#Deutsche Politik

[foster-ya]

JUDGE HIM HARDER

[alexclaain]

Ich finds ein bisschen schade, dass einem in der Schule nicht so wirklich beigebracht wird, wo man sich darüber informieren kann, was die gewählten Abgeordneten/Parteien im Bundestag so treiben. Dementsprechend:

Hier könnt ihr auf der offiziellen Seite des Bundestags euren Wahlkreis suchen und dann einsehen, welche Abgeordneten für euch gerade aktiv im Bundestag sitzen, wie sie so abstimmen und ihr könnt sie auch direkt kontaktieren, wenn euch was am Herzen liegt.

Außerdem - wusstet ihr, dass die Parteien offenlegen müssen, wie viele Spenden sie von Privatpersonen und Unternehmen bekommen und das bei einer Spende von 10.000€ oder drüber auch die Namen der Spender:innen / Unternehmen / Organisationen jährlich veröffentlicht werden müssen? Hier mal ein Artikel an Spenden aus dem Wahljahr 2021, dass ich einfach schnell über eine Googlesuche rausgekramt habe.

Und Parteispenden über 50.000€ müssen übrigens sofort auf der offiziellen Seite des Bundestags veröffentlicht werden. Alternativ gibts auch coole Webseiten, wie diese dafür.

Funfact: Die Linke ist derzeitig die einzige Partei im Bundestag, die keine Spenden von Unternehmen annimmt.

Anyhow, was ich damit sagen will ist - es gibt extrem viel Zugang zu Informationen, was die Parteien so treiben. Egal, ob über die selbstgewählte oder andere. Und wenn die Schule euch das nicht wissen lässt, dann machts eben dieser dumme tumblr post jetzt.

[ctrsdoesart]

Funfact: Volker Wissing hat bei der Vertrauensfrage FÜR Olaf Scholz gestimmt.

Aus dem Mann wird noch ein Sozialdemokrat!

[waytootiredstudent]

Okay alright sorry for all the sudden German politics influx but lemme explain what happened so far and why Germans are losing it a bit:

The tldr? Our government is getting a divorce and it's turning messy with elections being called early and now being called even earlier.

The longer version?

Okay so, groundwork first:

in Germany there is a coalition currently in power called the Ampel(traffic lights) bc the colours of the party are red, yellow and green (or not anymore or for much longer??). They're centrist slightly more left leaning than right leaning. (You could argue about that I am aware). There has been infighting for as long as this coalition has been going on. It is also the first three party coalition since y know, the Last Time.

So. Enough groundwork. The yellow party (FDP) has a finance minister (Christiane Lindner) it's this guy

You will see him in memes I am sure. We don't like him. He's an asshole and has blocked every meaningful change that the coalition had been trying to accomplish. He also got his finance plan blocked by our highest court because parts were against our Constitution.

(.... I am oversimplifying hard here it's actually more complicated than that and not fully his fault, but it's also not the focus)

What WAS the fault though of him and the FDP was that they had a strong position of "saving money at all costs" which made bigger and bigger rifts with the two other coalition partners who were more leaftleaning. The war in Ukraine, Infrastructure, climate change - there were many places that needed more money and Lidner was like naaahhhhh for no fucking reason other than "oh we need to save money!!"

Long story short there have been arguing all the fucking time and therefore have started to lose approval. Drastically lose approval. As on for the first time since the Last Time there is a far right party in charge for part of the country that is also being investigated for being Nazis. (Oversimplifying again).

Which is. Worrying. You know. Especially with Trump now being elected. It has us all a little skittish.

The finance minister has also now been fired.

You see. We were all still trying to stomach Trump winning the US election, when Scholz, in the same fucking evening, fired Lindner.

