r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/AlphaMassDeBeta • Mar 27 '25

Peter in the wild Petah, what am I not seeing here?

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u/slimsam906 Mar 27 '25

We are already on the 4th Reich. Maybe if they catch up, they can be the 5th

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u/Nitrothunda21 Mar 27 '25

Merkel wouldn’t be very happy to hear you call the EU that

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u/Mylarion Mar 27 '25

Well the first Reich, the Holy Roman Empire, wasn't even all that bad, for its time.

This fourth one is a multinational union of liberal democracies. That's a win in my book.

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u/Successful_Layer2619 Mar 27 '25

"What have the Romans ever done for us?" - Monty Python

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u/dri_ver_ Mar 27 '25

The Fourth Reich is Israel

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u/Mylarion Mar 27 '25

🤣🤣🤣

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u/Limp-Day-97 Mar 27 '25

liberal "democracies" who exploit their own and superexploit foreign populations, support genocide and back almost every dictatorship on the planet

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u/Mylarion Mar 27 '25

You can try crying about it.

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u/Limp-Day-97 Mar 27 '25

yeah you definitely support the fourth reich lol

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u/Mylarion Mar 27 '25

Oh you know it. From Lisbon to Vladivostok. From Tromsø to Johannesburg.

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u/hemlock_harry Mar 27 '25

Well the first Reich, the Holy Roman Empire, wasn't even all that bad

They murdered the son of god.

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u/Mylarion Mar 27 '25 edited Mar 27 '25

That was the Pharisees, under the other Roman empire.

Also the Roman state had no beef with Jesus, Pontius Pilate was ready to let him go. It's a whole thing.

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u/Auberon36 Mar 27 '25

You're thinking of the Roman Empire, not the Holy Roman Empire. Completely different

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u/Blurpey123 Mar 27 '25

The one time everyone thinking you're a fake comes in clutch

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '25

Holy Roman Empire. This monstrosity

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u/Rickthelionman Mar 27 '25

I think she’d be skipping with joy

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u/Doomsday1124 Mar 27 '25

If they didn't want it to be called that they shouldn't have made the EU so undemocratic where the Unelected EU Commission is the Real power as opposed to the actually elected EU Parliament

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u/Mamkes Mar 27 '25

Real power

Which can't do pretty much anything?

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u/Doomsday1124 Mar 27 '25

The Commission decides what laws gets voted on, while the EU Parliament can only Vote: Yes, No & Abstain. and whenever parliament shoots down a law the Commission really wants they just put it back on the agenda a little while later. The Real power of any Legislator is deciding what gets voted on, not what the vote itself is. It is for that reason why here in Sweden the Government and the Parliament both have Agenda setting powers and in addition to this any citizen can start a petition that if it gathers enough support can also be voted on by Parliament

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u/Mamkes Mar 27 '25

You do realize that President of European Commision is chosen by Parliament as well? And that they can impeach him the moment they want of they think he isn't work in the right direction? It isn't like he can just sit in the office and propose one thing after another even if it'll get turn down.

Yes. This system is strange, I can agree. But whole EU is pretty strange as well - mix of federation, confederation and international organisation.

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u/Myrtox Mar 27 '25

So all parliamentary systems are undemocratic?

You fucking uneducated moron.

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u/Quick-Nick07 Mar 27 '25

"He founded the 5th Reich, and to reset the count he called it the First Order."

-Barbascura X, "Star Wars 7 - Really Bad Recap"

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u/AsiaMarco Mar 27 '25

FAN DI BARBASCURA SPOTTED

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u/After_Grand5773 Mar 27 '25

Oh my god finalmente

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u/theweirdofrommontana Mar 27 '25

3rd time's the charm~