BITTER GERMAN SATIRE!? AMERICAN REACTS TO Volker Pisper's History of USA and T3RR0R1SM PT4
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The fact that Someone speaking facts and truths in a bitter, cynical way wouldn't be possible in the US says alot about your current society/political climate, my man.
This kind of political cabaret has a long tradition in germany and other (but not all) european countries, and it's still vital. It's also necessary, in our times of way too many demagogues, too much bias on all sides of the political spectrum.
We absolutely need ppl. like him, formats like 'Die Anstalt' etc. Those are crucial to remind us to not only listen to one side, and to think for ourselves, since politicians and media are heavily biased.
wasn't it pispers, who reffered to cabaret as modern selling of indulgences ?
Agree, this would totally still work in Germany. In the States? I am not sure. There would probably be people trying to whiteknight against him lashing out against other countries and the "patriots" wouldn't accept him lashing out against their own country.
Hell yes, he needs to watch "Die Antsalt"! Such a good show and they explain a lot. We even watched it at school.
pls @James Bray?
@@raistormrs He did! He meant the people who are watching and attending it. So, when in 30 years, their children ask what they did about all this mess, they bring out the tickets and say "I was in the resistance" as Pispers put it.
@@leonm4273 Grüße gehen raus an die Schule in der Volker Pispers läuft
I feel pretty confident saying that this content would be no problem in Germany today. Some people might get offended, but we understand the importance of freedom of expression
thankfully
I'm not sure the N slur would fly... Maybe it's because I got older but I have not heard it in years... But on the other hand the satiric publication 'titanic' wouldn't shy away from it, balancing it with Hitler in a frilly skirt or something.
The rest is totally fine. German (political) humor still is very honest and in your face for sure.
@@Kenghym in this specific context, I'm pretty sure it would
@@Kenghym I think it would fly. The context of it is cleary enough.
Im pretty confident you could make fun of the USA today No Problem .... People make fun of Trump daily for years now ...
But If you would try to make fun of lgbtq you would get canceld ...
There is a huge difference between Standup comedy and cabaret. Volker is insanely good 👌
I've seen one of his last shows in Frankfurt a couple of years ago.
Volker Pispers is like the last Avatar - when the world needed him most, he disappeared. And I‘m quite sad about that on a regular basis.
Volker needs to do one last tour through the US. He's just the right amount of socially conservative to convince nearly everyone of progressive ideas.
Wastet, in my mind.
Mate, if 19 dead kids and 2 dead teachers can't convince about half of the nation, even Jesus' rhetorical abilities won't get you guys much further.
He was and probably still is very left leaning.
@@jackmclane1826 but that's not a problem. This is what the world needs the most right now
@@jackmclane1826 in other words .... reasonable
James, you got it wrong it was not about being good or evil but about being brave or cowardly. How is the fighter/bomber pilot considered brave for attacking from a distance (with lower risk to his own life) while some is considered a coward for for attacking people knowing that their death in that attack is a certainty. And considering your implied time in history, the USA was barely involved and came basically in the "last quarter", Russians caused the most deaths on the German side (and probably also suffered the most losses). The USA was most of the time just the weapons supplier and the Brit's probably did the most material damage (through bombings of structures, tanks and artillery). Btw, Black Afghan is a strain of weed, has nothing to do with people, it is just because of the name.
"The fallen of WW2" is a great video showing statistically the impact of the second world war on the major involved countries.
Black Afghan is not a strain of weed, it's a hash product traditionally made in Afghanistan from their local cannabis strains by rubbing the flowers by hand to collect the trichomes... Giving it a black colour and very gooey and sticky consistency
It's always funny to see the Americans pointing out how "they had saved the day", when the French and British had fought with teeth and nails to protect whatever they coud from Nazi-Germany, when the most conservative estimate of the Russian casualties of only combatants alone is around 9.000.000, as opposed to the United States 417.000. The US sure as hell played a role, but they only started to intervene when they noticed that Stalin wasn't stopping in Russia and was on his way to conquer all of Europe, it being depleted by any feasable defense.
Also, the 100g black Afghan joke is meant to be a reference to drugs. I think "black Afghan" is the street name of some highly concentrated Cannabis extract - or is it Opium?
@@naturebehindglass6512 It is also an indica-dominant strain.
@@brkr78 It is both a Cannabis strain as well as a product named after the strain. Most people only know the finished product.
why do you always say "controversial"? I don't know anyone who sees Volker Pispers controcersial... ;)
Just Americans 🤣 even tho he’s speaking the truth, most people in America (that are in denial) would argue that his statements are controversial. But I totally agree with you 👌🏽
When you hear the informations Pispers for the first time, and you do your cross checking and you find out he is right… that might collapse how you see the world. That’s hard…
Not only for the Americans, also for Germans brainwashed by our media.
@@JamesBray3 FYI Black Afghan is a drug, it's not a stab at POC.
@@larsg.2492 that completely went over my head bro 🤣 thanks for clearing that up 🙏🏽👌🏽🔥
Alone the fact that he never got critics in the last years shows that he is speaking the truth.
