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[–] [email protected] 133 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Back when Obama made it where you couldn't be evicted and bailed out the auto industry, I had a friend that drove a car hauler. He wasn't paying his house payment and lived for free for a year, and only had a job because of the bailout. He talked mad shit about the bailout and about people living and not paying their rent. This is republikkklown logic. I was blown away and said to him, he wouldn't have a job or a place to live if it wasn't for that. He said he'd live somewhere else and get a different job.

Since then, he lives with his wife and child in his mom's house with a shit job and complains about people being on welfare. They don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If there’s any way they can punch down instead of address their own issues they’ll take it. It’s why they resort to going after made up nonsense or the most vulnerable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is happening right now in Germany. In two of our 16 federal states, the fascist party got around 30% of votes through fear mongering and propaganda. In one of the states, all of the remaining parties would be needed to create a functionable government with a majority, containing the whole spectrum from left to right. I am not sure about the future of this state.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So that one state is a minority government? If it weren’t for the fact the right is just objectively wrong about literally everything I actually prefer a setup where no one party has a majority. Majorities mean that the ruling party can just ignore everyone else and huge numbers of people just have effectively zero representation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Election day was only yesterday, so the exploratory talks for possible coalitions are only just beginning. The party with the second most votes (conservative) had already announced that it does not want to form a coalition with the party "Die Linke" (our leftmost party, this is also the case nationwide) but also not with the fascists. This leaves only a minority government with a center-left party and a new party that has both radical right and radical left issues in its program (if I have understood this new party correctly). But "Die Linke" has already said that it would play along with a minority government, even if it is not part of it, as long as they agree or negotiate on the respective issues.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Typical. Everyone else is an asshole, but me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but he deserved that, unlike those lazy librulz.