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AmErika! (hexbear.net)

I thought this tagline was funny cuz they say AmErika. Erika is a shitty German war song about your sweety. As far as war songs about your sweety go, Erika is both fascist and pales in comparison to Katyusha, the best sweety war song.

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[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 20 points 6 months ago

This is sort of incidental but whenever I come out as trans I fully plan on including the line "I'm Erika, FUCK YEAH"

That said it was annoying how R*dditors felt the need to repeatedly remind me that there is a shitty German war song about one's sweety that happens to share my name... I would frankly just like for that song to be lost to the sands of time because I sure as Hell ain't gonna spell my name with a C.

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

Tbf, Erica is "eh", Erika is sexy af, get it girl!

[-] xkyfal18@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 6 months ago

Can't even get it right, It's Amerikkka. God, do liberals need us to correct them every time?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 13 points 6 months ago

Liberals can't even roll their k's 😂

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

/k̠͡x̠ːːːː/

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 9 points 6 months ago

do liberals need us to correct them every time?

Yes soviet-huff

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 13 points 6 months ago

They call it AmEriKa because it’s a reference to the Nazi song Erika. Never let the tankies fool you into thinking they’re communist otherwise they would’ve called it AMoniKa, referring to the East German song.

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago

pales in comparison to Katyusha, the best sweety war song

Damn straight

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Dark eyed Cossack girl is my favorite sweetheart song because it isn't even about his sweetheart, it's about some girl stealing his horse. I love the commentary of the artist saying "oh wow she is charging so low for her labor, that's awful" then she runs off with it

[-] AcidMarxist@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Fuck a sweetheart, I'd fall for any lady stealing my ride

[-] booty@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Serious question, where does the amerika spelling come from? I get amerikkka, and that's fun to type. Is amerika just a shortened version of amerikkka intended as a sort of dogwhistle for it, or is there a separate origin of that spelling?

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I believe the German spelling for a lot of things that - in English have the letter ‘c’ in it - use the letter ‘K.’ For example, America and Africa is Amerika and Afrika. The Germans also use K’s in a lot of their own words (Freikorps). And Germany is associated with white fascism and Nazism which also coincides with the KKK, which historically used vocabulary with Ks in it (Klan, Koran, made up words).

I don’t know when it became popularly used as a pejorative against the west, but the most recent example I can think of is Settlers by J. Sakai. However, I’ve seen non Marxist/left black supremacists also use the K variant of spelling so it’s not exclusive to anyone.

In essence, it’s comparing America (and any other western country with a C/K in its name) to the KKK as well as Nazi Germany.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 8 points 6 months ago

Kloran, not Koran. Koran is just a regular alternate spelling of Qur'an.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Oh right lmao. It’s Kl- not K-

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Literally just because Amerika is the German spelling and German = Nazis

It always felt kinda weird to me, because there are in fact a lot of other languages where America is spelled with a K, and German was also the language of Marx and the DDR

[-] booty@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago

Oooh, of course. Yeah I see what it's going for, it does seem kinda toothless though.

Side note: I love referring to it as the DDR and not the GDR because DDR is also a fun game snom

[-] radiofreeval@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago

Rammstein probably

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Libs invent new Maoist dialect

[-] KittyBobo@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago
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