Nice to see Volker pispers going international! His videos need to be translated and shared in languages
We NEED this type of satire, again!
Type like George Carlin 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
"Black Afghan" aren´t "darker people" it is a certain sort of "hashish" = "pressed weed rosin"
Basically Pispers compared the USD 200 for a Afghan civilian casualty with the price of few ounces of "Black Afghan hash".
It actually was a play on words, so imo he meant the people but confused it by this reference.
@@GreenSeppel I am farely confident he meant both. Such is the beauty of word play
@@GreenSeppel Nope, there was no confusion. It was a clear reference to the hash named "Schwarzer Afghane".
@@axelminus no. He clearly compared human vs. weedproduct.
French frieds are not fried people from France, it’s just a name for a product. The name is/was well known in Germany and for sure no misunderstanding there. To use the name „Schwarzer Afghane“ (translated as „black afghan“) adds a little cynical flavour.
political cabarat is still done in Germany. A famous show is "Die Anstalt" (The Asylum) where they pick 1 topic for the show and then go with facts, comedy and satire to show why it is a scandal or what to look out for but the show itself is a lot older than the current iteration. It was named "Neues aus der Anstalt" before.
Nah… some years ago I would agree, nowadays not anymore.
@@AB-vm2nz thats your opinion. I see it differently
FYI "Neues aus der Anstalt" has an implication of "News out of the mental asylum".. but also "News out of a government office".
This type of comedy exists in Germany. It always did and still does. I just think you see it only from the American media experience.
Minute 14something: "Black Afghan" has nothing to do with race, but is a rather strong sort of hashish. Love the videos, i'm a great fan of Volker Pispers and always wondered how americans would react. Now i know and i am greatly relieved, part of me feared that the US would go to war with germany...
100 gramm of black afghan = he isn't referring to Afghans who are black, but to the weed/peace "brand" that is called "black afghan"
"Peace" isn't an usual term in the U.S., call it shit or pot ;)
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Boy you're entertaining to watch. As a German I know the stuff from this guy and I am always laughing with you
Volker Pispers is an outstanding idol of fact-based-satire - even more today! he is uncomfortable but TRUE. not suitable for a short-attention-span-popcorn-scroll-thru-society. i know him since the 90's and i've luckily seen him live once!!! he is not a SoMe hashtagger nor trending-seeker. he is too uncomfortably intellectual and critical for our times. his jokes are based on facts and his facts are modelled into darkest humor, that will stuck in your mind and throat. i wish he would be still performing, but today, he would tear all apart, not the people who suffer, but the people who commit all these crimes to humanity. he would probably be silenced - at some point! humanity you crazy breed - i hope you are not lonely w/out me !!!
Satire has to be fact-based - always. That`s why satire is allowed to do anything (Tucholsky). But not everything is satire.
Das ist die Wahrheit und nichts als die Wahrheit !!!!!!!!!!
3:50 You are almost correct. He was wondering why terrorists who blow themselves up are the cunning and backstabbing ones, in contrast to people who are far far away while killing others being called brave.
Anyway, thanks for watching this show and making it known in America. 🙂
That was exactly my point! Haha I just had to say it in a way that would dodge the community guideline algorithm 🤣🤣
@@JamesBray3 Oh, ok, that makes sense. Thanks for explaining!
It's the same principle with many other things in wars and conflicts.
One side calls themselves freedom fighters while the opposing side calls those people terrorists.
One side will act cowardly by ambushing a group of brave soldiers while when your own side does it it's called a surprise attack to maximize enemy losses and decrease the risk for your own troops.
It's all just propaganda to make your own side look as good as possible while making the other side look like pure evil.
You could argument with the accountability of the perpetrators: You can, at least in theory, sue the soldier and the state behind him for his actions. SWhere you can´t do similar to a suicide bomber. Because he has in effect already done so himself, by drawing himself out of the line of fire. And society is just angry that they can´t punish him. It´s the weakest possible argument, considering you can´t possibly see the soldier in his plane 5000 metres above the surface of the ocean. Not even mentioning the difficulty of sueing an individual pilot or military.
@@biggsdarklighter0473 Yeah, dying to avoid accountability is a weak argument indeed. 🙂 I don't believe that that's a factor for the terrorists though because they were told something about 72 virgins and such.
Volker Pispers WAS one of our very very very best "Kabarettisten" (Kabarett = "political cabaret" = political satire made by "comedians"), which has a long tradition in Germany, at least one hundred years after WW I. Kabarett means political satire about the currently political situation in Germany and other countries. During the Nazi Regime (1933 - 1945) Kabarett was forbidden because the German fascists did not want any opposition or critics. After WW II "Kabarett" rose again for instance in Munich ("Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft", a group of famous and great actors and actresses created by Sammy Drechsel) or in devided Berlin ("Berliner Stachelschweine", a famous West-Berlin group).
