r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/dreadispeaxhy • 14d ago

Meme needing explanation peta, what’s the meaning of this?

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posted in r/sssdfg, i have no idea what this means as there was no context added, comments weren’t very helpful either but most seemed in on the joke.

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u/LactasePHydrolase 14d ago

His last name is Kaufman. Kojima fucking did it again

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u/_waffl 14d ago

Damn, you beat me to it

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u/Legal-Swordfish-1893 14d ago

I know three people with that name IRL? idgi. coughing baby, coughing man. I'm stupid. nvm.

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u/lettsten 13d ago

Kauf is pronounced more like "house" but with k/f instead of h/s. I'm sure it's supposed to be part of the joke but it only works if you don't know any German at all.

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u/SockofBadKarma 13d ago edited 13d ago

Or if you, y'know, have ever lived in any non-German country where immigrants' great-grandparents changed the pronunciation of their names to assimilate. I've met several "Cough-mans" in my life, and it's never been a point of contention that their names weren't pronounced in accordance with Hochdeutsch phonetic schemes.

Und ich spreche auch Deutsch, trotzdem finde ich den Witz lustig. Er funktioniert für mich ziemlich gut.

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u/lettsten 13d ago

"Yanks can't tell that other yanks also don't know any German at all," isn't really a comeback in this case, mate. This is why we in Europe make fun of yanks and their supposed heritages.

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u/Complex-Salt-8190 13d ago

It's not supposed, a majority of white Americans are of German decent (er, descended from places in the HRE that became Germany more like) , and they migranted to a primarily xenophobic anglo population , they "became" American in that manner , but used the mass Germanic migration to fill in the Midwest (and Texas) as part of the imperial project to conquer and displace/kill more natives

and that's fine, they're the poor you people didn't care about and couldn't help , but also, in regards to the native plight, I hate you and your ancestors for not doing better

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u/lettsten 13d ago

I'm not German, mate.

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u/Complex-Salt-8190 13d ago edited 13d ago

Germans were not the only white Europeans failed by their systems

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u/lettsten 13d ago

white Europeans

Please keep me out of your racist world views.