Land of opportunity

LNMagic · 7 months

At first, I thought this was a very long and confusing title for a single person.

GeneralPlanet · 7 months

Germany, because fuck punctuation.

Somnivore · 7 months

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methinks2015 · 7 months

Intersting.. Canada's Foreign Minister is gay too. Is that a foreign minister thing?

Also, our Health Minister is female, which can only mean that Stephen Harper is Vietnamese.

[deleted] · 7 months

Lots of our politicians are gay. We just don't find out until about the same time their wives do.

Maybs3923 · 7 months

The mayor of my city (Houston) is a lesbian

doyoulikebread · 7 months

Health Minister Vietnamese

Germany: Land of Opportunities

Really. You played that card. Welp, America should try to get a minority like that into a position of political power.

will_upvote_anything · 7 months

Belgium: gay italian bow-tie wearing socialist prime minister. Sounds like a good start.

sillycheesesteak · 7 months

our president is half black, half white. our transportation secretary is lebanese. four cabinet secretaries, including our secretary of state, are women. attorney general is black. labor secretary is the daughter of mexican and nicaraguan immigrants. the secretary of energy is chinese, secretary of veteran affairs is japanese.

and we should mention this: http://www.zazzle.com/undisputed_world_war_champions_hat-148401564028564013

suck it germany.

kumfi · 7 months

Yes, we like giving people from all walks of life the opportunity to do a very, very shitty job.

GetsMoreAntiSemitic · 7 months

FORMER CHANCELLOR: AUSTRIAN

YNot1989 · 7 months

President: Bi-Racial Nobel Laureate

Vice President: Irish Catholic

Secretary of State: Women

Secretary of Defense: Italian-American

Attorney General: African-American

Secretary of the Interior: Mexican-American

Secretary of Labor: Mexican/Nicaraguan Woman

Secretary Health and Human Services: Woman

Secretary of Transportation: Lebanese/German-American

Secretary of Energy: Chinese-American Nobel Laureate

Secretary of Veterans Affairs: Japanese-American Vietnam Veteran

Speaker of the House: Orange

So yes, America is the land of opportunity.

readhowardzinn · 7 months

i'm sorry. I haven't read through all the comments (don't know if anyone has brought this up), but didn't Angela Merkel say that "multiculturalism in Germany had failed"? What utter bullshit.

raaabert · 7 months

Australia: Prime minister is an atheist woman, finance minister is a Malaysian lesbian

baboomshka · 7 months

suspiciously no jews

asimilator · 7 months

Land of opportunity as long as you're German enough (culturally speaking):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11559451

maltemx · 7 months

Also, the Minister of Finance is a paraplegic.

IAmAQuantumMechanic · 7 months

Don't forget: Chancellor has a PhD in Quantum Chemistry.

fermatafantastique · 7 months

Not too many Jews though.

yesukai · 7 months

Female secretary of state and black president? What's the point the sign is trying to make?

knightskull · 7 months

I would be less annoyed by this if they simply said "And you thought America was the only land of opportunity."

jimothydalton · 7 months

Land of no punctuation

commissar_yakov · 7 months

too bad their citizenship laws are shit just like the rest of the EU

username_redacted · 7 months

Just don't be Turkish.

Amerikai · 7 months

Genocide free for 50 years

dinkylemons · 7 months

America: The land where normal people don't even think about their public officials being minorities because we don't give a fuck.

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uphir · 7 months

Land of opportunity... except if you're Turkish.

avatoin · 7 months

A colon, semicolon, even a comma would have been helpful. Took me a few reads to get it.

my_name_is_stupid · 7 months

I wonder how he feels about being referred to as "Foreign Minister Gay". If I were him, I'd feel like my government was using me as a token minority.

anxiousalpaca · 7 months

Pretty offending to Roesler as he considers himself German and has no mental affiliation to Vietnam.

DavidVee · 7 months

Meh. Government jobs.

stop_being-a-dick · 7 months

This is the stupidest form of collective dick measuring I've ever seen.

Traherne · 7 months

Thank God one of them wasn't Johann Gambolputty von Ausfernschplendenschlittercrasscrenbonfrieddiggerdingledangledongledungle bursteinvonknackerthrasherapplebangerhorowitzticolensicgranderknottyspelltinkle grandlichgrumblemeyerspelterwasserkurstlichhimbleeisenbahnwagengutenabend bitteeinnürnburgerbratwürstelgespurtenmitzweimacheluberhundsfutgumberaberschönen dankerkalbsfleischmittlerauchervonHautkopft of Ulm.

valmont121 · 7 months

Land of opportunity != land of equality

Yawgmoth_of_Urborg · 7 months

They have come along way from their murdery burny policy on people different from them. Kudos Germany. Kudos.

gigashadowwolf · 7 months

Yes, because the only true measure of opportunity is minority rule? We've got them beat our last president was mentally challenged (I keed I keed).