-Volker Pispers was born January 18th 1958 in Northrhine-Westfalia, later he studied to become a teacher. At the beginning of the 1980s he began acting with several ensembles. In 1986 he quit his job as a teacher to start a new carrer: "Kabarettist". He published on stage in front of audience several self-made political satires (Programme) and had also the same subjects: weakening of the German retirement payment system and the consequences on society, poverty in society, the poltical scene in Bonn (before reunion capital of West-Germany and the seat of German government) and later Berlin (the "new" capital of reunited Germany and the "new" seat of German government), which means critics of the German ruling parties (I should better say: of nearly all poltical parties represented in German BUNDESTAG: SPD, CDU/CSU, FDP, Grüne and AfD), critics of printing media, its concentration and its influences and brainwash on the German society (for instance "Axel Springer Group" [they bought the poltical American magazine "POLTICO" some time ago and stumbled over a sex scandal in Germany which had effects and reactions also in the US], "Funke Medien", "Burda", etc.), NATO and wars of the US, the global finance system concentrated on Wall Street and its influence on politicians and politics all over the world, IWF (Der "Internationale Währungsfond") aka IMF (International Monetary Fund) and EZB ("Europäische ZentralBank" = "European CentralBank"), critics of Capitalism and the US, warnings about the poltical and social breakdown of our societies all over the world because our kind of captialism is NOT the right answer for all people in the entire world to have a good life, exploitation of poor people in Germany and all over the world, too-low-wages and the question: How can somebody survive with such-a-ridiculuos-wage, etc.
On December 8th 2015 Volker Pispers declared the end of his carrer in his last programme "...bis neulich" ("...see you later") and said that he surrendered (gave up) because NOTHING had changed in our republic, which means he considered his work useless. I was at that time in one of his appearences on stage (LIVE he was georgeous, marvelous & terrific like a pop star!!!). I am very sad that such a great man declared the end of his carrer, we need "society-mirrors" like him, not only in Germany, also the US need men like Pispers.
Loving Greetings from Old Europe, Germany...Liebe Grüße aus dem alten Europa, Deutschland ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😉😉😊😊
I think one of the differences between the critique of Pispers and the regime in Germany during the 1930es and 40es is that the history of germany and all the atraucities committed are well documented and publicly available while what Psipers is talking about is not so much known. So many things where maybe mentioned once in the news and then never again ... some even swept under the rug
PS:
Black Afghan is referring to a type of weed :)
Well, what do you think would have happened if Germany won the second world war? The winners write history, its always been like that.
@@Chuckiele Nah fam, historians write history, and at large historians try their best to be at least biased as possible
@@mactator510 Thats pretty difficult when the outcome of the war dictates the information available to them.
@@Chuckiele Well, Japan didn't win history and still don't learn anything from it. They completely deny all their wrongdoings back then. It's the complete opposite to Germany.
@@Chuckiele No, not the winners write history, the ones with the most influence write history
The american contribution to ww2 gets so over-hyped. Americans were sitting comfortably on their isolated island, protected from the sea (or Canada/Mexico) on all sides, while millions of people were getting butchered in asia and europe. American losses over the entirety of the war, as bad as they were, were less than died in some individual battles, while having a much larger population than any other war participant at the time (except for the USSR and China). In the Nanjing massacre alone more chinese people died than americans did in the entirety of the war. Country were put to ruins. Americans entered the war late and were mostly contributing by arming others, who couldn't do so anymore on their own, because their industries had already been devastated by the war. And still, in american commemoration, they put themselves so front and center in the whole war efforts and the suffering, it's actually really insulting to all the other nations, who did so much more to defeat the axis, who suffered so much more. America was mostly in the same comfortable position, the west is in right now with Ukraine, where we essentially let the Ukrainians do all the fighting and we just provide them with weapons.
What you think the west should do? Intervene in Ukraine and start WW3 against Russia, India and China? Even providing weapons to a country neither in the NATO nor the EU is dangerously increasing the tension. May sound fucked up but i take the actual ~70k dead Ukranians over 7,5 billion people in the rest of the world every time. In Afghanistan 240.000 Civilians got killed, no one even bats an eye. I rly dont understand western double standards.
Tell that to all the dead Americans who gave their lives to free Europeans twice from German domination.
As an American, I never thought that I would come to this conclusion. But the more I hear that the blood spilled by young American men isn’t appreciated, the more of an isolationist I become.
@@tcl5853 it's not we don't appreciate the blood spilled by Americans but the fact you guys don't want to acknowledge the fact others spilled more blood and have been more of a major factor in freeing the world and defeat Hitler. You guys downtalk the role of others. Not the other way around!
Yes, without the USA the war would never had been won. Fact.
Without the USSR and Great Britain the war would have been won too. Fact.
Praise those people too and don't think you are the only one who contributed to end Nazism.
@@ritterderkokosnuss3379 it is not america's fault europ has such a disgusng histry.
Bro, "Schwarzer Afghane" is a unique kind of Hashish. 100 gramms of "Schwafgha" were definitely more than $200,- probably around $750,- to $1000,- or even more, since the war drove the prices for the good stuff up by a lot.
Bro, when you honestly pay 750 - 1000 USD for 100g "Schwarzer Afghane" then you got extremly ripped off...that´s 8 -10 times too much.
