Bulletins and News Discussion from February 24th to March 2nd, 2025 - Fascists? In Germany?! - COTW: Germany

Image is a map of the German election results made by Andolu Agency.

The results are in from the German elections, and the outcome is pretty unsurprising for those who have been paying attention to the German socioeconomic situation, and prove our predictions from years ago correct. The conservatives (CDU/CSU) won the plurality of votes (28%), representing a slight gain from 2021. Meanwhile, Scholz's party, the SPD, collapsed from first place in 2021 to third place this year, almost halving their number of seats; the Greens had a less dramatic collapse but still lost many votes. The coalition of CDU/CSU + SPD seems like the most likely end result of this election; something something nothing ever happens but everything keeps getting worse.

Outside the main coalition, there's three important takeaways IMO.

First is that AfD - the far-right Euroskeptic party - has skyrocketed into second place, achieving a full 20% of the vote. This is definitely very concerning and does not exactly bode well for the future, but it isn't necessarily immediately disastrous, because the CDU/CSU (as well as the SDP and Greens) has vowed that they will not form a coalition with the AfD.

Second is that Die Linke - the pro-NATO, pro-Israel socdem party - has mostly reversed its awful performance in 2021, increasing its vote share from 4.9% to 8.8%. What this suggests is that while Germans are fleeing from the center, a very significant minority are going leftwards (though still aren't particularly anti-imperialist).

Third is that the BSW under Wagenknect, who split off from the Die Linke (absolute classic), appears to have barely fallen short of the 5% vote share needed to get seats in the Bundestag. The BSW has some good foreign policies (peace with Russia, for instance) but pretty awful domestic policies; quite patsoccy.

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My dad called me at work, which he rarely does.
"Are you working right now?"
Me: yes
he stammers, not sure how to say what he wants to tell me
"Something terrible has just happened..."
"in world history."
"Trump is yelling at Zelenskyy."
Until he said world history I was scared he was about to tell me a close family member or pet died or something.
Nah, just Zelenskyy being humiliated by a senile old man. I laughed and he said it's not funny and I said it is. He wanted to keep talking but I told him I have to work.
He has major Russia Derangement Syndrome.
- Wtf, is this some universal lib parent behavior, my friend tells me the same thing, and my dad also called me up lmfao
  
  same thing happened when Mueller was fired, all the boomers immediately called all their children for emergency meeting
  
  When I said to my dad that Ukraine should negotiate a ceasefire to save lives almost a year ago, his only argument was "WOULD YOU RATHER LIVE IN RUSSIA OR UKRAINE?"
  The same strain of liberalism that asks "would you want to share a beer with George W Bush?"
  
  "WOULD YOU RATHER LIVE IN RUSSIA OR UKRAINE?"
  If you wanted to really piss him off, you could've said, "Trick question: Ukraine is going to become part of Russia by the time the SMO ends."
  
  respond "I'd rather live"
  
  At least there was a brief window in Russia for military aged men to flee.
  
  russia is also fighting entirely with enlistees and volunteer forces in Ukraine. Russian conscripts are only holding border positions and doing logistics in the rear
  
  WOULD YOU RATHER LIVE IN RUSSIA OR UKRAINE?
  That's a no-brainer. Both places sucks in lots of ways but I would still choose the one that wouldn't abduct me off the street and throw me in a trench to get blown up for no good reason.
- The GODDAMN CHEETO is YELLING at our BELOVED WINSTON CHURCHILL.
  DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS.
- Are you his personal Reddit thread
- If that happened to me I think I would die of laughter on the spot
- My mom is a cringy lib too but I manage to not be a total asshole to her

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