• trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works
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    12 hours ago

    given they’re literally the socialist party.

    Oh You sweet summer child. The SPD hasn’t been socialist, nor social democrat since Schröder reinvented it as a “centrist” party modeled after Tony Blair’s “new Labour” back in the early 2000s.

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      9 hours ago

      Doesn’t make it any less disappointing that they still call themselves “socialist party”.

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      11 hours ago

      Tbh I feel like German politics has long been a copy of British politics and vice versa. Whatever happens in Germany will probably happen in Britain at the next election too