@@michaelgrabner8977 8 to 10 times to much? If you get Schwafgha for 100 USD for 100g, then you didn't get Schwafgha. That would be 1$ per gramm, so probably black play-doh. In Coffee-shops in Amsterdam I payed between 7 to 10 Gulden per gramm back in the 90s, and that was the good quality.
@@Eliphas_Leary I know Schwarzen Afghane pretty well. So your "play doh" joke is actually just a bad joke as like your stated price.
I don´t know where you are from and maybe there where you are from those prices are accurate. So may be - you - do pay that price, but I definitively don´t and I also don´t know others who would, despite the fact that I and those others wouldn´t buy anything on the street anyway.
And Amsterdam coffee shop prices are extremly expensive and always were extremly expensive...charging often the double of that what I usually have payed for the same stuff.
But I don´t smoke anymore for quite a long time, but I know the prices because friends of mine still do...and in small margins it will cost round about 15 Euros per gramm. Bought in bigger margins = like 10 decagramm it costs less...and that is then 8-10 times less than your stated price.
@@michaelgrabner8977 Let's roughly say €1 = $1. So with street prices that would be $/€15 x 100 = $/€1500 for 100g. Even at half the price ("mit Mengenrabatt") it would be $/€750 for 100g.
But please explain your maths: how is the price I originally quoted (and just confirmed based on the price you mentioned yourself) 8 to 10 times too high?
@@michaelgrabner8977 … 🤣
10€/g * 100g = 1000€
So, if it’s 10 times to much maybe you smoked playdoh 🤣
Something similar would be:
Die Anstalt: der Plan der USA für den Nahen Osten...
The english subtitles are really well done. On point translation!
Bro, I'm telling you, this works today more than ever before and it is so NECESSARY! He sure was edgy, and so he would be today, but the facts he's wrapping up so funnily - they have not become untrue and people still need to wake up. He is grabbing us by the balls, dude. When he says "We will never say: We are all Africans". It's so painfully true and so painfully false. And you feel bad and think about "solidarity" differently now.
Hey m8, just wanted to drop that I love your videos reviewing Pispers. I learned about him in school, more than a decade ago, and was flashed by him. It is very interesting to see your reactions and catch a feeling of what others may think about the things he said. Also it kinda takes me back to more lighthearted times. I actually don't like reaction videos on CZcams but if I see a new episode of you reviewing Pispers it is instant click.
One thing on Americans being jerks in other countries: Im convinced this is not because they are constantly aware of their military, I think it is because obliviousness. Our perception of us, others, the world and of what is important heavily depends on our environment.
I feel like this works like a social media bubble: If you live your whole life in an extremely self-centered and geographically isolated country which does well in terms of economy and military, you may get a subconscious (maybe sometimes conscious) feeling of just being better. This feeling may be pushed by the American society constantly promoting superiority of the American ways in comparison with other countries.
In my opinion, this is kind of what Pispers trys to show here: Of course it is ridiculous to compare humans by value, regardless of the criteria (like nationality as in this example). Yet it is done subconsciously, he states 2 examples:
3000 Americans die - the western world is in shock. 1 Mio. Africans die - nobody fuken cares in the western world.
1 Mio Africans cant get aids meds - "sorry, patents are patents". 5 Americans get anthrax - "idc ur patents"
I really dont think Pispers would get cancelled nowadays. The stuff that may seem offensive in translation is communicated in obvious sarcastic ways if you're native german.
"Black Afghan" is the marketing name for a certain sort of hashish (pressed polls of cannabis plants) - kinda like "solid weed".
13:22 "signature strikes" are insane. The American shoot at a cellphone and hope there is a bad-guy on the receiving end of the missile. Great stuff, keep it up.
Interesting to see how americans react to Volker. Unfortunately he quitted service to the public some years ago and there is no one filling the gap.
well....
that story he tells about Bayer's Anthrax meds....
the exact same thing happened in 2020 in regards to Biontec's CoVid-vaccine....
Mr Trump said:
"if it should be Germany who develops a vaccine first, they would be wise to remember the 40000 US soldiers in their country, when the question arises who's going to get it first..."
Hi german linguist here: to me it's very interesting how you change certain key words and formulations in order to evade algorithm punishment. (just saying)
Concerning Pispers: considering that this show is like... 15 (!!!) years old, it's so depressing to see all the parallels:
- like the Putin question,
- mentioning Syria,
- the pharma industry and patents!
- Every commentary on Schröder (who until recently had very strong ties to Putin!)
- also remember how president Lord Dampnut tried to initiate a war against Iran right before the pandemic...
watching history repeat itself... all the time...
yet, today I guess he would evaluate Merkel in a more... positive light. She was much more progressive in her last years in power.
Some of the references in the show are hard to get, I guess because this was mainly a 15 years old german/european perspective.
e.g.:
- feeling Spaniard: because of the t3rr0r attacks in Madrid at that time. (...watching history repeat itself: think about the attacks in France around 2015...)
- The use of the N word was cynicism. Germans (today) are very aware of not using it. I think, even Pispers wouldn't use it in this context anymore. We had some harsh discussions over the N word already before BLM.
