• connaisseur
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    2 months ago

    Not changing anything of the current procedures will send the impression of helplessness and inaction to growing parts of the society. While I‘m not happy with this blame game, doing nothing is out of the question for the Ampel since even the Union is taking populist narratives and helping rightwing parties by constantly demanding improvements.

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      2 months ago

      If we had a stronger chancelor, they could challenge the narrative. They could deliver the usual “terrorists want us to be frightened but we are a strong open society”, like Merkel did after the vastly more deadly Breitscheidplatz attack and find out what went wrong together with e.g. police and the asylum residence in the background. What the coalition is doing right now is just eroding trust in the state and the government on the part of migrants and bio-Germans alike.

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          2 months ago

          Not “do nothing” (although that would arguably still be the better option), but rather “do something actually useful” (like actually find out what went wrong where and whether you can do something about violent extremism, like, say, regulating TikTok to behave more accountably). This is worse than useless.