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Also, I don't know Ground's evaluation system, but categorising a medium owned by Axel Springer SE and publishing fossile and military lobby articles as left leaning is quite wrong if you ask me.
I think we have very different images of unions and social democrats. They usually support fossils (mining, steel) and defence industry, no?
Leftwing doesn't mean green to me, but I see that this overlaps often as well.
Bro, you need to read up on your basics. Like what "fossiles" mean, what the unions are for and what their positions are, what the german social democrats are nowadays. I can't (I don't want to) teach you up on this.
You think that steel is produced with renewables and that mining is not linked to fossiles?
Unions work to protect workers in the fossils and defence industries. Their are quite well protected by comparison BTW.
I don't think that the German social democrats define what leftwing means for all of Europe.
The whole trajectory in Europe is to move steel production to renewables or at least hydrogen based methods.
There is no fossil fuel industry left to protect in Germany. The few remaining coal mines are a dying breed and even closing up shop before the legal phaseout in 2035 because it's just not economically viable anymore.
No, they don't but since we are arguing under an article about a situation in Germany, Social Democrats referees to the SPD in particular. And to understand why the SPD nowadays can hardly be considered a left leaning party you should read about the Seeheimer Kreis and the neoliberal agenda they have been pushing for years and which has formed the majority of SPD policies in recent years.