- a "Black Afghan" is a type of dope (from afghanistan) ... so this one was not directly about racism.
- This commentary with the "spilled coffee" is like an urban legend. I think Vox did a great debunking of that. Pispers didn't know that at this time. For us (europeans) the american justice system seems often enough completely absurd. Which was the whole point of the urban legend / misrepresentation of that famous case, where an elderly woman actually nearly died because of that coffee spill...
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@@davebenjussuf Jawohl! ;)
I just have to love you. Just because you got this Pisper guy, plus subtitles, out to the world, And the actual, irrefutable facts, he's making his show of, or about,
The Spainards thing refers to the terror attacks on a train station in Madrid in 2004.
The matter how the US tread the situation with meds (Aids in Africa vs Antrax in US) is not about the position within the foodchain. It shows how Americans value other (especially non US) lives. All what prior were denied to millions of South Africans were suddenly mandatory for a few Americans. When Americans feel offendet by this show, than it's not because it's controversial. All his claims are proofen and true. Best what could happen is, that some maybe realize the guild that the US and we, as it's partners load on our shoulders and we all get along a little more thougtful and humble.
Cabaret has the duty to spill the truth in a way that you can laugh and cry at the same time...its like puting your salty finger in a fresh bloody wound to show where is the wound.
interesting analogy
Black Afghan does not refer to darker people, it's a type of hashish, a cannabis concentrate traditionally produced by rubbing the flowers by hand and collecting the rosin that way. It's very dark in colour and very sticky and gooey...
Ahh, een man van cultuur...
@@chrisf1604 Wat is daar mis mee Klugscheißer? ;-)
Things similar to this are brought up even today in German tv. "Die Anstalt" is a good place to take a view.
btw, with "Black Afghan" he was not refererring to the color of the skin, it was a pun about a type hashish
@James : Volker Pispers does that thing...you know, satire has a long history in germany, being the "little man's sword", literally the only way to express and display criticism towards the authorities...yet he's a master, riding the edge between eyeblinking sarcasm and darkest cynism...which I don't have to explain, how narrow of a path that can be, regarding our newer past...
After watching this, I would love to stand in Düsseldorf with his Face on a board and the slogan: Please come back. Perhaps he would pass by and read it.
Black Afghan (Schwarzer Afgahne) is a german Word for Hashish, he is refering to the fact that the black market price for 100g Schwarzer Afgahne is higher than the 200 Dollars the American Goverment payed as compensation for the killed Civilians.
If Volker Pispers would make comedy today he would have plenty new stuff to talk about: Donald Trump, the Republicans, gun violence in the USA, the Ukrainian war, our nice NATO ally Turkey and lots more.
I think you get the wrong side of this.. i guess he would destroy our stupid german „government“, the fake news, the crazy health minister, the „i am too stupid to read a teleprompter while my son is on crack“ american „president“
I don't understand why someone would think that this is controversial. Volker Pispers was always "punching up", he never made fun of marginalized people just for the sake of a joke, which is why he'd never be cancelled.
And cancel culture isn't even a real thing anyways, it's just a buzzword for when people face consequences for their actions or receive any type of criticism.
Cancel culture is real because people don't get social science, are (religiously) moralizing and are confusing opposition with hostility on a regular base. Especially inner leftist debate is so toxic nowadays. You might just not see how a mere feeling (not material mode aka. "biology" or behavior) makes a "Geschlecht" (in Germany there is only one word for sex and gender), you might not see how a person who is obviously not struck by the same biological fate as you should be allowed to enter every(!) women's safe space and you might be called transphobic for it. For the outside world the word "transphobic" then is description enough and no matter the quality of your so called "transphobic" behavior, you are in one category with fascists or christian fundamentalists from that moment on. Being categorically shut out of any debate is no type of criticism.
@@maximiliankraft7080 And who has been a victim of cancel culture exactly? Dave Chappelle? He's still a successful comedian with a public platform, programs on Netflix and a shitton of money. Maybe Louis CK? Oh wait, he just won a Grammy for best comedy album. How about literal Nazis like Steven Crowder? No, he has a giant YT channel to spread his hate.
Hell, even f***ing Kevin Spacey is making movies again.
So where is this cancel culture? Criticizing someones awful opinion is not cancelling and if that person receives consequences for their own actions and words then this is also not cancel culture.
Also, sex and gender are two different things and there are two words for it in German. Biologisches Geschlecht und Geschlechtsidentität. Maybe you should learn more about the subject before you try to talk about it.
You assume much.
I don't care for TV clowns, like at all. I care for people who are involved in leftist contexts or academia, who are shut out because f.e. they have materialist feminist point of views and therefore are deemed as "TERFS"/"SWERFS", which they simply aren't. It happened and it did so for basically nothing. If you need a name: Kathleen Stock. Her point of views are debatable, debate is the whole point of social science but how is the campaign she had to face justified?
