It's called a Christmas market and we have one in Chicago.

The American reaction will either be confusion or envy, there is no in-between.

I'm the latter.

I appreciate the anti-car sentiment, not so much the anti-American one:

The United States is 27.5 times bigger by total area compared to Germany: 3,794,100 sq mi vs 138,065 sq mi.

EU countries make these kinds of snarky posts a lot, some of them while having total populations that are way more homogeneous while also being smaller than a midsized American metro area.

The scale of America is rarely comprehended by people from these smaller countries.

Edit to address some of the comments below: the point of the difference in size is that infrastructure will develop differently based on available space. Monied interests got involved and made the car the central form of transport in America, and with so much land it was far cheaper to make cities that sprawled compared to smaller European countries that already had relatively dense millennia-old cities.

I like the "Fuck Cars" community and want to find ways to improve infrastructure. I said I appreciate the anti-car sentiment, but why is it a good idea to make this post title specifically an insult? How is that helping things? It certainly doesn't make me feel very welcome.

Ah yes, taking a tweet from the stupidest person in the country and making it exemplary of the nation. Typical European sensibilities, yes?

Tell me, my friend, will I ever find media from a single idiot German online? Should I search and tell you about how "the German mind cannot comprehend eating all pork products cooked"?

OR WAS IT ALL TROLLING ALL ALONG?!?!