Du hast mich

This meme couldn't have been made by a German. Nobody in their right mind would say something so outlandish as Germany having a great education system. I literally got taught with a smashed blackboard, next to a cabinet that collapsed during class and with "books" that began identifying as a stack of papers (still had to wrap them though for protection! …somehow!).
On the upside, my school didn't have mold… that we knew off. And we constantly had classes canceled since there weren't enough teachers once a single one was missing.
- And you still learned more than most Americans. Except maybe Cheerleading, American Football, how to behave during a school shooting, and bullying (or how survive it).
  
  I learned English because in 2006-2010 most video games were poorly localized and when youtube became a thing most of the popular German gaming youtubers were absolute cringe so i watched English channels instead.
  Compared to my German friends my English is above average despite my English teacher in highschool being sick most of the time and the classes not being substituted with English classes. This solely lies in my interest/necessity to engage with English content online. We had French as a second language and despite the teachers actually being there and being good teachers for this educational system, i remember almost nothing.
  
  and bullying (or how survive it).
  My over a decade long therapeutic history, scars and damage to sensory organs say differently. You're right about the shootings though. Since the bullying at my schools was so bad I can guarantee there would have been at least one shooting if it was in the US. Back then I would've probably celebrated the idea even, I was saddened when an actual shooting happened somewhere because it wasn't at my school, but specifically not because it was a shooting (just to give you an idea how bad the bullying was).
  Heard the US schools got a really weird sports team thingy going. Never fully got that; there's no comparable culture over here. Of course schools love to work with Sports Clubs whenever possible, they're not "the same" though (and it's about the sport itself, very rarely the Clubs' identity). There definitely aren't state- or nationwide sport tournaments organized around school teams in the same fashion the US celebrates it.
  
  We had plenty of bullying, but you are correct about the rest.
- It could be worse but "hervorragend" is pushing it.
  
  It can both be bad and hervorragend. All the other ones just have to be worse.
  
  Schlimmer geht immer. Der Fotzenfritz und sein Gruselkabinett arbeiten schon dran
- That, and OP quoted Rammstein

- French people could claim the same.
  
  Icelanders too
- Every Indo European language is just a very thick Proto-Indo-European dialect after all
  
  Debatable.
  There are a total of 0 records and the whole thing has been reconstructed by comparing similarities among existing languages. PIE likely never existed as a language, neither spoken nor written.
- He spilled the blood of the Saxon Men!

Du
- Du hast.
  
  Du hast mich.

laughs in American living in Germany

I just block it. No big deal. There's no point in having it show up on my feed when I can't fucking read it lol
- Weird downvote people.
  I agree with you - just block and move on. This is Lemmy, a land without capitalist social media algorithms filtering our newsfeeds for us. Nobody's monitoring your preferences and automatically curating your main page to ~~manipulate~~ "entertain" you. The block feature is one way we can take control over the information presented to us, and using it to filter for language simply makes sense.
  And before anyone chimes in with "jUsT cHaNgE YoUr sEtTiNgS tO eNgLiSh," some of us are multi-lingual in other languages and don't want to be limited to only English content - we just don't speak German, specifically.
- I had an idea to make a Lenmy fork that autotranslates, but it’d probably need a paid API and I’m too lazy.

Certainly has nothing to do with anything that happened before 1946
Just good education
- Do you imply that ancestors building concentration camps is somehow boosting education?
  …so Trump's decisions actually are long-term educational policy? Little genocide today, big brains tomorrow? 🧐
  
  Lest we not forget the US's internment campus for Japanese during WW2 (not the worst of our ill deeds, but still heinous)
  
  I am implying that losing a world war and subsequent occupation to English speaking nations has a residual lasting effect
  Likewise had it gone the other way there would certainly be more Americans with German as a second language
  Education isn't particularly relevant in this situation
  Even my tiny rural American school offered French, German, and Spanish
  If they choose,. most choose to learn Spanish or French since those are the languages we are likely to encounter on either border. Very few Americans speak German because how infrequently we encounter anyone who does here.
  Though, even more choose not to learn a foreign language at all