I never said that sex and gender are the same, I just said that the German everyday language term for both of them is "Geschlecht". Queer theory (I'm btw. opposed to) doesn't assume "biologisches Geschlecht" aka sex exists, because, in a nutshell, all we can say about it is language and therefore is pre determined by culture. "Geschlechtsidentität" is a relatively new
term and (luckily) it's wildly debated because from a sociological point of view it fully relocates identity to the inside. I think (and that is kind of where we all agree) the critical part about gender are assumed gender roles and their task of maintaining patriarchal hierarchies, not individual feelings of "identifying as...".
@@maximiliankraft7080 Kathleen Stock resigned on her own volition after students used their right to protest. She's not a victim of cancel culture at all, she was criticized while being the head of the LGB Alliance. Again, criticism is not cancelling, especially considering that she resigned.
And Geschlechtsidentität is not a new word, it dates back to the early 20th century and has been part of sexology for a long time. You're just proving that you don't know what you're talking about. Transidentity, or a different Geschlechtsidentität as the one you were assigned at birth, is nothing new and has been part of human cultures for literally thousands of years. Scientific and historical facts disagree with your opinion. I suggest that you read up on the history of transsexuality and the correlating area of research.
The reaction when Volker dropped the N Bomb in a context where it hurts alot tho. He knows how to shock at the right time
Thx 4 doing this. Greetings from Germany 🤠
1. First, thank you for your reaction to this GIGACHAD legend
2. It doesn't matter how many times more you call his WORK "controversial", it is not contradictory, fake or false. It is very well researched and true, based on actual facts
3. 11:01 I am pretty sure that U.S citizens aren't immune and can't do whatever they want in other countries because the government will intervene with the army. What do you even mean?
4. Yes, sadly this kind of satire would be not allowed today. We germans don't give a damn even about our selves and are fine to get roasted when it's funny and true/serious. That's why shows are so popular like the weekly TV program "Heute Show" when Oliver Welke completely roasts the world/germany
5. The problem why this would be critical in the U.S is because the nationalists or people who can't admit fault, rather tell this would be "hate" or "going too far". People really need to learn to accept and reflect on themselves
@TroopZon Khan "popular like the weekly TV program "Heute Show" when Oliver Welke" - That is a pretty bad example tbh. Better (´cause more contoversial) ones are Max Uthoff & Claus von Wagner in the ZDF show "Die Anstalt" as well as Jan Böhmermann in the ZDF show "ZDF Magazin". Those people really kick the asses of the rich and powerful. Oliver Welke and his ZDF show "heute show" is kind of lame and tame compared to the other ones.
i am from austria and i like your videos very much so i´d like to ask you to react to a song from a austrian band calld EAV the name of the song is "god bless america" it is a social critical song about america and it would be great if youcan analyse the text afterwords.
thank you very much for the content!
Saw him life once. He is so on point and real. Ppl where between crying, freezing, laughing and enjoying his performance. He sees things clear and exposes details that enlighten ppl. Just look how good he is, his old material is still hitting hard as xxxx and in some kind all that come true.
To be honest, to understand his comedy, you have to speak german, alot of puns, insiders and wordplays mixed with dark (reality) humour.
This one is still valid today.
3:50 I think you didn't really get his point. Why are people who drop bombs from the air without any risk to themselves brave and why are the people who kill themselves for what they believe in cowards?
i think I might’ve edited out a segment where I discussed that 😭😭😭
@@JamesBray3 OK. Nevertheless: Very good video and I like that you want to broaden your horizon. Very well done :)
Yes this kind of comedy is still what I expected from comedy. Not every comedian is as sharp and political as Volker. But this is still fine by me 👍🏼🇳🇱
Oh and don't forget, we love a bit of Schadenfreude once in a while.. 😉🧂
This is not Schadenfreude at all, it is dark humor to deal with exasperation
great reaction vid, thanks for digging up these gems. you got the "black afghan" part a bit wrong, since in German it means some sort of pot (drug) and not a colored minority. greetings from Germany
Volker Pispers last performed in 2016; his analytical mind illuminated many things back then that are still absolutely valid today. He had the talent to look at topics from a side that no one else would notice.
Does it still work today?
Yes.
Here is why: (it´s going to be long. Bare with me. Also this is my personal perspective on it as a German.)
This "type of comedy" does still exist and it works because it is not comedy but cabaret. In Germany we have the category "Kleinkunst". Sadly if you try to translate it into english it will most likely just say "cabaret" because it´s only a concept in the german speaking region. Wikipedia defines it as: "Kleinkunst is a genre of the performing arts, especially theatre and music, which has been given its name because of its limited human, spatial and material resources. Within that genre belongs: cabaret, comedy, puppetry, pantomime, poetry slam, impromptu comedy, improvisation theatre, recitation (reading), narrative art, juggling, magic etc." And then the try to differentiate comedy and cabaret: "In principle, cabaret tends to focus on a pointed criticism of public events or people from politics and society by the cabaret artist, whereas comedy and stand-up comedy often focus more on the comic portrayal of conflicts with one's own environment. The effect of cabaret, even more than in comedy and stand-up, is based on playing with the audience's knowledge."
