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[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago

Here’s hoping that my, frankly ignorance-based, belief that Austria can do comparatively little damage in the world, is true.

[-] galmuth@feddit.uk 36 points 2 weeks ago

The last Austrian that did big damage to the world would beg to differ

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 13 points 2 weeks ago

I've heard it said that Austria's greatest trick was allowing the world to believe that that guy was German and that Mozart was Austrian.

Edit: I've been informed that I may have misremembered. See reply.

I was right about the dangerous fellow though.

[-] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 11 points 2 weeks ago

Mozart actually was Austrian :-), this joke is usually told with Beethoven, who was born German but spent most of his life in Vienna.

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