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What sort of BS mental gymnastics is this.
Germany is giving money to freelancers because they know that there is a risk they will become genocidal dictators.
It's not hard.
It plays on a German stereotype.
It's uncontroversial because everyone is comfortable with the stereotype / joke subject matter.
You can get into the points Tester was making about power imbalances or whatever to explain why it's ok, but it's a joke about Germans dependent on negative stereotypes.
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Well, I'd have to disagree with you there.
We've already established that Hitler, is not in fact German. And, we've had a self-employed German artist state that he didn't believe it was a slur upon the German people. These things speak for themselves.
Also, as someone who has been self-employed and an artist, I find the lions share of the humour lies for me personally, in the surreal fact of history that before Hitler became a genocidal war-monger was in fact a frustrated artist.
So, again, the joke is at the expense of primarily, Hitler, and secondly, frustrated artists, and thirdly, relating both of these to our current virus-induced predicament.
On the other hand, your lame joke at the end is in fact a lame joke about German military tactics so...