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[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Merz is the faction leader of Germans Conservative and Christian party CDU.

Springer is a magazine publisher known mostly for the newspaper Bild.

Ampel is the name of the current German government coalition: SPD (red), FDP (yellow) and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Green)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see, thanks! "Conservative & Christian" sounds like a red flag.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If it helps to put it into more perspective. Those conservatives or CDU somewhat recently visited republicans in the US and figured that it might be a good idea to copy how they do politics in the US to apply it in Germany. But making noise is unfortunately what works even if it's not actually correct or an issue at all.