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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 250 points 5 months ago (9 children)

62 projected seats for nazis... great job citizens, great job -.-

[–] voodoocode@feddit.de 158 points 5 months ago (3 children)

There are even more, included in Nonaligned. The German Nazis (afd 16 seats) were kicked out of ID

[–] ErilElidor@feddit.de 124 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Not to mention they were kicked out of the Nazi group, because THEY WERE TOO EXTREME FOR THEM. Wake me up in 5 years when we can hopefully stop this...

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 44 points 5 months ago

kicked out of the Nazi group, because THEY WERE TOO EXTREME FOR THEM

I was going to joke suggesting that, but you already had my joke crushed by reality being exactly that 😒

[–] RidderSport@feddit.de 7 points 5 months ago

On paper they were more extreme, the right loves to be seen as not that far right when in fact they are

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 52 points 5 months ago (1 children)

SIXTEEN!?

sorry, I gotta vomit.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Second strongest party in germany as a whole and strongest in east germany. Ahead of all member parties of our current government.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 63 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Thanks ~~Obama~~ Merz and Springer. Their constant Ampel bashing really fucked everything up.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The Ampel may have gained control over the government at the worst possible time. Everything is currently shit and people always blame the government, even though some of that is not under their control, which currently places blame on the only three important center-left parties. Thus people turn right.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 39 points 5 months ago

unfunny thing though is, that most of the shit we have to deal with right now comes from the time CDU/CSU was in charge.

I... I'm so fricking done.

And the CDU blames them for everything they fucked up the past 20 years.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a tale as old as time. Conservatives fuck up so many things that they can't be fixed in the one term other parties occasionally get. And when those then fail to fix everything, people go "see? They're not better. Might as well vote conservative again."

[–] Luccus@feddit.de 13 points 5 months ago

Even worse; the Greens get blamed for shit the FDP does, because people don't know how coalitions work.

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[–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just had the sudden urge to downvote your comment just because I hate what you said so much.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thing is, they would've probably gained even more votes if they didn't incur so many scandals recently. People will probably forget about those until the next national elections

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

and on the other hand, Mannheim and Sylt kinda helped them.

[–] cows_are_underrated@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not sure about Sylt, but Mannheim was devinetively in their favour.

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[–] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And ID got 30 seats in France. Macron is having a new election on the 30th and well

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can anybody explain his thinking? Why would you hand the fascists the wheel?

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I am ashamed of my fellow citizens for making this happened. 35 seats, they get 35, RN + La France Fière (Zemmour).

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 66 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 62 points 5 months ago

around 16.5% yeah, that is not just mind boggling but also fecking disheartening.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I blame it on the greens for not fielding Habeck as chancellor candidate. I'm probably going to be salty about that one for the next 40 years.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sadly you can blame it on FDP for blocking every single positive thing this government might have done.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

We could've had a Green-Red or at least Red-Green government is what I mean.

...but, no, the Greens said "there's no female chancellor candidate, there must be one, therefore we will field a politician who's at least two magnitudes less electable" -- and that after no less than 16 years of Merkel. As if anything had to be proven on that front. As if self-congratulatory symbol politics would ever have gotten us anywhere.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I don't disagree that Habeck would have been the better candidate, I just don't believe he would have changed the outcome by that much.

In the end I think much of the difference between polls and election came from people saying they want climate protection, but in the end the yearly flight to Mallorca was more important.

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[–] wieson@feddit.de 17 points 5 months ago

That might have been a strategic mistake idk, but it's not as bad as the cxu and many more parties straight up copying nazi talking points and steering the discussion towards the afd and against the GrEeNs ~Β°oΒ°~

The newspapers are also to blame.

[–] volodya_ilich@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

rise of the far right all over Europe I blame the greens of Germany for it

Nah, mate, this is about the structure of media ownership. I won't be one to defend the greens of Germany, they're disgusting, but the real problem is that private media have interest in the right winning the elections, and there's also a ton of money spent boosting far right influencers in social media

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm voting as hard as I can, okay πŸ₯΅

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wish you could just vote harder

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Well, you can vote harder. The polls are not the only place you vote. Every purchase is a vote. Most people neglect their consumer power. I’m boycotting hundreds (if not thousands) of harmful companies and products, including Amazon. You can always vote harder by investigating the shops and brands you support. You can investigate whether your bank invests in the fossil fuel energy and change banks (or better, become unbanked). You can follow the !climate_action_individual@slrpnk.net community.

E.g. certainly one small thing @lurch@sh.itjust.works can do is ditch sh.itjust.works for a different instance. Website weight has quadrupled since Cloudflare took hold because CF encourages web admins to create heavy websites. sh.itjust.works is CF-based.

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[–] Matumb0@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if we should call them Nazi, as they kicked out the German Nazis, as explained in other comments. Maybe call them nationalists or ultra nationalists?

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.de 24 points 5 months ago (4 children)

They kicked out the German Nazis because they celebrated the SS, which is a no-go for French Nazis. Doesn't make them less Nazi, just the French kind that doesn't like to be killed by German Nazis

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[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

ECR is shit, they're a bunch of eurosceptic, anti-immigration, libertarian conservative nationalists, but they don't hold a candle to ID, who are that, but on steroids.

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