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[โ€“] leisesprecher@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And it's our own fault, because the bad excuse for a government that's currently in power in Germany gets nothing done, and instead focuses and pointless immigration debates and the fuck-the-poor boner of a libertarian party without any voters.

It's a disgrace.

[โ€“] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

It actually got a lot done, but the pile of problems left by Merkel just can not be solved overnight.

Just some examples: new heating bill, renewable permits made a lit easier, gas crisis mostly solved, turn around on Ukraine,starting the process of strenghtening the Bundeswehr, dual citizenship law, Deutschlandticket and so forth. On an EU level a lot more was done as well, with German support.

The problem is the debt break. Germany could grow its economy a lot, if it would allow public debt financed investment.

Who needs a growing economy anyway?

Maybe we shouldn't have to rely on the economy growing?

[โ€“] CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee -5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But please, tell me again how the eighties and nineties were worse because "muh AIDS muh gays muh Yugoslavia muh Rwanda" or whatever-the-fuck bullshit excuse that hides the fact that if we managed to revert that time and live in an eternal loop of those decades our quality of life would be much higher than it is now.

[โ€“] federalreverse@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess everyone needs a mission but wtf? Please stop spamming this here.

80s & 90s

[โ€“] CazzoneArrapante@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Sorry, just frustrated by current times.