You will never be as redpilled as Ben Franklin
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As a guy whose ancestors include some who came from southern Germany in the mass waves of Palatine immigration in the early 1700s as dirt poor peasants escaping famine (durr hurr, whites never experienced discrimination or hardship), I'm triggered.
To be fair, he wasn't wrong at all. Even today there are major differences between the English-descended Americans vs German-descended Americans vs Italian-descended Americans etc.
Germans are a strange case. They never united into a nation-state, unlike the rest of Europe. The modern concept of "Germany" is barely 30 years old. They've always existed in some form of empire. Even the first half of the past century could be considered a Prussian-led German empire.
Despite not apparently having their own shit together, the presence of Germans acts as a multiplier for other Europeans. There are accounts of Germans in Ireland during the famine who did fine and wrote letters to the effect of "I don't know what these potatoniggers are complaining about." Despite Franklin's bitching here, America's first century could be described demographically as "German people, English law," as basically anyone who lived west of the Atlantic coast was German (or Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish).