• ComradeLeonie [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Something that hasn’t been mentioned yet: this entire move completely fucks small parties in favor of the big one seen here. The German communist party (DKP) can’t participate at all in this election because they would need to register about 2000 signatures per district to even be allowed to run in those districts. And to add to that, the German system is designed in such a way, that parties get paid by their votes. Meaning that small parties would now need to spend a lot of money without any chance to crowdfund beforehand, and wouldn’t even get that back afterward. This entire move is just a way for the capitalists to realign their priorities with the big parties and make sure, that nothing stands in the way between their grab for even more power in the next years. For anyone who is interested in reading more about this, there is this really good article from the newspaper of the DKP (it’s in German, but you could just translate it using Google Translator or something): https://www.unsere-zeit.de/wem-vertraut-das-kapital-4798734/

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    2 days ago

    Tony Blair Hitler (CDU) is almost guaranteed to win and with Friedrich Merz they’re running the most unhinged and corrupt austerity ghoul in their entire party of corrupt austerity ghouls. The question is who this diabolic, inhuman MFer will form a coalition with. The likely options are either Tony Blair (SPD) or Tony Blair but green (Greens), depending on who lets Tony Blair Hitler be more Hitlerist (they will both let him be very Hitlerist). The SPD would likely allow the CDU to do more racism, transphobia, misogyny and police state overreach and would be more in favor of fossil industries, the Greens are less reactionary but complete lanyard dorks on foreign policy and more neoliberal (so are the SPD, but it’s somehow worse with the Greens). So the options are shit and more shit and i’m doing what i can to radicalize people around me, because we’re gonna need that in the coming years.

    Also, there’s the question wich smaller parties will make it into the next parliament. The libertarian hustlegrind bazinga brains from the FDP (Tony Blair who is friends with Hitler) might fail the 5% threshold after blockading everything for the last three years and deliberately breaking up the last coalition. Die Linke just had the BSW split off from them, so now we have a leftist party that does nothing and a party of PatSoc tailists who function as a personality cult for Sahra Wagenknecht, ex-ML-turned-reactionary-socdem. Both of them could fail the 5% threshold, but Die Linke is more likely to because ofc people in this country want more racism and transphobia in their mild socdem policies. Both are also almost guaranteed to not be part of any government on the federal level because they are not imperialist enough to be let anywhere near German foreign policy.

    Which is also the only reason why i do not think the CDU will form a coalition with Hitler (the AfD, which is the second strongest party in polls rn). While they aren’t principled anti-imperialists (they are the most rabidly zionist party in parliament), they are vocally pro-Russian, and the CDU is pro-USA to the bone. That’s not gonna work out, anything but unwavering commitment to being a US vassal state is not on the polls.

    If the impression you’re getting from this is that Germany isn’t actually a democracy, that things here are completely fucked, or that Stalin shouldn’t have stopped at Berlin, you’re obviously correct.

    • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Sahra Wagenknecht, ex-ML-turned-reactionary-socdem.

      I still hadn’t really figured out her politics, thank you. Some people are supposed to be sucked up in an irony black hole.

  • OprahsedCreatureEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    I know I’m not well-informed on German politics but wasn’t Die Linke the left wing party?

    • trompete [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

      They just kicked out a pro-Palestine activist, Ramsis Kilani:

      The Landesschiedskommission is thus following the logic of unconditional support for the State of Israel, in accordance with German Staatsräson, which it has put above the right to existence of and equal rights for Palestinian people.

      The current development of the mass killing of the Palestinian civil population, which has also been confirmed by Amnesty International as a genocide, was given no import in the judgement of the context of my statements.

      So Die Linke thinks Israel has a right to exist, and that armed resistance against a genocide is illegitimate, and anybody who disagrees with that gets thrown out.

      So “Red Hitler” isn’t too far off here.

      • OprahsedCreatureEnglish
        7·
        2 days ago

        Ah, if this is the case then Die Linke has gone a bit zu rechts since I last read about them. Is there a new left-wing successor to them yet? As I recall German parties can spring up fairly quickly.

    • Lemister [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      They have been going into “respectability” politics for a while, which caused huge infighting and stagnation inside the party. The Russo-Ukranian war was the last straw and they purged the more radical and anti-west members of Die Linke. Which also included most pro-palestine officials since germany is the birth place of the “AKSHUALLY the tankie putinlovers far left is the true face of antisemitism” since at least like the 70s when the GDR and the RAF became very openly pro-palestine. One of the most infamous german terror attacks were the Munich Olympia Massacre and the Lufthansa kidnapping during the “German Autumn”, and what a bizarre coincidence both were motivated by pro-Palestinian feelings/done by Palestinians.