Germans, please go to vote!
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I think CDU is pretty much middle to right ground of kokoomus and persu (both more right wing Finnish parties). And CDU has already taken some AfD point and looking like they would be happy to work with AfD, as kokoomus was first very anti persu, before last election where they set government together.
CDU with other partners would be "fine", but I think everyone's worried is they wanna stay in power and happily take AfD to guarantee their government position. -
From another fellow nordic, I honestly think any vote that is not for AFD or the pro-russian left is good enough at this point. I also think that CDU suck, but the important thing now is keeping fascism and Russian influence down. Other values are secondary for now.
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AfD declared class war... on the working class. So if you don't go and vote, there's a big risk of that coming to you.
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please don't fuck up like us americans just did. I mean I did not but ugh, an aweful lot did.
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Follow dear leader's example
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I'm not saying that I won't vote at all. I'm just saying that I'm having a very hard time deciding who to vote for.
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You are making more than 7000€ a month ... It’s time to pay your fair share.
Dunno, I'm looking at my tax statement for 2023 and I paid a metric fuckton of taxes already. I already paid my fair share.
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Fill that, tweak values and do the parties main lines match your world views.
Not voting is accapting the extreme parties taking power.
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Lol, I'm just honestly wishing Germans has seen what happens in USA when letting biggest bullshitter in power. I think I need logoff from Internet on Sunday, just have mental health day.
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Don't worry, I've done that already. The problem is that the parties at the top for me are all tiny parties without a realistic chance to win. If I only filter by parties that were elected last time, the first party is ... FDP at 55.7%. Then SPD at 54.3%. All other parties are below 50%.
It's tough electing a party that way.
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as an American. vote like your life depends on it.
because it does.
not only that, make sure that none of your voting locations are using starlink internet access.
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*November 2024* Germans to Americans:
- Don't fuck up as we did in 1933
*February 2025* Americans to Germans:- Don't fuck up as we did in November
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I think it's important nowadays to have faith in your government and democracy. You definitely should vote and you can be proud to help put your country into a direction you feel is best. This post seems to convey the message that you should vote to save democracy. This fear of the end of democracy might just end up increasing the influence of extreme political parties. In the US election both parties warned it will be the last vote.
German polls seem to indicate that CDU/CSU will be the strongest party and they will most likely not go into coalition with AfD, so the AfDs influence will not be much but they will probably get a lot of votes anyways. And even though I do not like the idea of a chancellor Merz due to him being very polarizing, I think Germany got this.
Don't panic
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Do you have a better system in mind? Care to expose it?
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[...] CDU ... I do think they might be stronger on the economy too
Hell no, their economic platform is basically "make believe".
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Good luck from Spain, a friend of mine is in Berlin with your party, has worked very hard theses days, and hopes you can get a good result. Go ahead!!!
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Lots of politicians would be jailed, if it would be that easy ...
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Yeah, voting is essential.
But don't worry about starlink, the German voting process happens on paper sheets. The voter has to be identified before the vote. Then all votes get counted by hand and multiple times, submitted by fax and telephone.