Perhaps in the US that type of art isn´t popular because you actually have to think and at least know a little bit (or be interested in politics, economy e.g., whatever the cabaret is about) to understand it and so you don´t differ and thus cancel culture would shut down such artists immediately. It is a different mentality. Here in Germany that type of "Kleinkunst" is still popular and thus people arn´t "shocked" by it and it doesn´t get canceled. (At least not to an effective degree.)
what she says
Chechnya is a part of Russia - and the reason it is still a part of Russia, despite attempts to secede twice in the1990s was the aggressive war Russia carried out there, using chemical weapons (allegedly), cluster ammo and all sorts of nasty stuff on the population. The reason why Chechnya has always been a hot issue is that it's a predominantly Muslim region, whereas Russia is predominantly Christian-Orthodox. There's also ethnic issues. The war against the population there led to some local Muslims becoming pretty radicalized (because it's easy to think that Christians hate Muslims when it's Christian soldiers bombing your homes, raping your women and killing your children) so Chechen fighters have aligned themselves with all sorts of radical Islamist organizations, including ISIS, as well as carrying out terrorist attacks in Russia itself.
Hi James, ou got something wrong Black Afghan is a German slang term for a kind of weed, so Volker was asking if the weed is more expensive than the people from Afghanistan.
Dang! good thin' ur doin this stuff!!
In fact: I haven't checked all of Pispers facts...but the times I did, he's that accurate. It's like that dude is bitch-slappin' every fictional reality presented by big brother AND IT IS SO GODDARN URGENT, some people get a chance to catch some real sunlight whilst sittin' in their foreign-information-proof bunker.
Thx James, for broadcasting!
I dont think that his comedy would get canceled in todays climate. When comedy is canceled its in 90% because of the things the comedian says and not the way he says it. For Example u can be extremely transphobic or racist without using one Slur. His way of speaking May be edgy but the context makes it completly fine
I just can't believe his retirement before the "pandemic" is a coincidence.
Cancel culture is big in the US.
But since this literally is just facts and dark humor, it would fly over here in Germany.
It's kinda funny after all.
But there's most certainly enough special snowflakes in the very vocal minority in the American public realm to get it cancelled over there.
Cheers
Hi,
"Black Afghan" refers to a special kind of Pot! :D
Greetings
Alef
Hey james, just stumbled across the channel. Nice seeing a fellow american discussing german culture. Where are you in Germany? I grew up between both worlds and can give a unique insight. Would be interesting to chat. Keep up the good work!
Seeing what's going on in the US, we need Volker Pispers more than ever. He'd certainly have some interesting views.
Not a comedian, but the US got Noah Chomsky
@@mantistobbogganm.d.492 Yes, I just wished more people in the US would listen to him. Maybe if Volker transported Noah's theories in his cabaret style, they'd find a bigger audience ;-)
@@mantistobbogganm.d.492 I dont know much about him, but wasnt he a denier of the bosnian genocide? I know the channel Kraut did a video about him.
I think if someone gets offended by this they are genuinely confused about the art. The person speaking quite clearly says what they say and uses certain edgy words to shed light on scandals affecting them and to which they are strongly opposed to. I think if this gets someone offended they confuse words themselves with narratives and opinions, instead of looking at the opinion and points the actor actually tries to convey.
The English subtitles have been excellently translated!
13:41 "Black Afghan" is a drug (indica-dominant strain of weed).
thanks for reacting to this. it's an almost 2 decades old clip and was only meant for us german public but the lessons are just as valid for america or any other nation. unfortunately Pispers is retired, because all his lessons and shows featured the same topics as nobody ever listened and never made a change in society. so he just walked of stage in 2015 as he was frustrated with the lack of sociatal motivation to improve anything. See any parallels to our angry Greta Thunberg? Nobody wanted to listen to her and now they are all panicking and demanding rapid solutions to climate change/engery prices/food prices/housing prices.
'' I dont think this kind of comedy would be acceptable today'' exactly that is the biggest problem with our oh so tolerant and politically correct society. Just about anything today is enough to offend someone which is exatcly the reason why history will repeat itself, instead of learning from our most disgusting and vile mistakes we will simply stop doing that because it could offend someone. What Volker is doing is the right way to learn about events, which is by way of cold and brutal facts without fearing to be cancelled by some blue haired 16yo on twitter.
"Die Anstalt" has dark humour and also the usage of slurs today (the n-word for example or the derogative word for sinti and roma (don't know if youtube would be upset)), and nobody is "cancelling" them. Pispers would be absolutely fine doing his program today. Maybe some people will find him offensive, but hardly any meaningful number of people. Also Pispers is basically on the far left, much left of any party in germany (those in parliament).
why would a lefty 16yo cancel him when they agree on pretty much everything?!?
Because as we all know leftists love the USA? lmao
I don't see why it wouldn't be acceptable today. I feel like people don't understand what is and isn't politically correct. It's not like Pispers is spouting some bigoted stuff. He's not telling jokes based on some fucked up stereotypes about minorities. He's talking fact-based smack about powerful countries and powerful people..
