Damn, that's crazy, but the solution is kind of simple if you really think about it. First, we're going to give 5 billion to the auto industry.
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Don't forget another billion to the coal industry. Coal is the future! Sweet, sweet coal...
Sweet, sweet coalβ¦
Hey! Why only sweet? Don't forget savory coal! And coal butter, of course, the universal coal based (vegan?) ingredient for both sweet and savory dishes!
and they gave up nuclear power due to russian propaganda, to make them dependant on oil.
Man I swear these nuclear fetiscists. That is an entirely different problem. And the parties on the right still want nuclear back.
It ain't happening for many reasons.
Nuclear has been on aggressive influence operations on social media for near two decades now. They've won over a bunch of half wits and low information people to their side. As if we could trust these people and our governments of this cursed decade to regulate them safely.
Next up, they need to get some advice from a politician that has better polling numbers, like Trump. /s
My grandfather used to suggest another very simple solution to the problem: Stick all politicians into a big sack and proceed to hit that sack with a stick. You'll never hit the wrong person.
His generation also had a bunch of sayings about lawyers, and like 99 percent of our politicians are lawyers. One such saying being a bunch of lawyers at the bottom the sea is a good start.
Which directly and indirectly employs over a million people.
So just 5.000β¬ government welfare per Person this time? Bargain!
So putting a million out of work will stimulate the economy?
Why not try tariffs!
I know the solution guys, maybe we should take social benefits from everyone, wdyt?
The problem is probably that y'all are being too kind to immigrants, try being crueler to them!
also: work more
Shit weβre still losing appeal, get the egg licker to say something about βcity imageβ again.
Sometimes I wonder if 90% of the population just got 18 and voted for the first time. I mean, what did they expect? They got exactly what they voted for, they are still dissatisfied. That makes no sense in my eyes.
To be fair Merz lied a lot campaigning (shocker, I know) but one of those lies was about taking debt which is extremely unpopular among the uniformed voters who think of debt as a cardinal sin that immediately destroys any country. Thatβs why even his boomer voters hate him.
+++ BREAKING +++ Politician lies! +++ BREAKING +++
Yeah I know and the way things are changing in politics this may sound trivial. But there is a story to this. You see usually when politicians lie they make big promises and then simply forget about them and donβt deliver.
Merz campaigned on the premise of not taking any more debt, saying it is irresponsible. That was pretty much his whole thing. But as soon as the election was through he immediately pushed through more debt with the old government even before he took office. This was unprecedented. The old government dissolved months earlier because they couldnβt find an agreement on debt. Merzβ party was in the opposition. They kept saying they would block any attempt to take any debt no matter what. Saying it would ruin the country. Of course it wouldnβt but after decades of indoctrination their voters firmly believed that any debt is bad debt and will be our ruin.
So yeah this move was a slap in the face for his voters and made him extremely unpopular among conservatives even before he became chancellor.
Funnily enough economists warned exactly this would happen because christ democrats had a huge hole in their budget that could only be filled by taking a loan.
Merz has long been known as a pathological liar, and corrupt to the core. The single greatest achievement of Angela Merkel is that she managed to keep him out of power for 16 years.
Anyone who didn't expect Merz to lie about everything is just dumb. The writing wasn't just on the wall, it was on every wall. IN ALL FUCKING CAPS, AND BOLD TYPEFACE.
You say that, look at the US. If you are borrowing for capital improvements that will save money in the long run, that's a good use of borrowed money.
Borrowing to give corporations tax breaks and subsidies, or other pet projects, is not a good use of borrowed money at all, no matter how many ivy league or their fancy aristocratic swell equivalents in europe get on tv to tell us otherwise.
The neocons are wrong on everything, knowingly so pushing self serving dogma on us.
If everyone would use "Wahl-o-Mat" before voting, we would have a different situation... but in germany, we vote the same party again and again, it doesn't matter what they do... π
We should make Wahl-o-Mat mandatory for voting
The thing about democracy is that every voter tends to assume that people who vote differently to them are doing democracy incorrectly, but alas, they are doing democracy flawlessly.
No matter how many requirements and spelling tests you add in front of the voting booth, no matter how many "guardrails" you implement, democracy always yields tyranny of majorities and always abolishes itself at some point.
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It's a multi party system. The ruling party usually gets ~30% of votes.
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People in Europe tend to be less religious about supporting their politicians. You can decide that some party is the best option in current situation but still disagree with them on many issues. You can support the party or your representative but not the current leadership. You can support a minor coalition partner but not the main coalition party.
55.1% of the votes were for parties, which are not part of the government(5% hurdle) and the turn out was only 82.5%. So 63% of did not actually vote for the current government. Then a bunch of people just voted conservative, because when they governed the last time Germany was doing well economically. Seriously the Greens took over the ministry for economics and Germany had the biggest drop in real wages since WW2.
And they refuse to tax wealth because approval ratings mean nothing if people will just vote for another party (the nazi party) that won't tax the rich and their wealth. It's all the same to them. If there were a big slide to the left-wing parties, boy would there be a problem (for the ~~rich~~ uber-wealthy).
Europe keeps using Norway as an example of not taxing the wealthy. When Norway did it, the wealthy left and they lost about half a billion in tax revenue. But, that was because the government did not have an exit tax, which is now in place at 38%.
Basically, it was a scam to let the wealthy exit tax free.
Germany does have an exit tax. Yet German politicians from all major parties keep spinning the lie of the rich fleeing if their wealth was taxed.
I guess they like getting 6 figure donations and cushy do nothing employment in corporate boards a bit too much.
Exactly there's an exit tax and there's also the fact that the rich tend to live in bubbles. And that entire bubble would have to move, for the to move. And also where to?
We cannot aford the rich anymore nor can we afford Reiche
Well, buckle up because they have no reason to dissolve the government and will keep running things into the ground. Quite possibly until 2029 when things will get really ugly, I assume.
Merz, gargle balls
*eggs
Literally, yes, but that's not the right meaning
Oh yes yes but a big football or any balls are way to big to sick ;) We defenetly do not refer to testicals right now
11% still?
I am genuinely surprised it is that much.
But might be already in the range of the typical lower systematic error boundary.
Welp, what's the option? AFD?