Germans, please go to vote!
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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.
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make sure that none of your voting locations are using starlink internet access
? Germany is old-fashioned and when it comes to elections I'm happy that we're sticking to pen and paper. And actual humans doing the counting.
On a sidenote - Starlink isn't that big in Germany. I don't think I've ever read/heard about any public authorities using it.
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Please go vote. Don’t join the US and Russia axis.
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I just fucking hope those polls were just more of the corporate right wing propaganda we see everywhere. I can’t imagine voting right after seeing all of the conservative incompetence in recent years.
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Please. We need sense to win
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Which party do you think would fare better and why? What I thought I knew about Merz is that he favors tax cuts and deregulation, which are definitely factors that Germany does need currently, but am I wrong about his views?
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I’d love to hear why they suck and who would be better and why. SPD track record has been driving Germany to the ground the past few years and the Green denuclearization policies are a disaster both in terms of economics and self-reliance. But of course those view are mine and may well be wrong, that’s just one viewpoint and perhaps poorly informed.
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I see, I think the consensus view here is quite left-leaning so maybe that’s where the negative view comes from. I’m more Kokoomus leaning myself so I don’t see it as bad but I can understand there’s a lot of polarization going on right now.
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I don’t necessarily see right leaning as bad automatically, but is there something extreme about the CDU or just that they’re right-leaning?
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There is a lot of potential for digitalisation of the process even if you don't want the final vote to happen digital.