And not in a polite way. Nah. Olaf fucking Scholz our Chancellor, notorious for saying literally nothing, and with a running joke that he regularly stops existing bc that man Does Not Take Stances, a spine of wet cardboard, delivered this yesterday evening:

(English subtitles by me you already got this far watch it I spent too much time on this lol)

And it is insane alright. For his standards and German politic standards thats the equivalent of calling Lindner a egomaniacal bitch that has only his self interest at heart and can not be trusted.

Lindner and his party have been pulverised in all recent elections. Which means that after he was fired, the FDP completely withdrew from the coalition and all minister from the FDP resigned.

....well all but one who apparently stayed in his positions because he's leaving the FDP over this. What sort of shitty backstabbing kindergarten fight is this. (Jokes aside hes the minister of transportation and says he needs to stay in office in important projects. Which. True. Having minister resigning en mass is not good)

Alright cool cool cool cool. Current situation yesterday is the following:

So. Trump is president. Fuck.

Lindner got fired! Yaaay!

Wait my goverment is now also falling apart! Fuck.

Which all lead to new elections being called in Germany.

Mind you, that's not usual ok. I know other countries have systems where they can call an election whenever but that is not a thing that normally happens here. We have a schedule alright. (Insert obligatory "Germans and their plans and structure" joke)

So new elections are called for spring, nearly a year early. Cool cool cool. With a right wing rising in Germany and deeply unpopular current leadership. On the eve of motherfucking trump getting elected.

Habeck, leader of the green party and one of the few policians in germany I think is vaguely liked by ppl (the general attitude in German politics is less "I like this guy" and more "you are the least shitty choice I guess") has appearently also nearly started crying after the news broke. So. Yeah.

Now. Let's make this shitshow complete,alright?

There is this party. CDU. They had been in charge for a very long time in Germany. Centrist, right leaning, with the afd on the rising even more right leaning than before. Their current leader is Friedrich Merz, as unpleasant as human beings can go.

He has now called for the new election to be not in a few months but like. To be called next week.

In the current climate.

So yeah. if you're German mutuals and friends are currently going through their own stages of grief - this is why.

[zwiebelii]

is this anything.

[cozymushroom13]

Amazing, thank you!

firefox wants you to vote

[herzgestolper]

[musialawirtzrichten]

habeck verkündigt seine Kanzlerkandidatur als ob er sein neues Album droppt

[smilechiales]

Deutschland hat so viele große Schritte zurück gemacht, wenn es um queer Volk geht und sie will das Ganze kaputt machen?

Wir haben kein respektiertes nonbinary Geschlecht, nur divers, was intersex repräsentieren soll. Cis, trans, aspec, queer sind nicht einmal Begriffe, die du verstehen würdest, wenn du dich nicht aktiv mit den Themen auseinandersetzt - warum auch? Wo soll man das denn lernen?

Ich will einfach Sicherheit und freie Entfaltung für Individuen, ist das zu viel verlangt?

"We will close all gender studies and throw out these professors!"

I was actually kind of horrified when she said that

In germany, gender studies had been abolished once before: 1933. It was the first thing Hitler burned down once he was in power.

Alice Weidel, Magnus Hirschfeld and Hitler

Alice Weidel

Alice Weidel is a joke character truly. A right-wing extremist woman in the AfD, who is married to a sri-lankan woman, living in Switzerland.

She purposfully refuses the label "lesbian", because she hates queer people. She constantly talks about "remigration", foreigners and how much she despises them, calling them "Messermörder" (Knifemurderers), a slur, and yet she is technically married to a foreigner herself. The AfD party also doesn't believe gay couples should be allowed to adopt children, and yet she and her partner have adopted children.

(allegedly her children had to change schools due to bullying over Alice Weidel being their mother, however I could not find anything to prove that, but it's a funny thought)

Considering this woman is just a walking condradiction. I always wonder how she is even allowed to participate in german politics when she isn't even living here.

Wenn sie so auf Abschiebung steht, warum schieben wir sie nicht bitte ab??

