I will say though, every German I have met has been quite the well mannered person, I do believe some hope lies in that

America has a unique history and position in history. I think in general Americans have a hard time understanding other countries and they have a somewhat hard time understanding us.

Yeah

good manners don't say nothing about political views, though. we got an awful lot of social democrats here

True enough

The ones I knew have now blocked me on social media after our past election

yup. Germans. Free speech is a rather new concept for us...

something most of us are not really familiar and comfortable with

That is unfortunate

Funny enough the differences in other countries histories is what I had to teach today. XD

I will say though, the US is a cheap visit and you can practice as much as you like

Can't do that in canada

I'm plotting my emigration to any country that is sane enough. Switzerland, the UK and the US are in the mix

maybe Norway, but that might be too cold for me

Well in the US I would say either the Mid Atlantic, South, or the Midwest are great areas to live in work on the whole

I wanna live in Wisconsin. I'm a Packers fan, so I gotta go there

and yes, it is still warmer than Norway 😉

Just know thats a blue state, it may line up with your views though awful well

the governor is red though, isn't he?

Yes, but its weird how localities and municipalities can differ so much within the state

and Trump won Wisconsin over Clinton...

Well, trump isn't too red...

yeah, I know

Not a bad thing

but still, he's more red than Clinton

Oh by far

so this gives me some hope

Clinton/Merkel = Lebron/Curry

no, Curry is likable. Lebron to a certain extent as well

lol

Hard to humanize corpses

Merkel ain't that old...

dude

HER FACE MAN

DON'T REMIND ME OF THAT

I TRY TO FORGET THAT

Its like the creeper out of scooby doo

I can't sleep tonight, thanks, man...

She looks like a half baked cooky

she looks like a not baked cookie

like raw dough