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Re:Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their countr... by wolfgke on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @07:16AM (#9491870)
> instead of waving your fist at the NSA from across the ocean, because frankly, they don't really care what German citizens think.

If the NSA doesn't care what the Germans think, why do they spy on them? ;-) [pun intended]

Seriously: The NSA really cares about the BND cooperating with them:

> http://www.danisch.de/blog/2015/04/23/der-bnd-und-die-nsa/ (in German, sorry)

And if, because of a giant public outrage, this "cooperation" will be stopped, the NSA will not like this situation. Thus, indirectly, the NSA cares a lot, what the Germans think.

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Re:Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their countr... by antimagic on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @08:14AM (#9492024)
In English, the idiom "Don't care what they think" means "don't care what they feel". Though I understand how that might lead to miscomprehension from non-native speakers ;)
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Re:Germans, still outraged by NSA spying, learn their countr... by lttlrck on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @11:34AM (#9493032)
That's not an idiom, and the two sentences have two very distinct meanings.
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