I love Germany, in fact I've been considering moving there. But so long as you place emphasis on the ethnic diversity of organizations you are consciously allowing ethnicity to factor into it's make up. That is not equal opportunity that is prejudice.

It's kind of like trying to force a truly altruistic act so that you can brag about it to further your agenda.

captainfranklen · 7 months

Not sure if serious or trolling. Have you seen the members of our government, Germany?

MuldartheGreat · 7 months

I'm here for the anti-America circlejerk. Is anyone providing free lube?

gradivus22 · 7 months

Dear Germany, can move there?

Germany: You dont have enough money or a bunch of college degrees, so no.

guysguy · 7 months

Never missing an opportunity to waste my tax money on ridiculous crap like this, eh?

JSBUCK · 7 months

Thank goodness you didn't post this to r/atheism. I swear to god (yeah, the one I don't believe in) that every time one of them see's the word gay used in either an extremely positive or somewhat negative context, they get a premature karma boner. "OMG RICK SANTORUM SAID HE DOESN'T APPROVE OF GAY MARRIAGE. THIS IS SO RELEVANT TO ATHEISM,".........no dammit no. Sorry for the pointless rant.

slickapotamus · 7 months

You're trying too hard Germany.

LShift · 7 months

Black President.

checkmate

krp31489 · 7 months

I like when other countries try to out diversify the United States, it's really cute actually. Our president is half Ethiopian/half white who came from parents who were both atheists, our secretary of state is a woman plus the five other women in Obama's cabinet, our attorney general is black, our secretary of the interior is Mexican, our secretary of energy is Chinese, our secretary of veterans affairs is Japanese, our Congress has people from every race, almost every major religion, as well as those who are foreign born, the mayors of New York and Chicago are Jewish, the mayors of Philadelphia, Detroit, and Baltimore are black, the mayors of Los Angeles and San Antonio are hispanic, and the mayor of Houston is gay. Germany will never even come close to being as diverse as the United States.

abbott_costello · 7 months

Boy how things have changed in 70 years.

[deleted] · 7 months

Guys, guys. We know it's dumb and embarassing. And of course Germany's politicians aren't as multicultural as the ones in the US. Rösler was raised by Germans, besides his looks he is as German as you can be. So he doesn't even count. Obviously the comparison is dumb, the countries have completely different histories.

[deleted] · 7 months

The readability would have been improved by about 1000% by adding a few colons.

maliciousmonkee · 7 months

What a shitty ad.

CornFedHonky · 7 months

This sign is in some serious need of some semicolons.

[deleted] · 7 months

I dunno if this whole multiculturalism thing will exactly go down in Europe as well as it did in North America. Nationalism is pretty rampant over there.

snowCR45H · 7 months

I can be a gay Vietnamese woman and be a minister of something if I move to Germany? Sign me up!

marishtar · 7 months

My city's mayor is gay.

Freigeist85 · 7 months

An East German woman, a Vietnamese, a gay and a guy in a wheelchair come into a bar. The barkeeper says to them: "What kind of a joke is that?" Them: "We're not a joke, we're the federal government."

Typhouess · 7 months

The nice thing about America is that you can be a Jew. Hate to go for the low blow but I think it is going to take at least a few more decades before Germany can start talking shit without people bringing up that whole little Nazi thing that happened.

Ragnalypse · 7 months

Positive Discrimination isn't opportunity, it's just modern oppression.

I expected more from you Germany, go back to making cars.

aakaakaak · 7 months

United states:

President: Black
Vice president: Mentally handicapped
Secretary of State: Female
Former Secretary of state: Black
Another former secretary of state: Black Female
Chairman of the house ways and means: Gay
Former speaker of the house: female

We have a few opportunities here and there.

newmorningbobz · 7 months

Didn't this used to be an "Aryan-Only" country? Wow, Good Guy Germany!

blackproton · 7 months

Ich für meinen Teil begrüße unsere neuen Deutsch Herrscher.

DaHozer · 7 months

Head of Tourism Board Illiterate?

rocketwidget · 7 months

Although this argument, in a vacuum, says little about diversity, the obvious counter is our president, arguably the most powerful man in the world, is a black guy who spent much of his childhood in Indonesia.

diskompo · 7 months

Wow, what happened here? Everytime I see a thread referencing my beloved home country, the majority of reddit seems to love every single thing Germany does, no matter how stupid it is (and no matter how made up it is). If I knew that I only had to claim that Germany offers more opportunities than the USA to break that unhealthy habit...

Seriously, I have no idea who designed that sign - maybe it's fake, maybe it's supposed to attract American investors or professionals. Either way, no need to hate on Germany, because "Germany" didn't make this sign. Similarily (?), not everything "Germany" does is great or applicaple to other countries.

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