So this is still considered a democracy?

  • @ailiphilia
    link
    32 years ago

    I’m not supporting this politician, but the video sections give a VERY biased view of what she really said. This is completely out of context. Biased articles citing the video were first published by Bild Zeitung and Die Welt, two German newspapers published by Springer Verlag. In the meantime there reports (mostly in German) criticising these articles.

    There’s of course nothing wrong with critical journalism, but this is no journalism at all imo.

    • @guojingOP
      link
      2
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      Tell me, what is the context that makes it okay for the German government to put the interests of another country over the interests of its own citizens? Because clearly no one voted for this.

      • @ailiphilia
        link
        22 years ago

        When I see that the family next door gets robbed, raped and murdered, I do what I can to help them. This is not only in their but also in my interest, because then I may reasonably expect that the society would also help my own family should they have to experience the same hell. I don’t want to live in a world where someone can commit the worst crimes and no one cares because “it is not in their interest”. I guess that’s part of what is called civilization.

        • Dreadful Sanity
          link
          fedilink
          29 months ago

          I, a citizen and one of her voters, do not want a Europe in which we concede a sovereign nation, the Ukraine, to a totalitarian dictator. Putin will not stop at the Ukraine. Now, I’m the first one to prefer a diplomatic solution. Problem is: There is no diplomatic solution. Everything diplomatic would mean giving in to Putin and giving up at least part of the Ukraine. So, yes. Some of her voters may be unhappy. Not all of her voters though. And democracy is when we decide at the next ballot if we agree or not. I have a lot of qualms with the current government. Ukraine is not one of them.

          • @schroedingershat@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            19 months ago

            I believe it is preferred to refer to the country as Ukraine (without the). There’s no direct translation, but Russia refers to Ukraine (but not other countries) as if it were an internal territory of Russia. The way they refer to territories translates roughly to prefacing them with “the”.

        • @TheAnonymouseJoker
          link
          -8
          edit-2
          2 years ago

          Did you help even one of the 14,000+ Russians and Ukrainians who got raped, slaughtered and genocided since 2014, in Donbass region, Mister @ailiphilia@lemmy.ml ?

          Did you help the Russian women on whose chests Nazis painted blood swastikas? Did you help Ukraine combat their institutionalisation of Stepan Bandera’s descendants and Nazi worshippers? Or helped combat the making of Bandera’s statues and monuments in Ukraine?

          Suddenly I hear silence…

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M
      link
      32 years ago

      I love how having 20~30% approval is considered very popular in western “democracies”.

      • @TheAnonymouseJoker
        link
        22 years ago

        Because that is the upper limit of how much love breeds between citizens and their dictatorial heinous democratic states.

  • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
    link
    12 years ago

    It is, by the western media, the same that call for US invasion every time some country democratically elect anyone left of Wall Street.

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
        link
        1
        edit-2
        2 years ago

        As seen in OP. Bourgeois democracy, which means democracy for the bourgeoisie, and apparently mostly for USA bourgeoisie.

        • @sexy_peach@feddit.de
          link
          fedilink
          02 years ago

          nah, most German voters are dumb, very old and somewhat brainwashed. That’s why we have stupid government. Also democracy isn’t a perfect system…

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆M
            link
            42 years ago

            It’s absurd to call a system where all the media is owned by the oligarchs a democracy. Entire books have been written on this subject.