Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl
He's actually in public TV and the political satire is actually really good.Let's see what the context of this is - I'd assume they are making fun of Trump's attempts to colonize Greenland somehow...
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@randahl don’t you mean English, since American isn’t a language?
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@DavidNielsen @randahl Don't know who said it, but "The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language"
Since I have #AuDHD and thus enjoy a good rabbit hole.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl Speaking american ? sorry i don't know this language, only english exist.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl
The Germans have a different sense of humor. -
@CyberPunker He's a pretty good Bavarian comedian known for his biting political satire. But here he went too far.
@sternentau @CyberPunker @randahl
He has definitly hights and lows in the quality of his work. This is one of the lows. -
Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl I don't even know him. And I don't want to anymore.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl I think I have heard that raising a foreign flag is technically illegal in Denmark, but there was talk of changing this. Has this happened? And would this law apply on Greenland? Was he attempting an illegal act, and could be barred from entry in the future?
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl Never liked him. Annoyingly unfunny. -
Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
Such an utter stupidity...
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl Sadly I can not boycott him or anything, since I never thought this guy was funny. But I really hope he wasn't doing it for one of the shows he appears in.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl
has he considered taking one for America and setting himself on fire?or he could nail his balls to a bench in the middle of the plaza?
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl We always knew the Germans' sense of humor was rarely in good taste.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl@mastodon.social as a German citizen myself I can only ask: Who the fuck is Maximilian Schafroth?
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl He should have been wearing a hard hat, high-vis vest, and carrying a clipboard.
No-one ever questions someone who looks like they’re actually going to do real work.
And the flag should have been hidden in a pouch that would only let the flag deploy once it reached the top of the pole.
This debacle really is a lack of proper planning all around, which is also quite un-German-like.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
I saw a German stand-up once.
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@randahl He should have been wearing a hard hat, high-vis vest, and carrying a clipboard.
No-one ever questions someone who looks like they’re actually going to do real work.
And the flag should have been hidden in a pouch that would only let the flag deploy once it reached the top of the pole.
This debacle really is a lack of proper planning all around, which is also quite un-German-like.
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@randahl@mastodon.social as a German citizen myself I can only ask: Who the fuck is Maximilian Schafroth?
@daswarkeinhuhn Ein Teil von Extra3, für deren Dreh die Aktion auch war.
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Yesterday, a person speaking American tried to raise the American flag in Nuuk, Greenland. Bystanders immediately stopped him.
Turns out, this was German comedian Maximilian Schafroth. The Kingdom of Denmark has been threatened with war. Greenlandic children are traumatized. People are not sleeping. Soldiers are patrolling to prevent the invation. And Schafroth thought this would be a fun stunt in our age of disinformation.
If I know the Germans right, this will not improve his standup career.
@randahl He's a fairly successful comedian and recently got into a lot of trouble for attacking conservative politicians at a beer festival, basically he lost a job over that.
However, part of his routine is that he plays reactionary types in order to make fun of them, or even going undercover to right-wing parties and such. If you know that this a stage persona, it can be quite funny. i guess this went wrong because nobody in Greenland knew the context.
