies" and drop bombs on supposed "enemies" for perceived minor infractions.

Re:Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab by dqpb on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:15PM (#31657377)
I agree, and this is not an argument I would normally make.

But I think it’s the quality of response the parent deserved, given their ridiculously hyperbolic framing of “a foreign occupying force”.