Magnus Hirschfeld

Towards the end of the Kaiserreich and during the Weimar Republic Magnus Hirschfeld lived. He was the pioneer of "Sexualwissenschaften", research of sexuality, gender identity, intersex people and most things queer. He himself was also gay and polyamorous, and also jewish. He was the founder of the "Insitute for sexual science", the first in the world.

He helped people understand who they were, others to understand that queer people weren't sick or unnatural and created acceptence for them. He even created a "Transvestitenschein", which let people dress as the opposite sex without punishment. He also contributed to a movie about being gay and the discrimination they faced under § 175, which made homosexuality illegal. It's called "Anders als die Andern" or "Diffrent from the others" from 1919.

During those days Berlin was somewhat of a queer haven

Well, until Hitler took over

The first thing he did was burn Magnus Hirschfelds institution to the ground along with many books of opposing ideologies. Which is excatly what Alices speech reminded me of.

Magnus fled the country and never returned. He died in 1935 in Nizza, where his grave also stands. On it it says "PER SCIENTIAM AD JUSTICIAM"; With science to justice. His life motto.

The clip at the start was taken from her recent speech at the AfD-Parteitag. It was her speech for kanzlernomination. Besides abolishing gender studies, she also wants to fully rid germany of this "Queerwokenwahnsinn" (Queer woken craziness) and "weg mit linker ideologie" (away with left-ideology), and of course deporting the "Messermörder" and "Silvesterbomber" (New years eve bombers), but also everyone else who isn't "Aryan" probably. And not to forget her whole "interview" with elon musk and the "hitler was a communist".

what the fuck

Everyday we get closer to letting the fascists take power, the same mistake the weimar republic made in the 1930s. The signs are there. Back then they said "we didn't know", which wasn't justified even then, but now; if we let this all happen again we might not even get the chance for stupid excuses. The whole world is drifting right and it will only continue further if we don't do something.

[justarocknrollclownxd]

are there any Germans here?

[xxwingsfly]

Mit den upcoming Wahlen hier eine Bitte.

Wir alle wissen wie die Ergebnisse im Osten aussehen werden. Das ist aber noch lange kein Grund um das gesamte Ostdeutschland als rechts abzustempeln. Ich bin ostdeutsch und links, ich kenne viele Leute die links sind oder zumindest nicht die AfD wählen. Es gibt hier Proteste und Kundgebungen, viele demokratische Vereine die sich engagieren auf verschiedene Art und Weisen. Ich weiß, dass es einfacher ist den gesamten Osten abzuschreiben, aber bitte macht das nicht.

Ich kann euch versichern die Wahlergebnisse gefallen mir auch nicht.

[official-die-hauptstadt]

[kleines-mausohr]

Kundgebung gegen Rechtsruck

Morgen, 01.02. um 17 Uhr auf dem Schlossplatz in Stuttgart

Die Initiative des BUND Baden-Württemberg wird unterstützt von DGB, Verdi, IG Metall, der evangelischen und der katholischen Kirche sowie dem Bündnis Demokratie und Menschenrechte. Außerdem von der Awo, dem Kinderschutzbund, dem Flüchtlingsrat, dem Landesjugendring, dem Landesnaturschutzverband, dem Nabu, den Naturfreunden, der Initiative „Omas gegen rechts“, dem Volkshochschulverband und etlichen anderen Organisationen im Südwesten.

Bitte weitergeben ^^

[all-timepanic]

War schon so lange nicht mehr so glücklich über ein abgelehntes gesetz holy shit

[dusana-thewitch]

... Ich bin jetzt schon etwas verwirrt. 😅

Angefangen bei "SPD-Wahlwerbung auf Tumblr??" über "auch wenn viele SPDlerInnen das gerne anders hätten, ist Scholz noch immer Spitzenkandidat der SPD" bis hin zu "DAS IST NICHT BORIS PISTORIUS!!"

bekommt sonst noch jemand solche Werbung angezeigt? Bin ja gespannt, wo das hinführt, wenn der Wahlkampf offiziell eingeleitet ist ...