Volker Pispers - The Godfather of german political Cabaret. I was so happy to see him live.
Volker Pispers is speaking the truth!
You continue to mention that this would not be possible in todays comedy scene, but the only thing that would get him a shitstorm in Germany if he'd repeat this program today was his use of the n-word. Everything else is still possible and can be seen every week on German television. Go ahead and check current stuff from Oliver Welke (Heute Show) or Claus von Wagner and Max Uthoff (Die Anstalt), which is both political satire / cabaret and just as true and revealing as Volker Pispers was. Thanks for your fantastic content by the way! Loving your reaction videos!
Honestly i think even today there is not a problem with how he used the n-word, since it was clear that he was using it in the mindset of those viewing them as lesser people based on their impact on the economy. And if using the word even with that context was worse than completely disregarding this entire group of people as worthless, then we would be in some deep shit
Hier sind doch nur deutsche oder?
Mir scheint so
Na net wirkli - nein nicht wirklich
Love from Austria 🇦🇹😉
Comedy like this would still go in Germany, cause children learn hard truths of history early in school
You read a few things wrong near the end. The "spilling of hot coffee" was not about americans abroad, but about their tendency to go to court over anything, i.e. the old lady vs McDonalds case. "Black Afghan" is a type of marjjuana and has nothing to do with race (hence the "100g"). And "We're all spaniards" must have been about some catastrophe in Spain back then that i cannot remember anymore and the german public showing thoughts and prayers or sending money.
Erster 🙂
Noch vor den Bots, meinen Respekt.
Haben ja nicht lange auf sich warten lassen. 🙄
Volker is a good example for the ethical difference between what seems more ethical/right atm/at 1st glance(the things He 'exposes'[/you can Read on wiki etc actually])& what may be better for humanity(who has power etc) in the [far] future(exactly this stuff/&reasons the US etc does this)
15:15 he was saying spaniards because of the attacks in spanish metro where hundreds where killed and the western world (maybe just europe?) solidarised with them in a similar way as it did solidarise with USA after the attacks at WTC. "Je suis charlie" would be another example for this phenomenon. Ofc these attacks were not justifiable but neither are genocides in Chechnya or Africa to which our societies turn their blind eye
"Black Afghan" does not refer to afghan PoC but to a kind of hashish. So he is saying that an afgahn civilian is worth less to the gobal capitalist hegemony than 100g of hashish.
You hear and see nothing of Volker Pispers anymore. No talk shows, no interviews, nothing. He knows exactly what would happen to him today.
I just love Pispers; he is flying - even today
Es ist für mich als Deutscher sehr interessant zu sehen das der intellektuellste Comiker aus Deutschland, jetzt wo er nichts mehr macht, endlich in Amerika anzukommen scheint.
Verstehst du die deutsche Sprache oder hast du ein Übersetzerprogramm( translaterprogram)?
"Schwarzer Afghane" (Black Afghan) is a sort of weed for smoking :P
For what reason, avoiding problems, is a goal???? Political satire IS ......saying that, what happend.........THAT is democracy. U have to feel pain, hearing statements out of your mindset....AND......accept, that even that is a part of free speech.....u said u are fighting for!
i^'m all for this type of comedy
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10:06 - I think that you're right there. Sadly, Volker Pispers has kinda "retired", but we still need people like him. Perhaps more than ever.
He has given up, I think...
black Afgahn is here a combinational joke between the "grilled" afghan person and some Hash (in germany called Schwarzer Afghane = black afghan)
hey james - pispers just delivering the message. ...
I am German in telen Germany this kind of comedy is not a problem you should see more von Volker Pispers. Empfangs for wrecking on this video is was really really funny
I love your Volker Pispers Videos!
and this behavior of politicians (i'm sure that most politicians in the leading nations have a similar mindset) are one of the reasons why i have trust issues
13:46 Black Afghan is a (special) type of hashish, not weed as it was said in the background. ☝
Man, just saying: I really enjoy all your WHAT? moments. #keepitlit #stayhuman
The "Black Afghan" joke was a marihuana reference
14:43 “Schwarzer Afghane” is a type of Cannabis drug harvested in Afghanistan and was popular in the 70s.
black afghan is a hash reference (weed) how much costs 100 gram of that hash in comparisson to 200 dollars per wedding member a little weird comparison haha
„Now we’re all [fill in the blank]“ has only gotten worse in the age of social media
Black Afghan is a sort of Marihuana, by the way 😉
You have, even by the way, a great Voice for Radio😁
Volker makes some very good claims in "Deutschland & Der Leichtsinn", probably not that focused on the United States, but what he says about politics, poverty and capitalism in its endstage. Not sure if it is something we should laugh or cry about.
Sadly i don't know if there is a video with an english translation to it.
Ich frag mich das noch so lange bis ich selbst mal ne Übersetzung mache! Am besten simultan in alle Sprachen 😎
Faaar more Americans need to see that
"Black Afhgan" back then was a popular street 'brand' name for a strand of weed in europe.
13:50 Black Afghan is actually not a remark about skin color (though it might be an intended wordplay in this special case), but a drug.