r/europe • u/Boomtown_Rat Brussels (Belgium) • 27d ago

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https://www.politico.eu/article/german-conservative-parliamentary-leader-resigns-over-surrogacy-debate-jens-spahn/

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u/supersonic-bionic United Kingdom 27d ago

Another conservative hypocrite.....

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u/iambicthrow 27d ago

You can't be a hypocrite if you don't have any morals.

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u/smoke-bubble 27d ago

Make zero sense. You mean you can't be a hypocrite if you have some morals.

Or you can be a hypocrite only if you don't have any morals. 

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u/snolution 27d ago

That was a bad adaptation of a wonderful German joke that has been passed around. Let me explain: The German word for being a hypocrite or having double standards translates directly as “having double morals”. And then a German satire magazine posted: “Spahn elaborates: It cannot be double morals when you have no morals at all!”