• Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Dunno about Germany. It had a big move to the right. The second strongest party is now right, passing two other traditional established parties.

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      5 months ago

      Its amazing what happens when your erstwhile left-leaning parties spend more time playing footsie with billionaires then actually solving problems for regular people.

      The political left has gotten too cosy with neoliberalism, and forgotten their roots, ceding kitchen-table issues to the right-wing.

      Which is insane, because the right doesn’t care about the poor except as grist for the mill, they’re just better at faking empathy, or at least milking victimization

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      5 months ago

      Definitely agree. Maybe you could argue that you’d just need to cut out former East Germany to make the post accurate, but even overall, germanys far right is definitely strong.

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      5 months ago

      Do german not see the effects of climate change? Why would they not vote for green party? Germany has faced such harsh weather this year with all sorts of weirdness

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        5 months ago

        Yes climate change all fine and well, but have you actually seen what they want us to do? Ride one of those gay bicycles to work and eat less beef. Next thing you know they want to put up renewable energy wind turbines in my neighborhood, that ruins the pretty landscape! No, I dont want to tighten ecological protections, why do you ask?

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          5 months ago

          Guys, is it gay to be strong and be self-reliant by transporting yourself with the power of your muscles?

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            5 months ago

            Well, if you put on a skimpy outfit that emphasises those muscles and smear yourself in oil before going out and self-transport using them, it might be a little bit gay …

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        5 months ago

        In addition to the other comments: Germany has a lot of voters that are like 60+, some of which either don’t care too much because they will die long before the worst of climate change happens, or simply don’t want to change. Any policies that try to reduce carbon emissions are met with criticism by people not wanting to change their own behavior.